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LINCOLN. - Situated in the northwest part of the town, the little ham- let of Lincoln affords the inhabitants there nearly all the advantages and privileges that either of the above described villages could offer. In 1853 N. F. Strickland erected and started a mill here and in the fall of that year a store building was put up and business opened. In 1866 Mr. Strickland obtained a post-office for the place and was appointed the first postmaster. The hamlet now contains a store, a cheese factory, wagon and blacksmith shops, two churches, and about a dozen dwell- ings.
CHURCHES. - From traditionary evidence gathered from old settlers, it appears that a Presbyterian Society once flourished in the village of Walworth, but definite data concerning its organization, existence, or disappearance cannot now be obtained. On land now owned by T. G. Yeomans there once stood a stone church edifice reputed to have been used by this Presbyterian Society as a place of worship, but it was long ago torn down and its history and the history of the society are veiled in the misty past.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Walworth was the pioneer religious organization of the town, and their first house of worship was a primitive structure built three-fourths of a mile west from the village prior to 1809. With rude slab seats, with an ancient elevated pulpit, and with a gallery on three sides that was reached by a ladder, it housed the little band of worshipers until 1815, when a union edifice with the ownership vested in the Methodists was erected in Walworth. Although never formally dedicated, it was used as a meeting place until 1822, after which it was transformed into a dry house. February 27, 1826, the society was legally organized with I. R. Sanford, Luther Fillmore, Levi Leach, Thomas Brown, and A. H. Howland, trustees. The pres- ent fine brick edifice was built under the pastorate of Rev. L. F. Cong- don in 1872, and cost about $17,000. The society has 150 members,
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Rev. John H. Stoody as pastor. The present frame parsonage south of the church was built on the site of an old one, removed, in 1884, and cost $1, 400.
The Second Baptist Church of Walworth was organized by Rev. R. Powell, on July 11, 1832, with the following constituent members: Dea- con Bancroft, Dr. and Mrs. L. D. Ward, Miss Palmer, Deacon and So- phia McLouth, Benjamin Mason and wife, Freeman Wood and wife, Benjamin Wood and wife, R. Wood, Mrs. L. Burr, Mrs. Agnes Cran- dall, Gideon Hackett and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, James Rice and wife, Asil and Rhoda Hoyt, Lewis Potter and wife, and Barney Corey. The union church was used for worship until 1834, when the present stone edifice was erected and dedicated in September of that year. It was repaired and re-dedicated in December, 1887, at a cost of some $6,000. The society has about seventy members and is now supplied by Walter B. MeNinch, a student at Rochester. The Sunday school was organized May 1, 1842, with Levi Hicks, superintendent.
The First Baptist church of West Walworth was organized with fourteen members in 1815 by that active missionary of Western New York, Rev. Jeremiah Irons. The first pastor was Rev. Daniel Palmer, in 1816, and until 1832 meetings were held in the school house. In that year their stone house of worship was built and dedicated January 8, 1833, by Rev. Mr. Palmer. It has since been extensively repaired. The present pastor is Rev. R. P. Ingersoll. The first Sunday school was organized in 1815 and had fifteen members.
The Evangelical Association (German Lutheran) of West Walworth was organized with thirty members by Rev. David Fisher, in 1857, and until 1866 held its meetings in private houses. In that year a stone building formerly used for school purposes was purchased, repaired, and dedicated in the fall. The Sunday school was formed in 1855, with John Lotze superintendent. The society has about sixty mem- bers, with Rev. A. Schlenk as pastor.
The Free Will Baptist church of Walworth, located at Lincoln, was organized in 1816 by Rev. Thomas Lewis, with these members: David Salisbury, Mrs. Robbins, Joseph Strickland and wife, James, Andrew, and Pamelia Strickland, Ephraim Holbrook, and Sarah Lyon. Rev. Mr. Lewis was installed the first pastor and a stone edifice was erected near the center of the town in 1834 at a cost of about $2,000. It was dedicated by Rev. D. M. L. Rollin, January 18, 1835. It was long used for worship and for several years past has been occupied as a
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dwelling. In 1876 a frame church was built in Lincoln; since that year the society has worshiped therein. Rev. A. D. Loomis is pastor. The society's property is now valued at about $4,000.
The Methodist Episcopal church of Lincoln had its inception at a meeting held at Lincoln hall by Rev. Charles Hermans. An organiza- tion was perfected in 1872 by Rev. Mr. Benson, with twelve members, and Rev. Mr. Hamlin became the first pastor. He was succeeded by Rev. John Irons, under whom in 1874 their frame church was erected at a cost of about $3,000. It was dedicated December 2, 1874, by Rev. B. I. Ives. The society now has eighty members, under the pastoral charge of Rev. William C. C. Cramer. The Sunday school was organ- ized in 1872 with 100 scholars, under E. K. Boughton, superintendent.
CHAPTER XXVII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF ROSE.
The town of Rose was formed from the old town of Wolcott on the 5th of February, 1826, and embraces an area of 21,84933 acres. It lies in the interior and east of the center of Wayne county, and is bounded on the north by Huron, on the cast by Butler, on the south by Galen, and on the west by Lyons and Sodus. The largest stream is Thomas Creek, which rises southeast of. Rose Valley and flows northwesterly through the village into Great Sodus Bay. The next of importance is old Dusenbury Creek, locally known as Mudge Creek, rising in the same locality and flowing northward through Huron into East Bay. Other streams are Marsh and Black Creeks, both flowing south.
The surface is largely broken into drift hills, trending north and south and intervened with beautiful valleys. The highest elevation in town, lying near the Sherman farm, is 140 feet above Lake Ontario. South of Rose Valley the land is very level. The soil consists of gravelly loam occasionally mingled with clay, with black muck in the swamps. It is exceedingly fertile, and yields abundant crops of apples, grain, peppermint, onions, tobacco, raspberries, potatoes, etc. The principal industry is agriculture. There are extensive ledges of lime- stone that have been worked for burning and building purposes, and
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at Glenmark the outcropping produces a very pretty waterfall. The town was originally covered with a heavy growth of beech, hemlock, maple, cedar, ash, and tamarack. Alfred S. Roe, in his " Rose Neighborhood Sketches," relates an interesting legend "of a button- wood or sycamore, near Wayne Center, so large that a section of it was used as a dwelling house after it had fallen down and proven to be hollow. . In fact, one of the stories of the late Simeon I. Barrett was that of putting up at the Buttonwood tavern early in the century. The late Hiram Church, of Wolcott, said that in 1808 three families, num- bering fourteen persons, young and old, put up at this same inn for the night and were well entertained. Osgood Church, his father, was one of the guests. He also says this was on one of the Jeffers farms."
Clay is found in several places suitable for manufacturing brick and tile. Most of the marsh land has been reclaimed by judicious ditching, and the contrast between the town of three-quarters of a century ago and the town of to-day is an interesting one. The primitive wilder- ness, after years of arduous labor and continuous hardship, was converted into productive fields, orchards, and gardens. . The pioneers, with very few exceptions, have passed away, leaving descendants and successors to enjoy the fruits of their efforts. Rude log cabins long since gave place to the comfortable frame dwellings, and the frontier school and church have been succeeded by larger and better institutions. The high moral standard of the earlier settlers permeates the communities of the present generation, which ably maintains for their town the prestige and importance that have always characterized it among simi- lar divisions of the State. ..
The whole of the town of Rose, save the south three tiers of lots, was originally included within Williamson's patent, as described in the chapter devoted to Wolcott. This tract was surveyed into farm lots of from twenty-five to 200 acres each: The three tiers above noted are known as Annin's gore, and were laid off into eighty acre lots. Very early in the century Hon. Robert S. Roe and Judge John Nichols, natives of Virginia and brothers-in-law, purchased 4,000 acres of Will- iamson's patent, extending from the gore to within three-quarters of a mile of the Huron line and lying on either side of the Rose Valley road. They were then residents of Geneva, and their purchase was called the "Nicholas 4,000-acre tract." Mr. Nicholas was a congressman from Virginia, a member of the New York State Senate, and judge of the Ontario county court. Mr. Rose was an assemblyman and a congress-
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man, and when this town was organized in 1826 it was decided to give it his name; in recognition of the compliment he sent a "little Merino lamb about the size of a woodchuck." The early settlers purchased their lands of Osgood Church, of Wolcott, who was the resident sub- agent for the Williamson patent from 1808 to 1813, after which the business was transacted with the land office at Geneva. The sur- veys and allotments were made by John Smith in 1805 and 1806.
Until 1873 communication was carried on by means of teams and stages, but in that year the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad (now the R., W. & O.) was completed and opened through the north part of the town with a station at North Rose. This added a new impetus to busi- ness interests and established more convenient markets for the farmers' produce. In 1841 the famous Sodus Canal was commenced through the efforts of Gen. William H. Adams; it was to extend from the Clyde River or Erie Canal via Rose Valley and near Glenmark to Sodus Bay. All the mills along its line in this town were demolished and never re- built. After the renewal of the charter in 1848 a large amount of work was done and evidences still remain. In 1853 a railroad was pro- jected from a point south of Clyde through that village and Rose Val- ley to Sodus Bay; a survey was made, but the clashing of interests caused an abandonment of the enterprise. In 1872 the measure was revived, but without avail. Eron N. Thomas was treasurer of the company and Mr. Thomas, Chauncey B. Collins, and Henry Graham were among the directors.
The first regular roads were surveyed from May 10, 1810, to April 1, 1814, by Osgood Church. The first highway laid out was that leading east from Stewart's Corners; the second was that from Rose Valley to Clyde, surveyed June 29, 1810. The road from the Valley to Port Glasgow was established March 20, 1811, and the one from Glenmark to North Rose on April 1, 1814. The thoroughfare from Rose Valley to Clyde was long a plank road maintained by a company incorporated for the purpose; as such it was discontinued soon after 1877. In 1847 the town had forty-four road districts; at present the number is fifty- one. .
The first town meeting was held at the house of Charles Thomas in Rose Valley, in April, 1826. Erasmus Fuller presided and the follow- ing officers were chosen: Supervisor, Peter Valentine; town clerk, David Smith; assessors, James Colborn, Jeremiah Leland, Dorman Munsell; collector, Thaddeus Collins, jr. ; overseers of the poor, John
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Skidmore and Aaron Shepard; commissioners of highways, Elizur Flint, Robert Jeffers, William Lovejoy; commissioners of common Schools, Jacob Miller, James Colborn, Milburn Salisbury; inspectors of Common schools, Alpheus Collins, Peter Valentine, David Smith; con- stables, Thaddeus Collins, jr., Lewis Leland; and twenty-two overseers of highways.
The supervisors have been as follows:
Peter Valentine, 1826-29, Philander Mitchell, 1830-32, Dorman Munsell, 1833, Thaddeus Collins, sr., 1834,
Harvey Closs, 1857-58, Jackson Valentine, 1859-69,
James M. Horne, 1870-71,
Charles S. Wright, 1872-73, Jackson Valentine, 1874-75,
Ira Mirick, 1835, Peter Valentine, 1836-39,
Joel S. Sheffield, 1876,
Dorman Munsell, 18:40-41,
William J. Glen, 1877,
Peter Valentine, 1842,
Eron N. Thomas, 1843,
Philander Mitchell, 1844-45,
Elizar Flint, 1846, Hiram Mirick, 1847,
Philander Mitchell, 1848-50,
Eron N. Thomas, 1851,
Solomon Allen, 1852,
Eron N. Thomas, 1853,
Thaddeus Collins, jr., 1854,
Jackson Valentine, 1855, Philander Mitchell, 1856,
S. Wesley Gage, 1878, William J. Glen, 1879, (part) George Catchpole, remainder of 1879, William HI. Griswold, 1880-81,
George Catchpole, 1882-84,
Samuel Gardner, 1885, (part)
E. Chester Ellinwood, remainder of 1885 and 1886, George Catchpole, 1887-93, Merritt G. MeKoon, 1891-93, Frank H. Closs, 1894.
The town officers for 1894 are: Frank H. Closs, supervisor; Joel S. Sheffield town clerk, died July 30, 1894, and E. F. Houghton appointed; "T. B. Welch, S. W. Lake, R. C. Barless, F. E. Soper, justices of the peace ; Valorus Ellinwood, F. E. Henderson, Joel H. Putnam, assessors; Seth C. Woodard, collector; Thomas J. Bradburn, highway commis- sioner; Judson Chaddock and John A. Hetty, overseers of the poor.
March 3, 1885, an appropriation to not exceed $2,000 was voted for the erection of a memorial town hall, which was built in Rose Valley in 1886. It is a frame structure, two stories high, and contains also the rooms of the local G. A. R. Post.
The first settlements in Rose were made by Alpheus Harmon, Lott Stewart, and Caleb Melvin in 1805. The latter was a brother of the Jonathan Melvin, sr., so intimately identified with the beginnings of Wolcott. In Osgood Church's old book of records relative to the sale of lands on Williamson's patent are entries of 117 contracts, bearing
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dates from June 16, 1808, to October 15, 1813, of which the following come within the limits of this town:
Alpheus Harmon lot 169, 113 acres, and lot 170, 115 acres, at $3.50, June 21, 1808; Pender Marsh, lot 205, 50 acres, at $4, January 11, 1811; Epaphras Wolcott, lot 160, 101 acres, at $4, January 30, 1811; Seth Shepard, lot 197, 40 acres, at $4, April 1, 1811; Daniel Lounsbury, lot -- , 2063 acres at $4, April 3, 1811; Jonathan Wilson, lot 140, 50 acres, at $4, April 3, 1811; John Wade, lot 185, 107 acres, at $4, April 16, 1811; Asa and Silas Town, lots 212 and 213, 150 acres, at $4, November 11, 1811; John Burns, lot 153, 1085 acres, at $4.25, April 8, 1812; Abram Palmer, lot 140, 102 acres, at $4, April 22, 1812; Thomas Avery, lot 154, 103 acres, at 84.25, May 4, 1812; Demarkus Holmes, lot 187, 101 acres, at $4.32, June 25, 1812; Noahdiah Gillett, lot 132, 101 acres, at $4, October 2, 1812; Eh Wheeler, lot 188, 99 1-2 acres, at $4, Novem- ber 13, 1812; Jacob Ward, lot 140, 50 acres, at $4.25, November 14, 1812; Elijah How, lot 164, 50 acres, at $4, November 18, 1812; Jonathan Wilson, lot 161, 31 acres, at 84.25, December 29, 1812; Asahel Gillett, lot 155, 50 acres, at $4.25, March 10, 1813.
Caleb Melvin located about a mile south of Rose Valley in 1805; the same year Alpheus Harmon settled in the northeast part of the town, aud Lott Stewart at Stewart's Corners, which took his name. Stewart kept a tavern here, the first outside the village; it stood where is now the home of George Stewart. Mr. Stewart married for his second wife live daughters; his first wife bore ham a son (James) and two daugh- ters. Mr. Harmon sold out to A. F. Baird and removed to Cattarau- gus county, whither also Stewart went and died. Soon afterward came Joel Bishop and his sons, Seth, Joel, jr., and Chauncey; they located on the Port Glasgow road. Near them Oliver and Seth Whitmore and Simeon Van Auken became residents, and among others of about this period were James and Jeremiah Leland, Milburn Salisbury, and AAsahel, Hosea, and Harvey Gillett.
About 1810 Alpheus and Thaddeus Collins, jr., came in and two years later were joined by their father, Thaddeus, sr., and the re- mainder of his family. They purchased 400 acres, including a part of the village of Rose Valley. Capt. John Sherman located at the Valley in 1811 and built and opened an inn. He had originally settled on the Ganargwa Creek, but soon removed to Galen, whence he came here, being accompanied by his sons, Elias D., Charles B., and John, jr. In 1812 Elijah How located two miles northwest of Rose Valley and Aaron Shepard, a blacksmith, the same distance cast. Alfred, Lyman, Joel, and John Lee, brothers, settled in town about this year.
Robert Jeffers made the first settlement in the west part of Rose in 1815; he was accompanied by three sons, John, William, and Nathan,
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and for many years the place was called the Jeffers neighborhood. Jacob Clapper settled near them. Capt. Chauncey Bishop located on a farm in this town in 1812 where he died in August, 1880. Holloway Drury came from Eden, Vt., in 1815. George Seeley, son of Joseph, was born in Sherburne, N. Y., in 1806 and died here in December, 1885. He was a colonel in the State militia, held several town offices, and was a deacon in the Baptist Church. Henry Graham was a noteworthy fig- ure in town in years gone by. Born in 1802, he came to Port Glasgow in 1831 and kept the hotel later owned by Isaac Gillett. He removed to Rose, but finally went to Clyde, where he died in October, 1878.
Palmer Lovejoy located in the northeast corner of the town at an early day and gave to the place where he purchased the name of Love- joy settlement. Ile had sons William C., Silas and Daniel. Among other early settlers were Dorman Munsell, Alverson Wade, Paine and William Phillips, Julius Baker, Benjamin Way (father of Samuel and Harley), Robert Andrews, John Basssett, John Burns, Samuel South- wick, Jonathan Ellinwood (father of Lucius and Chester), John Wade, Philander Mitchell, Joseph Seeley (father of George and Delos), Isaac Crydenwise, Eli Andrews, and John Covey. Philander Mitchell was a very prominent man; in 1827 he was elected a justice of the peace along with Elizur Flint, Dorman Munsell, and Charles Richards, and held the office over thirty years. He was county superintendent of the poor in 1861-63. Elizur Flint was president of the first temperance society organized in town in 1829.
Hon. Eron N. Thomas was postmaster at Rose Valley several years, supervisor three times, and member of Assembly in 1862. He was a prominent man and the owner of a stock farm near the village. Eli Garlick, a settler of 1815, died January 7, 1892, aged ninety-two. Eli- zur Flint came here in 1817 and died in February, 1884. Simeon I. Barrett was born in 1798 and died in town in November, 1887, after a residence of over sixty years. Samuel Gardner, born in 1820, settled early in Huron, where he was supervisor some time, and moving to Rose held the same office at the date of his death in May, 1885.
Prominent among other early settlers are recalled the names of James Colborn, Dr. Peter Valentine (the first and for several years supervisor), Dr. Richard S. Valentine (the doctor's son), John Closs (the father of George, Harvey, Lorenzo, and Caleb H.), Elizur Flint, Charles Thomas (the father of Eron N., Nathan W., and Lorenzo C., all from Pompey, N. Y.), Solomon Allen, Solomon Mirick (father of Ira,
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George, Hiram, and Thomas), Orin Lackey, William Watkins, Amos Covey, Robert Mason (father of Harvey), William Chaddock, Dudley Wade (father of Ensign D.), Alonzo, William, jr., and Winfield Chad- dock (sons of William, sr.), Peter and Edward Aldrich, David Smith, Uriah Wade, John Skidmore, Gideon Henderson, John Barnes, Charles Richards, Samuel Hunn, Jacob Miller, Mr. Burnham, Abel Lyon, Asa Cook (in Rose Valley), Betts Chatterson, Charles G. Oaks (who died in 1883), Thomas Cullen, and Joel N. Lee (who died in October, 1880).
John J. Dickson, M. D., born in 1807, was for forty-five years a physician in Rose and for twenty years was a justice of the peace. In 1845 he was elected to the Legislature, and became a charter member of Rose Lodge, No. 590, F. and A. M., settling here in 1829, he died February 15, 1874; the funerals of himself and his first wife were con- ducted by the Masonic fraternity. Joel S. Sheffield located in this town in 1854. He was supervisor and town clerk, holding the latter office at the time of his death July 30, 1894.
Isaac Lamb was a very early settler. He was enterprising and popu- lar and in 1823 he built a saw mill which ceased operations after a period of sixty years. About 1838 he erected a grist mill, one of the old stones of which is now used by Myron Lamb at North Rose as a horse block. Further up the stream Ansel Gardner once built a card- ing mill, but it was never utilized.
The first log house and the first frame dwelling were built by Caleb Melvin. Thaddeus Collins, sr., is said to have set out the pioneer orchard at the Valley as early as 1813. The first birth was that of Milburn Salisbury and the first death was that of a child of Harvey i Gillett, both in 1812. Hosea Gillett and Hannah Burnham were mar- ried in January, 1813, which was the first wedding in town.
A Dr. Delano was the pioneer physician, about 1813, but he remained less than a year. The first settled physician in Rose was Dr. Peter Valentine, and subsequent comers were Drs. Henry Van Ostrand, Beden, Richard S. Valentine, and R. C. Barless.
The first grist mill was erected at Glenmark Falls by Simeon Van Auken and Seth Whitmore in 1812; in 1813 a saw mill was built. These mills were afterward rebuilt by Hiram and Ira Mirick, and among the various owners were J. Brown, William Chaddock, and Henry Garlick. About a mile above these Elijah How put up the pioneer saw mill in 1811; another was built a little below by Samuel HIunn, and Alfred Lee also erected one near the Valley. Other saw
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mills on Thomas Creek were put up by Uriah Wade, Simeon I. Barrett, and Hlunn & Chatterson. All were demolished when the Sodus Canal was commenced, and the creek was widened and deepened for nearly three miles to form a portion of that great ditch. In excavating for the canal drift wood and animals' bones were discovered ten feet below the surface.
Willis G. Wade built at Rose Valley the first steam saw mill in 1848, which he sold to Eron N. Thomas; it was burned in 1873 and rebuilt. The second was erected in the west part of the town by Isaac Wood- ruff; in 1859 its, boiler blew up and killed a sawyer named Grinnell. Conrad Young built the third steam saw mill at Wayne Center.
The first steam grist mill was erected in 1866 by William A. Mix. Chaddock & Garlick built one at Rose Valley in 1873. In 1821 Simeon V'an Auken built a clothiery on Thomas Creek. His successor, John Van Auken, added wool carding machines, and the establishment finally passed to Horace Converse, who discontinued it about 1850.
The only distillery ever operated in this town was built by Charles Richards at Rose Valley about 1818; it ceased work after a year's ex- istence. The first and only tannery was erected by William Watkins and Charles Thomas about 1826; the building was subsequently used as a storehouse by Robert N. Jeffers.
Among other early settlers and substantial citizens of the town may be mentioned William and Jairus MeKoon, Amaziah Carrier, John Kellogg, John Q. Deady, Ira Lake, Henry Robinson (the father of ex- State Senator Thomas Robinson, of Clyde, and John W. Robinson, of Newark), Samuel Lyman (who raised the first frame building in Rose without the use of liquor), Asa and Silas Town, William Dickinson, Addison and James Weeks, Franklin Finch, Riley Winchell, John Barnes, William Hickox, Thomas Craft (brother of Benjamin and Abram) Oliver Colvin, Josephus Collins, Jackson Valentine, John Coll- ier, Pender Marsh, Charles S. Wright, Austin Roe (a brother of Daniel and the father of Daniel J., John B., and Rev. Austin Roe and Mrs. Sheldon R. Overton), Daniel Brewster and Egbert Soper (brothers), John Halloway, Moses Wisner, Jonathan Briggs, the Vandercocks, the Vanderoefs, W. J. Glen, and many others noted a little further on or more at length in Part II of this volume.
In 1835 the town had one grist mill, seven saw mills, a fulling works, a carding mill, one foundry, an ashery, a distillery, one tannery, and 1,715 inhabitants. In 1845 there were two taverns, two stores, five 52
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clergymen, three physicians, sixty-three mechanics, 330 farmers, and 2,031 inhabitants. In 1858 there were 13, 272 acres improved land; real estate assessed at $527,597; personal property, $35,911 ; 1,084 male and 1,030 female inhabitants; 395 dwellings, 419 families, and 329 freehold- ers; 12 school districts and 791 children; 754 horses, 1,286 oxen and calves, 871 cows, 3,727 sheep, and 1,241 swine; productions: 9,778 bushels winter and 94,200 bushels spring wheat, 1, 725 tons hay, 13,246 bushels potatoes, 28,535 bushels apples, 66,330 pounds butter, 2,075 pounds cheese, and 845 yards domestic cloths.
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