... History of Oswego County, New York (1877) (14784634933)

Res. of J.H. Langdon, corner of 1st&Hannibal sts, Oswego Falls, NY
Res of George Fradenburgh, Scriba, Oswego Co. NY
Identifier: historyofoswegoc01john (find matches)
Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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nry Everts, who came in here with his family in1798, He selected and purchased a farm in the southwestpart of the town, on the bank of the river. Here he felledthe first tree cut by a white man, and while it was falling,although he was entirely alone, with no white person withinseveral miles, he took off his hat, swung it around his head,and made the forest ring with his cheers. It is said of himthat, having no seed with which to start a meadow, he wentfarther down the stream, cut up ,sod» from .some grassy spotsthere, and trans;)lanted them on to his own land. The firstbirth in Seriba was that of his child, Henry, Jr. Mr. E.remained here but a few years, when he moved acro.ss theriver into the town of Oswego. In ISOI, Asahcl Bush and Samuel-Tiffany, each witha family, migrated from the ea.st, briniiing their all on two.sleds drawn by oxen, and took up land in the vicinity ofEverts. They were the first settlers who lived and diedu)H(n their places. Mr. Bush preached occasionally, and
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HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK. 413 was unquestionably the first to advocate the teachings ofthe Scriptures in the town, which practice he continuedmore or less for many years. The families of William Burt and Hiel Stone, each con-sisting of husband and wife, .six sons and four daughtere,and each largely identified with the early interests of thistown, migrated from Ovid, Seneca county, in the spring of1804, and took up large farms near the centre of the town ;the former occupying the two western and the latter thetwo eastern lots at Scriba Corners. The journey was madeby way of Cayuga lake, Seneca and Oswego rivers, in akind of a vessel known as a Durham boat, which waseither rowed or pushed as occasion required. Mr. Stonebrought with him three cows, a yoke of oxen, and a fewsheep, which were driven along the banks of the streams.Upon arriving at the mouth of the Oswego river, arrange-ments were made to stop in the old fort until the springfollowing, which they accordingly did. I