Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State September 28-1894 # 2 Land Office War. On the 6th day of May, 1836, a mob of men from the southern tier of counties gathered together and proceeded to Batavia for the purpose of raising the old land office and destroying the records. The news spread like wildfire, and soon preparations were made to give them a warm reception. A number of cannons were stationed where the Court House now stands, and their muzzles pointed west. They were loaded with grape and canister and manned with men who had fire in their eyes as they stood by the guns. A very large cannon was placed at the bridge to belch forth its leaden hail up the Alexander road. Companies of armed men were formed and stationed around the old building, while the interior was also full of armed men and the doors and windows were strongly barricaded. The mob came down the Alexander road armed with guns, pitchforks, and a variety of other weapons. The mob marched past the land office with the guns of the defender's pointed at them. The sight seemed to take all the fight out of them, for they marched west to the old arsenal where they camped, and after words they dispersed without firing a gun. Mr. S.B. Lusk commanded one of the companies of the defender's and Messrs. h.I. Glowacki and Leander Mix had a hand in the defense. A few others of the defenders are now alive, and all of them should have an honorable place on the platform at the coming dedication. Please send in your names if you are one of them, and the names of those you know who are yet alive. The following letter has been received from Elias Hewitt, of Marshall, Mich., a brother of the late Justice M.W. Hewitt, and uncle of the Hewitt Bros.: "I was a member of the Byron Company at that time, and orderly sergeant, and as such officer I was called upon to summon the warriors to battle. I spent nearly one day and night in warning out my company and finally the warriors moved on to Batavia and when we arrived on the rise of ground (where the Blind Asylum now stands) cheers were called for and they were given with a will. We marched on, expecting to find the Tonawanda blocked with the bodies of the slain, but we were agreeably disappointed. The water was flowing smoothly along with no semblance of gore. We then went to the old Buffalo bridge expecting there to find evidence of a deadly strife, but found none. We then inquired for the Holland settlers, but they had marched to the bridge with the intention of destroying the evidence of their indebtedness and marched back again. The land office was well guarded, the windows were taken out and muskets and bayonets were placed in profusion in the windows. We then came to the conclusion that the war was over, and we took down our bloody flag (a red bandana handkerchief) and returned to our homes." Local Record. W.W. BUXTON is out with a new delivery wagon. Caney & Bradley have received the land office medals and they are now for sale at their store. To-morrow, Friday, afternoon, the field day sports of the Y.M.C.A. will be held on the Fair grounds. Mr. and Mrs. Clark S. CADY, of Alexander, are to reside with Mrs. Palmer GATES of Batavia this winter. Spencer J. LAWRENCE, of Niagara Falls, spent Sunday and Monday in Batavia with his friend C.C. BRADLEY. Mrs. Leander FORD and son Munson, from Rockford, Ill., are visiting friends and relatives in Batavia. Hon. R.A. MAXWELL spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Batavia. He returned to Washington Sunday night. Mrs. Palmer GATES has just returned from a visit to her husband at Williards. His friends will regret to hear that he is not improving. The Y.M.C.A. gold and silver badges, prizes for the bicycle races on Friday afternoon, are now to be seen in Caney & Bradley's show window. On Sunday the Free Baptists of Batavia celebrated the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the church in this village with appropriate services. While John A. McCANN, of Buffalo, was driving to town Wednesday evening from the fair grounds, his buggy collided with a hack and one wheel was wrecked. Miss WELLS, of New York, who conducted a Kindergarten in Batavia last winter, has returned to Batavia and will open her school at Mrs. Dr. BOLTON's Oct. 1st. Miss Florence HURD, sister of Mrs. Arthur E. CLARK, of this village, was married on Wednesday at the family residence in Buffalo to a young gentleman of Canandaigua. Sousa's Manhattan Beach Quickstep is the finest piece played by the Citizens Band, to our thinking, and they do execute it finely. We hear many compliments for their fine playing. Mrs. Geo. E. REDSHAW is quite ill at her home on Washington avenue. Geo. W. MATHER and daughter, of Buffalo, formerly of East Elba, are visiting in town. Mr. and Mrs. Louis PRENTICE returned home Friday night from their wedding tour to Keuka Lake. Miss Lillian E. HYDE, of West Bethany, returns to her work in Augusta, Ga., next week. Her friends part with her again with regret. Lyndon C. PALMER, of Batavia, having successfully passed the necessary examination, has entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The gate receipts at the fair Wednesday were $1,700. There were 7,000 tickets sold and it is estimated that there were 10,000 people on the grounds. Mrs. Fannie CAMERON, who has a room at E.M. JEWELL's residence, on Washington avenue, broke her arm Friday by falling down a flight of stairs. Twenty persons were received into the Methodist church from probation on Sunday last. Four others who were to have been received were unable to be present. Geo. PHELPS, of this village, met with an accident while trotting a heat at the fair Wednesday afternoon. His rig collided with one owned by Mr. FAUNCE, of Le Roy. Mr. PHELPS' sulky was broken and his horse knocked down. The fifty-fifth annual fair of the Genesee County Agricultural Society is now being held at the grounds in this village. The first day was devoted to getting the exhibits in position for inspection, and there was no charge for admission. submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************