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Pascal C. J. De Angelis came over from the old country in his boy- hood, took part in the naval service of the Revolutionary war, and was captured by the British and confined in Dartmoor prison. After the war he built and commanded a vessel in the merchant service. Becom- ing acquainted with Mr. Johnson, one of the proprietors of the Holland patent,1 he was persuaded by his friend, Mr. Fisk, to join with him and and a Mr. Hubbard in the purchase of one-quarter of the Holland patent. They all came in during 1797. A receipt dated October 12, 1797, is for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars from P. C. J. De Angelis for improvements and buildings, and is signed by James Hulbert. The building was a log house on land afterwards occupied by W. W. De Angelis as a garden. Mr. Fisk built the first frame house and Judge De Angelis the next; the latter was built in 1800.
The Vincent Tuttle mentioned in the foregoing quotations came with his father, Daniel Tuttle, from Long Island to Norway, Herkimer county, in 1794 and settled near the site of Prospect village in 1804.
1 The Holland Patent was named after Lord Holland, and should not be confounded with any of the lands of the Holland Land Company.
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The son settled after attaining his majority on a farm between Pros- pect and Trenton and there passed most of his life He engaged in early years in the distilling business, during which he had a contract for producing 250,000 gallons of spirits for the army. He also carried on a store at Trenton Falls.
Thomas G. Hicks, father of Col. Thomas Hicks, came from Rhode Island about 1781 and located in Utica. He soon afterward removed to Trenton village, where he built the house afterwards occupied by Dr. Guiteau, in which he kept the first hotel in the place. A year later he removed to a farm at South Trenton and made improvements. He was a carpenter by trade, and was the first captain of militia from this town and was colonel of the 72d Regiment ; he went to Sackett's Harbor during the war of 1812.
Previous to the war of 1812 the Utica and Remsen turnpike, which became better known as the Black River road, was constructed under direction of Col. Thomas Hicks. Isaac Curry kept a hotel about a mile and a half south of South Trenton and there was located a toll gate. Mr. Curry was a leading early citizen and held several offices. Cheney Garrett was a partner of Colonel Hicks in building operations.
According to the Jones Annals, the first settlers in the south part of the town were Colonel Hicks. John Garrett and his two sons, Cheney and Peter, Edward Hughes and Hugh Thomas; others were Ephraim Perkins, John Curry and his two sons, Elias and Isaac, Owen Morris, Lemuel Barrows, Jedediah Brownell, Lucas Younglove, and James Francis. These settlements were made between 1792 and 1810. John Garrett was a soldier of the Revolution and became owner of 104 acres from the land company on the north of Nine Mile Creek, for which he paid $4 an acre. Hicks bought 200 acres a half mile north of Garrett, paying $4.50 an acre. He later built a hotel at Trenton. Peter and Cheney Garrett returned to Utica after their father's settlement, but about 1802 came back to South Trenton, Cheney locating on his father's place and building the house afterwards occupied by his son, John P. Garrett. Peter bought a farm three- quarters of a mile south from South Trenton, the place later occupied by his son Jedediah. John Curry was from Scotland, and married a sister of John Post, the Utica pioneer, with whom one of his sons was an early clerk ; it was
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through the latter's influence that his father moved here from Ballston. He purchased 100 acres of the land company at South Trenton, at $5 an acre. About 1807 Isaac, the son, built a hotel a mile south of South Trenton, which in later years was known as the Joy place. James Francis emigrated from South Wales and settled at South Trenton about 1806, where he purchased a small farm a half mile northeast of the village and built a log house. Edward Hughes came over from Wales about 1802, lived in Philadelphia three years and then settled at South Trenton, where he bought fifty acres at $8 an acre ; his place was a short distance south of the village site. These pioneers were endowed with determination and industry and they founded schools and churches, built mills, opened stores and shops and laid the foundations for the prosperity that has been enjoyed by their posterity.
A post-office was established at Trenton village about the beginning of the century and soon a little settlement gathered about which fore- shadowed the later village. Dr. Luther Guiteau was postmaster for a time, and was succeeded by John Billings, his brother-in-law, who set- tled here in 1804. Taking the office in 1805 he kept it about sixty years and at his death was the oldest postmaster in the United States. He was succeeded by Griffith Pritchard. Elizur Skinner settled near the village about 1810, removed to South Trenton where he kept a public house a year, when he returned to Trenton village during the war of 1812 and kept the tavern four years that was occupied in late years by G. L. Skinner. This hotel was built by Judge John Storrs. Peter Remsen opened an early store in the village and Douglass & Billings another. By the year 1819 a considerable hamlet had grown up and on the 19th of April of that year the village was incorporated under the original name of Olden Barneveld. Reincorporation was effected April 26, 1833, under the present name and with slightly different bounda- ries ; these boundaries have been twice changed, first in April, 1864, and again in April, 1870. The records under the first incorporation are not in existence. Previous to 1868 the village was governed simply by a board of trustees numbering six in the early years, five for a later period, and still later four. Since 1868 a president of the board has been chosen, the list embracing the following :
1868-69, Daniel French; 1870, Hugh H. Jones; 1871, Levi Wheaton; 1872, Daniel
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French; 1873-76, Albert S. Skiff; 1877-79, William Boullian; 1880, H. S. Stanton ; 1881, J. B. Watkins; 1882, D. French, jr. ; 1883, J. B. Watkins; 1884-85, James Reeve; 1886-88, John C. Owens; 1889, D. H. Roberts; 1890-91, T. J. Lewis; : 892-93, John Hughes; 1894-95, D. H. Roberts; 1896, John E. Dublin.
A library was founded in the village in 1874 under the name of the Trenton Library Association, which title was afterward changed to the Barneveld Library Association. A subscription was collected of about $100 and a number of books, and a room was furnished for the purpose. The collection increased until about 240 volumes were gathered when on the 17th of March, 1875, the library was burned. A meeting was held and a revival of the library determined upon ; another subscription was started and so liberally were contributions made that within two months 350 volumes were collected and before the close of that year the number was increased to more than 1,200 volumes. A building was now needed and subscriptions were received for the purchase of a site, and the collection of funds was continued until about $1.200 was col- lected, when on July 27, 1877, the corner stone of a building was laid. The building is of stone and cost with the site about $1,700.
Some of the former business men of Trenton are Daniel French, still living, who came in 1837 and started in the meat market business in 1842 ; Billings & Howe, James Douglass & Son, Egert & Pritchard, Levi Wheadon and John Evans. The firm of Bevin & Dublin were in trade and dissolved, J. E. Dublin opening a store and C. C. Bevin an- other; Barker & Plumb started where Mr. Bevin now is, and were succeeded by F. F. Potter. Other present merchants are J. J. Lewis, Alger & Barker, formerly R. Alger & Son, and before them William Robertson ; G. H. Skiff, furniture, William Bouillian, many years in the drug trade, and E. French & Son, market and grocers.
The grist mill is operated by F. A. Goodman, formerly by S. R. Sizer and still later by Israel Jones. The saw mill about a mile out the vil- lage is operated by Austin McIntosh, and near it in what was the Parker foundry, is the fish rod factory owned by George A. Clark & Co. of Utica.
For many years past there have been two hotels in Trenton. The Dawson House has been kept for thirteen years by George W. Dawson ; it has been a hotel site for a great many years. The Brooklyn House is kept by Herbert Griffith.
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The village of Holland Patent takes its name from the large tract of land of more than 20,000 acres, granted to Henry, Lord Holland, by the British crown. He sold the tract to Seth Johnson, Horace Johnson, and Andrew Craige, who employed Moses Wright to survey it into lots of about 100 acres each. Seth Johnson was a native of Middletown, Conn., born in 1767, and died while on a visit to Holland Patent De- cember 8, 1802; he was the first person buried in the burial ground which he had given to the settlers for that purpose. At the time the Johnsons came on the patent they found Noah Simons making a sur- vey and claiming to be the owner of it. There was some litigation in later years to support those claims, but it failed. A few families moved upon the tract previous to 1797, having made purchases of Simons ; among these are Rowland Briggs, Eliphalet Pierce, Eliphalet Coates, Benjamin White, and a few others, who made repurchases of the real owners. Soon after the Johnson and Craige survey they sold a quarter of the patent to Bezabel Fisk, Pascal C. I De Angelis, Hezekiah Hul- bert, and Isaac Hubbard, who drew shares for their several locations,
after selecting two lots each. This formed a nucleus for the subsequent settlement. Mr. Hulbert died in 1800, and Mr. Fisk died early, both deaths occurring in Connecticut. Mr. De Angelis died in Holland Pat ent in 1839, at the age of seventy-six years ; and Mr. Hubbard died in Ohio at the age of ninety- nine years. The post-office here was estab . lished probably about 1805. Hobart Hall Academy was incorporated in 1839, with Mr. De Angelis as president, and a building was erected and the school commenced. For a number of years it was quite suc cessful, but it finally gave way to the graded schools and the building was then used for that purpose. In 1876 Watson Williams built the large brick hotel called the Clarendon, principally to accommodate the many guests that in recent years have sought this quiet and health . promoting place. This house is now kept by I. D. Thompson. A store is kept by John E. Jones (formerly Jones & Owens), and by William McClusky (formerly White & McClusky), and M. M. Brown. A grist mill between this village and Stittville is operated by Thompson & Goodman.
This village is the home of the author of successful books, writing under the nom- de plume of Betsey Bobbett,
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HENRY HAGEDORN.
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The enterprising village of Prospect is situated in the northeast part of the town on the West Canada Creek. Its name is said to have been given it by Col. Adam G. Mappa, who, with a surveying party, laid out the village. Standing upon the eminence overlooking the valley of the creek and surrounding scenery, he exclaimed, " What a beautiful prospect !" Hence the name. Phineas Watkins was an early settler of this town near what has been called Birch Ridge ; his son George opened the first store in Prospect, in association with John Owens; this was in 1823. Mr. Watkins had previously taught school in the village. A saw mill was built early on the Herkimer county side of the creek by John G. Squires, and another on the Trenton side which was long operated by George Watkins. Watkins and Owens continued in part- nership until 1830. Mr. Watkins was conspicuous in building up the place. Judah Crosby settled about the beginning of the century a mile north of Prospect, and there his son, Smith Crosby, was born in July, 1803. The latter was long a well known citizen and built the Union church in the village. George Watkins erected a grist mill after he had got his saw mill in operation ; it has been run ever since, with changes in its interior. The grist mill here is now operated by Henry Hagedorn ; there is no saw mill in operation. The large tannery once carried or by Lewis J. Griffith was burned and not rebuilt.
The post- office at Prospect was established probably as early as 1815. About 1825 Clark Hoyt built what became known as Union Hall, a large hotel in the upper part of the village. This property is now the property of Henry Hagedorn and is conducted by James Murphy, jr. The popular Dodge House is conducted by William Hodge. What was formerly known as Goshen Hall. and McMaster's Hall, in the lower part of the village, was probably built in early years by Porter Davis; it is now owned by James Sherman, and conducted as a hotel by Fred. Hubbard. Stores are kept here by C. B. Hodge, Charles Walters, John R. Williams and George H. Worden ; the latter has been in trade here thirty years, and is a grandson of Isaac Worden, who came here in 1794 and settled a half mile from the village site.
The early settlement by the Garretts and others at South Trenton has been described. Cheney Garrett kept a public house for twenty years in what was later the dwelling of his son; it was built in 1801.
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The first store in the place was kept by Hugh Williams, a native of England. Mr. Garrett built a saw mill on the creek as early as 1797, and a grist mill, a clover mill, a flax mill, and a peppermint distillery were later put in operation. A brick yard was established about 1837 by H. W. and J. P. Garrett. The post-office of South Trenton was originally established three miles south of the village on the Utica road ; the one at the village was opened about 1822 with Daniel Schermer- horn as postmaster. A store is kept by E. D. Wheeler where John Mallory was formerly in trade and was succeeded by Robert Isaacs. A man named Rowley was in trade here as early as 1837. The hotel is kept by Lewis Smallenberge , and a small grist mill is run by Charles Sypher.
The first store at Trenton Falls was probably that of Romeo W. Mar- shall, who was doubtless the first postmaster also. The store was in operation about 1820 and not far from 1825 the post-office was opened. A grist mill was built about 1822 by Henry Conradt, and a saw mill was also started in early years. The grist mill is operated by William Morgan, and Charles Morgan has a store. The two hotels are owned by Mrs. Maria Moore, widow of Michael Moore.
Gang Mills (post- office, Hinckley) is in the extreme northwest part of this town, and has long been a large lumber center. Almost half of the hamlet is in Herkimer county. On the Trenton side is the post- office, a box factory run by Butts & Co., a large saw mill by the Glens Falls Lumber Company ; a store by Prentice & Willoughby and an- other by Lamb & Smith.
In the southwest corner of the town is a hamlet called Stittville, which has had a post-office since about 1850. William Grant was the first postmaster. A small mercantile business has always been conducted there, and a few shops. A knitting factory was established in 1878; it is now operated by Hackett & Atwood. A store is kept by Fred. Gauss and another by Ellis D. Jones.
The first church in this town, the Presbyterian at Holland Patent, founded in 1797, has already been mentioned. A church of this de- nomination was also organized at Trenton village at an early date, but it finally declined and passed out of existence. Rev. Dr. Harrower preached alternately at the two places. The early records of these
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churches are lost. In 1812 a Congregational church was formed at Holland Patent by Rev. Elijah Norton, to which Dr. Harrower minis- tered after a few years. On the 2d of January, 1821, these two churches (the Presbyterian and the Congregational) united under the title The Church of Christ in Holland Patent.
A Baptist church was organized at Holland Patent March 26, 1812, with sixteen members, under the pastorate of Elder Joel Butler. A small church was built in 1813 This was succeeded in 1840 by the stone church.
The " United Protestant Religious Society " was formed at Trenton village in 1803, and dissolved in 1811. The Christian church was or - ganized in March, 1806, with Rev. John Sherman, pastor. These organizations were succeeded by the Reformed Christian (or Unitarian) Church of Trenton Village. A house of worship was early erected and is still in use. A Unitarian congregation was formed early at Holland Patent, which was ministered to in connection with the one at Trenton. it is not now in existence.
St. Paul's Episcopal church, Holland Patent, was organized June 21, 1821, with Rev. Henry Moore Shaw, rector, and James Wetmore, and Abraham Diefendorf, wardens; Aaron Savage, Seth Wells, Robert McArthur, Samuel Candec. Bryant Yoings, John P. Warner, Samuel White, and Aaron White, vestrymen.
There are also at Holland Patent a Welsh Methodist and a Welsh Congregational church Neither has a large membership nor a regular pastor. The pulpit of the former is supplied by Rev. Thomas T. Evans.
The Methodist Episcopal church, Trenton village, was organized as 1840, and built its frame church in 1847.
In 1841 a Union Society was formed at Prospect, which built a church and dedicated it in January, 1842. The property was afterwards deeded to a Methodist society, and the building was used by them and the Free Will Baptists many years. The latter society was organized in 1857. A society of Close Communion Baptists was organized at Prospect about 1820, which afterwards was merged with the Free Will society. There is a Welsh Calvanistic church, organized about 1857, and a Moriah Welsh Congregational society, organized in 1863, at Prospect, both of which have church buildings.
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A Baptist church was formed at Trenton Falls about 1833, with thirty- nine members. Besides these there is a Welsh Methodist church at South Trenton.
The supervisors of this town, from 1798 to 1896, inclusive, have been as follows, viz. :
1798-1800, John Storrs; 1801, Peter Schuyler; 1802-10, John Storrs; 1811, Rowland Briggs; 1812-29, William Rollo; 1830-32, Ithia Thompson; 1833-39, John Storrs; 1840, Isaac Currey ; 1841, Israel F. Morgan ; 1842-45, Henry Rhodes; 1846, Luther Guiteau, jr. ; 1847. Henry Miller; 1848-49, Aaron White; 1850-51, John N. Billings; 1852, John Candee; 1853, Reuben W. Fox; 1854, Elam Perkins; 1855-58, Orville Combs; 1859-64, Delos A. Crane; 1865-70, Henry Broadwell; 1871-73, Delos A. Crane; 1874-76, J. Robert Moore; 1877-78, Jacob J. Davis; 1879, Griffith Wheldon; 1880, S. B. Atwood; 1881, Norton Wolcott; 1882-83-84, Lester G. Waufnl; 1885-86- 87, Thomas J. Lewis; 1888-89-90, R. R. Isaac; 1891-92-93, George R Farley; 1894-95-96, H. A. Pride.
CHAPTER XLVII.
THE TOWN OF VERNON.
This town lies on the southwestern border of the county and was formed from parts of Westmoreland and Augusta on Feb. 17. 1802. It retained its original area until 1836, when a small part was set off to Stockbridge, Madison county, leaving Vernon with an area of 23,710 acres. Within the limits of the town is included the territory of the Van Eps, Wemple. Baschard, Bleecker and Dean patents; the territory was within the original Oneida Reservation and a part in the Stock- bridge tract; these divisions are shown on the map herein. Oneida Creek forms most of the western boundary of the town, and Skanandoa Creek flows northward across the town. The surface is rolling and the soil an excellent quality of gravelly and clay loam, underlaid with lime- stone, waterlime and gypsum No town in the county possesses greater fertility than this.
The first town meeting was held at the house of David Tuttle on the first Tuesday in April, 1802, and the usual officers were chosen Sam - uel Wetmore was elected supervisor ; Josiah Patten, town clerk. Mr.
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Wetmore held the office of supervisor nine years and was succeeded by Mr. Patten, who remained in the office until 1819. He was succeeded by John P. Sherwood. In 1830 James Kellogg The town records previous to this date are lost. The list of supervisors from 1831 is as follows :
1831-33. Nicholas Dyer; 1834, James Kellogg; 1835-36, Josiah W. Jenkins; 1837, John P. Sherwood; 1838, David Pierson; 1839-40, John P. Sherwood; 1841, Levi T. Marshall; 1842, Austin B. Webber; 1843, Salmon Case; he resigned and Charles Kilbourn was elected to the vacancy; 1844, Erastus W. Clark; 1845, Salmon Case ; 1846, Fitch Howes; 1847-48, David Pierson; 1849-50, Hiram D. Tuttle; 1851, Josiah Case; 1852-54; Orson Carpenter; 1855, Eusebius W. Dodge; 1856-57, Orson Car- penter; 1858-59, Sidney A. Bunce; 1860-63, Henry Wilson; 1864, Sidney A. Bunce; 1865-66, Henry Wilson; 1867-68, Thomas Butterfield; 1869-70, Edward W. Williams; 1871-72, William Marson: 1873-75, James Markham; 1876, Orson Carpenter; 1877, A. De V. Townsley; 1878, A. Pierson Case; 1879-80, Charles Scoville; 1881, Orson Carpenter; 1882-83, F. A. Cody, jr .; 1884, J. B. Cushman; 1885-86, Morris S. Miller, jr .; 1887-89, Charles H. Phister; 1890, John F. Morrison; 1891-92, Elliot J. Norton ; 1893-96, James M. Brown.
Settlement in Vernon was begun by Josiah Bushnell, who located about 1794 on the northwest corner lot of the Bleecker patent, coming in from Berkshire county, Mass. He brought with him his wife and four children, one son and three daughters ; the youngest daughter died in 1795. before the arrival of any other settlers. When the Oneida Reservation was sold at auction in August, 1797, and the several pat- ents were granted, settlement progressed rapidly, and within two years every farm was taken up by sturdy pioneers, mostly from Massachusetts and Connecticut. The Baschard patent was by far the larger of those within the town and the following is a list of the first settlers thereon :
Rev. Publius Bogue, Deacons Hill and Bronson, Samuel Wetmore, David Bron- son, Levi Bronson, Seth Holmes, Anson Stone, Asahel Gridley, Heman Smith, Eliphaz Bissell, Adonijah Foot, Stephen Goodwin, Seth Hills, Eli Frisbie, James De Votie, John De Votre, Samuel Austin, Ezra Stannard, Matthew Griswold, Joseph Frisbie, David Alvord, Levi Thrall, Asahel Wilcox, Russell Church, Abijah P. Bron- son, Thomas Spencer, Stephen Carter, Benjamin Carter, Levi Marshall, Seth Mar- shall, Harvey Marshall, David Tuttle, Huet Hills, Elijah Webber, a Mr. Bush, and a Mr. McEwen.
These settlers were nearly all from the towns of Winchester and Tor rington, Conn., and they laid out a plat of six acres in a parallelogram which became the site of Vernon Center. Surrounding the Green were lots of one acre each, and a number of the settlers located on them,
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Around this Green all Protestant religious organizations were given permission to build churches.
Asahel Gridley, mentioned above, built the first grist mill in the town, on the Skanandoa Creek a little west of Vernon Center ; he was father of Hon Philo Gridley, one of the Supreme Court judges of this State. The second grist mill was built a little later at Vernon village by Abram Van Eps.
The first settlers on the Sargent patent, which was a mile square and a little southwest of Vernon Center, were Rev John Sargent, the patentee, Zenas McEwen, Ezra McEwen, and a Mr. Martin. On the Oneida Reservation the early settlers were Gideon Skinner, Ariel Law- rence, Samuel Shed, Thomas Gratton, William De Land, Nathan Carter, Thomas Tryon, a Mr. Spalding, David Moore, Josiah Simons, a Mr. Grant, Joseph Doane, Ezra May, a Mr. Kellogg, William Mahan, Stephen Page, Ebenezer Ingraham, Sylvester Crocker, Chester May, Jonathan Graves, Augustus and Philo Soper, Ashbel Norton, Charles Dix, Rufus Vaughan, William Wright, Samuel Cody, a Mr. Kelsey, Mr. Raymond, Jacob Hungerford, Joseph Bailey, a Mr. Alling, Mr. Haseltine, Mr. Carpenter, and Jedediah Darling ; these were mainly in the eastern part of the town.
The settlers in the west and southwest part were James Griffith, Ebenezer Webster, Elisha Webster, Eli Webster, Russell Webster, Allen Webster, a Mr. Freeman, Capt. William Grant, Dr. Samuel Frisbie, Joseph Stone, Eliphalet Hotchkiss, Joshua Warren, Calvin Youngs, Simon Willard, Andrew Langdon, and Edward Webber. In the north part settled Amos Brockway, a Mr. Cole, Moses Upham, Aaron Davis, Jonathan Blount, Thaddeus Brookins. Joseph Day, Robert Frink, Stephen Campbell, Jonathan Ney, Calvin Huntington, Luther Huntington, and a Mr. Cook.
The early settlers on the Van Eps patent were Abram (or Abraham) Van Eps, the patentee, Richard Hubbell, Gershom Hubbell, Benjamin Hubbell, Gad Warner, Benjamin Pierson, David Pierson, Josiah Patten, William Root, and Elihu Root. Richard and Gershom Hubbell were twin brothers, as also were Calvin and Luther Huntington. Richard Hubbell was the first settler on the Van Eps patent, locating in 1794-5 in what is now the north part of Vernon village.
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