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| Fact 1: 1801 to Township (now Hobart), Delaware, NY 4 |
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Individual:
ZALMON TAYLOR came in 1802 and settled on Lot No. 87 in the Town Brook valley. He followed farming and occasionally carted goods for the merchants, and during or soon after the war of 1812, he carried General Leavenworth, then a colonel, to Sacketts Harbor in a sleigh, the relation of which was quite an interesting history to the boys of that time, as well as his description of the Black River country with its immense depth of snow, and also his description of the attack on Sackett Harbor. He became a member of the Arian Society, also called “Christians,” and as it had no church in the Township, services were held at the school-house and at his dwelling, and in the summer often in his barn, where there would be many people, especially when the rite of baptism was to take place, which was by immersion in the Town Brook down in his pasture. After the sermon the priest would start from the barn with handkerchief tied on his head, and with a hymn-book in his hand, leading the procession, singing from the barn to the water where the ceremony was performed. There were several whose bodies were laid under the surface of the water at that place. The writer recently rode along there, but there were no indications of its ever having been a place of purification, and the bed of the stream through the whole field was as changed as the people of the valley who once stood upon its banks and beheld the performance of the act that was acquiesced in through faith and in obedience to the law, yet not withstanding the change, memory again unfolded the scene, and there portrayed the countenances of the meek and humble penitents, as each severally waded into the limpid water, and again saw one laid under its surface and raised from it though it was a bust of marble, and another of a nervous temperament tremulously settled down then raised again trembling and led to the shore, while another, perhaps, came up strangling, while the countenances of the crowd were varied, some seemingly to feel the solemnity of the occasion, others as if joying, as it were, in the birth of soul into righteousness, while others only had the vacant stare, or else simply expressed a look of curiosity-but the floods of later years has filled the depths in the stream and covered its banks with gravel and the water flows in rippling currents of uniform depth, and thus like time continually passes on. One of the preachers had service in the schoolhouse one evening, and took for his text: "And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken; and on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder." The speaker was of more than medium height, and was dressed in a long swallow-tailed coat; the bottom of the waist of the coat, and the pants extended a long way up to meet the vest. He stood with the back of his chair before him, and his speech as he advanced in his discourse was in a “sing-song style," and he illustrated his text as follows: When I was a little boy, my daddy used to lay stone wall; he’ud set me to chinking up the little holes, and bime by he’ud lay on a grate big stone that ‘ud crush ‘em all into the arth again. So ‘twill be with you my brethering." Father Taylor’s house was the preacher’s home when they were in that valley, and they were kindly received by him. He was only of medium height, and quite corpulent, and therefore wore his pants low in the waist, which required a long vest to intersect his pants, and the pockets of the vest hung low down he acquired the habit of placing a hand in each vest pocket when talking, and also when viewing anything that it was not necessary to handle. Most of the preachers rode on horseback, but one came in a sulky with a chair seat of wood and uncushioned. The horse was soon in the stable eating his feed and the preacher went to the house for his. About a rod from the barn was a high stone wall that supported one end of a hovel under which his cattle sought shelter. The ends of the thills of the sulky were put up on the wall and Mr. Taylor stood with his hands in his pockets viewing it for some time, and then climbed up in it, with the thills at an angle of about 35 degrees, and in order to try the wood springs that supported the seat he sat down heavily, and had no sooner struck the seat than the thills performed a circular motion through the air and he performed the same evolution a pumpkin would in like circumstances. He was not so much injured by the roll as the sulky was-for that was minus the back of the seat. In the later years of his life he sold his farm and bought a small place in the Town Plot, where he closed his life on the twenty-ninth of June, 1839, at the age of 70 years.
(A HISTORY OF STAMFORD
BY CHARLES D. GRIFFEN
1811-1887
http://www.dcnyhistory.org/stamford-history.pdf)
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- Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)
Author: LDS
Publication: http://www.Familysearch.org
Call Number: @S07225@
Media: Electronic
- Title: "Whitlock Family Association"
Author: WHITLOCK, Peter M.
Publication: http://whitlock.castlewebs.net/wfa/
Call Number: @S13660@
Media: Electronic
- Title: "A History of Stamford"
Author: GRIFFEN, Charles D.
Publication: Stamford Historical Society, ca 1880, 1988
Call Number: @S13486@
Media: Book
Text: d. 29 Jun
- Title: "Abraham's Flock, 1719-1954"
Author: SWANTAK, Isabelle Adams
Publication: Middletown, CT: 1966
Call Number: @S13517@
Media: Book
Text: implies that he died in Township (now Hobart), NY
d. 29 Jan
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