Chronicles of the Hinsdale FamilyBurke Aaron Hinsdale J. B. Savage, printer, 1883 - 31 sidor |
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71 CHRONICLES Akron ALBERT HINSDALE amiable disposition April 23 Asenath August 24 axe and scythe BARNABAS HINSDALE birth unknown blacksmith born April born August 28 born December born February 27 born in Wadsworth born January born July 14 born March 22 born November 16 born September brother CAPTAIN ELISHA HINSDALE church CLEVELAND COMPILED BY ALBERT Conn Connecticut Continental army daughter death December 26 Deerfield died August died February died March died November died of consumption eight children Ellen Eyles farm father of eight father of five February 20 FRANKFORT STREET funeral GIFT OF Prof habits Herman Hinsdale CS 71 HINSDALE FAMILY HINSDALE'S JACOB HINSDALE Julius July 23 June 22 lived March 27 March 31 MICHIGAN PLURIBUS miles mother never nine children November 16 O.
J. B. SAVAGE Ohio scythe business September 18 SEVENTY-THIRD sketch strong and vigorous things UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN wife winter woods York
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Sida 20 - She was possessed of good judgment, very ready to make up her mind, which was not easily turned, and very apt to carry out her purposes.
Sida 8 - Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever".
Sida 13 - Godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of the life which is to come." Rich or poor, noble or ignoble, in the world's reckoning, we can always eat our food with gladness, sleep sweetly, and contemplate nature with adoration. The consciousness that we have the eye of God always upon us, and his arms encircling us, is worth infinitely more than all the promises of all the...
Sida 11 - We did not live very well for the first two years, but we a'ways had something to eat We soon had a good cow. Jointed corn and milk did pretty well for supper, but I never liked potatoes and milk. For fruit we had mandrakes, pumpkins and crab-apples. Before winter (1817) our house was chinked and daubed ; we had a good puncheon floor overhead, a stick chimney from the floor up, planed doors and glass windows — (the glass brought from Connecticut...
Sida 11 - Portage county, and went to school two terms. By this time I had got to be so big that I would do to use; so I worked some, caught chipmunks in traps, scared away the blackbirds when they pulled the corn, guarded the sheep so the wolves would not get them, hunted the cows in the woods led by the tinkling bell. I worked summers and went to school winters until I was 18 years old, when I thought that I had learning enough ; then I graduated at Bates's Corners, from a school taught by one , who was...
Sida 10 - We crossed the Genesee on a boat propelled by a rope, and Cayuga lake on an open bridge half a mile long. At the same time there were on the bridge several roadwagons, one drawn by a team of nine horses; these wagons then did the business that is now done by the Erie Canal and the New York Central Railroad. We came through the village of Buffalo, which had not recovered from the effects of the British raid and fire. We were one whole day in crossing the Cattaraugus Four Mile Wood.
Sida 10 - In driving round one point of rocks the water was was so high that it washed away our tar-bucket, which hung to the hind axle-tree. We arrived in Braceville, Trumbull County, December 2, having been eight weeks on the road, and where we staid over winter. Here were people whom father had known in Canaan, and here I went to school to Joe D. Humphrey...
Sida 9 - ... family. Elisha was the pioneer of the Hinsdale family in the Western Reserve. His son Albert, who was seven years old at the time, has left us an account of the trip:7 We started from Torrington, (Connecticut) to New Connecticut, the 4th of October, 1816. . . . Our team was two stout yoke of oxen. . . . When we started there were folks enough there to make a little funeral. I started with a good deal of resolution, on foot, and came so most of the way. sleeping at night between Julius and Sherman...
Sida 3 - Abel, and removed west, and from that day all business interests in that locality have taken the down-hill course, until only one old mill building is left and that looks as if ready to tumble down any day.
Sida 18 - He was a good converser ; he expressed his views of men and things freely ; and his ready and keen judgments, put in words peculiarly his own, sometimes amused, sometimes nettled. He was a farmer both by nature and by choice, and while he was in his full strength no farm in all the country was better kept than his. He was one of the first to take up the new agricultural journals, when they began to appear thirty and more years ago ; antci he was one of the first to exhibit taste in farming and in...