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- THE PASSING OF AN OLD LANDMARK
When Captain Edward Kelsey tore down the old blacksmith shop in Sennett in the fall and winter of 1950, an old landmark disappeared.This shop was probably built prior to 1825. It was one of the oldest buildings in tne village, located on what was the Great Northern Turnpike, which connected with the old Genesee road at a point one-half mile east of the village.
The shop was run for many years by William Wright and then by his son,William J. Wright. In the western part of the red building. Sidney Wright ran a wagon shop. At least part of this section was a lateraddition to the original structure. Above the shop was a room, lathed and plastered, reached by a flight of stairs on the outside of the building, where, when John Rushmer was the blacksmith, 'a few of the Methodist creed organized and assembled for their services' until they built a stone church on the other side of the road, near the first stone schoolhouse which was replaced in 1871 by the brick structure, now the Sennett Grange hall.
When the building was torn down, this upper room was the same as many years ago. A historical marker was erected north of the shop by the State Education department about 1926. The house on the property is believed to be where Daniel Sennett, for whom the town was named, lived when he moved to the village about 1825, from the home he built farther east, on the old Genesee road, now Route 5, now owned by Ralph and Ernest Cady.
The Cayuga Chief, 14.5.1953
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
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Weedsport, Sennett and Cato are villages in Cayuga County, located inthe Finger Lakes area of New York State. They are located on the NYThruway (NY Highway 90). The area was settled from 1800. Seehttp://www.cayuganet.org/profile.html
Skaneateles is in the vicinity of Sennett, Cato and Weedsport, the area in which his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Joshua Gregory lived.
Thomas F. Gordon's 1836 Gazetteer provides the following Brutus information: 'Brutus drained north by Broad (Bread) Creek and Cold Spring, the former is a canal feeder. Limestone and plaster found here; plaster quarry being worked. Bread Creek a good mill stream.Weedsport and Centreport are villages.
Weedsport, Incorporated 1834 7 miles north of Auburn, 87 west of Utica, 26 from Syracuse, and canal 197 from Albany; named after the founder; has a post office, 1 Presbyterian and 1 Methodist Church; 1 ashery; tannery; 8 stores; 3 forwarding establishments; 3 taverns; 1 furnace; 1 saw mill; and 120 dwellings. This is a thriving viilage at which much business is done, being the canal port for the northern part of the county and for Auburn. This is one of the hundred canal creations.
Source: http://hawk.flls.org/weedsport/gazetteer.html
1880 USA Census - Widowed farmer. Father-in-law to Head of House Joshua Gregory, Clinton, Franklin County, Ohio
Census Place: Clinton, Franklin, Ohio;
Roll: T9_1015;
Family History Film: 1255015;
Page: 221.2000;
Enumeration District: 11;
Image: 0546.
From: 'Derek Brocklebank'
Subject: Emigration from Norfolk to Ohio, USA in 1831
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:29:31 -0000
This advertisement appeared in the Norwich Mercury newspaper published
March 5th 1831 (first of a series I will be posting to the list overthe
next few days with the permission of the newspaper proprietors and Mark).
Derek of Norwich
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EMIGRATION
Capitalists, Merchants, Agricultural Mechanics or Labourers,
desirous of Emigrating to any part of the World, may receive every
information necessary to ensure the best and cheapest modes of
conveyance, and an avoidance of those unnecessary expenses, delays and
impositions which are so frequently met with by the emigrant, on
applying by letter to Mr WOOLMER, Auctioneer, Reepham, sole agent for
Norfolk or to Mr GALINDO, Liverpool.
The settlement of Ohio is more particularly directed to the
notice of the Emigrating population, as from its climate, fertility of
soil and healthy situation; it is universally known as the Garden of
the United States. There is more land capable of cultivation here than
in any other State of the Union.
Innumerable herds of wild cattle are scattered in the groves, and fed
in the extensive bottoms that every where abound. Game is also
abundant, and in short it offers more extensive benefits to the
settler than almost any other country in the world. The canal,
railways, manufactories and &c now in progress are sufficient to give
employment for many years to 100,000 men and by the latest advices
labourers were paid 45s per month and their board.
Parish officers and heads of families are particularly invited to give
their attention to the opportunity now offered of securing such
advantages to their dependants and friends by the most easy and safe
modes of treating them. All letters must be post paid.
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From: 'Derek Brocklebank'
Subject: Emigration from Norfolk to Canada in 1833
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:58:44 +0100
This advertisement appeared in the Norwich Mercury newspaper published
March 23rd 1833 (second of a series I will be posting to the list overthe
next few days with the permission of the newspaper proprietors and Mark).
Derek of Norwich.
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IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS
The fast sailing ship VENUS 450 tons Burthen now lying at the South
Quay, Yarmouth, Henry SIMMONS commander. To sail for Quebec direct
positively on the fourth of April 1833. This vessel is now fitting upwith
superior accommodation for Cabin and Steerage Passengers and carries
an experienced surgeon. She will afford a most eligible opportunity to
Families and others going to Canada as she is again chartered to Mr J.A.
SHARMAN who is just returned from that country in which he hastravelled
upwards of 3000 miles and is now going out with his family to settle;he can
give requisite information relative to settling on land or otherwiseand can
procure for every family going out with him a free gift of 100 acres of good
land on their arrival in Quebec in the healthiest and most profitable part
of Canada where he and his friends are about to settle.
Mr Sharman is in possession of Quebec newspapers with names of several
Passengers who went out with him last year signed to a testimonial oftheir
treatment on board the VENUS which can be seen as well as all other
information obtained by application to Mr Sharman, Bergh Apton near
Norwich; Mr George Dandby PALMER, Yarmouth; Mr W. SMITH and Mr H.
NEWARK, George Street, Yarmouth; Mr GARHAM, Beccles; Mr Samuel
PIGG, Bank Plain, Norwich; Mr J. B. SHARPE, Shottisham; Mr S.
PARSLEY, Attleborough; Mr John LIVOCK, Acle, or the captain on board.
Also Mr R. PONTING, No.12, Bedfordbury, Covent Garden, London or
Captain S.H. LINDERS of the London and Yarmouth Courier Steam Packet.
For the further accommodation of the Passengers, Mr Sharman has
engaged Ware-rooms where their Packages and Luggage may be lodged
with safety any length of time prior to sailing, free of expense.
Advertisement referred to above
'We the undersigned passengers from North Yarmouth in the Brig VENUS
feel it is our duty thus publicly to return our sincere thanks to Mr Sharman
our supercargo, for his kind attention to us during our passage. And as it
is the intention of Mr Sharman to return again to England for the purpose of
coming out next Spring, we beg strongly to recommend him to those of our
friends who may wish to come out; also to Captain SIMMONS for his steady
conduct during the passage and we believe him to be every way qualified
for the situation of Captain.
'As Mr Sharman is well acquainted with Quebec and connected with many
responsible persons therein and the neighbourhood around, any one
coming out with him will, on once landing, have every information required
relative to settling on land and otherwise.
'NB we have not solicited a greater number of signatures as we believe
there is not a dissenting voice among them.
Samuel ARON William SMITH
William BURTON Thomas WALKER
John NOBBS Benjamin BASE
William WOODRUFFE William ECCLESTONE
Jonathon CARR Robert RANISBERRY
'Quebec 3d May 1832'
The ship 'Venus' sailed from Great Yarmouth to Quebec ca 1834 - 1837.On a voyage in 1837 it carried 140 'Poor Law' passengers.
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