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WYOMING COUNTY, NEW YORK
History & Genealogy


Source:
HISTORY
of the
TOWN OF WARSAW,
NEW YORK

from its First Settlement to the Present Time;
with numerous
FAMILY SKETCHES
and
Biographical Notes
by
Andres W. Young
Author of "Science of Government," American Statesman, "itizen's Manual,"
"National Economy," &c, &c.
Embelished with Portraits, and Views of
Residences and Churches.
BUFFALO:
Press of the Sage, Sons & Co., Lith., Printing and Manufact'g. Co.
1869

CONTENTS

CIVIL HISTORY

HOLAND PURCHASE
   - Preliminary History - 17
 - British grants to Plymouth Company - 17
 - Massachusetts and New York cede their western lands to the United States - 17-18
 - Conflicting claims of these States - 18
 - Phelps and Gorham's Purchase - 18
 - Sale to Robert Morris - 19
 - Morris's sale to Holland Land Company - 19-20
 - Indian Reservations - 20
 - Holland Company's survey by Joseph Ellicott, and the Transit instrument - 20-22
 - Erection and division of Genesee county - 22-23
TOPOGRAPHY OF WARSAW
   - Situation, locaton and bounds of the town - 23-24
 - Its roads, soil, surface, productions, streams &c - 24-25
SETTLEMENT OF WARSAW
   - Elizur Webster explores the township - 25
 - His purchase and settlement - 26-27
 - Original land sales - 27-36
 - Progress of settlement; first burial - 36-37
 - Amos Keeney's experience - 37-40
 - Five immigrants carried into the town by other four - 38
 - Seth Gates and Truman Lewis - 40-41
 - Description of log-houses, with stick chimneys' pole bed-steads &c. - 41-43
 - The first saw-mill and grist-mill and store - 43-45
 - Want of a physician; labors of Mrs. Palmer, and advent of Dr. Sheldon - 45-46
 - Town of Warsaw formed - 46
 - Household labor; cooking - 46-48
 - Making cloth in families - spinning, dyeing, &c. - 48
 - Itinerant tailoresses - 49
 - Shoemaking in families - 49-50
 - Wild animals and bounties - 50-51
 - Wolf and bear stories - 52-53
 - Artemas Shattuck who cut off his foot to save his life - 53-55
 - Enjoyment of the early settlers - 56-57
POLICY OF THE LAND COMPANY
   - Settlers charged with "Increase;" cattle received on contracts - 58
 - Partial reduction of debts - 59
 - Opinions respecting the Company's policy - 59
 - Causes of the adversity of the settlers, or the settlers vindicated - 59-60
 - Partial relief, within doors - 60-61
 - Ashes, as a source of money - 61
THE VILLAGE
   - Its condition in 1816 - 62
 - Cumings' purchase - streets and lots laid out - 62-63
 - Growth of the village - 63-65
 - Isaiah Kenyon - 66-67
 - The McKay purchase, and its results - 67-68
 - Improvements since 1841 - 68
 - Great Fire of 1867, and its effects - 69
 - Frank & Farman's purchase, and improvements - 67-70
POST-OFFICES
   - First Post-Office in Warsaw - 70
 - Where and how mailing had been done; postage then, and now - 70-71
 - Levi Street, the mail-carrier; first newspapers - 71
 - List of Postmasters - 72
AGRICULTURE
   - Early tillage and farming implements; Wood's cast Iron plow - 73
 - Mode of harvesting - 73-74
 - Stock raising - 74-75
 - Fruit culture - 75-76
TRADE - MERCHANTS
   - The early stores; purchasing goods - 77
 - System of trade - 78
 - Warsaw as a center of trade - 78
 - Maple sugar - 78
 - Ashes, a chief, article of trade - 79
 - Cattle and pork, and their prices - 79
 - Dry Goods merchants, from 1813 to 1869 - 80-84
 - Hardware merchants - 84
 - Druggists - 85-86
 - Booksellers - 86
 - Grocers - 86
MANUFACTURES
   - Saw-mills and Grist-mills - 87-89
 - Woolen manufactures; Seymour Ensign, first carder and cloth-dresser - 89-90
 - Hough & Norton and Norton & Hough; Conable & Moss and their successors - 90
 - Gardner, Utter & Co. - 91
 - Carriage manufacture - 91-92
 - Tanneries - 92-93
 - Map-roller factory - 93-94
 - Foundries, cast iron, &c. - 94-95
 - Planing-mills - 95-96
 - Patterson Manufacturing Company - 96-97
 - Cabinet-making - 97
 - Carpet factory - 98
ROADS AND BRIDGES
   - Manner of Laying out Roads - 98
 - Old Buffalo Road - 98
 - State Road from Canandaigua - 99
 - Gulf Road - 99-100
 - Bridges - 101
RAILROADS
   - Warsaw and Le Roy Railroad - 102-104
 - Attics and Hornellsville Railroad - 104-106
 - Purchase of the N. Y. Central to Buffalo - 106
CEMETERIES
   - Old Ground, how selected; first burials - 106-107
 - New Cemetery; Association incorporated - 107
 - Dedicated - 108
WARSAW LIBRARY
   - Library incorporated, and names of the corporators - 108
 - Names of Trustees; Dissolution of the Association - 100
EDUCATION - SCHOOLS
   - First School in Warsaw - 110
 - Description of early School-houses - 110
 - Course of Study - 111
 - Manner of conducting Schools - 111-112
 - Select Schools - 112-113
 - Union School instituted - 113
 - Union Free School established - 114
 - Names of Principals and Assistants - 115-116
 - Sketches of School District - 116-122
PHYSICIANS
   - Names of Practicing Physicians in Warsaw, and their respective Terms of Practice - 123-124
LAWYERS
   - Names of Attorneys, and the times of commencing and discontinuing Practice in this town - 125-126
BANKS
  - Wyoming County Bank - 127
 - Wyoming County National Bank of Warsaw - 128
NEWSPAPERS
   - First Paper, Genesee Register, by L. & W. Walker - 128
 - Warsaw Sentinel, by A. W. Young - 128-129
 - American Citizen, by the Antislavery Society - 129|
 - Western New Yorker, by Barlow & Woodward, and their successors - 129-130
 - Wyoming Republican - 130
 - Wyoming County Mirror - 130
 - Wyoming Democrat, and the Masonic Tidings - 130
WYOMING COUNTY
   - Formation of the county - 131
 - Commissioners to fix the site for the County Buildings - 131
 - Building Commissioners - 132
 - First Courts, where held - 132
 - First Election of County Officers - 132
 - Reasons for the Division of Genesee - 132
 - Annexation of towns from Alleghany County - 133
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
   - Organization of the Society; Election of Officers - 133-134
 - First Fair; Purchase of Fair Grounds - 134
OLD FOLKS FESTIVALS
   - Meeting at Dr. Frank's in 1850 - 136-137
 - Meeting in 1860 - 137
 - Remarks of Dea. Samuel Salisbury - 138
 - of William Webster, Elam Perkins, Julius Whitlock - 139
 - of Chester Hurd, Henry Hovey, Hiram Porter - 140
 - of William Smallwood, Job Sherman, Newbury Bronson - 141
 - of E. B. Miller, Frank Miller, S. M. Gates - 142
 - of J. A. McElwain, Eli Merrill - 143
 - of G. W. Morris, Peter Young, Rev. Mr. Buck - 144
PUBLIC MEETINGS on Extraordinar Occasions.
   - Death of President Zachary Taylor - 146
 - Death of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 - 147-149
TEMPERANCE
   - First Temperance Society in Warsaw - 150
 - Kittridge's Address and Lyman Beecher's Sermons - 150
 - Adoption of Tee-total Pledge - 150
 - Drinking Customs - 151
 - Early Friends of Temperance - 151-152
 - Washingtonians - 152
 - License Question - 153
 - Decline of Temperance - 153
 - Prohibitory Laws - 154
 - Order of Good Templars - 154-155
ANTISLAVERY
   - Antislavery Societies formed - 156
 - Proslavery Mobs; Antislavery Meeting at Utica broken up - 156
 - Antislavery Meeting at Batavia - 157-160
 - Meting of Batavians - 157
 - Antislavery Meeting entered by citizens - 158
 - Report of Antislavery Committee - 159
 - Meeting adjourned to Warsaw - 160
 - Proceedings of Warsaw Meeting - 161
 - Nomination of James G. Birney in 1839, for President, and its effects - 162
 - Buffalo Free-soil Convention in 1848.  Nomination of Van Buren and Adams - 163

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
   - Organization of the first Church of Warsaw, (then Congregational,) - 165
 - Early Preachers - 165
 - Installation of resignation of Rev. Silas Hubbard - 166
 - First House of Worship - 167
 - Action on Sabbath Schools - 1767
 - Action on Slavery - 169
 - Death of Rev. Daniel Waterbury - 170
 - Division of the Church - 170
 - Semi-Centenary Meeting - 171
 - New Church Edifice; Laying of the Corner Stone - 172-173
 - Dedication - 174-175
FIRST LEGALLY ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS SOCIETY -
 - Formation of Union Society - 176-178
 - Objects of Association - 178
 - Action on building a Meetinghouse - 179
 - House built - 179-180
 - House bought by the Presbyterians and finished - 180
 - First Church Bell - 181-183
 - A Bugle used for a Bell - 181
 - Bell purchased; Copy of Subscription - 182-183
METHODIST CHURCH
   - Early History of the Church - 184
 - Society legally organized - 185
 - Houses of Worship - 186
 - Action of Quarterly Conference on the Traffic and Use of Ardent Spirits - 186
 - Action on Secret Societies - 187-188
 - Action on Missions - 187
 - Names of Presiding Elders and Preachers - 189-190
BAPTIST CHURCH
  Early History of the Church; names of its first Members, 191
 - Name of the Church changed - 191-192
 - Dismission of Members in 1827 to Gainesville Church - 192
 - First house of worship built - 192
 - Masonic Troubles, and their Settlement - 193
 - Union  with the Genesee Association - 193
 - Society legally organized - 193
 - Change of Site, and the Building of a new House - 194
 - Names of Church Officers - 195
CONGREGATIONAL
   - Organization of the Church - 196
 - Constitution and Rules - 196
 - Building of a Church Edifice, an Dedication - 197-198
 - House enlarged - 198
 - Action on Secret Societies - 198
 - Building of a new Meeting-house; laying of the Corner Stone, and Dedication - 198-199
 - Pastors and Officers of the Church - 199-200
 - Quarter Centennial Anniversary - 200-202
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
   - Antecedent History of the Church - 203-204
 - Legal Organization of the Society - 204
 - Erection and Dedication of a House of Worship; bequest of a Parsonage by Mrs. Watson - 205
 - Names of Rectors - 205
FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH
   - Preliminary History - 206
 - Organization of the Church; building of a Meeting-house - 207
 - Names of Ministers - 207
 - Action on Slavery and Intemperance - 208
 - Contributions for Benevolent Purposes - 208
GERMAN PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES - 208
GOSPEL LAND
   - History of Land Grants by the Holland Land Company to Religious Societies - 209-210

WAR HISTORY

WAR OF 1812
   - Declaration of War against Great Britain - 211
 - Names of Citizens of Warsaw who served therein - 211
WAR OF THE REBELLION
   - Bombardment and Fall of Fort Sumter - 212
 - Proclamation of President Lincoln, and Call for 75,000 Volunteers - 212
 - Meeting in Warsaw, and the Rising of Money - 212-213
 - Sums subscribed by Citizens - 213
 - First Company of Volunteers; their Departure - 213-214
 - Another Call; Companies of Captains Stimson and Bentley - 215
 - Call of 1862; Companies of Captains Knapp, Jenks and Harrington - 215-216
 - A Touching Scene, (case of Carley Bills,) - 216-217
 - Return and Reception of Company K - 217-218
 - Call of 1863 - 218
 - Sanitary Fair and Aid Societies - 218-219
 - Three more Calls for Men - 219
 - Bounties and Taxes - 219-220
 - Close of the War - 220-221
 - List of Volunteers from Warsaw, with Dates and Terms of Enlistment, Casualties, Discharges, &c. - 222-231

FAMILY AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

   - Alphabetically Arranged - 232-361

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

   - The Starved Ship - 362
 - Scotch-Irish Family captured by Pirates - 363
 - Underground" Escape of a Slave Mother and her Child - 364-365
 - Crystal Brook and its Cascades - 365-367
 - "Indian Allan," - 367
 - Sketch of Indian History - 368-369
 - Old Modes of Travel - 369-370
 - Wyoming County Insurance Company - 370-371
 - Late Fire - 371
 - Warsaw Gas Works - 372
 - Additional Family Sketches - 372-377

OFFICIAL REGISTER

   - COUNTY OFFICERS - Sheriffs, Clerks, Surrogates, Judges, and District Attorneys - 378-380
   - MEMBERS of Assembly, and Senators - 380
   - MEMBERS of the Legislature - 380
   - MEMBERS of Congress - 381
   - MEMBERS of Constitutional Conventions - 381
   - TOWN OFFICERS - 382-387
BUSINESS DIRECTORY - 387
CENSUS STATISTICS - 390
INDEX - 391
INDEX OF NAMES - 395
CORRECTIONS AND OMISSIONS - 400

EMBELLISHMENTS

1. Andrew W. Young - Frontispiece  
2. Elizur Webster 25
3. Amos Keeney 39
4. Truman Lewis 58
5. Palmer fargo 108
6. Harlow L. Comstock 125
7. James C. Ferris 133
8. Julius Whitlock 139
9. William Smallwood 144
10. John Munger 169
11. Peter Patterson 173
12. Elam Perkins 185
13. David Fargo 193
14. William Buxton 209
15. Timothy H. Buxton 243
16. Benjamin B. Conable 249
17. Ransom A. Crippen 251
18. Elbert E. Farman 260
19. John Fisher 263
20. Augustus Frank (Dr.) 265
 
21. Mrs. Jane Frank 267
22. Augustus Frank 269
23. Seth M. Gates 272
24. Alanson Holly 278
25. Abram B. Lawrence 290
26. F. C. D. McKay 296
27. John A. McElwain 298
28. Asa B Merrill 300
29. Frank Miller 302
30. Rev. Joseph E. Nassau 309
31. John D. Patterson 315
32. Aaron Rumsey 325
33. Charles L. Seaver 328
34. Charles O. Shepard 330
35. Col. Phineas Staunton 335
36. Zera L. Tanner 338
37. Linus W. Thayer 340
38. William Walker 343
39. Rev. Edwin E. Williams 353
40. Arden Woodruff 354

VIEWS OF RESIDENCES, CHURCHES, &c.
Residence of Joshua H. Darling 68
Residence of Augustus Frank 76
Old Presbyterian Church, built in 1817 167
Presbyterian Church 176
Congregational Church 199
Warsaw Falls, on Crystal brook 365

 

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