Historical Wyoming County September 1947 - Old Fulton History

sy- J ith this first issue of 

Historical Wyoming, the County 

Historian's Office begins an initial 

attempt to place in the 

hands of historically-minded residents 

of the County a journal 

through which the rich cultural 

resources of our region of western 

Mew York may become available 

to a larger audience. We 

hope that it will become the 

vehicle through which our readers 

and this Office may further the 

cause of historic consciousness, 

and to that end we dedicate our 

efforts, hoping that you will 

preserve each issue. 

Naturally, we solicit your 

aid and criticism. We want the 

widest possible distribution of 

this publication to those who are 

interested; we hope that it will 

stimulate you to send in names 

and addresses for our mailing 

lists. There is no obligation 

since we plan to continue this 

free distribution until such time 

as we feel we may command a subscription 

price. The first costs 

are being met by funds made 

available by the Board of Supervisors. 

Your response will doubtless 

influence its continuance. 

- Arcade. New York, September 1947 - No. 1 

What do you want this publication 

to offer? What features 

would be of service whether you 

are an official, a teacher, a 

clergyman,storekeeper, or candlestick 

maker? It should be of real 

service to schools, genealogists, 

professional people, officials, 

historical societies, and to the 

casual reader. Therefore, won't 

you write us your reactions and 

needs? 

We earnestly solicit contributions 

of all sorts relating to 

the historical, economic, social, 

and cultural growth of Wyoming 

County. By this means we hope to 

preserve and disseminate such 

material. Contributions can cover 

many lines: vital statistics from 

newspapers, Bibles, cemeteries, 

family histories, etc., before 

1880; extracts from church records; 

school records; war records; 

folklore; memoirs of older 

people; letters; diaries; account 

books; census records; abstracts 

from legal papers; road surveys; 

fraternal and club records; news 

of historical groups and celebrations; 

and significant events of 

our own day which often escape 

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the average reader. Y/e. ask* that 

no unsigned contributions be sent 

in,and that sources be indicated. 

No names rill be published without 

your permission. 

Local newspapers are welcome 

to reproduce any material appearing 

in Historical Wyoming. We 

trust t'.at the editors''will call 

upon us for any special assignment. 

In time, we hope to include 

some photographs on an insert. 

Please,therefore,keep us in mind'. 

At present, plans call for an 

issue about six times a year but 

it will be gauged to public demand. 

V.e take this opportunity to 

express our deerj ; ratification to 

the Education Committee of the 

Board of Supervisors; to the 

Arcade Central School for use of 

their facilities; to the Villa, e 

of Arcade for the use of their 

addressing machine; and to Ilr. 

Robert W. McGowan of the Commercial 

Department of Arcade Central 

School, to L. ether with his itu- 

cents, for iking this issue 

T 

possible. The- have generous!; 

offered to con ; inue this service 

Harry S. Douglass 

Count::' Historian 

CDQJCESUDCDW 1TOW 

Let us pass on to other readers 

that problem on local history 

which has been troubling you* 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

The Attica Historical Society 

has the exclusive franchise 

for Scull-Craft Engagement Calendars. 

Ask your local stationery 

dealer to stock them. 

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The Historian's Office will 

welcome the gift of any items of 

historic interest. We would like 

to urge the deposit of records of 

all sor ts m our files. If the 

secretar ies and clerks of clubs, 

fraterna 1 groups,and civic organ- 

izations would favor us with ros- 

ters an d programs, we should be 

most gra teful. 

We would like old letters, 

diaries, newspapers,vital statistics, 

school registers, business 

records, deeds, family histories, 

biographies,pictures,photographs, 

military records, directories , 

maps, atlases, gazetteers, old 

text books, sermons, addresses, 

vital records, account books , 

relics, periodicals, surveyor's 

notes, defunct organization records 

,cemetery inscriptions (don't 

forget the epitaphs), etc. 

MCCOCWCDWdrECDGMiIWir 

The County Historian's Office 

wishes to extend thanks to Ilr. 

Paul Dorris, Editor and publisher 

of the Tri-County Weeklies, Arcade, 

for the gift of 41 volumes 

of Proceedings of the Board of 

Supervisors, from 1388-1938. 

Through the help of Mrs. Jean 

Standish, Clerk of the Board, we 

have a complete file from 1382 to 

the present time with the exception 

of the years 1333, 1337, and 

1917. Y/e would welcome a gift of 

these missing copies, and copies 

of Proceedings which appeared before 

those we have on file.

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TOWN HISTORIANS 

ARCADE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Harry S. Douglass, Arcade 

ATTICA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mrs. Verne Shepard, Attica 

BENNINGTON ----- Mrs. Ruth Deci, Attica 

CASTILE - - - - Mrs. Abigail C. Johnson (Mrs. Charles G.), Castile 

COVINGTON --- 

EAGLE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Frederick Pearce, Bliss 

GAINESVILLE - - - - - - - - - - - - - Charles M. Smith, Gainesville 

GENESEE FALLS ---- - Floyd A. Smith, Portageville 

JAVA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Leo Craig, North Java 

MIDDLEBURY George Hartnell, Wyoming 

ORANGEVILLE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mrs. Sara Lung, Warsaw 

PEKRY - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

PIKE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ _ H. M.'Bowen, Pike 

SHELDON - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Mrs'. Alice Head, Johnsonburg 

WARSAW Miss Geraldine Holly, 70 W. Court St., Warsaw 

WETHERSFIELD Mrs. Chester Clor, Warsaw, R. D. (Wethersfield Spgs.) 

VILLAGE HISTORIANS 

WARSAW _ - - _ - _ - - - _ - Miss Edith Lester 

PIKE - -- — - ' H, II. Bowen 

PERRY ------ 

WYOMING - - - - - - - - George Hartnell 

GAINESVILLE ------- - - - 

SILVER SPRINGS -- - 

CASTILE 

ATTICA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

ARCADE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Harry S. Douglass 

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(PIT iHOllMNCD fOTOMSOE U0WWS 

From Gazetteerof the j considerably broken and corre- 

State of New -ork, ! spondents say it is subject to 

by Horatio G. Spafford, ! frosts that injure the fruit and 

Albany, 1313. j sometimes grain crops. General 

; surface elevated. Present popula- 

SHELDON: description--consists of ] tion figures unknown and guesses 

4 townships and watered by numer- ! are vague and wild, 

ous streams. It is a good tract \ 

or land and presents, of course, fWARSAW:good'tract'and consists of 

a great diversity of soil. Whole | townships 8,9,10, 1st Range. Surpopulation, 

1810, was 1415, 235 f f ace is considerably broken in 

senatorial electors and taxable jSouth, or on N. 8, but is well 

property $221;850; Consists of jwatered. Travellers and corre- 

Towns 7, 8, 9, 10, in 3rd and 4th [ spondents describe this country 

Ranges. t as peculiarly liable to frost; In 

| 1810 taxable property was $80,224 

ATTICA: erected in 1811, comprises I and 201 senatorial electors* Pop. 

3 townships, 8, 9, 10, or Holland j1317. 

Purchase, 2nd Range. Land said I 

to be good in general. Surface j LEICESTER: Population in 1810,9 27,


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different times, the Academy was 

strictly non-sectarian and continued 

to attract upwards of 200 

students annually from many of 

western New York's "First" families, 

largely because of a combination 

of exceptional facilities, 

splendid faculty,and a reasonable 

tuition. It is interesting to 

note that 

staffed by a 

bering but 

of courses 

in two departments 

faculty usually numfive, 

a wide variety 

were offered. Sub- 

jects reported to the Regents in 

1849 included:- 

arithmetic 

book keeping 

composition 

English grammar 

geography 

orthography 

penmanship 

surveying 

trigonometry 

Greek 

Latin 

general history 

moral philosophy 

pronunciation 

reading 

algebra 

mensuration 

natural philosophy 

French 

botany 

chemistry 

physiology 

elements of criticism 

Logic 

rhetoric 

For some years after 1826, 

meteorological observations were 

recorded at the Academy. For a 

19-year period the mean tempera-

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ture was 46.77 degrees, while the 

rainfall over a 17-year period 

averaged 30.47 inches. During 

1848,25.70 inches of moisture was 

measured, and the temperature aseraged 

47.85. January 10th was 

the coldest that year with forty 

below, v/hile August 14th saw a 

high for the year of 92 degrees. 

The first snow fell on November 

5th. Just in case you'd like to 

compare conditions next year with 

a century ago, the report reads, 

in part,:currents 

in blossom, May 5 

willows in blossom, April 3 

apple in flower, May 12 

hay harvest commenced, July 1 

corn in silk, July 4 

wheat harvest commenced,July 10 

During some years such phenomena 

as the time of the first and last 

frosts, the appearance of frogs, 

the first green corn, and aurora 

displays were reported. 

Most "Wyoming families boarded 

students at rates of about .50 

weekly;there were no dormitories. 

Graduates of the teacher training 

department were in wide demand, 

and drew salaries of from ^15 to 

tt>30 per month. Usually about 25 

were enrolled as student teachers 

. 

When the era of union free 

schools closed in, the Academy 

surrendered to public ownership 

in 1884, and with the erection of 

Middlebury Academy and Union 

School on Main Street in 1909,the 

historic edifice ceased as a 

great public institution. Mrs, 

Goonley Ward subsequently rescued 

the structure from disintegration 

and in time it passed into the 

hands of Mr. Fleming who utilized 

it as an office and to house a 

portion of his antique collection. 

His death occurred September 

19, 1946. 

com. 

Seldom has an institution in 

rural New York had such a distinguished 

roster of students. Among 

those achieving subsequent fame 

were: 

SETH M. GATES, abolitionist, congressman, 

candidate for lieutenant-governor. 

DR. HENRY AUGUSTUS WARD, naturalist 

and founder of the famous 

Ward's Natural Science collection 

in Rochester, N. Y. 

WILLIAM ALANSON HOWARD, member of 

Congress from Michigan, land commissioner 

and governor of Dakota, 

DR. CHARLES R. BARBER, founder of 

Park Avenue Hospital, Rochester, 

IRVING B. SMITH, state instructor 

of teachers' institutes. 

WILLIS ADAMS MAREAN, Denver architect, 

DR. GEORGE MATHER FORBES, professor 

of philosophy & education, 

University of Rochester, 

REV. JOSHUA BRADLEY, first president 

of Middlebury; went west 

where he founded several collegiate 

institutions, 

DR. GEORGE FRANKLIN FORBES, faculty 

of Brockport State Normal; 

president, Stetson University, 

Florida,and subsequently owner of 

Rochester Business Institute. 

H. WHEELER DAVIS, railroad contractor; 

one of founders of Rochester 

telephone and power corporations 

. 

.ISAAC G. WILSON, member of Illinois 

judiciary. 

;BERT C. CATE, Headmaster, Cook 

Academy, Montour Falls, N. Y. 

:GEORGE SPRAGUE BROOKS, novelist 

:whose stories appear in leading 

: magazines. 

;GRAHAM NEWILL FITCH, Congressman 

and U. S. Senator from Indiana. 

!WILLIAM J. FOSTER, Michigan leg- 

;islator. 

!HENRY HEWITT, Michigan county 

i judge and senator. 

I REV. GEORGE WHITEFIELD COLEMAN, 

;Third Bishop of the Free Methodlist 

Church. 

(Cont. on page 6)


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I U j . 1 I CONDUCTORS OF THE UNDERGROUND 

I RAILWAY 

The folicwing names are found 

111 vJ ! - •_ in ' t J the 'Directory of Names of 

iUnderground Railway Operators' , 

fpage 415, of Wilbur H. Siebert's 

Attica - - - - -Gaius Ds Rich \ The Underground Railway from sla- 

Pennington - - -- -Strong. Hayden f very o Fro (-.don:, v Ivlac.nillan, 1898. 

Castile- - - - -Jonathan Giliuu \ Who Y can supply additions? 

China(Arcade)- -Walter Hinckley 1 

Josiah Andrews 

Eagle- - - - - -George W. Itiapp f 

Allen Y. Eeck 

East China - - - - Eli Waterman i Willard J. Chapin 

Gainsville - Daniol Wheeler f Dr. Augustus Frank, Warsaw 

La Grange- - - -Charles Congdon f Rev. Ellin Galusha 

middlebury - - -Henry G. Walker I Seth M. Gates, Warsaw 

Worth China j R. W. Syman, Arcade 

(East Java)- - -Cornelius Newland § 

F. C. D. McKay 

North We tiêrsf ield -William Lewis | Samuel F. Poenix 

Orangeville- - - - -Jerry Merrill fCol. Charles 0. Shepard, Arcade 

Perry- ----- Benjamin Gardner ! H. N. Waldo, Arcade 

Perry Centre - - - -Talcot Howard f Andrew W. Young, Warsaw 

Pike - - - - - - - - -Thomas Dole f 

Portageville - - - - -E.D. Moses f " .MIDDLEBURY RESTORATION (Cont.) 

Sheldon- ----- -Pitch Chipman f 

Silver Lake- - - -George B. Chase I JUDGE JOSEPH MEAD BAILEY, grad- 

Strykersville- - -Shadrach Harris f uate and teacher; served in Ill- 

Varysburg- ----- -Caleb Clark I inois legislature;judge and chiof 

Vernal ------ Hanford Conger f justice, Illinois Supreme Court; 

V/arsaw ----- -Elias Pi. Bascom ! one of the founders of the uni- 

Wethersfield - - - -Joel Smith I versity of Chicago, 

Wyoming- - - - William B. '"Collar I 

JOHN DANIELS, Minnesota 

f legislator; member of Congress 

By 1852, these were added: § from California. 

I JONATHAN C. HALL, Iowa judge, 

Centre China(Curriers)-Edgar Camp I legislator and railroad president 

Cowleysville(Cowlesville)-Hiram | CALVIN B. ORCUTT, financier and 

Cowles | manufacturer who was active in 

Wethersfield Springs - Ormus I Atlantic Coast coal and ship- 

Doolittle I building. 

(Annual Register, 1850,1832') As reported above, the Middlebury 

Historical Society is tho 

new owner. However, to restore 

March 31, 1828, "The Attica Manu- f and adapt the structure to the 

facturing Co." was incorporated 1 needs of that group, it is im- 

with a $50,000 capital for manu- | perative that immediate financial 

facturing cotton and wool, with | assistance be pledged. Repairs 

the power to clear out and make f of a major nature are iminent if 

navigable the Tonawanda Creek f this historical landmark is to be 

from Attica to the Erie Canal, | saved. It has been proposed that 

either through the feeder at Med- | the second floor might be con- 

ina,or directly down the Creek to | verted into business and profess- 

Pendleton,and to construct a tow- f ional offices while reserving the 

ing path along the Creek. 

first floor for the Society's exhibition 

rooms and perhaps charging 

a fee for admission. Pledges 

of cooperation are invited by 

the Society at Wyoming, New York.


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Of great importance to the |four deeds, the rest of western 

development of Wyoming County was [New York, now west of the East 

the formal signing of the Treaty {Transit Line, to a group of Dutch 

of Big Tree, September 15, 1797, icapitalists, known as the Holland 

at the present village of Geneseo, iLand Company. Only a strip one 

This month, 150 years later, Liv- [mile wide parallel with the Niagingston 

County "is commemorating iara îver was not included. 

the event. 

Under the terms of 

The background of this trea- itract with the Cutch, Morris was 

ty goes back to the conflicting i obligated to extinguish the In~ 

claims of New York and Massachus- idian title 3 0 tha- ; surveys and 

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etts over western New York. In ;settlement might benin. • i s 

1786, the dispute was resolved by f proved tr oubles ome. The wi tLia 

convention of commissioners who Iholding of military poets Jj tllf: 

determined that Massachusetts re- :British, the prospect of further 

served the preemption right, cov- I British, and Indian wart, the - 

ering about six million acres. fluotance of the Senoeas to p c 

Two years later, the Bay State f with their land a, and the IP.: .vi- 

• .•'id its right to Oliver Phelps jcial difficulties of Morrispes >• 

j.nd Nathaniel Gorham, while they, iponed any agreement. In Tanuar; p 

in turn, purchased the Indian 11797, President Washington v/a.° 

title to a vast area in the east- Ipetitioned by Morris to name a 

ern portion of these lands, which [federal commissioner to assist, 

came to be known as the Phelps {as the law required,at the forthand 

Gorham Purchase, no part of [coming parley. Washington delayed 

which touched Wyoming County. To funtil he ascertained that at least 

the west, Robert Morris, famed la few of the ênecas were inter- 

Revolutionary financier, bought ested in selling, and with the 

similar rights to western New I consent of the Senate, first app- 

York, in areas after-wards desigointed Judge Isaac Smith of Now 

nated as the Morris Reserve and {Jersey. The Judge's official 

the Holland Purchase, containing {duties interfering, Col. Jeremiah 

ill lands generally west of the h.adsworth was substituted. 

r, uiesee River. The Morris Re- 

3 -±'VQ, covering about 500, 000 After mucn persuasion and 

jros, had been conveyed, March \ journeying among the villages, 

12, 1791, by Massachusetts ' to fMorris's : on, Thomas, succeeded 

•lamuel Ogden Mr. Morris's agent, {assembling the Indians at Big 1 x-e 

aud among he townships created {by August 20,1797;representatives 

therefrom are Covinjrrton, Perry, I of the government, the owner, and 

Castile,and most of Genesee Falla I the Holland Land Company arrived 

May 11, 1791, Morris conveyed, in fat about the same time. Formal 

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negotiations opened on the 28th i 

with a speech by Thomas Morris | 

setting forth his proposals. It f 

.?as generally known that some of = 

the white men came prepared to f 

make secret deals with influential } 

Indians and interpreters. Whiskey i 

was forbidden until the completion! 

of the treaty. I 

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Long and calm consultations | 

followed the introductory proceedings 

until some one introduced 

a barrel of whiskey among the 

Indians. Farmer's Brother,"a very 

sober and respectable chief", reported 

the situation, observing 

at the same time that Red Jacket 

was very much under the effects 

of drink. It was arranged that Farmer's 

Brother should destroy the 

cask even though he temporarily 

incurred the wrath of the 

Senecas. This done, with time to 

sober up, the council reconvened. 

Red J acket, always conscious of 

his importance and fearful of 

10£ of influence, spear-headed 

the opposition. lie felt that he 

could profit personally through 

posing as the protector of his 

necple. That he subsequently did. 

-'ornplanter _ Little Beard, Little 

Billy, and x Uu 

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Morris that the chief women should 

be convened since they were, by 

Iroquois law, privileged to overrule 

the decisions of the sachems. 

Accordingly, on September 7th, 

Morris explained the advantage of 

a sale and promised the women soms 

cows if the sale wore successful. 

Several days of consultations 

between the warriors and the women 

climaxed in the reconvening 

of the council and the signing of 

a treaty. Red Jacket again held 

the spotlight; he demanded larger 

reserves that the white men desired 

and held out for choice 

sites, but in the end around 200, 

000 acres, out of more than four 

million, was set aside for the 

oenecas, and a purchase price of 

$100,000 in stock in the Bank of 

the United States was accepted. 

To establish the ' boundaries 

of these reservations was no 

small task. The vague definitions 

were purposely exploited by various 

chiefs because of jealously 

and rivalry. Red Jacket's group 

got the largest area in the Buffalo 

Creek Reservation. Mary Jemison, 

as a reward for her valued 

services and prestige,was granted 

'armer's Brother were 17,929 acres in the town of Cas- 

occasional speakers. Red Jacket tile, an area knwon as the "White 

finally proposed the sale of but Woman's Tract". Other nearby re- 

one township, near the northern serves included Squaky Hill, 

bounds of Pennsylvania, and no Little Beard's Town and Big Tree, 

more. This Morris flatly dis- and Canaedea. When Joseph Ellicarded. 

Thereupon, with savage cott began his surveying for the 

dignity, Red Jacket declared the Holland Land Company in 1798, he 

council fire covered and the par- defined these Indian lands west 

ley was at an end. 

of the East Transit Line. During 

the following year, all townships 

Into the breech Farmer's in this county were recorded al- 

Brother steeped. He suggested to though the internal surveys were 

not completed until 1809.

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New York Annual Register 

1833, N. Y. 

Edited by Edwin Williams 

Pages 270-271, contain the 

following letter and a picture of 

the view at the Upper Falls of 

the Genesee River at Portage. 

The letter from Daniel '.Tadsworth 

to Professor Silliman is entitled 

"Natural Curiosity". 

"My dear Sir,--The view I 

send you is taken from the vicinity 

of the Upper Palls of the 

Genesee River,a quarter of a mile 

below the last cascade, twentythree 

miles above lloscow, and 

about 60 miles south of Lake Ontario, 

The river, in its windings, 

traverses a much greater 

distance before it reaches the 

Lake. The rock which in the drawing 

is facing the spectator,rises 

probably to the height of 450 

feet. As we were gazing with some 

trepidation from the brink of the 

less elevated but near precipice 

on the left, a hardy young man of 

the party exclaimed with an almost 

inarticulate voice, "I woni.er 

these trees are not afraid to 

grow here." The sccnery in that 

neighborhood is very little known 

but when all the points worth 

visiting both at the top and the 

foot of the rocks, are rendered 

more accessible, and there are 

good accommodations for lodgings, 

it must become a place of great 

resort, and not improbably this 

may have taken place since my 

last visit to the spot,(in 1827). 

So rapidly does everything advance 

in this country. 

There are three distinct 

falls, included in a distance of 

three miles. They differ as much 

as possible from each other, having 

their own peculiar beauties, 

and each a different and laborous 

approach, they are respectively 

60, 90, 110 feet high: to see 

them all is now no light undertaking, 

but will soon, I think, 

be rendered a very easy one. 

The cascades themselves would 

anywhere else,be objects of great 

1 admiration, and are fully deservfing 

of a particular description, 

[but they are almost forgotten in 

fthe feelings of wonder and even 

|of fear, with which the sublime 

|perpendicular walls of the river 

:inspire you. They may truly be 

|called walls, for they do not, 

'like the walls at Trenton, recede 

las they approach the top; but 

iare, for a great distance perfectly 

upright or impending and 

I almost ac regular, for a great 

I part of the three miles, as a 

Iwork of art; and rising as the 

[inhabitants around tell you, from 

1200 to 500 feet, and so they apfpear: 

but probably 400 feet is 

fnot beyond the truth. To this 

"jdepth the river seems to have 

fworn its circuitous passage in 

[the rock,in turns almost as short 

|and bends nearly as graceful as 

jif winding through the softest 

jmeadows. I have never witnessed 

fin nature a scene of more savage 

Igrandeur and loneliness than the 

fview from these fearful walls, 

jwhen looking into the gulph from 

lone of their highest fronts, to 

I the very edge of which, by trustling 

to the boughs of the thick 

fshrubbery, y'ou can approach withjout 

apparent danger. Gigantic 

{evergreens stand upon the extreme 

fverge, lifting their tops to the 

1 clouds, and looking unconsciously 

lover the awful precipice which 

Iman cannot approach without alarm 

land they seem, from their vast 

fheight, to have held their places 

Ion its brink for ages."


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PIOnEER 

colorhg atd 

DUE IPG'—— 

Usually, the thread or yarn 

was colored and the following 

were sources of color the indigo 

and other chemicals being purchased 

from peddlers or neighborhood 

traders. 

1. Hickory bark or peach 

leaves--yellows. 

2. Black & white walnut bark 

or hulls—browns, or 

rusty black when mixed 

with sumach berries. 

5. Sumach berries alonedeep, 

warm reds. 

4. Oak and maple--shades 

purple. 

of 

5. Codar berries--delicate 

dove or lead colors. 

Golden rod flowers mixed 

with indigo and 

green.alum-- 

7. Sassafras with indigo and 

alum--yellow or orange. 

8. Pokeberry boiled withalum 

--crimson. 

9. Sorrel with ftegwood and 

copperas--black. 

10. Oak bark with indigobrownlsh 

red. 

JAMES G. BIRKEY (1792-1857) is 

buric 1 in an abandoned burying 

ground at old Williamsburg (Hampden's 

Corners), Livingston County 

He was nominated in Warsaw, in 

1839, for President. His second 

wife was Elizabeth Fitzhugh and 

that is why he was buried among 

the Fitzhughs and the Carrolls, 

notables from Maryland, in an almost 

forgotten corner of western 

New York. 

PERRY is the County's only shrine 

of the Revolution. It is the farthest 

western point reached by 

General Sullivan in his raid 

against the Senecas in 1779. 

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"It is very narrow, and of 

little depth at Its entrance into 

the Lake. A little higher, It is 

one hundred and forty yards wide, 

and they say It is deep enough 

for the largest vessels. 

leagues from its Mouth, we ary 

stopped by a Fall which appears 

to be fully sixty feet high, and 

140 yards wide. A musket shot 

higher, we find a second of the 

same width, but not so high by 

two-thirds. Half a league further 

a third, 100 feet high, good measure, 

and two hundred yards wide« 

After this we meet with several 

rapids; and after having sailed 

50 leagues further, we preceive a 

fourth Fall (Portage), every way 

equal to the Third. The course of 

this River is 100 Leagues; and 

when we have g one up it about 60 

Leagues, we have but ten to go by 

Land,turning to the right, to arrive 

at the Ohio, called La Belle 

Riviere. The place where wo meet 

with It is called Ganos; where an 

officerworthy ofCredit (Joncaire) 

assured me that he had seen a 

fountain exactly like it,and that 

the Savages make use of its water 

to appease all manner of pains." 

(This has reference to the oil 

spring in the town of Cuba.)


Persona is — 

Prom the Batavia Republican 

Advocate, June 9, 1320? 

FIVE CE T 'TS REWARD 

Ranaway from the subscriber a boy 

by the name of William Marcy 

about nineteen years of age, five 

feet high, light complex!oned, 

very slim built,dressed with grey 

clothesj--being bound until one 

and twenty,! therefore forbid all 

persons harboring or trusting him 

on my account, as I shall pay no 

debts of his contracting after 

this date. Whoever will take up 

said boy shall receive the afore 

reward, and no charges paid. 

Samuel Warner 

Warsaw, Feb. 25, 1820 

From the Batavia Republican 

Advocate, Aug. 18, 1820; 

ONE CENT REWARD 

Whereas Ann Wilkinson, our maid, 

being bedeviled and seduced by 

some who are destitute of moral 

rectitude as the said Ann is herself 

- she, on the 11th of Jxme 

last, ranaway from my house--and 

I forbid all persons harboring or 

trusting her on. my account, as I 

snail pay no debts of her contracting 

after this date. 

Those who have tils maid's 

assistants been, 

Her assistants still ought to 

remain 

And not to leave her in distress, 

Altho 1 she's coming to disgrace. 

WILLIAM CHASE 

Orangeville, August 12, 1820 

(Taken from the files of the 

Buffalo Historical Society.) 

Page 11 

CENSUS FIGURES FOR ' 'YOMING COUNTY 

1810 - 2,736(Sheldon i: Warsew) 

1814 - - - - 3,411 

1320 - - - - 16,149 

1825 - - - - 22,307 

1830 - - - - 29,047 

1835 - - - - 32,771 

1840 - - - - 34,245 

1845 - - - - 30,691 

1850 - - - - 31,931 

1855 - - - - 32,143 

1860 - - - - 31,963 

1355 - - - - 30,031 

1870 - - - - 29,164 

1875 - - - - 30,636 

1380 - - - - 30,907 

1890 - - - - 31,193 

1900 - - - - 30,413 

1910 - - - - 31,830 

1920 - - - - 30,314 

1930 - - - - 23,764 

1940 - - - - 31,394 

May, 1810, Report of 

lishments and manufacturing in 

Genesee County for five towns. 

8 tanner?! es 

6 distilleries 

128 looms 

7,745 yards of woolen cloth, 

per yd. average 

23,359 yards linen cloth, 37^/ 

per yard average 

3,218 yards cotton cloth, 32v^ 

per yard average 

1 carding machine 

\ GARDEAU TRACT, 17,929 acres, on 

I both sides of the Genesee River 

'was reserved for Mary Jcmison by 

!the Senecas in the Big Tree Trea- 

| ty of 17C7. One half of the Tract 

fwas in the present town of Castjile, 

and thereon Mary Jemison and 

|her family lived until 1816, when 

fall but two square miles on the 

|west side of the river was sold 

I to ricah Brooks and Jellis Clute. 

I After Mary Jemison's removal to 

j Buffalo Creek, she sold the remainder 

in 1331 to Mr. Clute and 

f Henry B. Gibson.

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