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The foregoing account, according to the best of my recollection is strictly correct. Groveland, January 24, 1824. Esq. Salmon was formerly from Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and was first Serjeant in Capt. Simpson's and Lieut. Boyd's company. Tradition of the Origin of the Seneca Nation. Their Preservation from utter extinction.
The hackman introduced the traveler, whose name he had learned on the way out, collected his quarter, and drove away. Mr. Johnson, the shoemaker's brother, welcomed uncle Wellington to Groveland, and listened with eager delight to the news of the old town, from which he himself had run away many years before, and followed the North Star to Groveland.
Kelly lived with his father, on a farm in Groveland, until he was eighteen years old, having the usual advantages, and following the ordinary pursuits of a farmer's son.
I will read it, and if I have anything to say about it, will speak as frankly as above. I shall be in this place Groveland, Mass. about three weeks; after that in Worcester a short while. Very truly yours, Groveland, Mass., June 18, 1862. Mr. Burroughs, My Dear Sir,
Miss Alice Clayton was queen of her social set. She was young, she was handsome. She was nearly white; she frankly confessed her sorrow that she was not entirely so. She was accomplished and amiable, dressed in good taste, and had for her father by all odds the richest colored man the term is used with apologies to Mr. Clayton, explaining that it does not necessarily mean a negro in Groveland.
Moses Kelly. The subject of this sketch was born January 21st, 1809, in the township of Groveland, now county of Livingston, then county of Ontario, State of New York. He was the oldest son of Daniel Kelly, who emigrated from the State of Pennsylvania to Western New York in the year 1797. He is of Scotch-Irish descent in the paternal line, and of German descent on the side of his mother.
Dixon had come to Groveland from Washington in the spring, and before the summer was over she had won Mr. Ryder's heart. She possessed many attractive qualities. She was much younger than he; in fact, he was old enough to have been her father, though no one knew exactly how old he was. She was whiter than he, and better educated.
Ebon was the counselor, Robert the pleader, and some still have it that Ebon was the stronger, just as we hear that Ezekiel Webster was a more capable man than Daniel which was probably the truth. The Ingersolls had not been long at Peoria before Robert had a case at Groveland, a town only a few miles away, and a place which, like Shawneetown, has held its own.
Mr. Clayton's racial theory was not only logical enough, but was in his own case backed up by substantial arguments. He had begun life with a small patrimony, and had invested his money in a restaurant, which by careful and judicious attention had grown from a cheap eating-house into the most popular and successful confectionery and catering establishment in Groveland.
I give here, in a convenient tabular form, figures showing the present and past numbers of the different Shaker Societies males, females, and children the amount of land each society owns, and the number of laborers, not members, it employs: | |No. of Families| Adults. |Youth Under 11.| | Society. | or Separate ||||| | | Communities. | Male.| Female.| Male. |Female.| |||| ||| | Alfred, Me.........| 2 | 20 | 30 | 8 | 12 | | New Gloucester, Me.| 2 | 20 | 36 | 4 | 10 | | Canterbury, N.H....| 3 | 35 | 70 | 14 | 26 | | Enfield, N.H.......| 3 | 29 | 76 | 8 | 27 | | Enfield, Conn......| 4 | 24 | 48 | 18 | 25 | | Harvard, Mass......| 4 | 17 | 57 | 4 | 12 | | Shirley, Mass......| 2 | 6 | 30 | 4 | 8 | | Hancock, Mass......| 3 | 23 | 42 | 13 | 20 | | Tyringham, Mass....| 1 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | | Mount Lebanon, N.Y.| 7 | 115 | 221 | 21 | 26 | | Watervliet, N.Y....| 4 | 75 | 100 | 20 | 40 | | Groveland, N.Y.....| 2 | 18 | 30 | 3 | 6 | | North Union, O.....| 3 | 41 | 44 | 6 | 11 | | Union Village, O...| 4 | 75 | 92 | 20 | 28 | | Watervliet, O......| 2 | 16 | 32 | 3 | 4 | | White Water, O.....| 3 | 34 | 51 | 6 | 9 | | Pleasant Hill, Ky..| 5 | 56 | 114 | 25 | 50 | | South Union, Ky....| 4 | 85 | 105 | 15 | 25 | |||| ||| | | | | | | | Eighteen Societies.| 58 | 695 | 1189 | 192 | 339 | |||||||
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