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of wheat; and Daniel Bissell in 1793, 14 shillings for 400 bricks and 16 shillings for " four days of work building chimney ;" Guido L. Bissell in 1805, $74, for 14,854 feet of boards. The cash sum of $24 was paid in 1802 to Sluman Bartlett for a barrel of whiskey and Guido L. Bissell was credited in 1807 with $60, for a horse.
For "drawing deeds and acknowledging them " in 1797 Eliphalet Smith was to pay $1.50; for " making pair breeches," Joseph Merrick in 1797 was to pay 6 shillings, and "for making coat," 8 shillings ; Ephraim Little in 1798 " for making two caps" 4 shillings; "for schooling one child six weeks " in 1792, 3 shillings 3 pence. In 1806 Benjamin Beech was to pay 2 shillings 6 pence " for one day's cradeling when you went to train- ing." In 1798 for "boarding Betsey Adams on Mrs. Adams's account, 6 weeks " the charge was £1, 6 shillings.
Solomon Martin in 1803 was charged for the use of a horse "at 3 pence per mile for 153 miles ;" Amos Bidwell in 1797 for "ride of my mare 20 miles " 6 shillings 8 pence; Hugh Thompson in 1797 for " the use of my sleigh to Shenango, 8 shillings ;" Ira Birdsall in 1827 for "the ride of the black mare up Sand Hill and gave her a bad sweating " 25 cents; Ephraim Little in 1798 for " the use of horse and a sleigh to the Susquehanna, gone 3 days, 8 shillings;" Robert Freeman in 1797, " to my time, horse and expense to the Uni- dealy, {1 ;" Erastus Root in 1797, " to a journey to Shenango on your business, finding myself, horse and expenses, £4;" an estate in 1798, " to a jour- ney of 40 miles to the Surrogate to be qualified as an executor, $6 ;" Daniel Bissell in 1797 " to ten
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days in your business at German Flatts, finding my own horse to ride at $1 per day, £4;" David Baits in 1797 to a journey to Albany on "account of being bail for you, finding my own horse and expense, nine days at $2 a day, $18;" Henry Birdsall in 1819 "to one day spent to do your business with Judge Sands * by your request, $1 ;" and Nathaniel Wattles in 1792, "to my journey to New York, £6."+
Other interesting items appear in the Unadilla town records. In 1809 Samuel Betts and Silas Scott, poor-masters, entered a credit for "cash received of A. H. Beach as a fine against Francis West for breach of the Sabbath, 75 cents." In 1814 credit was entered for cash received of Uriah Han- ford, Esq., " for fines imposed for profain swearing, etc., $2.25." In 1822 a charge was made of $2.00 for "writing and putting up notices against drunk- ards." Curtis Noble as town clerk in 1812, entered a statement that Stephen Benton "directed me to enter on the records of the town that his black slave Gin was delivered of a male child on the 24th of September, 1811, which he calls William and delivered me a certificate of the same as the laws directs." Slaves had then existed in Otsego County for many years. In 1801 there were forty-three of them. A good female slave cook was valued at $200.
About 1820, farm hands were paid from $8 to $II per month; mechanics from $12 to $16; men to work in the haying season 50 cents a day. Hemlock lumber was worth $3.50 per thousand ;
* Obadiah Sands, who had first settled on the Delaware at Deposit and afterward lived in Franklin. He was the father of the late Frederick A. Sands of Unadilla.
t Judge Sluman Wattles's account book.
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pine shingles from 75 cents to $1.00 per bunch ; fire-wood, $1.00 a cord; a 3-year old steer from $II to $14; butter 8 cents per pound and whiskey 25 cents a gallon. For eggs and butter even so late as 1837, the only returns were "store pay," and the same was true of corn, rye and oats, unless hauled to a distillery, as was the common practice. But even here, cash was not certain to be paid.
It is obvious that these frontier communities became almost self-supporting. From the outer world the things obtained were extremely few. With a supply of sugar and salt, a family could almost have subsisted on things that the soil and their own ingenuity produced. The earliest traders and settlers who learned from the Indians how from a birch-tree a boat could be made in which to trans- port food and domestic chattels received a lesson in invention which they and many who came after them were to find useful all their lives. Necessity truly became the mother of invention when the hollowed-out piece of a tree, or a sap-trough was employed to rock one's offspring to sleep in, or when a man immigrating into a new wilderness home, mounted on the back of an old horse, not only his household goods, but his wife and children.
Men and women literally became jacks of all trades. A fine example of development in this line was Sluman Wattles, who was not only a farmer, but a road builder, tailor, shoemaker, lumberman, butcher, hatter, bricklayer, teacher, lawyer and county judge. Another example was Joseph Sleeper, farmer, Quaker preacher, surveyor, mill- wright, carpenter, stone-mason and blacksmith; and still another, Jedediah Peck, who was farmer, lawyer, millwright, preacher, politician and county judge.
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A blacksmith could not only make shoes for horses, but to him the farmer went for hoes, pitchforks and rakes. Even ploughs could here be made, and a man could turn the sod all day with a yoke of oxen controlled by a harness constructed of bark from an elm-tree. Trees in the forest untouched by the axe were employed as supports for looms set up under the open sky. In conditions such as these were developed motive forces in men and women that have made communities strong and states powerful.
Since that period times indeed have changed. Fortunate it is that men and women have changed also-fortunate for them and the world. A new and broader life, though one not quite so heroic, but a life with something of sweetness and refine- ment unknown to that conquering generation, has come in, while the old order has been rolled away as a scroll. Throughout this land for more than 100 years peace has dwelt. Gone is that warfare with Indians and Tories ; gone are those titanic strug- gles with nature. As the railway has superseded the stage-coach and freight-wagon, so did they in their turn supplant the "battoe " and the ark. Some- thing of life, too, has departed-that full and strenuous life which to those times belonged.
Nature alone remains unaltered. Scarcely changed in aspect stand these hills, more beautiful to eyes born among them than any others the world con- tains ; and the blue sky, the storms of winter and summer, the clouds that now threaten disaster, that now give promise of glorious day-all these remain as once they were. Throughout the landscape, from Lake Otsego down to Old Oghwaga (as throughout another scene, indeed, from where, for half a cen-
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tury, frowned the ramparts of Fort Stanwix to where the colossal Capitol keeps watch and ward), ever winding across that glorious panorama, ever silent, as great natures often are, in its potent and benefi- cent sway,
I see what was, and is, and will abide ; Still glides the stream, and shall forever glide.
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Below will be found a list of books, pamphlets, and other printed matter consulted in the preparation of the foregoing pages. By means of an alphabetical arrangement, usually as to authors' names, an authority cited in the text may here be found with the title of the work and the date and place of publication.
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MANUSCRIPTS
The subjoined list embraces material not existing in printed form. In many ways it has shed new and impor- tant light on the history of this frontier.
BISSELL, DANIEL, and GUIDO, L. : Account books, papers, etc., in possession of Mrs. Sumner (Harriet Bissell), of Norwich.
BRANT, JOSEPH : Letter to Colonel Bolton, written at Oghwaga, July, 1779. In Spark's coll. of MSS. at Harvard.
CLINTON, GOVERNOR GEORGE : Manuscripts of, in 48 vols. Large folio. In State Library at Albany.
COAD, J. FRANCIS, of Charlotte Hall, Maryland : Papers of, land and other, pertaining to the Otego patent.
DRAPER, LYMAN COPELAND : Brant Manuscripts in Library of the Wisconsin Hist. Society, Madison. 23 vols., folio. Ex- amined in the summer of 1900 through courtesy of the librarian, Reuben Gold Thwaites.
HAYES' Papers : Account books, documents, etc., pertaining to the firm of Noble & Hayes.
HECKEWELDER, REV. JOHN : Manuscript in the Historical Soci- ety of Pennsylvania.
JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM : Papers of in 25 vols. Large folio. In State Library at Albany.
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM S. : History of the Susquehanna Valley. A fragment. A copy of some parts in MS. exists in library of Wisconsin Hist. Soc.
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Journal relating to Unadilla Valley. In possession of Alexander W. Russell, of Westborough, Mass.
New York State Colonial Manuscripts and Land Papers. 63 vols., large Folio. 1643-1803. In office of Secretary of State, Al- bany.
Otsego County : Land Records of. In County Clerk's office, Cooperstown, where researches were made gratuitously for the author by Lee B. Cruttenden while County Clerk.
SMITH & WELLS : Notes of a tour to the head of the Susquehanna in 1769. Manuscript copy purchased by author at sale of the library of late Dr. George H. Moore, Superintendent of the Lenox Library. The original is owned by Mr. Coad, a de- scendant of Mr. Smith. Quarto, 100 pages.
Unadilla Town Records. 5 vols., folio. Beginning in 1797.
WARREN, CAPTAIN BENJAMIN : Diary of. In Spark's Coll., Har- vard University.
WATTLES, SLUMAN : Day-book and Court Records of, for years before 1800. In possession of Edwin R. Wattles, Sidney Centre.
WHITING, MAJOR DANIEL: Letter written at Cherry Valley in November, 1778. Now in Spark's Coll. at Harvard University.
A Few of the Many
The individuals who, by letter or interviews during a period of many years, have kindly responded to the author's appeals, make an extended list. Among them should at least be named the following : The late William Kelby, for many years Librarian, and Robert H. Kelby, now Librarian of the New York Historical Society ; Thomas J. Titus, Assistant Librarian of the Mercantile Library; Thomas E. Benedict, formerly Deputy Secretary of State ; Hugh Hast- ings, State Historian ; Charles W. Hooper, Land Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany; the late George R. Howell, Archivist of the State Library ; Lee V. Cruttenden, formerly County Clerk of Otsego County ; the late Perry P. Rogers, of Binghamton ; the Rev. Dr. H. U. Swinnerton, and the late John L. Sawyer, of Cherry Val- ley ; William E. Roscoe, of Carlisle, Schoharie County ; Harrison W. Nanny, of Goshen ; the late James C. Pill- ing, of the Smithsonian Institution ; Samuel M. Shaw, of
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Cooperstown ; A. J. F. Van Laer, Sublibrarian, in charge of the Manuscripts in the State Library ; Rufus A. Grider, of Canajoharie ; the late Douglas Campbell and John Henry Johnston, of New York; the late Clark I. Hayes, of Una- dilla ; the late D. P. Loomis, Supervisor, and Chester K. Belknap, Town Clerk, of Unadilla ; Edwin R. Wattles, of Sidney Centre ; the late Ira E. Sherman and the late Will- iam A. Fry, of Sidney ; the Rev. W. M. Beauchamp, of Baldwinsville, N. Y .; and Père N. Burtin, of Caughna- waga, Canada.
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A Personal Note
It seems proper to add a few lines here, as to the circum- stances in which this volume was written. In the summer of 1890 my father, Gaius Leonard Halsey, M.D., of Una- dilla, wrote for the Unadilla Times a series of papers giving reminiscences of his life in that village for fifty years. He had long been in failing health, and in the following Feb- ruary we laid him away in the village churchyard.
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