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"He was taken prisoner by the American forces at Bennington, Vt. and taken to Albany where according to Green's History of the Mohawk Valley, Vol. 4, page 242 'he was al- lowed to escape.' He settled in Fall Hill, joined the American cause and fought at the battle of Stone Arabia. Their son, Henry Dockey, born March 4, 1786 at Manheim married Mary Failing of Manheim. The daughter of this latter union. Margaret Dock- ey, born Jan. 1, 1809, married Sim- eon Snell, brother of Conrad P. Snell, grandson of Peter Snell who was wounded at Oriskany.
Children of Jacob (2) and“ Ger- trude :
Johannes born Sept. 23, 1761, mar- ried Nancy.
:: 1553XB152. Henry McLean Heath born 1815 (U. S. Census 1850). Col, of militia in 1841. Married Sabina I Casler (1552B158) born July 4, 1816. (Spin, rec,), She was the daughter
Gertrude (Mathees) Snell remarried; her second husband being John Dock- ey, a soldier of the hired Hessian troops forming part of the British army under Gen. Burgoyne." (Note that p. 29 gives the marriage as Oct. 9 while page 32 gives It Oct. 7.)
"He was taken prisoner by the
American forces at Bennington, Vt. and taken to Albany where according to Green's History of the Mohawk Valley, Vol. 4, page 242 'he was al- lowed to escape.' He settled in Fall Hill, joined the American 'cause and fought at the battle of Stone Arabia. Their son, Henry Dockey, born March 4, 1786 at Manheim married Mary Failing of Manheim. The daughter of this latter union, Margaret Dock- ey, born Jan. 1, 1809, married Sim- eon Snell, brother of Conrad P. Snell, grandson of Peter Snell who was wounded at Oriskany.
Children of Jacob (2) and Ger- trude:
Johannes born Sept. 23, 1761, mar- ried Nancy.
Catherine born July 1, 1763. Sarah born April 7, 1765. Jacob may have married Maria. " Jost married first Elisabeth; mar- ried 2nd Lena,, child Miranda 1815.". Elisabeth may have married Jacob Fry, Stone Arabia (1742-1819). Ann. ,
Peter married Lena.
These children were pald eighteen Ann Arbor, Michigan
dollars each back pension by the state of New York in 1784.
"The four sons signed deeds set- tling among themselves their fath- " er's estate in 1808 and 1814, all sign- ing with the second initial 'J' signify- ing son of Jacob.
"Jost (Joseph) who marrled twice, signed deeds in connection with his brothers In 1808, signing with Elisa- beth his wife. In 1814, deeds were signed by him with Lena his wife. The sisters probably were provided for outside of the settlement.
"Tradition states these facts also in ascribing these brothers as sons to John Snell, son of Frederick also kill- ed at Oriskany; but the New York state records them as sons of Jacob."
Note: On page 17 of Mr. Smith's book he lists the Snells in the Battle of Oriskany and among them are two Jacobs both killed.
Page 28 Mr. Smih lists "Johan George born May 24, 1785, died Oct. 25, 1860, married Dec. 24, 1804 Elis- abeth, daughter Joseph Wagner, born Feb. 15. 1787, died May 12, 1862." Descent would be George I. Snell 4, Jacob I. 3, George 2. Johannes 1 ac- cording to Mr. Smith's recording.
I'm unable to find in the book any Frederick Snell born 1804 married to Eva Stam. However, Mr. Smith, now deceased, states in the final para- graph that Mr. Hallock P. Long, lawyer of Washington, D. C. has complled an indexed genealoby of subsequent generations of the Snell family.
Mrs. E. F. Mccullough, Box 94, Bedford Station, Detroit 19, Mich.
REES, HELMER
Mark Rees, later Reese, married about 1750, Magdalene or Margaret Magdalene Helmer. Three of their
1 (731XB27. Peter Bellinger Caster zon of Gertrude Bellinger and Nico- las Casler, Esq. He was born Jan. children were baptized by Rev. John |15, 1785 (Ros. Rec.); died 1870. Mar- Ogilvie: Philip, bapt. March 24, 1750-
ried Elizabeth Catharine Eysaman,
AT1553XB152.7 Henry MoLean Heath born 1815 (U. S. Census 1850). Col. of militia in 1841. Married Sabina. Casler (1552B158) born July 4, 1816 (Spin, rec.) She was the daughter of Richard N.' Casler' and Jane Young (736B32) Children 9.
1554XB153. Erastus Heath born Sept. 26, 1816. Married Jane Wager Children 4.
1555XB154. John Hawley Heath. born Aug. 14, 1830, died Feb. 25, 1914. Married 1 Elizabeth Lucinda Piper, daughter of Andrew, Jr. (Hoft- rich) Bellinger. She was born Jan. 15, 1833, died Oct. 1, 1866 Children 5.
Married 2 Anna Shaver ..
(734) XB30. Catharine Casler born Dec. 14, 1791 died May 22, 1819, aged 27. (Spin. rec.) Married Hen- ry T. Cronkheit. Child 1.
1560B155. Tunis Cronkheit.
(735) XB31. Mary Casler born Oct. 17, 1793. Married Henry Heath. Child 1.
1561B156. Alfred Heath born Aug. 21, 1816.
(736) XB32. Richard N. Casler, born 1797. Married Jane Young who was born 1797 (1850 census. Child- ren 7.
1562XB158. Sabina Casier · and Henry McLean Heath. Rec. under (1553XB152). '
1563B159. Luina (Lovina). Casler, born June 23. 1817. (Spin. Rec.) 1564B160. Delia Casler born Nov. 2, 1818 (Spin. rec.)
1566XB161. Richard N. Casier, Jr. born Sept. 15, 1820. Married Fran- ces. Children 9 (1850 census).
1566B162. Chauncey Casler, born 1832 (1850 census).
1567B163. Mary Jane Casier born July 3, 1822 (Spinner rec.) , 1568B164, Emeline Casler born 1842 (1850 census).
737XB33. Nicholas Casler, Jr. Mar- ried Poilv Staring .. Child 1.
1570B165. Gertrude Casler born Aug. 14, 1821. (Spin. rec.)
(738) XB3. Robert . Casler born 1806 (Heaths pamphlet). Children 7. 1571B166. Robert Casler, Jr., born
' 1538B146. Elizabeth Catharine Cas- ler born May 21, 1822, died Nov. 3, 1883. Unmarried.
1539B147. Peter B. Casler, Jr. born June 20, 1824, dled Aug. 12, 1860. Unmarried.
. 1539AXB148. Philo Stephen Cas- ler, born June 15, 1828, died Oct. 9) 1874. Married Margaret Mary Young, born 1829, died 1903. Principal of Little Falls high school at one time. Children 2. -
(733) XB29. Magdalena Casler born Oct. 26, 1789. Married 1 Jacob Vroo- man of Stone Arabia on Jan. 24, 1807. Children 1, 1
1550XB149. Nicholas Vrooman, born July 31, 1809 in Johnstown, N. Y .; died ' 1887. Married Christina Wright Dec. 31, 1829. She was born Dec. 31, 1809 in Minden, died Apr 22, 1877. (Record in Wright Bible, Richfield Spa., gives date birth Feb. 17). Children 4 (Vrooman).
Married 2 Joseph Heath of Con- necticut. Children 4.
1551B150. Catharine Heath born July 4, 1812 (Spin. - rec.)
1552XB151. Hezekiah Heath born
!| Would :; like to . correspond 'with ' Sept. 17, 1814. A baker .at .Little anyone famillar with or relatives in ! Falls, N. Y. in 1837. Married.'Child: these towns near Musberg and Stutt- 1 son.
Bart.
Carl H Zwinck,
904 Packard,
WILSON, ELLSWORTH,
LEONARD
Zadoc Wilson of Thompson Ct. and Newport or Saranac, N. Y. daughter Joanna. .
Ellsworth, George, married dau. Elizabeth, of Ebenezer Weeks, Rens- selaer Co., N. Y.
Ebenezer Leonard, married dau. Meribah of Arnold Balch, Mont- gomery Co., N. Y. Also lived in Bur- lington, Otsego county.
Grace E. Wood, 1
Welles, Vermont.
The Petries In America
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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)
Installment No. 43
(730) XB26. Delia Casier, daughter of Gertrude Bellinger and Nicolas Casler, Esq., born Jan. 28, 1783 (Ros. Rec.) Married 1 Jacob I. Harder or Harter. Child: 1 Gertrude Harter. vho married Thomas Sponenburg Teaths). Married 2 Alanson Loomis. No . issue.
VI NEW Tried William Eysaman.
Mrs. Albert Santos,
3558 Gray street,
Oakland 1, Calif.
GERMAN ANCESTORS
Would like to correspond with those working on any of these fam- ilies originating In Wurttemberg, es- pecially In the Stuttgart-Musberg- Wilhelmsdorf area: Klein, Uimer, Staebler, Renz, Stollsteimer, Weber, Murrthum, Zwenk, Gross, Burkhaft; Volz, Runderlich, Schaup. Will ex-
change data if possible.
ZWENK, ZWINCK
Would like to correspond with any- one descended from 'this German
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ECHTERDINGEN, WILHELMSDORF
THE CITY York of Margrietie, dau. of Willem Goulart, bapt. April 2, 1646. Have found no further record of that fam- ily. Did they go to the Azores be- cause of the English-Dutch hostili- ties ?
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1825. A grocer at Little Falls, N. Y. Married Elizabeth Ann Bellinger. (1632B174.) No issue.
: 1572B167. Abram E. Casler born grain off an apron in bunches to be
1831. Grocer at Little Falls, N. Y. + 1573B168. Jacob Casler born 1834. Blacksmith.
1574B169. Daniel Casler born 1837. The flail and fanniny mill gave place Factory hand.
to the horse power threshing ma-
1575B170. Cinthia Casler born 1838. chine. Later the horses were discard.
1576B171. Armida Casler born
1842. Married David Carson.
1577B172. Betsy Casler. Married Hiram Upright of Little Falls, N. Y. :(739) XB37. John P. Casler born 1807 · (tombstone date) blind from rockblasting in building of the Erie canal. Married 1 Betsy Steele. Child 1.
'1579B171B. Robert Casler. Lived at Whitesboro.
Married 2 Caroline Zoller. Nothing further.
(To (be continued)
Life at Eighty-four
S. C. KIMM
(Continued from last week)
Farm Implements and Machinery The changes and improvements in farm machinery is typical of chang- es along all other lines during my lifetime. Seventy years ago I plowed the land with a wooden beam Water- town plow. On newly cleared land we used' a three cornered drag made by putting inch square iron pegs, eight inches long through lengths of hard- wood five or six feet long. The teeth were shapened at one end end. On smooth land we used the same type except we used two rectangular drags placed side by side. These were fastened together with a couple of joints like hinges permitting the drag to be folded together when transporting it from field to field.
The grain. was sown broadcast by hand and dragged in with peg tooth drags. To smooth the ground for meadow land we cut small trees with bushy tops. We fastened several of them in a big bunch to be drawn over the plowed ground until the humps and hollows were leveled and made smoother.
Years later came steel beam plows, spring tooth and disk harrows. These were followed by two way plows, slde hill plows ,two bottom plows turning furrows from 12 to 16 inches wide and drawn by powerful tractors do- ing more and better than I could do 70 years ago in 10 hours with a team and the old wooden beam plow. Today the farmer has special ma- chinery to pulverize and smooth the soil. The iron roller of today is a far cry from the bush smoother which I followed as a barefoot boy.
Reaping the Crops
Ear corn was planted in hills and fodder corn sowed in rows. When the ears 'showed a glaze the corn was cut with a hand sickle and plac- ed in stooks about a corn horse, These would stand until dry to be. drawn to the barn and husked. Somc farmers would husk in the . fields throwing the ears in a wagon box to be drawn' to 'the corn .crib. When the' corn was stacked on the barn floorgit furnished a job for the hired boy ion rainy fall days. Some far- mens would take the hired boys to husk corn in the evening. Many times
threshed with a flail when a youth.
proud farmer who owned , a , wood The hand cradle gave way to the mowing machine. Then came a fight- horse drawn reaper that slid the
er four foot mower-the Warrior ;. made in Little Falls. All, these were
bound by hand. Next came the reap- er and binder that threw out bun- dles for the hired man to set in rows.
ed for the steam engine which was displaced by the gasoline engine and this in turn . by the farm tractor. When I was four score years of age a huge machine rolled into our two acre field of buckwheat at 4 p. m. At 6 p. m. the buckwheat was cut and put in bags which lay scattered over the field. That evening the bags were drawn to the barn. In four hours that field of buckwheat was made ready to go to the miller who would change it to flap jack ma- terial. That combine did in two hours what it would have taken a superman a week to do, to cradle, bunch, dry, draw to the barn floor, thresh with a flail, run through fan- ning mill and bag./ -
Haying
It seems only a short time ago when the hired man, tired from a
long day of mowing with the scythe exclaimed "begorra the day will come yit whan we'll mow grass wid the hosses." That Irish prophet did live to see horses mowing grass. I saw my first mowing machine 79 years ago. It had a large iron wheel on one side similar to the drive wheel, on a corn harvester today. I do not recall its name nor how it worked. The next type was the Walter A. Wood which had a wooden platform on which the operator's feet rested. It was supposed to cut at least three feet in the clear. The cutter bar could not be raised to any extent, hence ant hills and other bunches of dirt would be out off. Improve- ments were made and he was 'a
side cut machines. The next 'l're- call was the Eureka with cutter bar directly back of the horses. This had the advantage of direct draft while all the others had side draft. The big objection to this machine was the horses walked in the uncut grass. Then came the. Deering, the MoCor- mick to be followed by, others. In: the latest machines a touch of &. lever with the foot raises the cutter bar which can be further raised to a perpendicular to pass by a tree or other obstruction. And now the far- mer with his tractor mower can sit on his' machine and cut more grass than could 20 hard working, sweat- ing men with hand scythes 70 years- ago. All these changes and improve -. ments in a single life time.
The revolving wooden . horse- drawn rake pushed the hay together, as . did the wire tooth rake, but when the first hand dump wheel rake came we thought we had reached the zenith but we woke up one morning and found we could dump the rake by touching a lever with the foot, af-, ter I became bold I found myself riding a side delivery rake and re- cently I was told some farmers have what they call a "buck rake" which they fasten in front of the tractor and gather up and push a half ton of hay to the barn. A touch of an elec- tric button and the hayfork depos- its it up on the mow. Still further they tell me some farmers chop the- hay into small bits and blow it into. the mow. Still others have a 'drying" system in their barns which enables them to draw the grass to the barn before it is cured. All these changes since the hired man said "one of these days we will mow grass with the horses." 1
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hand and dragged in with peg tooth drags. To smooth the ground for meadow land we cut small trees with bushy tops. We fastened several of them in a big bunch to be drawn over the plowed ground until the humps and hollows were leveled and made smoother.
Years later came steel beam plows, spring tooth and disk harrows. These were followed by two way plows, side hill plows ,two bottom plows turning furrows from 12 to 16 inches wide and drawn by powerful tractors do- ing more and better than I could do 70 years ago in 10 hours with a team and the old wooden beam plow. Today, the farmer has special ma- Tohinery to pulverize and smooth the soil. The iron roller of today Is a far cry from the bush smoother which I followed as a barefoot boy.
Reaping the Crops
Ear corn was planted in hills and (fodder corn sowed in rows. When the ears 'showed a glaze the corn was cut with a hand sickle and plac- ed in stooks about a corn horse. These would stand until dry to be drawn to the barn and husked. Some farmers would husk in the. fields throwing the ears in a wagon box to be drawn to the corn crib. When the' corn was stacked on the barn floor it furnished a job for the hired, boy on rainy fall days. Some far- mers would take the hired boys to husk corn in the evening. Many times I fell asleep husking . corn by lan- tern light after following the plow all day between milkings.
Before the year 1900 the farmer took much pains in raising and de- veloping his ear corn. The very best was saved for seed. The second best was ground into meal with which to make corn bread and john- ny cake. The remaining hard corn was ground into feed for the cows -some times cob and ail were ground. It was a frequent practice to grind corn and osts together for feed for both horses and milking cows. When grist day came on the farm-and it always seemed to come at 20 below- the hired boy would flll 20 bags of ear corn in the corn crib and 20 bags of oats in the oat bin and, load them on the long sleigh for the farmer to take to the grist mill.
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Arrival of the Silo
Years after I had succeeded in raising a mustache the silo appeared in the land: It took some years to convince the boss that the silage would neiher dry up the cows nor make them drunk. The acres of ear corn gave way to acres of silo corn sowed with a two row planter, cul- tivated with a two row riding cul- tivator and harvested with a corn harvester that cuts the corn in bun- dles and elevates them on to a wa- gon which conveys them to the barn where a machine cuts and lifts the corn into the silo .. The modern hired man rides while plowing, planting, cultivating and harvesting. Some change from the hand sickie and mully cradle with which I cut corn in early manhood. 1
The Combine
I wish I had a record of the num- ber of acres of oats, barley, spring wheat and buckwheat. I cradled and
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