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The annual exports of coal and lumber are forty thousand tons of the former, and fifty million feet of the latter. In its canal commerce, Corning is the fifth port in the state.
In new villages and settlements, schools and churches are apt to receive but secondary attention. In Corning its Union' School of four or five hundred scholars has maintained a not inferior rank, and its five Churches give evidence of some considerable attention to morals and religion.
The population is now not far from three thousand, and the sanguine predict an increase vastly more rapid in future than it has been in former years.
THE GREAT WINDFALL.
The first stable in the town of Bath was literally "put up by a whirlwind." In 1791, or about that time, a destructive
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hurricane swept over the land. Judge Baker in after years took pains to collect information of the movements of this great "northern fanatic," and was of the opinion that its path from Lake Erie to the Atlantic was about ninety miles in breadth, and that the northern limit of its agitation in this county was at the upper town line of Urbana. A more violent "agitator" never passed through the land. Thousands of acres of forest were prostrated, and the frightful windfalls, briar-grown and tangled, which settlers afterwards found in this county were the effects of this "inflammatory appeal" to the weak brethren of the wilderness. We have met a veteran farmer who was a child at the time when the tornado passed, and happened on that day to be left by his parents to take care of still younger children, and remembers hiding in a hole in the ground with his little brothers while the forest was filled with the terrific roar of falling pines.
Mr. Jonathan Cook, an early settler at Painted Post, was driving a pack horse laden with provisions to Pleasant Valley- where Phelps and Gorham's surveyors were at work, and was. near the mouth of Smith's creek, on the Conhocton, when the storm struck him. He took refuge ander an oak tree, while the wind, sweeping furiously up the ravine, uprooted the maples, twisted branches from the trees and scattered them in the air like wisps of hay. A whirling gust caught the cluster under which he was standing. The oak beneath which he had taken refuge was prostrated, but he himself fell with his face to the ground and escaped unhurt. His horse however met with a strange catastrophe. The whirlwind tore up several large trees and imprisoned the unfortunate animal in a cage so impregnable that the driver was unable to extricate him, but was obliged to go over to the surveyors' camp and get men to return with axes and make a breach in the walls of the stable. This was rather a rough joke, even for a whirlwind, but the horse was but little hurt.
THE SETTLERS OF DANSVILLE.
(The notice of the settlement of the town of Dansville origi- nally prepared for this work was accidentally lost. At this time it is impossible to supply the names of the settlers in the southern part of the town, furnished by Wm. C. Rogers, Esq., of Rogersville. The village of Dansville falling within the province of the author of the History of Phelps and Gorham's
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Purchase, a brief notice of the settlers of that portion of the old town. formerly a part of Steuben county is condensed from that valuable and copious work.) The first settler upon the site of the village of Dansville, was Neil McCoy. He came from Painted Post and located where his step-son, James McCurdy, who came in with him, now resides. The family was four days making the journey from Painted l'ost, camping out two nights on the way. To raise their log-house, help came from Bath, Geneseo and Mount Morris, with Indians from Squaky Hill and Gardeau. During the first season, it is mentioned that Mrs. McCoy, hearing of the arrival of Judge Hurlburt's family at Arkport, eleven miles distant, resolved as an act of backwoods courtesy to make the first call. Taking her son with her, she made the journey through the woods by marked trees, dined with her new neighbors, and returned in time to do her milking after a walk of twenty-two miles.
Amariah Hammond Esq., a widely known pioneer of the town who died at a venerable age in the winter of 1850. "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."
Captain Daniel P. Faulkner was an early property holder and spirited citizen of the town in the palmy days of Col. Williamson, and from his familiar appellative, "Captain Dan" the village took its name. In 1798 Jacob Welch, Jacob Martz, Conrad Martz, George Shirey and Frederick Barnhart emi- grated to Dansville with their families. They came up the Conhocton valley, and were three days on the road from Bath, camping out two nights. At the arrival of this party the names of the settlers already on the ground besides those before named were Mr. Phenix, James Logan, David Scholl, John Vanderwenter, Jared Erwin, William Perine. Col. Nathaniel Rochester became a resident of Dansville in 1810.
The settlement of the southern part of this town was not commenced till about the year 1816. Of the settlers in that district we can only recall the names of Messrs. Wm. C. Ro- gers and Jonas Bridge. In the year 1816 (or about that time) Mr. Rogers. on arriving in the vicinity of the present village of Rogersville, found the merest handful of settlers in all that quarter. At this day the wilderness has given place to a pleas- ant village with an academy of substantial worth, surrounded by a thriving farming country.
CONTENTS.
Notice of the Topography and Geology of Steuben County, ... i
CHAPTER I.
Preliminary History : Purchase : Title. .. 13
CHAPTER II:
Steuben County immediately previous to its Settlement. A jour- ney sixty-five years ago : the Forest : the Rivers. &c. : Benja- min Patterson the Hunter : Skirmish at Freeland's Fort : Scuf- fle with the Interpreter : the wild Ox of Genesee, ..... 29
CHAPTER III.
The settlements made under the purchase by Phelps and Gorham. The old town of Painted Post : origin of the name : the first set- tlers : the settlement of the upper valley of the Canisteo : the Canisteo Flats : life in the Canisteo Valley : a wrestling match : Captain John : old Enemies : Van Campen and Mohawk : a dis- comfited savage : capture of a saw-mill : the lower Canisteo val- ley : the Tioga valley : Col. Lindley : a Deerslayer immortal- ized, .50
CHAPTER IV.
The great Air-Castle : the London Association : Captain William- son : Northumberland : the German Colony : the passage of the Germans through the Wilderness : terrors and tribulations : & " Parisian scene." .82
CHAPTER V.
The settlement of Bath : consolatory reflections : Serpents : Nar- rative of General McClure : character of the Settlers : early citizens, the Camerons, Andrew Smith, &c. : an auto-biography : Emigration : the wilderness : settlers at Mud Creek: Bath : Captain Williamson : a canoe-voyage : Building : Speculation : navigation of the Rivers : business fortunes and misfortunes : Crooked Lake navy : a portly and able bodied gentleman extin- guished : Indian traffic : River navigation : conclusion of the Narrative, ... 104
CHAPTER VI.
Captain Williamson's administration : life at Bath : grand Simcoe War: Races: Theatre : vindication of the ancients : Bath Ga- zette : County Newspapers : the Bar : Physicians. .. 147
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CHAPTER VII.
Settlement of Pleasant Valley : Frederickton, including Wayne, Tyrone and Reading : Prattsburgh : Wheeler : Pulteney : How- ard : Hornby : Conhoeton : the towns south of the Canisteo : Or- ange : Campbell : Avoca : Wayland, .. 217
CHAPTER VIII.
The Air-Castle vanishing : close of Col. Williamson's career : his character, . .205
CHAPTER IX.
Steuben County since the period of settlement : disasters : pro- gress : prospects : the citizens and the land proprietors, .... 217
CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES.
The Indians : incidents : Indian names, &c. : Game, &c. : deer : wolves : panthers : bears : beaver : "snake stories :" anecdotes of the chase : the "Plumping Mill :" Incidents of the War of 1812: the Militia : the Steuben Company at the battle of Queens- ton Heights : the fighting. Chief Justice : an incident : the "Bat- tle of Dansville.". .241
APPENDIX.
Organization of Steuben County, and statistical tables, ..
. . .279 Sketch of General History of settlement in Western New York,282 Settler-Life, 292
The village of Corning, 296 The " Great Windfall" of 1791, 298
The Settlers of Dansville, 299
ERRATA.
On page 10, for Canistes read Canisteo,
On page 14, for Scandinarian read Scandinavian.
On page 21, for weary woodsmen read wary woodsmen.
On page 89, for Tarathmel read Jarathmel.
On page 84, for beating read boating.
On page 89, for town in 3d line read towns.
On page 90, for Shemokinn read Shemokam.
On page 94, for congars read cougars.
On page 199, for Ketchers read Ketches.
On page 218, for frugal read feudal.
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