[2] Of events in this valley before and during the Revolution, the author has written in detail in the volume entitled “The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1616-1800,” published in the spring of 1901 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Many authorities for the information contained in the present volume will be found in the Bibliography appended to “The Old New York Frontier.” Others are indicated here in the text.
It is proper to explain that the contents of this volume originally formed a part of the manuscript of “The Old New York Frontier.” In seeking a publisher for that work, with a view to its general sale through the book trade, the author decided to reserve these village chapters for publication in their present form, their interest being local rather than general.
[3] The information on which this is based was supplied in 1892 by Mr. Lee B. Cruttenden, County Clerk of Otsego, who took much trouble in making the investigations that were necessary.
[4] The original articles of agreement are still in the possession of descendants of Mr. Hayes.
[5] The third of these houses occupied the site of the Owens, or Salmon G. Cone residence, destroyed by fire some twenty years ago.
[6] A third paper called the Unadilla Herald was started a few years later with William H. Hawley as editor. It lived about a year. Nearly ten years afterwards, or in 1855, the Unadilla Times made its appearance with a Scotchman from Schoharie for its editor. He was succeeded by E. S. Watson, and Mr. Watson, in 1857, by George B. Fellows, who made a longer stay, conducting the paper until the close of the Civil War, when followed in their turn George E. Beadle, Gilbert A. Dodge, A. J. Barlow, William H. Parsons, E. S. Little, Robert F. Sullivan, Benjamin P. Ripley and George D. Raitt.
[7] Another town named after Unadilla lies in Otoe County, Nebraska. It was laid out by men who formerly lived in the older town, the first house being erected there in 1872.
[8] Originally called Milfordville and changed to Oneonta in 1830. Early land papers spell the word Onahrichton. Richard Smith wrote it Onoyarenton.
[9] General Benjamin Hovey who settled in Oxford in 1790 and named the place after his native town in Massachusetts.
[10] As to the identity of this bacchanalian stream, it may be said that Solomon Martin and Dr. Huntington before 1800 had had licenses to sell liquor near Martin Brook, while Daniel Bissell’s hotel, the first in Unadilla, stood close to the creek that crosses Main Street near S. D. Bacon’s home. It seems probable that the latter stream is the one referred to.