United States Fractional Currency notes were issued by the U.S. Government during and after the U.S. Civil War due to the hoarding and shortage of coins in gold, silver, and copper in denominations of 3, 5, 10, 15, 25 and … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Chapter 5 is about my Austin family’s arrival in what is now Eldred, New York, and I included a black and white scan of an Austin crazy quilt coverlet that I have always loved and admired. I remember as a … Continue reading
Chapter 8, Letters from a Soldier, lists some of the men of the Town of Highland, New York, that fought in the Civil War. A number of the men are mentioned in Sherman S. Leavenworth’s letters home. 56th Regiment July … Continue reading
Southeast of Hagan Pond, where the Martin David Myers family settled, was Round Pond, a lake fed entirely by underground springs, and 60 to 80 feet deep at the center. Today Round Pond is called Lake DeVenoge. The DeVenoge family … Continue reading
The Martin D. Myers family settled east of the Austin property, underneath Hagan Pond’s thumb, but on the south side of Hagan Pond Road, close to Collins Road. Map showing Hagan Pond (Highland Lake) and Round Pond (Lake DeVenoge). Halfway … Continue reading
The oldest letter in the family collection was from my great-grandmother Mary Ann Eldred in 1845. It is excerpted below. Included in the old letters was an 1845 newspaper clipping about a mortgage sale for land of Abraham Mulford Eldred … Continue reading
In my mother’s wonderful eclectic collection of family treasures were letters from 1845 and 1848. The letters were folded into an envelope, and then addressed. The contents of the letters are typed out in Chapter 6 in The Mill on … Continue reading
