Historical Wyoming County September 1949 - Old Fulton History

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OLD INDIAN APPLE ORCHARD AND
FIRST PIONEER APPLE TPEES
Floyd H. Benham, Warsaw
During the 136 years of French i Van Campen ran the gauntlet, and
occupancy, or dominion, over this | some twenty years ago the decayed
portion of the continent,or until f stumps of that orchard could be
1763, their agricultural pursuits | traced,
were extremely meager. However, 1
from Turner's History of the Hoi- | Now,
land Purchase,we read, ir They early | of an
in 19^-9» nine apple trees
old Indian orchard are
introduced at Detroit,apple trees § standing and alive,on the Gardeau
or seeds, from the Province of | Flats, immediately east of where
Normandy. The FIRST apples that | Mary Jemison's daughter, Nancy,
the pioneer settlers of the Hoi- |had her log house, These are the
land Purchase had come from that fonly Indian orchard trees in exsource,
and from a few trees that fistence in Wyoming County; unhad
a like origin, at Schlosser, Idoubtedly are the oldest. The
(near LaSalle), on the Niagara |trunks are about two feet in
River Those found in the |diameter,partially decayed,having
vicinity of Geneva, Canandaigua, |large scraggly limbs with tufts
Honeyoye flats, and upon the pof leaves, 'and yet bear some
GENESEE RIVER, were either propa- |fruit. William F. Eddy, Castile,
gated from them, or from seeds land Clare Chaffee, Perry, who as
given the Seneca Indians by the |boys lived on or near The Flats
Jesuit missionaries." |have eaten some of these apples,
fSome being sweet apples; one is
For some reason, General |cimiliar to the old "Sheep's-
Sullivan, during his raid in 1779,?;Nose"; and at least one a sort of
did not destroy an Indian apple IRusset.The orchard that contained
orchard beside the Seneca Cane- ithe "Golden Sweets," that stood
adea Council House, where Major |east of Mary Jemison's home, has
flong been gone.There is no trace,
minimi!
D O r i E l RS m EE
The Wyoming Historical Pioneer 1 These pioneer gatherings have
Association convened for Its an- 1 been held, with the exception of
nual meeting at Silver Lake, 1 about two years during World War
August I4., with 150 in attendance. | II, since 1372. The Association
The .address was given by Rev. 1 was incorporated in 1377 and owns
Edmund T. Rowe, Warsaw, while the the Log Cabin and adjacent land
music was furnished by the Letch- | at Silver Lake.
worth Central School Band,Freder- |
ck Pearce conducting,
The following officers were
elected: Hon.. President, Rev, Dr»
Mrs. Rosalette Powell, 100, 1 George D.Miller,Warsaw;President,
widow of a Civil War soldier, now ; Dr* Mary T, Greene, Castile;Viceliving
at Arcade, and John Flow- 1 President, Harry S, "Douglass,
ers,91, of Wyoming,were presented 1 Arcade; Secretary, Mrs. Agnas W.
chairs as being the oldest woman E Beebe, Arcade; and Treasurer,
and man present. As usual, these f Henry N. Page, Perry,
chairs were the gifts of Dr. Mary |
T. Greene, Castile, and James R, f
Blackmer, Buffalor
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