Got this today and I'm just passing it along. Hello, These are not my relatives, but feel that someone may be interested in the information. It comes from the 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, in Michigan. Chapman Bros. Colleen GILBERT BATES, deceased. This former resident of Hadley Township, Lapeer County, was born June 28m 1830, in Genesee County, N. Y., and came with his parents to Macomb County, Mich., when about ten years old. He there grew to mature years in new Haven Township and after studying in the common schools gained for himself a thorough and liberal education. When about twenty-one years old he came to Farmer's Creek and engaged in teaching which calling he followed successfully more or less during the next ten years. It was in 1860 that this young man was united in marriage with Miss., Elizabeth J., daughter of Robert Davenport. About the year 1864 Mr. Bates was appointed to fill a vacancy as County Surveyor on account of the death of Mr. Hall, and this office he held until near the time of his death. In the meantime he was elected by the people of Hadley to fill the office of Supervisor and was the incumbent of that position for several terms. During the same period he served his township as School Inspector and his high intelligence and thorough education combined with his interest in the progress of the township, made him a most efficient and praiseworthy official. Mt. Bates was universally esteemed as a man of public spirit and one whose integrity and probity were undoubted. He was public spirited and one upon whom reliance could be placed at all times. He and his wife became the parents of four children, the eldest, Jennie E., is the wife of Charles Johnson, and the three younger children are Maragretta, Elmer D., and Leroy. Our subject was the son of Ezra and Margaret (Green) Bates, both natives of New York. He was an earnest and stanch Republican and it was upon that ticket that he had his election to all the offices which he held. He died in 1880 and his loss brought a sense of deep bereavement not only to his wife and children, but also to the whole community. Betty bettythomas@charter.net Wicks,Hammond, Heintz,Bradfield,Walbridge - http://BettyT.tripod.com Boylston Historical Society & Museum http://www.boylstonhistory.org GenWeb County Coordinator for: Genesee, NY http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenese Wyoming, NY http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywyomin Worcester, MA http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces

If Lynell Mulcahey is still subscribed to this list, could you please contact me--in regard to ancestors from Bethany you were researching. I can't locate your email address. hope to hear from you soon, Linda "The Poor House and the People," ~The Lives of Those Who Lived at the Genesee County Almshouse in Bethany During the Nineteenth Century~ ~For further information, or to place an order, contact: Linda ny_hummingbird@yahoo.com Web-Page Editor: BETHANY ~ Its Past and Present ~ http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/TownOfBethany.shtml Contributor for the BUFFALO and Western NYS Website: www.buffalonian.com ~ History Through Newspapers Contributor/transcriber for Build-a-Books-Online, Celebration of Women Writers: http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

The town of Attica, and most of the village is in Wyoming, but actually there is a small piece of the village of Attica that is in Genesee County. Cindy --- Robert E Wilson <robertewilson@juno.com> wrote: > > sorry but Attica is in Wyoming county not Genesee > try the Wyoming List > or write/call; > > FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 716-591-1079 > 76 NORTH STREET, ATTICA NY 14011 > FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 716-591-3890 > 3 PROSPECT STREET, ATTICA NY 14011 > Good Morning: Please tell me how to find information on a Reverend Reuben Osborn who was a minister at the Attica Baptist Church around the late 1700-early 1800. He may be the father of Chauncey Osborn, an ancestor. Thank you for your prompt reply. Sheila Mahler > ==== NYGENESE Mailing List ==== > To UN sub go here: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NY/genesee.html > ===== Cindy Amrhein Historian/Abstractor Town of Alabama Historian Genesee Co., NY ********************** Historian's Page - Alabama, NY http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycalaba/ APHNYS (The Association of Public Historians of New York State) http://www.tier.net/~aphnys/ You can easily ascertain whether the occupant drinks bitters in the morning and whiskey with his dinner, or pure water and nothing else � If he drinks bitters you will find his garden full of weeds.�� James Wadsworth 1791 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

To those readers who are moms......."Happy Mother's Day" ~ ~ from, The Progressive Batavian, May 9-1872 "A Word to Mothers." Why will not mothers know that to invite and posses the confidence of their daughters is to secure them from evil? Never make them afraid to tell you anything, to never make them ashamed of the natural desire to have attention from the other sex. Admit the liking for it as belonging to youth--to your past youth--but at the same time enforce the judicious timing of it; and above all encourage a frank avowal of, and sympathy with their youthful preferences. Many a young girl now lost to herself and society might have been saved by such a course. Harsh rebuke of these natural feelings is like pruning all the leaves and buds and blossoms from a young plant, lest stray insects should light upon it. ************************************************************************* "Woman's Love." A man who had struggled with the malignant disease approached that crisis in its stage on which his life seemed to depend. Sleep, uninterrupted sleep, might insure his recovery. His anxious wife, scarcely daring to breathe, was sitting by his bedside, her servants, exhausted by constant watching, had all left her. It was past midnight, a door was open for air, she heard, in the stillness of the night, a window open below stairs, and soon after approaching footsteps. A moment more and a man with his face disguised entered the room. She instantly saw her husband's danger; and anticipating, the design of the unwelcome intruder, she pointed to her husband, and pressing her finger upon her lip to implore silence, held out to the robber her purse and keys. To her great surprise, he took neither. Whether he was terrified or charmed by the courage of her affection, cannot be known. He left the room, and the house, unrobbed. ********************************************************** "Home Conversation" Children hunger perpetually for new ideas. They will learn with pleasure from the lips of parents what they deem it drudgery to study in books; and even if they have the misfortune to be deprived of many educational advantages, they will grow up intelligent people. We sometimes see parents who are the life of every company which they enter, dull, silent, and uninteresting at home among their children. If they have not mental activity and mental stores sufficient for both let them first use what they have for their own households. A silent house is a dull place for young people, a place from which they will escape if they can. How much useful information, on the other hand, is often given in pleasant family conversation, and what unconscious, but excellent mental training, in lively social argument. Cultivate to the utmost all the graces of home conversation. ************************************ submitted by Linda "The Poor House and the People," ~The Lives of Those Who Lived at the Genesee County Almshouse in Bethany During the Nineteenth Century~ ~For further information, contact: Linda ny_hummingbird@yahoo.com or ~leave a message at the Bethany website: Web-Page Editor: BETHANY ~ Its Past and Present ~ http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/TownOfBethany.shtml Contributor for the BUFFALO and Western NYS Website: www.buffalonian.com ~ History Through Newspapers Contributor/transcriber for Build-a-Books-Online, Celebration of Women Writers: http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Readers, Perhaps you will like reading this light-hearted "novel" published in the news on this date, 132 years ago! There is no author given for it. Enjoy : ) "The High Pressure Novel." Once upon a time there was a maiden, whose name was Mary, although they called her Moll, for short. She wasn't a tall, dark-eyed maiden, with clear transparent skin, and lips like cherries, and cheeks suffused with blushes. She didn't have glossy black hair, sweeping back in wavy tresses from her queenly brow, and her form wasn't a bit like Hebe's. No, there was none of those things--on the contrary, she was short and thin, and had red hair and freckles, and she also sported snaggle teeth and wore pads; but still she was a nice girl, and there was a young man who fell in love with her, and his name was Bill, although his friends called him William when they wanted to hurt his feelings, for he didn't like it much. He wasn't fine looking, and had neither curly brown hair nor a moustache. Not much, Bill laid himself out on soap-locks, and wore a goatee that he had dyed twice a week. Now this Bill was in love with Mary, but did he go and make a deliberate ass of himself? Did he, I say, go into a grove with her, and in the soft moonlight, by the streamlet that murmured sweetly by, and with the tender zephyrs sighing through the foliage, fall down on his knees, seize her jeweled hand and breathe his deep affections in the tender accents of fond attachment, and swear "by yon bright orb above us, always to be thine?" Did he, I say? You can just bet he didn't. You can lay out your whole revenue safely on that. William knew too much about the price of pants to go flopping around on the wet grass with his good clothes on; besides he never cared anything about streamlets or any kind of cold water, except to mix with his gin. No, sir, it was exceedingly strange, but this infatuated William met her at the alley gate, and he stood right up on his old legs and says: "Say, Moll, old gal, s'posen we get hitched?" But how did Mary behave? Did she go dropping to sleep over on the bricks in a dead faint, or did she hide her gentle head on his shirt bosom to conceal her blushes? No, she didn't, and she didn't say, "I'm ever thine, my own dear William!" Oh, my, no. She looked right in his yellow eyes, and says: "I'm in, I'm the gal for those sort of things. Go in!" And instead of referring him to her father, she only said: "Won't the old man bust right out when you tell him? Ha, ha and she laughed. But she didn't ask William to try and molify her fond father. No, no. She very wickedly advised him "to poke the old man in the nose if he gave him any of his lip. She was a funny girl, this Mary. Now, the old man wasn't wealthy, for he sold soap-fat for a living, and so he didn't think Bill was nosing around after his stamps; so when Bill asked him, he neither ordered him fiercely away nor did the dewey moisture gather in his eagle eye as he passed his hem-stitched up there and said: "Bless you my children, bless you!" Oh, no, nothing of the sort. He just blew his old red nose in his bandana and told him to take her along, for he was glad to get rid of her, he was, and William would be the same mighty soon, for she was awful rough on grub, and always broke plates when she got mad. So, you see, there really was no necessity for William to come at midnight's solemn hour, in a cab, and throw a rope-ladder up to her window, and whistle three times on his fingers, and then go up, hand over hand, and bring her down in one hand and her trunk in the other, and a band-box and an umbrella under each arm, and a whole lot of bundles, and then get into the cab and fly to some distant shore. That's the way it would have been in a novel; but Bill said he wasn't on that lay, and so he just went out in the yard, and out of pure joy he skinned the cat three or four times on the grape-vine arbor, and then he went and got in his butcher-cart and drove Mary right down to the magistrate to get the job done for a quarter--for he said he was some on low prices, he was. But the queerest thing of all was, that Bill had no tall, dark ruffanly rival, with a scowling visage and black whiskers, who flew at him with a drawn dagger and a horse pistol in each hand, and a muttered curse upon his lips, and cried wildly for "Revenge." Ha! ha! and said "Death!" and "Villain, thou diest?" Not any. There was another fellow in love with Mollie, to be sure, but he was a weak-eyed man, who had sandy hair, and wore spectacles and a choker collar and always looked scared when you hollared him. So when he saw that Bill had the best of the girl's affections, he looked serene, and said: "Go in, Billy, if you hanker for her;" and as Bill was a trifle on the hanker, he sailed right in. So, William, you see, had no trouble at all--and you couldn't get up an agonizing novel about him if you tried. He didn't have any urgent business to call him to a foreign land, and so he had to bid'nt her a fond good bye, and swear always to be true, and then go away and forget her, and fall in love with a dark-eyed Italian girl, picking grapes in a vinyard, with a square towel folded on her head, while his forgotten and forsaken Mary gradually faded and pined away, and baffled the physician's skill, and grew paler, and at last when the June roses were in bloom, lying gently down to die, while thro' the open window, floated in the balmy odor of jessamine and honey-suckle. And William didn't come home at last and, filled with deathless remorse, go daily to the cemetary and strew flowers on her grave, and teach his children to lisp her name. Not at all. That is the way Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth would have done it, but she wasn't round. Billy was a butcher, who wore a ! white shirt and a shiny hat, and he stayed at home and killed beef and sold it at a big price, and stuck to Mary, and she kept healthy and wasn't much on the pine, or the fade, while if any fellows got to lurking round, William went right out and batted them in the eye, he did. And then, at last, when all was over Mary didn't sit in the room; while they dressed her in white, and mixed orange blossoms in her waterfall, and then go gently down stairs with six brides-maids at her heals, and stand up with her William, and weep gently while she was being married by the minister, and then get lots of presents, and then go and live in her new house through all the happy years with Billy, and never know sorrow or trouble any more. Why, of course, she didn't, for it wasn't her style, you see. She just rushed up stairs and put on her pink muslin and her sun bonnet, and had nary bridesmaid, and went to the magistrate's and never wept a particle, and got no presents but fifteen cents from the old man to pay her car fare home, and when she went to the magistrates she just rose off the bench and told Bill she didn't see much use in splicing, and that she didn't like him anyhow; and so she went home, and Bill, he went with her, and told her he wasn't sorry, and as he didn't want her and he guessed she was pretty hard on clothes, and so they never got married, and the whole thing turned out wrong; but I couldn't help it, for I ain't going to put the facts on record that ain't so. But it ain't a bit like any novel that I ever read, so there must have been something strange about this fellow and Mollie that I could never find out, so I'll have to let it slide as it is. ~ from, The Progressive Batavian, May 9-1872 submitted by Linda "The Poor House and the People," ~The Lives of Those Who Lived at the Genesee County Almshouse in Bethany During the Nineteenth Century~ ~For further information, contact: Linda ny_hummingbird@yahoo.com or ~leave a message at the Bethany website: Web-Page Editor: BETHANY ~ Its Past and Present ~ http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/TownOfBethany.shtml Contributor for the BUFFALO and Western NYS Website: www.buffalonian.com ~ History Through Newspapers Contributor/transcriber for Build-a-Books-Online, Celebration of Women Writers: http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

----- Original Message ----- From: <NYGENESE-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <NYGENESE-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 8:01 AM Subject: NYGENESE-D Digest V04 #45 For Ports of Entry: Consider through Canada, perhaps into St.Lawrence or Jefferson counties. From Virginia T.

I am looking for some help with my ggrandfather, George Frederick PALMER, b abt 1817 in Batavia, NY. That is as far back as I can trace his family. He and his sons were in the painting business (signs, houses, etc.) and later moved to Whitby area across Lake Ontario from New York State. If anyone can give me any suggestions as to how to go from here I would be most grateful. Thank you in advance, Lois

I would not rule out Boston or New York City. The railroad and the canal sytem should of been in operation in New York State by then. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

sorry but Attica is in Wyoming county not Genesee try the Wyoming List or write/call; FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 716-591-1079 76 NORTH STREET, ATTICA NY 14011 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 716-591-3890 3 PROSPECT STREET, ATTICA NY 14011

I would not rule out Boston or New York City by that time I beleive the railroad and the canal system of New York State would of been in operation. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Sorry Attica is in Wyoming County not Genesee. You should try the Wyoming County list or write/call the following; FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 716-591-1079 76 NORTH STREET, ATTICA NY 14011 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 716-591-3890 3 PROSPECT STREET, ATTICA NY 14011

Here is the link .. Sorry http://www.marist.edu/summerscholars/97/animated.htm Thank goodness for the "History" feature in outlook ... Jill

The link did not come thru .. Strange .. I will fix it ! This is NOT advertising?? Jill

This is a cool site .. Map of counties and how and when they originated in NY Jill

Good Morning: Please tell me how to find information on a Reverend Reuben Osborn who was a minister at the Attica Baptist Church around the late 1700-early 1800. He may be the father of Chauncey Osborn, an ancestor. Thank you for your prompt reply. Sheila Mahler

Does anyone know what port of entry would be likely for an English family who settled in Genesee County in 1850? Sandra Page

Researching O'DELL of Le Roy, esp. William, b. 1819. (Married Margaret, b. 1824, in Canoe, Indiana Co., PA. Children Mary J., b. 1845, John, b. 1848, Elijah, b. 1851, William Blackburn, b. 1854, and Joseph, b. 1857, all born in Canoe.)

Greetings: I am searching for anyone on the list who is related to the Henry Thomas family and other members who came from England in 1840 to Stafford Township. My family is related through his son Daniel. Thanks Ronald E. Schultz 3970 Joy Road Occidental, CA 95465

Looking for assistance in finding a family who lived in Western New York with the a surname that is often misspelled. It has been written as...MINEHAN, MINNIHAN, MINNIGAN, MEENIHAN, MINIHAN, etc. Looking for John MINEHAN and wife Hannorah (Nora) and children Anna, Joseph, and Philip. All that is known is that John, Nora, and Anna were born in Ireland and Joseph and Philip in New York -- Philip is said to be born in Lewiston NY in 1858. By 1860, Nora is a widdow and living with her brother Michael DUFFY in Greene County, Ohio. I believe Nora's husband John died in NY and that is why she moved to Greene County Ohio. I believe John MINEHAN (MINNIGAN) had several brothers -- Michael and Philip lived for a time in New York but settled in Mercer County PA prior to 1870. Perhaps another brother, Jerry, ended up in Greene County OH. Has anyone come across any MINEHANs or MINNIGANs that might fit this description? Can anyone check marriage and cemetery books for a John MINEHAN (with associated surname spellings)? John would have died prior to 1860 and married Hannorah DUFFY either in Ireland or NY around 1848 to 1855. Thanks in advance, Rick Wilson St. Louis MO rwilson7@aol.com

Sorry, wedding for John Taft and Henriette Colby was in CORFU, Genese Cty., NY ----- Original Message ----- From: Lael Taft To: NYGENESE-D@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:41 AM Subject: John Taft Looking for information on JOHN TAFT, b 1840, Middletown, VT, married in Darien, Genesee Cty, NY, 12 April , 1864, to Henriette Colby. My grandfather, John Otis Taft, son of above JOHN TAFT, was born in Brocton, Chautauqua Cty., NY, 12 November, 1874. Trying to find parents of JOHN TAFT listed above. Lael & Pat Taft 15934 W LaPaloma Dr Surprise, AZ 85374 Email: LTaft@azwest.net or PATaft@azwest.net All outgoing mail stripped by Norton Anti Virus 2003