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* He did not leave however until he had had pretty distinct intimations that his boasts of exploits in the border wars -of murder and rapine-would not be tolerated. He was at Canandaigua, and in the hearing of Horatio Jones was boasting of his ex- płoits with Indian allies, when Mr. Jones becoming exasperated attacked him with " an axe, wounded him, and would have taken his life if his blows had not been arrested by others. He soon after went to Canada.
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each night; arriving at Cayuga Lake they crossed their stock in two Durham Boats - the work of crossing consuming four days. The provisions of the party failed them, and they were from Thurs- day morning until Sunday night without food. Arriving at Geneva, nearly famished, their wants were supplied.
Unless this party had been preceded a few days by the Wads- worths, their stock was the first brought west of the Seneca Lake. They had among the rest, a few sheep that went to Bloomfield. In addition to Orange Stone, Chauncey Hyde, a son of another of the proprietors came on in 1790, locating upon the farm now occupied by Col. Gould. He remained but one season ; sickness discouraged him. He went upon some lands of his father, in Broome county. The elder Enos Stone did not emigrate to Brighton until 1816, where he died a few months after his arrival. Orange Stone, who for many years occupied one of the western outposts of civilization, keeping almost from his first arrival, a house of entertainment ; a home for the young men who were settling about him, and a stop- ping place for the occasional hunter, Indian trader, and traveler, died in 1842, aged 73 years. His eldest son, Orange, was drowned at Conneaut, Ohio, by stepping from the plank of a steamboat in the night. The only surviving son, Enos Stone, is now in California ; several daughters reside in Michigan.
Col. Enos Stone continued to reside in Lenox, making frequent visits to the new purchase, and residing occasionally with his bro- ther, Orange, until 1810, when he became a pioneer settler of the city of Rochester, his original farm embracing all of the most densely populated portion of the city east of the river. He still survives, at the age of 76 years. His wife, who was the daughter of Bryant Stoddard, of Litchfield, Conn., died in 1850, aged 73 years. James S. Stone, (born in May, 1810, the first born on the site of the city of Rochester,) of Greece, is the only survivor of five sons ; Mrs. Wm. C. Storrs, of Rochester, and Mrs. George Wales, are sur- viving daughters ; and a third, unmarried daughter, resides with her father. With a memory of early events unimpaired, Col. Stone has furnished the author with many interesting reminiscences, the ear- liest of which, are inserted here, and the later ones reserved for that portion of the work, having more especial reference to Monroe county.
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REMINISCENCES OF ENOS STONE.
In an early year, I was stopping with my brother Orange. Chauncey Hyde and myself were out hunting cattle. We saw a smoke rising at the Irondequoit Landing, and went down to it. We found that it proceeded from an Indian camp; as we approached it, two Indians rose up from a couch, one of which, especially, attracted our attention. His camp equippage we thought rather extraordinary for an Indian; he was well dressed - partly as a white man, and partly as an Indian; bid us good morning with great civility, and displaying a gold watch and trimmings, observel that being wearied he had over slept. He soon announced himself as Joseph Brant, on his way from Burlington Bay to Canandaigua. Having arrived in a boat he had sent In- dian runners to Canandaigua for horses, and was awaiting their return. He accepted our invitation and came up with us to my brother's house. His familiar conversation, and gentlemanly manners, soon convinced us that he was not the savage we had conceived him to be, from accounts we had heard and read of him, in connection with the Border Wars. He quieted our ap- prehensions of any farther Indian troubles, by assuring us, that as the Senecas had sold their lands to the whites, the bargain should be carried out in good faith, and the new settlements should not be molested. He manifested much interest in all that was going on in this region, and inquired when new settle- ments were commencing. The visit gave us great pleasure, and quieted our fears. In person, Joseph Brant bore a close resemblance to Gen. Brady, of the U. S. army.
I knew an early settler of Irondequoit, who used to kill, dress, and eat skunks ; he said their meat was fine flavored, free from any offensive odor .*
The principal colony of the rattle snakes, was in bank of river, below the Lower Falls, at a place we used to call " Rattle Snake Point;" and there was also a large colony at Allan's creek, near the end of the Brighton plank road. I think they grow blind about the time of returning to their dens, in August and September. I have killed them on their return, with films on their eyes. Their oil was held in great estimation by the early settlers. Zebulon Norton, of Norton's mills, was a kind of backwoods' doctor, and often came to this region for the oil and the gall of the rattle-snake. The oil was used for stiff joints and bruises; the gall for fevers, in the form of a pill, made up with chalk.
Fish were abundant, and a great help to the early settlers. A structure similar to an eel wire was placed in the Irondequoit, below the Falls. The rack was made of tamarack poles. I have known ten barrels of fine fat salmon taken there in one night. The river afforded a plenty of black and striped bass, and the Bay pickerel and pike. I never knew of the salmon ascending the Genesee river, but one season. Allan's creek in Brighton, afforded abundance of trout. The geese and ducks were so plenty in Brad- dock's Bay, that bushels of their eggs could sometimes be picked up in the marshes.
* Some of the early surveyors of Wisconsin confirm this good opinion of the flesh of the skunk.
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In one of the early years, I carried some grain to the Allan mill, to get ground for my brother Orange, and had to remain over night. Allan was there, in a spree or carousal. To make a feast, he had sent Indians into the woods, to shoot hogs that had gone wild, and he furnished the whiskey. There were many Indians collected. It was a high time, and the chief of the entertainment was enjoying it in great glee. Tired of the carousal, he re- tired to a couch, where a squaw and a white wife awaited his coming.
The hogs that we brought here in 1790 strayed off, and they and their pro- geny became wild, we had to either shoot or hunt them with dogs. The boars and old sows have been seen often, victors in a conflict with bears. A boar was caught and penned. He refused food, and would not tamne. When persons approached the pen, he would froth at the mouth; occasionally strike his long tushes into the logs of his pen, tearing out and champing the splinters.
OLIVER CULVER.
He is a native of Orwell, Vermont. In March, 1796, when he was 19 years old he left home in company with Samuel Spafford, and came on foot to the Genesee country, first stopping a short time at Jonathan Smith's in Farmington, where they hired out to make sap troughs. Going to Irondequoit Landing, he found the only occupant there, Asa Dunbar, a malatto, with a family. Remaining at the Landing about six weeks, a large company, consisting of the proprietors of the then newly purchased Connecticut lands in Ohio, their surveyors, and two families, in five boats, came up the Lake on their way to commence survey and settlement. In pursuance of a previous agreement, the young men, Culver and Spafford, joined the expedition. Landing at Queenston, taking their batteaux over the portage, the expedition went up Niagara River and coasted along the south shore of Lake Erie, finding no white inhabitant after they left the mouth of Buffalo creek - where there was one solitary family until they reached Erie, where they found Col. Seth Reed, -Gunn, who had his family with him, stopped at Conneaut, be- coming the first settlers there. Proceeding to the mouth of the Cuyahoga, the party landed, on the site of the present city of Cleve- ' land, and erected a log dwelling house and store house. Stiles, one of the party who had taken his wife along, built for himself a house, and became the Pioneer settler at that point .*
* A son of his born the next winter was the first born of white parents, on the Re- serve. Mrs. Stiles at the period of parturition had none other of her sex than native squaws, to attend her.
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The party all returned to New England in the fall. In the follow- ing spring, Messrs. Culver and Spafford came on again to Ironde- quoit, hunted, trapped, bought furs, until the surveyors again arrived, and they again embarked in their service. The principal of the party on this second expedition, was Seth Pease, a brother-in-law of Gideon Granger. The expedition consisted of about 60 persons. In the summer - 1797 - they cleared and planted six acres, which are now in the centre of the city of Cleveland. In 1798, Mr. Culver was in the employ of the contractors who had taken the job of the New Connecticut company to cut out the road from the Penn- sylvania line, across their purchase. Remaining the next year in Vermont, in 1800 Mr. Culver came out and purchased the farm where he now resides ; making his home at Major Orange Stone's, and going to his place through the woods by marked trees, he cleared seven acres and sowed it to wheat the first season; realizing a good crop. Fearing a defective title, he abandoned his farm, and was employed by Augustus Griswold for the next three years, at Irondequoit Landing, in superintending an Ashery, the first estab- lished in all this region. It worked up the ashes and black salts of the new settlers for a great distance around it; shipping at the early period, in 1803, 108 barrels of pearl ash to Montreal. Ashes being a shilling per bushel, enabled the settlers, generally destitute of money, to get some store trade. In 1804, obtaining a small stock of goods at the east, by purchase, and a much larger stock of Tryon and Adams, at Irondequoit upon commission, Mr. Culver went to Cleveland and opened a store, principally for Indian trade, where he had been preceded only by one trader, with a small stock. He bought furs of the Indians, and opening a barter trade with the settlements in Pennsylvania, his customers brought him upon pack horses, whiskey and cider brandy, in kegs, butter, cheese and honey . He sold them salt at $3,00 per bushel. Extending a barter trade to Detroit, he obtained there, apples and white fish. Disposing of his goods, he returned, had title to his farm made good, married the daughter of John Ray of Pittsford, and became a permanent resi- dent of Brighton, as early as 1805.
In 1811, Mr. Culver built the schooner Clarissa, on the Roswell Hart farm in Brighton, and drew it to the Bay, with twenty six yoke of oxen ; and after that he built three other schooners, and put them upon the Lake. He was one of the contractors for building
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the combined locks at Lockport, on the original construction of the canal. In 1822, he built at Brighton, a packet boat, the first boat built as far west as there, and the fourth packet that was built on the canal. These are but a part of the enterprises of his active and useful life. He is now 72 years old, moving about and super- intending a large estate, neither his physical or mental constitution but little impaired. He has buried two sons ; his only daughter is Mrs. L. D. Ely of Brighton.
REMINISCENCES OF OLIVER CULVER.
On the shore of Lake Ontario, on a high bluff near Irondequoit Bay, in 1796, the bank caved off, and untombed a large quantity of human bones, of a large size. The arm and leg bones, upon comparison, were much larger than those of our own race.
In 1797 I trapped two young beaver, at Brush creek, above Braddock's Bay. I saw one of their lodges. It was about the size and shape of a hay cock ; carried up with brush, as a ground work, covered with rushes, and plas- tered with clay. I have seen the stumps of trees they had gnawed down, that measured one foot across. They select the sites of their dams with something like human intelligence.
At one period, pretty much all the Lake business of this region, was trans- acted at Irondequoit Landing. The first flour was shipped there that went to Montreal. It was not until along about 1813, that we abandoned the idea that it would be the great commercial point of this region.
In 1805, '6, myself, Orange Stone, George Dailey, Samuel Spafford, and Miles Northup, with the help of $50 appropriated from the town of North- field, cut out the road, two rods wide, from Orange Stone's to the river, four miles.
When I first came to Irondequoit, in excavating the earth to buihl a store house, we found a large quantity of lead balls and flints. On a knoll, on the bank of the creek, there were the remains of a battery .*
In 1802 there was no school nearer than Pittsford. We chibbed to- gether, built a log school house, and hired a young man by the name of Turner, who was clerk in Tryon & Adams' store, to open a school. I wanted to go to school, and for my part, I got logs to a saw mill, and furnished the roof boards. Our first physician was John Ray, of Pittsford; our first mer- chant at Brighton, Ira West, who removed to Rochester.
Amos Spafford, of Orwell, Vermont, the father of Samuel Spafford, who came to the Genesee country with me, was one of the early surveyors of the Reserve, and one of the founders of settlement at Cleveland. The U. S.
* The battery, undoubtedly, that La Hontan says De Nonville erected at the Land- ing.
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government granted him a mile and a half square of land, at Maumee, to which place he removed, and where his descendants now reside. Samuel Spafford settled at Brighton, and made first improvements on the Blossom farm, emigrating to Maumee.
Amos Spafford being the first mail contractor at Cleveland, in 1805, his carrier being taken sick, I took the mail on my back, and carried it to Huron, in four hours, traveling on the ice with skates.
Timothy Allen sold his five hundred acres of land, in Brighton, to John and Solomon Hatch. In company with them, I built a saw mill on Allan's Creek, in 1806. They removed to Genesee county .*
In 1793, Judge John Tryon, of Lebanon Springs, became through a brother who had failed to make the payments, the owner of a traet of land on the Irondequoit, in Brighton, three miles above the Bay. His brother had previously laid out a village, but had made no progress with it. Judge Tryon built a store and store house, and in the spring of '99, opened a store in the name of Tryon & Adams. The locality assumed the name of " Tryon's Town." The agent of the proprietors, Augustus Griswold, first came on with five sleigh loads of goods, and after that, in the fall, Capt. Oliver Grace came with a boat load from Schenectady, the freight costing $3 00 per. 112 lbs. Asa Dayton soon opened a tavern, Stephen Lusk started the tanning and shoe making business, and besides these was Asa Dunbar, a mulatto, and John Boyd, - four families in all. In 1800, Henry Ward, the present worthy citizen and Post Master, of Penfield, then 18 years of age, came on and became a clerk in the Tryon & Adams store. At that period, much of the business of this pioneer store, the first west of Canandaigua, con -. sisted of barter, for furs, bear and deer skins, with the Seneca In- dians, and such white men as were hunters and trappers. In 1801, Silas Losea settled in the place, and enabled " Tryon Town," alias the "city of Tryon," to glory in the addition of a blacksmith's shop. An asliery and distillery was added to the store, soon after. In the earliest years, the store commanded a wide range of custom- ers. There are names upon its old books, of the early settlers of all the western towns of Ontario and Wayne, northern towns of
* Jarvis M. and Hiram F. Hatch, attorneys in Rochester, are the sons of the early pioneer, John Hatch. The father and brother were from Madison county. John Hatch removed from Brigthon to Barre, Orleans county, and subsenuently to Elba, near Bata- via, where his widow now resides.
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Livingston, and even a solitary settler of Orleans county, at the mouth of Oak Orchard creek, was a regular customer. The "city" was governed by civil laws of its own enacting. What has since been called a "Lynch Court " was established, and several trials and convictions were had.
The business of the place declining, shipping business going to the mouth of Genesee river, and rival stores springing up in other local- ities, in 1810 Mr. Griswold broke up the store, and went to Tren- ton, Oneida county. In 1818 the old store house was demolished, and there now remains scarcely a vestige of the once "city of Tryon."
Gen. Jonathan Fassett, of Vermont was the original purchaser from Phelps and Gorham, of T. 13, R. 4, now Penfield, and south part of Webster; he attempted its settlement in '91 or '2. He was accompanied by Caleb Hopkins, his son Jonathan Fassett, - Maybee, and some others. Discouraged by sickness, and other endurances of the wilderness, Gen. Fassett abandoned the enterprise, and returned to Vermont; though Messrs. Hopkins and Maybee remained in the country. Mr. Hopkins was the afterwards Col. Hopkins, of Pittsford, and Mr. Maybee was the father of John and James Maybee, who were pioneer settlers of Royalton, Niagara county, and of Suffrenus Maybee, a pioneer settler at Buffalo, and the mouth of Cattaraugus creek ; a daughter was the wife of Orange Stone, another of Caleb Hopkins, another of - Griffin, of Pitts- ford. Dr. Fassett, of Lockport, and a brother of his in Rochester, are grand-sons of Gen. Fassett.
Mr. Maybee was from the Mohawk. He came by water to Swift's Landing at Palmyra, there mounted his batteaux upon wheels, and cut his own road from a short distance west of Palmyra to Penfield.
Gen. Fassett located at the old Indian Landing, on the east side of the Bay, about two miles below the present village of Penfield. He had a plat surveyed there for a town, but nothing farther was done. He soon sold his interest in Penfield to Gen. Silas Pepoon, who sold it to Samuel P. Lloyd, from whom, in consequence of some liabilities incurred, it went into the hands of Daniel Penfield.
DO Farther reminiscences of Penfield will be added in another connection.
What is now Pittsford, being a portion of a township at the
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northern termination of the 5th range, 13,296 acres was purchased by an association, who were represented in the transaction by "Stone and Dodge." Settlement commenced there before the close of 1789. The pioneers were, Israel Stone and Simon Stone, Silas Nye, Joseph Farr, and at the same time, or soon after, other heads of families came in : - Thomas Cleland, Josiah Giminson, Alex- ander Dunn, and David Davis.
William Walker, the local agent of Phelps & Gorham, purchased T. 12, R. 4, now the town of Perinton. In the summer of 1799 his brother Caleb erected a log cabin, and moved into the township, taking with him Glover Perrin, with his wife. Perrin went first in the capacity of a hired man, but after the death of Caleb Walker, had some interest in the purchase. The pioneers had no children, and lived alone in the woods for several years, after which they moved to Pittsford. DP For Mendon, see Monroe county.
VICTOR.
[Omitted in its appropriate place.]
Enos Boughton, of Stockbridge, Mass., and his brother Jared, had visited this region in 1788. Enos had engaged as a clerk of William Walker, the agent of Mr. Phelps, and as soon as sales com- menced, purchased the town of Victor, for twenty cents per acre. In the spring of 1799, the two brothers, Horatio Jones, a brother- in-law, who was a surveyor, and several hired hands, went upon what was afterwards called Boughton Hill, erected a log cabin, sowed a patch of buckwheat, (the first of that crop in the Genesee country,) surveyed the township, and after sowing three acres of wheat, the whole party returned to Massachusetts, except Jacob Lobdell, who remained "solitary and alone," to take care of the premises, and winter fourteen head of cattle upon wild grass, that had been cut upon the Indian Meadow, on what is now known as the Griswold place. In February, 1790, Jared Boughton started from Stockbridge, with his wife and infant daughter, and made the long
NOTE .- Mr. Lobdell remained in the town, and became an enterprising and promi- nent citizen ; was well known as an early contractor upon the Erie Canal. His many kind acts in pioneer times, are well remembered. He died in 1848, aged 78 years. His sons are : - Levi and Jacob L., of Victor, George, of Hennepin, Illinois, Wallace, of Calhoun co., Michigan ; his daughters, Mrs. Abraham and Mrs. Rufus Humphrey, of Victor, and Mrs. Cleveland, of Steuben Illinois.
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winter, and wood's journey to their new home; a pretty full ac- count of which is given in History of Holland Purchase. Their travelling companions were the family of Col. Seth Reed, who were coming on to join him at Geneva. Between Col. Danforth's at Onondaga Hollow, and Cayuga Lake, the whole party, fourteen in number, cleared away the snow, and made a night camp of hem- lock boughs. They were ferried across the outlet of Seneca Lake, by Solomon Earle ; after parting with the Reed family, they arrived at Flint creek -- there was no bridge - had to fall trees to get their goods over, and afterwards tow the horses and sleigh across with ropes. Between Flint creek and Canandaigua, they found one small opening, and an unoccupied cabin. They arrived in Victor, March 7th, one week after the Adams family had arrived in Bloom- field. The stock of provisions they brought in, lasted with the help of the buckwheat that had been harvested the previous fall, until their wheat harvest. The early wheat crop was thrashed upon a floor made of split bass wood, and cleaned with an old fashioned corn fan, the rim of which was fabricated from an oak tree, and the bottom from a pine board, which had been a part of their sleigh box.
After Enos Boughton had purchased Victor, his father took an interest with him, selling his farm in Stockbridge, and coming into the new region. He died in Aug. 1798. His four sons were Enos, Jared, Seymour and Hezekiah. Enos, who was introduced to Mr. Clinton in 1825, as the man who built the first stick chimney, first framed barn, and planted the first orchard west of Seneca Lake, he died in Lockport, in 1826, where he had made an early pur- chase of a large portion of the present village site. Jared is yet living, at the age of 84 years. In 1848, the author saw him in the full possession of his faculties, and he was afterwards indebted to him for pioneer reminiscences, in a hand writing that showed little of the tremor of age, and exhibited a distinct and intelligent recol- lection of early events. The young wife, who with a child four months old, had cooked frugal meals by winter camp fires, and en- dured the most rugged features of pioneer life, was also alive in 1848; "hale and hearty," the mother of 12 children. She died in 1849. The living sons, in 1848, were : - Selleck, an Attorney in Rochester, Frederick, of Pittsford, [the first white child born in Victor.] Jared H., on old homestead in Victor; Enos of E. Bloom-
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field ; daughters, Mrs. Dr. A. G. Smith, New York, Mrs. Bennett Lewis, of Green county, Ohio, Mrs. Mortimer Buel, of Geneseo. Hezekiah died as early as 1793; was the father of the late Col. Claudius Victor Boughton, after whom the town was named in 1813, as a mark of esteem for his gallant services upon the Niagara frontier, to which the legislature of this State added the presenta- tion of a sword. Reuben H. Boughton, of Lewiston, is a son of his. Another son of Hezekiah, is George H. Boughton, Esq., of Lock- port. Col. Seymour Boughton was killed at the battle of Black Rock, in the war of 1812.
Jared Boughton took the buckwheat and got it ground at Capt. Ganson's rude mill at Avon. His next milling expedition, (after wheat harvest,) was with a double ox team, to the Allan mill at Genesee Falls. Arriving within four miles of the River, (at Orange Stone's,) he came to the end of the road ; any direct route to the River was through a dense forest, and low wet grounds ; which obliged him to go around, and work his way over the range of hills east of Mount Hope. Arrived at the River, he belled his oxen and turned them into the woods, carrying his grain across and down the river to the mill. As winter approached, the infant settlement was without salt. It was decided to send a boat to Salt Point. In November, Jared and Seymour Boughton, and John Barnes, went to Swift's Landing, (Palmyra,) took a Schenectady boat, and pro- ceeded on their voyage. The Stansells, at Lyons, were the only white inhabitants on the whole route. Below the junction of the Ganargwa creek, and Canandaigua out-let, they came to a raft of flood-wood, 16 rods in extent. To pass it they were obliged to haul their boat out of the water, up a steep ascent, and move it on rollers to a point below the raft. Procuring twelve barrels of salt, the party starting on their homeward voyage, encountered a snow storm and ice when they got into the Seneca river. They made slow progress, on one occasion being obliged to wade into the ice and water to lift their boat from stones upon which it had struck. At the raft on Clyde River, they had again to transport their boat overland, with the addition of their twelve barrels of salt. On account of low water, they were obliged to leave their boat and cargo at the Lyon's Landing. Going through the woods to Farm- ington, following township lines, they returned with six yoke of oxen via. Palmyra, and partly upon wagons, and partly upon sleds,
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