[From History of Madison County, State of New York by L. M. Hammond, Syracuse NY, 1872, pp. 410-477. Transcribed by Richard S. Holmes. I have attempted here to preserve the textual content of the original book — though not in general the typography — even to the extent of preserving obvious errors, which I have marked '[sic]‘. In places where the text was not legible I have inserted my best guess in square brackets, or empty square brackets where no guess was possible. Page breaks are as in the original.]
