I managed to forget to state that I received the copies from Dianne Cobb along with a stack of other documents. Thurmon On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:05:38 -0800 Thurmon E King <thurmonking@juno.com> writes: > This week I received copies of a few pages from the "History of Wayne > County, New York" published by Everts, Ensign and Everts, 1877. The > account of the settlement of Walworth begins on page 185. Near the > bottom of the page is the mention of the arrival in 1808 of "David > Tiffany and Rowland Sackett, from Massachusetts ..." > > But something else on the page caught my eye ... The concerns of an > early environmentalist: > "Primitive Settlements." > "The first settlement was commenced in 1799, when four families, by > the name Millett, - Andrew, John, Samuel, and Daniel, settled in the > southeast part of the town, as did a younger brother named > Alexander. Daniel went to Ohio and took up his residence. He was > in the woods one evening, and being mistaken in the gloom for a > bear, was fired upon by a hunter and shot. Andrew became insane and > hung himself. His mind was deranged from the belief that the world > would soon be without wood, as it was being so rapidly cut away. Had > he realized the mighty carbon-heaps stored just beneath the soil in > such immense tracts, it would have gone far to effect a cure..." > > So it appears that in the early 1800s there was at least one who was > concerned that men were depleating the world's resources. > > Thurmon > TSFA Historian