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GENEALOGY AND HISTORY St . J o t u m t l l e En te rp r i se nod News, S t . Johnsville, N. If. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1948

Qis@§ftfi@[fi)§ md Aia§w@ir§ A wepartment devoted to the pursui t of knowledge. No charge

to regular subscriber*:. Any reader, whether subscriber or not,

is Invited to submit answers . Give dates , places and sources.

PADDOCK

ft Roster of 1812, is this man ? L would

: l ike his mil i tary recvord. W a s Joshua I 10 Jama icawav Mr. Stanley P . Paddock Phillips in the War of 1812? If so, Boston 30, Mass Efasrt Greenwich, New York j w h a t was his mili tary r eco rd? D e a r Mr. Paddock: I R E N N E T

In leaking over some old copies Joseph Bennet t Sr. w a s a soldier H<MAAND of the Genealogy & His tory Section „r w , a r c f *gi2 in N. Y. State. He of the St. Johnsville Enterpr i se & 1 ^ ^ n e a r Onondftgo, N. Y. He had News, I noted wi th interest your a mu B<aim w h o ^ 0 . ^ s ^ W i l -

( ?Edmund) and daugh te r s Elizabeth, Ruth, and Charity. W a n t e d further da t a on these children. . , g. Bray ton 7 Bake r (Stephen 6-5-4 Abraham 3 Daniel 2 Franc i s 1) was prob. born shout 1810. He mar­ried Betsy Phillips, whose ancestry is desired. Wha t children did Bray­ton and Betsy have? They lived a t Harmony, N . Y.

Ber tha W. C l a r k

ren of James Allen of Broton who rmsBtiyd AMhea Avery (b 17W) Dec. 17, 1729.

AVKBY, BAN3FOKD .

Muttac A v e r y b . 1707, dao' of Elisabeth Ransford a n d Samuel Avery. W h a t w a s the name of Eli­zabeth's mother , wife of Jona than Ransford.

Wanted to contact a Mrs. Williams or relatives of Providence, R. I, who had the names of children of Reuben Hopkins and Phebe Weaver of Sett-uate, R. I. m. 1779.

Al ta Holden 110 Rochester St. Fulton, N. Y.

Tokyo, J a p a n 17 March 1948

Iriqnois Indians In Mohawk Valley

query concerning your Paddock an­cestors appear ing in the issue of 4 September 1947.

1 would suggest t h a t you communi­ca t e with Mr. Lines Get ty , whose address is 124 Locust Hill Avenue, Yonikers, New York. Mr. Getty and 1 compared notes on o u r Paddock ances t ry several years a g o and a t t h a t time I reached the conclusion t h a t he knew more about the Pad­dock family history than anyone else then living - also tha t he was a moghty helpful and cour teous gentle­man .

Very t ru ly yours. J O H N SOULE,

Lt. Col.. C. EL, (GHQ-FEC APO 500

cox. To E z r a and Sara were born Lydia Pethenia , Nov. 6, 1935, in or nea r Syracuse, N . Y. W h a t was the ances t ry of Joseph Bennet t Sr. and which of the various soldiers of these same name in W a r of 1812 was he? I would like his mili tary record? Who was his wife?

Lucile L. Hutson 917 Vine Street Sandusky, Ohio

INDEX Book 1 — DOCKSTADER

single or mar-

WELLS, GILBERT, T W I S T

In your issue of April 8, 1948 is given the Holland origin of the sur­name Arnold. ( ?)

I would be glad to have you print the Welch origin of the Stukeley 4, Na than 5, Arnold line of Fairfield, N. Y. Herk imer Co. I t is proven by New England Historical and Genea­logical Regis ter Vol. XXXIII ; and Vol. LXVIII pp. 373, 374; and Vol. 48 p. 352; and by J. . Aus t ins Genea­logical Dictionary of Rhode Island and by my well au thent ica ted article j 1- 1-33 on Starkeley Arnaid and Soure of j 1 1-33 His Descendents, published by t h e ' 1- 4-3^ New York Genealogical and Biogra-1 1-10-40 phieal Record.

Na than 5 Arnold settled in Fair-

DOCKSTAiDERS, ried unknown.

Bk P g Ln 1-10-28 Abram 1 -2-51 1- 8-28 1-12-29 1-13-14 1- 9-17 1-12-11 1-12-32 1-14-40 1-18-17 1-18-38 1- 9-24 1- 9-28

Wanted the parentage of Sally Wells born March 15, 1790, by obi­t u a r y and in New York State, by f i e l d Township in 1785. I have the Census record. She died March 5, 1878 original deeds of purchase.

E t t a M. Arnold Clark (Mrs. Gershow\W.) 244 Main Street

KILMER.

in I thaca, N. Y. She married about Pos tmaster , San Francisco) 1810 Mr. Gilbert ('Probably George)

by whom she had three children, George, Person Truman, and Mary Owego, Tioga Co., New York Ann born March 9, 1816, married ~~ March 29, 1833, Gardner Wescott.

Person . T ruman Gilbert moved in in 1850

Captain George W. Kilmer farm­er, Post Office, Towanda, Pa., was fooxm in the town of Asylum, the 1835 to Kane Co., 111. and

IIAGEDORN, HALL, JOHNSON, BITRKHART

Da ta wanted on ances t ry of per­sons .of these families listed in Burks ,

county (Bradford) F e b r u a r y 2, 1842, Planned and laid out a "Temperance orud i.0, a son of Joshua and Margare t Town" which did not pan out. (Dings) Kilmer, nat ives of Schoharie, i n 1820 Sally (Wells) Gilbert, then h a r t s e r i e s i n Enterpr ise and News. N. Y... born of Dutch extract ion, and a widow was living in Fenner, Modi- W a n t a 1 1 d a t ' a o n B*Jrkhar(d)t fam-who came to th is county in 1840, lo- son Co., N. Y. with her three child- i l i e s un^er a n y spelling of the name. ea t ing in Asyhum {This isn ' t too far ren. in t ha t year she marr ied Alpheus SILAS DORR from Sullivan Oo.,) . . (His education Twist, of Fenner, by whom she had etc is omit ted; . W a s in Civil War r,ix children, one named Delos Mary and a prisoner in Lubby prison. Capt. Ann (Gilbert)- Wescott, her daughter, Kilmer, was marr ied Oct. 11, 1865 to named a son Delos. Delos is not a Helen A. Noble, who was born March "Twis t" name and it may be a clue 12, 1840 (Dau of Levi and Diana to the paren tage of Sally Wells. f<Ti-»io-ht Noble, nat ives of Broome

Their children were J. Noble, b. April 22, 1868 mar r ied Tilie DeLong.

J Marion b. March 18, 1880. If there is any o the r w a y I can

be of service, wri te me. Perhaps if you desired I could sea rch the Brad-

deceased, of Cozenovia, Madison Co., N. Y. I found the following, - Wil-'ij&m Delos Well born 1845, married 1873, Sarah Torrey only daughter mi' Rev. T; .ey. Thev had three children Mary, SerAfl and Torrey. Sarah mar­ried Robert N. Groff son of Isaac

1, Silas Dorr, perhaps of Maine served in the Revolution. He had eight (8) children, the younges t was Amos Leonard Dorr, b. 9-9-1824 at Frankl in Plantat ion Maine. Want

Smith of Whittenton (Taunton 1 Mass. Want Smith data also.

1

B R Y A N T

1-18-41 1- 4-43 1- 5-14 1- 8-41 1-18-24

j 1-14-29 I 1- 2-14 I 1-13-19 ;1-18-32

1-10-43 1 1- 6-23 I 1- 2-48 I 1- 8-24

1- 6-29 1-18-14 1-14-23 1- 2-39 1- 8-32 1- 8-38 1- 9-51 1- 7-23 1-13-34 1- 2-26 1-12-14

Freder ick Freder ick Freder ick Freder ick George Adam George Adam Hendrick Henrich Henry Henry H e r m a n u s Jacob H. Johannes (Sr.) John (Jr . ) Johannes •John John Joseph Leonard Nicholas (John) Nicholas Nicholas (John) Pe te r Pe te r P e t e r Solomon Annetje Anna Catharine Cathar ine Cathar ine Ca t r ina Ca tha r ina Elizabeth Elizabeth Gert rude Magdalina Maria Marga re tha Sa rah Marga re tha

The discovery of America by Eu ro ­peans w a s one of t he g r ea t events of world his tory. F o r untold a g e s nearly one half of the land m a s s of the world's sur face w a s unknown to the g rea t na t ions tha t lived flourish­ed and died th rough many centur ies on the other half of the world. Egypt , Assyria, Tyre , Car thage , Greece and Rome left thei r records on the scroll of Time, to be succeeded by the mid­dle ages before man began to emerge from mental da rkness and supers t i ­tion to discover t h a t the e a r t h is round. Ex tend ing their geographical horiaon sent t h e m far ther and fa r th­er afield unti l half w a y around the world they found a vas t continent covered wi th immense forests and with a soil t h a t needed only the skill of the husbandman ' t o produce an abundant l iving for the human race . Here in thus newly found world lived a different race of beings who have come to be known as the American

1 Indians.

Their Origin

Whence came this g r ea t race t h a t occupied near ly all the American continent. We found many theories and conjectures proof of any of which is entirely lacking. One says they belong to the "Lost Tr ibe of

1708-18 i s r a e l , " another says they came from

Born 1790 1755* 1756 1774* 1779* 1742 1762* 1777* 1767* 1779* 1816* 1740 1745

1744 1760* 1812 1817* 1772* 1735-39 1765* 1785* 1786* 1723* ' 1782* 1809* 1814 1754 1752* 1754 1756-59 1774* 1782*. 1746 1758 17oo* 1761* 1759* 1790* 1730-40 1764*

Asia across Behr ing St ra i t and work­ed their way southward over the

Nowhere have the re been d i scovered any remains t h a t showed much u s e of a r t e a n d science. The i r t r a d i t i o n s and myths go hack to the i r ereatwm a n d yet it is t o b e s t rongly q u e s ­tioned whe ther the re is much s imi l a r ­i ty between them a n d those of E a s t ­ern Continent, enough even to p r o v e a common origin.

Length of Time Since Creat ion

Whatever t heo ry m a y be adop ted as t o their origin or wha teve r birtt* place m a y be assigned them, th is 0 0 * th ing all men a r e ag reed upon, t h e American Aborigines have occupied th is continent du r ing a much g r e a t e r period t h a n w a s former ly t h o u g h t . Science is coming to our aid andt the hand of genius m a y yet g r a d u a l ­ly lead us back th rough a t least pa r t , of the long, da rk , silent past into t h e realm of the pr imeval Indian w h e r e m a y be revealed to us h i s early, p h y ­sical character is t ics .

T h a t Missing Link

Researches du r ing the pas t 1(M> years have th rown some light on t h e ethnology of the Amer ican Ind ian . Shell Nomads of g r e a t an t igu i ty hawe been formal in m a n y p a r t s of A m e r ­ica. The glacial period occurred m o r e than 50,000 yea r s and and yet t r a c e s of the existance of h u m a n be ings in Nor th America have been found i a abundance in glacial deposits.

Inar tz i te implements have b e e n found in the glacial dr if t and a p a r t of human jaw w a s discovered in a

American continent. Still others t h a t | deVnsit & r e d c J a >' 'belonging to t h e early par t of the glacial period. O v e r s ixty implements, th ree human skul l» and other h u m a n bones were found! securely imbedded in the T r e n t o n gravel. Discoveries by Prof. Winchel i prove t h a t th is cont inent from t h e Pacific to the Mississippi w a s occu­pied by h u m a n be ings dur ing t h e glacial period. In 1866 a human sku l l was found in the gold ba r ing g r a v e l s of the Pleiocene age. This discovery ha3 called forth m a n y heated a r g u ­ments by scientific men. Wha t m a k e s the discovery so in te res t ing is t h e fac t tha t the fossil r emains of t w o apes most near ly l ike men in t h e i r physical s t ruc tu re were found in Jtbe upper Miocene. By the agi ta t ion one would think t h a t these learned raaa a r e afraid t ha t Darwins ' "Miss ing Link" m a y yet be found.

they came from islands of the Eas t ­ern ocean or perhaps from Africa.

One in teres t ing theory is t ha t the American Indian did not spring from Adam, the first man, but was crea t ­ed in the land where t he white man found him. Those who advance this theory of the Indians creation say that had he came from Asia he would have h a d the same blood in his veins as those Asiatics who founded the grea t empires of the Eas t . If such were the case how was it tha t he remained in primeval savagery so many generat ions while his bre-thern were developing such a high s ta te of civilization in the parent country. Wi th all the a d v a n t a g e -which the American continent offer­ed, scarcely equalled anywhere in the world, one woidd expect as rapid development in America as in Asia. (To Be Cont inued)

Others are given to indicate the j aprox. generation.

The Numbers show the location ! of the name by Book, Page , and Line.

the Scrintnre whtl*1 for a hundred year, after tne i 'Ugnms landed in. New England, the Bible was a for­bidden book in their churches.

After the Ba t t l e of Oriskany war-over, the people of the valley tried

• V.r \ n m / v e *̂-v*« * S »

„ , en t e r Mary Thomas lo rd Co. Records m Towanda, later and Delia (Clark) Groff. The father j £ o r n th is year.

They have deeds and wills from 1812, marr iage records from about 1886 (I t might be 1890) I a m not cer ta in . And a few miscellaneouus Tvwurds tha t a re of in te res t to the genea logis t

Very Sincerely Ra lph H. Weller

of Isaac Groff was a Deacon in Fen­ner Bapt is t Church.

R. W. Rice 616 N. Aurora St. I thaca, N. Y.

HARRISON, RHODES

1.—Robert Harrison (1759-1844) came to America from Bath, Eng-

2 George Appelton B r y a n t mar- , A c o p y o f t h l 3 W f > r k i s o n f i ] e i n , ^ r e b u i i d f r o n i i where they left off. ried Lucinda How Ames. Their dau- [ t h e Montgomery County Archives,! Some one out of every home, w a s

Bryn ta was O M Qo,,rf Horse , Fonda, N. Y. This ', killed or injured. They had been liv-it:.i t tord, Maine; i s j - n e o n j y c o p y tha t has been made . ing over their experiences back in

as yej;. Germany. Slowly they got their fields Names of Males married to Dock- j under cultivation again. They t r ied

stader women. ; to recreate thehome, but there were I onet had des igna ted in his Will, ses 1- 7-15 Chris tman, Johannes m. ! th eempy chai rs . Many had sided i being given to his Indian chl ldrea ,

Ann Cathar ine Dockstader b. 1746. with the Crown. Others were wi th ! B did not ma t t e r , who w a s tn be rt*»-

2-28-1830 at and marr ied 4-26-1846 to Amos Leo­nard Dorr. Want Bryan t and Ames da ta .

Gran t which the pool souls consider­ed their own, w a s never consum-t w o +£»*^ iVkSi'fr V» o --1 Vv«rw» *•*«*%(«/"• v̂ ¥p»A fry C? 1 — * . . » • . • . . * , if n.1 11 ii-i*-*.* Kr\.i-ii. ^ i * - . L / t , . v i , u -v* h+km

William a s a gift f rom the Crown, for special services by the former . The half has never been told. T h e Pa la t ines were ousted again. T h i s g r a n t a s mentioned before, ex tended back from the Mohawk for t w e n t y -five or t h i r t y miles . I t was of t h e bes t a long the Mohawk. This the B a r -

HOLBROOK

B E E B E

I would like some information about the fa ther of Azar iah Beebe who came from Ontar io County, N. I Their son Joseph Rhodes Harrison Y. to Ohio in 1808 or 1810 and settled . (1781-1860) married Ruth. According a t Black River, Now Lorain, moving > to the S. A. R. handbook she was f rom there to Vermilion in B r | e , R „ t h Baker . According to the D. A. County about 1813. F r o m there h e ' R . Lineage Book 143, p. 245 he mar-moved to Huron County and finally | r i ed Ruth Harrison in 1812. Was this t o Santcluslky1. .Ajaariah Beebe was I a slip of the y n in wri t ing Harrison born Jan. 28. 1783. supposedly in j for Baker , or did' Joseph mar ry two Ontar io County. N. Y. In 1806 he! wives named Ruth ? If she was Ruth imarrie-d Mary Ryon of New London, 1 Baker , it seems to me likely that she Conn. Azariah died in Sandusky Co.,! w a s the Ruth Baker born in Gloces-Ohio. Dec. 12, 1834. j t e r R j . , as early as 1786, to Abra-

The children of Azariah and Mary h a m 5 and Ruth (Sherman) Baker Ryon Reehe were : Diadama. Almira, | (Stephen 4 Abraham 3 Daniel 2

3. Wan t da ta about a Mary Hol-brook who died in 1736. She was

j the wife of Lt. John Puffer who was l b . 10-10-1665 In Bra in t ree , Mass.

They were married 1695. land, and enlisted in the Revolution­a r y War as a private from Johnston R. I. In 1780 he married Elizabeth S H E P A R D , F E N N O Rhodes. (Her ancestry wanted) .

Aaron,

said to

Francis 1) I should like all possible d a t a on Joseph Rhodes Harrison and nis wife or wives. Robert (1) Harri-

William, Harr ie t .. J ames , Knock and E than A

Asar tah Bcebc's fa ther is have been Odonijah Bee who is said j gon removed to New York State, t o have come t o Ontar io County. N . ! d v 5 n 2 r a t Urbana. Did Joseph a.nrt V. from one of t h e N e w England ( R U t h also go to New Y o r k - What S ta tes , about the close of the Revo-1 children did Robert (1) and Joseph hjt ionary War. Adonijah is said to ( 2) have? have had th ree children, Richard, IVstuiaima, and Azar iah .

There is a Revolut ionary soldier buried in Lorate County. Ohio, named

2. I should also like to get the ancestry of those several Bakers, of various lines:

a, Stephen Baker of Dar tmouth David Besbi who w a s Quar te rmas te r M ^ ^ l a t e r ^ N y S t a t C ) w h o

fig*. Oonn. Tr. born 1747. died 1840. This David BGcebe, Azar iah 's broth­er , all lived in the same locality near Lorain, Ohio How do they connect? I would like to know whose son, Adonijah w a s - w a s he a Rev, sold­ier ? - A full list of hia children.

CLEVELAND

John Cleveland b. Oct. 4. 1779, son erf Josiah Olevriand and Ruth John-son of Connecticut, died In Huron, » n e County, Ohio, Apr. 16, «^ed SI. He w a s marr ied a t Bristol, N Y. between 1806 and 1808 1«. Silvia PmllipB b. Vt. June 8, 1783, died Huron, Ohio Feb. 14, 1868, a •dan of Joshua Phillip* and Silvia PSoksley. Li%*ed at Moscow and Bris-trJ N. Y. Their chi ldren: Silvia Ptiillip*, Ruth Johnson, John Porter, Cynthia Mejvlim, Joaiah Walton, itaffah Ann, and Elhanon Winchester.

John Cleveland wwa In the War of 1AJ2 in N Y S ta te Mtti t ia? Which of the three oJhn Cleveland n on tthe

1- 7-221 Countryman, John pos. Barbara Dockstader b. 1759.

Barba ra El izabeth Dock- b. 1752. 1- 8-15 Har te r , Michael m, Mary

Dockstader b. 1748. 1-19-12 La the rs , John m. Dirke

(Dorcas) Dockstader b . 1807*.

themselves. Many had taken a few treasures or w h a t they could ga the r together and had fled o Canada. Spies were everywhere, and watch ing every more made. -Families were

marr ied Elizabeth Cornell, born June 6, 1772.

b. Joseph Bake of Barrington, R, I. who on March 30, 1719, mar­ried Margare t Chaffee of Rehoboth. Mb an,

c. William Baker, born R, I. 1773; died a t Ara ra t , Wayne Oo.. Pa„ 1859, who married Penelope Roberts and whose son Caleb was born at Ham-den, N. Y., in 1796,

d Andrew Baker, who went from 1861,1 Berkshire Co., Mass., to Norwich, N.

Y , and wrwme son. Dr. Andrew Bak­er of Norwich, born 1805, married first Armenia Graves, and second Ruth K Marshall .

e, I rv ing Baker of Horlcon. War­ren Co., N. Y., who marr ied Mary Streeter , born 1828,

f. Josiah 3 Baker (WHliam 2 Franc is 1) wan born 1704 and remov­ed from Yarmouth, M a m , to Duchess €to., N. Y. He nmrTiexl first Exper­ience a n d meearhd |n 172S Charity Bddy, toy whom he had son Edmund

4. W a n t d a t a on a John Shepard who married in 1721 Rebecca Fenno who was born in 1700 the dau. of Benjamin and Mary (Belcher) Fenno.

F R E N C H , WHITMAN

5. W a n t da t a on a F rench fam­ily, Stephen died at Weymouth , Mass. in 1679. His wife w a s named Mary. They had a son Stephen who m. Han­nah Whi tman.

DUNBAR, HOWARD

6. D a t a on family of Samuel Dun­bar whose dau. Melat iah b, 1741 marr ied Capt . Jesse Howard who was b. 7-20-1740. Rrklgewater , Mass. area .

F U L L E R , PUHJE, W H I T E , F U L L E R

7. D a t a on Noah Ful ler who mar­ries in 1711-12 Rachel Pidge. Also (lata on the Jemima White who mar ­ries the grandson Stephen Fuller, about 1761 probably a t Attleboro, Mass,

All above lines a re N e w England and proabJy Massachuset t s or Maine.

7.WINCK

All d a t a wanted on persons of Zwinck families a n y w h e r e

Carl H, Zwinck 904 Packa rd Ann Arbor, Michigan

BHSLDQ3t

Ances t ry wanted of Hesdah Hall Sheldon, died Orantoy, Oswego Co., N. Y. about 1850. m. Elisabeth Young.

H O P K I N S

Wanted da ta of bir th and death of Catherine Hopkins who marr ied Reu­ben Hopkins Sr, of Sei tuate , R. t, Nov. 25, 1742,

AVMRY, AI J J 1N

Wanted n,nectfry and list of Child-

1- 7-12 Leper, Jacob m. Anna Sa-; divided aga ins t themselves.

m j the Colonies. Neighbors looked a t troyed or d is turbed. Robber BarooB each other askance . Was he friend existed in this Country , as well a s i a

1- 8-22 Cunningham, Andreas m. j or Tory? Some had openly declared ; Europe, they had left Sir Wil l iam. th i rs ted for power.

The le t ter to t he surveyor general" quoted by Mr. Nellis in his a r t ic le o a "Ool. Jacob Klock, Pa t r io t , " p r in t ed in Enterpr i se a n d N e w s on Feb. 15 , 1928, shows w h y Sir Will iam J o h n s o n had to get t h a t land direct from t h e occupant of the throne . The l e t t e r explained why numerous o ther P a l a ­t ines who in 1754 'had legal p e r m i s ­sion to secure this same t rac t of iantf from the Indians were never atoJe S» bring the Indians to t e r m s for s a id t rac t , ( the Royal Gran t 1. I t took Staley and oher Pa la t ines from 175& to 175 to6 obtain thei r Indian d e « l for the land south of German Plaits, because of a deed signed by all t h e Patentees , g r a n t i n g Sir Wil l iam Johnson 2-17 at the existence. T h e Royal Grant w a s two o r three t u n e s the adze of the Staley P a t e n t a n d Sur William probably wouldn' t acceipt-twice 2-17 of a portion while t h e r e w a s a chance of acqui r ing the whole t rac t . This incident lends some s u p ­port to Mr. Nellis 's es t imate of S i r William's a t t r ibu tes . In those d a y s the saying, migh t have well g a i n ­ed current usuage " W h a t s a few thousand acres between f r i ends?"

(Unpopular Historuial Fac t s , b y Lieut. Oomro, L. F . Bel l inger .

Ente rpr i se and News 6-18-29.>

bina Dockstader b. 1743. 1- 9-49 Reese, Samuel m. Annetie

Dockstader b. 1757. 1- 9-40 Service, Daniel m. Catr ina

Dockstader b. 1750. 1-15-16 Smith, Benjamine m, Cath­

arine Dockstader b. 1771*. 1- 4-21 Truax, Isaac m. Catrina

Dockstader. 1-6-16 Van DerWerken, Albert m.

Barbara F . Dockstader b. 1749. 1- 1-38 Van DeWerken, Alber t m.

Dirkje Docks tader b. 1721-23. 1- 1141 Wager , John Peter m. Bar­

ba ra Elizabeth Dockstader b. 1724* 1- 6-34 Walra th . Jacob m Oert-

rude Dockstader. 1-15-19 Wemple, Ephriam - son

Simon adopted by Uncle Dockstader. To be continued

The Petries in America

These notes and records of iht Johan Jost Pe t r ie family and de­scendants in America were compil­ed by the late Mrs. Frederick Staeh-la, of Munnsvtlle, N. Y. Her notes have been checked, so far as we have been able to do so, and we will try atrocities took place. Sir John John-

England had lost th Colonies. Sev­eral minor ba t t l e s were fought in the Valley, a f te r peace was declared. There are unrecorded tradi t ions of such. The people of the Valley,, had no historian to record, nor any poet to sing the pra ises of her heroes or heroines.

Between the Eas t and West Can­ada Creeks, and from the Mohawk River extending northerly to the vicinity of Manhcim and Salisbury lay a t rac t of very fertile land. This land has been settled by a goodly number of Paa l t ines whose names are well known, such as the Fol ts , Petries, Klocks, Windeckers, Lipes, M e >r k e 1 si, Oon-dermans, Homings , Grays, Gerlachs. H a w k s . Wal ra ths . VonDerwerkes, Meiers, Nellis, Bell­ingers, Wairads , etc.

Application had boon made to the Indians and they had a lease or deed from them, and had also filed on April 25, 1755, a peti t ion to purchase thi* t rac t of iand. They had had peaceful possession of i t for several years now, They supposed that it belonged to them. They had erected their homes and h a m s upon it. They had cult ivated the land. The country was growing again. When the Indians were on the warpa th again. W h a t

to complete her work. Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petr ie ,

Johnstown, N. Y.

(Continued from last weekl

What is now Herkimer, w a s in the Kingsland D i s t r k t In 1772 when, Tryen County, M l formed. The Ger­man F la t s iDiitriet extended from l i t t l e FWta, to For t Stanwix and on th*1 south to the Pennsylvania line on the south side of the river. General D e f l a t i o n w a s everywhere. They Herkimer. Johan Joat Petr ie and ( wfre fiend*! Women and children their sucresors would compare fav- j were scalped, for had not they been orably with Gov. Kndk*ott, Gov. Wtn- jp twnlsed 150.00 per wmrp. throp and Cotton Mathers, a s to' The Royal Gran t upon which this rnorlify and Just ice, if not in erfsieft- group of Pa la t ines resided, was the tton General Herkimer died nimttng «c*ne of wIM orgies. The people were

son, with hi» Indian allies and a num­ber of Tories, had returned from Canada., and were ravaging th? coun­tryside. They killed those who had been noKnhorji. and those who Had befriended them. Friend and foe died alike. Tm«se who had opposed the English and Sir William Johnson, were struck down first. Houses and b a m s were burned, and est tie driven off. Crops were burned in the fieMs.

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