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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 461
my land, and took his notes, and went to (raots)'.' (this Avord AVIIS
indistinct) tOAvn 10 miles and moved him out. I
"I have explored this country 10 miles East and 30 South and have
see.n some good country and some poor.
"Everywhere I go I see some one that kneAV me or my Father or
Grandfather or some one that they or I knew, Avhich makes us all cousins.
"1 have beard of John Leferbree, and I calculate to make him a
visit, he is 12 miles South and 7 East from me, but there is no direct.
road.
"I Avish you to send me sonic new seed and some of. that large kind
of 12 roAv corn.
"Eunice AVIIS married to Chancy Thompson a Connecticut Yankee,
the Avedding AVIIS at 2 o'clock P M. and held out by about 50 persons
and continued by feasting and sporting until al 11 at eve.
•"By the bearer of this letter, Johnson Wheeler, Sally sends to Mother
a little bag of useful roots. Maria and .Monroe send their respects, to
Uncle Garry aud Grandmother, aud says tell them, that Monroe has
read in a teslaineiit, and Maria has read through the testament and to
Hie 20th chapter of John again.
"Crops have come in well this year and times good and lively for
a new country, and most cvt'ry thing will fetch the cjish.
"1 pray God to be your Holy keeper.
"MEKIUKTT' HYDE.
"P. S. (tive my regards to all friends and foes.
"This country is very flat, and in Avet seasons very muddy, but
healthy. In a dry season very pleasant?—I+-4s^very sickly Avhen the
drougli commences the standing waU/r stagnates, wTfich causes fevers
of several kinds, such as fever an/f ague, interinittant remittant and
typhus. ' /
"Every new inhabitant has tolhave one of these fevers for a seasoning,
but there are but very feAV that die from the seasoning although
some fall victims."
XOTK: Merriett Hyde AVIIS born in Oxford, Connecticut, January 2,
1794, and AVIIS married to Sally Boyd. The Eunice spokeji_g.f AVIIS his
sister. Gurry AVIIS his brother, AVIIO AVIIS also born in Oxford. He came
to Ohio in 1833 and settled in Vermillion. They Avere the children of
Daniel Hyde and Eunice Bard Hyde. Eunice Hyde died at Vermillion
in 1862 aged ninety-seven "years. Their first Hyde- ancestor Avas
Humphrey', who came to tkfs country from Oxfordshire, England, and
settled in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1669.
James D. Lea was a fine specimen of the old-fashioned democrat.
He spent his time and money for the democratic party Avithout fee or
hope of reAvard. The only office he ever held Avas member of the board
of Avaterworks. lie came here aiul/^ty^JnVlcJw^ efforts achieved a
fortune in the lumber business and lift'ed to see tm? day Avhen the party
for Avhich he hadjtoilcd for thirty years took possession of the county,
state and nation. He AA'as a strong friend and a good enemy and Avhat
greater praise can there be.