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Grist Mills Of The Mohawk Valley
By Paul B. Mattice
Indies."
Water powered grist mills were brought in a large measure to the New York frontier by the introduc- tion of wheat growing. The Indian mortar and pestile mills could make corn and peas into a coarse meal that could be baked into loaves of bread. But the mortar and pestile could not crush the hard flinty ker- nels of wheat into a fineness Peter Kalm, a Swedish naturalist, visiting this country in '1748, wrote in his diary: "They sow wheat in the neighborhood of Albany with great advantage. From one bushel they get twelve sometimes; if the soil be good they get twenty bushels." Governor Tryon after visiting the Mohawk Valley in 1772 wrote: "The land on and |the Mohawk River is extremely fer- consistency of a bakeable bread flour. tile, and under the highest cultiva- tion, producing as good wheat and peas as any in the old countries." And wheat down through the cen- turies has been man's best cereal for The following is a tentative list of the water powered grist mills with their owners and sites on the old bread baking. Europeans had found out long before America was discov- ered that something more than hand
power was required to crush wheat New York frontier at the beginning kernels into flour.
Within four or five or more years burned in King George's War (1744- after a settlement was made in the! wilderness and grain growing start- ed some enterprising pioneer built a community grist mill. This rule holds true whether the mill was located in
48), some in the French and. Indian War (1754-63) and some in our War for Independence (1775-83). Many of them were rebuilt in time to be burn-' ed in the next war. One mill was
were burned in two wars and one of these primitive grist mills ground flour that helped save Washington's army from starvation at Valley Forge. Each of them have a thrilling background story of service to the community in which it was located, of romance and bloody drama as the opposing fonces contended for pas- session or destruction of the mill.
A list of about sixty mills follows. The first grist mill north of Man- hattan Island was built about 1635 on the west side of the Hudson river on the extensive domain of Killian Vian Rensselaer, the Patroon. The mill may have been in the Norman's Kill south of present day Albany, or on Mill Creek that flowed into the Hudson river near Watervliet, or on - the Rutten Kill in the present day business section of Albany. This later stream now flows through a city sewer. About the year 1700 the Pa- Cadwallader Colden, Provincial Lt. i Governor of New York in 1723 wrote in his report on trade: "Several of our neighbors upon this continent cannot well subsist without our as- sistance as to provisions for we yearly send wheat and flour to Bos- troon built a grist mill on the east side of the Hudson hiver at the "Center" or "Patroon's Mills" on the Quacken Kill in the present town of Grafton in Rensselaer county. By the year 1775 there were at least ten mills in operation in hte Rens- ton and Rhode Island as well as to selaerwyck-Fort Orange-Beverwyck- South Carolina. Pennsylvania only | Albany-Troy area.
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of the Revolution. Some mills were
the Hudson, 'Mohawk, Schoharie or burned in all three wars. Several Susquehanna river valleys. Grist mills, mill-wrights and millers were a necessity to good living and farm- ing in any pioneer neighborhood along with the trading post, the blacksmith and wood worker shops.
The Virginia settlers in 1607 brought secd wheat to America in the hulls of the ships "Goodspeed," the "Discovery" and the "Sarah Con- stant." The Dutch brought seed Wheat to New York in 1612 and be- in 1626. The Puritans, brought seed wheat to Massachusetts and sowed it over the graves of their dead to hide their losses from the Indians. And the Palatines too had their part in spreading the growing of wheat in
Onondagas to guard and preserve gan shipping wheat back to Holland this council fire.
In the Oneida speech onia is stone; onista is child of the stone. By mis- pronunciation this became Oneida. Near the entrance to Forest Hill the provinces of New York and the cemetery, Utica, on a slight artificial Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, mound is a roundish oblong boulder | Most of the first grist mills in the Mohawk and Schoharie valleys were built by the Palatines.
York, and especially to the Oneidas from which they received their name and years later also the county and other localities. The story. of the stone contains much of legend mixed with certain facts of veritable his- tory .. . The stone wa's heaven sent, a token of the presence of the Great Spirit.' It was given to the tribe at [the, very beginning, on the Oswego river, near Oneida Lake. To them it was sacred, and became central in their religious and social life. It was (their altar of sacrifice. Around it were held the feasts of New , Year, harvest and other festivals. Beside it were their war dances and council fires. It added solemn sanction to their treaties and other engagements. Later when. the headquarters of the tribe were removed to the eastern end of the lake near where it re- ceives the waters of Oneida Creek, the stone accompanied them, un- touched by human hands. The same thing occurred at a subsequent re- moval up the creek-stone taking a position on a hill on the eastern side, in what is now the town of Stock- bridge, in Madison county. Here it remained during the subsequent his- tory' of its people. It here saw .the rise and power of the confederacy of. the original Five Nations. It here listened to, eloquence unsurpassed by Greek or Roman. Logan, the white mans' friend uttered"words that burn. Sconondora, warrior chief and last orator of his race, swayed the hearts of his fellow tribesmen.
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side of the Hudson hiver at the "Center" or "Patroon's Mills" on our neighbors upon this continent the Quacken Kill in the present town cannot well subsist without our as-
sistance as to provisions for we the year 1775 there were at least yearly send wheat and flour to Bos- ten mills in operation in 'hte Rens- ton ,and Rhode Island as well as to selaerwyck-Fort Orange-Beverwyck- South Carolina. Pennsylvania only | Albany-Troy area.
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Salt Lake City, Utah April 27, 1948
Enterprise and News
Dept. of Genealogy and History
In the issue for April 22, 1948, you have my address as Mich. instead of Utah. The typesetter wasn't very careful. Among the little mistakes was this one that could be mislead- ing - viz.
I have one recond that says Peter d. Delaney lock. It should say Peter md. Delaney Clock. You have Pamelia md. George Harp Delaney. It should read Pamelia md. George Harp; Delaney md. Abraham Farr- ington.
Thank you Sincerely Arita P. Campbell 37 West, North Temple St. Salt Lake City 3, Utah
HOLLY, HOLMES, PENOYER
Ancestry and dates wanted of Elisha Holly; also of his wife, Mantha Holmes. They were married in Stam- ford, Conn. and had a son Eliphalet, born March 29, 1690 who married there, 1714 Mercy Penoyer. Her an, cestry also asked,
WEED, KNAPP, BARNUM
Ancestry and dates asked of John Weed, born Stamford, Conn. 1747, died there, when ?' Enlisted in 1776 as private in Capt. Sylvanus Brown's comp., Col. Chandler's Regt., Conn. Line. He married Hannah Knapp, when ? They had a daughter Hannah A. who married Ir Barnum.
Fuil list of children with dates and marriages wanted of above . John Weed and Hannah Knapp.
CORSE ,
Ancestry, dates and wife asked of James Corse of Kent Co., Mid. whose will dated March 4, 1720 and prob. April .. 22, -1720, -. mentions -eldest-+son James, sons William, John and Mich- al, and daughter Hannah; aiso land tracts called Heath's Chance (adjoin- "ing Thomas Medford's land), Middle- neck, Hebron's Farm,, Corse's Mead- ows and Greer's Range.
Dates and marriages of albove children James, William, John, Mich- ael (died 1749) and Hannah also wanted.
Wili of said son ,Michael, 1749, Kent Co., Md., mentions his wife Mary; children Michael, Daniel, Eliz- abeth, Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca and brother John.
Marie Lyle,
Lyle Heights,
Paso Robles, Calif.il
HASWELL, BOYD, MILROY, DUBOIS
Stephen 2 Holmes and Martha had a dau. Martha, b. when ? d. Stam- ford, Conn., Aug. 4, 1721; mar. there Dec. 2, 1686, Elisha 3 Holly (John 2, Samuel, 1), b. Stamford, Mar. 1658-9; d. there Oct. 28, 1719, Full list of chil., with dates and mar., wanted of above Stephen and Martha Holmes.
PENOYER, KNAPP
Dates, wife, and full list of chil., with dates and mar., of Robert Peno- yer asked. He had son Thomas, of Stamford, Conn., who mar. there, 1685, Lydia 2 Knapp (her dates want- ed), dau. of Nicholas 1 mar. Elinor.
PENOYER, HOLLY, GREGORY
Fuil list of chil., with dates and mar, asked of above Thomas 2 Peno- yer and Lydia Knapp. They had dau, Mercy, b. Stamford, Conn., Sept. 28, 1693; d. when ? mar. 1st, Stamford, 1714 (their mar. rec. wanted), Elip- halet 4 Holly (Elisha 3, John 2, Samuel 1), b. Stamford, Mar. 29, 1690; d. there Oct. 28, 1744, Mercy
Lycense for the purpose aforesaid And your Petitioners as in duty mar. 2d, when ? where? --- Gregory. . bound Shal Ever piay -.
Who was he?
Marie Lyle
Lyie Heights, Paso Robles, Cal.
The Petries in America
These notes and records of the Johan Jost Petrie family and de- scendants in America were compil- ed by the iate Mrs. Frederick Staeh- la, of Munnsville, N. Y. Her notes have been checked, so far as we have been able to do so, and we will try to complete her work.
Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrie, Johnstown, N. Y.
*** (Continued from last week)
When one learns what the Pala- tines suffered for thirty years at the hands of the, Johnsons, one does not wonder at Klock and his neighbors forming vigilance committees, and in framing a resolution to' "be free or die," and in furnishing the man pow- er to stay the invader and to hoid their land to the bitter end. When one remembers also that the vigi- lance committee was making it hot for Johnson, so hot that his sudden removal by death at the end of a day's parley with the Indians, was well grounded suspicion of suicide. to end his troubles, , and immediately following, his son Sir John Johnson and "son-in-law 'Guy Johnson" were forced , by , the same vigilance .com- mittee to flee to Canada. They with Brant afterward, returned with the Tatiana as a reprisal and precipitat-
THURSDAY, MAY 20th, 1948
lecks, Dierich Peter1, Michel ittig, Hennering Mercke Jun., Hannes Mer- ckel, Cristian Peteri, Hendrick Hauck, Adam Walrath, Jacob Von- Dewerke, felick Meier, Aberham Von Dewercke, Ludwig Kran, Wiliem Nelies, George Klock junner, Hen- drick Windecker, John Jacob, oel, Hendrick Niles, Adam Walrath, jun. fridrich bellinger, fillih Sternberger, Conrath Kith, libs bellinger, ' Aber- ham Lansing, Jacob Klock, jun. Henry Wolrad, Jost Petreji.
Sheweth
That there is yet unpurchased of the native Indian Proprietors, there of a Certain Tract of Land Situate Lying and being in the County of Al- bany on the North Side of the mo- hawks Rives between Two certain Creeks, one Called 'Cajoharon or Canada Creek and on the other Creek Called Canada Creek at Burnetsfield and . Contiguous from the Mohawk River into the Woods Twenty five miles of which your petitioners are desirous to purchase the quantity of fifty thousand acres and five hundred acres for a Church in order to Enable them to obtain his Majesty's Letters, Patent for the Said Lands that they may cultivate and improve the same. Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray your honour will be favorably pleased to grant them your honour 1
Jacob foits, Johan Jose petri, Johannej petri, George Klock, juner and J nr, Johannes Schoumann, Han- nes (his K mark) Klock, Marcus petry, Henry (his H mark) Klock, Jerg. Windecher, Konrad (his KK mark) Klock, Kasber (his KL mark) leyb, Henrich Merkel, Develd (his DM, mark) Merkel, Adam Conder- man, Didrich (his DH mark) horning, Hannes (his H mark) leyb, Jost( his L mark) leyb, Adam (his AL mark) leyb, Adam ray, Eilas (his EG mark) Gerlach, Christ Kerlach, libs (his FG mark) Kerlach, Daniel petrei, Ach- gvon Schlych. Diedrich petri, Michel Itig, christ John petrij, Henrich mer- ckel iun, Johannes merckeliun, Hen- rich hauck, Petter hauck, Adam (his AXR mark) Wolrath, Jacob (his X mark) Van Derwerke, fuhijy maier, Aber ham (his X mark) condewke, Lutwich (his LK mark). Kran, Wil- liam nellis, Jerrig Klock junier, hen- rich Windecker, John Jacob Oel, Henrick Neilis, Adoph walrath,' frid- rich (his FB mark) bellinger, phil- lip Steenbrough, Conrath Kith, libs H. Bellinger, Adraham Lansing, Ja- cob Klock juni, Henry . Wolrad, Jost Petre junr.
April 25, 1755.
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Ancestry and dates asked of John Weed, born Stamford, Conn. 1747, died there, when?' Enlisted .in 1776 as private in Capt. Sylvanus Brown's comp., Col. Chandler's Regt., Conn. Line. He married Hannah Knapp, when ? They had a daughter Hannah A. who married Ir Barnum.
Full list of children with dates and marriages wanted of above John Weed and Hannah Knapp.
CORSE , -
Ancestry, dates and wife asked of James Corse of Kent Co., Md. whose will dated March 4, 1720 and prob. April- 22, 1720, mentions :eldest som James, sons William, John and Mich- al, and daughter Hannah; also land tracts called Heath's Chance (adjoin- ' ing Thomas Medford's land), Middle- neck, Hebron's Farm,, Corse's Mead- ows and Greer's Range.
Dates and marriages of above children James, William, John, Mich- ael (died 1749) and Hannah also wanted.
Will of said son ,Michael, 1749, Kent Co., Md., mentions his wife Mary; children Michael, Daniel, Eliz- abeth. Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca and brother John.
Marie Lyle,
Lyle Heights, Paso Robles, Calif.
HASWELL, BOYD, MILROY, DUBOIS
Who were the parents of Robert R. Haswell? He was born Sept. 24, 1796 (where ?) and died in the Town of Glenville, Schenectady Co., N. Y. Oct. 18, 1838. He married (when and where ?) Ann Boyd, daughter of Capt. Hugh and Catherine (Saats) Boyd of Albany, N. Y. Ann Boyd was born in Albany Jan. 6, (7), 1797 and died in Glenville Jan. 16, 1873 .. They are buried in the cemetery of the First Glenville Reformed church at West Glenville. Their children Eliz- abeth, Sarah Maria and Hugh Boyd Haswell were baptized in the First Glenville Reformed church on May 19, 1842. The children of Robert R. and Ann (Boyd) Haswell were:
1. Ann Matilda born April 26, 1827. (where ?), died in Glenville May 13, 1864, married (when and where ?) John E. Milroy born about 1823 (where ? ? ) died in Glenville Oct. 23, ¥ 1875.
2. Elizabeth born Sept. 6, 1833. 3. Sarah Maria born June 18, 1835 (where ?) died in Glenville Sept. 3, 1905, married (when and where ? ? ) her brother-in-law George M. Du- Bois.
. Donald A. Keefer, RD 2, Sacandaga Road, Schenectady, N. Y.
HOLMES, HOLLY
Full list of chil. with dates and mar asked of Francis 1 Holmes, b. Eng., ca. 1600; will prob. Stamford, Conn., 1671; from End of Fairfield, Conn. thence to Stamford. Is anything more known about him? He mar. when? where ? Ann ------; her name and dates wanted.
Did Frances 1 Holmes and Anne · have a son Stephen who mar. Mar- tha ? Her name and dates wanted.
The Petries
in America
These notes, and records of the Johan Jost Petrie family and de- scendants in America were compil- ed by the late Mrs. Frederick Staeh- la, of Munnsville, N. Y. Her notes have been checked, so far as we have been able to do so, and we will try to complete her work.
Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrie, Johnstown, N. Y.
-(Continued from last week)-
When one learns what the Pala- tines suffered for thirty years at the hands of the , Johnsons, one does not wonder at Klock and his neighbors forming vigilance committees, and in framing a resolution to'"be free or cob Klock juni, Henry . Wolrad, Jost die," and in furnishing the man pow- er to stay the invader and to hold Petre junr. April 25, 1755. their land to the bitter end. When one remembers also that the vigi- lance committee was making it hot To Be Continued) for Johnson, so hot that his sudden removal by death at the end of a day's parley with the Indians, was well grounded suspicion of suicide, to end his: troubles, ; and immediately following, his son Sir John Johnson and son-in-law''Guy "Johnson"! - were forced by the same vigilance.com- mittee to flee to Canada. They with Brant afterward, returned with the Indians as a reprisal and precipitat- ed these murdering, scalping savag- es upon Cherry, Valley, Wyoming and the Mohawk Valley. These poor Palatines, were considered the vil- lians in the Johnson eyes.
(Col. Jacob Klock, Patriot, by Milo Nellis, E. N. Feb. 15, 1928.)
Brant and the Johnsons led the work of destruction. 'The beautiful Valley of the Mohawks was left a charred and barren waste. Many families moved again some to the Black River Valley and along the St. Lawrence; others moved to Pennsyl- vania; while others went further west, to start again. Thus, the Pala- tines have suffered again. The sur- face has merely been scratched in this short, tale. We have. merely stated facts. Tales of horrors, and acts of heroism are many. Some day, the story of, the Mohawk Dutch" will be told and what a story it will make.
(Note: The copy of the application for the Royal Grant Patent follows: This was blueprinted by L. F. Bel- linger and printed by E. and N.) Photostat Copy of Aplication For a Royal Grant
To the Honorable James Delancey, Esq. his majesty Lieutenants Gover- nor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories Depending thereon in America.
The Petition of Jacob foltz, Johan Jost Peteri, Hannes Peteri, George Klock, Hannes Klock, Marx Peteri, Hendrick Klock, Junr, Jerl Windeck- er, Konrath Klock, Kasber leyb, Hen- drick Merckel, Develd Markel, Adam Gonderman, Diderick Horning, Han- nes leyb, Jost leyb, Adam leyb, Adam Grey, Elias Gerlack, Gristtian Ger- lack, Danniel Peteri, Ackes von Sch-
Jerg. Windecher, Konrad (his KK mark) Klock, Kasber (his KL mark) leyb, Henrich Merkel, Develd (his DM, mark) Merkel, Adam Conder- man, Didrich (his DH mark) horning, Hannes (his H mark) leyb, Jost( his L mark) leyb, Adam (his AL mark) leyb, Adam ray, Eilas (his EG mark) Gerlach, Christ Kerlach, libs (his FG. mark) Kerlach, Daniel petrei, Ach-" svon Schlych, Diedrich petri, Michel Itig, christ John petrij, Henrich mer- ckel iun, Johannes merckeliun, Hen- rich hauck, Petter hauck, Adam (his AXR mark) Wolrath, Jacob (his \X mark) Van Derwerke, fuhijy maier, Aber ham (his X mark) condewke, Lutwich (his LK mark). Kran, Wil- liam nellis, Jerrig Klock junier, hen- rich Windecker, John Jacob Oel, Henrick Nellis, Adoph walrath, frid- rich (his FB mark) bellinger, phil- lip Steenbrough, Conrath Kith, libs H. Bellinger, Adraham Lansing, Ja-
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Iroquois Indians in Mohawk Valley
By W. C. KIMM (Continued from last week)
The White Man Comes
This was the resting place of the stone when the white man appeared and the Red Man began to give way before him. It saw the hunting grounds of its people becoming the corn fields of the stranger, their for- est trails growing into his highways of traffic and their. hills and valleys crowned with his settlements. It saw the people themselves waste away at the strangers presence, their coun- cil fires' extinguished, their festal days unobserved their sacrifices un- offered. It saw them diminished and scattered, their tribal life lost, and their political power forever gonc. The sacred stone became a stranger in the home of its ohildren, an exile in its own sail, awhile after the opening of the Forest Hill cemetery in Utica, the Oneida Stone, was by glad consent of all parties interested, removed to its present location, there to be cared for as a memorial of a people who showed many excellences of character, and took no insigni- ficant part in many of the exciting instances of our nations history. A Republic in the Wilderness
Classical students are apt to look to foreign lands as the birth place of political institutions. Long before Duropeans had set foot upuon Amer- can soil the Iroquois had worked out form of government, atmost a pro otype of that under which we now ive. When we recall that this people ad not advanced beyond the bar- aric' age we are astonished to find o 'much in their form of government haf we are wont to expect to find only in the highest civilization. They were surrounded by tribes not ad- vanced beyond the highest stage of savagery or the first stage of bar- barism. They had never come in con- tact with people as intelligent as themselves. The refining influences of Christianity, had never penetrated their strong holds, and they had no universities greater than the study of nature and their simple way of liv- ing. How did it happen that there was such a striking resemblance be- tween their clan and tribal govern- ments and that of our old Teutonic ancestors, back in the German for- ests nearly 2000 years ago. Why had they' the spirit of the otd Greek am- phictyomic council ? Our answer is this: like needs have brought about like" conditions of society in various pres in widely separated parts of the earth.
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