The Notebooks of Charles F. Mulks

III_9312

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Gen. Simeon DeWitt was born at Wawarsing, New York, December 25, 1756. The son of a physician. Graduated Rutgers College in 1776. He died at Ithaca December 3, 1834. Rev. Dr. William Weiser was born at Warwick New York 1782. His father Henry Weiser was a revolutionary officer. He came to Ithaca and 1716. Ezra Cornell was born in 1807 came to Ithaca 1829.

Aaron B Hogan was born April 19, 1835.

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III_9313

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Nancy Dennison wife of Benoni Mulks died April 21, 1817 and her 87th year. She was the first person buried in the Mulks cemetery at Slaterville. The second person buried there was the wife of James Freer, mother of Henry D. Freer and Peter O. Freer in 1822.

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James Jacob Freer (1774–1864) married Dinah Davis (1783–1822). Two of their sons were Henry D. Freer (1800–1892) and Peter O. Freer (1810–1895).

James J. Freer was the brother of Cornelius Freer (1765–1840), the father of two sons, Jacob (1797–1893) and Richard (1805–1886), who married two sisters, Jane (1800–1867) and Magdalene (–1844), of David Mulks, the father of CFM.

III_9314

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April 16, 1892. I have before me several pages of an old account book by Matthew H. Jansen, a blacksmith who came who immigrated to Caroline in March 1802. The pages are not all continuous, many being gone, but those relate to the periods of time from 1802 to 1815.

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1802
Benjamin Genung Aug 1
Egbert Pametton "
Robert Freeland " 10
Pelog Ellis " 12
Joseph Changers " 13
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Matthew H. Jansen, b. 15 January 1764 in Kingston, Ulster County, d. 13 June 1834 in Caroline, Tompkins County. His mother was Maria Cantine, the sister of Gen. John Cantine. (ancestry.com)

III_9315

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Hartman Ennist Aug 13
Lewis Robison " 18
Moses Read " "
John Bush " 19
Richard Bush " 20
John Cantine " 30
Samuel Yates Sept 3
Joel Rich " 10
Prine Tracy " 10
Josiah Howe " "
Jonathan Lewis " 15
John Green "
Rounsville " 16
William Hamilton " 19
1803
Thomas Tracy Sept 16
Joseph Horton " 21
Jehiel Bouton " 21
Jon DeWitt "
Widow Hasel "
Ephraim Chambers "
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1803
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Josiah Horton
Benjamin Mulks Nov 3

This was my great grandfather who is charged 2/6. The name is everywhere through the account written thus Benjamin Nony Mulks. Some called him Ben for short and others Nony, but M.H.J got it all in as he thought it should be.

1804
Jonathan Norwood Oct 21
Jonathan Norwood Oct 21
a half lb powder 6/4.
cr
By 2 deer skins 15/2
Hurd
Charles Eastman Dec 9
George Vickory " 9
Henry Quick
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