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When Phelps Was Young WHEN PHELPS WAS YOUNG BY HELEN POST RIDLEY Copyright, 1939 By Helen Post Ridley Printed by The Phelps Echo, Phelps~ N. Y. FOREWORD In response to popular request, this work has been devel­ oped from the articles of the same title appearing in The Phelps Echo. We wish to thank the many kind friends ·who have loaned !heir 'Scrap-books' and their documents of family history. \Vithout them it would have been impossible to accumulate all of the interesting facts which will be found in these pages. The illustrations endeavor to picture a Phelps of the past rather than of the present. The Family Sketches in Part Two are taken from the his­ tories of over 150 families of P:helps, all interesting and each one ,vorthy of use. The number is limited from neeessity only, and is selected to represent the variety of interests and activities of the Pioneer Families. If the reader finds the following· pages as absorbing as the writing has been. we will feel well repaid. IN MEMORIAM With measured step, with reverent tread, While sweetest music softly plaY's, - We ·visit the ancestral cfead Wiho lived their lives in other days; Here where the dead and living meet, We lay our homage at their feet! The rushing wave of human pride That seethes and foams on every side Is ours to breast: - for those who sleep Left tus a heritag~ to keep! With spirits high and courage true, They carved this home for me and you. i\fay our descendants ever prove Strong bulwarks lo the home we love, - To guard about on every side This land for which our fathers died: And while the living tell the story. We give our Honored Dead the glory! -Helen Post Ridley. 1939 I.anding Plaee of ,John ])ccke1· Hobison CONTENTS PART ONE Chapter Page I Early Settlement . 7 II Oliver Phelps . 13 III Log Cabin Days . 19 IV The First Poctor . 23 V Slavery in Phelps . 26 VI War of 1812 - 14 ................. ~ . 33 VII First Roads . 38 VIII Amusements and EntertaiLments . 42 IX Early Churches in Phelps . 42 X School Days and School Houses . 5i XI Vienna Fire Co. No. 1 . 64 XII The Cemeteries of Phelps . 69 XIII One Hundred Years Ago . 79 XIV No Longer Young . 88 PART TWO f'amily S.ketches . .. 91 WHEN PHELPS WAS YOUNG 7 CHAPTER I EARLY SETTLEMENT One hundred and fifty years ago, in the spring of 1789, there was no human habitation to be f oUIJld for many miles around. Small bands of Indians roamed the forest paths, chasing the deer, fishing in the streams and ;setting eel-traps in the pools of Flint Creek. This stream was ever noted for its eeJ.s, and they were considered a great delicacy by the Indians. Both the Outlet and the Creek carried much more water than they do now. The banks were well lined witJh large trees, mostly he•m•locks, creating scenes of romantic beauty at every turn. On Flint Creek, especially, was nature Iavis-h in artistic effects. Reminicenses of our early settlers frequent­ ly mention the rushing water., the murmuring trees and the singing of the multitudes of birds in the forest. Into this land of promise came John Decker Robison with his fa111ily; -our first and honored pioneer. He built his log cabin farther north than the present buildings on the site no,v kno\Yn a-s the Hammond Farm. There were no road~ then and all travel followed the course of the streams. Several old Indian trails existed and led to distant points. The sur­ -reyors while laying out the lots had marked trees wlth a large H to indicate the future highways and these were eventually cut out of the forest thus creating roads. Our second pioneer on the site of the village was Seth Deane. He also came in filre summer of 1789 and his deed was dated July 26. His land joined Mr. Robison at a point 8 WHEN PHELP WAS YOUNG near where the Town Hall stands and extended westward to Eagle Street. Mr. Deane's north line was near the present Clifton Street and he owned land far out to the south. The first house west of tihe creek was Seth Deane's plank house built where the G. L. F. Fertilizer Plant stands today. Mr. Deane, returned to the East in the fall of 1789 and came in the spring of 1790 bringing his family. He had a son, Isaac and several daughters. In. company with Philetus S,vift he built a darn in Flint Creek and a saw mill. Later he had a grist mill also. He laid the, first bridge across the creek north of the site now in use. The path by which he reached l\1r. Robison's' house. was along the east bank of the creek after crossing his bridge. It passed to the east about ,vhere Jay Street runs and continued in sight of tlfe Outlet .... all the ,vay to Robison's cabin.. Indians were quite numerous and caused considerable anxiety. One of Mr. Deane's daughters Who became :Mrs. \Vhitmore told this tale of her girlhood: -"In my father's mill yard I have seen. as many as seven Indian wigwams in- • habited by Indians at one time,. One time when our family ,vas gone a,vay for two days and I was alone, an Indian came to the house and demanded bread. I tried to tell him there ,vas none baked, erven showing him the dough in the trough ready for molding into loaves. He would not ·be put off, however, saying I 'lied', and I could not make him under­ stand. He had a knife which he flourished in a threatening 1nanner and was momentarily becoming more ugly. Realizing that I must do something or be mprdered. I seized! the cheese "\VHEN PHELPS WAS YOUNG 9 tongs lying at hand and attack~d the Indian myself. I belabor­ ed him so severely and unexpectedly that he \\7as completely routed. He ran fi:om the house and joined t,vo others on the bank of the creek. Immediately I ,vas filled ,vith ter­ ror at ·what I had done~ and I v.taited all night inside the door with my father's gun across my knees_, expecting the Indians back at any moment- Daylight came to end my frignt anidl no savages appeared." :Miss Deane ""as but seventeen years old ~tt the time. In con11;any ,vith her sister (who later -mar­ ried Philetus S,vift) this young ,von1an ,vas ra111bling in the -.,-;;oods near their home ,vhen they found a fa,vn caught i'n some briars. They secured the little creature and it fought them so ,vildly that one of the girls took off her apron and tied him up. They ,vere making good progress to,vard fiome \Yith their prize but the fawn began to bleat and soon a big buck deer came to the resdue. The girls ··were glad to drop tl-1e fa,vn and make their o,vn escape to safety. ~Ir. Dean_e ,vas not a farmer, and !he divided his land, selling all south of the creek. He retained the ,vater rights and he engaged in 111illing until his death in 1808. He- was called Captain Deane and was probably a . soldier of the Revolution The son Isaac Deane continued in the milling industry, building a mill on Flint Street ··where the Newman barn ·was recently razed. This family removed to l\ficbigan about 1830. Isaac Deane gave the land for burial purposes where the Old Cemetery is situated on Main Street. Their family plot is near the center of the grounds. 10 WHEN PHELPS WAS YOUNG During the summer of 1789 many prospective settlers came into the territory. Pierce• and Elihu Granger began in July to make clearings on lots next to the Robisons at the east. Other homesteaders were locating and small areas were chopped out of the forest as sites for future log houses. But at the first sign of winter all returned to their snug homes in the -settled regions of the east and south. Only the Robison family remained to encounter and master the real experience of pioneer life; -to build their pens higher and higher with rails to protect the cattle frome the wolves that howled all night at the edge of their clearing; to eat the plain, frugal fare and to live in the close quarters of a log cabin, and to know that it was eight miles through a trackless wilderness to the nearest neighbor. With the first spring sunshine came a flock of -settlers. I\-Iany farms "'were purchased through the Agent who lived at Canandaigua and cabins appeared on every trail. In 1791 they were quite cosy with neighbors a mile or two apart. The first real group seUlement was in the south-eastern part of the township. Jonathan. Oaks had com,e from Conway, l\Iass. into the "Genessee Country" and had selected land around ,vhat has ever since been known as Oaks Corners. In this he displayed fine judgement; the best of soil partially cleared by the Indians, on a ,vell established trail. Soon (1793) he erected the first public tavern ·within the District .of Sullivan as it was called. This tavern was a fine large framed building, and is described as looking quite out pf place at first as it towered up amid the forest trees. How­ ever, l\ilr. Oaks was building for the future and hls place soon \VHEN PHELPS WAS YOUNG 11 became the reindevous of the whole section, the halting place for those ·pushltng on into the wi1lderness, -the gathering place for militia, and for those transacting business in the district.
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