In the fall of the year the men at Ticonderoga were attacked with fever and dysentery and many of them died. My brother Reuben was very sick. (He died two years later.) I (Asa Hickok) was taken sick with a … Continue reading
Asa Hickok “narrates” using his own words from his application for a Revolutionary War Pension. Other information is taken from Cothren’s Ancient Woodbury books, and letters from American Archives Series 4, Volume 2. I was one of eighty Woodbury men … Continue reading
Fort Ticonderoga captured On May 10, 1765 a group of almost one hundred fifty Connecticut and Massachusetts men led by Col. Ethan Allen and Col. Seth Warner (both with ties to Woodbury), and Allen’s Green Mountain Boys captured the fort … Continue reading
The next few posts feature Asa Hickok, my great-great-great grandfather at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The information is taken from the Revolutionary War section in my upcoming book, Abby, Laurilla, and Mary Ann. Asa Hickok, his wife Esther … Continue reading
This was first posted in April 2015. In the early 1800s, there were only two roads to the Town of Lumberland—the Sackett Road and the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike. Neither of them, perhaps, deserved to be identified as roads. The Newburgh and … Continue reading
These are the March entries in Aida Austin’s 1881 Diary. Aida was staying with her Eldred-Austin cousins in NYC. She turned twenty in November. N.Y.C., Saturday, March 5, 1881 The door bell has rung about fifty times I guess today. … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe this Halfway Brook blog will be ten years old in September. Here is a post from 2009, with an image I recently found on Library of Congress. In 1800, Lumberland (then two years old), had a … Continue reading
Terrible cold* blanketed the Northern Hemisphere with wintry weather in the summer of 1816. The notorious cold destroyed most of the crops in the Town of Lumberland, New York. Only rye, potatoes, and onions grew. Not even a blade of … Continue reading
This is a repost of a collection of Austin New Year’s Postcards first on the Halfway Brook site starting in 2011. In 1937 Aida Austin sent this card to her brother Ell Austin. On the back she wrote the first … Continue reading
