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The Indians upon their trail, camping and hunting upon their old grounds, the flats, and the up lands around the Honeoye Lake were the almost constant neighbors of Capt. Pitts, in the earliest years. Generally they were peaceable and well disposed ; a party of them however, most of whom were intoxicated, on their way to the Pickering treaty at Canandaigua in 1794, attacked the women of the family who refused them liquor, and Capt. Pitts, his son's and hired men, coming to the rescue, a severe conflict ensued. The assailed attacking the assailants with clubs, shovels and tongs, soon vanquished them though peace was not restored, until Hor- atio Jones, fortunately arriving on his way to the treaty, interfered.
The first training in the Genesee country was held at Captain Pitt's house ; a militia company, commanded by Captain William Wadsworth ; and Pitt's Flats was for many years a training ground.
Captain Peter Pitts died in 1812, aged 74 years. Ilis eldest son Gideon, who was several times a member of the Legislature, and a delegate to the stage convention in 1822, died in 1829 aged 63 years. The only survivors of the sons and daughters of Capt. Pitts, are, Peter Pitts, and Mrs. Blackmer. A son, Samuel Pitts,
* The Duke has made a record of it: - " We set out with Blacons to visit an estate belonging to one Mr. Pitt, of which we had heard much talk through the country. On our arrival we found the house crowded with Presbyterians; its owner attending to a noisy, tedious harangue, delivered by a minister with such violence of elocution, that he appeared all over in a perspiration." [It was the Rev. Zadock Hunn. ] " We found it very difficult to obtain some oats for our horses and a few hasty morsels for our dinner." The Dukehowever admired the fine herd of cattle ; and with characteristic gallantry, adds, that " a view of the handsome married and unmarried women" that he saw attending the meeting, " was even more delectable to our senses than the fine rural scenery" Rev. Zadock Hun, who was not so fortunate as a part of his hearers in falling into the good graces of the Duke, Mrs. Blackman, a surviving daughter of Capt. Pitts, says :- " was an old man then. He held meetings at my father's house as early as '93, coming at stated times. He also held meetings in Canandaigua and Bristol." She differs with the Duke - says they "used to have good meetings; much better ones than we do now."
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was an early and prominent citizen of Livonia. The descendants of Capt. Pitts are numerous. Levi Blackmer settled in Pittstown in '95, is still alive, aged 78 years, his wife, (the daughter of Capt. Pitts,) aged 72. In the summer of 1848, the boy who had driven an ox-team to the Genesee country, in 1795, was at work on the highway.
The Duke Liancourt, said that Capt. Pitts had to " go to mill with a sled, twelve miles "; this was to Norton's Mills. In '98, Thomas Morris built a grist and saw mill on the outlet of Hemlock Lake, and in 1802 Oliver Phelps built a grist mill on Mill Creek.
In '95, Drs. Lemuel and Cyrus Chipman, from Paulet, Vermont, and their brother-in-law, Philip Reed, came into Pittstown, with their families. They came all the way by sleighing, with horse and ox teams. The teams were driven by Levi Blackmer, Pierce Chamberlain, Asa Dennison, and Isaac Adams, all of whom became residents of the town. They were eighteen days on the road.
Lemuel Chipman had been a surgeon in the army of the Revolu- tion. He was one of a numerous family of that name in Vermont, a brother of the well known lawyer, and law professor in Middle- bury College. In all early years he was a prominent, public spirited and useful helper in the new settlements ; one of the best specimens of that strong minded, energetic race of men that were the founders of settlement and civil institutions in the Genesee country. He was an early member of the Legislature, and a judge of the courts of Ontario county ; was twice elector of President and Vice President ; and was a State Senator. Soon after 1800, he purchased, in con- nection with Oliver Phelps, the town of Sheldon, in Wyoming county, and the town was settled pretty much under his auspices. He removed to that town in 1828, where he died at an advanced age. His sons were Lemuel Chipman of Sheldon, deceased, father of Mrs. Guy H. Salisbury of Buffalo; Fitch Chipman of Sheldon ; and Samuel Chipman of Rochester, the well known pioneer in the temperance movement-now the editor of the Star of Temperance. A daughter became the wife of Dr. Cyrus Wells of Oakland county, Michigan, and another the wife of Dr. E. W. Cheney, of Canan- daigua.
Dr. Cyrus Chipman emigrated at an early period to Pontiac, Michigan, where he was a Pioneer, and where his descendants principally reside.
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In the year 1796, Roswell Turner came from Dorset, Vermont, took land on the outlet of Hemlock Lake, cleared a few acres, built a log house, and in the following winter moved on his family, and his father and mother. The family had previously emigrated from Connecticut to Vermont. After a long and tedious journey, with jaded horses, they arrived at Cayuga Lake, where they were des- tined to encounter a climax of hardship and endurance. Crossing upon the ice on horseback, a part of the family, the Pioneer, his mother and two small children, broke through in a cold day, and were with difficulty saved from drowning by the help of those who came to their rescue from the shore. Arrived at their new home, sickness soon added to their afflictions, and two deaths occurred in the family the first year. The residence of the family was changed in a year or two to the neighborhood of Allen's Hill, where they remained until 1804, and then, as if they had not seen enough of the hardships of Pioneer life, pushed on to the Holland Purchase, into the dark hemlock woods of the west part of Wyoming, the Pioneer making his own road, west of Warsaw, thirteen miles ; he and his family being the first that settled in all the region west of Warsaw, south of Attica and the old Buffalo road, and east of Hamburgh ; - pages could be filled with the details of the hard- ships of the first lonely winter, its deep snows, the breaking of roads out to Wadsworth's Flats, and digging corn from under the snow to save a famishing stock of cattle too weak to subsist upon bronse, and other incidents which would show the most rugged features of backwoods life ; but it is out of the present beat. Ros- well Turner died in 1809. His sons were, the late Judge Horace S. Turner of Sheldon; the author of this work ; and a younger brother, Chipman Phelps Turner of Aurora, Erie county. Daugh- ters-Mrs. Farnum of Bennington; Mrs. Sanders of Aurora ; and the first wife of Pliny Sexton, of Palmyra.
PITTSTOWN - REMINISCENCES OF MRS. FARNUM.
I Remember very well, that when early deaths occurred in our family, no seasoned boards could be obtained for coffins, short of taking down a parti- tion of our log-house. The second winter, myself, a sister, and young bro- ther, went to school two miles and a half through the woods, into what is now Livonia. We went upon the old Big Tree Road, and mostly had to
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beat our own path, for but a few sleighs passed during the winter. There was but one family - that of Mr. Briggs - on the way.
I think it was in the summer of 1802, that a little daughter of one of our neighbors, Sewal Boyd, three years old, was lost in the woods. A lively sympathy was created in the neighborhood, the woods were scoured, the out- let wadel, and the flood wood removed; on the third day, she was found in the woods alive, having some berries in her hand, which the instincts of hunger had caused her to pick. The musquetoes had preyed upon her until they had caused running sores upon her face and arms, and the little wander -. er ha I passed through a terrific thunder storm.
The Indians, if they were guilty of occasional outrage, had some of the finest impulses of the human heart. The wife of a son of Capt. Pitts, who had always been kind to them, was upon her death bed; hearing of it, the Squaw's came and wailed around the house, with all the intense grief they exhibit when mourning the death of kindred.
Upon " Phelps' Flats," as they were called, near the Old Indian Castle, at the foot of Honeoye Lake, in the first ploughing, many brass kettles, guns, beads, de., were found. An old Squaw that had formerly resided upon the Flats, said that the approach of Sullivan's army was not discovered by them until they were seen coming over the hill near where Capt. Pitts built his house. They were quietly braiding their corn, and boiling their succotash. She said there was a sudden desertion of their village; all took to flight and left the invaders an uncontested field. One Indian admitted that he never looked back until he reached Buffalo Creek.
In the carliest years, deer would come in flocks, and feed upon our green wheat ; Elisha Pratt, who was a hunter, made his home at our house, and I have known him to kill six and seven in a day. Bears would come and take the hogs from directly before the doors of the new settlers-sometimes in open day light. I saw one who had seized a valuable sow belonging to Peter Allen, and retreated to the woods, raising her with his paws clenched in her spine, and beating her against a tree to deprive her of life; persisting even af- ter men had approached and were attacking him with clubs.
I could relate many wolf stories, but one will perhaps be so incredible that it will suffice. A Mr. Ilurlburt, that lived in the west part of the town, was riding through our neighborhood, on a winter evening, and passing a strip of woods near our house, a pack of wolves surrounded him, but his dog diverted their attention until he escaped. While sitting upon his horse, telling us the story, the pack came within fifteen rods of the house, and stopping upon a knoll almost deafened us with their howl. Retreating into the woods a short distance, they seemed by the noise to have a fight among themselves, and in the morning, it was ascertained that they had actually killed and eat one of their own number! *
Capt. Harmon, built a barn in 1802 or'3; at the raising, an adoptel son of his, by the name of Butts, was killed outright, and Isaac Bishop was stun- nel, supposed to be dead. He recovered, but with the entire loss of the fac-
* This is not incredible ; other similar cases are given upon good authority. Fam- ishing, ravenous ; a fight occurs, and tasting blood, they know no distinction between their own and other species .- AUTHOR.
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ult, of memory. Although he had possessed a good education, he had lost it all, even the names of his children, his wife and farming utensils. His wife re-taught him the rudiments of education, beginning with the A B C, and the names of things.
Rattle snakes were too common a thing to speak of; but we had a few of another kind of snake, that I have never heard or read of, elsewhere. It had a horn with which it would make a noise like the rattle of a rattle snake.
In 1796 and '7, Peter Allen and his family ; his brother Nathaniel, and the father, Moses Allen, became residents of the town. The father and mother died in early years. Peter Allen was connected with early military organizations, and rose to the rank of a Brig. Gen. He was in command of a Regiment at the battle of Queens- ton, in which he was made a prisoner ; afterwards a member of the Legislature from Ontario. DO See Peter Allen and "Hen. Fel- lows," Hammond's Political History. In 1816 he emigrated to In- diana, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of Terra Haute ; a por- tion of his original farm, being now embraced in the village. He died in 1837, many of his descendants are residents of Terra Haute. Nathaniel Allen was the primitive blacksmith of Pitts- town; working first as a journeyman in Canandaigua, and then starting a shop, first in the neighborhood of Pitts Flats, and after- wards, on the Hill, that assumed his name. He was an early officer of militia, deputy sheriff, member of the legislature. In the war of 1812, he successively filled the post of commissioner and pay master, on the Niagara Frontier. After the war, he was sheriff of Ontario county, and in later years, for two terms, its representative in Congress. He died at Louisville, Ky., in 1833, where he was a contractor for the construction of the canal around the Falls of the Ohio. Of five sons, but one survives. Dr. Orrin Allen, a resident of Virginia. An only daughter was the first wife of the Hon. R. L. Rose, who is the occupant of the homestead of the family on Allen's Hill. The family were from Dutchess county. The daugh- ters of Moses Allen became the wives of Elihu Gifford, of Easton, Washington county, Samuel Woodworth of Mayville, Mont. co., Samuel Robinson of Newark, Wayne co., Fairing Wilson, of Stock- bridge, Mass., Roswell Turner of Pittstown, Ont., and Stephen Durfee of Palmyra, Wayne county.
Sylvester Curtis erected the first distillery in town ; and James
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Henderson who was a pioneer at the head of Conesus Lake, was an early landlord upon the Hill.
David Akin, Wm. Baker, Thomas Wilson, James Hazen, Silas Whitney, Cyrus Wells, the Johnsons, David Winton, Nathaniel Harmon, William Warner, were settlers in earliest years.
Philip Reed, who came in with the Chipmans, died about twenty years ago. His surviving sons are Col. John F. Reed, Silas Reed, Wheeler Reed, Wm. F. Reed, and Philip Reed, all residing on and near the old homestead.
As early as 1796 or '7, Elijah and Stiles Parker, Elisha Belknap, Col. John Green, John Garlinghouse, became residents of the town. The four first named, emigrated many years since to Kentucky, and in late years some of them have pioneered still further on, over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon. Joseph Garlinghouse, a son of the early pioneer, John Garlinghouse, an ex-sheriff of Ontario county, a prominent enterprising farmer, still resides in Richmond. A son of his married a daughter of Erastus Spalding, the early pioneer at the mouth of Genesee River; another, the daughter of David Stout, a pioneer in Victor and Perinton. Daughters, are Mrs. Comstock, of Avon, and Mrs. Sheldon, of Le Roy. Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Hopkins, of Richmond, are daughters of John Garling- house ; and a son and daughter reside in Iowa.
Asa Dennison who is named in connection with the Chipmans, still survives, a resident of Chautauque county.
GORHAM.
In all of the old town of Gorham, at first Easton, (what was is now Gorham and Hopewell,) a few settlers began to drop in along on the main road from Canandaigua to Geneva, as early as 1790. In July of that year, there were the families of Daniel Gates, Daniel Warren, - Sweets, -- Platts, Samuel Day, and Israel Cha- pin jr. who had commenced the erection of the mills upon the outlet. Mr. Day was the father of David M. Day, the early ap- prentice to the printing business with John A. Stephens in Canan- andaigua, and the founder of what is now one of the prominent and leading newspapers of western New York, the Buffalo Commer-
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cial Advertiser. Daniel Warren emigrated to Sheldon, now Wyo- ming co., in 1810 or '11, where he died within a few years ; Pome- roy Warren, of Attica, Wyoming co., is a son of his, and Mrs. Harry Hamilton, near Little Fort, Illinois, is a daughter.
Daniel Gates and his son Daniel Gates jr. were from Stonington Conn., both were out with Mr. Phelps in his primitive advent. They purchased land in Gorham, paying 1s Gd per acre. The old gentleman died in 1831, aged 87 years. He was the first collector of taxes of the town of Gorham. His descendants are numerous, a large family of sons and daughters becoming heads of families. His daughters became the wives of Asahel Burchard, the early pioneer of Lima ; Asa Benton, Shubel Clark and James Wyckoff of Gorham. Daniel Gates, jr. died in 1812 ; his wife was a sister of the wife of Major Miller the early pioncer near Buffalo, and of the wife of Capt. Follett ; Daniel Gates of Palmyra is a son.
Those whose names will follow, were all residents of Gorham as early as 1796 or '7 :- James Wood, Perley Gates, - Ingalls, Frederick Miller, Silas Reed, Capt. Frederick Follett, Lemuel, George, Isaiah and William Babcock; Joseph and James Birdseye ; John Warren.
Major Frederick Miller left Gorham soon after 1800, and was a Pioneer at Black Rock, the early landlord and keeper of the ferry at that point. William Miller of Buffalo, is his son ; and Mrs. Heman B. Potter is a daughter. Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Follett and Mrs. Daniel Gates, jr., were daughters of George Babcock.
Silas Reed died in 1834, at the age of 76 years ; an only sur- viving son, is Seneca Reed of Greece; a daughter became the wife of Levi Taylor, an early Pioneer of Lockport, now a resident of Ionia, Michigan.
Frederick Follett, in 1778, was among the border settlers of Wyoming Valley. In company with Lieut. Buck, Messrs. Stephen Pettibone and Elisha Williams, on the Kingston side of the river, within sight of the Wilkesbarre Fort, the party were suddenly at- tacked by twenty Indians. Three of the four were murdered and scalped. Mr. Follett was pierced by two balls, one in either shoulder, and stabbed nine times with spears. Still having consciousness, he fell on his face - being unable to escape - held his breath as much as possible, and feigned death, in hopes he might escape further muti- lation at the hands of his ruthless pursuers. But he was not thus
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to be spared. The Indians came up to him, and without any un- necessary delay or useless ceremony, scalped him as he lay in his gore and agony ; and but for the approach of assistance from the fort, would no doubt have ended his days with the tomahawk. The spear wounds were severe and deep - one of which penetra- ted his stomach, so that its contents came out at, his side! His case was deemed hopeless, but kindness prompted all the aid that medical and surgical skill could afford. He was placed in charge of Dr. William Hooker Smith, who did all in his power to save hin - and his efforts were crowned with success, and he became a hearty and well man. He was then young and full of vigor, and never experienced any particular inconvenience from these severe wounds, except occasional pain from one of the bullets, which was never extracted from his body, and extreme sensitiveness to the slightest touch, or even the air, of that portion of the head from which the scalp was removed.
He afterwards entered the naval service - was captured, and taken to Halifax, and confined in a dungeon six months ; was re- leased ; entered the service again, and was twice captured by the British, and eventually returned to his native country, to Dalton, Berkshire county, Mass., from whence he removed at an early day to Gorham.
It is a somewhat singular coincidence that his eldest son - now dead - who entered the naval service as a midshipman, in 1812, was captured on board the Chesapeake in her engagement with the Shannon, and was also imprisoned in the same dungeon six months that his father had occupied during our first conflict with the pow- ers of England.
"Capt. Follett " is frequently mentioned in the manuscripts of Charles Williamson, and would seem to have been in his employ as early as 1791. His surviving sons are, : - Orrin Follett, an early printer and editor at Batavia, and a member of the legislature from Genesee county, now a resident of Sandusky, Ohio; his second wife, a niece of James D. Bemis, of Canandaigua ; Nathan Follett of Batavia; and Frederick Follett, of Batavia, the successor of his brother, as a printer and editor- for a long period honorable asso- ciated with the public press of the Genesee country -and at present, one of the Board of Canal Commissioners of this State ; having in immediate charge the western division of the Erie Canal,
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and the Genesee Valley Canal. A son of his, is Lieut. Frederick M. Follett, of the U. S. army, a graduate of West Point; a cir- cumstance worthy of mention, as the patronage of that national school is not always as well bestowed, as in this instance, upon the descendant of one so eminently entitled to be remembered for ser- vices, sacrifices and sufferings, unparalleled in our Revolutionary annals.
BRISTOL,
Gamaliel Wilder and Joseph Gilbert were the Pioneers of Bris- tol. About the period that Mr. Phelps was holding his treaty with the Indians, in 1788, they located at the Old Indian Orchard, and commenced improvements. In 1790, Mr. Wilder built the small Pioneer Mill that has been often named in other connections. He died many years since. Joseph Gilbert was living a few months since, at the age of 93 years; if living now, he is the oldest sur- viving resident of the Genesee country.
Deacon William Gooding and George Codding were among the few who wintered in the Genesee country in 1789, '90. Both families have been widely known, and few have been more useful in the work of subduing the wilderness, and promoting the health- ful progress of religion, education and sound moral principles. The descendants of George Codding are numerous, and mostly reside in the early home of their Pioneer ancestor. William T. Codding is the only surviving son. Ebenezer Gooding, of Henrietta, is a son of the early Pioneer ; another son, Stephen, resides in Illinois. Deacon John Gooding, another son, was one of the early founders of Lockport, Niagara county, where he died in 1838 or '9.
The earliest record of a town meeting in Bristol, is that of 1797. In that year, William Gooding was chosen Supervisor, and John Codding, Town Clerk. Other town officers : - Fauner Codding, Nathan Allen, Nathaniel Fisher, James Gooding, Jabez Hicks, Moses Porter, Amos Barber, Alden Sears, jr., George Codding, Stephen Sisson, Amos Rice, Ephraim Wilder, Nathan Hatch, Peter Ganyard, Elizur Hills, Theophilus Allen, Elnathan Gooding, John Simmons. Other citizens of the town in that year, were : - Daniel Burt, Moses Porter, Jonathan Wilder, Theophilus Allen.
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Elnathan Gooding, Chauncey Allen, Samuel Mallory, Ephraim Francis, Seth Hathaway, Constant Simmons, James Carl, Zebulon Mark.
MANCHESTER.
Township 12, R. 2, originally a part of Farmington, now Man- chester ; settlement commenced as early as 1793. Stephen Jared, Joel Phelps, and Joab Gillett, were the first settlers. DO For Stephen Phelps, see Palmyra. Gillett, in early years, moved to No. 9, Canandaigua.
Nathan Pierce, from Berkshire, was a settler in 1795. But small openings had then been made in the forest. Mr. Pierce erected a log house, had split bass wood floors, no gable ends, doors, or win- dows; neither boards or glass to be had ; and " wolves and bears were his near neighbors." Coming from Parker's Mills through the woods at night, with his grist on his back, a pack of wolves followed him to his door. Brice Aldrich, a Pioneer of Farmington, was taking some fresh meat to Canandaigua on horseback, when a wolf stoutly contended with him for a share of it. There were many Indian hunters camped along on the outlet ; some times the whites would carry loads of venison to Canandaigua for them, where it would be bought up, and the hams dried and sent to an eastern market. Trapping upon the outlet was profitable for both Indians and whites.
Mr. Pierce was supervisor of Farmington for fifteen years, and an early magistrate ; he died in 1814; his widow is now living, at the age of 87 years. His surviving sons are : - Nathan Pierce, of Marshall, Michigan, Darius Pierce, of Washtenaw, Ezra Pierce of Manchester. Daughters : - Mrs. Peter Mitchell, of Manches- ter, Mrs. David Arnold, of Farmington. John McLouth, from Berkshire, came in '95, was a brother-in-law of Nathan Pierce ; died in 1820. Joshua Van Fleet, was one of the earliest; was an officer of the Revolution, a member of the legislature from Ontario; a judge an'd magistrate, and the first supervisor of Manchester. He is 90 years of age, a resident of Marion, Ohio. First merchant, Nathan Barlow, a son of Abner Barlow, of Canandaigua; resides now in Michigan. First physician, James Stewart. Nathan
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Jones came in 1799, died in 1839; Samuel and Nathan Jones are his sons ; Mrs. Dr. Ashley, of Lyons, and Mrs. Simmons of Phelps, are his daughters. Jedediah Dewey, from Suffield, Conn., came in '98, is still living. Hooker and Joseph Sawyer, were early. Gilbert Howland, a brother of Job Howland, of Farmington, set- tled in Manchester in 1800 ; purchasing a large tract of land. The Howlands were from Berkshire; Gilbert died in 1830. Nicholas Howland, of Farmington, and Jonathan Howland of Adrian, Mich- igan, are his sons. Mrs. Silas Brown of Hamburg, Erie county, is a daughter.
John Lamunion, came in early years ; was from Rhode Island. He died ten or twelve years since. His wife, who was the widow of Capt. Follett, died two or three years since.
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