Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1948], Part 47

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. Married Nelson Seeger. He duz May 29, 1869, 59 years, hildren 1295X. Mary Petrie (Polly) bart Jan. 18, 1818. Sponsors Samuel Fire and . Elisabeth Bell. Married Fran-


tus Belshaw. She was a milliner i Jordanville for many years. She WAS foremost in every event of the day and was rightl sytyied the Godmota- er of the hamlet. She is buried in the new Jordanville cemetery. She E July 25, 196, aged 88 years, 6 mos,,


a grand- 7 days. (inscription). (Mrs. Hatch). Children 1 son, Jay Petrie.


1296. Aibram or Abraham Petrin, born Dec. 7, 1812, bapt. Dec. Sponsors Abram Jacobs and wife Maria.


1297, Frederick Petrie, born Fully 25, 1804, died May 19, 1888. Lived at ullen, N. Y. Married Oct. 25, 1825 to Julianne Vrooman (sister of Bet- sy Vrooman .who married Rudolph Petrie (1263), daughter of Temas Vrooman and Elizabeth Fretts. Mat- ried at Columbia, N. Y. by J. F_ Petrie (family record kept by Frati- erick Petrie). She was born Oct. 25, 1808, died May 25, 1900.


Note: Record now in possession Mrs. Lee Conklin of Richfield Springs N. Y.


Note: This is the line of Metta. Staehle, late of Munnsville, N. Y. Children 7.


(Records of Mrs. Hatch and Mrs.


(To be continued)


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CHEESE HIT


To make sandwiches that supply some of the protein which meat-


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Would-be "Pop-Eyes" would be- pop-eyed if you were to serve A&P CANNED' SPINACH so: Saute 2 tbsps. finely chopped onion in 2 :. tbsps. fat. Stir in 2 tbsps. flour, .. tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. dry mustard dash pepper. Add 1 cup milk, grad- ually. Cook over


1291X. Daniel Petrie born Feb. 18


Proof that Johannis Joseph Petrie was a son of Jacob Petrle, viz. In the Reformed church records of Co-


"While the little hamlet was scarce- ly less than a wilderness Joseuh Pe- trl maede a clearing and erected his cabin on the hill east of Petrie's Corners on the premises since occu- pied by Peter Clapsaddle, David Har- ter and others. When ali was in readiness, he brought his bride who was Gertrude Shaffer, daughter of Paul Crim, to preside over it. She was . sometimes called Charity (Gertrude) Petrie. Mr. Pe- trie planed the orchard, some rem- nants' of which still stands."


Gertrude is buried at Jordanville in the old cemetery by the church. She died August 26, 1877 in her 72nd year. (Monument erected by M. M. Petrie). Tombstone inscription. She was born Feb. 18, 1784. Joseph's sponsors were Joh: Jost Jac: Petri and Lany Segner. She was a daugh- ter of Lieut. Joh: Conrad Schaeffer and Dorothea, 'Sponsors Gertraut Grimm and Georg Haussman.


This is the line of Cora Wolcott, DAIR. Children 8.


1290. Georgius (George) Petrie, born March 21, 1802 at Conradtown. Sponsors Georgis Petry and Margar- ethae Gettmann (Germ. Flats I-81), Herk. I-9. Parents given Jo'is. ,Jo- sephus Petry and Gertrude Schaef- Charles Crim). erin, . Conradstown. He is buried


with Isaac beside their mother. Die


1-139). Children 9. .1280. Harvey. Petrie, oldest son, horn April 12, 1813-4, bapt. May 22, 1814. Sponsors Daniel Petri and wife Anna. (Ref. Ch. Columbia). Married Carrie or Caroline Osterhout. He and his father were the first carpenters in town. (Ref. Ch. Recd). Children : ?


1281X. Gaylord Petrie, born Dec. 16, 1819, bapt. Jan. 9, 1820 at Co- lumbia. Sponsors Conrad Helmer and wife Barbara (Germ. ៛ Flats I-63). Grocer at Mohawk, N. Y. since 1842. Married. Children 1, Mrs. Jay Petrie. 1282X. William Petrie, born . Jan. 5, 1827, bapt. June 15, died Dec. 9, 1856, aged 29-11-12. Youngest son. Married Charlotte . Jenks. Died April 9, 1891, aged 59-1-6. Also called Charlotte Jacques (Columbia Cem. Rec.) Children: son, Frank N. . Pe- "trie.


1283X. David Petrie born Oct. 8, 1815, bapt. Nov. 10. Sponsors Timo- thy Getman and Betsy Sternberg. (Parents George Patre and Peggy Getman). Married Lydia Steele. He was .the proprietor of a hotel at Columbia Center for a number of years, then . moved to Mohawk. .Children 1, Jay Petrie of Mohawk, N ... Y.


-1284. Maria Petrie, "born į Sept. 14, 1807, bapt. Sept. 30. Sponsors Jacob Petri and Maria' Gettman. Married. Children ?


: 1285. Eve or Eva Petrie iborn Nov. 24, 1811, bapt. October 29, 1811. Sponsors Frederick Gettman and wife Magdalena. (G. F. H-19).


; Married Samuel Haggerty, their neighbor on the west. Children?


1286X. Anna Elizabeth Petrie, born Oct. 12, 1803-4 (Solumbia Ref. Church Rec.) Bapt. Oct. 16. Spon- sors Conrad Getman and Maria, died 1863, aged 59 (Columbia Cem. Rec.) Married William Haggerty, a soldier 4 of 1812. He was born in 1797, died 1865 ,aged 68. He was proprietor of the West Winfield Hotel. (Col. Cem.). Children 1, Alonzo Haggerty. 1287. Julia Ann (Juliann) Petrie. Married Stiles Gray. Children, El-


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This is the line of Cora Wolcott, DAIR. Children 8.


1290. Georgius (George) Petrie, born March 21, 1802 at Conradtown. Sponsors Georgis Petry and Margar- ethae Gettmann (Germ. Flats I-81), Herk. I-9. Parents given Jo'is. . Jo-


25, 1808, died May 25, 1900. Note: Record now in possession of Mrs. Lee Conklin of Riohfield Springs N. Y. Note: This is the line of Media


Staehle, late of Munnsville, N. Y. Children 7. (Records of Mrs. Hatch and How.


sephus Petry and Gertrude Schaef- Charles Crim). erin, . Conradstown. He is buried


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"If you're serving less meat than you did when prices were lower, you can make up for it by giving extra thought to other foods. Choose your family's favorites at your A&P ... and .please. everybody from Pop to the pupl


SUPER SPAGHETTI


Even without one meatball, spa- ghetti can be mighty satisfying ... especially' when it's A&P's. ANN PAGE SPAGHETTI fixed like this: Cook an 8-oz. package according to pack- age directions; drain. Combine 11% cups (a 10% oz. can) tomato puree, 1 small onion (chopped), 1% cup grated carrots, 1 tsp. celery salt, 1 tsp. sugar, 2 tsps. Worces- tershire sace and 2 tbsps. fat. Cook over low heat 5 minutes. /Place spaghetti on platter; add 4 quar- tered hard-cooked eggs and sauce. Serves 4.


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"POP-EYE" . PLATTER


Would-be "Pop-Eyes" would be- pop-eyed if you were to serve A&P CANNED SPINACH so: Saute 2 tbsps. finely chopped onion in 2 .. tbsps. fat. Stir in 2 tbsps. flour, Y. tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. dry mustard, dash pepper. Add 1 cup milk, grad- ually. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly till thickened. Remove from heat. Stir -- in 1/2 cup grated cheese; add 3 ~ eggs, slightly beaten, and 1 can . A&P SPINACH (212 cups). Mix ... well. Pour into greased ring mold. Bake in moderate oven, 350°F.,. 50 to 60 minutes. Serves 6.


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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1948


MOHAWK VALLEY


GENEALOGY AND


HISTORY


St. Johnsville Enterprise and News, St. Johnsvllle, N. Y.


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1948


Questions and Answers


A department devoted to the pursuit of knowledge. No charge to regular subscribers. Any reader, whether subscriber or not, is in invited to submit answers. Gives dates, places and sources.


General Country Store of 1848


By W. N. P. Dalley


Doubtless in many a store attic or cellar are to be found today old ac- countbooks of the country store of a century ago that would furnish us many interesting items of how our ancestors lived and did business, what they ate ,and drank, and wore, and the cost of living.


Gilbert T. Pearsall ran a general store at Salt Point, N. Y. and kept day books of all transactions. If we take that of 1848, a 100 years ago, besides the voluminous records, one' finds in its pages the names of 350 customers, what they bought and what they paid. Besides his stock in trade he was also the local dentist and physician. His charge for ex- tracting teeth was 13 per. On one oc- casion the item runs, "extracting Emily," and further down on the page the word "Gass" is inserted.


The day book pages bulk large with his sales of sugar, coffee, mo- lasses, candles, rice, saleratus, mack- erel, matches, cheese, kerosene, tea, salt, crackers, soap and tobtacco. He kept sugar refined and brown, and "common shugar." He sold Java cof- fee besides "scorched coffee," burnt and "grouned." His teas were Young "Hison,' "Hy-Skin as well as black ( mother and father. Get ali possible and extra black."


In the dry goods department of his store one had a large selection of muslins, bleached and unbleached, as well as brown, black, slate and "cul- lored," cross bar twilled and glazed. Special muslins were book and pa- per, jaconet and Bullard and Prem- ium. In his cotton good list there were ginghams, "apron", jane, York jane, bleached and cold jane, goldmix jane and Kentucky jane. In the spring and early summer he kept "sumer twil" and Summer stripe, and Summer Wave.


. It seems odd that he sold red flan- nel in July. Casimirs could be had in gold mix, doeskin, merino, French, Kentuck and check, while plaids were offered in Robroy, Gules, Orians, al- so linen aplaca and linsey. His sales of French black cloth, extra and super grades, and English satin, and rep silk vesting, corduroy Taby vel- vet Wiggin, Salitia and Pation. The above sales were in smaller quanti- ties and one has to resort to a dic- tionary to know what they were.


On the notion and trimming coun- ter we read of necdies, spools of


many kinds of thread and silk, but- tons an endless variety, hooks and eyes, "buten ; Moles," pins, taps,


HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN GENEALOGY


By Harry A. . Odell


PO Box 899, Church Street Annex 8, New York City


A great many books have been written on this subject, mostly by and for college professors. So we are going to write a short article in lan- guage plain if not elegant and that everybody can understand.


First purchase a three ring binder with ruied paper to fit. If you use a typewriter, get unruled paper; bet- ter get three binders and make two


Virginia seems to have had the first American grist mild built in 1619. This mill stood on a side hili above Failing Creek, a short dis- tance from Richmond. The records carbon copies of all your work to of this mili are still in existence. make three books. These books will grow priceless as you grow older.


Newport, Rhode Island,ff has a famous old stone housed mill. It was We sold one of ours for $100 but ask owned at one time by Benedict Ar- $200 for another one.


. II.


Write your own name at the top of the first page, with the date and place where born, with middle names spelled out in full. Put pet names in parenthesis. If married put the date down, also the place, name of preacher and where recorded and where living now, giving date. If a married lady start this page with your maiden name, followed by your marriage name.


Next do everything you have done for yourself, do for your husband or eral mills was built at Upland, the wife, using a separate page. Then first name for present day Chester, Penn. write all of these things for your


There there is the Garrettson; tide mill at Sheepshead Bay; . Long Is- land built in 1847. This is a most on with great grands, etc. as far as unusual application of the power of you can go, giving dates and places of death ,also military service, busi- ness life, etc.


III.


Do the same thing for each of your brothers and sisters and the brothers and sisters of your father and mother .. (your uncles and aunts). Also keep this up as far as you can go; write the names of your broth- ers' and sisters' wives and hus- bands. (The wives maiden names). `And do the same all over again for each of them.


IV.


You will want to get all this into some kind of order. There are doz- ens of ways to do this various kinds of family charts. For a starter you should try the simplest you can find. The Enterprise and News offers a very good chart. Fifty of them on heavy bond paper costs only, $1.25 I get them by the 100 for $1.75 and use about 500 a year. ..


"Write Tuttle Book Co., Rutland. Vermont and ask for their catalogue of books on genealogy. If you find


The first record of waterwheel propelied millstones comes from It- aly where the quern was used. The quern consisted of two circular mill stones, the lower slightly dished, and the upper one was pierced in the center and revolved on a wooden pin. Before the quern was operated by water power it had been a hand machine. Early operated water pow- ered grist milis were in use, in Greece, England, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland long before America was discovered. During two thousand years since the invention of the water wheel there have been many other power- ed mills including hand power (us- ually by slaves), wind power, horse power, steam power and now hydro- electric power.


nold but its construction was long; before his day, the. names of the' builders being in doubt. It still stands today, a splendid nionument to'the work of the stone masons of those early days.


Pennsylvania was only a few years behind New York in the erec- tion of its first grist mills. Before leaving England, William Penn formed a partnership with three other men for the erection of grist and saw mills on his new land. Twen- ty acres were acquired on Chester Creek, and in 1683 the first of sev-


the tides and turning of the ebb and flow to a practical purpose. I have received . four pictures of - the interior of this mill but very. little data about its history or construc- tion. The machinery is of antique de- sign and includes a crane to lift the mill stone, scales and hand truck. # The, Old - Town . Mill at New Lon- don, Conn. is an interesting struc- ture and apparently is still in opera- tion. Another interesting mill is in the Great Smoky Mountains , Nation'- al Park of our Southland. Tourists driving over the Skyline Drive High- way should visit this old mill.


Because of the romance, folklore and history association with these primitive grist mills many individ- uals and societies have begun to re- store sites, mills and mill stones. One of the most unusual of these efforts was the unveiling on September 12th of a monument at Big. Gully, twelve miles south of Auburn, New York An old mill stone with the dressed face outward forms the center of the monument and is surrounded by unbroken field stones from the local- ity and. Indian artifacts\collected)


facts from them. Continue with your grand parents on both sides and so


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salt, crackers, soap and tobtacco. He marriage name. kept sugar refined and brown, and "common shugar." He sold Java cof- fee besides "scorched coffee," burnt and "grouned." His teas were Young I write all of these things for your "Hison,' "Hy-Skin as well as black ( mother and father. Get all possible and extra black."


In the dry goods department of his store one had a large selection of musiins, bleached and unbleached, as well as brown, black, slate and "cui- lored," cross bar twilied and glazed. Special muslins were book and pa- per, jaconet and Bullard and Prem- ium. In his cotton good list there were ginghams, "apron", jane, York jane, bleached and cold jane, goldmix jane and Kentucky jane. In the spring and early summer he kept "sumer twil" and Summer stripe, and Summer Wave.


. It seems odd that he sold red flan- nel in July. 'Casimira could be had in gold mix, doeskin, merino, French, Kentuck and check, while plaids were offered in Robroy, Gules, Orlans, ai- so linen aplaca and linsey. His sales of French black cloth, extra and super grades, and English satin, and rep silk vesting, corduroy Taby vel- vet Wiggin, Salitia and Pation. The above sales were in smaller quanti- ties and one has to resort to a dic- tionary to know what they were.


On the notion and trimming coun- ter, we read 'of' necdies, spools of many kinds of thread and siik, but- tons in endless variety, hooks and eyes, "buten ' Moles," pins, "taps, scissors, edging, "Bever" fur, bang- up cord, whale' bones, etc. Items on the day ' book . evidence many pur- chases for men, as Ephraim Jackson paid $8.50 for 312 brown cloth. and . trimmings for a pair of pantaloons, while Orin Hewsted's bill for black cassimer and trimmings came to $10.63. And even the store owner re- corded sales made to himself, coat and trimmings $11.75 and pants $3.50 and later, another coat $6.50 and a "Sumer Stuff" suit of clothes $4.25.


Although it was a country store there are sales recorded of black silk cravats $1.13 and an Italian silk cravat $2.13, silk ponee hand- kerchiefs, satan vests, etc. On Oct. 12, 1848 Henry Sreak paid $2.00 for a "white Ventincin hat" and $2.00 for a pair of white kid gloves. "Cal- iforny" hats soid for $1.00 each, Then there were "ruber" shoes on sale, woolen and cotton socks, laced and button shoes.


The drug sections of the store hold "parsgoick," "specac," "vermifuge," castor oil and spirits of nitre for the children. He sold large quantities of liniments, Jaynes Expectorant, Bar- ry's Tricorpherus, opean Rheubaro root, Camphine, Balsom of Capioa, and Crosive Sublumate liniments.


All sorts of seeds were on sole ex- cept for flowers. Crockery ware is listed in sales and milk coups, Liv- erpoole, shugar bole, etc. Not much liquor was sold tho occasionally one comes opon coneack brandy, and Ma- daria wine and Holiand gin.


He kept horehound candy and stick lickerish, amond candies, lem- on drops and peppermints. At . the Yuletide he added to his stock figges and peenutts. No toys were to be had.


(To be continued)


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ty acres were acquired on Chester Next do everything you have done Creek, and in 1683 the first of sev- for yourself, do for your husband or eral mills was built at Upland, the wife, using a separate page. Then


first name for present day Chester, Penn.


There there Is the Garrettson;tide facts from them. Continue with your mill at Sheepshead Bay; . Long Is- grand parents on both sides and so


land built In 1847. This is a most on with great grands, etc. as far as unusual application of the power of you can go, giving dates and places the tides and turning of the ebb of death ,also military service, busi- ness life, etc.


and flow to a practical purpose. Il have received four pictures of the interior of this mill but very little III. data about its history or construc- Do the same thing for each of your brothers and sisters and the brothers and sisters of your father and mother .. (your,uncles and aunts). Also keep this up as far as you can tion. The machinery is of antique de- sign and includes a crane to lift the miil stone, scales and hand truck. .7. The, Old- Town Mill. at New_Lon- don, Conn. is an interesting struc- go; write the names of your broth- ture and apparently Is still In opera- ers' and sisters' wives and hus- bands. (The wives maiden names). And do the same all over again for each of them.


IV.


You will want to get all this Into some kind of order. There are doz- ens of ways to do this various kinds of family charts. For, a starter . you should try the simplest you can find. The Enterprise and News offers a very good chart. Fifty of them on heavy bond paper "costs only , $1.25 I get them by the 100 for $1.75 and use about 500 a year.


Because of the romance, folklore and history association with these primitive grist milis many individ- uals and societies have begun to re- store sites, mills and mill stones. One of the most unusual of these efforts was the unveiling on 'September 12th of a monument at Big. Gully, twelve miles south of Auburn, New York An old miil ,stone with the dressed. face outward forms the center of Write Tuttle Book Co., Rutland. Vermont and ask for their catalogue of books on genealogy. If you find one of ;your family buy it at once. To try to connect your branch with the larger family described in this book will prove "a very interesting problem. Probably you will find ohter the monument and is surrounded by unbroken field stones from the local-f ity and Indian artifacts collected nearby. This memorial'was given by Ernest J. Young and Margaret Swayze Young. The mill stone is from the first grist mili at . Union Springs on Cayuga Lake. Among books on your family in the public other lettering the marker carries


library if you live in or near any lange city. These books will give the following inscription: you an idea of the importance of 1799, White man, 1798." The monu- your family.


"Algonquin, 1000, Iroquois, 1430-


ment is five feet wide, three fect thick and nine feet high.


Odeli writers before my time have connected us with George Washing- There must be many old "Sopus" stones buried under the debris and ton's forbears and they go right back to William the Conqueror, but the mud of grist mili streams on the I am still trying to prove all this be- yond any doubt. The try is worth; something. It makes this hobby the most interesting of ail. Remember only people with brains try to write genealogies. It may lead to newspa per work. old New York frontier. What more. appropriate marker can be found than the placing of these oid mili stones that served, so long and so well in a historical tablet? It is the hope of the writer that the Big Gully memorial will be duplicated in many other sections of our state. The old grist mill sites by their (To be continued ) nature and location were usually places of natural beauty. The poet, Samuel Rogers, seems to pay tribute both to scene of beauty and the soul of the miller.


'Mine be a cot beside the hill;


A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear;


A willowy brook that turns a mill. With many a fall shall linger near."


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More About Grist Mills


By Paul B. Mattice


I am quite pleased that data about the old water powered grist miils is still being mailed to me because of recent publications of "Grist Mills on the Old New York Frontier." Some of this data tells an interest- ing story of the old mills in other colonie's. All of these first American grist mills were a vital necessity to the new settlement. The first thing neded was a stream, ever running and not too tumultuous, where the miller could locate his miil: Some- times it was near a waterfall where a dam would not be necessary but for a mill that could operate all the year round dams were a necessity in most all cases.


tion. Another interesting mill is' in. the Great Smoky Mountains . Nation- al Park of our Southland. Tourists driving over the Skyline Drive High- way should visit this old miil.


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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 ibeen checked, so far as we have been able to do so, and we will try to complete her work.




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