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Pulver, George, son of Peter and Lavina (Conklin) Pulver, was born July 2, 1826, in Jerusalem. He was educated at the common schools and has been a successful farmer. In politics he is a Prohibitionist. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Italy Hill, and he is also trustee of the same church. Mr. Pulver mar- ried, first, Eliza E., daughter of William Crosby, of Benton, N. Y., by whom he had two children, Frank and Crosby, both deceased. Mrs. Pulver died in 1862, and he married, second, Nancy, daughter of Will- iam Griswold, of this town, and they have six children; Willard W., Morris E., John M., Peter D., Alice M. and Cornelia. All living.
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FAMILY SKETCHES.
Robson, A. Flag, was born in Italy, N. Y., February 8, 1857. His father, Thomas S. Robson, was born in Italy, N. Y., February 2, 1812, where he lived until his death, November 13, 1878, his father, Andrew Robson, being one of the earliest settlers in town. Thomas S. married Abigail P. Hodge, who was born February 9, 1818, and died April II, 1881. A. Flag Robson was educated in the public schools and at East- man's National Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he graduated in the spring of 1874. He was town clerk several years prior to 1885, and supervisor of the town of Italy during the years 1885 and 1886, and has been postmaster at the Italy post-office continuously since February 13, 1879, to the present (January 1892). Mr. Robson married, November 22, 1881, Mary P. Negus, daughter of Rev. C. R. and Mary A. Negus, who was born at Taberg, Oneida County, N. Y., January 1, 1858. He has been in the mercantile business at Italy, N. Y., since 1874. In politics Mr. Robson is a Republican.
White, Josiah, was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., in 1810, and came to Branchport in 1835, and engaged in lumbering on what is knownas the Beddoe tract, and later moved to the west part of Jerusa- lem, where he now resides. Mr. White has held many offices of public trust, among them being town supervisor. He married Miss Sally Loomis, in 1837, and they had two sons, of whom Ezra, who resides in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was president of Eastman's College for many years. He also had many city offices. Ransom resides in San Fran- cisco, Cal., and is interested in the insurance business. After the death of his first wife, Mr. White married, in 1851, Miss Elizabeth Loomis, by whom he had two children, Otto L. and Jennie. Otto L. resides on the farm ; Jennie married George McKay, and resides in Jerusalem on the place known as the Loomis farm.
Wixom, Bradford S., son of Shubal and Charlotte (DeKay) Wixom, was born August 19, 1832, in Prattsburgh, Steuben County, N. Y., and was educated in the common schools and Franklin Academy, of his na- tive town. He began his career as school teacher in 1850. In 1858 he married Helen E., daughter of the late Samuel Graham, and in 1864 moved to Italy, Yates County, and engaged in farming. He was su- pervisor of the town in 1868-69-70, the last year serving as chairman of the board of supervisors; was under-sheriff of the county in 1872,
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HISTORY OF YATES COUNTY.
having been appointed to that position by John L. Dinturff, then sher- iff. He was school commissioner of the county during the years 1873- 74 and 1875, since which time he has been justice of the peace, having been re-elected each succeeding four years. He also served two years as justice of sessions. Politically he has been identified with the Re- publican party, having cast his first vote for the electors of John C. Fre- mont. Mr. and Mrs. Wixom have two sons and one daughter-Charles F., of Buffalo, N. Y .; Jessie H., now of Rochester, N. Y .; and Claude H., now on the farm in Italy.
INDEX.
Abolition party, the, in Dundee, 390 Academy and Female Seminary, Yates County, 317 Dundee, 232 Penn Yan, 217, 316-19 alumni of, 223 preceptreses of, 219 principals of, 218 teachers in, 219 Yates, 227 Adams, Rodney L., 209, 210 Agricultural advantages, 247 production, increase in, 248 Society, 113 officers of the, 114 et seq. Agriculture in Middlesex, 475 possibilities in, 249 Albany County, the first organized juris- diction embracing Yates, 18
Algonquin or Huron Indians, 28
Altitudes, comparative, 20
Anderson, Alexander, 419 Andrews, Benajah, 278, 42 ) John T., 410 J. T., biography of, 501 portrait of, facing 410 John T. 2d, 188 Anti-Masonic tidal wave, 253 Appeals, Court of, 165 Ark, the, 291 Armstrong, John, 281
Arnold, Israel H., computations of alti- tudes by, 20 Aspell, William W., 275 Ayres, De Witt C., 209 Steven B., 209
Babcock, Charles, 281 Baker, Charles S., 182 Baldwin, Philemon 357 tragedy, the, 371 Baley, George E., 187 Bank, Baldwin's, 333 Bankers, private, 332 Banking houses of Penn Yan, 330
Bank, J. T. Raplee's, 332 of Bainbridge, 332 of Penn Yan, First National, 333 Yates County, 331 Yates County National, 334 Banks in Dundee, 381
Barden, Otis, 355 Bare Hill, legend of, 471
Barnes Fruit Line, the, 244 Barrington, first settlers of, 445 first town meeting in, 448 formation and organization of, 443
organization of, 100 settlers of East Hill in, 447 supervisors of, 448 topography of, 444 Barton, Maj. Benjamin, 354. Michael H., 9] Basket factories, 243
Bassett, William, 460
Bates, George, 459
Baxter, Thomas, 281
Bayard, Aaron. 277
Beddoe, Capt. John, 267, 422 Tract, the, 422
Beekman, Benjamin B., 409
Bellis, Delos A., 190 Bellona, 365
Bench and Bar, Members of, 170 et seq. Andrews, John T. 2d, 188 Baker, Charles S., 182 Baley, George E., 187
Baskin, Lyman J., 193
Bellis, Delos A., 190
Briggs, William S., 183
Brown, Morris, 176 Butler, John H., 185 Carmody, Thomas, 192 Dwelle, William D., 193
Fiero, William H., 190 Franklin, Benedict W., 174
Glover, Justice S., 173
Gridley, Abraham, 192 Harpending, A. V., 175 Harpending, Henry C., 192
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INDEX.
Bench and Bar, Member of, Harwick, An- drew C., 189 Hixson, Foster A., 193
Hoyt, Benjamin L., 185
Huson, Calvin J., 191 Johnson. John H., 192
Jones, Henry V. L., 188 Judd, Charles G., 178
Kinne, Silas, 186
Knox, John T., 189
Leary, Michael A., 187
Lewis, John L., 178
Smith, Franklin E., 520
Southerland, John, 491
Spicer, James, 510 Struble, Hanford, 503
Ogden, Darius A,, 189.
Oliver, Andrew, 179
Oliver, William M., 170
Prosser, David B., 177
Seeley, James L., 173
Spicer, James, 185
Stewart, Henry M., 180
Struble, Hanford, 184
Sunderlin, Delazon J., 174
Sunderlin Martin J., 184
Booth, Gifford J., 210
Bordwell, Consider, 460
Botsford, Elnathan, 416 Elnathan, jr., and Benjamin, 370 Jonathan, 385
Botsfords, the, 432
Boyce, John, 447
Boyd, Robert M., 419
Branchport, 424
Brant, Joseph (Thayendenaga), 53
Brick-yards, 308
Bridgman, G. D. A., 208, 210
Brown, Benjamin, jr., 458
Briggs Brothers, the, 459
Francis, 459 John and Peleg, 274 William S., 183 biography of, 496 portrait of, facing 182
"Brook Kedron," 86 Brown, Daniel, and family, 415 Jesse and Joshua, 459 Morris, 176
Bruen, Amzi, 279
Buel, Samuel, 356 Bush, Dr. Wynans, 421
Business and professional interests of Penn Yan in 1832, 305
Butler, John H., 186, 211, 245 Buxton, John, 278
Bitley, Peter H., 421 biography of, 490 portrait of, facing 420
Blair, John, 473
Bluff Point, 21
Board of Education, 218
Taylor, James, 173 Van Allen, James V., 175 Van Buren, Everet, 172
Welles, Henry, 172
Welles, Samuel H., 178
Wilkin, Lewis J., 193
Wisner, Henry A., 182
Wolcott, Hiland G., 187
Wolcott, John D., 181
Bennett, Abraham H., 207 Thomas, 278. Benton, Center, 365 changes in territory of, 352 churches of, 366 formation of, 98 formation of town of, 350
justices of the peace of, 364 later settlers of, 362 Levi, 354 pioneers of, 353-61. supervisors of, 364 topography of, 352 "Big elm tree," in Italy, 480 Big stream, 372
Biography of Andrews, J. T., 501 Bitley, Peter H., 490 Briggs, William S., 496 Casner, Ezekiel, 519 Cornwell, George S., 492 Earl, Jephthah, 498
Biography of Ellsworth, Samuel S., 505 Ellsworth, Samuel S., jr., 508 Hartshorn, Isaac W., 512 Lapham, George H., 516
Lapham, Ludlow E., 514 Merritt, LaFayette, 487 Purdy, Stephen, 499
Scheetz, John C., 495
Sheldon, Eli, 488
Sheppard, Charles C., 524
Sheppard, Morris F., 521
Morris, Daniel, 176
Morris, William T., 190 Morrison, Roderick N., 172
Underwood, Oliver, 491 Van Alen, James V., 513
Birdsell, Lewis, 275
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INDEX.
Canal appraiser, 111 Commissioner, 111 Crooked Lake, 267 Canandaigua lake, 19 Capell, John, 280 Card, Job, 460 Stephen, 277 Carmody, Thomas, 192 Carriage, the Friend's, 89 works, 343 Cartier, Jacques, 39
Cascade Mills, 295
Casner, Ezekiel, biography of, 519 portrait of, facing 340 Castner, Samuel, 279
Cemetery, City Hill, 436
Chadwick, Prof. Edmund, 229
Champlain and the Colony of the Com- pany of a Hundred Partners, 41 and the Iroquois, 42 his voyage of discovery, 40 Samuel de, 39
Chapin, Gen. Israel, 67
Chidsey, Augustus, 280
Chissom, Robert and Moses, 357
"Chronicle, Yates County," the, 209
Church, Baptist, in Benton, 367 in Dundee, 395 in Jerusalem, 427 in Penn Yan, 324 in Torrey, 441
Branchport Presbyterian, 428 Universalist, 429 Catholic, in Dundee, 407 in Penn Yan, 327 Christian, in Dundee, 400
Episcopal, in Penn Yan, 325
First Methodist Episcopal, of Dres- den, 441 Methodist Episcopal of Benton, 366 Episcopal in Penn Yan, 322 in Dundee, 394 in Jerusalem, 427 in Torrey, 441
Presbyterian in Benton, 368 in Dresden, 442 in Dundee, 395 in Penn Yan, 320 St. John's, in Dresden, 442 St. Luke's, at Branchport, 429 Churches of Italy, 485 in Middlesex, 476 City Hill, 436 Clan system among the Indians, 33 et seq.
Clark, Samuel, 418 William, 481 Cleveland, Libbeus, 280 S. C., 209, 214 Clinton, Gen. James, 54 Governor, council of Indians called at Fort Schuyler by, 58 protection of Indian rights by, 65 Coats, Sanford, 418 Cole, Asa, 302 Asa and Smith, 356 Erastus, 418 Ezra, 355 Coleman, John, 358
College, Keuka, see Keuka College
Colonies, activity in planting, 41 rival, 48 Colony of the Plymouth Company, 41
Colonization schemes, review of, 48, et seq Columbus, Christopher, 39
Commission, arbitration, to settle land claims of Massachusetts, 64
Commissioners, School, 216
Committee, visit of the Friend's, to the Genesee country, 79
Companies, the lessee, adjustment of dif- ficulties between, 68
Company, Commercial Iron Works, 342 Crooked Lake Navigation, 268 Steamboat, 267 Hammondsport Vintage, 345 Keuka Navigation, 268 Steamboat, 268 Lake Keuka Navigation, 269 Steam Navigation, 268
New York Genesee, 64
Niagara Genesee, 64
Parks Manufacturing, 343
Penn Yan & New York R. R. 292 Struble Kidney and Liver Cure, 344 Comstock, Achilles, 370, 417 Confederacy, the Iroquois, 30 et seq.
Congregational church of Rushville, 465
Constitution, amendments to, and changes in, affecting the courts, 166 et seq.
Controversy over lands between New York and Massachusetts, 62 the New Hampshire Grants, 65 Cornplanter at the council at Fort Stan- wix, 59 Cornwell, George R., address of, 221 biography of, 492 portrait of. facing 212 Dr. William, 284
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INDEX.
County clerk and surrogate's building, 110 clerks, 112 Courts, 168 Judges and Surrogates, 112 officers, 112
Court house and jail, erection of first, 109 first, destroyed by fire, 109 the new, 109 Courts, County, 168 development of the responsibility of, 165
General Terms, Circuit, Special Terms, and Oyer and Terminer, 157 Justices', 170 organization of, 107
present power and arrangement of, 165 Special Session, 170 Surrogate's, 169
Cowing, Albert R., 423
"Cressap's war," 51
Crooked Lake, 19
Canal, 267 building of, 292
Crosby, John F., 240 Nathan, 447 Culver, Franklin, 241
David, Thomas, 420 Davis, Jonathan, 416 Samuel, 416
Dayton, Abraham, 85 visit of, as one of a committee, to the Genesee country, 79 "Democratic Organ," the, 210
"Democratic Whig," the 208, 209
"Democrat," the Penn Yan, 208 DeNonville and the Senecas, 43
Devil's Hole, tragedy of, 50 Disbrow, Lodowick, 447 Discovery, claims by right of, 49
District Attorneys, 113
Districts, formation of, 98
Dresden village, 439 Dundee, churches of, 394 early condition of, 375 fires in, 380 former business firms of. 382
impetus to building in, 391 naming of, 379 present business firms of, 383 schools, 231 teachers in, 232 village of, 374 Dunlap, Anson, 241
Durham, Benjamin, 417
Dutch East India Co., establishment of trading posts by the, 41 exclusion of, by the English, 48 the, on the Hudson river, 48 Western New York a terra incognita to the, 18 Dwelle, William D., 193
Dye, John, 354
Dyer, Dr. Jared, 460
Earl, Jephtha, sr., 355 biography of, 498 portrait of, facing 354
Early customs in Dundee, 379 settlers of Italy, 482 et seq.
Educational institutions of Penn Yan, 311
Eddytown, 370 early merchants of, 374
Eddy, William, 370
Eighty-fifth Regiment, enlistments in from Yates, 162
Electric Light and Power Co., Penn Yan, 336
Ellicott, Andrew, Joseph and Benjamin, 73 Elizabethtown, 303
Ellsworth, Samuel S., biography of, 505 portrait of, facing 106
Samuel S., jr., biography of, 508 portrait of, facing 508
Encampment of Patriarchs, 337
English bounty for scalps, 56
claims to the territory of the Five Nations, 45 expedition to Chesapeake Bav. 41 final victory of, in 1759, 47 influence with the Indians, 52 Eries, destruction of, by the Five Nations, 30 Esperanza, 424 Evidences of prehistoric occupation, 23
"Express," Penn Yan, the, 210
"Faithful Sisterhood, the," 94 Farmers' Bank of Penn Yan, the, 332
Fenton, Geo. W., 243 Ferguson's Corners, 365 Fiero, William H., 190
Fiftieth Regiment New York Engineers, enlistments in from Yates, 161
Finch, John and Solomon, 279 Finton, Joseph, 446 Fire department of Penn Yan, 327-30 Fires in Dundee, 380
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INDEX.
First United States Sharpshooters, enlist- ment in from Yates, 162 Fitzwater, George, 276 Five Nations, destruction of other tribes by, 30 strength of in 1677, 42
Flint Creek, 479 Fortification early, 290
Fortifications, evidences of Indian, in
Yates, 29 the Indians as builders of, 29
Fort Niagara, a harbor for the Indians, 55 council at, 50 Fort Schuyler, council of Indians called at, 58
Fort Stanwix, treaty of, 59
Foster, William, 473
Fox's Corners, 424
Franklin, Benedict W., 174
Fraud in survey of Phelps and Gorham tract discovered by Robert Morris, 72 Fredenburg, Jacob, 279
Fredenburgh, William J., 74
" Frederickstown," 100
Freemasonry, 251, et seq.
French, activity of the. in establishing set- tlements, 41
and English war, 44 of 1756, 46 claims in the Genesee country, 40 dominion, end of in America, 47
influence with the Senecas, results of, 45 Jabez, 459 merchants secure a charter, 40
power augmented by the Jesuits, 42 success of, in 1756, 47 the, and the Iroquois, in 1688, 44 the, in the Genesee country, 44 Friend, arrival of the, 81 death of the, 87 first and second houses of the, 87 last will of the, 90 method of traveling of the, 88 persecution of the, by seceders from her society, 89 preaching to the Indians by the, 82 removal of the, to Jerusalem, 85 sermon by the, before the court, 90 Friends, buried in City Hall Cemetery, 437
Society, decline and disintegration of, 92 dissensions in the, 84 female celibates in the, 93
Friends, first settlement of the, 79 hardships of the, 80 immunity of the, from Indian annoyance, 82 lands held in commonalty by the, 84
means by which the, became possessed of lands, 81
of, in Jerusalem, 426 seceders from the, and their enmity, 89
the, partial list of names of the members of, 93 the, seek confirmation of land titles from Williamson, 83 the, without a leader, 91
Friend's, the, carriage, 89 dwelling and meeting-house, 81 in Milo, 272 Friend, the, 432 and her followers, the first settlers in Jerusalem, 414
Public Universal, 77
removes to "Brook Kedron," 86 seeks a home in Canada, 85 Frontenac, Count de, invasion of the Iro- quois territory by, 44
Gage, Moses, 358 Gardner, Mary, 276
G. A. R., J. B. Sloan post, 337
Gaslight Company, Penn Yan, 335
Geology, 119 et seq.
Gilbert, Elias, 460
Glenora, 407 Glover, Justice S., 173 Gorham, Nathaniel, 67 preparations for survey by, 69
"Gore, the," 75
Goundry, George, 278 Grape basket factory, 344 introduction of, 243 culture, beginning of, 238 changes in, 246 climatic conditions necessary for, 237 previous to 1865, 241
diseases, 245 pruning, 244 the Isabella, 239
Grapes, first sales of, 238
Green family of settlers, the, 421 George, 460 Greenhalgh, Wentworth, visit of, to the Five Nations, 42
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INDEX.
Green Tract, the, 421 Gregg, John, 267 Gridley, Abraham, 192
Hackett, Jacob, 404 Hall, William, 459
Hamlin, Myron, 389 William J., 392 Hardships of the Friend's Society, 80 Harpending, Anthony C., 393 A. V., 175 Henry C., 192 Samuel, 376
Harpending's Corners, 375 and Eddytown, 377
Hartshorn, Isaac W., biography of, 512 portrait of, facing 512 Samuel, 419
Hartwell, Samuel, 417
Harwick, Andrew C., 189 lodge, A. O. U. W., 339
Hathaway, Thomas, 416, 432
and Benedict Robinson, purchase of lands by, 85 visit of, as one of a committee, to the Genesee country, 79
Hatmaker, Dr. John, histortical report of, 435
Henderson, Richard, 275
"Herald," the Penn Yan, 207, 304
Himrod's and Himrod's Corners, 286
Historical Society, organization of, 116 work of, 118 Hobart, Rev. William, 464
" Home Advocate," the, 210
" Home Record," the, 385 Honey, Calvin, 387
Hooper, Adam, 72
Hotels, 345 in Penn Yan, 306
Houghtaling, family, the, 375
Hoyt, Benjamin L., 185
Hub and Spoke Works, 345 Hudson, Henry, 41
Hull, Eliphalet, 356
Hunt, Adam, 275
Hurd, Abner, and sons, 370
Hurons and Iroquois, enmity between, 30 Huson, Calvin, jr., 191
Ice company, Lake Keuka, 335 Incorporation of Penn Yan, 309-10 Indians as builders of fortifications, 29 clan system of the, 32 concession of territory by, 61 condition of the, at the close of the
Indians, Revolution, 57 council of, called at Fort Schuyler, 58 destruction of other tribes of, by the Five Nations, 30 et seq. English influence with the, 52 enmity between certain tribes of, 30 kind remembrance of the, for the French, 49
occupation, 24, 26
respect of, for the Friend's society,'82 rights of, to certain territory con- ceded, 58
Six Nations of, 34
Sullivan's expedition against the, 53 the Algonquin or Huron tribe of, 28 the Five Nations of, 28
the Neuter Nation of, 27
the, under Guy Johnson and Butler,57 traditions of the, 26
treatment of, by the United States and State of New York, 58
treaty with, at Fort Stanwix, 59
Turner's comment concerning the elements of the destruction of the, 40 village of Kashong, 28 who occupied Yates county, 28
Inspector of State Prisons, 111
Iroquois and Hurons, enmity between, 30 clans of the, 33 concerning the name, 32
confederacy, the, 30 et seq.
doom of the, 43
league, characteristics of the, 32 founding of, 33
neutrality of, during Queen Anne's war, 45 peculiarities of the clan system of, 34 et seq. power of, 37
sale of lands by the, to the Massa- chusetts Company, 38
the, 26 et seq. the, and the French, in 1688, 44
Italy, churches of, 485 early settlement of, 481
Hollow, 480 justices of the peace of, 485 location of, 479 of early settlers of, 482 et seq,
original formation of, 99 Summit, 480
supervisors of, 484
table of altitudes in, 21 water courses of, 479
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INDEX.
Jacob's Brook, 299 Jail, burning of the second, 109 erection of the third, 109 Jamestown, founding of the settlement at, 41 Jayne, Samuel, 358
Jerusalem, as constituted at present, 99 and the Universal Friend, 412 , church history of, 426 et seq. district of, 98 early settlement in, 414 error in local history concerning, 97 justices of the peace of, 430 mother of towns in Yates, 410 subdivision of, 98 supervisors of, 430 topography of, 411 Jesuits, the, 27 their influence, 42
Johnson, Col. Guy, 52 John H., 192 Sir John, 52 Sir William, 47
influence of, upon the Indians at the opening of the Revolution, 52 sketch of, 51 Joncaire, Chabert, influence of, among the Senecas, 46 Jones, Henry V. L., 188 Josiah, 276 Judd, Charles G., 178, 264 Judges of Common Pleas, 112 Judicial and political elements, separation of, 164 power, the governor deprived of, 164 system of New York, 163 Justices' Courts, 170 of the peace of Benton, 364 of Italy, 485 of Jerusalem, 430 of Middlesex, 478 of Milo, 297 of Potter, 468
Kahquahs, the, 30 Kashong, 353 Indian village of, 28 Stone's account of the destruction of, 55 Keuka College, 233 Council, R. T. of T., 339 Lake, 19 lodge, I. O. O. F., 336 mills, the, 294 84
Kinne, Silas, 186 Kinney's Corners, 424 Kinney, Elizabeth, 417 Knapp, James, 279 Matthew. 446 Knights Templar, 263 Knox, John T., 189
Lake, Canandaigua, 19 Crooked, 19 Keuka, 19 name of, 266 navigation on, 267
Land, availability of, 22 grants by English kings, 62 Lands, acquisition of, by New York State, 62 highest in the county, 21 level, 21
tracts of, compensation claimed by Charles Williamson for, 74 Lapham, George H., biography of, 516 portrait of, facing 334 Ludlow E., biography of, 514 portrait of, facing 514
Larzelere, Henry. 417 La Salle, adventures of, 43 Lawrence, John, 275 Leary, Michael A., 187 Lee, David, 280 Thomas, 275 Thomas, jr., house of, used for first Masonic lodge, 252
Lenni Lenapes, the, 26 et seq. Lewis, Capt. Joe, 267 Hon. John L., 1-8, 258 Leon and Harriet, 211
Lodge, Vernon Masonic, 252 " Long House, people of the," 32 Loomis, Nathan, 460
Macomb, J. N., jr., 261 Malin, Elijah, 81 Enoch and Eliza, 86 Margaret and Rachel, death of, 92 executors of the Friend's last will, 91
Maltsters, 343 Manufacturing at the Outlet, Milo, 291 Manufacturers of Penn Yan, 340-45 Masonic brethren, disputes between, 255 Hall, destroyed by fire, 259 early, in Penn Yan, 253 lodge, Dundee, 259 first, 252
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INDEX.
Masonic, Seneca Lake, 257, 259 Milo, 257 Penn Yan, 257 Rushville, 260
Masons, Royal Arch, Penn Yan Chapter, 260
Massachusetts, claim of, to New York lands, 63
Company, sale of lands to, by the Iro- quois, 38 lands, sale of, 67
Maxwell, Col. Hugh, 69 Mead, John, 239
Medical science, development of, 194 et seq. Society, form of license adopted by 200
members of the, 201
members of the, in 1870, 202 members of the, in 1891, 204 officers of, 203 organization of the, 199
original members of the, 201 partial reorganization of, 202 the, 199 et seq. societies, unusual powers of, 200 Members of Assembly, 112 Congress, 111 Mercantile interests of Penn Yan, 346
Merchants, early, of Dundee, 385 Merritt, John, 418 LaFayette, biography of, 487 portrait of, facing 418
Metawissa Tribe I. O. of R. M., 339
Methodist church of Potter, Second, 466 Rushville, 465 Methodists in Middlesex, 476 Middlesex Center, 476 civil history of, 477 early settlement of, 472 early settlers of, 473 et seq. "first events" in, 474 formation of, 99 justices of the peace of, 478 location and territory of, 469 supervisors of, 477 topography of, 470 water courses of, 472 Milo, boundaries of, 271 Center, 288 chief roads in, 273 erection of, 99 erection of, 272 first settlers in. 273 first town meeting in, 285
Milo, importance of the town of, 270 justices of the peace of, 297 location of, 270 Mills, the, 295 records of early families in, 274 settlement of, 273 supervisors of, 296 Miller, Cyrus, 391 Samuel V. C., 280
Mill, St. John's, 341 the Armstrong, 342
Mills, the Penn Yan, 340 in Starkey, 372 Minnesota Lodge, K. of P., 338
Miscellaneous regiments, enlistments in from Yates, 162
"Miscellany," the, 209
Mix, Malcolm D., 209
Moore, John, 420
Morgridge, Rev. Charles, 229
Morris, Daniel, 176 Robert, sale of lands to, 72 William T., 190
Morrison, Roderick N., 172
Mower, John, 481
Murdock, Newell F., 391
"Mystery, Penn Yan," the, 211
Nations Six, 34 Navigation Company, Crooked Lake, 268 Keuka, 268 Lake Keuka, 269
of Lake Keuka, 267 et seq. Neuter Nation, destruction of by the Five Nations, 30 of Indians, the, 28
New France, 40 New Hampshire Grants, the, 65 New Jerusalem, 78, 88 Newspaper, its purposes, 211, the first, 207 New York Genesee Company, 64 Genesee Company, extinguish- ment of title of, 68 Niagara Genesee Company, 64 Nichols Corners, 288 Isaac, 277 Norris, Eliphalet, 276
"Observer," the, 210 Occupation, prehistoric, doubtful, Levi- dences of, 23 Ogden, Darius A., 189, 261 Oliver, Dr. Andrew, 179, 101 William M., 170
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One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Regi- ment, enlistments in from Yates, 160 One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi- ment, the, at the front, 147
muster-in roll of, 150 et seq. officers of, at muster-out, 150 organization of, 146 varied service of, 147 et seq. One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Regi- ment, enlistments in from Yates, 161 One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regi- ment at the front, 153 et seq. muster-in roll of Company F in the, 160 muster-out roll of officers of, 159 organization of, 153 One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment at Gettysburg, 141
at the front, 140
from Gettysburg to the close of the war, 142 muster-in and muster-out rolls of the, 144 officers of, 139 organization of, 139
Ontario county created, 18 extent of when formed, 97 Opera House Company, Penn Yan, 335
Parker, James, withdrawal of, from the Friend's Society, 84 Peckins, David, 361 Penn Yan Academy, 217, 316 banks and banking houses of, 330 churches of, 320-27 early roads and streets in, 303 prominent men, 306 schools of, 224
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