CONTENTS.
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| [THE PIONEERS OF UNADILLA VILLAGE.] | |
| I. BEFORE THE VILLAGE WAS FOUNDED. 1616-1784. | |
| The Early Explorers—Settlers Before the Revolution—Sidney and the Ouleout—Wattles’s Ferry—Other Susquehanna Villages—The Catskill Turnpike—Village Founders—“My Native Land”—The Isolation of Unadilla, | [3] |
| II. THE VILLAGE SITE AND THOSE WHO CHOSE IT. 1784-1800. | |
| The Coming of Daniel Bissell, Guido L. Bissell, Solomon Martin, Gurdon Huntington, Aaron Axtell and Others—Sites they Settled On, | [12] |
| III. TWO FRONTIER MERCHANTS. 1800. | |
| Curtis Noble and Isaac Hayes—The opening of the Turnpike—Arks on the Susquehanna—Col. George H. Noble and Judge Charles C. Noble—H. H. Howard and Dr. Willis Edson, | [28] |
| IV. EARLY TOWN MEETINGS, ROADS AND HOUSES. 1787-1810. | |
| Many towns made from the original Unadilla—“The County of Unadilla”—Curiosities from town records—Roads before 1800—Houses standing in 1808—Dr. Dwight’s visit in 1804—Road Districts in 1800, | [42] |
| V. LATER MEN OF MARK. 1804-1815. | |
| Stephen Benton and his store—Major C. D. Fellows, Judge Sherman Page and Dr. Adanijah, Daniel, Gilbert and Gardner Cone—Capt. Frederick A. Bolles, Salmon G. Cone, David Finch, William J. Thompson, Niel Robertson, Col. Thomas Heath, A. P. Gray, M. B. Jarvis, Josiah Thatcher, John Eells, and Lyman Sperry, | [60] |
| VI. A GRIST AND SAWMILL CENTRE. 1790-1812. | |
| The builders of the mills—Origin of the Binnekill—Creeks that fed it—Sampson Crooker’s purchase—Joel Bragg—The burning of the mills—Gen. Edward S. Bragg, | [74] |
| VII. CHURCHES, BRIDGES AND A SCHOOL. 1809-1824. | |
| Early missionaries—Father Nash and St. Matthew’s—Rev. Norman H. Adams—Pioneers buried in the churchyard—The Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches—Freedom Lodge—Capt. Edward Howell—A schoolhouse in 1821—The two bridges built, | [82] |
| VIII. PIONEERS IN TRIBUTARY NEIGHBORHOODS. 1784-1823. | |
| Crookerville settled—Unadilla Centre and Rogers Hollow—Families along the old Butternuts road—Sand Hill and Hampshire Hollow—Sidney Centre and the old Paper Mill region—“Spencer Street”—Samuel Rogers, Martin B. Luther, Col. David Hough and Perry P. Rogers, | [94] |
| IX. MAIN AND MILL STREET MEN. 1815-1840. | |
| Two business centres—Roswell Wright’s store and Stephen Benton’s—Arnold B. Watson—The Unadilla Bank—The old Academy—Clark I. Hayes—Col. A. D. Williams and Erastus Kingsley—Dr. John Colwell, Henry Ogden, L. B. Woodruff, Henry S. Woodruff and Seleck H. Fancher, | [111] |
| X. TWO MEN OF NOTE. 1828-1835. | |
| Frederick A. Sands[1] and his father, Judge Obadiah Sands—Frank B. Arnold—Col. Samuel North and Thomas G. North, | [124] |
| XI. HOUSES STANDING SEVENTY-THREE YEARS AGO. 1828. | |
| Col. North’s description of the village at the time of his arrival—Men who were living here, their families and their occupations, | [133] |
| XII. THE UNADILLA HUNTING CLUB AND THE JUBILEE OF INDEPENDENCE. 1820-1826. | |
| A famous haunt of deer—Men who came to hunt them—Dinners at Hunter’s Hall—Poachers and Pomp’s Eddy—A great Fourth at Kortright—Political feeling disclosed in an oration—Survivors of the Border Wars—Joseph Brant, | [146] |
| XIII. VILLAGE LIFE SEVENTY YEARS AGO. 1830-1833. | |
| Charming light on business and social life—Post Office contests and “up-street and down-street”—A celebration of the Fourth—Frederick T. Hayes—“The footsteps of bygone generations,” | [159] |
| [REMINISCENCES.] | |
| PREFACE, | [177] |
| I. KORTRIGHT AND UNADILLA. 1819-1840. | |
| Birthplace and family history—Dr. Gaius Halsey of Kortright—The Catskill Turnpike—The first stove—To Delhi for general training—Erastus Root and the Rev. William McAuley—Reading medicine—To Scranton or Unadilla?—Arrival at Kingsley’s Hotel, | [179] |
| II. UNADILLA SIXTY YEARS AGO. 1840. | |
| Houses then standing—Commodore Woolsey—The Norman H. Adams house—The lower hotel—Martin Brook road, | [193] |
| III. OLD INHABITANTS AND EARLY PRACTICE. 1840-1847. | |
| Others who survived with the author from 1840—“Capt. Horn”—Practical Jokes at Williams’s Store—The Carmichaels—A Year’s Business—Harry Wolcott—A dead man brought to life—Frolics with a three-year-old colt—Removal to Connecticut, | [206] |
| IV. PANAMA AND CALIFORNIA. 1849. | |
| Sailing away from New York—In the Chagres River—First view of the Pacific—A long stay in Panama—Admiral Porter and C. P. Huntington—The voyage up the Pacific Coast—Arrival in the Golden Gate, | [222] |
| V. SAN FRANCISCO AND SACRAMENTO. 1849. | |
| A city of cloth tents—Gambling and curiosities in prices—A perilous trip to Sacramento—Two board shanties make a town—Sutter’s Fort—Samuel Brannon—Chances in real estate, | [245] |
| VI. IN THE GOLD DIGGINGS. 1849. | |
| Mining on the American River—A hole that lasted a season—Taking turns as cook—Profitable practice of medicine—Other mining parties—Two cities grow up in a night, | [256] |
| VII. THE RETURN TRIP TO PANAMA. 1849. | |
| The finding of a lost bag of gold—Desperately ill—Abandoned by natives on the Isthmus—Saved by Capt. “Dick” Norton, | [270] |
| VIII. JAMAICA AND THE RETURN TO UNADILLA. 1849-1850. | |
| Health restored in the Atlantic—A look around Kingston—Settle in Unadilla again—Origin of the word Unadilla—Men in the Civil War—Charles C. Siver—Service in the War as surgeon after Antietam, | [276] |
| IX. MY CALIFORNIA DIARY. February 12, 1849—November 11, 1849. | |
| A record made in pencil and still legible—Interesting notes of the experience—Last illness and death, | [289] |
| INDEX, | [307] |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| The Susquehanna at Unadilla Village, | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Map of the Original Village Lots in the Wallace Patent, | [12] |
| The Benton and Fellows Store, | [60] |
| St. Matthew’s Church, | [86] |
| First Consecrated in 1814, enlarged in 1845 and again in 1852. | |
| The Second Bridge on the Site of Wattles’s Ferry, | [92] |
| Built in 1817, taken down in 1893. | |
| Portrait of Joseph Brant, | [156] |
| Born about 1742, died in 1807. | |
| Portrait of Dr. Gaius L. Halsey, | [178] |
| Born in 1819, died in 1891. | |
| The Dr. Gurdon Huntington House, the oldest in the village, | [198] |
| The Original Unadilla, the “place of Meeting,” | [280] |