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Mr. McCoy died in 1809, childless ; his representative, and the occupant of his primitive locality, is James M'Curdy Esq., his step son.
The venerable Amariah Hammond, for a long period a patriarch of the settlement and village of Dansville, after living to see a young and flourishing city grow up in the wilderness, where he so early cast his lot, died in the winter of '50, '51. His large farm, is im- mediately adjoining the village, on the main road to Geneseo. Daughters of his, became the wives of L. Bradner, Esq., and Dr. James Faulkner, both of whom are prominently identified with the locality. L. C. Woodruff, Esq., formerly of Lockport, graduating in his youth from a printing office, and now the principal active manager of the Bank of Dansville, a sound and flourishing institu- tion, married the daughter of Mr. Bradner, the grand-daughter of
* " Miniature of Dansville," by J. W. Clark.
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the early and much respected Pioneer. The first wife of Mr. Hammond died in 1798. "She had," says Mr. M'Curdy, " endear- ed herself to all of us by her many virtues. When she died, all wept who had hearts and eyes."
The author of the small local history already named, states that Mr. Hammond on coming in to explore, slept two nights under a pine tree on the premises he afterwards purchased. Early in the spring of 1796, "he removed his young family from Bath to this place ; his wife and infant child on horseback, his household goods and farming utensils on a sled drawn by four oxen, and a hired man driving the cattle." Some difficulty occurring in getting the cattle through the woods, Mr. Hammond after arriving at his log cabin, went back upon his track, and remained in the woods all night, leaving his young wife with her infant child to spend the first night alone. Mr. Hammond among other instances of the embarrass- ments of pioneer life, that he used to relate, said that the first scythes he used, cost him a journey to Tioga Point. Two scythes and the journey costing him eleven dollars.
In relating to his London principals the progress of settlement, Mr. Williamson says : - "I sold also on six years credit, the west half of township No. 6, 6th range," (this includes a large portion of the site of Dansville,) to a Mr. Fitzgerald, at $1 50 per acre. He sold the land to gentlemen in Pennsylvania for a large profit. The purchasers were, a Mr. Wilson, one of the Judges of Northumber- land co., a Mr. C. Hall, a counsellor at law in Pennsylvania, a Mr. Dunn, and a Mr. Faulkner. These gentlemen have carried on the settlement with much spirit, and Mr. Faulkner is at the head of it. They have a neat town, a company of militia, two saw mills and a grist mill, and indeed, every convenience. Mr. Faulkner, although he came from Pennsylvania, was originally from the State of New York, north from Albany. This winter he went down to see his father and other connections ; the consequence was, that he moved
NOTE .- In "Descriptions of the Genesee country," written by Mr. Williamson, in 1798, he remarks : - " Of. those settlements begun in 1796, there are two worthy of no- tice . that of the Rev. Mr. Gray, in T. 4, 7th Range, who removed from Pennsylvania with a respectable part of his former parish, and a Mr. Daniel Faulkner, with a Jersey settlement, on the head of Canascraga creek ; both of them exhibit instances of indus- try and enterprise. The ensuing season, Mr. Faulkner being appointed captain of a company of grenadiers to be raised in his settlement, at the organization of the militia of Steuben, appeared on parade at the head of 27 grenadiers, all in a handsome uniform, and well armed, and composed solely of the young men of his settlement."
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up about fifteen very decent families, who passed through Albany with excellent teams, every way well equipped. He sold to some very wealthy and respectable men of Albany, 5,000 acres at a large profit." The Captain Faulkner, who Mr. Williamson names, was Daniel P. Faulkner, an early patroon of Dansville, as will be infer- red. "Capt. Dan. Faulkner," was his familiar backwoods appella- tive, and thence the name - Dans-ville." He was the uncle of Dr. James Faulkner.
Soon after settlement commenced, Mr. Williamson had erected a grist and saw mill, on the site afterwards occupied by Col. Roches- ter. David Scholl, who was Mr. Williamson's mill-wright at the Lyons mills, erected the mills. The early mill-wright of the Gen- esee country, emigrated many years since to Michigan. Mrs. Sol- omon and Mrs. Isaac Fentztermacher, of Dansville, are his daughters. The mill was burned down soon after 1800, after which, before re- building, the neighborhood had to go to Bosley's mills at the foot of Hemlock Lake.
Jacob Welch came from Pennsylvania to Dansville, in 1798. He died in 1831. His widow still survives, aged 86 years. His sons, Jacob, Henry and Conrad, are residents of Dansville. His daughters became the wives of John Beltz, Peter Labach, Will- iam Kercher, and Valentine Hamsher. The decendants of Jacob Welch, residents of Dansville and its vicinity, number over one hundred and thirty. The part of his farm inherited by his son Conrad Welch, embraces the Dansville canal slip and basin. Mr. Conrad Welch, a prominent and worthy citizen of Dansville, gave the author some account of the early advent of his father, and others : - " My grand-father, Jacob Martz, resided near Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pa. The advent of Charles Williamson through that region, his road, and all that was going on under his auspices, created a good deal of interest for the Genesee country. Jacob Martz came out and viewed it, and returning, reported so favorably, that an emigrant party was soon organized. It consisted of Jacob Martz, his son Conrad Martz, George Shirey, Frederick Barnhart and Jacob Welch, and their families. The party came via Bath, and up the Conhocton. From what afterwards became Blood's corners, the emigrants had their own road to make through to Dansville. A winding road had been underbrushed, but no streams bridged, and high winds had encumbered it with fallen trees
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They were three days coming in from Bath, camping out two nights. Hearing of our approach, the new settlers in Dansville nearly all turned out, met and assisted us. Prominent of the party was Mr. Faulkner, who was alway ready to assist new settlers by such acts of kindness. Occupying an old deserted hut, and quartering our- selves upon the settlers in their log cabins, we got through the winter, and in the spring erected log cabins for ourselves. When we arrived, Samuel Faulkner had opened a small framed tavern, near where Mr. Bradner's store now is. In addition to the Faulk- ners, Hammond, and M'Coy, there was here when we arrived, Win. Phenix, James Logan, David Scholl, John Vandeventer,* the father-in-law of Esq. Hammond, Jared Erwin, Wm. Perrine. There was three or four families along on the road to Williamsburg."
" There had been, where Dansville now is, a pretty large Indian settlement, fifteen or twenty huts were standing when white settle- ment commenced, and several Indian families lingered for several years in the neighborhood."
" Game was very abundant ; the new settlers could kill deer about when they pleased. After yarding their sheep, they would often have to go out and scare the wolves off. In cold winter nights, the wolves would set up a terrific howl in all the surround- ing forests. They attacked cattle ; in one instance. they killed a cow of my grand-father Martz. Steel traps, dead falls and pits, were put in requisition, and soon thinned them out. There was fine fish- ing in the streams. Mill Creek, especially, was a fine trout stream. Pigeons were so abundant, that almost uniformly, newly sowed fields had to be watched almost constantly."
* A brother of Isaac Vandeventer, the carly settler on Buffalo road west of Clarence Hollow.
NOTE. - The author copies from the manuscripts of W. H. C. Hosmer, Esq., the fol- lowing account of an " ancient grave at Dansville :" -
" Before the Revolution, according to Indian tradition, a battle took place on a hill a few miles distant from the village of Dansville, between the Canisteo Indians and those living on the 'Ga-nose-ga-go,' [Canascraga] Creek. A chief of the latter, of great renown, was slain, and buried with great pomp by his tribesmen. When the whites first settled here, the spot where he fell was marked by a large hole dug in the shape of a man prostrate, with his arms extended. An Indian trail led by the place, and the passing red man was accustomed to clear away the dry leaves and brush blown in by the winds. The chief was interred in an old burial place near the present site of the Lutheran Church in the village of Dansville. The ground was formerly covered with graves to the extent of two or three acres. His monument consisted of a large pile of small stones, gathered from time to time by the natives, from a hill, a mile distant ; passing, they would add to the heap, by tossing on it, after the manner of the ancient Caledonians, their rude tributes of affection."
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The primitive settlers of Dansville were mostly Lutherans, or Dutch Reformed. The first meetings were held from house to house ; Frederick Barnhart or Adam Miller, usually taking the lead. The Rev. Mr. Markle, a Lutheran preacher from Geneva, occasionally visited the place, as did Elder Gray. The first loca- ted minister, was the Rev. Mr. Pratt. The Rev. - Hubbard, a son-in-law of Moses Van Campen, was an early settled minister. He was the father of John Hubbard, of Oswego.
Jonathan Rowley was an early landlord in Dansville ; he erect- ed for a tavern the first brick house in the village. He died in 1830, childless ; the only representative of the family, residing in Dansville, is a niece of Mr. Rowley, the wife of Samuel W. Smith.
William Perrine, has been before named as one of the primitive class of Pioneers, died in 1847, at the advanced age of 93 years. He was a soldier of the Revolution in the Pennsylvania line. His son, Peter Perrine, occupies the farm on which his father originally settled, near the village. William Perrine, of South Dansville, and Robert Perrine, of West Sparta, are also sons of the early Pioneer. Mrs. Robert Thompson, of Dansville, is a daughter of his.
Harman Hartman was one of the earliest of the Pennsylvania emigrants. His descendants are numerous, residing principally in Dansville and its vicinity.
Hugh McCurdy, Esq., in a statement made for the author of the published reminiscences of Dansville, already alluded to, says : - " The first tanner and currier was Israel Vandeventer ; the first black- smith, James Porter ; the first marriage was that of Wm. McCartney to Mary McCurdy ; our first school was taught by Thomas Mac- lain ; the first established preacher and founder of a church among us, was the Rev. Andrew Gray ; the first Justice of the peace was Dr. James Faulkner, (uncle to the present Dr. James Faulkner ;) the first Supervisor was Amariah Hammond ; the first death was that of Captain Nathaniel Porter ; the first P. M. was Israel Irwin ; the first merchant goods were brought in by Captain Daniel P. Faulkner ; the next merchant, Jared Erwin. He died of the pre- vailing fever during the war of 1812 ; his widow became the wife of Col. James M'Burney ; Mrs. Gansevoort, of Bath, is his daugh- ter."
Joshua Shepherd, L. Bradner and S. W. Smith, were early and
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prominent merchants of Dansville. Mr. Shepherd died in 1829; Mr. Bradner is the President of the Bank of Dansville ; Mr. Smith is a son of the early landlord on the main road from Avon to Cale- donia.
Pioneer settlers of Dansville, other than those named :- Natha- niel Porter, John Haas, Thomas Mc Whorter, Samuel Shannon, James Harrison, Daniel Hamsher, Mathew Dorr, Oliver Warren, a nephew of Dr. Warren, of Revolutionary memory.
Col. Nathaniel Rochester became a resident of Dansviile in 1810, purchasing a large tract of land, which includes the greater portion of the water power now within the limits of the corporation. The old Williamson mills were embraced in his purchase. He added to the mills, a paper mill, the pioneer establishment in that line, in all western New York. * In 1815, Col. Rochester sold his land, mills, and water power, to the Rev. Christian Endress from the borough of Easton, Pa., and Mr. Jacob Opp, from Northampton Co., Pa. Mr. Endress resided in Dansville but a year, when he return- ed, and resumed the charge of a German Lutheran cougregation in Easton. He died in Lancaster, Pa., in 1827. His interest in Dansville was purchased by Dr. James Faulkner. Judge Endress and Dr. Endress, of Dansville, are his sons. Mr. Opp died in Dansville, in 1847, aged 84 years. Henry B. Opp, of Dansville, is his son.
North Dansville, in which is the site of Dansville village, was in the county of Steuben, until 1822, when it was attached to the town of Sparta, Livingston county. In 1846, the old town of Sparta was divided into three towns-of which the town of North Dansville, three miles square, was one. The town of Dans- ville, is still in Steuben county.
Although it is one of the pioneer localities, of the Genesee coun- try, and commenced in an early period to be a place of considera- ble business, Dansville was but little known in the northern por- tion of western New York, until after the completion of the Gene- see Valley Canal ; and even now, away from the main eastern and western thoroughfares, as it is, it may well be presumed that this work will fall into the hands of many readers, who have neither
* The pure water at Dansville and fine water power, has invited this branch of manu- factures there to a great extent. There were four large paper mills there in 1844, manufacturing over $100,000 worth of paper per annum.
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seen 'the bustling, prosperous large village, hid away among the southern hills, nor perhaps, read any account of it. For this rea- son, a brief topographical sketch will be given-a departure from the uniform purpose of the author, in this history of pioneer set- tlement.
Though some sixteen miles from the Genesee River, it is in fact at the head of the Genesee Valley .* Coming down through the nar- row gorges of Allegany and the southern portion of Livingston, the river has but an occasional broad sweep of flats, until it reaches Mt. Morris. The flats of the river are continuous, and mostly of uni- form width, from a few miles above Rochester, to Mount Morris, from which point gradually narrowing, they follow the course of the Canascraga to Dansville, where, after widening out, and gradually rising in beautiful table lands, they come to an abrupt termination, and are hemmed in by hills. The Canascraga, Mill Creek, and Stony Brook, coming down from the highlands, through narrow gorges, enter the valley and unite mainly within the village limits. The Canascraga enters the valley through a narrow pass called " Pog's Hole," through which, climbing along a steep acclivity, and then descending to a level with the stream, passes the Hornellsville road. Upon the opposite side of the stream from the road, through ' the whole length of the narrow pass, is a perpendicular ledge of rocks, an hundred feet in height. Beyond this pass, the valley widens out occasionally, into small areas of intervale, but ranges of highlands rise in near proximity on either hand. The scenery is wild and romantic, at every step reminding the contemplative ob- server, of the written descriptions of the passes of the Alps. Mill creek making in from another direction, has a rapid descent for a con- siderable distance, before reaching the valley, furnishing a succes- sion of hydraulic facilities, as does the Canascraga, where it passes from the highlands, and for a considerable distance below. The aggregate durable water power of both streams, before and after their union, is immense - largely improved now - and equal to any present or prospective requirements.
At the head of the valley, is a succession of promontories, over- looking the town, upon one of which is a rural cemetery, not unlike the Mt. Hope, at the other extremity of the Genesee Valley. Moulder-
* The term " valley " is here used not in its enlarged sense - the term " flats " would perhaps be better.
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ing in its shades, upon its slopes and summits, are all that was earth- ly of nearly all the Pioneers, who, entering that beautiful valley, when it was a wilderness, laid, amid toil, disease, and privations, the foundation of that busy scene of enterprise, prosperity and happi- ness. Admonished may their successors and inheritors be, that their spirits may be lingering upon that summit, guardians and watchers, over those to whom they bequeathed so rich an inherit- ance. Let that elevated city of the dead, be to them a Mount Sinai or an Horeb, from which to catch, as if by inspiration, a moiety of the stern resolves, the moral courage, the patriotism, of the Pioneers.
The main street of the town is parallel with, and at the base of an unbroken range of high land, rising to the height of nearly five hundred feet - steep, but yet admitting of cultivation. Cultivated fields and woodlands, rising one above another, form the back ground, or rural landscape ; in the foreground are gentle offsets, or table lands, at the termination of which, the Canascraga winds along the base of another similar hill, or mountain range; to the left are the headlands, that have been named, and to the right, the Canascra- ga, winding along between the two ranges of highlands, flows to min- gle its waters with the Genesee, at Mount Morris.
The Genesee Valley Canal, terminates a half mile from main street, where it is fed from Mill creek, and a mile below, at Woodville, receives the waters of the Canascraga. The canal terminating too far from the central business locality of the town, individual enterprise has supplied a side cut, or slip which remedies the incon- venience.
In reference to the whole scenery of the southern portion of the Genesee country, the upper vallies of the Genesee, the Canascraga, the Allegany, the Cattaraugus, the Conhocton, and the Canisteo, it may here be remarked, that the traveller or tourist of what Mr. Williamson called the "northern plains, " who breaks out for a summer excursion to the east, the north or the west, may be told that a day's journey to the south, will bring him to a region of hill and valley, rivers and creeks, mountains and rivulets, cultivated fields and wild woodlands, which should satisfy any reasonable desire for the romantic and picturesque. And if health is the object of his summer wanderings, no where can he breathe " freer and deeper," of a pure and invigorating atmosphere - or drink from purer springs and streams, - than in all our local southern region.
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PHELPS AND GORHAM'S PURCHASE. WILLIAM FITZHUGH.
He was of a family, the namne and services of which are inti- mately blended with the history of the stirring events of the Rev- olution in the colony of Maryland. The father, Col. William Fitzhugh, held the commission of Colonel in the British army, retired upon half pay, when the troubles between the colonies and the mother country commenced. He resided at the mouth of the Patuxent, where he had a large estate, a farm, mills and manufac- tories. Exercising an unusual share of influence with his fellow citizens, the British colonial Governor made him the extraordinary offer of a continuance of his rank and half pay, and the quiet possession of his property if he would remain a neutral in the con- test. Though an invalid, by reason of physical infirmities, he re- jected the overture, surrendered his commission - (or rather left it upon the Governor's table when he refused to receive it) - encour- aged his two sons to take commissions in the "rebel " army, taking himself a seat in the Executive council of Maryland, to assist in devising ways and means for his country's deliverance. His fine estate, easy of access from its locality, was of course doomed to pil- lage and the torch. In the absence of the father and sons, a small British party landed, but resistance came from an unexpected source. The Revolutionary wife and mother, Mrs. Fitzhugh, armed the slaves upon the estate, and carrying herself cartridges in her apron, went out to meet the invaders, and intimidated them to a hasty retreat. It was however, but a warding off of destiny for a brief season. A. stronger party came and ruthlessly executed their mission, the family fleeing to an asylum fifty miles up the river where it remain- ed until the contest ended .*
The son, Col. Peregrine Fitzhugh, was first commissioned in a corps of light horse, but in a later period of the war was enrolled in the military family of Washington. DOSee Sodus. William, the more immediate subject of this brief sketch, served as a Colonel in a division of cavalry, and after the war, was a member of the Maryland Legislature. Previous to 1800 Col. Peregrine Fitzhugh had made the acquaintance of Mr. Williamson, and had visited the
* Principally from Mrs. Ellet's "Women of the Revolution."
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Genesee Country. When Col. William Fitzhugh first visited the country in 1800 in company with Col. Nathaniel Rochester, Major Charles Carroll, and several others, he brought a letter of introduc- tion to Mr. Williamson from his brother, for himself and Col. Roches- ter ; Major Carroll as would seem from the reading of the letter, having previously known him. During this visit, in addition to a third interest in the "100 acre Tract" at the Falls of the Genesee, pur- chased in company with Messrs. Rochester and Carroll, jointly with Mr. Carroll he purchased on the Canascraga, in Groveland and Spar- ta, 12,000 acres of Mr. Williamson, paying $ 209 per acre .* Their tract embraced the old site of Williamsburg, Mr. Williamson having abandoned his enterprise of forming a town there after the failure with his German colony. Leaving their property in the care of an agent. Messrs. Fitzhugh and Carroll did not emigrate with their families until 1816, when a division of the joint purchase was made.
Col. Fitzhugh died in 1839, aged 78 years ; his wife, who was the daughter of Col. Daniel Hughes, of Washington county, Md., died in 1829, aged 56 years. The surviving sons and daughters are : - Wm. H. Fitzhugh, residing upon the old homestead in Maryland ; Dr. D. H. Fitzhugh, residing upon the Canascraga four miles from Mt. Morris; James Fitzhugh, in Ohio county, Ky .: Richard P. Fitzhugh, on the Canascraga near his brother Daniel; Henry Fitzhugh, in Oswego ; Mrs. Dr. Frederick F. Backus, of Rochester; Mrs. James G. Birney, of Kentucky ; Mrs. Gerrit Smith of Peterboro ; Mrs. John T. Talman, of Rochester; Mrs. Lieut. J. W. Swift, of the U. S. Navy, residing at Geneva. A son, Judge Samuel
* Their tract was principally up lands ; a strange choice it was thought at the time, when they were offered the Mt. Morris tract, with its beautiful sweeps of flats, at $3,00 per acre. But they had come from a region where timber was scarce, and they had learned to appreciate its value and with reference to intrinsic relative value of soil ; time, and improved systems of cultivation are fast demonstrating that their choice of lands was far less injudicious than it used to be considered. The late Major Spencer told the author that the up lands upon his fine farm were worth as much per acre as his flats.
NOTE. - The Shaker settlement at the junction of the Kishaqua creek with the Canascraga a few miles above Mt. Morris, where the Genesee Valley canal cuters the valley of the Canaseraga, is a part of the original Fitzhugh and Carroll tract. The society purchased of Dr. Fitzhugh, a few years since, 1700 acres, for which they paid #92,000 ; and to which they have added several hundred acres. Their organization is after the manner of the societies at Niskayuna and New Lebanon ; they are enterpri- sing and prosperous ; themselves and their beautiful location one of the many objects of interest in the southern portion of our local region.
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Fitzhugh, residing at Mt. Morris, died in 1849 ; and a younger son, Robert, died in Groveland, in 1836. There are over 80 descend- ants of Col. Wm. Fitzhugh.
CHARLES CARROLL.
His connection with Messrs. Rochester and Fitzhugh, and his advent to this region with them in 1800, will have been noticed. He had previously in the year 1798, with a brother, Daniel Carroll, been here upon a tour of exploration. They came via the Susque- hannah route, with pack mules, made a general survey of the coun- try, were pleased with it, but made no investments as will be ob- served, until 1800. Their residence in Maryland was at Bellevue, near Hagerstown ; the earlier home of the family had been upon the site of the city of Washington ; the capital of the United States, now occupies a portion of the estate of their father, Charles Carroll, who was a cousin of "Charles Carroll of Carrollton."
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