Dear Pat and List: The G. W. Chase mentioned in your narrative about the lumber mills in Grieg and the planing mill in Port Leyden I believe to be one of the sons of Reuben Chase and the brother of Morris and William Chase of Lowville. William was the father of Kent Jarvis Chase who married Mary PHALON sometime after 1870 and moved to Ohio. If anyone out there has more info on the Lowville Chases and how they meshed with my ancestors, the PHALONS, please write me. I have some interesting general info on Kent Chase I'll share. Mary Phalan researching PHALON, CHASE, SCHERMERHORN, GUEPE, WRAPE, DENCE, and anyone else who looks interesting... > Content-Type: text/plain > > NYLEWIS-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 19 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [NYLEWIS] RE:IGreig-Dolges,Chase,C [PNUTREG@cs.com] > #2 [NYLEWIS] RE: Continued - Greig [PNUTREG@cs.com] > #3 [NYLEWIS] Lewis County History ["Ken Everard" <everardk@comcast.ne] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from NYLEWIS-D, send a message to > > NYLEWIS-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > NYLEWIS-admin@rootsweb.com. > ______________________________> X-Message: #1 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:45:53 EST > From: PNUTREG@cs.com > To: NYLEWIS-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <1df.1c3d3148.2d958001@cs.com> > Subject: [NYLEWIS] RE:IGreig-Dolges,Chase,Carter, Patridge,Norton, > Pitcher,Botchford,Hershey, Etc. > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Additional Surnames: VanWoert, Northrup, Eaton and Lewis > > "Other Industries" Greig > > Upon Otter creek, in the eastern part of Greig, is a mill for cutting up > spruce timber into sounding boards for pianos. It is owned by Alfred Dolges who > also has a larger establishment at Brockett's Bridege in Herkimer County. For > this use, none but the best of timber can be used and that of slow growth and > very uniform texture is sought.The logs are first quatered and than sawed by > an upright gang, across the rings of annual growth, into bords five eighths of > an inch thick. When planed it is three eights of an inch thick and each piece > is squared upon the edges as wide as it will allow, there being a use for > every piece down to those three inches wide and ten inches long. From seven to > eight thousand feet are cut in a day. > > A planing mill for finishing the preparation is run at Port Leyden by Mr. G. > W. Chase upon premiese formerly a tannery. Mr Dolges also cuts flooring and > other stuff as materials come innot suitalbe for finer usesand employs fifteen > to twenty men. > > Lower down upon Otter Creek there is a saw mill owned by Charles Partridge > and still below this a gang sawmill formerly owned by A. C. Eaton but now by > Richard Carter (formerly of Troy) and run by Thomas J. Lewis. The timer and > other > stuff made at this mill is tansported to the river bank by a wooden tram-road > using horse power.. > > Still lower down on Otter creek is a mill owned by Edwin Pitcher and below > this is another belonging to Duane Norton for the manufacture of lumber and > lath. This completes the list of lumber mills upon this stream at the present > time. There was formerly another still lower down but tits dam was carried away > some years since and it is now in ruins. > > The sawmill of Richard Carter on Otter Creek in Greig was destroyed by fire > on February 21 1870. The mill was a valuable one and contained a gang of > thirty six saws and was insured for $4,000. which did not cover the loss. The > orgin of the fire was not known. > > To Be Continued > ______________________________> X-Message: #2 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:52:59 EST > From: PNUTREG@cs.com > To: NYLEWIS-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <bd.3e199687.2d9581ab@cs.com> > Subject: [NYLEWIS] RE: Continued - Greig > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > On the 16th of December 1876 A. C. Eaton lost 300,000. feet of lumber by > incendiary fire. It was insured for $6,500. > Besides the saw mills on Otter Creek there are at present the following in > the present Town of Greig. > Jacob Van Woert has a steam Saw Mill on Fish Creek using circular saws and > employs about fifteen men. > There are also on Fish Creek wter mills owned by Joseph T Northrup and Wessel > Gallup. > Upon Otter Creek, near Partridge's saw mill there is an extensive tannery > formerly owned by the Botchford Brothers, but now by Charles W. Hersey of > Boston. > It is run by F. M. Botchford & Company. > Henry J Botchford who was for several years prominently engaged in Tanning in > this town and Lyonsdale died at Port Leyden February 22, 1882. > BRANTINGHAM LAKE - has been many years a favorite resort for picnic parties, > being easy of access and sufficiently rural and picturesque to answer every > purpose. It is about a mile long and has Islands and points that give interst > and vairety to the scenery. > ______________________________> X-Message: #3 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:10:17 -0500 > From: "Ken Everard" <everardk@comcast.net> > To: NYLEWIS-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <00db01c41376$bd69e940$3201a8c0@DELL4550> > Subject: [NYLEWIS] Lewis County History > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Pat: > > You have been busy! Hopefully some people will respond from the Lewis County > site because they have an interest in history and perhaps will see some > ancestral contacts in some of the names of key people that you include in your > "reprints" from the county's history books. > > I do hope that members of the list realize the value of your sharing so much > valuable historical information. After all, our ancestors lived in the context > of their times, thus "knowing the territory" and what was happening during those > early county years is significant for all of us. Your citations certainly can > provide a strong hint as to the occupations of our early families in America, > their trades, and their village leadership. How many people today, for example, > know that Martinsburg was the county seat at one time? > > You are making a valuable contribution to this list. My congratulations to you. > > Ken