_Ebenezer SKINNER ___
_Joseph SKINNER _|
| |_Sarah Abigail LORD _
|
|--Daniel SKINNER
|
| _____________________
|_Martha KINNE ___|
|_____________________
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Line 5024 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC "Admiral" Dan Skinner (ID=10570)
Line 5025 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT From: River Boats of America, by: Frank Donovon, New York: Thomas Y.
Line 5026 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Crowell Company. 1966. pg. 17-18.
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Line 5028 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Fact 1: Ref: Skinner Kinsmen Update, Vol. 11, #1, pg. 7.
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Line 5030 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Fact 2: Ref: Skinner Kinsmen Update, Vol. 11, #1, pg. 15.
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Line 5035 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT RAFTING ON THE DELAWARE
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Line 5037 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The following paper was delivered at the 65th Annual Banquet of the
Line 5038 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Minisink Valley Historical Society held at the Hotel Minisink, Port
Line 5039 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Jervis, on Washington's Birthday, in 1954. The address was delivered by
Line 5040 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Ralph E. Wright who was the General Manager of the Ontario & Western
Line 5041 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Railroad.
Line 5042 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5043 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT For over one hundred years no one seems to have written a great deal
Line 5044 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC regarding the enterprise - rafting -
Line 5045 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT although this was a flourishing industry for 150 years. In recent years
Line 5046 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the late Charles Curtis, of
Line 5047 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Callicoon, and Leslie Wood, who grew up in the rafting country at
Line 5048 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Livingston Manor, spent a great deal
Line 5049 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT of time and effort obtaining and compiling data regarding the river and
Line 5050 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC it is to them we are all indebted
Line 5051 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT for recording various events in connection with rafting.
Line 5052 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5053 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The First Raft
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Line 5055 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The first raft ever to navigate the Delaware was constructed by Daniel
Line 5056 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Skinner, of Cochecton, N. Y., after
Line 5057 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT he had first endeavored to float long pine timbers loose ahead of a
Line 5058 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC canoe. This method was a failure. He
Line 5059 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT then constructed a raft quite similar to the replica I have here. (Ed.
Line 5060 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Note: The Society still has the model in its collection.) This was in the
Line 5061 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC year of 1764. It took him several days to reach Philadelphia from
Line 5062 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Cochecton and he was gone two weeks. The raft was 15 feet wide and 80
Line 5063 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC feet long. He had a Dutchman as a helper. This first raft was
Line 5064 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC exceptionally fine pine spars and he received 4 pounds per stick. The
Line 5065 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC largest raft ever to be taken down the Delaware was operated by a Mr.
Line 5066 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Barnes. This raft was 85 Á feet wide and 215 feet long and was loaded
Line 5067 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC 120,000 feet of lumber.
Line 5068 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5069 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT In the year 1875, 3,140 rafts passed over the Lackawaxen dam by the last
Line 5070 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC of May, according to the
Line 5071 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT records kept by the "Keeper of the Dam." This dam was constructed by the
Line 5072 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Delaware and Hudson Canal
Line 5073 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Company, who employed the "Keeper." He guided the rafts from the shore
Line 5074 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC over the dam. If they obeyed his instructions and the raft was broken up,
Line 5075 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC I understand the Canal Company settled with the owner of the
Line 5076 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT raft. However, if they did not follow his orders, and the raft was
Line 5077 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC damaged, the Canal Company
Line 5078 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT maintained they were not responsible for the loss.
Line 5079 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5080 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Admiral Skinner
Line 5081 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5082 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT I was interested in learning who this man Skinner was. In the book -
Line 5083 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Stories of the Raftsmen, by Charles
Line 5084 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT T. Curtis, of Callicoon - I find - "Daniel Skinner has long been
Line 5085 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC identified in the history of the upper
Line 5086 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Delaware Valley as the first man to navigate a raft of logs down the
Line 5087 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Delaware River, and he has been
Line 5088 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT recognized as the founder of that vast lumbering industry which occupied
Line 5089 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the time and labor of the people both along the river and far back in the
Line 5090 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC country for well nigh three-quarters of the last century.
Line 5091 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5092 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT "Daniel Skinner was born at Salem, Conn., in 1733 and in 1754 came to the
Line 5093 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Delaware with his father,
Line 5094 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Joseph Skinner, and Dr. John Calkin and Bezeleel Tyler, members of the
Line 5095 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Delaware Land Co., to take
Line 5096 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT possession of the Cochecton Valley under a grant from the Provincial
Line 5097 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Government of Connecticut. That
Line 5098 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT colony claimed jurisdiction from the Delaware to the Susquehanna."
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Line 5100 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT "Rafting on the Delaware" and James Quinlan's History of Sullivan County
Line 5101 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC written in 1873 have the
Line 5102 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT following regarding Daniel Skinner:
Line 5103 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5104 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT "We have seen and conversed with men who assisted him in running lumber
Line 5105 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC down the river before the close of the last century. He was honored in a
Line 5106 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC jocose way by the hardy men who followed his example. By general consent
Line 5107 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC he was constituted Admiral of all the waters of the river in which a raft
Line 5108 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC could be taken to a market, and no one was free to engage in business
Line 5109 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC until he had the Admiral's consent. This was done by presenting Skinner
Line 5110 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC with a bottle of wine, when liberty was granted the applicant to go to
Line 5111 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Philadelphia as a forehand. To gain the privilege of going as a
Line 5112 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC steersman, another bottle was necessary, on the receipt of which the
Line 5113 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Admiral gave full permission to navigate all the channels of the river."
Line 5114 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5115 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Local Raft Rider
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Line 5117 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Our fellow townsman, Ed Hinaman whose ancestors were raftsmen, and he
Line 5118 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC himself made several trips
Line 5119 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT down the river, stated that a rafting crew on a large raft usually
Line 5120 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC consisted of a steersman and five hands.
Line 5121 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The steersman's commands were 'pull Penn' or 'pull Jersey' and 'holt
Line 5122 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC t'other way.' The rope used was an inch and a quarter in diameter.
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Line 5124 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Much of the early history of Sullivan County is obtained from the files
Line 5125 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC of "The Monticello Watchman,"
Line 5126 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT the oldest paper in Sullivan County - published since 1826 and presently
Line 5127 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC owned and edited by Mr. A. O.
Line 5128 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Benton. From "Rafting on the Neversink" taken from the files of this
Line 5129 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC paper I quote:
Line 5130 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5131 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT "Otto Wm. VanTuyl settled in Bridgeville in 1811 and built a dwelling and
Line 5132 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC store on the banks of the
Line 5133 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Neversink. At that time the inhabitants along and many miles back from
Line 5134 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the Neversink were occupied in
Line 5135 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT clearing their lands and establishing homes and they relied upon
Line 5136 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC lumbering as an important help in
Line 5137 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT securing the necessities of life. Compared with the Delaware River
Line 5138 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC lumbermen they were compelled to cart their lumber over the mountains
Line 5139 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC into Orange County. So VanTuyl conceived the plan of making the
Line 5140 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Neversink navigable for rafts from the falls in Fallsburgh to its mouth
Line 5141 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC at Port Jervis. He saw in it great
Line 5142 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT wealth in tolls for himself and prosperity for the lumbermen. He obtained
Line 5143 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC a loan of $10,000 from the
Line 5144 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT state, commenced operations, and worked two years in building aprons over
Line 5145 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC falls, removing rocks, etc.
Line 5146 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Then the state commissioners adjudged the river safe and navigable for
Line 5147 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC rafts! Rates of toll were established about $1.50 per thousand for
Line 5148 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC lumber, l0c. for each log, 2c. per bushel for charcoal; etc. Then the
Line 5149 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC trial came. A raft was launched just above the point where the O. & W.
Line 5150 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Railroad crosses the river near
Line 5151 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Fallsburgh in 1831. It passed Bridgeville safely, the river full to its
Line 5152 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC banks, and VanTuyl saw or thought he
Line 5153 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT saw the full fruition of his hopes.
Line 5154 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5155 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The raft passed safely through the rapids but was wrecked and lost at
Line 5156 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Denton Falls. Van Tuyl then further
Line 5157 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT improved the river, engaged experienced Delaware River raftsmen, and the
Line 5158 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC following Spring started
Line 5159 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT another raft from Bridgeville. So confident was VanTuyl of success that
Line 5160 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC he let his son, William, age 16,
Line 5161 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT go down on this second raft, which had nearly reached the scene of its
Line 5162 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC predecessor's disaster when it too was broken into fragments. Two of the
Line 5163 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC men on it were drowned. The steersman and young VanTuyl were dashed upon
Line 5164 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC a rock where they were marooned for twelve hours when rescuers came to
Line 5165 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC their aid. As they reached shore a gigantic tree was swept over the rock
Line 5166 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC on which they took refuge, thus their lives were saved by a margin of
Line 5167 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC only a moment. This ended the attempt to navigate the Neversink. VanTuyl
Line 5168 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC was a ruined man."
Line 5169 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5170 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Pioneer Settlers
Line 5171 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5172 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The men who rocked the cradle of the rafting industry were the pioneer
Line 5173 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC settlers who floated one or two
Line 5174 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT rafts per year on the average. At the time Daniel Skinner ran the first
Line 5175 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC raft down the Delaware there were
Line 5176 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT very few settlements. The timber along the Delaware below Port Jervis was
Line 5177 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC practically all chestnut and
Line 5178 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT scrub oak, being worthless as rafting timber. In later years some
Line 5179 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC chestnut and oak was rafted, for railroad ties. Only the territory above
Line 5180 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Port Jervis could rightly be called the rafting country.
Line 5181 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5182 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT When rafting was first found to be a worthwhile enterprise the timber was
Line 5183 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC cut right near the river and,
Line 5184 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT when supply became depleted they gradually moved up the river and back
Line 5185 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC from the river.
Line 5186 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5187 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT In the early days the trees were mostly felled, with an ax. Some
Line 5188 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC historians say saws (crosscut) were not yet invented. I checked with Mr.
Line 5189 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Richard Canfield, of Clemson Bros. Inc., Middletown, N. Y., regarding the
Line 5190 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT introduction of crosscut saws in this country. He tells me the use of
Line 5191 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC crosscut saws in this part of the
Line 5192 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT country occurred as soon as the pioneers had their log cabins up. He
Line 5193 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC further states that the saw is a very
Line 5194 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT old tool and that no doubt many of the early settlers brought handmade
Line 5195 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC saws with them when they came
Line 5196 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT to this country. In fact, he says saws of bronze and stone were used in
Line 5197 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC ancient times. He also states that
Line 5198 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT whenever a pioneer could afford to purchase an iron bar he either
Line 5199 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC hammered it into a saw or had it done
Line 5200 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT by a local blacksmith.
Line 5201 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5202 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Small Colts
Line 5203 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5204 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The east and west branches of the Delaware join at Hancock. Small rafts
Line 5205 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC known as colts, 20x80, were
Line 5206 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT assembled on the Willowemoc at Livingston Manor, Roscoe and points below
Line 5207 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Roscoe, and floated to East Branch where four colts were lashed together
Line 5208 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC as one raft. Also colts were floated down the East Branch of the Delaware
Line 5209 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC from as far up stream as Margaretville and made into rafts at East
Line 5210 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Branch. Rafts were also floated down the West Branch from points as far
Line 5211 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC up as Fitch's Bridge above Delhi.
Line 5212 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5213 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT If the weather was good, rafts usually reached Trenton in 3 days. In the
Line 5214 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC early days of rafting the men
Line 5215 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT walked the whole distance home, carrying their axes and ropes, following
Line 5216 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the river trails which took about four days in good weather. If there was
Line 5217 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC rain or snow, it sometimes took much longer.
Line 5218 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5219 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT After the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike was built they traveled from
Line 5220 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Trenton to Philadelphia and
Line 5221 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT boarded boats for New York, where they boarded another boat up the Hudson
Line 5222 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC River to Newburgh, then
Line 5223 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT either walked or went by stage. Many of the most rugged of the men walked
Line 5224 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the entire distance without
Line 5225 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT resting from Newburgh through to the Beaverkill country, carrying their
Line 5226 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC equipment such as ropes and axes. Old-timers claim that the ones who
Line 5227 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC elected to walk from Newburgh to the Beaverkill country invariably
Line 5228 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC reached home before the ones taking the stage. Some who lived on the
Line 5229 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC upper Delaware or its branches, took the boat to Kingston, then by stage
Line 5230 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC to Delhi and hoofed it from there. After the Erie and NY O & W Railroads
Line 5231 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC were built some of them returned home by rail.
Line 5232 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5233 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Raft Wages
Line 5234 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5235 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Before the Civil War the raftsmen were paid $10.00 per trip to Easton and
Line 5236 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC $15.00 to Trenton, and the
Line 5237 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT expense of returning home. Steersmen were paid $15.00 to $18.00. to
Line 5238 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Easton and $25.00 to Trenton,
Line 5239 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT but account of higher pay, were not allowed expenses for returning home.
Line 5240 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Raft owners often paid from one to ten dollars to some local man along
Line 5241 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the river who would take them through a difficult rift, such as Foul Rift
Line 5242 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC just below Belvedere, N.J. and other bad rifts and turns on the river.
Line 5243 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5244 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Many outstanding characters were employed as raftsmen and hands. One of
Line 5245 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the most outstanding wits
Line 5246 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT seems to have been a man named Boney Qullen whom I met when I was a boy.
Line 5247 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC He was a raw boned, good natured fellow who had the ability of making up
Line 5248 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC a verse readily for most any occasion. His habits were not of the best
Line 5249 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC and he got in a good many scrapes but with his wit managed to get out of
Line 5250 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC them. He insulted a dining room girl at one of the taverns not far from a
Line 5251 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC point on the river known as "Stairway Rift." The following morning the
Line 5252 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC proprietor of the tavern met him at the top of the stairs and promptly
Line 5253 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC threw him
Line 5254 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT down the stairs. When he picked himself up he was heard to remark that it
Line 5255 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC was the first time he ever ran
Line 5256 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT "Stairway Rift" without a steersman.
Line 5257 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5258 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The same Boney Quillen on a return trip on the NY O & W RR was broke and
Line 5259 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC had no ticket. He raised
Line 5260 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT the window in the coach as the conductor approached and purposely stuck
Line 5261 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC his head out of the window,
Line 5262 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT knocking his hat off. Immediately he put up a terrific fuss requesting
Line 5263 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the conductor to stop the train!
Line 5264 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Threatening to pull the cord, etc., claiming that it was a good hat and
Line 5265 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC that his ticket was in the band of
Line 5266 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT the hat and that he had no money for his fare. The conductor agreed that
Line 5267 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC if he would quiet down he would
Line 5268 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT take him to his destination which was East Branch.
Line 5269 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5270 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT I learned just recently from an old timer that Boney Quillen was born in
Line 5271 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Ellenville, went up into the
Line 5272 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT rafting country as a boy. He later served in the Union Army and was AWOL
Line 5273 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC for four days. He came back
Line 5274 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT with a mule and provisions that were badly needed, and they excused him
Line 5275 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC for being AWOL. He never
Line 5276 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT married. He boarded in several places and spent a good deal of time
Line 5277 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC around Hancock, Fish's Eddy and
Line 5278 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT East Branch, and died in the Soldiers' Home at Bath, N.Y.
Line 5279 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5280 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT There were many taverns located along the river, usually near eddies
Line 5281 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC where rafts were tied up at night.
Line 5282 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Raftsmen were a hearty bunch who worked hard and said to have played hard
Line 5283 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC too. These taverns were the scene of many a wrestling match and fist
Line 5284 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC fight to determine who was the best man on the raft or fleet of rafts.
Line 5285 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC The strongest men were the Adamses from Lordville and the Hawleys from
Line 5286 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Downsville. Jugs were usually filled at the taverns before resuming the
Line 5287 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC journey. It is recorded that the hardest drinkers were the most capable
Line 5288 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC steersmen. It was not uncommon during the rafting season for two or three
Line 5289 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC hundred raftsmen to ask for lodging at one time in small villages. One
Line 5290 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC hundred or more would stop for dinner at noon at the Dimmick Inn,
Line 5291 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Milford, Pa. As the raftman's appetite was enormous, the taverns always
Line 5292 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC kept a goodly supply of salt pork, pancake flour and liquor on hand.
Line 5293 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5294 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Usually the men were paid at Trenton and many of them proceeded to enjoy
Line 5295 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the sights and luxuries of the city before returning home, sometimes
Line 5296 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC having to borrow money for provisions before they could return. There
Line 5297 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC were numerous stories of these fellows walking around the streets of
Line 5298 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Trenton, sometimes a hundred in a group dressed in their mountain
Line 5299 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC clothes, all extremely large men, any of them a parade in himself, to the
Line 5300 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC delight of boys who followed them about.
Line 5301 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5302 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT First Tavern
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Line 5304 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The first tavern on the Upper Delaware was erected in 1794 just below
Line 5305 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Callicoon (Bush's Eddy) which was close to the first day's run from the
Line 5306 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Upper Delaware; however, the oldest tavern, which was probably
Line 5307 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT constructed around 1730, was a two and a half story building with a porch
Line 5308 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC standing on the river bank at
Line 5309 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Dingmans near an eddy. It was at one time occupied by the descendants of
Line 5310 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the famous Indian slayer, Tom Quick. Wendell Phillips, who has made many,
Line 5311 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC trips down the river in a canoe, advises it is still standing.
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Line 5313 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Many rafts were broken up and lost. Some men made a living by collecting
Line 5314 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC logs along the shore from rafts that had pulled apart. When an owner lost
Line 5315 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC his raft, therefore could not pay his bills, promissory notes were given,
Line 5316 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC not for thirty or sixty days, as is the custom today, but the time set
Line 5317 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC was the next good freshet on the river.
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Line 5319 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The men who took millions of feet of lumber and timber down the river
Line 5320 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC brought back to the up country
Line 5321 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT millions of dollars, not withstanding that as late as 1840 logs sold for
Line 5322 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC only $2.00 a thousand delivered at
Line 5323 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT the logging banks. This money enriched the country and not only built
Line 5324 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC schools and churches and homes,
Line 5325 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT but maintained them as well. The raftsmen not only took products of the
Line 5326 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC country to the city, but they
Line 5327 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT also brought back much of the city to the country.
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Line 5329 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Support of Region
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Line 5331 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The principal support of the Upper Delaware section ever since it was
Line 5332 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC first settled has been timber and the by-products of timber. First it was
Line 5333 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the pine and hemlock logs floated down the river: then the many
Line 5334 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT tanneries which used hemlock bark and occasioned the great waste of
Line 5335 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC timber. Millions of hemlock trees,
Line 5336 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT after the bark was removed for the tanneries, were left to decay.
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Line 5338 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Then came the acid factories manufacturing acetate of lime, wood alcohol
Line 5339 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC and charcoal. At one time there
Line 5340 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT were forty two of these factories along the NY O & W and hundreds in New
Line 5341 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC York State and
Line 5342 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Pennsylvania. Today only one remains that I know of in New York State -
Line 5343 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC at Hortons.
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Line 5345 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Rock Maple
Line 5346 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5347 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT There is a type of timber on the upper reaches of the Delaware known as
Line 5348 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Rock Maple, which is particularly adapted to the manufacture of bowling
Line 5349 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC pins. If you bowl in Boston, New York, San Francisco or Port Jervis, it
Line 5350 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC would be a very good wager that the bowling pins were manufactured at
Line 5351 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Sherwood's Ten-Pin Plant in Livingston Manor, N.Y. They supply the
Line 5352 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Brunswick Bake Collender people. The finest ash also grows in the
Line 5353 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Catskills and many baseball bats are manufactured at Hancock and
Line 5354 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Kingston.
Line 5355 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5356 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Aside from the logs and timber rafted down the Delaware, there were
Line 5357 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC quantities of stone, hemlock bark
Line 5358 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT and other commodities carried. Hemlock bark was delivered to the tannery
Line 5359 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC at Sparrowbush from points up the river. The largest flagstone ever to be
Line 5360 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC quarried was cut at Pond Eddy, N.Y. floated to Philadelphia,
Line 5361 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Pa. on a raft, then to New York by boat and placed in front of the City
Line 5362 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Hall in New York City.
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Line 5364 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Elephant Meets Raft
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Line 5366 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Some years ago Barnum & Bailey's Circus while at Port Jervis wished to
Line 5367 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC cross to Pennsylvania. One
Line 5368 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT elephant absolutely refused to set foot on the bridge. The elephant
Line 5369 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC started to ford the river and a raft
Line 5370 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT appeared. The raft ran into the elephant and the raftsmen tried to get
Line 5371 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC him out of the way with their poles.
Line 5372 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The trainer begged them to be careful lest "Jumbo" go on a rampage and
Line 5373 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC break up everything in sight.
Line 5374 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT "Jumbo" forded the rest of the way across without further difficulty,
Line 5375 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC although his ear was nearly severed on account the raft striking him. The
Line 5376 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC raft was owned by Addison Francisco of Cooks Falls.
Line 5377 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5378 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Rafting lumber and logs to tide water was an interstate business. The
Line 5379 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC streams the rafts traveled were
Line 5380 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT designated as navigable waters. It has always been understood that
Line 5381 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC obstructions such as dams, bridges, dikes, etc., could not be placed in
Line 5382 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the river and navigable streams without first obtaining permission from
Line 5383 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the proper authorities.
Line 5384 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5385 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT And so ends an era of the Delaware - the same Delaware that now rolls
Line 5386 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC under the Port Jervis - Matamoras Bridge - leaving its mark upon history;
Line 5387 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the same Delaware of Washington and his incredible and fabulous crossing
Line 5388 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC above Trenton at Washington's crossing; the same Delaware that in present
Line 5389 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC times is the topic of dams, drinking water, stream control and plans of
Line 5390 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the Incodel. Who knows who will stand here before such a group again many
Line 5391 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC years hence and unfold a tale of the present Delaware!
Line 5392 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5393 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The days of rafting and all its color are gone but the Delaware, all that
Line 5394 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC it's been and all that it may ever be rolls on.
Line 5395 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT
Line 5396 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT (www.portjervisny.org/historya.htm)
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