Name/Title
Goodwill NotesEntry/Object ID
002018Tags
William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
...With their Bells, Came Gingling Up to Her ... Which, Aroused Her, From Her, Wakeing, pensive; And Melancholy Dream..... When She Slid, from the Log, took Her pail and Went to Milking ... —— While the Men Came to the Log, As some of the Indians Kindled up the fire, the Carpenters Flattened the top of the Log, With their Axes, to Serve as a Table, to Spread our Provisions On... For All, Was now About to be Examined & OVERHauled, to See the true Condition thereof— Where the Bread, the Biscuit, the Last of Our Cheese
The Bacon & the Hams... All had an Airing, on the Log --- Where it Was found, Bread and Cheese, Was Used the most freely by all, as Bread, had Occasionally been Used With Milk; and the Milk that was Left given to the Dog However in this OVERHalment, There was found, in a Wallet Several Rolls of Candles and of Soap Well Secured, With Brownpaper and Rolled in Cloth ... ^(Also, in Another Wallet, from Which, Biscuit had been) ^(Used on Board of the Boat, in One End thereof, Was found) ^(with a few small tin cups ... iron candlesticks & snuffer, two forks... [unclear]) a few Potatoes, Which the Boatmen, had put up, for them to Roast at Night, to help out Their Evening meal, Where they Might
Stay in the Wilderness --- All Being Satisfactorily Arranged, On the Log table, by the time, Sarah ^had Done Milking, when She brought it Forward, & strained the Milk, in another Pail, and Set it on the Log for Use... --- The Men, Observed Her Sitting on the Log, With Her Serious movement... Was fearful, Sarah was too much Worried, in ferrying Over so much Bagage; And Would have her Sit Down and take Some Breakfast With them; as She must feel Fatigued and faint... ——— She Shook her head, But Said Nothing... — Nevertheless, on seeing the New tincups, She took one of them & Cleaned it With Some Warm Water, She had previously Set on the fire, in a Kettle, then Dipping it, Into
the pail of Milk; took a few Sups, With a Biscuit, and small Bite of Cheese... And Walked Off... Went to Where, the Men had been to Work... Who had Dug holes in the ground With the Spade, At the Distance of About, fifteen by Eighteen feet ——
...high Relish and Taste for; Yet had so much good sense, As to perceive; ... That the Whole ... Wawayanda Patentee Scheme ... With all the Paternal & precious Accommodations, With Which This Tract of Country, had Become, so Happily Replenish’d to Allure... the Illiterate and Clownish Citizens of the World of Mankind, to flock in, and Cultivate ...--... And for Nine Successive Years, of Patentee Speculative Scheming; Which had brought them to the Year 1712..... and had Done But Little more ..... Than to turn the Ebb ..... Tide of Speculation inevitably Against them .... That some of them, Would Run Aground, Some- -how or, Somewhere ——— That the fuss, of Selling and Buying, Of Undivided Rights and parts of Rights Although they might, in the aggregate imply, 5 — 10 — 15 —— or 20 Thousand Acres, Of the Wild Land of Wawayanda ———— This Buying and Selling, Was Like the Artificial speculative Compliments of High-life ———— And as it Were, Kept up, As a Currency... Upon False Credit ——— A mere Artificial Name; Without the Essentials... This was Clearly and Fairly Understood by Christopher Denn, One of the Company & Patentees; Who saw his fate —— That He must Run aground sometime That He might as Well Die, in the Wilderness, on His Own Premises, as in the City of New York — And after Compleating the surveys, of the Village of Goshen, Christopher Denn, to get a Stated State of His Own, Got Peter Berrian, a Reputed Surveyor, to Run a Line for Him; Begining at a Maple tree, for the first Station ^(now ^stood a ^large ^Rock ^Stone ^marked ^D ^& ^W) standing in ^the ^Line With the Northeasterly Bounds of ^the New Laid out Village of Goshen, And say, nearly ^or ^about one ^Mile & a half Southeasterly, from the main street of the said village of Goshen & passing a Little to the North Say ^two Chains of Rumbout Wigwam & ... And Runing from the Said first Station on a Course of North Thirty six Degrees
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