Halfway Brook

50 Warren St. in New York City around 1872. Photo courtesy of cousin Melva.

Envelope addressed to my great-grandfather Austin who worked
at 50 Warren St. in New York City.
My great-grandfather, Henry Austin, started his wagon delivery or carting business in the fall of 1866. He worked from 50 Warren St., New York City, around 1872. Henry [...]

[Read more →]

JULY 1881
Monday 18
Maria and I had a letter from Lon today. It has been so cold today that I had to put my saque on even in the middle of the day, when I was outdoors. Mother and I went upon the hill to pick huckleberries this morning at ten and it was one when [...]

[Read more →]

Aida A. Austin, my great aunt, was the daughter of William Henry and Mary Ann Eldred Austin. Aida never married, but she wrote a diary in 1881 and several in the 1940s. Aida saved many letters and photos over the years that helped to tell the story in The Mill on Halfway Brook and the [...]

[Read more →]

Augustus Austin and his wife, Maria Eldred Austin.
Photo courtesy of cousin Kathy T.
The Mill on Halfway Brook tells the story of the January 1916 birth of Phebe Maria Eldred just 10 days after her parents, James and Polly Mulford Eldred arrived and settled in a log cabin near Halfway Brook in the Town of Lumberland, [...]

[Read more →]

Sherman S. Leavenworth talks about Aunt Sal in his Civil War Letters home. Whether she is an aunt, I do not know. She had a number of daughters and there is a Sarah (nickname is Sally) in the 1850 Lumberland and 1860 Highland Census.
In 1850, Abraham and Sarah Ingersol had four daughters. One daughter had [...]

[Read more →]