Historical Wyoming County September 1947 - Old Fulton History

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September 1947 .iMli>l|Tlllllllllltlltl||||IUI|M)llllllllillll|l|MIIIIM • llili'.itntHUMi 1830 PDSTOflCES ^ Page 6 IMMMtJUnllllMMIHMn.MHUIMilMIMlllhMinMlllilMtMIMMUIMMMMt»MltlMkMlinHMHHMMMMMIMttMlllliM«IIMMt»llllMIIMlllHM»r pn ij ieiw? 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.
September 1947 •HIHHIirfcimiMCill'ltll IHUIIII'MliH .,111111 III lIMMHlltlllllllll HIH'11MIM M U'M11111•111III MII1111M MIIII11II11 III 11 III'11IIIU1111II1111II1111 Page 7 IIIMIIIIIMtlMHMII*i 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 1 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 =(Continued on Page 8)
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