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Tradition has handed down to us an incident worthy of being here preserved of the first visit between the two pioneer families of Peleg Ellis and Zephaniah Brown, after a path had been made connecting their respective clearings in the forest. Mrs. Ellis came to make her call upon her new neighbor on horseback, one of her little girls sitting in front of her and the other behind. As they emerged from the woods into the clearing Mrs. Brown saw them and anxiously called out to her husband in a voice loud enough to be heard by Mrs. Ellis : "Zephaniah ! Zephaniah ! Mrs. Ellis is coming. What shall we have for tea ?" To which her husband replied in a voice still heard by the visitor : " Make a shortcake! Make a shortcake and put the cream in thick ; put it in thick, I say."
Society did not then require of Dryden neighbors the formalities, and shall we say hypocrisy, now in vogue ; but who can say that there did not then exist among these pioneers dressed in homespun clothing and living in their log houses in the clearings, more genuine, heartfelt hospitality than exists to-day among their more polished descendants in their expensive mansions, furnished with all that modern luxury and elegance can suggest ?
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HISTORY OF DRYDEN. CHAPTER VII.
SETTLEMENTS FROM 1800 TO 1803 INCLUSIVE.
In the year 1800 Lyman Hurd came in from Vermont and settled with his wife and children at Willow Glen, on the corner opposite the blacksmith shop, now vacant. His house which he built there was then the best in town because it had a chimney, the others having merely a hole in the roof for the smoke to pass out. This chimney was not made of bricks and mortar, but of sticks and mud, built up from the beam over the fire-place in cob-house fashion, such as was known in those days as a "stick chimney," the best that could be made with the material at hand. Mr. Hurd brought with him a pair of horses, the first seen in the new settlement, but unfortunately one of them died during the first winter, not being able perhaps to subsist upon "browse," which, as we have seen, was about all the food for domestic animals which the town then afforded. In this dilemma Mr. Hurd and his hired man went off through the woods to Tully and there procured an ox, which they brought home and harnessed in with the surviving horse by means of what was called a half yoke, and the "Old Man in the Clouds" certifies to us that for all purposes, "such as plowing, logging, going to mill and to meeting, this team worked to- together admirably."
Other settlers of the same year were Nathaniel Sheldon, the first physician to reside in the town, and Ruloff Whitney, who built the first sawmill of the town, which was located on Virgil creek, on the road leading north from Willow Glen, which was opened at this time by the authorities of the town (still Ulysses) to connect at this point the "Bridle" road with the old "State" road. This mill was located upon what has since been known as the Joseph McGraw farm, and furnished the first lumber for the new settlement. Ruloff Whitney was also the first bridegroom of the town, having wooed and won one of Virgil's fair daughters, Miss Susan Glenny, whom he married in this, the first year of the nineteenth century, or perhaps more accu- rately speaking the last of the eighteenth. From this time on settlers were numerous and will be noticed further on when we come to treat of the separate localities of the town with which they are associated, mentioning here in detail only those who, to some extent, are promi- nently connected with the history of the town, as a whole.
Among these were the two brothers John and Peleg Ellis, who came originally from West Greenwich, Rhode Island, and first settled in
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Herkimer county of this state, from which John came to Virgil in 1798, having purchased of the Samuel Cook estate Lot No. 23 of that town, upon which he remained about three years. In the meantime his brother Peleg, having exchanged with this same Cook family his home in Herkimer county for Lot No. 84 of Dryden, in the locality since known as Ellis Hollow, first came out to view his new posses- sions in the fall of 1799. He had difficulty at first to locate his newly acquired property in the universal forest, until meeting with Captain Robertson, he received such directions as enabled him to find it, by means of a map and the marked trees which, when properly under- stood, indicated the boundaries of the recently surveyed lots. Having found his property he immediately commenced chopping for a clear- ing, and he is said to have passed eleven days alone at work without once seeing a human being. On the eleventh day Zephaniah Brown, who, as we have seen, had already settled on Lot 71, hearing the sound of the axe came up with his gun in hand to make his first call upon his new neighbor.
Returning home to spend the winter, Mr. Ellis came on, the next summer, with his family, then consisting of his wife and two daugh- ters, and built on the headwaters of Cascadilla Creek, which flowed through his lot, his first home of logs, in which he lived for eight years. Here, on January 30, 1801, was born Delilah (Mulks), the oldest of the family of Major Ellis to be born in Dryden, the two eldest daughters having come here with their parents. We shall have occasion to refer to Major Ellis hereafter as the captain of the first company of Dryden men to engage in the War of 1812, having afterward been commissioned as major of the militia of the olden time. He lived on the farm which he had thus commenced clearing in 1799 for nearly sixty years and died there on his eighty- fourth birthday, May 9th, 1859. Four of his family of twelve chil- dren are still living, one of them, Mrs. John M. Smith, still occupying the homestead. Major Ellis is said to have been a man universally esteemed for honesty and the qualities which make a good citizen and a faithful friend.
His brother John, whom we left in Virgil, sold his property there and came to Dryden in 1801, first settling here on the farm near Mal- loryville, since owned by A. B. Lamont, where he remained about three years. Afterwards he also resided in Ellis Hollow near his brother ; but a few years before his death, which occurred April 10, 1846, he took up his final place of residence in the town on the place now owned by J. Wesley Hiles, one-half mile north of Dryden village,
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nearly opposite to the farm where his grandson, Geo. A. Ellis, now resides. From the date of his residence here to his death, John Ellis seems to have been the most prominent citizen of the town. Before the county of Tompkins was organized he held the position of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cayuga county, and afterwards he held the same office in Tompkins county. He was chosen supervisor of the town for twenty-seven years, was a member of the State Legis- lature in 1831 and 1832, besides holding many minor offices. Subse- quent politicians must despair of equalling his record as an office holder, and we must all concede that he was entitled to the designa- tion which was given him at the time, of being "King of Dryden." Among his many descendants are Thomas J. McElheny, of Ithaca, John E. McElheny, of Dryden, and the late Jennie McGraw-Fiske, to whom we are indebted for the Southworth Library. Judge Ellis is said to have been a man of commanding presence, keen and quick in the use of his intellectual powers. A portrait of him, painted in Al- bany during his attendance at the State Legislature, is still owned by his grandson, John E. McElheny, and was on exhibition at Dryden's Centennial Celebration, a copy of which is the frontispiece of this vol- ume. For further particulars concerning John and Peleg Ellis see the subsequent chapter of this History which treats of the Ellis Family in Dryden.
In the year 1801 the first merchant of the town, Joel Hull, from Massachusetts, settled at Willow Glen, taking up his abode on the corner now occupied by Moses Rowland. He was also the first resi- dent surveyor in the town, but it is said that he was neither a hunter nor a shingle maker, two qualifications which all other early settlers were supposed to possess. He was, however, a man of much intelli- gence, the first town clerk, in 1803, and a man whose advice was sought in legal matters, being an expert in drawing deeds and con- tracts. His store was opened in an addition to his house in 1802. His stock of goods was purchased at Aurora and consisted of a chest of old Bohea tea, which he sold at one dollar per pound, a quantity of Cavendish tobacco, at three shillings per pound, and two or three rolls of pig-tail tobacco, at three cents per yard, cash. As money was scarce, barter was in order, and one bushel of ashes would buy one yard of pig-tail. His stock also included a keg of whiskey, two or three pieces of calico and some narrow sheetings. He ventured more extensively in trade afterwards and failed in business, thus setting a bad example which succeeding merchants have too often followed. He and his family afterwards removed to Pennsylvania. An incident
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of him is vouched for by the "Old Man in the Clouds" which ought to be preserved, as illustrating the condition of the country at that time, and is as follows : In the spring of 1803 he received, from some distant friends in the East, a pig, which was allowed to run at large about the house and in the woods and grew to be a fine shoat of sixty to eighty pounds. One day as Mr. Hull was chopping wood at his door he heard the pig squealing in the edge of the clearing, some fif- teen rods distant, as if something unusual was the matter. A windfall of large pines lay between the house and the standing timber, which concealed the location from which the sound was heard, but taking his axe in hand and followed by his oldest son and Thomas Lewis, Mr. Hull rushed to the rescue. Arriving upon the scene he discovered a large bear, with the pig closely embraced in its fore paws, marching off towards the swamp. The bear shortly arrived at a log over which he was struggling to carry his prize, when Mr. Hull dashed up from be- hind and drove his axe into the head of the robber, killing him in- stantly and exclaiming at the same time, "Damn you, Bruin, I'll teach you the result of stealing my only pig in broad daylight." The pig, though badly injured, recovered and reached full grown proportions.
In the year 1801, there arrived from New Jersey the Lacy brothers, Richard, Thomas, Daniel, Benjamin and James, who located, the first, where Jackson Jameson now lives, the next three in Dryden village, and the youngest, James, near Dryden Lake. All afterwards removed farther west, except Benjamin, the father of the late John C. Lacy, of whom we shall have more to say hereafter in connection with Dryden village. In the same year two brothers, Peter and Christopher Sny- der, came from Oxford, N. J., and commenced a clearing on Lot 43, to which they emigrated in the following season, as will be seen at length in a succeeding chapter upon the "Snyder Family in Dryden."
William Sweezy lived one-half mile north of Varna and a man by the name of Cooper settled one-half mile south of Etna as early as 1801.
Andrew Sherwood, a soldier of the Revolution, who was the ances- tor of another family which has multiplied and flourished in Dryden, came with his son Thomas and settled on Lot No. 9 in the year 1802.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWN.
From 1794 until 1803, as we have seen, Township No. 22 (including all the present towns of Enfield, Ulysses, and Ithaca, town and city)
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HISTORY OF DRYDEN.
was merged in its political organization with Township No. 23 (Dry- den) under the name of Ulysses. In the year 1794, the assessed valu- ation of the whole town, as thus constituted, was €100, and the tax levied £12 and 10 shillings, as they then counted money, being a tax of more than twelve per cent on the valuation. In 1797, the popula- tion of the whole town of Ulysses was returned at 52 and the valuation at $4,777, our decimal system of currency having been substituted for the old English form of money. In 1798 the population had in- creased to 60 and the valuation to $5,000. In the year 1800, the cen- sus shows a population of 927, a rapid increase, which continued for some years, but not more than one third of it belonged to what is now Dryden. On the jury list of Ulysses for 1801, are found the names of three men who resided in Township No. 23, viz : Peleg Ellis, Ichabod Palmerton, and Jehiel Bouton. At the town meeting of Ulysses, held at the home of Nathaniel Davenport ( the location of which is now in Ithaca ) in March, 1802, it was voted "that the township of Dryden be set off from Ulysses." From this we infer that the name Dryden was commonly applied to Township No. 23 before it had a separate politi- cal existance, which was effected by an Act of the Legislature passed Feb. 22, 1803. At the first town meeting, held at the home of Captain George Robertson, March 1, 1803, the following officers were chosen :
Supervisor-George Robertson.
Town Clerk-Joel Hull.
Assessors-John Ellis, Joel Hull, Peleg Ellis.
Constable and Collector-Daniel Lacy.
Poormasters-William Garrison, Philip S. Robertson.
Commissioners of Highways-Lewis Fortner, Ezekiel Sanford, Will- iam Harned.
Fence Viewers and Overseers of Highways-Amnah Peet, Ebenezer Clanson, David Foote, Joseph Schofield.
Pound Master-John Montayney.
It must have been a veritable paradise for office seekers in those days, for every one could hold an office and still have offices to spare.
We give in this place the full list of Supervisors, Town Clerks, and Justices of the Peace of the town to the present time, thus calling to mind many prominent citizens of by-gone days :
SUPERVISORS.
George Robertson,
1803 William Miller, - - 1805
John Ellis, -
1804 John Ellis, - 1806-12
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Jesse Stout,
- 1813 Smith Robertson,
- 1851-3
John Ellis, -
1814
Hiram Snyder, 1854-6
Parley Whitmore,
1815 Jeremiah W. Dwight,
- 1857-8
John Ellis, -
1816 Lemi Grover, -
1859-61
Parley Whitmore, 1817 -
Caleb Bartholomew,
1862
John Ellis, -
- 1818-34
Luther Griswold,
1863-5
Joshua Phillips, -
1835-37
John M. Smith,
1866-71
John Ellis, -
1838
James H. George, - 1872-3
Joshua Phillips, -
1839
Edwin R. Wade, -
1874
Elias W. Cady,
1840-1
Harrison Marvin, -
1875-9
Henry B. Weaver,
1842-3
James H. George,
- 1880-1
Jeremiah Snyder, -
1844
George M. Rockwell, -
1882 -4
Wessels S. Middaugh,
- 1845-7
James H. George, -
- 1884-5
Albert J. Twogood,
1848
George M. Rockwell, -
1886-7
Hiram Snyder,
1849
John H. Kennedy, 1888-95
Charles Givens,
1850
Theron Johnson, - 1896-7
TOWN CLERKS.
Joel Hull,
1803
Walker Marsh,
- 1844-5
William Miller,
1804
Nelson Givens,
1846-7
Joel Hull,
1805-7
Walker Marsh, -
- 1848-9
Derick Sutfin,
1808
Nelson Givens,
1850
Jolın Wickham,
1809
Oliver Stewart,
- 1851-3
Thomas Southworth,
1810-11
Richard M. Beaman,
1854-6
Isaiah Giles, -
1812
George H. Houtz, -
1857-74
Parley Whitmore,
1813-14
George S. Barber,
1875-7
Josiah Newell,
1815-16
John S. Barber, -
1878
Henry B Weaver,
1817-19
De Witt T. Wheeler,
-
1879
Benj. Aldridge,
1820-31
Geo. H. Houtz, -
- 1880 -- 7
Abram Bouton,
1832
C. B. Snyder, -
1888-9
Hiram Bouton,
1833
Henry C. Warriner,
1890
Henry B. Weaver,
- 1834-9
Fred E. Darling,
1891-3
Rice Weed, -
1840
John M. Ellis,
- 1894-5
Bryan Finch,
1841
Fred E. Darling,
1896-7
C. S. C. Dowe,
1842-3
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Derick Sutfin, -
1803 Samuel Hemmingway, 1803
Ruloff Whitney, -
- 1803 Isaiah Giles, -
- 1810
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HISTORY OF DRYDEN.
Ruloff Whitney,
-
1810
Abraham Tanner, - 1857
Jacob Primrose,
1811-12
Alviras Snyder, 1858
Ithamar Whipple,
1811-12
James H. George,
- 1859
James Weaver,
1818
Thomas Hunt,
1860
Jesse Stout, -
1818
Edmund H. Sweet, - 1861
1862
Rice Weed, -
1825
Alviras Snyder, James H. George,
1863
Thomas Hance, Jr.,
- 1825
Isaac Cremer, - 1864
Jesse Stont, -
1825
Abraham Tanner, -
1865
Wessels S. Middangh, -
1829
Hananiah Wilcox,
1866
James McElheny,
1830
James H. George, -
1867
Schuyler Goddard,
- 1831-2
Thomas Hunt,
1868
Rice Weed,
1833
Hiram Bonton, -
- 1868
William H. Miller,
- 1833-4
Hananiah Wilcox,
1869
Ephraim Sharp,
1835
Wm. W. Snyder, -
1870
Moses C. Brown, -
1836
Almanzo W. George, -
1871
Henry B. Weaver,
1837
Geo. E. Goodrich,
1872
Moses C. Brown, -
1837
John W. Webster, 1873
Parley Whitmore,
1838
Warren C. Ellis, - 1873
Rice Weed, 1838
Wm. H. Miller,
1838
Almanzo W. George, - 1875
Elijah Fox,
1839
Wm. H. Goodwin, Jr., 1876
Parley Whitmore,
1840
Wm. J. Smith,
- 1876
Rice Weed,
1841
John W. Webster,
1877
Nicholas Brown,
1842
John T. Morris,
1878
Thomas Hunt, 1842
Geo. R. Burchell,
1878
S. S. Barger, -
1843
Wm. E. Brown,
1879
Abraham Tanner, -
1844
Geo. E. Monroe,
1880
Walker Marsh,
1845
Geo. E. Hanford, - - 1881
S. S. Barger, 1846 -
Geo. Snyder, - 1882
Thomas Hunt, 1847
Wm. J. Shaver, - - 1882
Abraham Tanner, -
1848
Wm. E. Brown,
1883
Walker Marsh,
1848 Geo. E. Underwood, 1883
Andrew P. Grover,
1849
Geo. E. Monroe, 1884
Thomas Hunt,
1850
Alviras Snyder, -
1885
Abraham Tanner, -
1851
Artemas L. Smiley, - 1886
1886
Walker Marsh,
1852 Geo. E. Underwood, 1853 Wm. E. Brown, 1887
Abraham Tanner,
1854 Artemas L. Smiley, 1887
Eleazer Case,
1855 Geo. E. Monroe, - 1888
William Scott,
-
1856 Everel F. Weaver,
1889
Parley Whitmore,
1818
-
Andrew P. Grover,
John Snyder, - 1874
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Geo. E. Underwood, -
1890 Geo. E. Hanford, - - 1893
Samuel S. Hoff,
-
- 1891
Geo. E. Underwood, - 1894
Wm. E. Brown,
1891
Erastus M. Sager,
1895
J. Dolph Ross, - - 1892
J. Dolph Ross, 1896
Geo. E. Hanford,
1892 Bert D. Conklin, - - 1897
We thus have before us the names of the men who for nearly a cen- tury have had the care and management of the political organism known as the "Town of Dryden." The only material change in the territorial extent of the township was made in 1887, when the easterly seven lots of the southern tier were set off and annexed to Caroline, for the reason that they were located much more conveniently to Slaterville as a business center than to any similar place within the town of Dryden. The town meetings were early held at different ho- tels in the town, subsequently more often at the Dryden Center House, until within a few years past, during which they have been held in election districts. The town was formerly divided into four, but now consists of six election districts. In the old times one of the duties of people at town meeting was to apportion the income derived from the gospel and school lot between the support of the churches and schools, the statute requiring that it should be annually distributed by the voice of the people at town meeting so that each should have some share. In accordance with this requirement it used to be a standing custom at every town meeting to pass a resolution that of the gospel and school funds " six cents be appropriated for the sup- port of the gospel and that the balance be devoted to school pur- poses." This was done not from disregard for the welfare of the gospel, but was in accordance with the general spirit of the country, which, while liberally providing for public education in the common schools, declined to impose any compulsory tax upon the people di- rectly or indirectly, for the support of sectarian or religious institu- tions. The gospel and school lot was for a long time rented and the rents applied annually as above stated, but subsequently the lot was sold and the proceeds, about eleven thousand dollars, now forms the town school fund, which is loaned by the supervisor on bonds and mortgages and the interest applied annually for the benefit of the common schools of the township.
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HISTORY OF DRYDEN. CHAPTER IX.
EVENTS FROM 1803 TO 1812.
One of the memorable occurrences of this time in the town of Dry- den was the "Great Eclipse" which was witnessed June 16, 1806, when total darkness came on suddenly at mid-day, and the fowls went to their roosts as though it were night. This was the only total eclipse of the sun to be visible in this section of the country during the nineteenth century, and, as we may well imagine, it made a deep im- pression upon the minds of the early inhabitants, who, as we may safely say, were more superstitious and less informed upon those sub- jects than are we of the present age. It furnished a means of fixing dates, and old people in later years were accustomed to speak of things as having taken place before or after the "Great Eclipse, " as the case might be. The immigration to the town was very rapid dur- ing this time, so much so that when the government census came to be taken in 1810, it was found that the town of Dryden alone con- tained 1,893 inhabitants, considerably more than one-third of the number of the present population of the town.
We shall speak more particularly hereafter in connection with Dry- den village, of the arrival of the Griswolds from Connecticut and the Wheelers from New Hampshire in 1802, and of Jacob Primrose and others who settled at West Dryden, when we treat of that particular locality. Thomas Southworth, a tanner and currier, originally from Massachusetts, and his son John, then ten years of age, located first at Willow Glen in 1806, and we shall have occasion to refer to them often hereafter in connection with Willow Glen, and Dryden village to which they afterward came. Rev. Daniel McArthur, from Scotland, settled in 1811, on the farm which was after his death owned and oc- cupied by the late Ebenezer McArthur, who in his will (having no surviving children) devised it, subject to the life estate of his wife, to the town of Dryden as an addition to the school fund of the town.
At about this time a small company of emigrants from the north of Ireland, who had temporaraily made a home in Orange county of this state, located in the South Hill neighborhood at a place which, from this fact, has since been known as the Irish Settlement. This colony included Hugh Thompson, who became a rigid and prominent member of the Presbyterian church in Dryden village, William Nelson, the father of Robert Nelson still residing in town, and Joseph McGraw, Sr., who in after years was known to the writer as an active, talkative,
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but quick-witted old man, displaying in his ready speech a rich Irish brogue. His son John, born in this "Irish Settlement" in 1815, became one of the most accomplished and successful business men which this or any other town ever produced, and his family will merit from us later a special biography. We here give the list of those, some of whom have not already been mentioned, who are known to have become inhabitants of the town before 1808, many of them being the ancestors of their now numerous descendants and of many of whom we shall again have occasion to speak when we come to mention the particular families or localities with which they are associated. The list is as follows :
Bartholomew, Jesse,
Girvin, Samuel,
McKee, Robert, Ogden, Daniel
Barnes, Ichabod,
Gray, George,
Brown, Zephaniah
Giles, Isaiah,
Owens, Timothy,
Brown, Reuben,
George. Joel.
Pixley, Enoch,
Blew, Michael, Brown, Israel
Griswold, Edward,
Palmerton, Ichabod, Rhodes, Jacob,
Brown, Obadiah,
Griswold, Abram, Grover, Andrew,
Southwick, Israel,
Brown, Obadiah, Jr.,
Hile, Nicholas,
Bailey, Morris,
Horner, John, Hart, Joseph,
Skellinger, Samuel, Snyder, Jacob, Smith, William,
Bush, Peter, Carr, Job
Hollenshead, Robert, Teeter, Henry,
Carr, Peleg,
Hoagland, Abraham, Van Marter, John,
Carr, Caleb,
Hemmingway, Samuel, Wheeler, Seth,
Conklin, John,
Jennings, Benjamin, Jay, Joshua,
Wheeler, Seth, Jr., Wheeler, Enos,
Clark, Samnel,
Jameson, Thomas,
Woodcock, Abraham,
Cornelius, John,
Lewis, Amos,
Wickham, John,
Carpenter, Abner, Cass, Aaron,
Legg, Matthew,
Waldron, John,
Dimmick, Elijah,
Luther, Nathaniel,
Weeks, Luther,
Fortner, Lewis
Luce, Jonathan,
Whipple, Ithamar,
Fulkerson, Benjamin,
Mineah, John,
Yeomans, Jason,
Genung, Benjamin,
McKee, James,
Yeomans, Stephen,
Callon, William,
Lewis, David,
White, Richard,
We may here properly refer to the fact that the population of the town of Dryden, as well as of our county in general, was early made up of individuals from different, though nearly related nationalities and from localities widely separated. Ethnological scholars tell us that the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race is accounted for from the
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fact that it is made up of a union of different races having at no re- mote period the same common origin. The Saxon, Norman, Dane and ancient Briton were none of them especially distinguished as a na- tionality by themselves, but when united for a number of generations the result was the formation of the Anglo-Saxon race, whose power and influence among the nations of the earth now surpasses all others, and whose language, it is now conceded, will in time become the uni- versal language of the world. May we not in like manner expect great results from the development of a population whose progenitors included the McGraws, McElhenys, Nelsons, McKees and Lormors, emigrating from Ireland; the Lamonts, McArthurs, Robertsons and Stewarts direct from Scotland ; the Snyders and Albrights, of Dutch, as well as the Dupee and DeCoudres families, of French ancestry, while the great majority of the early settlers, the groundwork, so to speak, of the new society, were of the genuine New England Yankee stock of recent English derivation, many of them coming here from the very confines of the "Nutmeg State."
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