Identifier: historyofoswegoc01john (find matches)
Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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afraid to go by water, they aban-doned that project to go on foot through the woods. Theyprovi<lcd themselves with an axe and pocket-compa.ss, andstarted from David Eitstons, who lived about a mile andthree-quarters north of Vermilion, taking a bee-line, asthey supposed, for the falls, and marking the trees its theywent along. Before reaching that point, however, theycame to a settlement, previously unknown to them, whichproved to be what wivs aft<!rwards Volney Centre. Here they found three young women, two of them beinghired girls of Mr. Seymour and Mr. Candee. These werepromptly invited to walk at least fifteen miles to the dance,which thoy were very willing to do if their employers andparents would consent. The latter objected at fii-st, butfinally concluded to let them go if they were willing to runthe risk of the beai-s. So in the morning the three couplesstarted through the woods for Easlons, crossing brooks andmarshes, the girls taking off their .shoes and stockings when
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