Thank you, Geoff, for sharing this information.........20 or more years ago (when I thought a "web" was spun by a spider) we went to NY state for a vacation and to search for the parents of my husbands GreatGreat Grandfather, Adaiah Sherwood, in Westchester County. (the 1850 Virginia census listed him as 83 yrs old-born in NY) We found the "Sherwood Inn" listed in the AAA book and decided to make a side trip over to Skaneateles. We had a delightful three days there staying at the Sherwood Inn. We did not stay in room 30 with the canopy but had a lovely room on the front of the building overlooking one of the finger lakes! Thanks for the "web" sites and for the memories! Meryl Sherwood ----- Original Message ----- From: <demidave@juno.com> To: <SHERWOOD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 9:35 PM Subject: [SHERWOOD] Isaac Sherwood, 1769-1840, Auburn, Cayuga Co, NY > Dear Sherwoods and Kin, > Any time I come across an old photo or portrait of a Sherwood, I achieve > a momentary state of nirvana. I fortuitously stumbled across a > hard-to-find website that contains an oil portrait of Isaac Sherwood, > 1769-1840, resident of Skaneateles, and later, Auburn, Cayuga County, NY. > This was doubly exciting because Isaac was always an intriguing > character to me. He comes from that clan of Sherwoods who did that little > migratory dipsy-doodle from Connecticut back up to Massachusetts, > settling in Williamstown, Berkshire County. Isaac was born in > Williamstown on 12 OCT 1769, and married Mary BABBIT, of Ashford, MA. He > moved to upstate NY around 1797, eventually settling in Skaneateles, > Cayuga County. At one point he was appointed Justice of the Peace. But > his claim to local fame is that he started a very successful stagecoach > line around 1806, and soon thereafter had a tavern built on the site of > what is now known as the "Sherwood Inn", in Skaneateles, NY. Here I'll > quote from the website that shows his portrait: > > "Two years later (GCS: i.e. 1806), he was granted a contract to carry the > mail from Onondaga Hill to the west. He did this on foot at first, but > later bought a stagecoach. In 1807, Isaac Sherwood had a tavern built on > the present site of the Sherwood Inn, and he used the tavern as > headquarters for his prosperous stagecoach business. In 1829, he sold his > Skaneateles property and moved to Auburn where he built the American > Hotel. Many years later, he died in 1840 and was buried in Lake View > Cemetery. The name Sherwood is always associated with Skaneateles and the > landmark Sherwood Inn." > > The oil portrait is on the following webpage: > http://ixpub.cnyric.org/cnyricpublic/history/skaneate/statest/barabba/sit > e7.htm > Click on the portrait to enlarge it. Isaac looks to be in his 30's or > early 40's in the portrait, so I would estimate that it was painted > sometime between 1800 and 1815. This is one of the earliest Sherwood > portraits that I've ever encountered. The portrait now hangs in the > dining room of the Sherwood Inn, in Skaneateles. > > Also, check out the incredible house made out of "fieldstone", built "for > Isaac Sherwood" around 1807, but subsequently purchased by Alford Lamb, > and now known as the "Alford House." > http://ixpub.cnyric.org/cnyricpublic/history/skaneate/statest/mcquigg/alford /alford.htm > Again, click on the picture to get an enlarged view of this wonderfully > unique house. > > For old and "recent" (1970's) photos of the Sherwood Inn, visit... > http://ixpub.cnyric.org/cnyricpublic/history/skaneate/statest/taylor/site1.h tm > > I know very little about the descendants of Isaac and Mary, so I'd love > to hear from anyone with knowledge of this Sherwood family. All I know > is that they had children Minerva, Melinda, John Milton, Eliza, and > possibly a son named Albert, who may have lived in Buffalo, NY. > > Kind Regards, > Geoff > > Geoffrey Sherwood > Towaco, NJ, USA > demidave@juno.com > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ==== SHERWOOD Mailing List ==== > REMINDER ! ! ! Messages exceeding 20,000 bytes (20KB) will not be processed; in otherwords, it will not be sent to the list membership. > ======================================================= >