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Samuel H Dean was born in Ireland: was a Protestant and was educated for the ministry but never preached. He came to America and the year 1812 at the age of 24. He married He first settled in Delaware County lived there a few years. Married in the Douglas family and with them came to Caroline settling on Douglas Hill (so-called from them) in the south part of Caroline.

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Deed from Samuel W Johnson of Stratford, Conn administrator with the will annexed of Robert C. Johnson deceased to Samuel Stephens of Caroline dated August 11, 1827. In consideration of $190.00 conveys 60 acres described as lot No. 2 of Great Lot No 14 in the south part of the N.E. Sec. of Township Ten (10) of the Watkins + Flint purchase. Ben Johnson of Ithaca July 14 same year sold to the same 18 acres for $15: part of lot No. 48 in the N.E. sec of same township. Nathaniel Bracey of Caroline June 13, 1855 for $25.00 sold same 20 acres on lots 47 + 48 in the same N.E. Sec.

The article about Banks is in the March (1882) number of the Century Magazine. Borrowed it of C.H. Deuel.

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Bartholomew Green, the father of John Edward and Harry D. Green was raised in the town of Beekman Duchess County N.Y. He came from there to Ulysses in Tompkins County about 4 miles from Ithaca near the west shore of the lake. Lived there one year when in 1826 he bought out the John Mulks farm in Caroline and moved there. He lived on the Mulks farm 12 years 1826 to 1838 when he sold to Delamater. Mr. Green ran the old Mulks mill for several years. He failed while running this farm and mill. Mr. Green's father in Beekman was a wealthy man and gave his son $5000 to start with. He bought a farm with it and in course of time sold it and migrated first to Ulysses and secondly to Caroline. He died about the year 1866.

Thomas McSeese came to Caroline from the same neighborhood in Green in Columbia County. He bought of Ephraim Chambers 25 acres being

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the homestead portion of Ephraim Krums farm for $650 being $25 per acre. He lived and died there. He was a carpenter by trade.

William Thomas the father-in-law of Peter Mulks and Hiram Hollister came from Dover in Duchess County about 1828 and lived for ten or a dozen years on the present Harbrouch farm belonging to Jacob Chambers in Ulster County. The Eighmey family also lived on the same place for a time before Thomas. The log houses were down by a large field spring SW of Harbrouchs house.

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Augustine Boyer first came to Caroline in 1803. It was traveling up the Susquehanna River that he met the party of Southern gentlemen returning to the South. Among these were Dr. Joseph Speed, John J. Speed Sr., a Mr. Clingman, Dr. Patrillo and his brother, and one of the Hydes returning. They advised him to call on James Pumpelly of Owego and view some of the lands he was offering for sale, he being the agent of the Johnson of Stratford, Connecticut. This was in Aug 1803. He purchased of Mr. Pumpelly one thousand acres. By so doing, he got the land for $2 per acre. For any amounts less than one thousand acres, the price was $3 per acre. Mr. Boyer, my informant, March 1, 1892. Mr. Boyer was born in May 1807 and is now in his eighty-fifth year. He was the second in the family

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of four children. His sister, Mrs. Winthrop, was the oldest. His sister, Mrs. Hawley, lives at Geneva, New York.

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Mr. Henry Krum tells me two or three amusing stories about old "General" Robert Hyde, the grandfather of the present Robert Hyde of Speedsville. The "General" was a man of good intellect, but was a lover of strong drink and often got very drunk. On one occasion, he and old Robert Freeland met at the old Bush Tavern and had a drink or two. When they started for home, Freeland ahead with a pair of steers before a sleigh ahead, and Hyde with a pair of old white horses and sleigh in the rear. Soon, Hyde called out to Freeland to get out of the road as he would run by him. Freeland told him he couldn't do it. Hyde said he could and would bet him two gallons of rum that he could. Freeland said, "Done," and they started, Hyde to run by him before they reached Robison's Tavern. They ran their best, and Freeland's steers won the race. They stopped at Robeson's and both got drunk as fools. Another time, Hyde and his son-in-law, Thomas Heggie, both got very drunk, and on their way home, laid down and went to sleep near a pile of rails when some boys coming

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up, built a high rail fence around each of them and left them there. The old man, Hyde, had a few sons, but only one of them came here to live permanently. His same son, Robert Harper Hyde. One of his sons, he educated liberally and was used to saying in this- in his drunken spells, "I educated him to be somebody. I expected he would stop at nothing short of the presidential chair, and— and— and would you believe it? He died a damn fool!" Robert Hyde, here spoken of, was the "old Hyde of all", and when he came here from North Carolina about eighteen oh eight, settled where John Rightmeyer now lives and died there. He had been dead about sixty years or more.

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The name of Patrillo, who lived on the Hildebrandt farm, was John F. Patrillo. He lived there many years afterwards, lived a few years where William H. Wattles does in Slaterville. When he had become quite an old man, one of his sons living at Oak Hill, North Carolina, came and took his parents back to North Carolina, where they died. It was Dr. William Patrillo who originally bought the land and a large tract, including Hildebrandt's and portions of other farms.

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Many years ago when the country was new and the first settlers were alive, there was a prayer meeting held in the log school house, which stood on the SW corner of the road leading from the 76th road over by Jansens to the Cantines Mill now Mott's Corner. Old Domini Tusk was the leader and the praying was done in Dutch, the most common language. Among those taking part were Samuel Johnson and Joyous Personius, who knelt side by side. Joyous was making a very personal prayer when all of a sudden Johnson sprung back on his knees and slapping him on the shoulder, cried out, "Go on, go on, brother Joyous by Christ, it is goot." Another time, when Tusk preached in the new church on Braily Hill, the congregation were standing around the stove and running in and out. When the Dominey rebuked them sharply said he, My congregation today reminds me of a setting hen I once had. I set her on eggs at night and in the morning she set standing. This is so with my hearers. They set standing and are wandering in and out all the time.

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Joseph Chambers left the Michael C Krum farm in May 1838 and emigrated with son Sampson Chambers to Geneva, Illinois. He went from here in May and died in Geneva the following December aged 85 years and five months. His son Sampson was the only one of his large family that went west with him. Sampson Chambers afterwards died of the cholera. Joseph Chambers, a son of James Chambers onother son of the old gentleman is now living somewhere between Ithaca and Newfield and is the only lineal descendent of old Joseph Chambers now living in Tompkins County. He and John James Chambers, a son of Sampson from the west were here at Slaterville in October 1881.

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In the matter of the application of Frances C Speed and Joseph McGraw Junior administrators of James R Speed deceased intestate for authority to mortgage sell or lease the real estate in payment of his debts before S.P. Weiser County Judge and Surrogate April 27, 1857 Order granted to sell the following being the farm owned by the late James Richard Speed and which had in the lifetime of Dr. Joseph belonged to him and constituted his home farm "All that piece of land situate in the Town of Caroline county of Tompkins, New York and being part of the North Survey of the North West section of Township No. 11 in the Twelve Townships of Watkins and Flint Purchase and more particularly described as consisting of the following lots and parts of lots of the said survey, to wit: lot No. 42 Lot 43, Lot 44 so much of Lot 45 as lies north of that part of said lot heretofore conveyed to Isaac Collins being a piece of and across the north end of said lot bounded by right

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lines and being 20 chains in width at the east and west chains thereof: lot No. 46 a piece of land across the north end of Lot No. 47 bounded by right lines and being 15 chains and 97 links in width at the east and west ends thereof. The whole being and composing the farm occupied by said Joseph R Speed at the time of his decease and known as the Spring Farm containing in all about 500 acres of land excepting and reserving about 11 acres sold to Goodrich Brainard of lot No. 45. A credit was ordered to be given of not exceeding three years for not more than one half of the purchase money to be secured by bond mortgage of the purchaser on the premises The sale of the above premises at public vendue by McGraw and Mrs. Speed was twice vacated by Judge Wallbridge acting as Surrogate

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At the final sale a portion was bought by Chas. B. Higgins at $24 per acre. Another portion about 75 acres to Mary C. Boyer (daughter of JRSpeed) for $1.424.²⁸⁄₁₀₀ and another portion sold to John Jones at about $16 per acre. The amount of the debts proven before the Surrogate as against James R Speed $3.194.96 exclusive of interest. A map and survey of the Spring Farm was made in connection with these sales by Wm Linn DeWitt of Ithaca. Miles Vanbackenburg afterwards County Judge made a survey of some part of it. The Deed from Joseph McGraw and F. C. Speed to Mary C Boyer is dated Jany 18, 1865 and recorded in No 2 of Caroline Deeds page 154 +c. Mary C. Boyer conveyed her 75 acres to her brother Richard P. Speed March 6 1866 for $2300. It lies east of the Level Green Road and north of the new road called the Panama Road.

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By Deed dated 5th of Feby 1856 Awasa Dana + wife of Ithaca Quit Claimed to Francis C Speed and her children namely Mary Speed Richard Speed Robert Speed Henry Speed Jessie Speed + Sallie Speed, lot No 44 of the old Speed farm as follows to Francis C Speed a life estate in and to one undivided third part of the premises and also a life estate in and to one undivided seventh part of the remaining two thirds and to the above named children each one undivided sixth part of the whole of the premises subject to the life estates aforesaid of the said F.C.S.

It was about this lot No 44 that some controversey arose between James R. Speed and Judge Dana or his wife or both in connection with the last will of Dr. Speed. Several Lawyers at Ithaca and among them Charles Humpherey + Ben Johnson gave

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written or verbal opinions sustaining Dana's claim under the will. The matter was finally quited by an opinion from John M. Parker of Owego sustaining J.R.Speeds right and the matter dropped. Speed paid Parker $25.00 for this opinion. At one time they both quite ready to go to law about it. The buildings of the farm were all situated on this Lot 44. It is supposed that the Dr. in writing his will got a little mislead in following the line of lots. After Mr. Speeds death the Judge Dana + wife quit claimed as above to the heirs of J.R.

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Places in Ulster County N.Y.

Mombaccus Accord and Boiceville are in the Town of Rochester. St Remy and Esopus are in Esopus Stone Ridge is in Marbletown: also the "Marbletown Commons" and a place called "The Peak". Lake Mohunk is in the town of New Paltz—also "Lake Minnewaski". Both these lakes are resorts and are connected by telegraph lines with New Paltz villiage[sic].

The TenBrock house Kingston was built by Col. Wessel Ten Brock in 1676 and was occupied by the Senate of New York in 1777. It is now owned by F.E. Westbrook a lawyer. The old Bogardus Inn at Kingston stood at the corner of Maiden Lane and Fair Sts. In the old academy Kingston still standing DeWitt Clinton, Thomas DeWitt, Edward Livingston Stephen Van Rensselaer and Abram VanVichten were educated.

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In 1820 Caroline (then in Tioga Co had 32 slaves. Danby had 6 and Newfield none. Though Tioga County in 1820 included nearly or quite all of Chemung Co and the three town above there were only 70 slaves of whom 32 almost half were owned in Caroline alone.

The Speedsville P.O. had been established before 1813. See Spaffords Gazetteer of 1813. Eli Boyce says that when he came to Caroline with his fathers family in 1816 old John J. Speed was keeping a small store east of Slaterville and had a post office which was called "Speedsville" but the locality was called "Dutch Settlement"

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Many arcs of the meridian have been measured. Three of them have become famous on account of their great extend and accuracy. The first is the great French arc commenced in 1791 under order of the National Assembly. The object was to determine a new unit of measure of length the metre which should be based on an invariable standard of nature. It was determined to make it the ¹⁰⁄₁₀₀₀₀₀₀ part of the meridian of the earth from the equator to the pole. This intrusted to Delambre and Mechain. Delambre took the northern portion from Paris to Dunkirk. Mechain took the southern from Paris to Perpignan + extended it to Barcelona in Spain. It was subsequently in 1806 to the island of Fomentera in the Mediterranea[sic]. The whole arc from Fomentera to Dunkirk covers about 12½ degrees of latitude or about 850 miles. Delambre's base of verification of about 7.3 miles differed from its computed length by only about 11 inches. The second is the great Indian arc

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commenced in 1802 at a place called Pa[?…]nae [Punnœ] near Cape Comorin the extreme southern limit point of Hindustan and extended northward through about 10 degrees of latitude (680 miles. It was afterward extended to the foot of the Himalay Mountains a total distance of 1477 miles. The third is the Russian arc extending from Ismail on the Danube to the Artic sea near the North Cape being 20 deg + 25 minutes or about 1750 miles. Copied from Smithsonian Report 1858 page 94.

In 1764 Mason and Dixon measured a[sic] arc of about 100 miles in length along the valley of Delaware. They were engaged at the time in running the boundery[sic] line between Pennsylvania and Maryland and finding a fine locality for measuring an arc of the meridian the[sic] informed the Royal Society of London of the fact offered to do the work if the society would furnish the instruments. The

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society did so. The line is remarkable for having been measured through it- whole extent with wooden rods or rather a wooden frame sent by the society for the purpose. It was made of fir 20 feet long and 4 feet wide with adjustments for being levelled by plumb line. This measure has always been regarded as a very accurate one. The latitude of the middle point of the line is 39°12′ nearly. This arc is one of the thirteen used by Airy in determining the figure of the earth. Smith. Rep. p 93

Cazenovia N.Y. is 42°53′ N.lat + 75°46′ W.log. Farmer Villiage[sic] is 42°40′N latitude 76°50′ W. long. Ovid Seneca County is 42°41′ N. lat._ From ditto.

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Description of Wm Penn's Grant of Pennsylvania in Original Charter

"All that tract or parts of land in America with all the islands therein conteyned as the same is bounded on the East by the Delaware River, from 12 miles distance, Northwards by New Castle Town unto the three and fortieth degree of Nortern latitude if the said river doth extend so farre Northwards: But if the said River shall not extend soe farre Northward then by the said River so farre as it donth extend from the head of said River, the Easterne bound are to be determined by a meridian line to bee from the head of the said River unto the said three and fortieth degree, the said lands to extend Westward five degrees of longitude to be computed from the said Eastern Bounds and the said lands to be Bounded on the North by the beginning of the three + fortieth degree of Northern latitude and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve

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The father of Dennis Babcock was Caleb Babcock. He owned a large farm where Wessel Meddaugh now lives but having a bad title was obliged to relinquish it and give up the land. He supposed he had it all paid for + was out of debt. He died poor. Judge John Ellis afterward owned it and lived there for a time. Henry Krum told me this 12/17/81

Wm Penns charter dated 25th of January 1682

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William Rounsville was born in the town of Caroline Tompkins county New York eleven miles from Ithaca the county seat the 27th day of February 1812. His parents were natives of Massachusetts. The town of Caroline was settled in a great measaure by New England people He was brought up under anti-Masonic influences his father being betterly opposed to Masonry. He went west in the spring of 1838 and located at St Charles, Kane County where he organized a Universalist Church. Removed to Chicago Ill in 1844. In 1863 + 64 he was one of the secretaries of the Illinois State Senate. He delivered an oraton on the 4th of July nearly every year since he resided in Illinois. He died about the year 1877. He was the only son of Wm Rounsvell the first Supervisor of Caroline who lived and died on the Strang farm now owned by Chauncey L. Wattle.

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I'll hang my harp on the willow tree I'm oft to the wars again For my peaceful home has no charm to me And the battlefield no pain.

The reigning families of England since 1380 have been Guelph, Hanover, Tudor, York and Lancaster ond Plantagenet.