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CIVIL HISTORY |
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HOLAND PURCHASE |
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- Preliminary History - 17
- British grants to Plymouth Company - 17
- Massachusetts and New York cede their western lands to the United States
- 17-18
- Conflicting claims of these States - 18
- Phelps and Gorham's Purchase - 18
- Sale to Robert Morris - 19
- Morris's sale to Holland Land Company - 19-20
- Indian Reservations - 20
- Holland Company's survey by Joseph Ellicott, and the Transit instrument
- 20-22
- Erection and division of Genesee county - 22-23 |
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TOPOGRAPHY OF WARSAW |
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- Situation, locaton and bounds of the town -
23-24
- Its roads, soil, surface, productions, streams &c - 24-25 |
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SETTLEMENT OF WARSAW |
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- Elizur Webster explores the township - 25
- His purchase and settlement - 26-27
- Original land sales - 27-36
- Progress of settlement; first burial - 36-37
- Amos Keeney's experience - 37-40
- Five immigrants carried into the town by other four - 38
- Seth Gates and Truman Lewis - 40-41
- Description of log-houses, with stick chimneys' pole bed-steads &c. -
41-43
- The first saw-mill and grist-mill and store - 43-45
- Want of a physician; labors of Mrs. Palmer, and advent of Dr. Sheldon -
45-46
- Town of Warsaw formed - 46
- Household labor; cooking - 46-48
- Making cloth in families - spinning, dyeing, &c. - 48
- Itinerant tailoresses - 49
- Shoemaking in families - 49-50
- Wild animals and bounties - 50-51
- Wolf and bear stories - 52-53
- Artemas Shattuck who cut off his foot to save his life - 53-55
- Enjoyment of the early settlers - 56-57 |
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POLICY OF THE LAND COMPANY |
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- Settlers charged with "Increase;" cattle
received on contracts - 58
- Partial reduction of debts - 59
- Opinions respecting the Company's policy - 59
- Causes of the adversity of the settlers, or the settlers vindicated -
59-60
- Partial relief, within doors - 60-61
- Ashes, as a source of money - 61 |
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THE VILLAGE |
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- Its condition in 1816 - 62
- Cumings' purchase - streets and lots laid out - 62-63
- Growth of the village - 63-65
- Isaiah Kenyon - 66-67
- The McKay purchase, and its results - 67-68
- Improvements since 1841 - 68
- Great Fire of 1867, and its effects - 69
- Frank & Farman's purchase, and improvements - 67-70 |
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POST-OFFICES |
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- First Post-Office in Warsaw - 70
- Where and how mailing had been done; postage then, and now - 70-71
- Levi Street, the mail-carrier; first newspapers - 71
- List of Postmasters - 72 |
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AGRICULTURE |
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- Early tillage and farming implements; Wood's
cast Iron plow - 73
- Mode of harvesting - 73-74
- Stock raising - 74-75
- Fruit culture - 75-76 |
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TRADE - MERCHANTS |
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- The early stores; purchasing goods - 77
- System of trade - 78
- Warsaw as a center of trade - 78
- Maple sugar - 78
- Ashes, a chief, article of trade - 79
- Cattle and pork, and their prices - 79
- Dry Goods merchants, from 1813 to 1869 - 80-84
- Hardware merchants - 84
- Druggists - 85-86
- Booksellers - 86
- Grocers - 86 |
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MANUFACTURES |
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- Saw-mills and Grist-mills - 87-89
- Woolen manufactures; Seymour Ensign, first carder and cloth-dresser -
89-90
- Hough & Norton and Norton & Hough; Conable & Moss and their successors -
90
- Gardner, Utter & Co. - 91
- Carriage manufacture - 91-92
- Tanneries - 92-93
- Map-roller factory - 93-94
- Foundries, cast iron, &c. - 94-95
- Planing-mills - 95-96
- Patterson Manufacturing Company - 96-97
- Cabinet-making - 97
- Carpet factory - 98 |
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ROADS AND BRIDGES |
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- Manner of Laying out Roads - 98
- Old Buffalo Road - 98
- State Road from Canandaigua - 99
- Gulf Road - 99-100
- Bridges - 101 |
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RAILROADS |
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- Warsaw and Le Roy Railroad - 102-104
- Attics and Hornellsville Railroad - 104-106
- Purchase of the N. Y. Central to Buffalo - 106 |
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CEMETERIES |
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- Old Ground, how selected; first burials -
106-107
- New Cemetery; Association incorporated - 107
- Dedicated - 108 |
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WARSAW LIBRARY |
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- Library incorporated, and names of the
corporators - 108
- Names of Trustees; Dissolution of the Association - 100 |
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EDUCATION - SCHOOLS |
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- First School in Warsaw - 110
- Description of early School-houses - 110
- Course of Study - 111
- Manner of conducting Schools - 111-112
- Select Schools - 112-113
- Union School instituted - 113
- Union Free School established - 114
- Names of Principals and Assistants - 115-116
- Sketches of School District - 116-122 |
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PHYSICIANS |
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- Names of Practicing Physicians in Warsaw,
and their respective Terms of Practice - 123-124 |
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LAWYERS |
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- Names of Attorneys, and the times of
commencing and discontinuing Practice in this town -
125-126 |
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BANKS |
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- Wyoming County Bank - 127
- Wyoming County National Bank of Warsaw - 128 |
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NEWSPAPERS |
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- First Paper, Genesee Register, by L. & W.
Walker - 128
- Warsaw Sentinel, by A. W. Young - 128-129
- American Citizen, by the Antislavery Society - 129|
- Western New Yorker, by Barlow & Woodward, and their successors - 129-130
- Wyoming Republican - 130
- Wyoming County Mirror - 130
- Wyoming Democrat, and the Masonic Tidings - 130 |
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WYOMING COUNTY |
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- Formation of the county - 131
- Commissioners to fix the site for the County Buildings - 131
- Building Commissioners - 132
- First Courts, where held - 132
- First Election of County Officers - 132
- Reasons for the Division of Genesee - 132
- Annexation of towns from Alleghany County - 133 |
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY |
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- Organization of the Society; Election of
Officers - 133-134
- First Fair; Purchase of Fair Grounds - 134 |
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OLD FOLKS FESTIVALS |
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- Meeting at Dr. Frank's in 1850 - 136-137
- Meeting in 1860 - 137
- Remarks of Dea. Samuel Salisbury - 138
- of William Webster, Elam Perkins, Julius Whitlock - 139
- of Chester Hurd, Henry Hovey, Hiram Porter - 140
- of William Smallwood, Job Sherman, Newbury Bronson - 141
- of E. B. Miller, Frank Miller, S. M. Gates - 142
- of J. A. McElwain, Eli Merrill - 143
- of G. W. Morris, Peter Young, Rev. Mr. Buck - 144 |
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PUBLIC MEETINGS on Extraordinar Occasions. |
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- Death of President Zachary Taylor - 146
- Death of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 - 147-149 |
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TEMPERANCE |
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- First Temperance Society in Warsaw - 150
- Kittridge's Address and Lyman Beecher's Sermons - 150
- Adoption of Tee-total Pledge - 150
- Drinking Customs - 151
- Early Friends of Temperance - 151-152
- Washingtonians - 152
- License Question - 153
- Decline of Temperance - 153
- Prohibitory Laws - 154
- Order of Good Templars - 154-155 |
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ANTISLAVERY |
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- Antislavery Societies formed - 156
- Proslavery Mobs; Antislavery Meeting at Utica broken up - 156
- Antislavery Meeting at Batavia - 157-160
- Meting of Batavians - 157
- Antislavery Meeting entered by citizens - 158
- Report of Antislavery Committee - 159
- Meeting adjourned to Warsaw - 160
- Proceedings of Warsaw Meeting - 161
- Nomination of James G. Birney in 1839, for President, and its effects -
162
- Buffalo Free-soil Convention in 1848. Nomination of Van Buren and
Adams - 163 |
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ECCLESIASTICAL
HISTORY |
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH |
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- Organization of the first Church of Warsaw,
(then Congregational,) - 165
- Early Preachers - 165
- Installation of resignation of Rev. Silas Hubbard - 166
- First House of Worship - 167
- Action on Sabbath Schools - 1767
- Action on Slavery - 169
- Death of Rev. Daniel Waterbury - 170
- Division of the Church - 170
- Semi-Centenary Meeting - 171
- New Church Edifice; Laying of the Corner Stone - 172-173
- Dedication - 174-175
FIRST LEGALLY ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS SOCIETY -
- Formation of Union Society - 176-178
- Objects of Association - 178
- Action on building a Meetinghouse - 179
- House built - 179-180
- House bought by the Presbyterians and finished - 180
- First Church Bell - 181-183
- A Bugle used for a Bell - 181
- Bell purchased; Copy of Subscription - 182-183 |
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METHODIST CHURCH |
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- Early History of the Church - 184
- Society legally organized - 185
- Houses of Worship - 186
- Action of Quarterly Conference on the Traffic and Use of Ardent Spirits
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- Action on Secret Societies - 187-188
- Action on Missions - 187
- Names of Presiding Elders and Preachers - 189-190 |
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BAPTIST CHURCH |
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Early History of the Church; names of its first
Members, 191
- Name of the Church changed - 191-192
- Dismission of Members in 1827 to Gainesville Church - 192
- First house of worship built - 192
- Masonic Troubles, and their Settlement - 193
- Union with the Genesee Association - 193
- Society legally organized - 193
- Change of Site, and the Building of a new House - 194
- Names of Church Officers - 195 |
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CONGREGATIONAL |
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- Organization of the Church - 196
- Constitution and Rules - 196
- Building of a Church Edifice, an Dedication - 197-198
- House enlarged - 198
- Action on Secret Societies - 198
- Building of a new Meeting-house; laying of the Corner Stone, and
Dedication - 198-199
- Pastors and Officers of the Church - 199-200
- Quarter Centennial Anniversary - 200-202 |
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH |
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- Antecedent History of the Church - 203-204
- Legal Organization of the Society - 204
- Erection and Dedication of a House of Worship; bequest of a Parsonage by
Mrs. Watson - 205
- Names of Rectors - 205 |
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FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH |
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- Preliminary History - 206
- Organization of the Church; building of a Meeting-house - 207
- Names of Ministers - 207
- Action on Slavery and Intemperance - 208
- Contributions for Benevolent Purposes - 208
GERMAN PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES - 208 |
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GOSPEL LAND |
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- History of Land Grants by the Holland Land
Company to Religious Societies - 209-210 |
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WAR HISTORY |
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WAR OF 1812 |
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- Declaration of War against Great Britain -
211
- Names of Citizens of Warsaw who served therein - 211 |
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WAR OF THE REBELLION |
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- Bombardment and Fall of Fort Sumter - 212
- Proclamation of President Lincoln, and Call for 75,000 Volunteers - 212
- Meeting in Warsaw, and the Rising of Money - 212-213
- Sums subscribed by Citizens - 213
- First Company of Volunteers; their Departure - 213-214
- Another Call; Companies of Captains Stimson and Bentley - 215
- Call of 1862; Companies of Captains Knapp, Jenks and Harrington -
215-216
- A Touching Scene, (case of Carley Bills,) - 216-217
- Return and Reception of Company K - 217-218
- Call of 1863 - 218
- Sanitary Fair and Aid Societies - 218-219
- Three more Calls for Men - 219
- Bounties and Taxes - 219-220
- Close of the War - 220-221
- List of Volunteers from Warsaw, with Dates and Terms of Enlistment,
Casualties, Discharges, &c. - 222-231 |
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FAMILY AND
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES |
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- Alphabetically Arranged - 232-361 |
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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES |
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- The Starved Ship - 362
- Scotch-Irish Family captured by Pirates - 363
- Underground" Escape of a Slave Mother and her Child - 364-365
- Crystal Brook and its Cascades - 365-367
- "Indian Allan," - 367
- Sketch of Indian History - 368-369
- Old Modes of Travel - 369-370
- Wyoming County Insurance Company - 370-371
- Late Fire - 371
- Warsaw Gas Works - 372
- Additional Family Sketches - 372-377 |
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OFFICIAL
REGISTER |
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- COUNTY OFFICERS - Sheriffs, Clerks,
Surrogates, Judges, and District Attorneys - 378-380 |
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- MEMBERS of Assembly, and Senators - 380 |
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- MEMBERS of the Legislature - 380 |
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- MEMBERS of Congress - 381 |
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- MEMBERS of Constitutional Conventions - 381 |
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- TOWN OFFICERS - 382-387 |
BUSINESS DIRECTORY - 387
CENSUS STATISTICS - 390
INDEX - 391
INDEX OF NAMES - 395
CORRECTIONS AND OMISSIONS - 400 |
