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this generally accepted opinion and holds to -the belief that the hu- mane species originated, not in the Fran Smith, long-hitting amateur Quarternary Age, as geologists , golfer from Gloversville, added a new chapter to golfing history in Fulton county Sunday by becom- Ing the first man to win the, Nick Stoner Golf club championship three times. His 6 and 5 victory over Max Fowler, St. Johnsville, at Bob Ray's Canada Lake links re- tlred the Cyrus Durey cup which has been in circulation for a num- ber of years.
teach, but thousands of years ear- lier, in the Pliocene period of the Tertiary Age. He also inclines to the belief that as the Behring is a shallow sea, its bed is but a por- tion of a' submerged continent, at some period In the world's history connecting Asia with orth America, over which our aboriginal prede- cessors might have walked dry- shod This of course, is mere spec- ulation, but as newspapers some- times say, "important if true."
Ethnologists are of the opinion that the different tribes of Ameri- Indians all sprang from a common stock. It is also believed that the branch known as the Iro- quois once occupied the region of th Columbia river and Puget's Sound. Here in a state of savagery they lived a nomadic life.
(To Be Continued)
Waterville Leads Cooperstown In Playoff Series
By virtue of gaining an even break in weekend games at Water- ville, Cooperstown remained in contending position for the Mo- hawk Valley Baseball league play- off title. The series now stands with Waterville leading, 2-1 while the fourth, and fifth game if nec- essary will be played at Doubleday Fieid in Cooperstown Saturday and Sunday.
Last Saturday Wes Regan's ag- gregation halted Cooperstown, 4-3, in a tight game decided in the ninth inning, while the invaders bounced back Sunday to halt their hosts, 5-3. Waterville was victorious In the opener of the best three-out- five series September 14 at Coopers- town.
The game slated for Coopers- town Saturday will get underway at 2.30 p. m., while the fifth and deciding tiit if necessary will start at the same time Sunday.
Lefty "Nick" Gibbons, veteran Waterville hurler, registered his second victory of the series over Cooperstown at Waterville Satur- day in hurling a gaudy five hitter. His mound opponent, "Specs" .Leh- man, was touched for eight bingles,' including doubles .by Quinn and Williams.
LaDuke Wins
Another diamond veteran, "Dutch" LaDuke upset Waterville's plans of winning the series in three straight games by halting that team Sunday. Although he was touched for eight hits-all singles- he kept the blows well scattered and was superlative in the pinches.
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Fran Smith Wins Cy Durey Cup at Nick Stoner Links
Twice before, Fran had won the trophy and held possession of it during the winter months, but in other years someone else had tem- porary possession. John William- son, of Norwood, Mass., and Vin- cent Norris, Canajoharie, were the only other two-time winners.
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Ancient Greece was the birth- place of poetry and histrionic art. by Dr. J. D. Fitch of Mohawk, de- The very air was redolent of po- etry and song. The glories of Mar- athon and Thermopylae still shine with undimmed lustre. But her greatness has long since departed. Today no European power is so poor as to do her reverence. No Plato teaches the doctrine of im- mortality. No Socrates diffuses
the sublime truths of philosophy. No Homer pours forth a melody of words to charm the listening ear. No Sophocles composes those in- imitable tragedies that instructed and amused a cultured audience. The soil once consecrated by feet of Demosthenes, Phidias and the Saul of Tarsus, Is trodden mostly by an ignorant peasantry or mur- derous brigands.
Imperial Rome, from her seven hills, once cast forth defiant glanc- es that made the nations of the earth quake with terror. No army could withstand the fierce on- slaughts of. the victorious Caesar. No orator could cope with the elo- quent Cicero. Her superb panth- eons and lofty coliseums were tongueless witnesses of her majes- ty and power. But they have long since fallen In ruins, objects of in- terest to the antiquar alone. Her praises are not unsung, but they are chanted by those of a foreign lineage, and not by her own duti- ful children.
Centuries ago, ancient Phoenicia, now almost forgotten, sent forth her righly freighted argosiés and controlled the commerce of the world. Later on her offspring, Car- thage, finally crushed by Roman rapacity, was at one time a dan- gerous rivai to her victor. The mighty empore of Charlemagne was long since dismembered and its identity lost. Once the Moor erect- ed his marble palaces in the smiling vales of Andalusiaonly to be cruelly driven across the Gibraltar by the despotic Castilllan.
In England the ancient Briton gave way to the Saxon and the Dane, and they In turn to the Norinan. Lancaster superceded York upon Bosworth field. The Stuarts sought upon the throne of England the peace and security which that of Scotland afforded not. But ali in vain. Cromwell brought Charles I to the block. James II was driven Into ignominious exile and his sons Instead of receiving the homage due scions of royalty, were termed Pre- etnders. Thus does "hlstorv repeat
ral cemetery by the side of the road near the Wm. Peck farm.
Another funny thing happened during Granıp Ackland's visit. His son-in-law owned a fine team of horses. One day we hitched the most playful horse to the milk wagon to draw seed potatoes to a meadow in what is now the Silver- nail farm on Spencer street in Dolgeville. In play the horse would come for a fellow with mouth open but would never actually bite, I confess after ali these years that the hired boy and that young horse (had some good times together, but Gramp Ackland did not know this so when the horse came for him with mouth open the old gentleman threw up hls hoe in defense which frightened the animal-away went the colt and milk wagon sowing seed potatoes all the way to the house, no damage was done except to Gramp's feelings.
Old Time Teachers of Norway I am indebted to Dr E. E. Kelley of Herkimer for the loan of a file of the late Fred Smith's Norway Tidings from which I have ex- tracted a portion of Norway lore. Tradition says the first school in Norway was kept by Jeanette Hen- derson, sister of D. C. Henderson, and great aunt of John D. Hen- derson of Herkimer. This was in 1793 in a log school house on the Jerseyfield road. Other Norway teachers were John Moon, Charles Morton, Welthy Fuller, Dudley and Elliot Burwell, Jacob Smith, Steve Tompkins and Charles D. Hine who later became secretary to the State Board of Education in Con- necticut. In the late 80s were the names of John Funnell, Edith Nichols, Ada Hurd and Anna Hall. Dairy Illl Teachers
Besides . Ada and Emma Salis- bury there were Arphaxed Loomis, Samuel Brainard, Charles King, old itme teachers on Dalry Hill. The teacher in 1815 was Matiida Loomis, sister of the late Judge Loomis of Little Falls. She had over 40 pupils and received $1.25 per week and board. She probably boarded around the district. Dairy Hill in Norway will always hold a tender spot in my memory for it was a Dairy Hill teacher who took me for better or for worse and has been a good wife and model house- keeper for lo these 61 years, come August, 1947.
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Envelope Exhibit Given At Meeting of Stamp Club
|Members and guests of the Mont- gomery Stamp club had a most en- joyable meeting at the Reformed church, Canajoharie, Monday even- ing at 8 p. m. Over 50 stamp collec- tors were present and had the pleasure of viewing a unique envel- ope collection as presented by Leigh- ton Wells, Rome.
The club has received invitations from the Glove Cltles stamp club, Gloversville, and the 20th Century Stamp club, Amsterdam, to attend spectiai meetings as guests of the two clubs this season.
| Saul of Tarsus, is trodden mostly by an ignorant peasantry or mur- derous brigands.
Imperial Rome, from her seven hills, once cast forth deflant glanc- es that made the nations of the earth quake with terror. No army could withstand the fierce on- slaughts of. the victorious Caesar. No orator could cope with the elo- quent Cicero. Her superb panth- eons and lofty coliseums were tongueless witnesses of her majes- ty and power. But they have long since fallen In ruins, objects of in- terest to the antiquar alone, Her praises are not unsung, but they are chanted by those of a foreign lineage, and not by her own duti- ful children.
Centurles ago, ancient Phoenicia, now almost forgotten, sent forth her righly freighted argosies and controlled the commerce of the world. Later on her offspring, Car- thage, finally crushed by Roman rapacity, was at one time a dan- gerous rival to her victor. The mighty empore of Charlemagne was long since dismembered and its identity lost. Once the Moor erect- ed his marble palaces in the smiling vales of Andalusiaonly to be cruelly driven across the Gibraltar by the despotic Castillian.
In England the ancient Briton gave way to the Saxon and the Dane, and they, in turn to the Norman. Lancaster superceded York upon Bosworth field. The Stuarts sought upon the throne of England the peace and security which that of Scotland afforded not. But all in vain. Cromwell brought Charies I to the block. James II was driven into ignominious exile and his sons instead of receiving the homage due scions of royalty, were termed Pre- etnders. Thus does "history repeat itself."
The fate of the Iroquols is an example of what happened many times in the old world, and, If the truth could be arrived at, perhaps, as many times in the new. Once they were the masters of a domain almost imperial, extending from the Mississippi to the Atlantic coast and from Noth Carolina to Hudson Bay. Today their descendants are gathered together upon a few re- servatlons, living upon the bounty of those whose ancestors despoiled them of their possessions.
The origin of the aborigines has long been a subject of much spec- ulation. The concensus of opinion seems to be that the human species originated in Asia and thence spread out and populated the world. That at some remote period in the world's history a few of them crossed the thirty miles of water intervening between Siberla and Alaska, wandered down the sea coast until they found a soil and climate adapted to the wants of man, and there took up their abode. This opinion has the merit of plausibility, but is based upon the theory that human life origl- nated not far from six thousand years ago. John Fiske, however, entertains views at variance with
Good neighbors of all faiths are cordially invited to the celebration of the feast of the Mohawk Valley Martyrs-SS. Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande-at the
AURIESVILLE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Solemn mass at 12 noon with the Most Rev. Edmund F. Gibbons, D. D., Bishop of Albany, presiding.
The Rev. Michael Jacobs, S. J., only Iroquois priest, celebrant of the mass. -
For the first time in the history of the United States the mass will be sung in the Mohawk language by the famous In- dian Cholr of the Iroquois Reservation at Caughnawaga, Que- bec. (The choir will be heard in a half-hour program over WGY beginning at 7:30 o'clock Saturday night.)
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock the Indlan Choir will sing at a benediction service at the Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine in Fonda.
waterville JIULICI, second victory of the series over Cooperstown at Waterville Satur- day in hurling a gaudy five hitter. His mound opponent, "Specs" .Leh- man, was touched for eight bingles,' including doubles by Quinn and Williams.
LaDuke Wins
Another diamond veteran, "Dutch" LaDuke upset Waterville's plans of winning the serles in three straight games by halting that team Sunday. Although he was touched for elght hits-all singles- he kept the blows well scattered and was superlative in the pinches.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1947-
GENEALOGY AND HISTORY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A department devoted to the pursuit of knowledge. No charge to regular subscribers. Any reader, whether subscriber or not, is invited to submit answers. Give dates, places and sources.
COOLEY, LANDERS
Who were the parents of the fol- lowing Cooley children?
Thursey married Daniel Peck. Rumor. .
Elijah.
Girl killed by Indians near Al- bany, N. Y.
Benjamin born Becketh, Berk- shire county, Mass. Sept. 14, 1778, married Relief Landers born Jan. 5, 1786, Lenox, Mass.
Gideon? born about 1780, married Desire Landers.
The Landers lineage is given in the appendix of the Cooley Family as prepared by Dean M. E. Cooley. I do not have it, but would be happy to receive it. Benjamin and Relief had the following ::
Electa March 4, 1805.
Reuben April 3, 1808, married Lu- cretia Rick.
Roxanna Aug. 6, 1809 married Jerry Hopkins
Joseph L. Sept. 8, 1813 married Olive Densmore.
Alfred born Delaware Co., N. Y. March 4, 1816, have hls record. Benjamin March 21, 1821 mar- ried Harriett Chandler.
Andrew Orson Aug. 24, 1825.
These are not proved to connect with the Cooleys of Springfield, Mass.
KINGSLEY, COOLEY
Ephraim Kingsley on Genesee river below Rosburg, N. Y. mar-
ried whom, when, where? Their | 12, 1765.
children order not known and only one with dates.
Nancy Kingsley born 1814, died Dec., 1849, married May 27, 1841. Alfred Cooley March 4, 1816, dled June, 1891.
Mary Lucinda Lydia Joel Andrew Ebenezer Oren
I would like records of the above children and ancestry of Ephraim Kingsley.
Emma Belle Sweet, 409 N. Edith
Albuquerque, New Mexico
HAWKES, ARMS
Want all Information on the John Hawkes, one of the early set- tlers of Hadley, Mass., who had a daughter Joanna born ca. 1653; died Nov. 22, 1729, where ?; mar- ried Nov. 21, 1677, Willianı Arms who died at Deerfield, Mass., Aug. 25, 1731, Was this the John who died in 1662, had a wife Elizabeth and a son Eliezer of Deerfield, born 1655, died 1689, married Ju- dith Smead? Was this John relat- ed to the Adam Hawkes of Win- throp's Fleet, married Anne Hutch- inson and had iron works in Lynn, Mass .? This Adam had a son John 1632 or 3 to 1694 who married In 1658. Did Adam have a brother John, the same as the above?
Want further information on any of the descendants of the above William Arms and Joanna Hawkes. They had 9 children as follows: 1. William, born Feb. 14, 1678; died Sept. 30, 1690, at Hatfield. 2. John born Dec. 25, 1679, died Sept. 30, 1753, lived at Deerfield, served in Indian Wars and crippled from wounds for which he received a pension; married Nov. 27, 1712, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Nash of Hatfield. 3. Sarah' born Nov. 21, 1681; married 1st May 2, 1700, Je- dediah or Zebediah Williams, who
Amy 1818 July 29. Elizabeth 1820 Dec. 4. Estherana 1821 Dec. 28, died 1822 Feb. 2.
Bela 1823 Jan. 29, died 1824 Mar. 2.
Philomela April 30, 1824, married Mable.
Joshua Feb. 28, 1826, died 1826 April 20. Mercy Dec. 28, 1827, died 1827 Feb. 27.
Esther 1830 April 25, married Slayton (James O.)
Signed: Philomela Farnum.
These were New York people- around the Five Finger Lakes, I thin. (Esther Farnum was mar- ried in Italy (Naples) New York 1849 to James O. Slayton. I have copied some data from the Slayton family .- E. B. Sweet:) Emma Belie Sweet,
409 N. Edith, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
VANDERGRIFT, ATKINSON
1. Christian, born Jan. 1, 1757; 2. published 1933, gives the following Bible record: Jacob Vandergrift of New Castle Co., Del., married Oct. 6, 1751, Ann Atkinson; she died April 4, 1767. They had children: Leonard, born Oct. 29, 1754 ;; Sar born January 1, 1757; 4. James born March 10, 1759; 5. Peter, born May 16, 1761; 6 .* Sampson, born Aug. 8, 1763; 7. Ann born Nov.
In list of Marriages in the same publication occur the following: 1. Jacob Vandergrift married Ann Atkinson, dau. of James Anderson, before 5. Feb. 1763; 2. Leonard Vandergrift maried Ruth Sanky, minor. dau. of Thomas Sanky, before Feb., 1779.
VANDEGRIFT, JANVIER
An incomplete Janvier Mss., com- piled. in 1902 by Amos January Johnson, gives the following Van- degrift line: Abraham Vandegrift, a farmer, prob. of New Castle Co., Del., married Sarah Janvier (Phil- ip-3 married Rebecca Golden, Francis 2. married Sarah DeHaes, Thomas 1); she was born Oct. 26, 1789. They had two children: 1. Rebecca Golden Vandegrift mar- ried her cousin Christopher Vande- grift, and had one son Abraham born ca. 1855, died ca. 1888. Said Rebecca married 2d as his 3rd wife, a George Vandegrift. 2. Sar- ah Ruth Vandegrift married Isaac Woods, who died March 2, 1888, and had two sons: Dr. Walter Van- degrift Woods, born 1855, lived in Phila., Pa. and Isaac Janvier Woods born 1863, lived in McDonough, Del.
Want further information on any of the above, also on a later Jan- vler-January Geneal. compiled by Amos January Johnson and mem- bers of his family. Does anything above connect with Harry A. Odell's Vandergrift-Hawkins query of Sept. 11, 1947?
Margaret Janvier, sister of the novelist Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849-1913), wrote juvenile litera- ture under the pen name "Margaret Vandegrift." Why? A. J. Jolinson's 1902 compilation shows no Vande- grift marriage in her branch. Her anc. is given as: Francis DeHaes 5 Janvier married Emma Newbold, Francis DeHaes 4 married Margaret Thomson, John 3 married Ellzabeth March, Francis 2 married Sarah Crosse or Jourdain, which? Want proof that the Francis Dehaes 4 Janvier who married Margarct Thomson was a con of .Inhn 3 mar-
Grant in N. Y. State. (I don't be- lieve this is the same Grant family as U. S. Grant, the president, for tradition says the Grant family of Allen J. never swore alleglance to the British crown in Scotland). I believe the last meeting of the Cian Grant was held in Glenwood (?) N. Y. about 1888. Any information on the Clan Grant or the parentage of Allen J. or his wife wanted. Can anyone tell me where Glenwood, N. Y. is. I haven't located it even to county yet.
Note-Glenwood, N. Y. Is located in the southern part of Erie county, about 3 miles west of Holland on Route 16.
WELLER
Any data on the Weller family will be greatly appreciated. I have been trying to compile a Weller genealogy. Particularly interested in ancestry and family of Jacob Wel- ler, Jr. who came from Orange county (?) N. Y. to Veteran Twp., Chemung Co., N. Y. about 1820. GEDNEY, GIDNEY
Any information on the Gldney or Gedney name will be appreciat- ed. There were Gedneys in West- chester county, N. Y. as early as 1700 and In Orange county, N. Y. in 1766. Particularly interested in family and ancestry of Joshua Jo- seph who left White Plains, N. Y. and went to Granville, Nova Scotia in 1784.
Ralph H. Weller,
Box 177,
Mansfield, Penna.
The Iroquois Indian
About ten centuries ago they are supposed to have migrated east- of the names of the first settlers at Tulpenhocken, I can find no famlly name of Plat. I am inclined to think that this 1721 grave is the last resting place of a Dutch trader with the Indians and that he died from natural causes, else his grave would not have been so carefully marked by his compan- ions. The Dutch traders did travel the Susquehanna river and trail,
ward. They tarried for a while up- on the banks of the Mississippi, where they acquired, to a limited extent, the arts of agriculture. Here the Cherokees broke off from the parent stem, wandering away to the southeast, finally locating in what is now known as the States of Georgia and Alabama. The main body kept on to the east un- til they reached the Great Lakes. Here they again divided, the Cayu- gas and Senecas passing on to the south and finally settling in what is now New York. The Onondagas, Oneidas and Mohawks ·passed to the north of Lake Ontario. The Onondagas soon followed by the Oneidas, passed around the west- ern extremity of Lake Ontario to occupy their historic seats in Cen- tral New York. The Mohawks drove out the Hurons and took posses- sion of both banks of the St. Law- rence from source to mouth. They were found in full possession of the river with their capital at the site of Montreal when Jacques Cartier sailed up the river in 1535. A few years later they were driven south- ward by the combined forces of the Algonquins and Hurons and took up their abode on the fertile slopes of the Mohawk. The five Irquois nations were now settled upon con- tiguous territory. The Mohawks, upon the east, occupied about all that portion of our State extend- ing from Albany to a line drawn north and souht a little to the east of Utica. The Oneida Nation, next to the west, occupied the territory between the Unadilla and Chenan- go rivers, the limital line deflect- ing at the north so as to include the whole of Oneida Lake. Imme- diately west of this line were the Onondagas, whose western bound- ary coresponded to a line drawn from the mouth of hte Oswego riv- er nearly due north and south. The Cayugas occupled both banks of the Cayuga Lake, their domains
grave was made is an unusual event connecting the present with the distant past.
There are, however, several er- rors in the theory of Dr. Dudley of Endicott that this "William Plat, died Nov. 4, 1721," was one of the Schoharie Valley ploneers migrat- Ing to the Tulpehocken Valley (Reading-York area) in Pensyl- vania and lost his life in a. battle with the Indians:
ONE-The Schoharie Palatines left the Schoharie Valley mecause the British government and the provincial government of New York failed to carry out the terms of the London contract made by Queen Anne and her cabinet after the death of Queen Anne and a change in the party control of Parliament, not to "escape taxation" as was - stated.
TWO-The Palatine group migra- tions from Schoharie to Tulpen- hocten were in 1723, 1725 and 1729. These migrators left Schoharie about the first of April in the above years, not in late October or November when William . Plat died. It was necessary for these mi- grants to start south. early in the spring and to arrive in Pennsylvan- ia in time to clear land and plant seeds for the next winter's food, supply.
THREE-These migrating pion- eers did not float down the Sus- quehanna river on rafts but in dug-out canoes made from chest- nut and white pine tree sections about 25 feet long and from four i to six feet in diameter. These dug- outs were made at Colliersville, above Oneonta, where the Char-, lotte Creek joins the Susquehanna river. When these migrators were delayed with domestic animals driven over the trail and the ne- cessity of keeping together for night' camps and protection from wild beasts, it took 40 days to make the trip. When unencumbered with domestic animals the trip could be made in less than a week.
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