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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Hobble Column half in the same way :; tiis Yeas ing;was raise_ a e. ime; an ITI 1866,--under - A Second Belated ;Hobble: ;n the niiniatr �thenkinterxnIteri by ,a"call po,;,dinner;' y�ofRev.�CIS ;WilIiams,- a W+#h rho Old Travelef" Boys which oonsisted<of`baked beans and oth- epeeist,offering,was applied.toy its en- may=well Congratnlate..yonsselves f ex things,,;whiohshe ate;heaitily 15 Iti an largement and improvement, making it r , hour or two there wasT;a'-very sick boy; as at.present 35:feet by-75 Thai:yon-haven E to=depend ,upon two but it i . not'necessary, to o into de- depend the parsonage,lot was-bon ht canes".for locomotion-;in,such traveling tails, and.we'll go onwith gthe, list of for$1.75 ' During the ministry of J. W. ae this'.:two good legs are better. When preachers:. � Simpson the-.parsonage was improved a 'aUAIS only 80•or 9Q he can trip and the church remodeled. The salary i Dr.Hebbard died in-1396. After him �.• came•,W.) C. Hoyt, Orlando Stafford, ; of`Marvin R. Lent was $100, quite in >ihzaeg'"he snow at quite a lively pace, Geo. S. Jayne,,John Armstrong, C. B. contrast with the present one of $900. brit When he gets to be real ofd—even Sing; David Osborn, John Nixon, But in those days it was not necessary Mhe days of two sticks, why it makes Joseph Henson. for the preacher to spend$100 a year or Fum puff and blow like a tired plow-ox The Rev. Mr. Henson was (in numer. more,for books and stationery and in ical order) the seventiet.a-preach-er-to many other ways;-to keep abreast and irl,gxaes ground. officiate in Southold, and by those whose ahead of the growing intelligence of bis � thiak I scarcely need ask if the il- memory goes back about sixty years, he hearers. luatrations of the.other day contained will be remembered as the opponent of. But, my friends;it is past 11 o'clock, `anything which might be deemed offen- the Rev. J. K..Ingalls then occupying and the question that now confronts us t the pulpit of the-Universalist church. is not one of theory, but one of condi- ,. sive i because I am sere you:all under- Theuestion. at issue was as to the , tions—how we're goingto cane it bome stood_the intent. ' icripturilness of the pecniiar doctrines through this slush so anot to miss that qAs was noted at that time, the M. E. of Universalism. If I remember right- warm dinner. Please hand me the canes cWirch of Southold had its beginning in ly the debate, held in the Universalist —thanks. (food morning. a.a.c. 1 In 1784 the first Circuit embraced church, was continued about a week of 4 avenings. Many people came from long " All-"61Lnag Island, but whether estab- diatanoes and remained until a late hoar - The Third Belated-hobble tia+aia JW,that year the records do not witb unabated interest, not to say ex- With the Old Traveler.Goya' state.Z` From 1810 to 1834 it included eitemeut; and the .controversy at some Good morning friends I want to say itages developed something near akin SuffoIh County only. Mwr that,it cov- to acrimony. And the result was, that right here that if you found anything of ered;ths_territory from Riverhead east- after not a little wear and tear of brain, interest in those scraps of M. E cbnrob ward:to the end of the Island, and,when and late hours for many people, each of history the other day, you may mostly the � ulation had largely increased, the contestants had proved the truth of pop g y thank Rev.Mr. Byrnes, who 0ourteoas= his owndootrine—at least to the satin_ in �8bti-Southold became a preaching faction of himself and his eo-religionists;. ly,hung out the latch string of his study station-'by:.itself, with Rev. Thomas who being "convinced against their door and gave me free access;to the ree- Stepbeneon in charge. In 1784, eleven will,"were "of;the same opinion still." ords in his safe keeping. , l think t.,-- ,,inverts were made on either years.previans to the preaching of the. don't you feel like shaking side, nor .any 'preconceived opinions ntst sermon, there were bat 24 members changed. hands:all around, now that Old Sol has of elle leaomivation on the Island.. The After�Mr.~Henson, came E. S. Stout; *° smiled away the snow-banks, and at the 6 appointments to the L. I. circuit and an incident in'connection with his - same time reminded our worm-eating ques to answer th help may y p e were those of John Clark and Jacob r mfriends that it's time'for them to open tion Are our boys worse than buys Rickhow:f`Between 1794 and 1398 the used to be?" Under his direction a up their spring concert? For the voice following preachers have been appoint. series of-evening,meetings were being of the turtle is heard at the "Ran.', held in the meeting house on the hill. t And by the way, I wonder if,there is -Robext',_aud Sylvester Hutchinson, L. On one.of those evenings'while Mr. still one farmer left, so blind to his own M Combs, John Clark, Jacob Riokhow, Stont was kneeling in the altar eugaged David�Back, W.Phoebus; AndrewNioh- in prayel-, some low-lived boys who had interests 5.e tc ignore the oft repeated 'ols.46seph Totten, David Brown, John often disturbad the meetings, raised the anggestions of our faithful ornithologist `Wflaon,F�Cyrns Stebbins, James Camp. window opposite to him, slid discharged L.. with respect to the protection of I belh.Samnel Mervin, Peter.Jayne. Billy the contents of a spurt-gau which they the birds that protect his Drops. If se, - [Hebbard;.;Johu Finigau,-Francis Ward, iiad previously;filled from Capt. Benj. =7Eames,.Henry Redstone, James Cole- Wells'cow-yard, full in his fact. With- it would really seem like a case of judi. msi;,i X?B. Bull, I& Andrews,.'John out baiting in his prayer, the outraged ciat blindness. Slrne;'Nathan Emory, A. W. Tompkins, preacher calmly drew his handkerchief The s o n g o f birds i a decidedly - Carpenter, Ezekiel Canfield, Sam. from, his-pooket, wiped the filthy pleasanter than the contentions of a law- nel;'Bnshnell, Arnold Schofield, John drenching from his face and continued Reynolds,Oliver Sykes, B. Northrup, his prayer to the end. There were other suit, and the one held week before last -7_rytewart„W. Jewet%Fitch Bush,John performances in the slue line too re- was-.happily one of rare occurrence. ALSmith Samuel Coohrau, Ebenezer %oiling to relate, and 1 have given this rhe descendants of the Puritans are us- Briawb.; Reuben Darris, Samuel D. one ootyas tending to auswer the quer- Dally ;a peace-loving people,' as our Feiguson;-.Eli Denniston, Jacob Hall, tion that I spoke of a minute age Hvmphrey:,Snmpbreys, Wm. M. Wil. Weld, after Mr. Stout,, came J. A. townsmen are. It may be that "eom. leHenry$atfield, S Horton, John , Edwards, Ezra Jagger, Marvin R,Leut parisons are odions,"but they are some- 31 I Fevre, Noble W. Thomas,. Cyras (the little pale man of marvelous vitali- times instructive. Foss,$_O:'.V. Ammerman, R. Seaman, ty) Joseph K Frost, S. A. Seaman, ISome years ago in a sparsely settled ,Tohn~tLuckey. (He left it least one . Nicho zs Orchard, Edwin O.driu, Thos, namesake behind him,and at this point Steplieuson.,r, ,Mn Stephenbon was a town,I spent two week in the,family of iix-the?list the names begin to sound fa- young man, vivacious and social, and a Jnatioe of the Peace who held. conrt, miliafi,to those approaching three score some otthe older and more sedate meal- on the average, parts of two days'in the years and ten.) . 7 bars of his church whispered that he weekjudging cases many of which were The4,.followed Alexander Hulin„R. "..is pretty-jolly for a minister; but Wymond'W.R. Stafford, F. W. Sizer, t "Anut Betsey Enshy," always ebarit- absolutely childish and should have J.,Trippetk James Rawson, T. Daven- able,'sought to calm their fears and said, been settled without recourse to the law. poM-, 'Theron Osborn, and Eben S. "Law, well, we must make allowance For instance, a man awed his neighbor Hebbard.. Now Mr. Hebbard was some. y for him; for he is seekin'a wife,,, for the value of 26 barrel staves, which thing of a.doctor as well as a preacher, Nest came W. Howard, R Ii. Rey- ,And made ills that acquired quite a re nolds, Stephen Rushmore, Samuel N. -.,t-was finally proven had been taken by, iitation, locally at least; and here was a Hammond, L. D. Nickerson, C. S. 1Vil_ mistake. We do things better. I think iiertatu.lad of live or six years whose liame, inoses, Lyou, W. Il. Eussell fewer law-suits are held now than half a 'hunt considered them a sovereign remedy (Father of the eminent law teacher of sir all diseases—speaktog figuratively. Columbia UnivOrsity), E. Warrinel% J. f century ago, slid certainly so in propor t4 s fiey were of a generous size, and in W Simpson, '1'. C. Beach. John Pilk- tion to the number of inhabitants. ; "many cases half of one was Considered a ivgton, F.- Watt, John Brien, A. S. All manner of changes have taken I neforanadult. Onedaytheauntfor (graves, George Taylor, W. L.Douglas, place in that time. Then the price ofnue slight ailment divided nue; and Joseph l3. Gill, B. '1. Abbott, Arviue C. wheat was pretty steady at a dollar a eking one half into tiie pulp of a pre- - Bowdish. Wm. M. Carr, D. W. Howell,rved cherry, she swallowed it and Horace W. Byrnes. bushel, which paid for a day's work aced the other half in its little bus, Previous to 1518, meetings were held .. "hayiu'and harvestin'," and five shil. and the box beside the cap of sweet. in private houses. In that year was Bogs were the "goin'wages"for hoeing boiight:a lot 6 rods square at the corner 6. insula on the top shelf of the cupboard. corn and the like. And boys were lucky 'Then she left the room. of Main street find .Methodist Laue, Now this youngster, like many others, and a meeting-house 85 feet by 25 was if they got a shilling a day for dropping was fond of sweetmeats, and reasoning built,. with uncushioned seats but not corn or riding horse; and.when one of that wiiat was good for auntie, most be 1?W8• my: mates charged Salter S. Horton 400u fur him, Clambered.-to the shelf, In 185.0 the site of the present church encs a da eighteen ;;rought down the cup and box and pro. edifice;5Q feet by 100, was bought from p y'fo r riding:horse, seeded to immitate his,auntie;orolliug Lawyer J.H. Goldsmith 'for $130. :y30 y lie�rest of as unanimously declared it a of:which be donated. On Se t lith of' Ce of•extortion: N° up the half pill in.a oherry skin,:he p wallowed it. It was very:"nice;`,M-he Ghat'year.the corner-stone was laid, and ia`the followin April;the church, was ,;lit another in two and dfe ed of'each g" dbdioated a'Excepticg y`.d00 the cost was . About that. time?T` rode horaikiand aero tell the'gooWnewa to his neig_ �The�Paurtk�Betatex R r dropped:corn fenr'?dape;'for U,ible, ' for Russel Dail;'i na �e itering'his kntoh- ""t Cwitt tNe oda+Traveler �, r s �ziv ;,• �.,;d•�.�,; I Elam Horton on the`Poor'Haase«Eaton ®n door,half"out:of breath; .he panted t;tood morning my old friends szc-Now Cnow ad occupied by Wm,'Low- ant ' Rassil;RassrlI fllaseed'a gone up that the earlier spring'chill. given x eryii OU*the road to the steamboat wbarf) to.fourteen bushil ";'i place to a more comfortable temperature,. k; g a e i , o one'can rear.`Whi a er's most erh ps some o! icwas tarnecl�rito ion,i a e ,Qr er..,an iso ria 8shsastige history of 8onthold's first aa6ea which havrn 'been'lee hed`.,'`and Prosperity and,happinass olr',tha present centarplwitbon t i`orming shigh opmron g R generation*have"asp necessary:,couneo• of the character of its first settlers,`,for 1£ rerfiFeboiled.dowc►,finally became"the tion with the character and;life-of the he seems to have�put all history under dee,saleratis .whtoh entered tie an tribute 'for the`materials which with ngredient. into the colonist's, simple men who two Dentaries and a half ago "pearlash cake. felled big.trees-and<=fought Indiana on painstaking accuracy he has woven. into ■ DuntiElesA Rarnabas. Horton with his these acres,made frnitfal by the industry that valuable work., And yet, paradoxi- eons aodr their team. did their full share oftheir present occupants. True they cal as it may seem, the causes and coca- rrt' he.hauling nf,the.material for the were not. perfect; they brought their sionefor church discipline and civil building of the,first Meeting House for human_ natures across the ocean with prosecution were probably more frequent the nse of "the First Church Congrega. them, and found it necessary,to bnild a in, proportion to population than has " "prison house"and establish courts of been the case in more recent years, _,tion of Society"of the town of Southold. There seem to have been in those earl ltt;;oocapied the site of the present justice forthe lawless; and their prompt Y punishment of even patty offences was. times some remnants of caste which ' Founders' Monument. �VhAE material robabl had been brought from the old entered into that structure is not certain. proof of the jealousy with 'which they P Y g guarded the morals of the young colony, country and which adhered to the social IT' known; but as it was intended_not and tali ious.life of the people. g only for a house of worship and trans- But on the whole they were men of pure g P p e. Amon 'action of the town's basiness,but also for motives, high aims and unswerving in- the ways in which it manifested itself s fortress of refuge from the attacks of tegrity. Would it have been all the was that of<seatiug the meeting-house, -hoatila Indians, it'Beems reasonable to same to us if they had been low, grovel- ' where the pews were allotted to the fam. suppose it was built of Jolts, for during ing,'worldly and ungodly men? Have dies of the congregation according to religfona:services armed sentinels kept not the laws of heredity coupled with their wealth, prominence, and social po- .'watch. against a surprise by the wily faithful family training and sound relig sition. _In later years people became :alsins. ious teaohing held in gracious•bondage more democratic in their views.and -eus- '`R 1683 a court of the county of Sof the excellencies of the fathers, and pass- toms..,Yet even as late as the daya of _1 . which had been formed in that ed them down each generation to the one ' my boyhood there remained a little of year);ordered a county j%il to be built in that followed? Is there no significance the old feeling of superiority. .11 Young Soctbbol& When,the people of the town in the confidence that Abram's Clod had America"in patent leather shoes, with leagned'of the,order, they with a eom- in him, that he would "command his a paok of cigarettes in his pocket, had mendable eye to business, appointed a children and"his household after him?" not,been born, and the youth of the committee to appraise the fort Meeting With some exceptions,-like father,like town were taught to "rias ug before the Soria~which they did at 35 pounds,and son''is the rale; in the light of which hoary head. The father and mother hereafter-until 1727 it was used as a we may.see the improbability of the were not referred to as "the governor" ;Prison House." The second Meeting hackneyed slander that ministers' sone and the old woman"; and in the fami. Rouse .was built on the site of "The are the worst boys in the world. This ly circle the children mast be "seen and Anchorage," the attractive, born_ e-like unworthy fling, by the way, has been not heard." When children going to or residence of the My Epher Whitaker, effectually dispos,3d of by the venerable from school saw Lawyer L'hommedieu D D' The third one Occupied the same 'N• Sprague,D.D., who after investi- or the minister or doctor coming, they Iooation`until 1503, when the present ationa over a wide field and through usually ranged themselves- in a row at one .wns built But now I am admon- many years, says in his "Annals of the the aide of the street, the boys with caps- ished by the hair-raising screeeh of that American Pulpit"that in proportion to` off ready for obeisance, and the girls 1I000motive , whistle, , that you have their numbers no other class of men in with a fold of their frook between the listened perbaps even. to weariness, to this country have produced so many thumb and finger of each hand prepared say;,'nothing of what may happen if we worthy sons who have become eminent ;♦ to "kirchy" as gracefully as they knew are,lata s6 dinner._ Possibly some day a and useful men as have the, ministers. how; and a bow of recognition from few thoughts concerning those who And Dr.Sprague is good enough author- r,. "Priest Huutting"or"Dr.Ira Currin," worshiped in these Meeting Houses may ity for all candid people. But no saying was honor enough to be immediately re. oreep,-put; but for now good day, and _ can be too absurd to be swallowed by laced on reaching home, However, may.-you escape the fate of those who some people provided it ba repeated a jndging from observation,there is among carelessly keep the dinner table wait. good many times, "Hullo there ! I boys and youth in general more defer. T. a. a say yer mustn't plant beans when th' ante felt and manifested to age than =f he.Fifth Belated Hobble ` wind's ter tl;' eaat'ard. Ef ye dew ye was trae of them twenty-five years ago. �A won't hev no crop. So shouted"Uncle" The seen, he do move," and if we wlth the Old Traveler Boys rim, who was plowing in the lot adjoin- fathers do not move we may find our- ,r6morning, my long•time friends. ing-the one in which I was planting selves confronted with a cold dinner, Z So balmy has the air become that we may beans; and then he added, '`I've heard from which fate may the good folks at safely,,sit here on the chapel,steps with it said so time'n'agie: Exactly so,and home deliver us. J.H. a. comfort and without fear of 'Ila Grippe,' the time is not long past since some The Sixth Belated Hobble hoping,to catch-a bit.of inspiration from people actually believed that the so-call- the very sight of the historic Presb Leri- with the Dia Traveler Boys y ed"Blue Laws" of:Connecticut really r 'an• Meeting-house" across the street. had an existence and forbade mothers Good morning, friends. Does this To yon.who have read Whitake,r's "His- kissing their babies on Sunday. But salutation, uaed so generally and prob tory of Southold" it will seem like a With the exception of one Puritan hater, s ably with little thought, announce a work of supererogation to undertake to the only authority for their belief was fact or express a wish? If the former, jrecall any old-time things or people in that-they; like "Uncle"Tim, had heard 'twould hardly be true when the day LL" a connection with the oldest town and the it "said so" time and again. But I opens with achilly northeasterly drizzle; 3 oldest church on Long Island. "What planted my beans with the wind "ter so most Iikely it is understood to express can the man do that cometh after the . th' east'ard," and harvested as good a =, a wish that the morning may be to you a f' i good one,finding you in health and com- ;king?" And from additional authorities crop as usual. Pardon the digression, - we may learn something about the bat ycu know it is hard to have patience „ fort. It's a pleasant onst3m, often un- also men who planted the first town on Long with such"moonshine." consciously carrying with it a ray of Island and organized its first church. =` sunshine and a pnlsa'ion of neighborly g Now as it is evident that the fathers 1 1he connection between the character y_ "commanded their children after them," feeling; and when spoken in a cheery and lives of the first settlers of the town, might we not expect that their descend- tone and accompanied by a smile, it may r and the condition and circumstances of ants would do as their fathers did and serve to wither a growing suspicion or their descendants to-day, forms a subject command their children after them? And µ revive a dying friendship. broad and deep, and rich in suggestive. so, many if not all the excellencies of the The good-mornings lately vouchsafed uses to thous who love to trace the work- first settlers have Dome step by step in to: the farmers hereabouts have made •ings of the laws of heredity, and the far. gracious sequence down near to the close them smile as they.bnrri ed the potatoes reaching` and moulding inflnsnces -of of the century, seenring to ns the advan- into the rapidly-opened drills; and. am "sound'and'faithfal religions teaching. tages,of,that- Puritanism which:was;as reminded of some potato planting that I _To"soma it may seem a..far fetched;no-. the:"hisEoiian :Bancroft says, .the out_ +aw done when Lwas a bop Twobr_oth- s growth•of Proteetuntism ,. ,, ers'werePreparing to plant±:about -half an acre in the same field;in.which;many ': Year s •afterward,j :Uncle;;Timr;,� ars to f;` The Eleventh Hobble" ; , VW1hteth' a oaptbeana with:'thewildOld Traveler..Boys' ,r east'sid." "'They.;,rooted. thronghr (or one bores .03 0o-uo t M friends,` p' go o morning '.'`W e a©ratohed over)the ground with a yoke 54 aheepe '' z-0o-o0 . of twayesr•old steers-that looked as if etaall aivtne . 'r . `` `02 al-oo meet"this morning 'on truly historic " chalnee,plow yrons aad cart yrona- 04-00-00 ttiey:wished they didn't have to "haw ground; for though Bndd'a Park is'not fhponao end land 80-00-0 ; extensive id area, yet it, and the mono or!'gee;" and the plow was one that old books by Mr.Hubbard prised at 06-00-M went by which it is honored are assn- could not find barn•room in these days " £91•00-00 Dialed with many precious memories, $nt by night they had that ball sore �y; and often wh9n passing it I fano I hear ,rooted The-next morula th9 appear- ' Tools made of yron' must have p g y g y p been costly when 3 chaines and the plow t the voice of brave young Bantling as ;ed'with the steers and a rather lightµ 'and cart "yrons" that a small farmer above the rattle of musketry at Olostee wooden-toothed harrow, and when it got would ordinarily need were valued at h he shouted, "Colonel, just tell me what l`linder way I was quite amused.(boy-like) $20, and his $15 horse a good one to to do and I'll do it," and I feel an im. , Watits antics. It wiggled its way over carry him on his pastoral visits over a the previous ear's corn-stumps, reared parish extending from -Wading Creek Pulse to take off my hat. A few days ' p Y p to"Oyster Ponds." Pastor Youngs was ' since as I was passing it, two gentlemen, la d pitched, and rattled the oz-ehaia in -< succeeded in 1674 by the Rev.JoAhna '' strangers in our village, stood looking lively fashion, for the want of a fence- Hobart, wbo finished his labors in 1717, g v g o g and was Followed b the Rev Benjamin up into that manly face, when one of =oat or two on it; but scientific agricui- y 1 tare had not u to that time got as far as = 'Woolsey from 1.720 to 1736 Rev. ,lames M them remarked, "You have a fine mon P g Davenport wax his successor from 1738 nment here, sir," which- gave me the teuce.poats for weighting harrows, and Ito 1746, and 2 years later Rev.' Wm tron•teeth were scarcely discovered.=But 'rhroop became pastor and continued opportunity of giving them a bit of the x Anyway soma of the teeth left marks be. for 8 years. From 1763 to'1787 their" history of."Abbie's man,"the whole of pastor was the Rev. John Storrs, and which would fill a volume. It had its a hind them. In the afternoon they from 1797 to 1806 the Rev. Joseph Haz inception in the mind of a-woman.. At }cooped with hoes holes about as-large < zard who was something of a poet a . a`meeting of the old Union Relief; long Sand deep as a half-bushel measure. On well as a preacher. after the close of the civil war, the n -the morning following they appeared During 23 years following the latte R. q ee- f` ,late, the church enjoyed and profited by ' tion of what to do with the$100 remain- with the two-wheeled cart loaded.,with i the faithful ministrations of Rev. ,lona ing in the treasury was,under discus- ,oiled corn-stalks and straw, which +they i; than Huntting. The older people of th sion, when Mrs. Hattie Booth Young =.avident,ly imagined to be manure, and Parish remember him as a man of coni asked, "Why not make it the Woolens of Placed a big fork-fall in each hill (or mandingpresence;tall,square shoulders p „� with the slight stoop of the student a-soldiers' monument?" and the ooh- ,rather hollow), and in the afternoon they His countenance was somewhat star summation question became the gdropped a small uncut potato in each. ? an of that his demeanor grave, insomuch tha : glory at n of t Park.' The history of M.Do yon think they would waste their big we children regarded him Qith feelin : g somewhat akin to awe. But be als the present Monumental Union, which 'potatoes by cutting them to plant when possessed a sum of quiet humor which is a child of the old Union Relief, and Alittle,ones would yield just as many in: be sometimes uewl with much skill not number? Extravagant! Then they merely to .provoke a laugh but to dis- may in 1883, and which in part covered them with hoes, and in the fall cover the foolishness pf a folly, or the i- may be• gathered from files of Tata dug them with the same tools—I do not shallowness of a sham, the wnich he` TaevrszEa, would make interesting id'=kaow how man to half acro,for I did not could do without giving offence. reading. ,;While the,additional funds ;know y A prominent eharapterietio of his was s' for the purchase of-the-monument w,3re near the couut. I think the quality of an babitual spirit of helpfulness,which Ilia potatoes was quite uniform through- an itself whenever and wherever being collected, the question of its form s an opportunity was offered, and I re- came up, naturally developing different �n out the town until. "white peach blows'' member one instance in which his good twers• introdneed, and the have hardly g tastes and opinions Some were "sot" Nffp y : intentions received an ill mannered and (as onlywomen can nfbr) on a simple been beaten to this day for quality,but shabby rebuff. A certain threshermau the vines were very large and exhaustive was repairing the cylinder of his machine P a-library and Eo the soil and there were too many wee at the oarpeater shop of E=quire Moses bnilding, and so some of the sessions of little ones for refit In the metier of Cleveland when Mr. Hanttiog happened the Union were characterized by a P along; and becoming interested in the warmth and the adroit use ofarlia. seleoting the largest and best for seed, tbresher's work he made a kindly sug p J..Hazzard H orton gas the pioneer, at ; gestion as to how beat to do it. The mentary tactics that would have done least in this part of the town, and he man (who, like Nabal, "was churlish, credit (or otherwise) to a breezy con. , gained quite a reputation for the excel- and evil in his ways") laid down hi gressional debate. But the taot and ' 0 lance and largeness of his yield. . tools, tipped back his hat, placed hisi` NMI IPerhaps yon willbe puzzled to discover hands on his hips, and addressing him Patience of its president, Mrs J. L '.,any Very close relation between potatoes self to Mr. Enutting, said: Mr, ' Conklin,. who had. been unanimously ,4ud,the "Old First Church,"and I must Hnntin',.did you ever hear the story if chosen its first and (so far) only chief "confess to the same thing,- but the the injun and his canoe?" Mr. H. said, officer, poured the oil of gentle words changes in potato culture have been so "No;' and the crusty thresher thus pro. great that I could scarcely avoid a pass. needed, "Once there was an injau that ' on tho troubled waters with the happi- in[�reference to them. started"to dig out a pane, and la neigh. est. results. ' Much credit-is dae to ~�Tbe first settled pastor of this cbnrch bor came along and said; 'Why don't. Frank H. Hill, of Riverhead, through was the Rev. John Youngs, who in OctO- yon dig more here 2' ' HO followed his whom the.monument was purchased, for tier; 1640, gathered "a considerable advice and spoiled'it,and tbrew it over number" of those to whom he bad the fence. Aftpr epoiling two other . his Painstaking interest in the efforts of formerly ministered at Hingham. Eng- canoes by following the adv}oe of other the ladies, without pecuniary advantage land, and organized "the First Church _ folks he got a fourth .log and whento himself. Some seemingly unreason- of Southold." Probably few eongrega. :; another neighbor offered advice aboutable objections were made to the in- tiona were ever more strongly attached where to dig, he said to`him, This is = to a pastor than were the first settlers to my canoe; there's everybody's canoe over soription "Budd's Park" on the north- " tbeirs, and they manifested it among the fence."' Mr. linntting turned asst corner stone post, but as it was at other ways in their generous gifts. Of meekly away and left the crusty thresher the request of J. W. Huntting, good `money they had none "to burn,"but to his tinkering. Now wasn't that€"° taste prevailed. The effort for the col- 'they selected for him the best of the shabby? ( soil aggregating at least 120 acres is some Mr. Huntting was followed in the lection of the funds that bought it was 10 different locations always the most mioigtry by-Rev Rilph Smith from83G, y continued during four years and result- 1 eligible and desirable. After 32 years of to 1838, and he by Rev. Geo. F. Wfs- ed in the gathering of about $1800, the faithful minigteri ng to his flock, he died : well from 185 to 1830; by Rev. Epher at the age of 74. The inventory of his Whitaker from 1857 to 1892; by Rev. ' Dost of the memorial, without commis- estate may serve to indicate the style iu (}eo D. Miller from 18iJ2 to 1894; and cions. On the occasion of its unveiling which he li ved and the line of industry by ev. J. B. Freeman from.1895 to '; in 1887, Samuel S. Vail, then 97 years he paraned in addition to his pastoral 18.9Q.' All of these were settled pastors of age(a veteran of the war of 1812), and labors. It was as follows: the years between the close of one and wrapped in the American flag, was In wooden ware do 2 old bedsteada an £ s v the beginning of another were filled in old ebeat&3 cbayera,2 tables&a by stated`supplies of longer or shorter drawn in a carriage to witness the care. forms a boule&trap($t0.00) x-'-00-00 terms. Possibly I might recall some monies. 2 kettles,2 potta,bake&pot-bake 03-00-M }binge in connection with them, but I 'Just across the street is the Universal- In pewter 02-00-x' am snre I have kept you quite lou 2 old beds do boutaters,blankets,one enough ahead Hoping q g cat ohnrah built by �V.. D. Cochran in rug and curtains and veluinga 04-q�00 g y P g yea may have 11336" strength for these long and lengthening "• (yning and slieets and piilobara 02-1J W g ening 50 xen-and one lame stetre and one ;; days of toil, I will bid you good morn- (Now stopping across Tucker's`Esus h!te a d 2 one yea ungd,and one if�.�t-to ou m� L. ., ? IL � me;come- to'.the, •'Old Lester Place. ` Thia corner' lot, with•:lands%adjoining,' .was iii16OXowned by John Tucker, and from 4684•�1;61760 snmmaively;. by Jet :William Hallock,'2d William- Hallock, Aid Peter Hallook, and-1a 1760 came in. td:Ahe•possession of Sylvester Lester, tather'of Lawyer Thos. S. Lester, -and hialwo sisters.Polly, and Hannah, and the,grandfather of the late Col, T. S.' f.ester.` For many years, and in their . old age,"Polly and Hannah lived alone in then old hoose close to the main street At.'.itW janotion withTucker's Lane. lhtok.'`ofr their bongo"Was-their, straw thatolhed°barn,, behind which stood a summer pear tree,- whose frnitL often covered the ground, and one time when we boys had gathered it into piles, and one had turned his back while a second one.should ask Is Who shall have that?" Hannah appeared around the corner of the•;barn, and "we boys" scampered, all but ane taking the north side of the pond in Budd's Park,and he the south side,"as the more direct way to his home, whose shelter he was.anxious to reach. Bnt:Polly was on guard,.and seizing the youngster firmly by the arm, drew him into:her kitchen, and while retaining ` her grip on L the trembling: onlprit, ad- ministered to him a lecture which was at, once hortatory, argumentative and convincing, so much so that after sixty years he has a vivid recollection of that grips and than lecture.; ,After the old hoose was torn down, Col. Lester built A cottage on its site,which after a few years was moved to"Egypt''by George Booth, and is now, with an addition, ilte home of his widow. In 1856, B. H. Booth (who as a boy left Southold with eighteen cents in his pocket),. bad be- e owe tired of building bones in Brook= tyn and returned to his native village to "look around, it perchance he might Aid.a desirable resting place for his de. oliniug',years;, and fortunately fonnd this pleasant corner, on which he had 68d his eye for many years, in the pos- session of his friend, Alvah Mulford, who had bought it from Jonathan Hor. . ton;:to whom Col. Lester had sold it a few years previously. :,Five years later, in'186t;,Mr. Booth built his present res. idence,in which in comfort.and pease he enjoys the fruits of those busy years of.,saocessfal housebuilding in Brook- lyn.,,Perhaps some day he will remove that high hedge :which partially hides l' his,pleashut .home and grounds from " public view. Across the street and a little south is the home of A. Irwin Booth, bought in 1866 from Mrs. -Amelia Magee, and a second.story added. The site and lands eastward were in 1653 owned.by Samuel Bing and later by John Elton, Eleazer Way,Ann Way and Moses O. Cleveland. ' A few steps and we come to the new `f and tasty home of Melrose I. Booth and wife,;with their lusty baby boy. Bnt interesting as babies are, they a?u , hardly supply the place of a hearty din. 'S net for a hungry man, so I shall have to bid you good morning and cane it homeas fast as I can for fear-of what Z ay happen it I'm tardy at dinner time. 1:s`0. i'1 i3