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Governor William C. Bouck in his message to the legislature on January 3rd, 1843 said: "I cannot but hope that this entire road, from Caskill to Canajoharie, will eventually be built." That was not to be. This proposed railway al- ways lacked money, just as the Drie and all the other railroads of that date. It was for the lack of money, the failure to realize the currency on a large part of the stock subscriptions that the con- struction was delayed. Finally in 1837 the road reached Cairo and the next year Cooksburgh, 27
miles out of Catskill and 723 feet above the Hudson River, and be- gan operating a regular schedule Apparently from the little data at hand, the Catskill and Canajo- harie Railroad never possessed but one locomotive, a wood burn- er, purchased of H. R. Dunham & Company of New York costing $6,300.00 and weighing 91% tons without water in her boilers, a tender with two water barrels and a box for cord wood for fuel,
three passenger coaches with
seats for twelve people inside built like turnpike stage coaches and ten small freight cars. This was the entire rolling stock. Wil- liam Layman and James Ecklor were the engineers. One of the most serious difficulties In the operation of all railroads in those days was the strap iron rails im-
nailed with hand made nails to 5x6 inch pine timbers. These strap iron rails exposed to the rain, snow, frost, a mid-summer sun and movement of the trains often came loose from the timbers and curled up through the floors of the passenger coaches endanger- ing the lives and persons of the travelers. This difficulty caused a great deal of trouble on both the Albany and Schenectady and the Catskill and Canajoharie Rail- roads. When the all iron rail was invented it was a god-send to early railroading.
Not being able to raise funds to extend its lines to Canajoharie and increase its revenues, or repay the money loaned by the to state, or to pay the interest
charges on other indebtedness the Catskill and Canajoharle Rail. road was sold at public auctlor, by court order to the Catskill National Bank in 1844. The rails were taken up and sold to Hiram an Steenburgh for junk for $1,4 000. The year before the sale of the road the last train over the line crashed through a wooden bridge at Oak Hill. The locomotive was sold and converted into a hoisting engine at the Catskill Point Ice House and was later de- stroyed in a fire.
All that remains of the Cats- kill and Canajoharie Railroad is a dim trace of the grading between Catskill and Cooksburgh, a stone arch culvert near Oak Hill and a rail from a section of the road bed' supposed to have been constructed at Canajoharie and now exhibited as a museum piece at the Fort Rensselaer Club House in Canajo- harie. Had this road been com- pleted doubtless the business im- portance of both Catskill and Can- ajoharie would have been increas- ed and possibly some of. the vil- lages in the Schoharie Valley with way-stations would have been benefitted. The Catskill and Can- ajoharie Railroad was an expen- sive proposition for both the state and the stookholders.
In connection with the Catskiil
and Canajoharie Railroad it should be recalled that when the state decided to build the Erie Canal connecting Lake Erie and
the Hudson River, a survey of the eastern section of the propos -! ed canal was made from Canajo- ported from England, which werej harie via the Schoharie Valley
and the Catskill Creek to the Hudson for the reason that this route was shorter by several miles and practical., The Albany politi- cal and business interests, howev- er, defeated the proposed short- cut route but not until after a survey had been made.
The Catskill and Canajoharie Railroad did, however, make one real contribution to American
railroad history. It was on this railroad that an arrangement was devised and first used whereby
gand was spilled on the tracks ahead of the wheels to prevent their slipping on the grades. The inventor of the device which be- came general on ail railroads, was Benjamin Wiltse, a Catskill foun- dryman.
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thought that the proposed rail- road, a short cut from the Hud- son River to the Mohawk Valley, would serlously affect the rev- enues of the recently constructed Erle Canal. It was over this short cut route, the Loonenburgh Turn- pike, that thousands of New Eng- landers and newly arrived Euro- pean immigrants had moved west- wand to the Genesee and Ohio country and thousands of beef cattle were driven eastwand for the New York City markets. Al- bany business Interests became alarmed and opposed the railroad as it would turn business away from that clty. This was a year before the historic DeWitt Clin- ton engine and train made its initial run of 17 miles from Al- bany to Schenectady, Albanians secretly bought up large block's of the stock thus insuring an early demise of the Catskill and Cana- joharie Railroad.
The survey for the Catskill and Canajoharie Railroad followed the route of the Loonenburgh Turn- pike from Athens, near Catskill, through Leeds, Cairo, Durham, Jak Hill, Cooksburgh, Preston Hollow, Livingstonville, Frank- dington and on down to Middle- burgh, now route number 145 of the New York highway system. The proponents of the railroad planned to connect by a steam ferry at Hudson with Boston via the Western Railroad, now the Boston and Albany, and with the Hudson and Berkshire and Housa- tonic Railroads just completed out of Bridgeport, Conn. They also on the Canajoharie end planned to connect that town with the Erie at some point along the southern" tier counties.
The route of the survey after leaving Middleburgh, no doubt turned down the Schoharie Val- ley through Cobleskill village and from that point followed pretty closely the present day branch line of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad to Cherry Valley and then down the little valley thru Sprout Brook and Marshville, by an easy grade to Canajoharie. It is quite evident that the survey did not follow the Loonenburgh Turnpike over Schoharie Hill through East Cobleskill or from Cobleskill over Sharon Hill down through Sharon Springs to Cana- joharie. These grades would have been so heavy a load for a small locomotive of those days with a pair of drive wheels only 4 feet and 8 inches in diameter hauling a few passenger and freight cars. This line was surveyed by Civil Engineer Edwin H. Broadhurst, and was 82 miles long.
The following list of names are only a few of the names of the nen who were most active in promoting the Catskill and Cana- joharie Railroad: Ezra Hawley. Isaac Van Loon, . Francis Sayer, Orrin Day, Peter Schaurman, Geo. Hardenburgh, T. C. Otwater, L. B. Woodruff, Ira LeBois, Judson Wilcox, Thomas Cooke, George S. Doughty, Evan Griffith, Thomas Duguid, Ephraim Beech and Geo. C. Fox of Catskill and John F. Bellinger, John Hyney, Adam Em- pie, Aaron Malick, John Crousc, Joseph Ramsey, Isaac Hayes, Thaddus R. Austin, William An- gle, Peter Collier, Jesse Rose, Schuyler Crippen, Arvin-Clark and Peter Snyder of the Schoharie-Ot- sego-Mohawk area. All of these men were. possessed of substan- tial means and some of them were wealthy for those days.
Curiously enough to us now the incorporation papers, contained the following stipulation in regard to the speed: "trains are not to exceed 20 miles an hour and 5 miles per hour on crossings, and 15 minute stops are to be made at all stations." The capital stock of the Catskill and Canajoharie Railroad was originally fived at
$600,000.00 and later raised to $900,000.00 and still later the state loaned the railroad $200,000. Private stock subscriptions, ran
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ALLEN (Allyn)
Wanted information as to date and place of birth, parentage and ancestry of Zadock Allen (Zadoc, Zadoch Allyn). In the booklet, "Ancient Landmarks of Montgom- ery," published in 1920, Zadoc Al- lyn is given as coming to West- field and Montgomery, Mass. from Groton, Conn. in 1767 and that his descendants in 1840 numbered 33. Can anyone verify this record ?' From Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, Volume 1, page 194:
"Zadok Allen, private in Cap- tain Samuel Sloper's Company, Colonel Israel Chapin's (3rd) Reg- iment; enlisted November 5, 1779, dischanged November 22, 1779; service 22 days. Stationed at Clav- erack. Enlistment 3 months. Com- pany raised to reinforce Conti- nental Army."
Zadok Allens' marriage, publish- ed at Westfield, Mass. Nov. 26 1780, to Lucy Herrick ,daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Clark) Herrick. Note, Montgomery, Mass. was set apart from Westfield, Mass., on Nov. 28, 1780). Lucy Herrick was born in Norwich, Conn. April 14, 1762 (see Preston Conn., 2d Book of Marriages, page 137), and came with her parents . from Preston, Conn. to Westfield and Montgomery, Mass. in 1775.
Record of children born to Za- dok and Lucy Allyn is to be found in the published volume, Vital Re- cords of Montgomery, Mass. pp. 11, 12, 59:
Winthrop Allen born Sept. 18, 1781.
Lucretia Allyn born Jan. 22,
1783.
Lucy Allyn born Sept. 30, 1784 in Westfield. William Allyn born Feb. 15, 1787 in Westfield.
Electy Allyn born March 31,
1789
Hannah Allyn born March 1792
3,
Zadok Allyn, born May 17, 1794, died. Dec. 20, 1794.
Asa Ailyn born April 30
1796
The United States Census, 1790 for Massachusetts, gives Zadoch Allen as living in Montgomery Mass. However the 1800 and 1810 census for Montgomery does not list him.
Jarvis Wilder born May 27,
Lydia Maria Wilder, born June 17, 1839.
George N. Wilder born August 22, 1832.
Harvey Allen, son of Winthrop and Hannah (Henry) Allen born July 8, 1806, died March 5, 1862, married 1st October 4, 1845 Ma- tilda A. Morse, who was born Jan. 9, 1826. Places of residence, of death or of the birth of the fol- lowing child are unknown:
Angeline Allen born Aug. 20, 1846.
Harvey Allen married 2nd April 21, 1850 Mary Ann Van Fleet who was born . August 24, 1824. Places of residence, of death or of the births of the following children are unknown:
Clara Margaret Allen born
April 6, 1851.
William Henry Allen born Nov.
QUERY
Wanted :. Any information on the ancestors of Philandis Ab- bey, born (when? died in the city of Amsterdam, Montgom- ery county, State of New York on or about the year 1901. Had a brother, Charles Abbey. Would appreciate any available information as soon as possi- ble. William J. Crangle, Jr. 28 Church street, Canajoharie, N. Y.
FOX, KLOCK, BLEECKER
Louise Allen, born Oct. 30, 1807. Ethan Allen born Aug. 3, 1809. Ancestries and children asked of Leander Fox of Fort Plain, N. Y. and Barbara Klock of St. Johns- ville who were married Oct. 24, 1838, rec. St. Johnsville Dutch Re- formed church which gives the witnesses as Norman Kimble and William E. Bleecker, both of Fort Plain. Winthrop Allen, . married (2nd) Mercy Hall, daughter of Thomas and Amy (Doty) Hall, born May 20, 1796, died Sept. 14, 1853, on March 4, 1814 somewhere in New York state. Both Winthrop and Mercy (Hall) Allen are buried in Rose cemetery, Rose, Wayne Co., New York, Winthrop Allen hav- BLEECKER, WAGGONER, GIBSON ing died there Sept. 22, 1854. Ac- cording to an old letter, dated May 7th, 1823, written by Thom- as and Amy Ancestry asked of William E .. Bleecker, witness to the above Le- ander Fox-Barbara Klock mar -! riage. Was he related to the 2nd wife of the Am. Rev. pensioner Joseph Waggoner (Wagner) Hall of Wolcott, Wayne county, N. Y. to Winthrop and Mercy Allen of Providence, Saratoga County, N. Y. attests as to their place of residence at that time. The children born to Win- whose pension papers state that throp and Mercy (Hall) Allen are, she was Catharine Gibson ? Ac-, as follows:
conding to affidavits in connection with the widow's application,
Catharine Gibson and Joseph |
Waggoner were married by the' Rev. Mr. Spinner Sept. 13, 1835, | in the home of Harvey. Huyck. Said Harvey Huyck was living in' Herkimer, N. Y. in 1853.| Was he living in Fort Plain in 1835 ?
W. P. Webster in his "Johan Peter Wagner and Descendants," page 10 says that Joseph Wagner , (Waggoner) married 2nd Mrs.
sex, Bleecker, mother of William real fe- Bleecker. Can anyone solve the enigma of Catharine Gibson Wag- goner's identity? Was she mar- ried three times, 1st to Bleecker, 2nd to Gibson,
3rd to Joseph Waggoner (Wag- ner) ? She was age 61 in 1835 when she married Joseph Wag- goner.
The marriage record of Cath- arine Gibson and Joseph Waggon- er has not been found in Mont- gomery county records. Is it in Herkimer county ? Are any of the Fort Plain newspapers for the year 1835 extant, and where ?
Marie Lyle,
Lyle Heights, Paso Robles, Calif.
GROOT
Descendants of Symon Symonse Groot (sometimes spelled Groat) in Albany, Montgomery, Saratoga and Schenectady counties, N. Y. Data wanted especially on branch- es of this family that have settled in the west and elsewhere.
DEMAREST
Descendants of Daxid des Mar- est (Demarest) born of Huguenot parents in Picardie, France, who with his wife Marie Sohier, and their sons Jean, David and Sam- uel and their infant daughter, Ma- rie, sailed from Amsterdam on the vessel, Bontekoe, arriving in New Amsterdam April 16, 1663.
LOCKWOOD
Descendants of Robert Lock- wood who came from England about 1630 and settled in Water- town, Mass., where six of his ten children were horn Ho . Aind _I_
In the Will of Jonathan Herrick 1835. of Montgomery, Mass., made Jan. -24, 1811, proved Dec. 14, 1813, mention is made of "Daughter Lucy, wife of Zadoc Allen." In the will of Elizabeth .(Clark) Herrick, widow of Jonathan Her- rick, mention is made of "Grand- daughter, Elizabeth Allen, daugh- ter of Zadok Allen and Lucy Al- len, his wife." This will was made Feb. 15, 1814 and in a codicil dat- ed July 9, 1814, mention is made again of "daughter, Lucy Allen." However, there is no distribution record of either estate, so 'it is impossible to tell where the heirs resided. These two wills, of Jon- athan and Elizabeth (Clark) Her- rick, do prove two items of inter- est, viz. that both Zadok and Lucy (Herrick) Allen were living in 1811 and that Lucy (Herrick) Al- len was living 1814; and that, at least one more child (Elizabeth) | 14 19KG.
8, 1782, died Dec. 13, 1810, place unknown, on July 7, 1803. Their children, birth places unknown, are as follows:
Electa Allen born Sept. 15, 1804, died March 24, 1852.
Harvey Allen, born July 8, 1806 died March 5, 1862.
Ovid Allen born Jan. 24, 1815, died Feb. 2, 1898. Hannah Amanda Allen, born
Jan. 2, 1817, died Oct. 28, 1899. Oscar F. Allen, born Oct. 29, 1818, died Feb., 1819.
Oscar F. Allen born Jan. 24, 1821, died Oct. 10, 1894.
William Henry Allen born Oct. 24, 1825, died July 26, 1903. The United States Census, 1850, Rose, Wayne county, N. Y. gives: Winthrop Allen, age 68, male; occupation, clothier; estate, $200; state of birth, Mass. Mercy Allen, ' age 55; sex, male; state of birth, New York. Amanda Allen, age 31; sex, fe- male; state of birth, New York. William H. Allen, age 24; sex. male; occupation, farmer; state of birth, New York.
Electa Allen, daughter of Win- throp and Hannah (Henry) Allen born Sept. 15, 1804, died March 24; 1852, married Maior Wilder, son of Joel and Lydia (Morse) Wilder who was born Dec. 7, 1803. 05 and died Nov. 3, 1847. Place of residence, of death or of births of the following children and are un- known. Joel Wilder, father of Ma- jor Wilder was of Putney Newfane, Vermont:
DUALCITRIAILS,
page 10 says that Joseph Wagner (.Waggoner) married 2nd Mrs. Bleecker, mother of William Bleecker. Can anyone solve the enigma of Catharine Gibson Wag- goner's identity ? Was she mar- ried three times, 1st to Bleecker, 2nd to Gibson,
3rd to Joseph Waggoner (Wag- ner) ? She was age 61 in 1835 when she married Joseph Wag- goner.
The marriage record of Cath- arine Gibson and Joseph Waggon- er has not been found in Mont- gomery county records. Is it in Herkimer county ? Are any of the Fort Plain newspapers for the year 1835 extant, and where? Marie Lyle,
Lyle Heights, Paso Robles, Calif.
GROOT
Descendants of Symon Symonse Groot (sometimes spelled Groat) in Albany, Montgomery, Saratoga and Schenectady counties, N. Y. Data wanted especially on branch- es of this family that have settled in the west and elsewhere.
DEMAREST
Descendants of Daxid des Mar- est (Demarest) born of Huguenot parents in Picardie, France, who with his wife Marie Sohier, and their sons Jean, David and Sam- uel and their infant daughter, Ma- rie, sailed from Amsterdam on the vessel, Bontekoe, arriving in New Amsterdam April 16, 1663.
LOCKWOOD
Descendants of Robert Lock- wood who came from England about 1630 and settled in Water- town, Mass., where six of his ten children were born. He died in Fairfield, Conn. in 1658. His widow Susannah married Jeffrey Ferris and died Dec. 23, 1660.
CORNELL
Descendants of Thoma's Cornell, born about 1595 in Co. Essex, England and his wife . Rebecca Briggs who came to America about 1638.
DAWSON + -
Descendants of many branches of the Dawson family who came from England and Scot- land before 1800. Dutch families of the upper
Hudson and lower Mohawk. Data available inciudes Albany, Kings- ton, Schaghticoke and Sohenecta -! dy Dutch Church registers; cen-' sus records of 1790 and 1800; and cemetery inscriptions. Have over 20,000 Dutchess county tombstone inscriptions.
Donald A. Keefer,
RD 2 Sacandaga Road, Schenectady, N. Y.
The
Mohawk Valley By J. Marguerite Porter
Conclusion
The first white settlers of the' Mohawk Valley were the two hun- dred families scattered along the Mohawk river and in the Scho- harie valley. They had come to the colonies from the, Palatine re- gion in Europe seeking-as to many of that period- erligious liberty in the New World. After a failure to make adequate livings for their families in the unsuc- cessful planned community under the British governor ,Hunter, the great mass of new comers spli' into three "groups ,one of which was the group which made thei homes in the Mohawk Valley.
The families along the Mohaw! river were harrassed from the finst by Indian raids. As early ai 1690 we have a record of a mas sacre taking place at Schenectady It was after this massacre thai the famous ride of Simon Schemi merhorn took place. He rode from Schenectady to Albany through a heavy snow after seeing his family brutally killed, and .he be- ing wounded, himself.
th Congregational Church."
Winthrop Allen, eldest child of Zadok and Lucy (Herrick) Allyn, was born, according to his , own family Bible record, September 18 1782, which is one year later than that given in the Montgom-
ery Vital Records .. He, married 10, Jamaicaway, .. . Bertha W. Clark,
(let) "Hannah Henry born Sept. Boston 30, Mass
Rose, Wayne county, N. Y. gives: Winthrop Allen, age 68, sex, male; occupation, clothier; real estate, $200; state of birth, Mass. Mercy Allen,' age 55; sex, fe- male; state of birth, New York. Amanda Allen, age 31; sex, fe- male; state of birth, New York. William H. Alien, age 24; sex. maie; occupation, farmer; state of birth, New York.
Electa Alien, daughter of Win- throp and Hannah (Henry) Allen born Sept. 15, 1804. died March 24; 1852, married Maior Wilder, son of Joel and Lydia (Morse) Wilder who was born Dec. 7, 1803- 05 and died Nov. 3, 1847. Place of residence, of death or of births of the following children are un- known. Joel Wilder, father of Ma- and jor Wilder was of Putney Newfane, Vermont: . -
Jarvis Wilder born May 27,
1835.
Lydia Maria Wilder, born June
17, 1839.
George N. Wilder born August 22, 1832.
Harvey Alien, son of Winthrop and Hannah (Henny) Allen born July 8, 1806, died March 5, 1862, married 1st October 4, 1845 Ma- tilda A. Morse, who was born Jan. 9, 1826. Places of residence, of death or of the birth of the fol- lowing child are unknown:
Angeline Allen born Aug. 20, 1846.
Harvey Allen married 2nd April 21, 1850 Mary Ann Van Fleet who was born August .24, 1824. Places of residence, of death or of the births of the following children
are unknown: Clara Margaret Allen born
April 6, 1851.
William Henry Allen born Nov. 14, 1853.
Robert W. Allen,
199 W. Pearl street,
Coldwater, Michigan , (To be continued)
DIBBLE
In the March 17 issue of the Enterprise and News, a party was asking for information on Elijah Dibble. 'I have Murphy, Dibble and Spencer data. On the Dibble side I have all names but no dates. Can the party inquiring give me dates of birth and death of Hen- ry, the father, also mother's name and place of burial? If so I will drive over to Kortright some nice Sunday and get dates and fact concerning children. I know who ail the children were. Will stop at Frisbee cemetery in Delhi, also
pays for gas and lunch. I do not change for work but feel I should ask $3.00 for expenses.
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Kindly send all information that you have so that I will not make a useless trip. Mrs. H. E. Ackart,
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BAKER
1. Wanted the ancestry of Han- nah Baker who on Aug. 20, 1765 a't South Kingston, R. I. married Thomas Hopkins, born March 24, 1742, son of Thomas and Hannah (Mumford). Thomas, Jr. died i 1807 and his wife Hannah Baker died June 16, 1827, both being buried at Fort Edward, Washing- ton' Co., N. Y., near Argyle. Want- ed also the ancestry of Thomas Hopkins, Sr.
2. Wanted the ancestry of Eze- kiel Baker, born Dec. 9. 1790, died Granville, Washington Co., N. Y. (when ?) He married first Feb. 11, 1815 Sarah Potter, daugh- ter of Christopher and Elizabeth (Baker); and second Oct. 29, 1841 of Lucretia Watson, daughter James and Mary (Wright).
The United States Census, 1850,
Ni te puunsned vorume, Vital Re- cords of Montgomery, Mass. pp. 11, 12, 59:
Winthrop Allen born Sept. 18, 1781. Lucretia Allyn born Jan. 22 1783. Lucy Allyn born Sept. 30, 1784 In Westfield.
William Allyn born Feb. 15, 1787 in Westfield.
Electy Allyn born March 31,
1789.
Hannah Allyn born March 3,
1792
Zadok Allyn, born May 17, 1794, died. Dec. 20, 1794.
Asa Allyn born April 30
1796.
The United States Census, 1790 for Massachusetts, gives Zadoch Allen as living in Montgomery Mass. However the 1800 and 1810 census for Montgomery does not list him.
In the Will of Jonathan Herrick of Montgomery, Miass., made Jan. -24, 1811, proved Dec. 14, 1813, mention is made of "Daughter Lucy, wife of Zadoc Allen."
In the will of Elizabeth (Clark) Herrick, widow of Jonathan Her- rick, mention is made of "Grand- daughter, Elizabeth Allen, daugh- ter of Zadok Allen and Lucy Al- len, his wife." This will was made Feb. 15, 1814 and in a codicil dat- ed July 9, 1814, mention is made again of "daughter, Lucy Allen." However, there is no distribution record of either estate, so'it is impossible to tell where the heirs resided. These two wills, of Jon- athan and Elizabeth (Clark) Her- rick, do prove two items of inter- est, viz. that both Zadok and Lucy (Herrick) Allen were living in 1811 and that Lucy (Herrick) Al- len was living 1814; and that, at least one more child (Elizabeth) was born to Zadok and Lucy Al- len after the birth of Asa 'Allyn, April 30, 1796 and after they left Montgomery. 'In some genealogi- cal notes on Westfield Families, by Louis Marinus Dewey, at the Westfield Atheneum; there is one mention of the eldest child of Zadok and Lucy Allen's, as Thad Winthrop, in all other places he is called just Winthrop.
According to an old letter Za- dok Allen and family removed to Vermont and one of the daugh- tens married a Rockwell, one a Miner and one a Squares or Squires. A search of Vermont re- cords of these families to discov- er and verify these statements shows, only, the following: Mar- riage record, Lucretia Allen of
Middletown, Vt. to Capt. Joel Miner, May 4, 1801 by Sylvanus Haynes, O. Brewster, Town Clerk. see care taker. Provided inquirer
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