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making their roads mostly as they went along, they succeeded in getting the first cargo of salt to Victor.
Levi Boughton, an uncle of Jared and Enos, accompanied Jared and Jacob Lobdell in their primitive advent - moved his family in the next year. He died in 1828, aged 78 years. His sons were, Nathaniel, of Bloomfield, John B., of Ohio, Thomas Morris, of Rochester, Horace B. of Victor. Thomas M. is the only surviving son. Daughters became the wives of Jacob Lobdell, Aaron Tay- lor, an early settler on the Ridge Road, near Molyneux's Corners, Niagara county, Zera Brooks, John Brace, and Philemus Smith, of Victor.
Rufus Dryer from Stockbridge, Mass., came to Victor with some portion of the Boughton family, and in 1799, accompanied Enos and Jared in their lumbering expedition to Georgia, where he re- mained with them for several years. Residing after that in Madi- son county, he became a permanent resident of Victor in 1806. He was the founder of the well known Dryer stand in Victor, and had opened it and kept it a year before his death in 1820. His son, Wm. C. Dryer, succeeded him, kept the stand for many years, and retired to a fine farm, upon which he and his brother Truman now reside.
DO For additional reminiscences of Victor, see " Phelps and Gorham's Purchase - Ontario."
[The following omissions in reminiscences of West Bloomfield, page 198; and in reminiscences of Bristol, page 208, are supplied.]
Ezra Marvin was one of the associates in the purchase of town- ship, now West Bloomfield ; he never emigrated ; his son, Jasper P. Marvin, became a resident and died there, in early years. The surviving sons of Robert Taft, are Jessee, Robert, Bezaleel, and Chapin Taft, all of Bloomfield ; daughters, Mrs. Peck, of Bloomfield, Mrs. Leach, of Lima. Ebenezer Curtiss died in 1812; Mrs. Par ker, of Lima, is his daughter. Jasper P. Sears died in early years. Other prominent early settlers : - Marvin Gates, a brother of Dan- iel, mentioned in connection with East Bloomfield ; Jacob Smith, built a saw mill and grist mill, in early years, on the Honeoye,- "Smith's Mills"-died many years since ; Deacon Samuel Handy, died 10 or 15 years since, was the father of Russel Handy, of Alle-
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gany; Peter W. Handy, of Rochester, Mrs. Stephen Bates, and Mrs. Charles Wilbur, (the early pioneer in Le Roy and Lockport .) Bayze Baker, still surviving, at the age of 80 years ; Nathaniel Eg- gleston, an early landlord, father of Mrs. William Parsons, of Lock- port ; Palmer and Clark Peck, came in as early as 1790. Clark was an early Supervisor of the old town of Bloomfield, died in 1825 ; Jasper Peck, of Bloomfield, is a son of his, Mrs. Page, of Bloomfield, a daughter ; his sons, Joseph and Abel reside in Michigan; the mother is still living.
John Dixon, was a native of Keene, N. H., a graduate of Mid- dlebury College, studied law in Milton, near Ballston, Saratoga county ; was admitted to practice in 1812, and in 1813 located in West Bloomfield, where he has since resided, and now resides, mingling professional duties with the successful pursuits of agricul- ture, a useful citizen, and a much respected member of the bar of Ontario. He was a member of the State Legislature, in 1829, '30, and of Congress, for two terms, at a later period; is now 67 years of age.
The sons of Gamaliel Wilder, the earliest Pioneer of Bristol, were : - Daniel, David, Joseph, Asa, Jonas ; daughters became the wives of Elisha Parrish, Theophilus Allen, Nathan Hatch, and - Hoag. Daniel became the owner of the Indian orchard in Bristol, that had escaped the devastation of Sullivan. *
Ephraim Wilder, coming in soon after Gamaliel, settled at first in South Bristol, but afterwards removed to T. 9, 4th Range. He died in 1822. His surviving sons are, Timothy, John, and Russell Wilder, of Bristol ; daughters became the wives of George Gooding, Henry Pitts and John Hatch.
In Gen. Hall's census of 1790, Aaron Rice (other than the early settler at Avon, as the author concludes,) is named as the head of a family in South Bristol. He removed to Genesee county, and from thence to the west in early years. His daughters became the
* It contained both apples and peaches, both in greater quantity than in any other of the Indian orchards that were preserved. A ride to "Wilder's," apple and peach eating, and cider drinking, on horseback, on ox sleds and horse sleighs, from the scat- tered new settlements, was no uncommon occurrence. The possession of an old Indian orchard near Geneva, and some cleared lands around it, was deemed of so much con- sequence, that the original Massachusetts pre-emption line was varied in order to em- brace it. South Bristol, hilly and broken as it is known to be, could once have been exchanged for East Bloomfield, but the bargain was declined on account of the " Indian orchard."
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wives of David Wilder, Simeon Crosby, and Randall Chapman. Aaron Spencer was also the head of a family in South Bristol, in 1790, but of him the author has no account.
The Coddings, whose advent is named, incidentally, in connection with the Pitts family, were three brothers : - Jolin, George, and Faunce, [called erroneously " Fauner," in another 'connection.] The surviving sons of John Codding are, John, George, Benjamin, Warren, of Coddingsville& Medina county, Ohio : and Robert F., of Summit county, Ohio. Daughters became the wives of Timo- thy Wilder, Isaac Van Fossen, and John Wilder. The sons of Faunce Codding are, Faunce and Stephen A., of Bristol ; George T. and Ichabod, of Lockport, Illinois, where their mother and sister, Mrs. Hale S. Mason, reside. George Codding died childless. Geo. Codding, sen., the father of the three brothers, joined his sons in early years. His other children were, Burt Codding, Mrs. Benj. Goss, Mrs. Zenas Briggs, Mrs. Elizur Hills, and Mrs. Wm. T. Codd- ing, who still survives, a resident of Bristol. M. O. Wilder, Esq., of Canandaigua, is one of the numerous descendants of this early and prominent Pioneer family,
CHAPTER VIII.
THE MORRIS TREATY AT "BIG TREE. - CESSION OF THE TERRITORY WEST OF PHELPS AND GORHAM'S PURCHASE, WHICH BECAME MORRIS' RESERVE AND HOLLAND PURCHASE.
ALTHOUGH Mr. Morris had acquired the pre-emptive right of Massachusetts to all the territory in this State west of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase - what was afterwards designated as Morris' Reserve and the Holland Purchase - as early as May, 1791, the native right to the soil was not extinguished until 1797. Soon af- ter he purchased of Massachusetts, in 1792 and '3, he sold to the Holland Company all the land west of the transit line, over three millions of acres, which is now embraced in the counties of Niagara, Erie, Chautauque, Cattaraugus, and all of Allegany, Wyoming,
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Genesee and Orleans, except their tiers of eastern townships, leaving to himself a tract of about 500,000 acres, between the lands of Phelps and Gorham, and those he had conveyed to the Holland Company. In his conveyance to the Holland Company, he had stipulated to extinguish the native title, and had left in their hands thirty-five thousand pounds sterling, of purchase money, as a guarantee.
Various untoward circumstances - the withholding of the mili- tary posts by the British, or in fact, their refusal to surrender their dominion over this region, the prospects of a renewal of British and Indian wars ; and more than all, perhaps, the indisposition of the Senecas to part with any more of their lands - delayed the fulfilment of this stipulation. It had been the firm determination of the Senecas, adhered to strenuously during all the preliminary negotiations of Mr. Phelps at Buffalo Creek, to make the Genesee river below Mount Morris, their eastern boundary line, and they yielded the "Mill Tract" with great reluctance and subsequent regret.
Fort Niagara was surrendered by the British, and taken posses . sion of by a company of United States troops, under the command of Captain J. Bruff, toward the end of the summer of 1796. In a few weeks after American possession of that ancient strong-hold of French and British power - the spot where the Senecas had so often assembled to renew French and British alliance - had been established, a numerous delegation appeared before the garrison, made a salute after the Indian fashion, which was returned by the discharge of artillery. It seemed an overture to establish the rela- tions of good neighborhood, and was met by the commandant in a spirit which evinced that he did not mean to fall behind his prede- cessors in acts of friendship and hospitality. He made a friendly speech to them, presented them with the American flag and a bar- rel of rum, and apologised for not furnishing them with a supply of provisions, alleging that they were scarce at that "distant post." In the answer to this speech, the Indians alluded to Mr. Morris pre-emptive right, and begged of Captain Bruff to protect them from the " big eater with the big belly," who wanted to come and " devour their lands." Mr. Morris was then about to make his appli- cation to President Washington for the appointment of a commis- sioner, but concluded to delay it on account of this manifestation at Fort Niagara,
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The next year, 1797, President Washington, at the solicitation of Mr. Morris, consented to nominate a commissioner, with the condition that Captain Bruff's speech and the Indians' reply of the preceding year, should accompany the nomination to the Senate; and observed, that " such was the desire to conciliate the Six Na- tions, that he did not believe that the Senate would confirm any nomination contrary to their wishes." The Senate confirmed the appointment of a commissioner, but with the proviso that he should not act until the Indians themselves requested a treaty. The com- missioner first appointed was Judge Isaac Smith, of New Jersey ; but his official duties interfering, Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth was substituted.
The task of getting the consent of the Indians to hold a treatydevolv- ed upon Thomas Morris, and he observes that it "was not an easy one to accomplish." It required journeys on foot and on horseback, con- ferences with the Indians in their villages, and all the persuasive arts of one who was not unfited for diplomatic missions to red or white inen. The Indians objected that if they asked for the treaty, it would be construed as the expression of a wish to sell their lands. Their consent was finally, however, obtained, the time of holding the treaty agreed upon, and "Big Tree," now Geneseo, designated as the treaty ground.
All concerned were principally congregated during the last days of August. Thomas Morris and Charles Williamson, and James Reese, as Secretary, were the representatives of Mr. Morris ; though Mr. Williamson being called away in an early stage of the treaty, the principal labor of negotiation devolved upon Thomas Morris. Col. Wadsworth was in attendance as the commissioner on the part of the United States, and William Shepherd as the commissioner of Massachusetts. Theophilus Cazenove, who was then the representative of the Holland Company in the United States, procured in their behalf the attendance of William Bayard, of New York, Joseph Ellicott and Col. Linklaen, who were accom- panied by two young men by the name of Vanstaphorst, nearly re- lated to one of the Dutch proprietors. Beside these, Israel Chapin was present, and a large representation of Indian interpreters and traders, while many were drawn to the treaty ground from motives of curiosity.
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William Wadsworth the use of the unfinished residence of the brothers, to accommodate those directly connected with the treaty ; and for a council house he provided a large tent covered with green boughs, and furnished with a platform and rows of seats, after the manner of preparations for a camp meeting.
Days, and in fact, nearly two weeks, of tardy and fruitless nego- tiations succeeded. With few exceptions, the Indians were entirely averse to parting with their lands. Red Jacket took the laboring oar for his people, though Cornplanter, Farmer's Brother, Little Beard, and Little Billy, were occasional speakers.
The first business of the treaty was to deliver a speech address- ed to the Indians, by Thomas Morris, containing generally his pro- posals. Then followed a long consultation among the Indians to frame an answer; which, when it came, was adverse to any land cessions. Meetings and speeches succeeded, Mr. Morris urging his proposals and Red Jacket resisting his importunities with ability and ingenuity. After some ten or twelve days had been spent, and nothing accomplished, Col. Wadsworth became indisposed, impa- tient of further delay, and insisted on the business being brought to a close ; and about the same time Mr. Morris discovered that the influence of white squatters, upon the Indian lands, and some inter- preters, whose offers of assistance he had rejected, stood in the way of success. The interpreters especially had inculcated among the Indians that by standing out they could get a much larger price than had been offered.
Learning that a council of the Indians had decided upon offering him a single township, and that only, his friends persuaded him against his better judgement, to promptly and indignantly reject the offer, which he did on the assembling of the general council, and the offer being made. This was thought to be the best expedient to bring the Indians to terms, but as it proved, was ill advised. The offer was a township on the Pennsylvania line, at one dollar per acre, which Red Jacket accompanied with the very comfortable
NOTE .- In a speech of Red Jacket's he assumed that if the Senecas parted with what was left of their wide domain, they would be shorn of their influence with their neighboring nations. To this Mr. Morris replied, rather tauntingly alluding to the treatment that Red Jacket and others of a delegation of Senecas had received from the western Indians, when they went as peace negotiators to the Miama with Col. Piekering and Beverly Randolph; treatment that amounted to contempt. Red Jaeket parried the assault by shrewdly observing that it was all owing to their going there in bad company, that the circumstance alluded to had admonished them not to go in bad company when they visited their friends.
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assurance, that over and above the purchase money, the land could be sold for enough to pay all the trouble and expense of the treaty. Mr Morris told them if they had nothing better to offer, the sooner the conference terminated the better, that all might return to their homes.
Red Jacket immediately sprung upon his feet, and said : - " We have now reached the point to which I wanted to bring you. You told us when we first met, that we were free either to sell or retain our lands, and that our refusal to sell would not disturb the friend- ship that has existed between us. I now tell you that we will not part with them. Here is my hand." Mr. Morris taking his hand, he ended by saying : - "I now cover up this couneil fire." A ter- rible whooping and yelling followed, and menaces made somewhat alarming to those present, who were unacquainted with Indian man- ners. 'i'o all present, but Mr. Morris, affairs looked hopeless, and it was with difficulty that he persuaded Col. Wadsworth and others, to remain and let him inake another trial.
The next day, Farmers Brother called upon Mr. Morris, and told him that he hoped the failure of the treaty would not diminish the friendship that had existed between him, (Mr. Morris) and his peo- ple. Mr. Morris replied that he had no right to complain of their refusal to sell their lands, but he did complain of their behavior towards him; that they had permitted one of their drunken warriors to menace and insult him, whooping and yelling in approbation of his conduct. He said he had not deserved such conduct from them ; that for years he had not refused them food, or as much liquor as was good for them, when they had been at Canandaigua ; and that his father had treated sueh of them as had been to Philadelphia, with equal hospitality. Farmers Brother admitted that all this was true, and regretted that the council fire had been covered up, oth- erwise they could meet and "smooth over, and heal these diffi- culties." Mr. Morris replied : - " The council fire is not extin- guished ; and of this I also complain, that Red Jacket had declared the council fire to be covered up, when according to your own usages, he alone who kindles the council fire, has a right to extin- guish it. It is still burning." After a few moments' reflection, Farmers Brother assented to the correctness of the conelusion, and agreed that the council should be again convened ; Mr. Morris pro- posing that it should be delayed a few days, which time he would
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occupy in examining his accounts, and paying for the provisions which had been consumed, collecting the cattle that were ยท not slaughtered, and attending to other matters preparatory to leaving the treaty ground.
" The Indians," says Mr. Morris, " are very tenacious of a strict ad- herence to their ancient rules and customs ; according to their usages the sachems have a right to transact all the business of the nation, whether it relates to their lands or any other of their concerns, but where it relates to their lands, and they are dissatisfied with the management of their sachems, the women and warriors have a right to divest them of this power, and take it into their own hands; the maxim among them being that the lands belong to the warriors, because they form the strength of the nation; and to the women as the mothers of the warriors. There are therefore in every na- tion, head or chief women, who, when in council, select some warrior to speak for them.
With a knowledge of this fact, Mr. Morris had made up his mind to try his luck with this mixed council, as a last resort. He brought about a meeting with the chief women and warriors. He told them of the offers that had been made to the sachems; and urged upon the women the consideration, that the money that they would receive for their lands, would relieve them from all the hardships they then endured. "Now," says he, " you have to till the earth, and provide by your labor, food for yourselves and children. When those children are without clothing, and shivering with cold, you alone are witnesses to their sufferings; your sachems will always supply their own wants. They feed on the game they kill, and sell the skins to buy them clothing ; therefore, they are in- different about exchanging their lands for money, enough every year to lessen your labor, and enable you to procure for yourselves and children, the food and clothing necessary for your comfort." He concluded by telling them that he had brought a number of presents from Philadelphia, which he intended to have given them, only in the event of a sale of their lands, but as he had no cause of com- plaint against the women, he would cause their portion of the pres- ents to be distributed.
The " women's rights," and well considered diplomatic speech, with the presents added, gave a favorable turn to affairs. For sev- eral days, the chiefs, women and warriors, were scattered about in
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small parties, in earnest consultation ; the finale of which was, an invitation to Mr. Morris to again open the council.
They convened, and speeches were made by Mr. Morris, by Col. Wadsworth, explaining to the Indians their rights, and the na- ture of the pre-emptive claim; and by the Indians, Red Jacket and Cornplanter, principally. But the women and warriors had become the real negotiators, and with them, in fact, the bargain was made.
The purchase money agreed upon was one hundred thousand dollars. The President had directed that it should be invested in the stock of the Bank of the United States, in the name of the President and his successors in office, as the trustees of the Indians. When the sum was agreed upon, it was with great difficulty that the Indians were made to understand how much one hundred thou- sand dollars was ; the sum far exceeding any rules of their simple arithmetic. This difficulty was obviated by computing how many kegs of a given size it would take to hold it, and how many horses to draw it. Another difficulty of still greater intricacy with them occurred : - a stock investment would of course give fluctuating per annum returns, or dividends ; and this was quite beyond their comprehension. They conjectured, however, that the bank was a large place in Philadelphia, where a large sum of money was plant- ed ; and that like other things that were planted, some years there would be a good crop, and some years a poor one. With this con- jecture, they were content ; and in years that followed, whenever Mr. Morris returned from Philadelphia or New York, they would enquire of him what kind of a crop they might anticipate ?
The Reservations was the next business to be arranged : - Mr. Morris had stipulated that he would make no deduction from the purchase money, if they were reasonable in their demands in this respect. The Indians insisted upon natural boundaries, such as the course of streams, &c. To this Mr. Morris objected, inasmuch as he could be no judge of the quantity of land within such bounda- ries. He brought them to his terms, the naming of square miles, in the aggregate about three hundred and fifty. When this came to be apportioned among the different villages, a great deal of
* This may have been the natural course in the exigency that existed, or it may have been a convenient expedient of Red Jacket and other chiefs, to have the treaty consummated and their dignity unsullied by an appearance of a change of purpose.
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jealousy and rivalry was manifested among the chiefs, as to the re- spective allotments. Before it was agreed how much the aggregate of the Reservation should be, Red Jacket was exhorbitant in his demands, claiming for the reservation of his immediate people at Buffalo Creek, nearly one-fourth of all the territory purchased; and Cornplanter was scarcely less exorbitant in his demands. They were rival chiefs, and their relative importance depended upon the respective possessions of their people. Mr. Morris had to assume the office of arbitrator, and decide the respective allotments. *
After all these matters had been adjusted to the satisfaction of all parties, a young Indian, then about twenty-four years of age, who had not before been to the treaty ground, made his appearance. It was Young King. He was, by the female line, a lineal descen- dant of "Old Smoke," whose memory was revered as one of the greatest men that had ever ruled over the Six Nations. In his life- time, his power had been unbounded. Young King was a heavy, dull, unambitious, but apparently an honest young man. Seldom meddled with the business of the nation ; but when he did so, he ex- excised a great hereditary influence. On his arrival, all business was suspended, until what had been done was fully explained to him. He expressed his disapprobation of the course that had been pursued. Farmer's Brother and other chiefs informed Mr. Morris that the treaty could not be completed contrary to the wishes of Young King ; that however unreasonable it might appear to him that one man should defeat the will of a whole nation, it was a power which he had derived from his birth, and one which he could not be deprived of. Young King at last, though not reconciled to their parting with their lands, acquiesced, saying he would no long- er oppose the will of the nation.
* They were :- At Squaky Hill, two square miles ; at Little Beard's Town and Big Tree, four; at Gardeau, twenty-eight; at Canaedea, sixteen ; Oil Spring, one ; on the Allegany River, forty-two ; on the Cattaraugus Creek, forty-two; on the Buffalo Creek, one hundred and thirty; on the Tonawanda Creek, seventy; at Tuscarora, one ; at Canawaugus, two. .
NOTE. - Young King resides upon the Buffalo Reservation, where he died but a few years since. Soon after the war of 1812, he met with an accident, which for a few days, seemed likely to occasion an outbreak among the Senecas : - An altercation oc- curred between him and David Reese, the person employed to do blacksmith work for the Indians, by the U. S. Indian agent at Buffalo. It grew out of an alleged failure to make or repair a fish spear for Young King. In self-defence, Reese dealt a tremen- dous blow with a scythe, which nearly severed one of Young King's arms; so near in fact, that amputation had to be immediately resorted to. The Indians became much
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