Our neighbor stopped over the other day and gave us this copy of a photograph from her collection that shows the Tavern with a quite large addition to the East and North which we otherwise would have never known existed. If anyone has any more photos like this one please share them with us.
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This 1953 article from the Courier Express was sent to us from a very friendly neighbor and we are so very grateful. It is difficult to read though so look for a larger version at the Tavern on your next visit.
Here are some of our favorite finds behind the walls of The Forsyth Tavern:Photo 1 (Top Left) : Floyd & Verda Yousey MAR. 1983
Photo 2 (Top Right) : What looks like a doorway since filled between the parlor and kitchen Photo 3 : Faint remnants of bathroom wallpaper Photo 4 : Mouse Tattered Cookbook from the Warren's Corners Church Photo 5 : Love, Feb. 23, 1983 Floyd Yousey, Verda Yousey, Love Photo 6 : November 13, 1965, Floyd Yousey, Verda Yousey, Virginia Yousey, Phylis Yousey, F.Y., V.Y Photo 7 : Ke(unknown), 7 years old, Feb 17 1985, Ryan Fer(unknown) *Anyone Recognize these? 1813 INVASION BY BRITISH, INDIANS CAUSED |
Douglas Farley, Director Erie Canal Discover Center 24 Church St. Lockport NY 14094 716.439.0431 CanalDiscovery@aol.com www.NiagaraHistory.org | http://www.niagara2008.com/history83.html |
July 31. Tuesday. The people at Stuart's have migrated from Washington county, and are decent and well behaved. There is an abundance of bears in this country; one of our servants saw one near the house. We breakfasted here, and on our departure the landlord missed his razor strop, when it appeared that the commodore, after shaving himself, had put it up accidentally in his trunk. The commodore's mistake afforded considerable merriment, in which he heartily participated.
We halted at Brown's tavern, three miles from Stuart's, seven miles from the great slope, and seven from the lake. Six years ago Brown gave fourteen shillings per acre for his farm. He says he would not sell it now for ten dollars.
We travelled ten miles on the Ridge Road without seeing but a very few houses. Here, to our great mortification, a heavy rain came on, and we found an interruption of the road on the ridge. For four miles we travelled through the worst road we ever encountered, it being off the ridge, and about two miles from each other passed two considerable streams, braches of the Eighteen Miles Creek. About a mile from Forsyth's tavern we regained the ridge road; and just before we arrived there, which was at two o'clock, the road from Batavia to Lewiston joins the Ridge Road, and from this place to the latter the travelling is good.
Forsyth keeps a good house; we dined here. He lives fourteen miles from Stuart's, seven from the lake, fifteen from Lewiston, thirty-five from Batavia, and sixty-two and a half from the Genesee river. So that the Ridge Road, when completed, which it is intended to do, will be seventy-seven and a-half miles long. Forsyth gave for his land twenty-two shillings per acre, five years ago, and being an intelligent man and an old settler, was asked his opinion as to the formation of this ridge. He is of the decided opinion that it was the bank of a lake, and besides assigning the reasons before mentioned to support his opinion, he stated the following facts:
1st. That the fish-banks, being heaps of gravel before mentioned, and commonly called bass-banks, are, on digging, found in a complete state at the foot of the ridge.
2nd. That all steams which enter the lake from the east have their mouths filled up with sand in a particular way, arising from the prevalence and power of the westerly winds, and that the points of the creek which break through this ridge correspond precisely with the entrance of the streams into the lakes.
The road from Forsyth's is excellent, and through a thick settles country. We stopped at Howell's Tavern, ten miles from Lewiston, where we saw the Columbian Land here sells for three dollars per acre. At this place we were told that in digging a well twenty-six feet, strata of different kinds were penetrated, and among others, one of lake sand and another of gravel. In digging a dam for a saw mill, several lake shells were found at the depth of four feet. As shells can be found in particular situations.
Capt. John Ganson, of New Salem, Mass., Bennington, Vt., and LeRoy, N.Y., 1798, a soldier of the Revolution, who lost gun finger at Bunker Hill. Was one of the most active pioneers of Western New York, and was in Sullivan's Expedition in 1788. He married Molly Holton of Danvers, Mass., who was baptized June, 1760, and was married in May, 1773. See Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 29, 1892, page 163. Pioneer History of Phels-Gorborn Purchase by Miner, page 367, published 1852 by Wm. Alling, Rochester. N. Y.: "Gazetteer of Genesee County, N. Y." F. W. Beers, Syracuse N.Y., (Chicago 1905), which contains a full account of him and his family. He died in 1813. He left his children with the Seneca Indians while with Sullivan's Expedition in 1788, in which he earned honorable mention. His children were James Jr., Benjamin, and Mrs. Forsyth, afterwards Mrs. Warren of Cambria, N.Y.
- The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly, Volume 12
Soon after my father had come on west of the river, and opened a public house, other settlers began to come in. There was nothing on the road to Batavia, until Mr. Ellicott's surveyors made their head quarters at Safford. The Indians were frequent visitors at my fathers. I used to see them often, the chiefs, Hot Bread, Jack Berry, Red Jacket, and Little Beard. Sometimes the Indians were turbulent; they would become a terror to the new settlers. My father was a stout athletic man; had great influence over them; would quell them in their worst drunken frolics.
In 1802, having become the wife of John Forsyth, (a brother of Wm. Forsyth, the well known landlord of the Pavillion, at Niagara Falls,) we settled five miles west of Batavia, near Dunham's grove. Remaining there until 1807, we moved upon the spot where I now reside. When we came here, there were but three or four settlers between Dunham's grove and Lockport. East, there was no settler till we passed the Eleven Mile woods. Our nearest neighbor west, was Joseph Hewett, at Howell's creek.
In 1808, the Ridge road was laid out by General Rhea, Elias Ransom, and Charles Harford. I remember well the arrival of the surveyors; their delight at finding a bed to sleep in, and something to eat that was cooked by a female. Previous to this there had been nothing but an Indian path through the low grounds, west of Wright's Corners.
We brought in a few sheep with us, I think they were the only ones in the neighborhood; they became the especial object of the wolves. Coming out of the Wilson swamp nights, their howling would be terrific. Two years after we came in, I was alone with my then small children one day, when I heard the sheep bleating and running, and went out to see what the matter was. A large wolf had badly wounded a sheep. As I approached him he left the sheep and walked off snarling at me as if reluctant to quit his prey. I went for my nearest neighbor, Mr. Stoughton to get him to come and dress the sheep. It was three fourths of a mile through the woods. On my way a large grey fox crossed the road ahead of me. Returning with my neighbor, a large bear slowly crossed the road in sight of us. I could tell many stories of wild beasts in this region; but I think I never saw as much of fowls, but to secure them well in their roosting places. The first settlers found it very difficult to keep hogs; the bears would even come out of the woods and take them by daylight.
- Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York: embracing some accounts of the ancient remains and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland company including reminiscences of the war of 1812 the origin, process and completion of the Erie canal, etc., etc., etc |
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