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That is east of the Mappa tract and includes West Branch. Mr. Oothoudt conveyed other parcels in that large patent, but none of his deeds are on record. Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer, as the county records show, owned 300 acres in 1833, near the " Bates place," in Ava.
Machin Patents .- Seven patents of lands in Oneida county, aggre- gating over 57,000 acres were granted to Thomas Machin in the years 1786, 1787, and 1788. The first one of 2,400 acres is partly in the town of Steuben and partly in Western. December, 1787, Machin sold this patent and by sundry mesne conveyances it passed into the hands of Charles Tillinghast. The intervening deeds were lost without being recorded and on application to the Court of Chancery, an order was made by that court appointing trustees to receive from Machin a deed of the patent, for benefit of Tillinghast, to take the place of the lost deeds, and in 1804 such a deed was executed by Machin, as appears by Deed Book eleven in the county clerk's office ; hence this patent is some- times called in the deeds, "the Tillinghast tract." In 1786 another patent of 2,400 acres next west of the Tillinghast tract was granted to Machin. In 1787 he conveyed it to Simeon De Witt, who for fifty years was surveyor-general of this State, and hence in many of the deeds it is called the " De Witt tract." This tract includes Frenchville and North Western. In 1795 the patent was subdivided by Benjamin Wright into fourteen lots. In 1787 another patent of 2,400 acres was granted to Machin next west of the one last described and most of it west of the Mohawk. Machin sold the tract to Thomas and William Burling, of New York city. In some deeds it is called the " Burling tract." In 1780 those two gentlemen conveyed 900 acres of the patent to Samuel Dean, of New Castle, in Westchester county. On March 3, 1786, a patent of 2,096 acres in Western and next east of the Banyar Patent, was granted to Machin. In July of that year he con- veyed it to Peter Nestle, and three years later Leonard Fisher, " surgeon barber," of New York city, was owner of a large portion of said patent, and hence it is sometimes called the "Fisher tract." In August of the same year a patent of 1,600 acres in the town of Lee, next west of the Banyar Patent, was granted to Machin. In July, 1787, he conveyed it to James Giles and the latter conveyed to Joseph
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Bloomfield, of New Jersey. The latter had been governor of that State, member of congress, and attorney-general, and had seen much service and suffered severely in the war of the Revolution and was stationed at Fort Stanwix. He was cousin of the late John W. Bloomfield, of Rome. In April, 1793, Mr. Bloomfield sold the patent to his brother- in-law, Joseph McIllvane, and hence it is often called the " McIllvane tract." In the spring of that year John W. Bloomfield, as agent for Mr. McIllvane, came to this region on horseback to look after that tract. From Whitesboro he was accompanied by John Youngs, a brother-in- law of D. C. White, son of Hugh White. They examined the land and also explored adjacent lands; they purchased of George Scriba 6,000 acres nearly all in Lee and since called the "Six thousand acre tract." Scriba sold to John Hall and others nearly 4,000 acres, called "the four thousand acre tract." In April, 1795, George Huntington, of Rome, purchased of Scriba 2,000 acres in Lee, called "the two thousand acre tract." Mr. Bloomfield returned to New Jersey via Wood Creek, Oneida Lake and Otsego county, and reached home after an absence of three months. In that year he took up his residence at Taberg, and in 1812 removed to Rome, where he died in 1849 at the age of eighty-four years. In May, 1787, a patent of 15,360 acres was granted to Machin in Ava and the south part of Boonville called the "Gore patent." In June, 1788, a patent of 31,360 acres, lying partly in Forestport and ex . tending into Herkimer county, was granted to Machin, thus making over 57,000 acres granted to him within three years. Thomas Machin, patentee of the above described lands, was born in England and came to New York in 1772. He was a skilled engineer and surveyor and during the Revolution rendered valuable services under the direction of Washington and Governor Clinton to the American cause, in placing obstructions across the Hudson at West Point and other places on that river to impede the passage of the British. He died in Charleston, Montgomery county, in 1816, at the age of seventy-two years. He had a son named Thomas, who also became a noted surveyor. He died in Albany in 1875, at the age of ninety years.
Steuben Patent .- Baron Frederick William Steuben came to this conntry in the war of the Revolution and rendered valuable service to the American cause in disciplining troops. The United States gave
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him a pension of $2,500 yearly. The Legislature of New York by an act passed May 5, 1786, recited that Baron Steuben had rendered very essential service to this State, therefore the Land Commissioners were directed to issue a land patent to the Baron, of one fourth of a township, equal to 16.000 acres, without fee or reward. A patent was issued to him June 27, 1786, which lies mostly in the town of Steuben, as shown on the Oneida county map. In 1790 the Baron went upon the tract, erected a log house, and in it, with a few do- mestics, he lived until his death, November 28,1794, at the age of sixty-four years. He was buried at his own request in the center BARON STEUBEN. of a five-acre parcel of woodland ; in 1872 a monument, erected at his grave by citizens, mostly German, was finished. "After life's fitful fever he sleeps well :"
How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ; When spring with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
Dean's Patent .- An act of the New York Legislature, passed May 5, 1786, directed the Land Commissioners to issue letters patent to James Dean on the Line of Property and on Oriskany Creek, two miles square, of 2,560 acres. That tract is in the town of Westmoreland, near Lairdsville. Mr. Dean was born in Connecticut and in early life was destined as a missionary to the Indians, and when twelve years old was sent to live with an Indian missionary in Broome county in this State, who was then laboring with a branch of the Oneida tribe. He soon became master of the Indian tongue and so perfect was he in that
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language that it was said he was the only white person who spoke the language so perfectly and fluently that he could not be detected as a white man. He became such a favorite with the Indians that a female of the Oneidas adopted him as her son. He subsequently graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1774 he was sent by the Continental Congress to ascertain the views of the Six Nations as to the then im- pending war of the Revolution ; he rendered valuable services to his country in that war. During most of the war period he was stationed at Fort Stanwix and Oneida Castle. By his efforts and those of Rev. Samuel Kirkland, the great body of the Oneidas were induced to re- main neutral during the struggle. In the siege of Fort Stanwix and the battle of Oriskany, in August, 1777, Mr. Dean was absent down the valley, but he returned with General Arnold when the siege was abandoned, August 22. He always had the confidence of the Oneidas. For his services they gave him a tract of land two miles square. He chose for the location a tract on Wood Creek in what is now Vienna, and in the spring of 1784 he came from Connecticut to settle on the land. He remained there about a year, but found the location too wet, which fact he communicated to the Indians, and in 1785 he left it. The Indians agreed that he might make another choice in any place on the west of the Line of Property, and he accordingly located near Lairdsville, as before stated, in the fall of 1785, and the State ratified the grant in the next year. He became judge of the old Oneida Com- mon Pleas and was twice member of assembly. He died in 1823, aged seventy. six years ; one of his daughters was the wife of Joshua A. Spencer, an eminent member of the Oneida bar. The deed to James Dean from the sachems and chief warriors of the Oneidas, dated August 11, 1785, recites that it is by consent of the nation and for great and important services by Dean, and as a token of the esteem and affection borne him by the Oneidas. The patent from the State bears date Feb- ruary 6, 1787.
Kirkland Patent .- On the 5th of May, 1786, an act was passed di- recting a patent for 640 acres to be issued to Rev. Samuel Kirkland, in a square form, and to be bounded by a tract to be issued to James Dean, and one to be issued to Abraham Wemple; one-half of the 640 acres to be to Mr. Kirkland in fee and the other half in trust for any
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minister who might be employed by the Oneidas. In 1846 the Oneidas agreed to release their half of this patent from the trust. The treaty of 1788 recited that lands were intended for G. W. and J. T. Kirkland, and therefore an act was passed February 25, 1789, authorizing the Land Commissioners to issue a patent of one square mile to J. T. Kirkland, and one of the same to G. W. Kirkland, and a patent of two square miles to Rev. Samuel Kirkland and his heirs, the whole to be contiguous to, and bounded on, the Line of Property and adjoining the patent granted to Abraham Wemple. The Kirkland Patent is in the town of Kirkland, southwest of Clinton. Rev. Samuel Kirkland is too well known in history as a minister, a missionary to the Indians, be - loved by the Oneidas, and a friend to the colonies in their struggle for independence, to require further notice He was founder of the school out of which grew Hamilton College ; he died in 1808 at the age of sixty-seven years. G. W. and J. T. Kirkland were his sons.
Brotherton Tract .- Before the Revolution there were remnants of various tribes of Indians in New Jersey, some on Long Island, and some in New York. At the treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768, as to the Line of Property, the commissioners from New Jersey bought of the Oneidas some 30,000 acres for the benefit of those remnants. Some settled on the tract purchased and a minister was furnished them. The tribes were remnants of the Mohegans, Narragansetts, Pequods, Mon- tauks, etc. In 1786 Rev. Samson Occum was preaching there. He was a highly educated and talented Indian. In the treaty of Septem- ber, 1788, as to the Oneida Reservation, it was provided that the tract reserved for the New England Indians, where Rev. Samuel Occun preached, should be respected. He had been to England, preached before King George III, and the latter presented him with a gold- headed cane, and the first pulpits in that country were open to him. February 25, 1789, an act of the Legislature confirmed the grant there- tofore made by the Oneidas by the name of " Brother Town," and a township with this name was formed and officers elected until about 1831. Being composed of different tribes, they spoke only the English language and in time lost their Indian pride and respect and became dissipated and demoralized. They sold out from time to time their in- terest in the land and moved to Green Bay. This tract is partly in Kirkland, but mostly in Marshall.
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New Petersburgh .-- In 1794 Peter Smith, father of Gerrit Smith, leased of the Indians a tract of 60,000 acres, partly in Augusta and partly in Madison county. It took the name of New Petersburgh.
Banyar Patent .-- Partly in Lee and partly in Western, and next east of the McIllvane tract, are 5,000 acres of land granted by patent to Goldsboro Banyar July 11, 1786; it was subdivided into fifty lots in 1793, by William Cockburn and son, and C. C. Broadhead. Mr. Banyar was a prominent personage in his day and largely interested in lands in this State. He was born in London and came to America in 1738, locating in New York city. In 1746 he was deputy secretary of state, deputy clerk of the colony of New York, and deputy clerk of the Su- preme Court. In 1752 he was register in chancery and in the next year judge of probate (Surrogate's Court). When the Whigs of New York city in the Revolution assumed power he removed to Rhinebeck on the Hudson. It was doubtful with which side he sympathized dur- ing the war, so closely did he keep his counsels Before the attack on Esopus (now Kingston) in October, 1777, Sir Henry Clinton sent a messenger with a sealed letter to Mr. Banyar ; when the sealed answer was opened by Mr. Clinton it simply read. "Mr. Banyar knows noth- ing." In 1767 he married a daughter of Mr. Martin, then postmaster- general, a widow of Judge Appey, judge advocate. After peace in 1783 he went to Albany and took an active interest in all that concerned internal improvements He, Elkanah Watson, and General Schuyler were commissioners to report on the feasibility of constructing a canal (the Inland canal) from the Mohawk River through Rome to Wood Creek. He visited this region with those men and they made a report which is published in the Documentary History of New York. In the late years of his life he became totally blind and was led about the streets by a colored servant. He died in Albany November 15, 1815, at the age of ninety one, leaving a large fortune. His son Goldsboro died in New York city in 1806.
Lansing Patent .- On September 12, 1786, a patent of 2,000 acres was granted to John Lansing, jr., and Stephen Lush, and subdivided into twenty lots. It was called Lansing Patent No. I, and is in the north part of the town of Western, next east of the Curtenius Patent. One of Stephen Lush's daughter was the wife of Henry G. Wheaton, a
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noted lawyer of Albany John Lansing, jr., was a prominent man in the State and rendered valuable service to his country in the Revolu- tion. He had been a member of the convention that framed the first United States Constitution ; was mayor of Albany, judge of the old Supreme Court of this State from 1790 to 1798, chief justice from 1798 to 1801, chancellor of New York from 1801 to 1814. His death is in- volved in mystery. He left his hotel in New York city, December 12, 1829, to go to Albany on a boat up the Hudson, and was seen as he left the rotunda of the hotel, but never afterwards, nor was his body ever discovered. In the autobiography of Thurlow Weed it is stated that years afterwards he was informed as to how the chancellor was murdered and the motive for the deed ; but Mr. Weed was not at liberty to give the facts. Next east of the Banyar Patent, and in the town of Western, is a patent of 2,000 acres granted Stephen Lush September 12, 1786, and subdivided into fifteen lots ; it is next south of the Boeram and Taylor Patents. Next south of the Curtenius Patent is a patent of 2,000 acres granted September 12, 1786, to John Lansing, jr., and divided into twenty lots. Partly in Steuben and partly in Western is a patent of 2,000 acres granted to Lansing and Van Schaack September 12, 1786, and divided into twenty lots, next south of Lansing Patent No. 2 North of No 2 and next to the town of Boonville, partly in Western and Steuben, is a patent of 2,000 acres granted to John Lan- sing, jr., L. Theal, and Quick, subdivided into twenty lots, granted September 12, 1789, called Lansing Patent No 3. In September, 1788, a patent of 2,000 acres was granted to Richard Lush and Dr. Stringer, in the town of Western, next south of Lansing Patent No. I, divided into twenty lots
Curtenius Patent .- On September 21, 1786, a patent of 2,000 acres was granted to Peter Curtenius and Jonathan Pearse, lying in the town of Western next to Boonville and called the Curtenius Patent; it was divided into twenty lots in 1793 by William Cockburn. Mr. Curtenius was born in New York city, always resided there and was a wealthy merchant Besides this patent he owned thousands of acres in Oswego county which he purchased of George Scriba, the patentee. He was member of assembly in 1804 and in 1806; was appointed by President Jefferson marshal of the southern district of New York and held that
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office until 1812, when he was appointed by President Madison and continued until 1814. Mr. Curtenius died about 1817 and the next year his widow with five children and two others by a former wife, moved to Whitesboro that the children might there be educated. She purchased the residence of Arthur Breese, the first surrogate of Oneida county (the former residence of Gideon Granger) ; a granddaughter of Mr. Curtenius became the wife of the late Edward Brayton, of Utica. A daughter of Mrs. Curtenius married William Wolcott ; another daugh- ter became the wife of William S. Wetmore, a grandson of one of Whitesboro's pioneer settlers; she became a widow in 1846 and died a few years ago, having resided in that village about seventy years.
Remsenburgh Patent .- There is a patent of 48,000 acres lying partly in Oneida county and partly in Herkimer county, granted December 28, 1787, to Henry Remsen. J. G. Klock and George Klock and John Van Sice. They had presented a petition to the Legislature stating these lands had been conveyed to them by deed dated May 28, 1766, and now on record in the office of the secretary of state. An act was passed May 5, 1786, authorizing a patent to issue of any ungranted lands, unlocated, in one parcel, if such a large parcel could be so located, etc. A patent was thereupon issued.
Willett Patent .- On the 15th of September, 1786, a tract of 1,500 acres was granted to Col. Marinus Willett of lands lying partly in the town of Steuben and partly in Boonville. The name of Colonel Willett as the heroic defender of Fort Stanwix is too well known to require further mention, except that he died August 23, 1830, a few weeks past his ninetieth birthday, and the fifty-third anniversary of the day the siege of Fort Stanwix was abandoned.
Scriba's Patent .- In August, 1791, John and Nicholas I. Roosevelt, merchants of New York city, purchased by contract of the State some 500,000 acres at the price of three shillings and one penny an acre, lying partly in Oneida county, but mostly in Oswego county. The easterly boundary of this tract commences at the junction of Canada and Wood Creeks, in Rome, runs up the former stream and Fonda and Oothoudt Patents to Macomb's Purchase, being on the northern bound- ary of Oneida county. It includes what are now the towns of Anns- ville, Camden, part of Ava, Florence, part of Lee, part of Rome, and
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Vienna, in Oneida county. Besides the Roosevelts, and Franklin and Robinson, George Scriba was interested in this purchase and on April 7, 1792, they sold to Scriba, and on December 12, 1794, a patent was issued to the last named man ; this has ever since been known as the Roosevelt Purchase, or Scriba's Patent. In 1793-4 Benjamin Wright subdivided this patent into twenty-four townships and great lots. Mr. Scriba gave a name to each township, but in their reorganization only one in this county (Florence) retains the name given it by him. Town- ship No I, named Fulda, is the northwest part of the town of Lee and the northeast part of Annsville. Township No. 2 is parts of Rome and Lee, and was named " Unden." Township No. 3 is the northwest part of Annsville and was named " Solingen." Township No. 4 included the west part of Florence and was so named. Township No. 5 included the west part of Camden and was named " Linley." Township No. 8 included the east part of Camden and part of Annsville, and was named " Bloomfield," after the late John W. Bloomfield. Township No. 9 included the east part of Vienna and was called "Embden." Township No. 10 included the west part of Vienna and was named " Edam." Soon after his purchase Mr. Scriba commenced making im- provements, built a store, saw and grist mills in Constantia, which he named "Rotterdam," and nearly 100 years ago he built a two-story frame dwelling on the shore of Oneida Lake at that place, into which he moved ; this house is yet standing. He sold off the " Munro Tract " on the share of the lake; sold large tracts to Alexander Hamilton and others; sold in December, 1794, to John W. Bloomfield and others the Six Thousand Acre Tract north of Lee Center in Lee ; to John Hall and others the Four Thousand Acre Tract in the same town, and the Two Thousand Acre Tract in the same town to George Huntington in April, 1795, as before described. A tract of 7,147 acres he laid out on the north shore of Oneida Lake, which includes Cleveland, Bern- hard's Bay, and Constantia, and called it " Scriba's Location." In the town of Annsville is a tract of 1,254 acres which he laid out and called " Scriba's Reservation ; " it includes Glenmore, north of Taberg. Mr. Scriba was a New York merchant, a German, and at the time of his purchase was worth a million and a half of dollars. But his great pur- chase made him " land poor " and he died in Constantia a poor man, on
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August 26, 1836, at the age of eighty four years; his remains were buried in that village. He left an only child, Frederick Scriba, who died years ago, leaving a widow, now residing in the old homestead ; she has a son, George Scriba.
Franklin and Robinson Tract .- In January, 1795, George Scriba sold from his patent 75,000 acres, partly in Lee and Annsville, and a part in Ava, with some in Oswego county, to Abraham Franklin and William Robinson; it is known as the Franklin and Robinson Tract, and is some times called the "Quaker Tract," those persons being Quakers. It is recited that said parties were interested in the original contract of pur- chase commonly called " Roosevelt Purchase," and that they had paid their share of the purchase.
Muller Tract .- Franklin and Robinson mortgaged twelve lots (37 to 48, both inclusive), as surveyed by Benjamin Wright, making 1,615 acres, to Rembrandt Muller. That parcel extends north past Point of Rock and into Ava, east of the Fish Creek Reservation, to the county line. The mortgage was foreclosed and the premises sold on April I, ISII, and bid off by Muller ; since then the land has been known as the Muller Tract. That Muller was father of Adrian H. Muller, of New York city, so well known in connection with auction and real estate sales there. The latter died in October, 1886, aged eighty-four years.
Sargeant's Patent .- John Sargeant was a native of New Jersey, at- tended Yale College and graduated therefrom in 1729. He became a tutor in that college, but relinquished his plans and was ordained minister in August, 1734, at Deerfield, Mass., and was then a missionary among the Stockbridge Indians in that State. He died July 27, 1749, at the age of thirty- nine years, leaving three children ; the youngest was named John and he afterwards became a minister. In 1775 young Sargeant took charge as missionary of the mission school of Stockbridge Indians. In 1785 he removed to New Stockbridge and took charge of a church there, where he passed six months of each year. In 1796 he moved his family there and continued his labors among the Indians in this new home until his death, September 8, 1824, aged seventy-seven years. A monument at his grave in Vernon, near his former home, states that he was missionary for thirty-six years. By an act passed April 1, 1796, the Land Commissioners were directed to issue a patent a mile square, ad-
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joining land called New Stockbridge, for John Sargeant, Minister of the Gospel, who resides among the Indians at that place. That patent is located a little to the southwest of Vernon Center.
Oneida Reservation .- In the description of the Line of Property on a previous page of this chapter, an account is given of the cession by the Indians of all lands (except some reservations) lying east and south of that line. That was the first cession of lands by the Indians to the gov ernment within what is now Oneida county, and included about two- thirds of the present area of the county. After the Revolution and on June 28, 1785, a treaty was made at Fort Herkimer, with the Oneidas and the Tuscaroras, by Governor Clinton and Indian commissioners, under which the lands of the Oneidas occupied by the Tuscaroras, lying between the Unadilla and the Chenango Rivers, were purchased for $11,000. After this the Tuscaroras moved to the land of the Senecas.
On the 22d of September, 1788, a treaty was made at Fort Stanwix by the Oneidas and representatives of the State, by which the former ceded all of their lands in New York State (except as hereinafter stated) ; the main and larger part thus reserved has passed into history as the Oneida Reservation. The line of that reservation commenced on Wood Creek opposite the mouth of Canada Creek, where the Line of Property begins, and runs thence along the easterly line of the towns of Verona, Vernon and Augusta ; along the southerly line, or nearly so, of the latter town, and so on westerly until it intersects a line due north to "Deep Spring" in Manlius, on the east line of what is now Onondaga county ; thence by the nearest course to Canasaraga Creek, and thence via Oneida Lake and Wood Creek to the place of beginning; the Oneidas to hunt and fish forever in all the ceded territory. There was also reserved to the Oneidas one half a mile square at the distance of every six miles along the north bounds of Oneida Lake; also the lands half a mile in breadth on each side of Fish Creek. This cession by the Oneidas was made subject to the rights of the Brotherton Indians, under Samson Occum, and the Stockbridge Indians (a tract of two by three miles). The State was to pay the Oneidas for the cession, $2,000 in money, $2,000 in clothing and other goods, and $1,000 in provisions, with $500 towards building a grist mill and a saw mill at their village ; and to an- nually thereafter on June Ist, pay at Fort Stanwix $600 in silver, or in
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