The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840 (1902) (14597827529)

Identifier: pioneersofunadil01hals (find matches)
Title: The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919 Halsey, Gaius Leonard, 1819-1891. Reminiscences of village life and of Panama and California from 1840-1850
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Publisher: Unadilla, N.Y. : Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew's Church
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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extended down tothe house then owned and occupied by Col. DanielCone, since remodelled. * A small house stood next, on the lot now occu-pied by Col. Samuel Norths residence; it was af-terward moved farther down on the south side ofthe street and is now owned by Mr. Bryant, thecooper. Next was the adjoining brick house, owned byEsq. Eells, father of Horace Eells, and of the wifeof E. C. Belknap, the present owner. Then came the frame part of Eds on and Han-fords carriage shop ; t and then the brick shop andWilmots cabinet shop. The adjoining house now owned by the A. P.Gray estate % was then owned b\r a blacksmith ofthe name of Chatfield, whose wife, a sister of ourold patriarch O. F. W. Crane, was in the laststages of consumption, and was put into my hands * Built for Horace Griswold in 1828. Col. Cone bought it in1834. t It dates at least as far back as 1816, when Horace andSheldon Griswold were occupying it. For them it was prob-ably built. X Built about 1S28 for Smith Lane.• 198
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THE GURDON HUNTINGTON HOUSE. as a patient by her then attending physician, oneof my old preceptors, Dr. Francis W. Hine, * ofFranklin. After the A. P. Gray house came the Wilmothomestead. The next was an old rookery where the residenceof the widow Briggs now stands and in the sameyard stood a small house which was afterwardburned. Then came a house patterned after the old housebehind the Post Office. An incident attached to thelatter dwelling I overlooked in its proper place andwill give it here. I bought this property, on thecorner of Martin Brook Street, in 1850, of Col. A.D. Williams, and lived in it seventeen years. Heremy sons were born. While living there I took outthe chimney and in doing so, came across a brick,on which were the initials of a man and the year1809, thus giving at least a hint as to the age ofthat chimney, t The house mentioned above stoodon the site of the fine residence afterwards erectedby Evans Owens, which was burned mysteriously. Next was the Dr. Nijah Con