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THE TOWN OF HASTINGS.
F. Brown, Charles E. Beebe, W. S. Titus, G. G. Dains, A. E. Corse, D. E. Marvin, jr., H. M. Church, A. M. Child S. M. Crofoot, R. F. Whipple, and C. W. Brooks.
A Wesleyan Methodist church flourished at Central Square for several years, built a house of worship, and disbanded during the war. The old edifice is now private property and is used for town meetings and other like purposes.
A Freewill Baptist church was organized at Carley's Mills in 1832 with the following members :
David Linsley, Mr. Cotton, Peter Carr, Mary Carr, Mrs. Delaney Ostrum, William Nutting, and Joseph Maford. Joseph Maford was elected the first deacon ; he after- wards became a preacher, when Mr. Burrows and Mr. Perine were chosen deacons. Meetings are held in the school house.
The First Presbyterian church of Central Square was organized May 20, 1828, by Revs. Oliver Ayer, Oliver Leavitt, and others, with twelve members, viz .:
Daniel Webster, Julia Ann Webster, Jotham Goodspeed and Rebecca his wife, David Lockwood, Rollin Blunt, Lucy Allen, Christopher Hyde and wife, Flora Durfee, and Nabby Porter. Messrs. Webster and Goodspeed were selected as ruling elders, and Mr. Goodspeed as deacon.
On October 10, 1835, William Jay deeded to Daniel Wadsworth, Caleb Case, and J. J. Coit, as trustees of the First Presbyterian Church and Society of Hastings, fifty-seven acres of subdivision 7, lot 5, for the promoting of gospel worship. The membership of the church de- creased and on June 14, 1856, their last regular meeting was held. J. J. Coit, as the sole remaining trustee, cared for the property and divided the revenue among the various denominations represented in town until 1874, when he sold it and invested the proceeds in U. S. bonds, which he transferred to the trustees of the Presbytery of Syracuse, by whom they are now held.
A Methodist Protestant Church was organized with twenty members at Bardeen's Corners in 1868. The first pastor was Rev. Charles Beardsley and the first class leader was Horace Ladd. No edifice has ever been erected.
A Presbyterian church was organized at Hastings a few years ago and the corner stone of a house of worship was laid on September 30, 1888. The structure was completed and dedicated January 31, 1889, 72
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Aaron Benson and Dr. R. J. Dimon are the ruling elders, Dr. Dimon being also church clerk.
A French Catholic church was instituted at Little France a few years since, and a church edifice erected, to accommodate the French Catholics of that community.
CHAPTER XXV.
THE TOWN OF MEXICO.
In a history of Oswego county, Mexico may be appropriately termed " the mother of towns." It is the oldest civil division in this county, and has the unique distinction of having been twice formed by legisla - tive enactment. The act originally creating it from Whitestown, Her- kimer county, was passed April 10, 1792, and provided as follows:
And be it further enacted that all that part of Whitestown, aforesaid, bounded on the east by the east boundaries of the Military Tract (so called), and a line drawn north from the mouth of Canaseraga Creek across Oneida Lake to Lake Ontario ; ' south by Tioga county ; west by the west bounds of the townships Homer, Tully, Marcellus, Camillus, Lysander, and Hannibal, of the said Military Tract, and north by Lake On- tario, be erected into a separate town by the name of Mexico.
The first town meeting "shall be held at the house of Benjamin Morehouse." Apparently this provision was not carried out.
The first Mexico, as thus constituted, comprised the present counties of Onondaga and Cortland, and all of Oswego lying west of the before- mentioned line, which would strike a point near the northwest corner of Williamstown. March 5, 1794, Onondaga county was formed from Herkimer, and an the same day Lysander, including that part of the county of Oswego lying west of Oswego River, was erected into a township. At this time nearly all of the settlers were located in Onon- daga county, leaving but three or four families in this town, and con- sequently the erection and organization of the original Mexico was
1 Evidently the legislators of that period were not familiar with the geography of this por- tion of the State, as a line thus described would run considerably east of Lake Ontario.
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abandoned for a time. The second legislative act was passed February 26, 1796, and reads as follows :
Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that so much of the county of Herkimer as is contained within the limits and bounds following, to wit: Beginning at the northwest corner of a tract of land commonly called Fonda's Forty- thousand Acre Patent, thence down and along the west side of Canada Creek to its junction with Wood Creek, thence down and along the waters of Wood Creek to the Oneida Lake, thence through the middle of said lake to the west end thereof, thence. to the north shore of the Onondaga River, thence down and along the north side of the said river to Lake Ontario, thence easterly and northerly along the said lake to the mouth of Black River, thence up and along the said river to the northernmost corner of twenty- five thousand acres of land sold by William Constable to William Inman, thence south thirty-seven degrees and thirty minutes west along the northwesterly bounds of the said tract to the northwest corner of the tract commonly called Oothout's Patent, thence south one degree west along the westerly line of the said tract to the place of be- ginning, shall be, and hereby is erected into a separate town by the name of Mexico, and that from and after the first day of April next the freeholders and inhabitants of the said town shall have and may exercise all and every power and privilege which the freeholders and inhabitants of the other towns in this State have and may exercise by law, and the first town meeting in the said town shall be held at the dwelling house of John Myer, situate at Rotterdam, within the said town of Mexico.
Secretary's office of the State of New York, March 11, 1796. .
I certify the preceding to be a true copy of an original act of the Legislature of this State, filed in this office, compared therewith by me.
JASPER HOPPER, D. Secretary.
The second Mexico, thus formed, included all of Oswego county east of Oswego River and north of Oneida River and Lake, and portions of the counties of Jefferson, Lewis, and Oneida. These bounds re- mained intact until March 15, 1799, when Camden (including Vienna and Florence) was taken off. Lowville and Turin, forming the southwest part of Lewis county, and Champion and Watertown (in- cluding Rutland and Hounsfield), in Jefferson county, were taken off March 14, 1800, as was also Redfield in this county. Ellisburg, in- cluding Henderson, in Jefferson county, was set off February 22, 1803, and Lorraine (including Worth, in the same county), March 24, 1804. This left Mexico wholly within the present county of Oswego, of which it became an integral part on March 1, 1816. Williamstown (including Amboy, Richland, Albion, Boylston, Orwell, and Sandy Creek), was set off March 24, 1804; Volney (including Scriba, Schroeppel, and
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Palermo), on March 21, 1806; Constantia (including Hastings and West Monroe), on April 8, 1808; New Haven on April 2, 1813; and Parish on March 20, 1828. March 31, 1817, lots 137 to 148 inclusive of survey township number 21 were taken from Richland and annexed to this town. May 9, 1836, lots 24, 25, 26, and 27 of the nineteenth township were taken from New Haven, and lots 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, and IIO of the twenty-first township were taken from Richland and all an- nexed to Mexico, leaving Mexico with its present area of 28,217 acres divided into 184 lots. It comprises township 20 and parts of townships 19 and 21 of Scriba's Patent.
Mexico is somewhat irregular in outline, and lies near the center of the northwest boundary of Oswego county. The surface is gently rolling, and there is scarcely a foot of waste land in the town. Excel- lent drainage is afforded by several streams, the largest of which are Salmon and Sage Creeks.
The soil is a clay, sand and gravelly loam, underlaid with a strata of gray sandstone, deeply covered with alluvial deposits. Quarrying is carried on to a limited extent along Little Salmon Creek, and peat exists in some localities. The soil is very fertile, and produces large crops of hay, grain and fruit. Strawberries are extensively cultivated. Dairying is now the chief industry. The first cheese factory in town was built at Colosse in 1863, and in 1864 another was located at Prattham. At present there are eight in operation, all doing an excel- lent business.
The town was originally covered with a heavy growth of timber, and for many years a number of saw mills did an extensive business. In 1858 there were nineteen in operation. The manufacture of barrels comprised at one time quite an important industry. But destruc- tion of the primitive forests finally stopped these enterprises, leaving the inhabitants to pursue the steadier occupations of agriculture.
Experts claim that Mexico lies within the great natural gas belt, which extends northeasterly from south of Potter county, Pa. In 1890 the Mexico Natural Gas, Oil and Mineral Company was organized, and in the following year a well was sunk. Gas was discovered, but not in sufficient quantities to induce further operations.
The present Mexico, with all the surrounding towns, was contracted
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by the State to John and Nicholas Roosevelt in 1791, for about thirty- nine cents an acre. On April 7, 1792, they conveyed their con- tract to George Frederick William Augustus Scriba, who received a patent for the tract in December, 1794. The next year he employed Benjamin Wright to survey the purchase into townships, and the latter gave such favorable accounts of the natural advantages of this section that Mr. Scriba immediately raised the price of his land. He also insert- ed in the contracts to settlers, the conditional clause : "There must be a forfeiture of this contract unless four acres shall be cleared and sown the first year, and an actual settlement made a short time after." These conditions greatly retarded early settlement and discouraged not a few of the pioneers, who soon abandoned their improvements and moved elsewhere. Mr. Scriba, seeing his mistake, reduced his prices and abolished the conditions, and the town then rapidly filled up with a class of thrifty, substantial settlers,
As early as 1795 Mr. Scriba opened a road from what is now Mexico Point to the present village of Constantia. This was the first thorough - fare in the town. Soon afterwards a highway was established from the first named place to Oswego, following mainly the beach of Lake On- tario. Other roads were opened, as settlement increased and made them necessary. In 1847 the Rome and Oswego Plank Road Company was organized, and a plank road was completed between those points in the spring of 1848. It passed through Mexico, and did an immense business in through traffic; but its business was diverted when the railroad reached Oswego, and it was long since abandoned as a plank road.
Early in the present century a stage and mail route was established between Mexico and Oswego. It soon had daily stages which were continued until superseded by the railroad. In July, 1861, Kenyon & Barrett, who were the proprietors of the line, put on a Concord coach " at a cost of $600," which created no little enthusiasm. In the fall of 1865 the Oswego and Rome Railroad (now part of the R. W. & O.) was completed from Oswego to Richland Station, passing through Mexico, and regular trains commenced running on the first of January, 1866. This gave a new impetus to the town, and especially to Mexico village, the effect of which still continues.
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The act creating this town designated the time and place of holding the first town meeting-at the house of John Myer in Rotterdam (now Constantia)-but for some reason still unexplained the settlers failed to convene and elect the usual officers. The next year also passed by without a town election, and hence on May 30, 1797, Sanford Clark, Michael Myers, and Elizur Mosely, three justices of the peace for Herkimer county, appointed the following town officers for Mexico :
Oliver Stevens, town clerk; Elijah Carter, constable; Amos Mathews, Solomon Waring, and Luke Mason, assessors ; Amos Mathews and Solomon Waring, overseers of the poor; Solomon Waring, collector.
The first town meeting was held at the house of John Myer on the 3d of April, 1798, at which these officers were elected :
John Myer, supervisor ; Benjamin Wright, town clerk; John Bloomfield, Amos Mathews, Benjamin Gilbert, and Luke Mason, assessors; Reuben Hamilton and Solomon Waring, overseers of the poor ; Solomon Waring, collector ; John W. Bloomfield, Samuel Jarvis, and Reuben Hamilton, highway commissioners; Jared Shepard, Amos Mathews and Aaron Van Valkenburgh, constables; Amos Mathews and Henry Fall, fenceviewers ; John Myer, Samuel Royce, and Benjamin Wright, school commissioners.
April 2, 1799, the second town meeting was held at the house of Luke Mason and Calvin Tiffany was chosen town clerk. The third town meeting convened at the house of Benjamin Winch, at the mouth of Salmon River, in Richland. For several years following this, the annual meetings alternated between the houses of Calvin Tiffany and Phineas Davis. At Mr. Tiffany's, one and one-half miles east of Mexico village, the first meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Oswego county was held.
In 1798 Isaac Alden, John W. Bloomfield, Benjamin Wright, Joseph Strickland (all residents of the present county of Oswego), and Samuel Royce (of Camden) were ap- pointed justices of the peace. Following them were Reuben Hamilton in 1800; G. W. Wood, in 1804; Reuben Hamilton, Samuel Tiffany, and William Burt, in 1805; Will- iam Cole and Thomas Nutting, in 1806; David Williams and David Easton, iu 1807 ; Reuben Hamilton, William Burt, and John Nutting, in 1809; Joseph Bailey and Dyer Burnham. in 1810; David Easton, David Williams, and Peter Pratt, in 1811; Jonathan Wing and Joseph Bailey, in 1812; Benjamin Wright and Peter Pratt, in 1813 ; David Wing, in 1814 ; Paul Allen and Solomon Everts, in 1815,
April 7, 1801, it was voted that "no hog shall run at large without a goose-poke " between May 10 and October 26. March 6, 1804, a bounty of $10 was placed on wolf scalps, which in 1812 was increased
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to $30, and Daniel H. Southard is said to have received $1,500 in bounties from this provision. In 1804 a bounty of six cents (formerly four cents) was voted on each " black, gray, or striped squirrel, blue jay, or blackbird killed in the town."
May 13, 1846, a special act of the Legislature authorized a tax levy of $500 to procure a town hall. March 23, 1857, the town hall trustees were empowered to sell the same for $500, and the trustees, supervisor, and town clerk were authorized to buy or lease a new site and erect another building, which was erected, and was burned in 1862. March 6, 1877, it was voted to build the present Washington Hall in Mexico village, but workwas not commenced until June 12, 1878. It is of brick, and cost complete, including the lot, $6,000. It stands just east of the Mexico Hotel, and has a town clock in a sightly tower.
The supervisors of Mexico have been as follows :
John Myer, 1797-98; Reuben Hamilton, 1799-1800; Jonathan Parkhurst, 1801; Calvin Tiffany, 1802; Reuben Hamilton, 1803-05; Dyer Burnham, 1806-08; David Easton, 1809; Dyer Burnham, 1810; David Williams, 1811; Dyer Burnham, 1812-15; Elias Brewster, 1816-17; David Burnham, 1818-20; Peter Pratt, 1821; W. S. Fitch, 1822; Peter Pratt, 1823-28; Joseph Lamb, 1829; Joseph W. Houghton, 1830-34 ; Luther S. Conklin, 1835-36; Joseph Gowg, 1837; Charles Brewster, 1838-39; Elias Brewster, 1840-41; Orville Robinson, 1842; Starr Clark, 1843; Elias Brewster, 1844; John M. Richardson, 1845-48; James S. Chandler, 1849; Bradley Higgins, 1850-53; L. D. Smith, 1854-55; Calvin G. Hinckley, 1856; A. S. Fuller, 1857; M. Newell, 1858-59 ; Calvin Smith, 1860; Leonard Ames, 1861; Seabury A. Tuller, 1862-67 ; John C. Taylor, 1868-69; William J. Menter, 1870-75 ; Asa L. Sampson, 1876-82 ; George H. Goodwin. 1883; L. Laseur Virgil, 1884; John W. Ladd, 1885-86; M. W. Collins, 1887-88; John W. Ladd, 1889; Rufus P. Calkins, 1890; Asa L. Sampson, 1891-93; Edward L. Huntington, 1894-95.
The town officers for 1894-95 were :
Edward L. Huntington, supervisor; Norval D. Hart, town clerk ; William C. Shum- way, Webster M. Richardson, Charles W. House and Edward Midlam, justices of the peace; Van Halen Walton, John E. Jones and John Ramsey, assessors; Grove Halsey, highway commissioner; Robert Aird, overseer of the poor; Charles H. Fellows, col- lector ; Jesse L. Burdick, Orson Webb and Roderick A. Orvis, excise commissioners.
It is uncertain in what year the first settlement in the present town of Mexico was made, but it would seem that it occurred as early as 1795, when Scriba's great road from Rotterdam (Constantia) to Vera Cruz (Mexico Point) was opened. This was about simultaneous with the first settlement in Redfield.
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Mr. Scriba, like many another land proprietor, held somewhat vis- ionary ideas regarding the future of the mouth of Little Salmon Creek, superinduced, no doubt, by the highly colored reports which he re- ceived from his agent, Benjamin Wright. Mr. Wright being a sur- veyor, was employed, as previously stated, to lay out 'Scriba's patent into townships and town lots, and was most favorably impressed with the excellent water power, valuable timber, and fertile soil of this par- ticular locality, which he reported as being the best in all the patent. In 1796 he took up his residence at the mouth of the creek, surveyed a city into lots as far back as the present hamlet of Texas, and named it "Vera Cruz." He built a store, the first in town, and in November wrote to Mr. Scriba that it was " almost ready to hold goods." The entrance to the creek was improved and an immense amount of money and labor expended. For a few years the place promised a brilliant future, and efforts were made to make it one of the best harbors on the lake. Mr. Scriba erected a tavern and five or six houses, and a little farther up the creek a saw and grist mill, the first in Mexico. He also reserved a site for a city park, and pushed the improvements with com- mendable vigor.
According to an assessment roll of 1798 Benjamin Wright, as Scriba's agent, was assessed on a store, barn, log house, saw mill and blacksmith shop. Other freeholders at " Vera Cruz " in that year were Benjamin Winch, Archibald Fairfield and Benjamin Gilbert. Within the present town were also Simon King, Jonathan Parkhurst, Nathaniel Rood, Elias Rose, Isaac Burlingham, Stephen Spinner, Chipman Wheadon, Heze- kiah Stanley and - Miles.
About this year (1798), or early in 1799, a Captain Geerman estab- lished a ship yard at "Vera Cruz " and built a small schooner, and in the following autumn an event occurred which cast a gloom over the pioneer settlement. Food had become scarce, and with young Wel- come Spencer, Captain Geerman volunteered to sail over to Kingston, Canada, for a supply. The two men set out in the new craft, and as the days slipped by the settlers began to look anxiously for their re- turn. A report was circulated that a light had been seen on Stony Island ; but weeks passed, and still no tidings came, and suspense and excitement finally culminated into action. Chipman Wheadon, Na-
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thaniel Rood, Greene Clark, Miles Doolittle and the father of young Spencer volunteered as a search party, but after a fruitless absence they began the return trip. Their open boat encountered a terrific gale, capsized, and they found a watery grave. The scene was witnessed from the shore, but all were powerless to extend aid Wheadon was the last man to go down. Vague rumors of Geerman's schooner subsequently gained more or less credence, but the fate of the two brave mariners was never known. It remains an unsolved mystery. The untimely fate of these seven strong men had a most depressing effect upon the infant "city" of Vera Cruz, and also upon the sur- rounding settlements. The former never fully recovered, and indeed it may be said that with that calamity began the period of its decline. Among the surviving male inhabitants of the place were Benjamin Wright and Archibald Fairfield. Soon afterward the number of fami- lies had dwindled to six. No more vessels were built here, but the store and mills were continued, and in a later year it is stated that more goods were sold at " Vera Cruz" than at either Oswego or Utica. The earlier settlers located along Scriba's road, and this was their most con- venient trading point. It finally became the resort of successful smug- glers, and tradition implicates some of the inhabitants in that illegal traffic.
At a very early date, probably about 1800, Silas Town came to what is now Mexico village, whence he soon removed to "Vera Cruz." He was a Revolutionary hero, serving as a volunteer spy in the Canadas, and as one of Washington's aids. He was possessed of more than ordinary ability, and became a favorite among the settlers. In 1806 he died at the house of Reuben Hamilton, and was buried on what has ever since been called Grave Island, situated in the mouth of Little Salmon Creek. His grave was dug by Walter Everts and Brainard Selby, and on July 4, 1871, a monument erected on the spot was dedicated to his memory with appropriate ceremonies.
The disaster on the lake, and President Jefferson's restrictive policy, followed by the War of 1812, wholly extinguished the flattering pros- pects of " Vera Cruz." A fire about 1820 destroyed the business por- tion, and this, and the changes of three-quarters of a century, have ob- literated all traces of the once promising "city."
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In 1798 there were about twenty-five persons in the present town of Mexico. Many of the pioneers came from eastern counties in this State, and from New England, and were characterized by principles of thrift, honesty and perseverance. Their rude log houses dotted the little clearings in the forests and with indomitable energy they by de- grees converted the dense wilderness into productive farms and pleas- ant homes. In 1798 Benjamin Wright was appointed a justice of the peace, probably the second in Oswego county, although three others within the present territory received a similar appointment at or about the same time. Reuben Hamilton settled in town prior to this date, on the farm subsequently owned by Isaac Burlingham. He was long supervisor, and a prominent citizen.
Nathaniel Rood also came in early, and was the first white settler inside the corporate limits of Mexico village. In the spring of 1799 he removed to " Vera Cruz" and built a log house about thirty rods east of Hamilton's. He was a victim of the lake disaster of that fall, and in 1800 his widow married Richard Gafford, theirs being the first marriage in the town. The birth of Mr. Rood's son Truman on August 10, 1799, was the first in Mexico. Truman Rood died in the town in April, 1877.
Other settlers of about 1798 were Chipman Wheadon, Luke Mason, Sylvester Spencer, Greene Clark, Edmund Mathews, Miles Doolittle and Archibald Fairfield.
Phineas Davis and Calvin Tiffany became residents of this town Feb- ruary 20, 1799. They moved from Connecticut on a sled drawn by two yoke of oxen, and until the next year occupied jointly a single log cabin. Mr. Tiffany located on lot 55, and opened his house as a tav- ern as early as 1810. Here was held the first town meeting within the present Mexico ; the first meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Os- wego county ; and many of the earliest religious services. "For six months," it is said, Mr. Tiffany's family " had but one loaf of bread in the house, subsisting mainly upon cracked corn and an occasional piece of venison." Mr. Davis died in 1844, aged seventy, and was succeeded by his son, Phineas, who was born here in 1820. Mrs. Davis attained the age of ninety-six. They had seven sons.
On the same lot Martin Kellogg, Joel Savage and Asa Beebe were also pioneers, Mr. Kellogg, in 1804, secured a title to the farm adjoin-
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ing Peter Pratt's subsequent place, and brought his family hither in 1805. Asa Beebe was born in November, 1792, and died June 10, 1878. He served in the War of 1812, and at one time had a foundry and sash and blind factory in Mexico village. Salem T. Beebe died in February, 1871. Mr. Savage was born in Middletown, Conn., in 1761, and served three years in the Revolutionary war.
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