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In 1790, Samuel Weyburn, with his wife and four chil- dren, came from Tioga Point, and built a log cabin on what is now " Goodwin's Point." His son George moved to near Perry, where he was a successful farmer. Samuel Weyburn, Jr., was town elerk in 1812.
Mr. Weyburn was a Methodist and justice of the peace, and removed in a few years to near Geneva.
Abner Treman was born in Columbia County in 1761. In 1777 he enlisted in the Continental army, and served until the war was closed, and received his discharge signed by Washington. He was with " Mad Anthony" at the eapture of Stony Point, and was one of the forlorn hope, under Lieutenant Gibbon, to lead the band of 150 volun- teers, comprising the right wing under Lieutenant-Colonel Fleury. They had to piek their way up the stony hill, and when they eame to the abatis it was their duty to make a way through it for others to follow. The left wing was composed of 100 volunteers, led by 20 men, constitu- ting another forlorn hope, under Lieutenant Knox. At half-past eleven at night. orders were given to march. On the right wing was Commanding General Wayne with Lieutenant-Colonel Fleury, and Treman says " that as the forlorn hope of twenty men under Gibbon passed Colonel Fleury to take the lead up the hill, he took eneh one of them by the hand and with tears gave them a parting kiss. That there might be no confusion, General Washington had directed that each man should have pinned on his eap a piece of white paper, and every gun was unloaded, the bayonet only to be used," and that instead of a flint he only had a piece of wood in its place. When the right wing eame to the abatis they encountered the outpost of the enemy. General Wayne was wounded, and seventeen out of twenty of the forlorn hope were either killed or wounded. Treman was one of the three who were unhurt. Major Murphy, with his men, came to the rescue, and within an hour the fort was taken, with the loss of 15 killed and 83 wounded. The British had 20 men killed, 74 wounded, 58 missing, and 472 taken prisoners, with stores valued at $150,640. Abner Treman had an older brother in the army, who, after the fort was taken, re- marked to him, "Abner, I would rather have seen you dead than to have you been a coward, and not gone with that forlorn hope."
As one of the soldiers of the Revolution he was entitled to a tract of 640 acres, and he drew military lot No 2, town- ship 22 (Ulysses). It was a strip of land three-quarters of
a mile wide, and about two miles in length, in which is now located the beautiful village of Trumansburg. Abner made arrangements with his brother Philip to go in and clear off land. Philip Treman and his son Benjamin walked in from thirty miles north of Albany, each carrying an axe, a gun, and a knapsack with provisions sufficient to last them four weeks, with what game they killed on the route. They had one dollar in money when they started, and only a six- pence left when they reached their destination, arriving in June, 1792. Benjamin brought his axe down from his shoulder, and striking it into the trunk of a tree said, " There, father, that is the first blow !" They first built a little hut, and chopped off a piece of land of about eight acres, and piling the brush where Mr. Bush now lives, reaching from the bed of the ereek on the hill. Philip and Benjamin returned to their homes, and in the fall Abner, with others, eame in and burned the brush, piled the logs, sowed the land to wheat, and returned to their homes.
Abner Treman eame from the " Van Rennselaer Manor," but had moved into Chenango County and lived there about one year, and in February, 1793, started from there with his wife and three children, reaching here in March. While on their way they passed two nights in the woods. Mrs. Treman slept in the sleigh. They were obliged to cut down trees and brush to make a passage, and on coming to hills they had occasionally to dismount and unload part of their effeets, and walk up, carrying the children in their arms. They built their first log house down near the creek. John McLallen came in with Abner Treman, and was Mrs. Tre- man's brother. In the winter of 1793-94, Abner Treman drove his oxen down to the " Flats," where Ithaca now is, to keep them on the marsh grass, as he had as yet no pasture land, and only used browse. On his return he stopped at Nathaniel Davenport's, who kept tavern about a mile from Ithaca, on West Hill, and known for many ycars as the " Old Stone Heap," and stayed there over night, and a young inan by the name of Richards, who was a fiddler, stayed with him. A deep fall of snow, occurring during the night, rendered the roads almost impassable, and as he was on foot, and with shoes only, the journey was difficult. Starting about nine o'clock in the morning, he traveled laboriously to Weyburn's, at Goodman's Point, reaching there about midnight, almost frozen, and nearly exhausted. He hallooed, and they heard him in the house, and brought him in. Mr. Weyburn and his wife were visiting at Ovid, and the children took the best care of him they could, but unwisely put his feet in warm water. He afterwards said "that nothing but the idea of wife and children ahead indueed him to keep forward." Dr. Silas Halsey amputated both limbs, one in the ankle-joint, the other in heel and toes. Twenty years after another ampu- tation was necessary.
This misfortune rendered him a cripple for life, but his energy was not impaired, and in 1794 he built a tub grist- mill, above where the stone mill now stands, and part of the flume still remains. He built a larger log house on the hill back of where Daniel Cooper now lives, and in 1806 he built the frame house that is still standing, and occupied by Daniel Cooper. He brought up from Goodwin's Point one of the old apple-trees, and set it out on this place, and it is
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still living and bears fruit. Abner Treman was a man of uncommon energy and force of character, and left his im- press upon the settlement he started. He died Aug. 13, 1823, aged sixty-one years. He was born Dec. 25, 1761, married Mary McLallen, and they had three children when they came here in 1793,-Jonathan, born July 17, 1790, married Annis Trembly, who lived and died here; Mary, born Aug. 10, 1788, married Levi Valentine, they lived and died here; Annis, born June 27, 1792, married General Isaiah Smith, who lived and died in Covert. Calvin was born Sept. 13, 1794, and was the first white child born in town. He married Nancy Ayers, moved to Mecklenburg about 1812 or 1813, and died there. Ashbel, born Sept. 1, 1796, married Mary Ayers ; they also removed to Mecklen- burg, and Mrs. Mary Treman is still living with her sons, the " Treman Brothers," at Ithaca. Lucinda, born Ang. 17, 1798, married Jeremiah Ayers. Jared, born Oct. 5, 1800, married Ann Paddock, and afterwards, Mrs. Wealthy Clark. Abner, born Jan. 12, 1803, married Jemima Thomas; moved to Waterbury, in 1846, where they are still living. Charlotte, born June 30, 1806, married Minor King ; they lived here many years. Alfred, born Jan. 30, 1811, mar- ried - Trembly ; removed to Illinois. Erastus R , born July 31, 1813, married Mary Buck ; they are living at Tru- mansburg.
John McLallen was originally from Stockbridge, Mass., and came through to this country with his sister, Mrs. Treman, and first cleared the farm where A. M. Sherwood lives, and soon after occupied the place that has since been known as the " MeLallen Homestead." He carly kept tavern here; married Mary King, by whom he had four children. James, born Oct. 12, 1800; married Ellen Strobridge ; they lived and died here. David K., born July 19, 1803; married Louisa Hawkins. Nancy J., born Dec. 16, 1805 ; married Philemon Thompson ; they also lived and died herc. Henry, born Aug. 3, 1808; married Frances Lyman.
John McLallen married Maria Himrod, June 15, 1811, and died Dec. 16, 1844, aged seventy-one years. Their children were William H., born May 18, 1812; married Matilda Biggs. Edward E., born Jan. 1, 1814. John, born July 19, 1815 ; married Ann Eliza McKeel. Mary K., born Jan. 26, 1817; married L. D. Branch. De Witt C., born May 3, 1818. Philemon F., born Aug. 20, 1823; studied law, and practiced at St. Louis, and died there. Calvin, born April 26, 1825. Margaret, born April 26, 1826. Elias K., born May 1, 1828.
Jesse Harriman came from Barton through Ithaca, and reached Trumansburg in 1793, and contracted with Abner Treman for one hundred acres of land, lying in the west part of where the village of Trumansburg now is, for one year's labor in clearing land. For a time he made his home at Weyburn's, where he lived when the fight with the bear occurred that has so often appeared in print. He returned to Boston, and his father gave him a yoke of oxen, and, with his brother Moses, they came to this place. While on the route he traded the oxen for 640 acres where North- ville now is. In the course of time his father learned of the trade, and came out here, and, Jesse not being of age, he compelled the man to give up the oxen and take back 68
the land. They remained here a few years, Moses moving to where Terre Haute, Ind., now is, where he was killed by the Indians. Jesse married here, built a frame honse, and raised a large family of children ; two sons are living in New- field. About 1816 he moved to Enfield, then to the north line of the present town of Newfield, where he lived with his son Lyman until his death, March 16, 1866, aged ninety-five years.
As early as 1794, Richard and Benjamin Goodwin, two brothers, settled at what is now called "Goodwin's Point." They came up from Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River in a scow to Owego, driving cattle along the banks. After reaching Owego, they put their goods on a cart, and came overland to this point. Benjamin built a grist-mill on the north side of the Taghanic Creek as early as 1797, and Daniel Norton was the miller. His son Richard was known as Richard Goodwin (second), and as Priest Good- win, and was the father of Rev. William H. Goodwin, who was at one time a member of the Board of Regents of the State. Richard Goodwin (the first) had a son, George, who lived at Jacksonville, and died there December, 1872, aged eighty-four years. Herbert C. Goodwin, historian of Cort- land County, is a descendant of this line of the family.
James F. Curry came in 1798, and settled one mile south of Jacksonville, where Edward Wager lives. James Centre, the same year, located where Henry Lucky lives. In 1798, David Atwater built a saw-mill on Taghanic Creek, a little above Goodwin's grist-mill. Thomas Cooper, in 1799, cleared off a little place and sowed wheat, and in November moved his family in. They came through from Connecticut with two yoke of oxen and a wagon, and were twenty-four days on the road. He bought fourteen acres of land on the farm where H. G. Cooper now lives. Jeremiah Cooper, his son, who came in with him when eight years old, is still living at Jacksonville.
Jared Treman, brother of Abner, settled in 1796 where Linus Waring lives. Henry and Robert MeLallen were here in 1795, and settled on farms west of Trumansburg. Jacob Chambers lived in a log house where Mr. I. Dur- ling's store is before 1800, and Doxy Lane was a black- smith, and lived where Warren Farrington's house now stands. His shop was across from the house, near Dr. II. Chase's office. Job Rogers settled where Warren Booth lives. Dr. Peter Rose practiced here before 1800, and lived near where Gregg's foundry now is. David Atwater settled where W. B. Dumont now lives.
Benjamin Lanning canie to this town in 1801, and settled in the forest near Jacksonville. Gideon, his son, was born March 23, 1792. In-1812 he joined the Genesee Confer- ence as a traveling preacher, establishing Methodism in Geneva and the West; was at Black Rock, and witnessed the burning of that place, in December, 1813. He preached in Detroit when there was not a church in that region. He lived a long and useful life, most of it spent in the ministry. Died at Jacksonville, on his eighty-sixth birthday, March 23, 1878.
Robert Henshaw was the first merchant. He began with a few goods about 1802 or 1803, discontinued in 1805; was succceded by W. & II. Camp, of Owego. Jonathan Owen came from Orange County in 1804, and settled west of
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Waterburg, where John Vanderbilt now lives. His son, L. H. Owen, lives at Trumansburg. Albert Crandall, com- mencing in 1806, kept tavern for many years where H. D. Barto & Co.'s bank now stands, and was succeeded by Minor Crandall, his son. Jeptha Lee was from Newburgh ; was in the Continental army, and at the battles of Monmouth and Yorktown. For his services drew lot No. 14, in this town- ship. He lent his discharge to some one, and could not get it back. Judge Thompson, of Orange Co., N. Y., offered to get the land for half of it. He finally secured the lot, but Mr. Lee eould get but 150 acres, and came in here and took possession in 1802. Daniel Johnson, his son-in-law, is on the old homestead. Franklin Lee, his son, lives near. Wilson Stout, in 1802, settled where his descendants still live. Nathaniel and John Mack, not far from 1800, located at what has long been known as Mack Settlement. Alcx- ander Bower emigrated from Scotland, and came to this place in 1804, and located first where Joshua Barnum lives, and then to near Waterburg. His descendants still live in the town. Richard Ayres came from Barnardstown, N. J., in 1805, with his wife and seven children,-Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Jeremiah, Ann, Elias J., Daniel B., and Mary. Their descendants are still living in the town. Hermion Camp, while a lad of eighteen years, left Owego for Tru- mansburg to take charge of a store that had been kept by W. & H. Camp, of Owego. He came through on horse- back soon after a heavy rain, which made the roads almost impassable. It snowed violently on his way, and part of the time riding, and sometimes leading his horse, he arrived at ten o'clock at night, late in December, 1805. This began the career of the man who afterwards gained and held so high a place in the esteem of the people. In 1812 he was eolonel of the only volunteer company of cavalry in Western New York,-uniformed, armed, equipped, and mounted on fine horses at their own expense. This company, within a few weeks after war was declared, marched to the head- quarters of General Stephen Van Rensselaer, at Lewiston, on the Niagara frontier. No provision was made for their expenses on the march, execpt a few loaves of bread at Can- andaigua. At headquarters they were furnished with six sheet-iron eamp-kettles, and were permitted to occupy a few deserted huts, covered with bark ; and their horses were allowed to occupy a bush pasture of about twelve or fifteen acres, on the bank of Niagara River, in range of the balls of the British sentinels. No oats for their horses, and 110 provision made for shoeing them. No blankets, nor even straw for the men to sleep on. Six camp-kettles were all the convenienees that headquarters and Uncle Sam could then afford them. He, Colonel Camp, took an early stand on the temperance question, and was the first merchant in Tompkins County who discontinued the sale of liquor. He was for many years a leader of the apostles of temperance, and was President of the State Temperanee Society in 1851-52. A man of remarkable energy and deeision, endowed with more than ordinary natural ability, of thor- ough culture, and has been closely identified with the his- tory of the village in which he lived. Died June 8, 1878, aged ninety years and eight months, mourned and missed by all ; but his memory will live in the hearts of all who knew him.
Allen Pease came from Connecticut in 1813, settled here, and is still living near the old cemetery on Main Street. Dr. O. C. Comstock was here before 1810, and was promi- nent as a physician ; was postmaster in 1811, member of Congress for three terms, and elected chaplain of that body. His son Grover went out to Burmah as missionary, under the auspices of the Missionary Society, from this town. He removed to Marshall, Calhoun Co., Mich., where he filled several important official stations in the State, the chief one being Superintendent of Publie Instruction. His son, O. C. Comstock, Jr., M.D., married a daughter of Nicoll Halsey ; was also a prominent citizen of that county, and is yet a resident of Marshall. He played an important part in the alleged rescue of the fugitive slaves from an attempted recapture by agents of their former master in Kentucky, which, getting into the United States Courts, created such an intense exeitement in 1848, that Henry Clay, in the grand diseussion and compromise of 1850, cited the case as proof positive of the necessity of a better and more effectual law for the recovery of fugitives; and from which was framed and passed the odious fugitive slave law. Frederick Burliew located south of Waterburg in 1807, where his descendants still reside. About the same time came in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Updike, and located in what is known as Updike Settlement. John Creque came in 1811; was a blacksmith, and carried on his trade here for years. Lyman Strowbridge was a soldier in the war of 1812, under Colonel Hendrick Van Schaick ; came to this place in 1818; has served the town as justice of the peace, and the county as member of Assembly ; is still living, at cighty-five years of age. Henry D. Barto came to this town in 1814, from Virgil, and opened a law- office where Conley's shoe-shop now stands, when jurisdic- tion extended to Lake Ontario. He came here with fifty cents in his pocket, and died worth $100,000. Judge Barto married for his second wife Fanny, daughter of Dr. Silas Halsey, of Ovid. He had two children,-Henry D. Barto, Jr., who died Dec. 9, 1873, and Mary, who married General G. W. Cole. Mrs. Judge Barto and Mrs. Cole are living at Trumansburg. Judge Barto died Feb. 22, 1857.
Albert G. Stone was a nephew of Colonel H. Camp, and came from New Milford, Conn., in 1824; was clerk for Mr. Camp for some years; then in partnership with him, and upon the retirement of Mr. Camp from business, Albert G. Stone, with his brother, Jarvis Stone, who came in 1839, formed a partnership and continued the business. He was elder or deacon in the Presbyterian Church for thirty-nine years, and superintendent of the Sunday-school for twenty- five years.
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Samuel Vance was born in New Brunswick, N. J., in 1771; died March 19, 1877, aged one hundred and five years. He came to Ulysses in 1812; settled where his descendants now live. He was a mason by trade, and worked on Rutgers College in 1811, and laid 110 bricks in ten minutes, on a wager, and won. He had two sons and one daughter,-Thomas, Samuel, and Mrs. James Cole- grove. Thomas lives on the old homestead. Irving Vance, son of Samuel Vance, Jr., is a lawyer of fine ability, in Syracuse, and is one of the firm of Fuller & Vance. David
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PINE RIDGE PLACE, RESIDENCE OF STEPHEN M.PADDOCK, ULYSSES, TOMPKINS CO., N. Y.
RESIDENCE OF W. G. FARRINGTON, JACKSONVILLE, ULYSSES, TOMPKINS CO., NEW YORK.
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C. Williams, from Delaware County, settled near where S. R. Wicks' drug-store now is, and built a log house and a blacksmith-shop down by Treman's grist-mill (now J. D. Bouton's). Nicoll Halsey came from Ovid in 1808, and settled in what is now Halseyville; built a grist-mill of seored logs, and had the mill-stones brought from Pennsyl- vania. He had five sons,-Robert, William, Henry, Warren, and Richard. Robert is now living in New York. Wil- liam and Henry in Ithaca. Warren lived many years here, and is now in the West. He had three daughters, -Hannah, Margaret, and Emma. Hannah married Dr. O. C. Comstock, Jr. Margaret married Dr. Mills, who was surgeon in the regular army. Emma married Dr. H. W. Sayles.
Henry Taylor was born Sept. 3, 1783, the day the articles of peace between the United States and Great Britain were signed. He moved to Trumansburg in 1809, and was a week on the road, fording Chenango River on the journey. He put up at MeLallan's tavern, and next day procured an upper room in his house, and went to housekeeping. He soon after bought a house of John MeLallen on the hill. He carried on the business of tanning and shoemaking ; was the first Worshipful Master of the Masonie lodge, organized here, and was justice of the peaee. He was orderly sergeant in Colonel Camp's eavalry company ; vol- unteered for six months, and was discharged in four months ; died Nov. 11, 1863, aged eighty years.
The following is taken from Dr. J. M. Farrington's His- torieal Sketeh, delivered Sept. 24, 1876, and was gathered by him from Hon. Hermon Camp, and is a description of Trumansburg and vicinity, as it was when Mr. Camp came into the town, in the winter of 1805-6: The snow was abont six inches in depth, and night overtook him before he reached the ' Pine Woods,' which at that time extended to the Halseyville Creek. There was no real road, the smaller trees only were eut, and the road was very erooked or zigzag to avoid the larger trees. He was very weary and cold by the time he reached McLallen's tavern. As you come from Jacksonville on the hill east of the Halseyville Creek, where the barns of Frank Pearsall now stand, was a small frame house, occupied by Michael Snell, who after- wards became justice of the peace. A log bridge crossed the Halseyville Creek, above where the dam now is. The road there wound through what at that time were exten- sive pine woods, towards 'Trumansburg,-next house on the road being a log one, near where H. B. Jones now resides, and was occupied by a Mr. ITavens. Another log house was located where J. D. Gould's barn now stands, and was owned by Robert MeLallen. There was about an aere of elearing surrounding each of these dwellings. The next house was the one built by the first settler, Abner Treman, which has been previously alluded to.
Going westward, the grist-mill of Mr. Treman was the first structure, which stood on the site of the present stone inill of Mr. Bouton's. Both the mill and dam were built of logs. The side-hill slope leading to the mill was covered with large hemlock-trees, girdled and dead. In the mill- pond black-ash trees were standing, but dead. A small frame house stood near where the book-store now is. Bethniel Bond had once kept a few goods there. A log pot-ashery
Was standing where Samuel Williams' shop is, bordering on the mill-pond. A Mr. Cheesman owned the establishment, and got water from the mill-pond for its use. Chees- man was there, and made a little potash after Mr. Camp eame ; but Esquire Bond was at that time living in Covert with his family on the place now owned by Stephen Horton. Bond still owned the little building before alluded to, but kept no goods after Mr. Camp eame. Bond was aceus- tomed to take two or three barrels of potash to Utica with a horse and wagon to buy goods. Mr. Treman had then eleared on our present South Street as far as where Linas Waring now lives, and John Trembly, a tailor, grandfather of the landlord of the " Trembly House," lived there. The south road was opened as far as Deaeon Hand's place, and there David Atwater lived. Mr. Atwater first settled where W. B. Dumont now lives, but subsequently moved up and built a mill near the present Bouton Glen Mills. He brought the water from the pond in a long, high, raised flume. Mr. Camp recolleets seeing William Atwater (Da- vid's son) eutting ice in that flume in 1806 or 1807. The Updyke Settlement had oeeurred previously, and probably the road was opened from Glen Mills as far as the log meet- ing-house, which stood near the burying-ground, on the farm now owned by Peter Van Liew. There was a road leading from this place to Goodwin's Point, passing some- where near the hill of the present road, by Reuben Smith's. A house stood near the site of Mr. Smith's old house; there was no clearing,-the trees adjacent to the house were felled. A Mr. Putnam lived there. Treman had cleared both sides of Main Street to the ereck, which was spanned by a bridge about where it now is. An old orchard on Mr. Corey's land, near the briek-yard, marks the site of a house where Joshua Hinckley then lived. The only other building in that direction, which Mr. Camp recolleets, was near where Alfred Bates now lives. A very rough man, Daniel Holmes, lived there with woods all about him. The timber growing was mostly beech, maple, and basswood, while pine and hemloek covered the banks of the ereeks and the land adjoining. On the west side of Trumansburg Creek, near where Goodyear's store now stands, John McLallen had just built a new tavern. It was a frame building, two stories high, the lower story dug back into the bank or hill-side, and having a eellar at the rear part of it. MeLallen's old log house and tavern stood about where A. V. Bush's saloon is. His tavern-barn was near the present site of Allen and Ull's hay-scales, and his tavern-sheds, one open, the other inclosed, oceupied the present loeation of Lovell's store. The land was cleared upon the hill where the Phoenix Hotel now stands, and also for a considerable distance beyond, so as to afford quite an extensive meadow, which was used also as a parade-ground. Here Colonel Camp trained his company of cavalry, sometimes three days in succession, with drills every day.
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