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Work is still going on in Onondaga folk-lore and linguistics. In J. C. Pilling's Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages, Washington. 1888, there is quite a list of those who have used Onondaga words in some important way. The Hand-book of American Indians North of Mexico will contain notices of
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all known Iroquois villages and many persons. Volume 1 has been already is- sned by the Bureau of Ethnology and the second is in press. The report on the Indians of the United States, in the census of 1890, has a great deal relating to the Onondagas, with fine illustrations. Except for the repetition of some early errors, for which allowance may be made, this is a very valuable work. The finely illustrated report on the Six Nations of New York was issued separately. The Onondaga treaties will be found in full in the Indian Problem, published for the New York Legislature in 1889. It is a pity that the Indian names in this are often so poorly reproduced.
Those who want notes on the officers of New York militia of rather early date will find much in the four volumes of Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, as well as in the Publie Papers of Daniel D. Tompkins, 1807-17. The rank and file have no place in these. Cap- tain George K. Collins also wrote a full history of the 149th regiment, N. Y. S. V., in which he served, and this was published some years ago. New York at Gettysburg contains addresses made at the dedication of Onondaga and other monuments in 18SS.
Some interest was shown, a few years since, in the better preservation of our town and village records, which often have little care and sometimes have perished. These have become of increasing value as the study of town and family history has grown. In many cases, however, valuable bits have been preserved or published of early settlers, and especially of the business men of given periods. Many are in manuscript still, but accessible. Thus the Onon- daga Historical Association has various records made by Captain Oren Tyler, long a merchant at Onondaga Valley, contributed by his daughter, Miss Charlotte Tyler of Hartford, Connecticut. Her gifts comprise autographs of many prominent pioneers, military rolls, day-book and ledger accounts, school records, ete.
Some valuable results have come from the examination of records in the County Clerk's office, a safe resort in many cases. In fact the Surrogate's office holds treasures for many, not as legacies, but according to their work and will. Genealogists know this well. Many historie facts are enriched by consulting old cemeteries, and a complete record of some of these is a desider- atum.
General J. S. Clark, of Auburn, has the field notes of the early surveyors. which have never yet been published, and these have local value. The maps will be found in the County Clerk's office. Beside all this there is a vast amount of town and family history, prepared for private use, which is unpublished. At the time of the County Centennial many excellent histories of churches and benevolent organizations were written, and some of these are preserved by the Historical Association and other bodies. Some valuable papers have been printed by the Academy of Science, and other material has been gathered by the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution and the Genealogieal Society. The Syracuse Public Library has made a specialty of local histories and genealogi- cal works, and thus that city has become the headquarters of the New York State Genealogical Association.
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· PUBLIC ARCHIVES
In the Proceedings of the American Historical Association for 1901, page 147, is a report on the publie records of Onondaga county, which is here summar- ized. The earliest officers lived in the western part of the county, and when Cayuga county was set off the early Onondaga records remained at Auburn. Those sinee 1799 have been kept in a fire-proof building in Syracuse, all having been now transferred to the new Court House. At the date of the report the Supervisors' Records were in a separate room, with continuous files, 1829-1900. The early ones were probably destroyed at the removal of the county seat in 1829. After 1850 no manuscripts were kept, but printed files . of proceedings. There was one volume of board minutes, 1812-24.
The County Clerk's Records were in a suitable building, but were also re- moved on the completion of the new Court House. The realty records were complete and well kept, as were all court records after 1850. The earlier ones were in a cellar, without care or order. Files of papers in court proceedings. 1806-1900, were in over one thousand file cases, well kept.
The Surrogate's Records were mostly easy of access, but some early records were unbound and in a vault. The complete series was arranged in one thou- sand three hundred file cases. They are often consulted.
Town Records are often incomplete and poorly kept. Many have been injured or destroyed by accidental fires, while some have been purposely burned, as being of little or no value. They are usually in offices, stores or private houses.
In Camillus the older records were lost by fire, and the later have little care.
Cicero lost its early records by fire in 1851. Later records were kept in a safe.
The early records of Clay are missing.
In De Witt the records are nearly complete.
In Elbridge the records before 1854 have been lost.
Fabius lost some records by fire in 1882.
Geddes has kept most of its records, but some were purposely burned in 1897.
LaFayette has also preserved the larger part.
Lysander has most of its town records. but early school records are rather rare.
Manlius preserved its records till 1890, when they were lost by fire.
Mareellus also lost its early records by fire in 1830.
Those of Onondaga have been mostly preserved.
Otiseo has also most of its records.
In Pompey they are almost complete, forming a valuable series in this old town.
Those of Salina were then complete.
Skaneateles lost its earlier records in the disastrous fire of 1835.
Spafford has complete records. Its first town book bears the autograph of Iloratio Gates Spafford. in whose honor it was named, and who responded to the complimentary name. the gift of the book.
: The records of Tully are incomplete.
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In Van Buren the records were burned in the fire of 1861, and others were intentionally destroyed in 1894.
Those of Syraense are complete and are now well cared for.
The villages show a varied experience. Baldwinsville having complete records since 1843, while Brewerton has none at all.
Camillus has complete records since 1852, East Syraeuse since 1881, East- wood since 1895. Elbridge lost records 1835-45, 1859-73, and 1378-80. Fabius has complete records. In Fayetteville those of 1844-94 were lost by fire, and those of Jordan, 1835-76. Liverpool Manlius, Marcellus, Skaneateles, Solvay and Tully are complete. More care was advised, but their value is mostly of an historie kind.
Besides these public records, many were made by private persons. Among lists of names of prominent people perhaps none is more valuable than that of Lewis HI. Redfield, of those who were here from 1795 to 1825. It follows in his own words :
"A few more daring spirits were here a little earlier-Danforth and Tyler came in 1788-but the settlement of the county did not fairly begin till '95. The town of Onondaga furnished such men as Joshua Forman, Thaddeus M. Wood, Asa Danforth, Jr., George Hall, Rev. Caleb Alexander, Rev. D. C. Lansing. Nicholas Mickles, Dr. Gordon Needham. Dr. John D. Bissell. William Kibbe, Jasper Hopper, L. II. Redfield, John Adams, John Van Pelt, Ebenezer Wilson, Jr., Job Tyler, Comfort Tyler, Joseph Swan, Dr. Walter Colton, Colonel Peter Ten Broeck, Medad Curtis, Judge Oliver R. Strong, Hezekiah Strong, Jonas Earll. Jr., Nehemiah II. Earll, Daniel Moseley, B. Davis Noxon, Rufus Cossit, General John H. Ellis, Jonas Mann, Dr. J. II. Parker, Dr. Thayer, Dr. Heally, James Geddes, James Webb, Elisha Marsh, William Ray, Ephraim Webster, Gideon Seeley, Oliver Cummings, James Beebe. Porley Howlett, Leonard Caton, Giles Cornish, Deacon Rowe, Ephraim Hall, Colonel Lewis, Silas Ames. Turner Fenner, Rev. Samuel Kirkland, Vivus W. Smith, Rev. Mr. Geer, Rev. Mr. Thacher, Samuel Forman, Charles Olmsted, George W. Olmsted, Samuel B. Woolworth, Pulaski King. John Gridley, Asher Tyler. Rev. James HI. Mills, Willet and Harry Raynor, James Hutchinson, George Geddes.
"In the towns of Salina, Cicero and Clay were located such prominent men as Dioelesian Alvord, Elisha Alvord. Dr. William Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Bying- ton, Ashbel Kellogg, Daniel Gilbert, John G. Forbes, Thomas Mccarthy, James Lynch, William Clark, Fisher Curtis. Dr. Daniels. Daniel Van Vleck, Thomas Wheeler, John Leach, Oliver Stevens, Patrick MeGee, Jonathan Emmons, Isaac Cody, Moses Kinney, Elijah Loomis, William Wheadon, Dr. Oreutt, David Hamlin, Abraham Van Vleek. John O'Blennis, Ira Gilchrist, Amos P. Granger, John Wilkinson, Archy Kasson, Rufus Stanton, Timothy Gilchrist, Cornelius Scouten, Dr. Brace, Mars Nearing. Rev. John Shepard, Judge Stevens, James Johnson, Orasmus Johnson. Asa Eastwood, Judah Gage, Dean Richmond, Moses D. Burnet. Moses Kinney, Thomas Pool. Rev. Mr. Barlow, James Bogardus, Richard Adams, Dr. David S. Colvin, E. W. Leavenworth, Dr., Mather Williams. S. W. Caldwell, John Durnford, Matthew M. Davis, Stephen Smith, Philo D. Mickles, Thomas Spencer, Harvey Baldwin. Joseph Sloemm, William D.
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Stewart, John Rogers, A. N. Van Patten, Schuyler Strong, Rev. J. Watson Adams, Henry Davis, Jr., General Jonas Mann, Homer Wheaton, Thomas G. Alvord, Elihu L. Phillips, John F. Wyman, Henry Gifford, Paschal Thurber, Henry Newton, Sterling Cossit. Dr. Jonathan Day, Charles A. Baker, Ichabod Brackett, Columbus C. Bradley, Hathaway Richmond, David Stewart, David S. Earll, Sampson Jaqueth, William Winton.
"The towns of Tully, Otiseo, Marcellus and Skaneateles gave us such names as the gifted Willis Gaylord, Rev. R. S. Corning, John Meeker, who at one time had fifteen stores in the county, Rev. Levi Parsons, William M. Allen. the Kings, the Howells, Dr. Bildad Beach, Judge Bradley, Major Cossitt, Reuben S. Humphreys, John Ilerring (the paper maker), the Lawrence, Esquire Cobb, Daniel Kellogg, Alfred Northam, Judge Jewett. Dr. Porter, James Porter, John Legg, William L. Vredenburgh, Isaac M. Sherwood, Sr., John S. Furman, HIez. Earll, Jonas Earll, Sr., Robert Earll, John Briggs, James Saekett, Judah Hopkins, Josephus Barker, Stephen Pomeroy, Rev. Mr. Pomeroy, Alanson Edwards, Asahel Roundy, Daniel Baxter, Eli Godard, Samuel Rice, Chauncey Rust. Rufus Clapp. Jesse Swan, Dr. French. Dr. Judd, Warren Hecox, Dr. Manger, Judge Sawyer, Moses Legg, Isaac Hall, Josiah Walker, Elder Harmon, Dr. Farr, Moses Nash, Phares Gould, Dr. L. I. Tefft, Dr. Seovill, Samuel Tyler, Leman Gaylord, Chauncey Gaylord, Esquire Willard, James and Thomas Redney, Jesse Kellogg ..
"In the towns of Camillus. Lysander, Elbridge, Jordan and Van Buren. were such men as Judge Squire Munro and his sons, Nathan, David and John, Judge Stevens, James R. and Grove Lawrence, Dr. Jonas C. Baldwin, Cyrus Baldwin, Judge Bigelow. John Hamill, James L. Vorhees, Gabriel Tappon. Sanford C. Parker, Judge Stansbury, John Bowman, Cyrus II. Kingsley, Martin M. Ford, Henry Wells, John H. Tomlinson, Eliakim Edwards, James Bennett, Charles II. Toll, Asa Bingham, Calvin Bingham, Gideon Brockway, Dr. Frisbie, Peter Emeriek, Hiram F. Mather. Chauncey Betts, Isaac Earll, Isaac Lindsay. Nicholas Lamberson, Mordecai Ellis, Isaac Strong, Theodore Popple, Dr. Buell, William Laughlin, Moses Carpenter, Dr. Jones, R. L. Hess, William A. Cook, M. T. C. Gould, R. S. Orvis.
"Manlius and De Witt gave us the names of Nicholas P. Randall, Samuel L. Edwards, Alvin Marsh, Dr. II. L. Granger, Dr. William Taylor, Nathan Williams, Azariah Smith, James O. Wattles, Elijah Rhoades, Abijah Yelverton, Henry C. Van Schaack. Sylvanus Touseley, Colonel Sanford, Inther Badger, Colonel Olmsted, Elijah Rust, Dr. Holbrook, William Eager, William Barker, Thurlow Weed, Moses De Witt, Jacob R. DeWitt, Leonard Kellogg, Charles B. Bristol, Colonel Phillips, Harvey Edwards, Aaron Wood. Timothy Teall, and the Kinneys, Aaron Burt. Oliver Teall, Elias Gumaer, Benjamin Morehouse. Daniel Keeler, Charles Moseley, Elijah Phillips, Samuel Ward. and J. V. II. Clark, the historian:
"In the towns of Pompey, LaFayette and Fabius were to be found Vietory Birdseye, Daniel Wood, Charles Baldwin. Daniel Gott. Elisha Litchfield, Henry Seymour and his gifted son Horatio Seymour, Angustus Wheaton, and his son Horace, Luther Marsh, Judge Pettit, Elijah Miles, Dr. Miller, John Wilcox,
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Jonathan Stanley, John Stockham, Colonel Gould, Mr. Doubleday, Colonel St. John, Dr. Tibbals, the Kecneys and the Jeromes, Thomas Miles, David Caldwell, James Sherman, Jesse Butler, John Sprague, Rev. Mr. Barrows, Rev. Mr. Leonard, John Spencer. the Hinsdales and the Murrays."
This excellent list renders the quotation of some others unnecessary.
In 1894 the following statement was made, and is literally quoted here :
"Records in the surrogate's court of Onondaga county date back to January 5, 1795, seven months after the erection of Onondaga county. The life of the court began with that of the county, and the surrogate's court, therefore, is the oldest court of record in the county. Thomas Munford was the first surrogate, and the court was at his house in Scipio, that township being then a part of Onondaga county, although now in Cayuga. The first letters of administration issued have disappeared from the erudely bound volume in heavy brown paper covers, but the second and all that followed for several years are on record, and in an excellent state of preservation. These second letters were issued on Jan- uary 5, 1795, to Jane and Gilbert Traey of the town of Onondaga, on the estate of Elisha Tracy. The letters are in the handwriting of the surrogate, upon heavy rice paper, no printed blanks having been prepared at that time. The printing followed soon after however, for the third letters were upon a printed blank. They were recorded February 16, 1795, and issued to Thankful Garnsey of the town of Jerusalem, county of Ontario, upon the 'estate of Titus Perkins, late a soldier in the line of artillery of the state of New York, lately serving in the army of the United States.' Then follow letters upon the estates of Azeriakim Pierce, Seipio, June 1, 1795; William Ward, Manlius, December 3, 1795; William Whitten, Scipio. May 31, 1796; and to Thaddeus M. Wood of Manlius, on the estate of Lyman Ilubbard of the same town, a yeoman, on July 18, 1796. Mr. Wood was chosen the second surrogate, but served only a short time, issu- ing his first letters on July 14. 1799. The records show that on September 29, 1800, George Hall was surrogate, and so continued to be until Medad Curtis was elected in 1810.
"Among the many strong and characteristie signatures appearing upon old bonds among the aged records are those of Ephrain Webster, Jasper Hopper. John Adams, John P. Sherwood, Comfort Tyler, Joshua Forman, Squire Munro, John Il. Frisbie and Gordon Needham. The first will was recorded April 9. 1796, and that was of Samuel JJerome of Scipio. The will was dated November 23, 1795, and begins as follows:
" 'In the name of God, Amen. I, Sanmel Jerome, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, blessed be Almighty God for the same, do make this my last will and testament.'
"Then is devised his small estate among his several children in equal shares. The record of the wills is in several cheaply bound volumes. The letters of administration and the bonds and letters of guardianship are arranged con- seeutively and held together with strings and enclosed in brown paper eover- ing. With the exception of the first letters of administration, the records of the surrogate's court are complete."
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' The Historical Association has a valuable collection of old documents, with well preserved autographs of many noted pioneers. In Skaneateles Mr. E. N. Leslie secured valuable lists of old settlers, sometimes from those who knew them, and often from old account books. Lists of taxes and taxable inhabitants in early days have unique interest, as showing their landed estate, and some- times personal property. The papers of Oren Tyler, merchant at Onondaga Valley, are of a very varied character, for he was trader, captain and school treasurer, with separate accounts for each. One striking feature of some store accounts is the quantity of brandy, rum and whiskey found necessary for family use. Three of his books were of accounts with the Indians.
Election lists are interesting, where they have been preserved. Thus one in Fabius certifies that the polls were opened April 30, 1799, and were continued by adjournment to and including May 2, in which time eighty-three votes were cast for member of Assembly. In 1813 the polls were open in Salina, April 27- 29 inelusive, and thirty-two votes were cast for each office to be filled, abont eleven men voting each of the three days.
Mr. Louis D. Seiseo contributed a series of papers on "Onondaga County Records" to the New York Genealogieal and Biographical Register. 1899-1904. which were brought down to 1827. His concluding remarks are so good and suggestive that they are quoted in full :
"From 1799 onward, the Syracuse records contain occasional papers executed by or referring to ex-soldiers of the Revolution, but the work of searching them out in the enveloping mass of documents has not been carried beyond the years named. Those memoranda of later date here following are but addenda to earlier documents. It is well to repeat. in closing, the statement made when the present series began, that it covers only the realty documents relating to the present county of Onondaga. Inasmuch as the original county of Onondaga covered an area embraced in at least six of the present counties of central New York it is evident that the series of memoranda now closed have merely made an entry upon an interesting field of research. Fully four- fifths of the material here embodied in the early Onondaga records is as yet untouched by genealogical inquiry. Its character is precisely the same as the matter already printed. It is prolifie in elnes for tracing of Revolutionary ancestry, though seldom giving details at length. Practically every soldier who fought in the New York line during the great struggle has left somewhere in the Onondaga records one or more memorials of himself, in connection with the land granted him. The existence of these records should be kept in mind in the present general search for new sources of genealogieal facts."
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CHAPTER III.
GEOLOGY OF ONONDAGA COUNTY, TOPOGRAPHY AND LAKES
The lowest surface point in Onondaga county is on the Oswego river, below the dam at Phoenix, and may be about three hundred and fifty feet above tide. Oneida lake, which the Hon. George Geddes took as his starting point, he made three hundred and sixty-nine feet above the sea; the topographical map has it three hundred and seventy. He made the distance thence to Ripley hill in Spafford thirty-two miles, and the height of that hill one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two and three-fourths feet. The triangulation survey made the hill one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight feet, and the United States topo- graphical map one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five, perhaps from a different point, but nearly that of Mr. Geddes. In this direction the estimated average dip of the rocks is twenty-six feet to the mile, or eight hundred and fifty-two for the whole distance. Of course this may vary, the dip not being everywhere the same, though sufficiently uniform for probable estimates. The outerop is nearly east and west, and also modified by local conditions. The hills rise in a direction opposite to the dip of the rocks. In the indicated di- rection and distance the surface rises over sixteen hundred feet, while the rocks at the base fall eight hundred and fifty-two feet, making an estimated thickness of the mass at the southwest of two thousand four hundred and sixty-five feet. Many faults occur in this. The surface waters mostly flow north and the under- ground south. Springs are to be looked for in the sides of valleys, but there are notable exceptions. The Baldwinsville water supply seems to be from an old river bed. Attempts to secure artesian wells would fail, but have been made.
The height of Pompey hill is not given in the following list of triangulation stations and altitudes from the United States topographical maps, but it is one thousand seven hundred and forty-three feet. The stations were selected for surveying purposes, and were not always on the highest points of the hills where they were placed. The topographical maps show height and contour, so that they do not always agree. Usually height is increased on the map, each site from which will be indicated. The station on Fabius hill, in that town, is at the height of two thousand and twenty feet. The inap gives a height of two thousand one hundred and fifteen. Ripley, in Spafford, is one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight ; the map makes it one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five, and another hill one and one-half miles north of Spafford, one thou- sand seven hundred and forty. The map has still another hill, east of Borodino, one thousand four hundred and twenty-five feet. There are many high points between the valleys of Otisco and Skaneateles lakes.
On the map there is a hill three miles due south of Fabius which is two thon- sand and sixty feet high, and another east of Labrador pond of one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four feet. Another a mile southwest of Apulia station is one thousand eight hundred and six on this map, while Dutch hill, southeast of Tully valley, reaches the height of one thousand eight hundred and eighty- seven feet. Arab hill, in Fabius is one thousand nine hundred and forty.
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Stoekham hill, east of Carpenter's pond, on this map is one thousand six hundred and fifty feet; and a hill east of Otisco lake is one thousand four hundred and sixty-five. On the same map a hill cast of Spafford ereek has a height of one thousand nine hundred feet, and Bear mountain, west of Cordiff, sixteen hundred. This map makes a great hill on the Indian reservation, one thousand four hundred and seven feet high, and East hill, a prominent point northeast of this, one thousand four hundred and forty-five feet. It is a sightly spot.
A hill northwest of Navarino is-one thousand two hundred and thirty-five feet high on this map, and another between Thorn and Rose hills is one thou- sand three hundred and sixteen. Both authorities agree on two hills iu Skaneateles, Giles being one thousand two hundred and sixty-five, and Hoxsie one thousand one hundred and ninety-eight. On this map ludian hill in Pompey is about one thousand and twenty feet high. The Onondaga villages were sometimes on far higher land.
The remaining elevations are from the New York triangulation survey. Clapp, in l'ompey, one thousand two hundred and eighty. Seeley. in Skaneate- les, one thousand one hundred and nine. Eagle, in Manlius, one thousand two hundred and fifty-three. Howlett hill, Marcellus, one thousand one hundred and thirty-six. Carpenter, Onondaga, one thousand one hundred and five. Cossitt, in the same, one thousand and twenty. Chestnut Ridge, Salina. four hundred and ninety-eight. Olympus, Syraense, six hundred and eighty-one. Collamer, in De Witt, four hundred and eighty-five. Green, in the same town, nine hundred and seventy-four. Davison, Van Buren, six hundred and thirty- one. Kingsley, in the same, five hundred and thirty-six. Sorrel hill, in the same, six hundred and forty-one. Draper, Geddes, six hundred and fifty-three. Fairmount, Camillus, seven hundred and thirty-six. Sherwood, in the same. seven hundred and ninety-nine. Davis, Lysander, five hundred and thirty-five.
Beautiful views may be had from all these hills, especially when they over- look some broad valley, but some spots take in the broad lower lands, stretch- ing away northward till they melt in the dim distance, while Oneida. Onondaga or Cross lakes light up the nearer landscape.
Part of the Clinton group shows the northernmost and lowest roek of the county, appearing on both sides of the west end of Oneida lake. Its shale appears along the outlet and in the hill at Brewerton. The northern parts of Lysander, Clay and Cieero are on this roek, and the soil partially originates from it.
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