Identifier: historyofoswegoc01john (find matches)
Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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son. Enlisted in the UOth Kegt., in 1802.George Wilson. Enlisted in the UOth Regt., in 1862.ChArles H. Wines. Enlisted in the 104tb Regt., in 1804.David Wines. Enlisted in the 147th Kegt., in 1802; died at Bcllo Pliiinc, La., May 2, 1803, of accidental wounda.George Wines. Enlisted in the 147tb Regt., in 1862.James O. Wines. Enlisted in the 147th Rcgt., in 1802; died April 27, 1863, at Washington, D. C, of sickness acquired in the serv.John P. Winn. Enlisted in the Slst Regt., in 1801.Moseley Witt. Enlisted in the UOth Kegt., in 1802.Ellis A. Wood. Enlisted in the Slst Kegt., in 1801; diol May 18, ISC2, at Fortress Mtuiroe, Va.Kimball Wood. Enlisted in the 50th Eng. Kegt., iu 1801 ; died at Washington, D. C, November 3, 1801.Lovell M. Woolman. Enlisted in the 13th Kegt., in 1863; died in service, September, 1804.Frederick Wright. Enlisted in the 18ilth Kegt., in 1804.Charles F. Yates. Enlisted iu the 189th Regt., in 1804.William York. Enlisted in the Isl Regt., in 1804.Charles H. Zee.
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Resof I.W. BZNNDT,Orw€ll,Oswego Co.,I<I.Y. O E W E L L. The year of the great eclipse, 1806, othorwiso knownas the dark dajs, is an epoch often referred to by the fewnow surviving who were then old enough to reiuonibcr thatstartling phenomenon. In that year Frederick Eastman and Jesse Merrill, withtheir families, made their residence on the north bank ofthe Salmon river, about a mile below the site of the pres-ent village of Molino or Pekiu, being the first settlerswithin the limits of the present town of Orwell. One ofMr. Eastmans children was Elliott, who, being born withthe century, was then six years old, and is now seventy-seven,—being a resident of Molino, and the sole survivorof the little party which took possession of Orwell in behalfof the white race seventy-one years ago. His memory flies back readily along the intervening pathof time to the year of the great eclipse, and to him we areindebted for much of the early part of the town history.- For a year the two famili

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