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Amasa Frost died many years since ; Nelson A. Frost is his son; another son resides in Michigan. Mrs. Jacob Albright, of Olcott, Niagara county, and the wife of Dr. Dibble, of Rochester, are his daughters. Nehemiah Frost died in 1850; Dr. Frost, of Medina, is his son. William Parker removed to Maple Ridge, Orleans coun- ty, and emigrated from there to the west.
Those whose names follow, were all residents of Riga previous to 1810-most of them settled there in 1808, '9 :- James Knowles, still survives ; Paul and William Knowles, of Riga, are his sons ; Mrs. Warner Brown and Mrs. Montross, of Riga, are his daugh- ters. Thomas Bingham still survives ; Joseph Bingham, of Allega- ny, Justin Bingham, of Michigan, and William Bingham, of Riga, are his sons ; Mrs. Pratt, of Allegany, is his daughter. Clark Hall still survives, a resident of Wheatland, though his early location was in Riga. Hall's Corners, in Wheatland, took their name from him. Thomas Hill was the first Supervisor of Riga, still survies at the age of 89 years; Rev. Robert Hill is his son ; another son, George Hill, resides in Wisconsin ; Mrs. Emerson, of Riga, is his daughter. Joseph Emerson still survives ; Erastus, Joseph, and George Emerson, of Riga, are his sons; an only daughter became the wife of John Reed, of Sweden. Eber and Chester Orcutt; Eber still survives. They were brothers ; the father, Moses Orcutt, was an early Pioneer in Pittstown. Benajah Holbrook, emigrated to Michigan ; Mrs. Frederick Davis, of Mount Morris, is his daughter.
The rapidity of settlement warranted a mercantile establish- ment in Riga as early as 1808 ; that of Thompson & Tuttle ; the last named of the firm, was a non-resident, engaged at the time in running a big wagon upon the Albany and Buffalo road. Joseph Thompson, of the firm, was the Pioneer tavern keeper; a part of the building now occupied by the Riga Academy, was erected by him for a tavern house. He died many years since.
Dr. John Darling was the earliest physician in town ; he died in early years. He was succeeded by Dr. Richard Dibble.
The first death in town was that of Richard Church, in 1807, the father of the brothers who have been named.
REMINISCENCES OF ELIHU CHURCH.
I emigrated from Berkshire to Phelps, Ontario county, in 1796, and purchased land upon Flint Creek, where I remained until 1805. In that
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year, Mr. Wadsworth's handbills had reached Berkshire, offering to ex- change wild lands for farms, and had induced by brother Samuel to come and see the country. I accompanied him to what was then West Pulteney. We found it a densely and heavily timbered wilderness; the anly occupants, other than wild beasts, John Smith and his surveying par- ty, their eamp located on the stream near my present residence. We ex- plored the township, and were pleased with it. During the next winter, I selected for myself, my present location, and for my brother, the site of the present village of Churchville. In March, 1806, I removed my family from Phelps to my new location, expecting that I had a house ready for them, as I had contracted for the building of one; but on arriving, we found ourselves houseless. William Parker, Samuel Shepherd and Amasa Frost, had preceded me a few days, with their families, and were occu- pants of the surveyors' eamp, where myself and family were hospitably ad- mitted as joint occupants; and a crowded household we had-28 of us al- together-all in one small cabin. We called it the " Hotel," and that gave the name to the stream upon the banks of which it stocd. Isaae, Elisha and David Farwell, then of " Springfield," now Wheatland, hearing that I was houseless, generously came and helped me erect one. We put up the body of it in one day; had it ready to move into on the fourth day. The floor was of split basswood, the roof of eedar shingles; no boards were used in its construction; I was farther indebted to Elisha Farwell for a few nails. I had now fairly commeneed a pioneer life, a small specimen of which I had already witnessed, and been a part of, in Phelps.
All of us who located in the spring of 1806, raised small patches of summer crops. In the fall of that year. I had fifty aeres cleared, which I sowed to wheat. I had got in debt in elearing land and in building, and though I had an excellent crop of wheat, it was difficult to pay debts with it; it would not command money. 1 exchanged some of it for labor, with new comers. In 1808, I took wheat to Canandaigua: there was no price and no sale for it there; no exchanging of it for store trade. I removed it to Geneva, at a cost of 123 cents per bushel, and paid a debt I owed there for a barrel of whiskey with it; the wheat finally netting me 12} cents per bushel, or one gallon of whiskey for six bushels of wheat. We could get some store trade at Guernsey's store in Lima, in an early day, for wheat. The first eash market was at Charlotte; price, 31 cents per bushel. * In the cold season of 1816, when summer crops were general- ly destroyed throughout the country, there was an excellent wheat crop in Riga. In the fall, I sold my whole crop to Bond and Hatch, Rochester, for $2 per bushel; and after that, some of my neighbors sold their crops for $2 50 per bushel.
In some of the earliest years, Mr. Wadsworth sent some pot-ash kettles into the township, and the manufacture of black salts and pot-ash was com- menced. It proved a great help to the new settlers; enabled them to pro- eure some of the common necessaries of life, when wheat would not.
* Extract of a letter from Mr. Wadsworth to Col. Troup, dated in 1808 :- " It is a fact that farmers have been compelled to sell their wheat, in some instances, for 18d. per bushel, to pay taxes !"
NOTE .- The first four pot-ash kettles that Mr. Wadsworth procured in Albany, for the new settlements, cost $40 each ; transportation to the landing place at Cayuga
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The first town meeting we attended was in Ogden, at the house of Esq. Willey, in 1807. Then the town of Northampton embraced the northern towns of Monroe, west of the river; or " settlements," and " districts," as they were then termed. We made choice of two Supervisors in succes- sion, but their election was a nullity, neither of them being free-holders ; free-holders were scarce in that early day. We finally compromised the matter by appointing delegates from each settlement, to appoint town offi- cers. The proceeding was not exactly legal, but no objection being made, it all went off well enough.
Our first religious meetings, previous to the organization of the Con- gregational church, were held in my barn, it being the first framed barn erected in town. I think Elder Reed, a Baptist missionary, was the first to visit our settlement. The Rev. Mr. Phelps and several Methodist cir- cuit preachers, visited us in early years.
Judge Henry Brewster, now a resident of Le Roy, at the ad- vanced age of 77 years, was one of the Pioneers of Riga. Though laboring under the physical infirmities incident to old age, his men- tal faculties are unimpaired ; as a well drawn up and intelligent account of his early advent, which he has furnished for this work, attests. His surviving sons are :- Henry A. Brewster, Rochester, Edward Brewster, Buffalo, Albert Brewster, Le Roy, F. W. Brew- ster. Brockport ; a daughter is Mrs. Norris, of Stratford, Conn.
REMINISCENCES OF HENRY BREWSTER.
My father was a farmer in New London county, Connecticut, town of Prescott. As with most New England farmers, the Revolutior., its per- sonal services and sacrifices, its incidental burdens, was the occasion of depression and embarrassment. As soon as I was old enough to labor, my services were required upon the farm, so unremittingly as even to de- prive me of the advantages of education, beyond what could be acquired before I was twelve years of age. I married at the age of twenty-three years, and unfortunately bought a farm and settled upon it, in one of the poorest mountain towns of the county of Berkshire. Unable to sell it, I was obliged to cultivate the ungenial soil of the Berkshire mountains for ten of the best years of my life.
The day of deliverance came, however :- In 1805, I met with a large handbill sent out by James Wadsworth, Esq., of " Big Tree," proposing to exchange each alternate range of lots of land in " West Pulteney town- ship," for improved farms in the county of Berkshire. Daniel Dewey, Esq., of Williamstown, and - Hopkins, Esq., of Great Barrington, were named as the agents in Berkshire, who would give applicants all needed
Bridge, for the four, $156 25. This was in 1807. In 1808, he bought 24 kettles in Albany,at $35 each ; cost of transportation but little less than in the preceding year .
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information. The farms were to be taken at appraised value, and the wild land given in exchange, at $4 per acre.
In October, 1805, Mr. Samuel Baldwin, a neighbor of mine, and myself, mounted our horses and came to see the Genesee country, and especially West Pulteney. Arriving at Avon, a guide had been provided by Mr. Wadsworth to conduct us to our destination. Reaching the " Hanover settlement," in East Pulteney, we went through the woods to the survey- ors' cabin in West Pulteney, where we were lodged, fed, and provided with maps and a guide, while we made a pretty thorough exploration of the township. We found that several of our neighbors from Berkshire had been in, [those named by Mr. Church,] had visited the township, pur- chased and exchanged lands; but all that was doing to prepare for settle- ment, was a chopping that was making by Mr. Elihu Church and his hired man. Liking the country, and especially the land we were viewing, Mr- Baldwin and myself selected 850 acres each, the quantity which the ap- praised value of our farms in Berkshire entitled us to. After this, we visit- ed the mouth of the river, and ascending it, viewed the Falls, the Rapids. and the present site of Rochester. All was a dreary wilderness, in which there was no opening, save that made by the river, and a small one imme- diately about the old Allan mill. There was a narrow and crooked wagon path on the east side of the river, and such it remained for several years after, during which I wagoned many loads of pot-ash over it to the mouth of the river, made from the timber of my lands in West Pulteney.
We then visited " Big Tree," where we were hospitably entertained by Mr. Wadsworth, our land exchanges arranged, and the deeds prepared, which we took with us to Albany to be signed by Col. Troup. We also, each of us, purchased several lots upon credit.
In the fall of 1806, I re-visited the country to make preparations for the removal of my family. At the hotel in Canandaigua, where I was remain- ing over the Sabbath, I met with Col. Troup. There being no public worship in the village, we spent the day in company. Observing that he took a lively interest in all that related to the settlement of the country, and especially in all that related to public worship, and a strict regard to the observance of the Sabbath, I ventured to suggest to him the happy in- fluence it would have upon our new settlement in West Pulteney, if he would set apart or donate lands for religious and educational purposes; while at the same time, it would promote the sale and settlement of the township. He fell in with my views, saying to me :- " Go on and organize a religious society, elect trustees, and select two one hundred acre lots- one for the support of the Gospel, and another for the support of schools- call on me at Albany on your return, and I will deliver you the title deeds." During my stay in the settlement, a meeting of the Pioneers took place, few in number, and measures were adopted to avail ourselves of the donation. There were then five families in West Pulteney, and about fifteen heads of families were making arrangements to settle there. At the meeting, it was agreed to take all the necessary legal steps in the formation of a reli- gious society : one of which was the requirement, that notice of intention
NOTE .- In a letter from Mr. Wadsworth to Col. Troup, in 1805, in speaking of the fine prospects he had of settling West Pulteney, he mentions Messrs. Baldwin and Brewster as likely to prove a valuable acquisition to the new settlement.
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should be read at the " close of public worship, three Sabbaths in succes- sion," of the time and place to meet to organize such society. We ap- pointed a meeting thr e Sabbaths in succession, at the log house of Amasa Frost. Deacon Nehemiah Frost and myself were the only professors of religion in the : ettle nent; we conducted the reading and prayer meetings. Every person, young and old, attended the meetings. On the day appoint- ed for the organiz vion of the society, Nehemiah Frost was chosen modera- tor, and miys If secretary. Nehemiah Frost, Samuel Church, Amasa Frost, Samuel Baldwin, Elihu Church and myself, were chosen trustees. The socie's was called the " First Congregational Society of West Pulte- ney, in the county of Genesee." The lands were secured, and devoted to the objects designed by the donor, or donors, as Col. Troup acted, of course, for his principals.
In less than three years after the organization of the society, a church was formed, and the Rev. Allen Hollister, from the county of Dutchess, was settled as its pastor. The church and society, thus early organized, have uniformly supported a pastor, up to the present time, without any missionary aid. I am the only one living of the original members of that church, and I do not know of any of the original members of the society living, except Elihu Church, Esq., and myself.
I moved my family from Berkshire to the then new region of the Genesee country, in May, 1807. The town of Riga had a rapid and permanent settlement, the population being, with few exceptions, from New England. We saw, perhaps, less of the harsher features of pioneer life, than most of new settlers. We were tolerably well accomodated with a grist and saw mill; the substanti il necessaries of life were obtained at a convenient dis- tances, and at fair prices; the lack of a market was a serious drawback. Before the completion of the Erie Canal, in one year, I raised three thousand bushels of wheat. After harvest, the nominal price was from 31 to 372 cents per bushel. I tried the experiment of transporting flour to Northampton, Conn., by sledding. For this purpose, I had seventy bar- rels manufactured from the best quality of wheat. Purchasing six yoke of oxen, I put them upon two sleds, and two spans of horses, each upon a sleigh. With the four teams, I transported my 70 barrels of flour; was on the road t . enty days; sold my flour at $6 per barrel, and my oxen at a profit; all for cash in hand. My teamsters cost me nothing but their board going and coming, as they wished to visit New England; and that was a part of my own object ;--- upon the whole, the experiment succeeded pretty well. We were about twenty days on the road, going down. I sold the balance of my crop of wheat the next June, for 56 cents per bushel. It went to the Canada market.
NOTE .- In a letter to Mr. Tronp, dated January. 1807, Mr. Wadsworth says :- " When I commence I inviting settlement to West Pulteney, it was literally a wilder- ness, without a road passing through it. It had been for sale ten years, and not a set- tler had gone upen the trac !. Sales had been embarrassed by the cheap lands of the Holland Company ; and yet, notwithstanding these obstacles, it has become the most respectable settlement west of the Genesee river." In a letter from same, to same. in May following, it is rem kel :- " Mr. M .ad has erected a saw-mill on Black Creek ; nine new barns have been erected in West Pulteney. There is not three frame barns in Caledonia.
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Less than a century has produced such a change in the aspect and con- dition of all this region, as is hardly to be eredited by those who have not resided in it; and hardly to be realized by those who have. Even those who are wont to " take careful note of time," have been unable to keep up with progress and improvement. Forty years have changed Rochester from a wilderness to what it now is; and Riga shows what has been done in a little more than forty years by the hardy enterprise of New England yeomanry ; about half of the time destitute of the advantages of a mar- ket. A heavy timbered wilderness has been converted into a well cultiva- ted, well fenced, wealthy farming town; unsurpassed by any town, in any region of country, in the way of neat and convenient farm houses and barns, and in the general appearance of rural happiness and independence.
After observations made in travelling more or less in twenty States of the Union, I regard the greater portion of western New York, in point of soil, climate, and in all things which go to make up the character of a country, as the most desirable spot of earth, in which I could reside as a farmer.
An excellent example was set by the venerable Pioneer, Elihu Church, Esq., in the spring of 1830. He invited to his ample and hospitable dwelling, all the Pioneers of Riga, and they had a plea- sant, social time of it. Old times were reviewed, anecdotes and re- miniscences related ; the memories of their departed friends and neighbors passed in review ; old acquaintances revived and friend- ships renewed ; toasts and sentiments offered ;- in all things, it was an agreeable and happy meeting. Present, as "in every good work," having reference to pioneer times, was the enthusiastic, kind hearted Scotchman, Donald M'Kenzie. It is to be hoped that such social parties will be multiplied.
Among the reminiscences related, was that of Mrs. Emerson, who said that on one occasion, when their wheat was ripe, her hus- band " cut it with a sickle, drew it out of the field upon an ox sled, threshed it with a flail, cleaned it with a hand fan, drew it to Ro- chester and sold it for 31 cents per bushel." Elihu Church, Esq., related the affair of the cold bath in Black Creek, in the winter of 1807. Himself and brother Samuel, Amasa Frost, Samuel Shep- herd, and their wives, were on their way to visit their neighbor, Jehiel Barnes. Crossing the stream on their ox sled, the hind board come out as they were raising the steep bank, and the whole party were drenched with water, in a cold night, two miles from the near- est house.
A resolution was passed, worthy of especial note :- It was in substance, that the male Pioneers present, attributed, under Provi- dence, a large share of the success that had crowned their efforts, to the heroic fortitude, self-denial, fidelity and energy, of their " ex- cellent Pioneer wives."
The Pioneers present, all entered their names, ages, and the
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periods of their advents. A review of the list, and a reference to other means of observation, induces the conclusion, that there is no town in the Genesee country, where there is so large a proportion of the Pioneer settlers surviving.
The first town meeting was held at the house of Henry Waidener, in 1809. Thomas Hill was chosen Supervisor, and Joshua Howell, town clerk. The other town officers were :- Eleazer T. Slater, Jesse Church, Israel Douglass, Thomas Bing- ham. Jacob Cole, Isaac C. Griswold, Amasa Frost, Henry Waiden- er, Thomas Gay, Warner Douglass, Daniel Dinsmore, George Rich- mond, Solomon Blood. Elihu Church was Supervisor in 1811, '12, '13: and Horatio Orton, town clerk in those years.
OGDEN.
John Murray, a merchant in New York, was an early proprietor of T. 3, west of Genesee river, formerly Fairfield, now Ogden. William Ogden, of New York, was his son-in-law: consequently, one of the heirs of the estate ; and thence the name the town bears. The sale and settlement of the township was embraced in the nu- merous agencies of James Wadsworth. Soon after 1800, he made himself acquainted with the valuable tract, and took preliminary steps to bring it into market, Fixing the price at $2 per acre, in 1802, he sold farm lots, in the township, to Benajah Willey, Abra- ham Colby, John Gould, John Webster, Sally Worthington, Benj. Freeman, -- Snow, Daniel Spencer.
The Pioneer of the township was George W. Willey, who still survives at the age of 83 years. He is living with his third wife, and of nine children, but three survive :- George Willey, of Michi- gan, Mrs. Elisha P. Davis, of Churchville, and Mrs. Jehiel Castle, of Parma. Mr. Willey moved in his family from East Haddam, Conn., in 1804. His route from Avon was via Scottsville and the Hanover settlement, where Joseph Carey, Samuel Scott, and John Kimball, had located, and to which point they had opened a road. Beyond that, Mr. Wadsworth was opening a road to "Fairfield," but had it but partly completed. Mr. Willey had been in the year before, and built a log house, and made a small opening, accom- panied by - Dillingham, whom he had found settled on Black Creek, and persuaded to change his location. Each erected log houses, the first tenements in the township ; living in a rude camp, and procuring their provisions of the new settlers south of them. When they had the logs ready for their houses, they went in differ- ent directions, to Braddock's Bay, the Landing, Scottsville, and the Hanover settlement, for help to raise ; procured in all about twenty men. Mr. Willey remembers that he came very near not being
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present at the raising of his own house ; for in his tour, inviting the raisers, he got lost, remained in the woods all night, and his return was thus delayed until after the raising had commenced. Mr. Wadsworth had offered a premium of six bushels of wheat, a barrel of whiskey, and a barrel of pork, for the first dwelling raised in the township ; and was himself present at the raising ; sharing the camp of Messrs. Willey and Dillingham over night, but getting lit- tle sleep ; for the backwoodsmen, intent upon a frolic, used up the whole night for that purpose, insisting occasionally that he should participate in their rude sports, which he knew well how to do when occasion required; and a log house raising, away off in the wilderness, was no place to be a non-participant in whatever was proposed. Dillingham moved his family in soon after, but getting lonesome, moved back to Black Creek. After the raising, Mr. Wil- ley was taken sick, was removed to Geneseo, and recovering, re- turned to Connecticut late in the fall, coming out with his family the next season, as has been mentioned. Before his arrival with his family, Ephraim, Abraham, Timothy, and Isaac Colby, two of them with families, had built a log house and moved in. In the same year, Josiah Mather, Jonathan Brown, Henry IIahn, and William H. Spencer, settled in the town.
At the Pioneer Festival in Rochester, in 1849, the medal pro- cured for that purpose, was awarded to Mr. Willey, as the oldest resident Pioneer in attendance.
William B. Brown settled in Ogden in 1806 or '7 ; was from Lynn, Conn .; located near the present village of Spencerport ; married in early years the sister of Mr. Willey ; still survives at the age of 66. He has been one of the Judges of Monroe county ; a Colonel of militia ; was upon the frontier in the war of 1812, in Colonel Atchinson's regiment. Rev. Daniel Brown, the father of Judge Brown, settled in Ogden as early as 1807 or '8. He preach- ed the first sermon in the village (now city) of Rochester ; died in Pittsford, in 1845, aged 84 years. William Brown, of Ogden, is a son of his ; a daughter became the wife of the Rev. Lemuel Brooks, of Churchville. Daniel Arnold in 1805; died in early years ; Daniel, Aaron and Enoch Arnold, of Ogden, and Ebenezer Ar- nold, of Bergen, are his sons ; a daughter of his became the wife of Samuel Latta, of Greece. David Wandle was one of the ear- liest ; died some 25 years since ; no descendants residing in town. James Baldwin was a settler in early years; removed to Royalton, Niagara county, where he died a few years since, and where many of his family now reside. James Pattingill, Jarvis Ring, Stephen Gridley, Oliver Gates, were other early settlers :- Mr. Pattingill died about ten years since ; Benjamin, Reuben, Osgood, and Moses Pattingill, of Ogden, are his sons ; a daughter is the wife of Nathaniel Rollin, of Ogden. Mr. Gridley is still living. Mr. Gates died 15 or 16 years since ; Stephen and Henry Gates, of Ogden, are his sons.
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Daniel Spencer from East Haddam, Conn., settled in Ogden in 1804. His farm embraced the present village of Spencerport. He died in 1835, aged 54 years : his first wife was a sister of Mr. Wil- ley ; Joseph A. and Libbeus Spencer are his sons. He was Col- lector of the old town of Northampton. Austin Spencer, his brother, settled in the town in 1808, locating near his brother. He still survives at the age of 67 years. He was the Supervisor of the town, before and after the organization of Monroe county ; and for twenty years a Justice of the Peace.
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