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History and Genealogy 
 
 a mm i m urn i ns, 
 
 BY 
 
 EMERSON KINNE. 
 
 SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
 
 MASTERS & STONE, PRINTERS AND BINDERS. 
 
 1881. 
 

 
 
 
 
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History and Genealogy 
 
 OF 
 
 A BRANCH OF Til HILT OF 111 
 
 EMERSON KINNE. 
 
 SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
 
 MASTERS & STONE, PRINTERS AND BINDERS. 
 
 1881. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Having, for a number of years, a desire to learn some¬ 
 thing of the ancestry of the Kinnes of Onondaga County, 
 the writer of the following glance sketches, lias, after con¬ 
 siderable time, some correspondence, with a measure of 
 trouble and patient investigation, obtained the facts herein 
 recorded. 
 
 At the outset he may be permitted the expression of a 
 candid sentiment that he has been impelled to this pleasant 
 and yet somewhat difficult undertaking, more by a desire 
 to snatch from unmerited, but inevitable oblivion, the 
 facts, incidents and personal histories of our kinsmen, who 
 are fast passing from the scenes that make history, to the 
 unknown and unending future, than by an undue or per¬ 
 sonal family pride. 
 
 If, in the faithful record of facts, found in these pages, 
 there shall appear any merit attaching itself to deeds of 
 daring, or of patriotism, or of patient submission, where 
 submission was a virtue, or of Christian zeal and labor, or 
 of the more common virtues in humbler walks of life, such 
 merit may be grateful to any of the kindred, whose eye 
 may chance to rest on this humble attempt to record and 
 preserve some of their history. 
 
 Such is my admiration of the virtue and heroism of our 
 
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 forefathers, the early settlers of New England, such my 
 veneration for their loyalty to God and their country, so 
 marvelous do 1 count their hardships and sufferings, in 
 their early attempts to colonize, their almost obstinate per¬ 
 sistence in meeting and surmounting difficulties and their 
 rigid practice of the primitive virtues; that my kinsmen 
 will, perhaps, accord with my desire to lay before them 
 some of the causes and considerations underlying the 
 settlement and colonization of New England. 
 
 To this end I invited my nephew, Edward D. Kinne, of 
 Ann Arbor, Michigan, son of my oldest brother, Julius C. 
 Kinne, to prepare a paper on that subject, to be read at a 
 probable re-union of Kinnes, to be held in Cortland, N. Y., 
 to accompany this record. 
 
 In compliance with my request, he has paused in his 
 busy pursuit of legal and legislative duties, and sent 
 me what would seem to be, a suitable and proper introduc¬ 
 tion to the history of any family of the descendants of New 
 England. 
 
 It has been said, that if our Pilgrim Fathers had settled 
 on the western shores of America, instead of on the eastern, 
 the eastern shores would still have been in the possession 
 of the Indian race. 
 
 Whether there be any truth in this, or whether it he 
 only a mere waggish way of lauding our wide western 
 domains, is of little consequence. 
 
 One thing is certain; had a less hardy and heroic people 
 encountered the trials which they did, New England had 
 made quite another history, than that she has. Glorious as 
 it is, she has shaped the history and directed the destiny of 
 other, if not all other sections of the country. 
 
 Salem, the seat and center of settlements, next to 
 Plymouth, was the first town settled in Massachusetts. 
 
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 The first church organization effected in this country 
 was at Salem, in 1629. 
 
 Witchcraft flourished and died here. 
 
 In the revolutionary war 158 privateers, mounting 2,000 
 guns, manned by 6,000 men were fitted out from this 
 town. 
 
 Salem has a history. And from this place the name of 
 Ivinne, in the person of Henry, originates, as seen in the 
 record. 
 
 The very sterility of New England soil, and the in¬ 
 clemency of its climate stimulated industry and incited to 
 emigration, and its tide has ever after been westward. 
 
 Henry’s descendants, scattered over various parts of 
 New England, were not behind in enterprise, or purposes 
 of permanent improvement in their material interests. 
 
 It is presumably known to all, that, by grant and subse¬ 
 quent purchase, Stephen Van Rensselaer, called the 
 “ Patroon,” was the proprietor of about three-fourths of a 
 million of acres of land, comprising the greater part of the 
 present counties of Albany, Columbia and Rensselaer,— 
 that he was the liberal landlord of the occupants of these 
 lands, requiring only a mere nominal rent, leasing on long 
 time, in some cases ninety-nine years. Such inducements, 
 naturally invited emigration thither, and Cyrus Kinne, 
 fourth in line from Henry Ivinne, was induced to leave 
 Voluntown, Conn., and settle on leased land in Rensselaer 
 county. Enterprise and adventure know but little of 
 limits. When once they have impelled men to strike out 
 for independence, ease or affluence, every new promise of 
 good, discovers avenues, penetrates forests, divides waters, 
 bridges rivers, braves dangers, achieves victories and 
 secures success. 
 
 Central New York, by a very generous provision of the 
 
state and national governments, became in 1783 an 
 objective point, by the disposition and distribution of 
 public lauds. There is now in the possession of Allen B. 
 lvinne, of Woodard, Onondaga County, N. Y., an original 
 deed of conveyance, to Cyrus lvinne, Esq., of one hundred 
 acres of land from the State of New York, when John Jay 
 was Governor, and Lewis A. Scott, Secretary of State. 
 The deed bears date Sept. 2, 1795, and has attached to it 
 the Great Seal of the State, which consists of a piece of 
 wax, circular in form, three inches in diameter, and nearly 
 a half inch in thickness, covered with parchment, bearing the 
 impress, “ The Great Seal of the State,” and “Excelsior,” 
 and on the reverse, “Frustra,” “1777.” This was only 
 one of the many parcels purchased. 
 
 These lands lying in the central part of the State consti¬ 
 tute what was called the “ Military Tract.” Their cheap¬ 
 ness and fertility soon became known. 
 
 A clear exposition of the status of this “ tract ” was 
 published some time since in the columns of the Syracuse 
 Journal , and is deemed of sufficient interest to be laid 
 before our friends. 
 
 1 desire to thank those who have responded to inquiries, 
 in pursuance of the work I have had in hand, without 
 whose aid, the task would have been fraught with greater 
 difficulties and its results less satisfactory. 
 
 Ln the work undertaken, I have been assisted by my 
 brother, A. E. Kinne, to whom I have often had occasion 
 to refer, and to whom T desire herein to acknowledge my 
 obligations. 
 
 In the Record I have attempted, it was my purpose, in 
 the beginning, simply to place in manuscript form, such 
 facts concerning the Onondaga branch of Kinnes, as were 
 clearly in my own memory. 
 
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 But as these were recorded, other facts and incidents, not 
 distinctly remembered, but standing in such close relation 
 to those well remembered, that some correspondence 
 became indispensable to anything like a perfect and impar¬ 
 tial recital of what was recalled. 
 
 The object of the work was to leave in some tangible 
 form, what my immediate kinsmen might wish to preserve, 
 and to place at the service of any one or more of them who 
 would wish to perfect and extend the record and genealogy 
 so as to include others or all of the name of Kinne, who 
 now live or have lived in this country. 
 
 As the work grew, and some of our friends desired a 
 more permanent form for preservation, than manuscript, it 
 was deemed more satisfactory and more easy of reference, 
 to put in pamphlet form, what at first was designed only 
 for family reference. 
 
 NEW ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLANDERS 
 
 SOMETHING OF THEIR HISTORY ; THEIR STRUGGLES, AND THE 
 FRUITION OF THEIR LABORS. 
 
 It. is foreign to the design of this brief address, to 
 attempt a detailed or elaborate portraiture of our New 
 England ancestry. Such a labor must devolve upon the 
 historian. Ours must be a bird’s-eye, philosophical glance 
 at that memorable past. The theme should interest and 
 ennoble every true American heart. 
 
 No one, however gifted by nature or versed in modern 
 or classic lore, can speak intelligently or act wisely for his 
 generation, for his country or posterity, unless his eye can 
 
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 light upon, and his memory retain, the salient features of 
 New England history. Wanting in these essential elements 
 of historic knowledge, the American citizen and statesman 
 enters a labyrinth of social, financial and political problems, 
 that the mere logical and philosophical wisdom of man, 
 even aided by the lessons of history, may not hope to 
 fathom or successfully explore. 
 
 Plymouth Rock is the polar star of American Liberty! 
 and the political mariner, who pilots his craft, either in 
 ignorance or defiance thereof, may expect shoals and ship¬ 
 wreck. 
 
 Fortunately, it is one of the distinguishing characteristics 
 of the human being, that he loves to contemplate the scenes 
 of the past, and that he longs to have his own history 
 borne down to the future. 
 
 It is impossible to name a people who do not possess 
 cherished traditions that have descended from their an¬ 
 cestors. The virtues we admire in them not only adorn 
 and dignify their names, but win us to their imitation and 
 emulation. 
 
 Their prosperity and happiness spread abroad a diffusive 
 light that reaches us and brightens our condition. The 
 wisdom that guided their footsteps, becomes at the same 
 time, a lamp to our feet; and the observation of the errors 
 of their course, and of the consequent disappointments and 
 sufferings that befell them, enables us to pass in safety 
 through rocks and ledges, on which they were stranded. 
 
 The settlement of New England was one of the remote, 
 yet nevertheless, legitimate fruits of that great Religious 
 Reformation of the 16th century ; a Reformation thorough¬ 
 ly conceived and inaugurated, when Martin Luther, the in¬ 
 trepid and learned Augustine Monk, in 1517, nailed to the 
 gates of Wittemburg, his famous 95 propositions, which 
 
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 electrified nil Germany, and shook to its foundation the 
 whole vast imposing papal edifice. 
 
 New England was the diamond spark from tlie white 
 heat of that religious illumination. 
 
 The hymns of love and praise, heard in the 17th century 
 on Plymouth Rock, were the far distant, hut perfectly 
 responsive echo of the voice of Luther at the Diet of 
 Worms. • 
 
 It was his blow at papal supremacy ; his voice shouting 
 for Religious Liberty; denouncing indulgencies and the 
 unholy vices of the Church ; his system of religious action 
 and thought, that finally changed the foundation of 
 European politics and found their purest crystallization in 
 the moral and civil code, and the enlightened faith of the 
 Pilgrim Fathers of New England. 
 
 This precious German seed was soon sown in the hearts 
 of Englishmen, and finally ripened to perfect maturity in 
 the virgin soil of New England. The enfranchisement of 
 the mind from religious despotism culminated in the 
 doctrine of freedom in civil government. 
 
 The doctrines of popular liberty found their first life- 
 giving embraces in the wilderness of the newly discovered 
 continent. 
 
 Protestantism was a bold advance, a marvelous release 
 from the bondage of the Church of Rome. It struck to 
 the heart the idea of the infallibility of the Pope. It 
 opened thoroughly the avenues of human thought and 
 speculation ; and the work went on until mandates from 
 the English throne, upon the subject of religious 
 faith, soon became as powerless to control the minds of 
 Englishmen as the impotent thunders of the Vatican. 
 
 Then came the advanced declaration that even the 
 forms of the Church of England could not be tolerated; 
 
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 that not a ceremony should be adopted unless it were 
 enjoined of God. The Bible should be the standard and 
 the rule of action. Nothing in Religion should be yielded 
 to the Temporal Sovereign. And this is Puritanism. 
 
 The tale of the sufferings of the early fathers of the 
 Church in England cannot be written here. 
 
 The tires of Smithfield that consumed the living martyred 
 bodies of Cranmer, Ridley and Hooper, abated not one jot 
 or tittle of the march of religious freedom, nor weakened 
 or shattered the faith of these lovers of God’s truth, the 
 Puritan Fathers. Ho flames could quench their zeal- or 
 their devotion to God. “ The blood of the martyrs proved 
 the seed of the Church.” 
 
 As we see frail human nature in the 19th century, it 
 now seems scarcely less than wonderful that human beings 
 were found who refused to yield to the dangers and 
 temptations of that crucial test of human fortitude and 
 faith. 
 
 But the strength of heart, body and soul, which bore 
 them upon the waves of that stormy ocean, came not of the 
 flesh but was of Divine inspiration. 
 
 Banishment, poverty, and even the bloody gallows of 
 Tyburn were the rewards that English rule offered these 
 Puritan sons and daughters of civil and religious liberty. 
 
 Expatriation appeared inevitable. Their native soil of 
 England became the prison house of their souls. Ho 
 future was ever more dark, more uncertain, or more 
 tempestuous. 
 
 This movement of the Puritan Fathers from England 
 contemplated and involved the surrender of rich earthly 
 possessions; the sundering of the ties of kindred; the 
 abandonment of home; of native scenes; the burial of 
 every luxurious hope. 
 
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 Behind them was home, native land, kindred and 
 stately antiquity. Before them, the life of a refugee, 
 poverty, suffering and peradventure, premature or even 
 ignominious death. 
 
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 Yet they shrank not from the embrace of this ordeal. 
 To remain in England was to dwarf and enslave their 
 souls. In that long night of sorrow, despair and darkness 
 there was no light to guide their footsteps, save the im¬ 
 perishable glory of the star of faith in God and His good¬ 
 ness and power. 
 
 Strange as it may seem, these Puritan Fathers saw that 
 star of hope shining over a foreign land, populated with a 
 people of foreign tongue, habits and language. 
 
 Far away to Holland they coursed their way, looking for 
 spiritual emancipation. Holland became the temporary 
 asylum of those Puritans who first dared to brave the 
 pitiless storm of exile. 
 
 Glancing back at that period of Puritan history, we 
 learn that even their departure from English soil was 
 attended with struggles and shameful embarrassment. 
 Their first attempt was entirely frustrated, and nearly the 
 whole band of this “ poor, persecuted flock of Christ,” was 
 thrown by English intolerants into an English prison. Yet 
 there was not a stain upon their white souls, or the shadow 
 of a crime against either man or God o’erhanging them. 
 They were finally released but only to be compelled to 
 meet in secret, in the north of England, in an unfrequented 
 heath of Lincolnshire, and to effect a successful departure, 
 after a cowardly seizure of helpless women and children 
 and another desperate struggle for life. 
 
 Such was the flight of Robinson and Brewster and their 
 followers from the land of their sires. Such were the 
 
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 adieus that England bade to as brave and loyal hearts as 
 ever trod her soil or bit the dust on her fields of battle. 
 
 They landed at Amsterdam, and thither flocked the 
 other refugees from English intolerance. The story of 
 their pilgrimage in Holland is mainly interesting, as 
 revealing the humble zeal and fervent love of this people 
 towards God; their single-heartedness and sincere affection 
 one toward another. They were exiles in a strange land; 
 under a foreign sky ; among a people of kind but foreign 
 life. There could not be rapid, natural and harmonious 
 assimilation. It is not remarkable that they became rest¬ 
 less, and even impatient for a permanent home, where 
 they might erect their altars by their own-firesides, and 
 breathe the delicious atmosphere of perfect freedom. 
 
 Such a green spot on this beautiful earth Providence 
 seemed to have anticipated and prepared for their weary 
 feet. The voyages, explorations and discoveries of Hud¬ 
 son, of Sir Walter Raleigh and Capt. John Smith, in the 
 Hew World, filled them with wonder and an insatiable 
 longing ! Hot indeed in the spirit of speculation, or idle 
 wandering were they stimulated ; but in the hope and 
 moved with an inward zeal of advancing the kingdom of 
 Christ in the remote parts of the Hew World. It was 
 their ambition and aim to act a higher part in the great 
 drama of human life. Hence towards this new field of 
 human action they turned their thoughts and prayers. 
 
 negotiations followed, and arrangements were soon 
 completed, for a voyage to America. Such of the youngest 
 and strongest of these exiled Puritans as freely offered 
 themselves, constituted the members of this remarkable 
 band. 
 
 With the sweet melody of Christian prayer and the 
 singing of psalms, floating along the shore, the Speedwell 
 
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 and the Mayflower spread their sails over this devoted 
 people, and soon touch the shores of England at Southamp¬ 
 ton. From this port, on the 6th day of September, 1620, 
 this band, numbering but one hundred souls, embarked on 
 board the Mayflower, and her prow was soon pointing and 
 cutting the waters towards their future home. 
 
 Sixty-three long, weary days and nights this bark 
 moved on, tossed at the mercy of a tempestuous ocean, 
 when the harbor of Cape Cod, on the New England shore, 
 extended its sheltering arms. 
 
 It is recorded, that, guided by wisdom that seemeth 
 from above, before these Pilgrim strangers landed, they 
 prepared and signed a sacred compact, declaring their 
 loyalty to the Crown, and covenanting to live together in 
 peace and harmony, with equal rights to all; creating 
 thereby a civil body politic. 
 
 Here in the plain cabin of the Mayflower, on a bleak and 
 barren coast, with a trackless ocean on the one side, and an 
 unbroken wilderness on the other, wearied and wasted with 
 a long and despairing voyage, on a cheerless November 
 day in 1620, was laid the primal foundations of Constitu¬ 
 tional Liberty in North America. 
 
 Though safely moored from the dangers of the deep, 
 their perplexities had hardly commenced. Even the place 
 of their settlement was still to be selected. They met no 
 words of greeting or of welcome. There was no Pisgah 
 which they might ascend, and from whose summit they 
 might behold the grandeur of the New World. Snow 
 covered hills and dangerous valleys greeted their eyes at 
 every step. After days of wandering and exploration, 
 these Pilgrim Fathers place their weary feet upon 
 Plymouth Rock, and here they rest from ocean, toil and 
 danger, and plant their colony. The rock that received 
 
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 their footsteps on that stormy December day, has become 
 a sacred landmark in American history. It is the beacon 
 light of Civil Liberty and Independent Religious Worship. 
 
 Here we trace the origin of New England. Here was 
 planted that tree of free, independent and equal rights, 
 before man and God, that in after generations spread its 
 gracious branches over the length and breadth of our 
 Republic, and sheltered and saved us in the hour of 
 National peril. 
 
 Happy for us that New England received this colony. 
 Happy for us all that the old English institutions were not 
 transplanted on this soil. Happy for us all that these 
 exiled Pilgrims were English Protestants, disciplined by 
 misfortune, skilled by observation and experience ; equal in 
 rank and in rights, and bound by no code of laws or rule 
 save that of religion and the public good. 
 
 Who can tell what centuries of human joy, life and 
 prosperity hung upon the uncertainties of that ocean 
 voyage. Had the Mayflower sunk in mid-ocean, the tales 
 of fable might now be gathering around our Colonial 
 history. 
 
 No one can reasonably doubt that the theories of our 
 government, its stability, its growth, its development, and 
 especially the spirit and character of our civil and religious 
 rights and institutions, may be traced to the landing of our 
 Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Rock. God is in history. 
 
 Though firmly rooted to the soil of Plymouth, neither 
 the labors nor the sufferings of our Pilgrim Fathers ceased. 
 A new climate, precarious shelter, and a scarcity of food, 
 soon sadly decimated their ranks. Sickness and death 
 were their daily companions. Before the inclement spring- 
 had mellowed into the la]) of summer, the benevolent 
 Carver, their first governor, and one-half of this little 
 
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 colony were sleeping in their new made graves. Those in 
 health could not properly care for the sick, and it is said, 
 that in this period of greatest distress there were but seven 
 persons able to render assistance. Privation and want 
 followed sickness and death. Men staggered by reason of 
 faintness for want of food. It is recorded, but without 
 perfect authenticity, that at one time these people were re¬ 
 duced to a pint of corn, which being parched and dis¬ 
 tributed, gave to each five kernels. Not until 1623 did 
 these miseries end or materially lessen. Yet, during all 
 this period of hardship, misery and self-denial, the un¬ 
 swerving confidence of the Pilgrims in the words of 
 Providence remained unshaken. 
 
 It was during this period that this little colony made its 
 first treaty of peace, friendship and mutual protection. It 
 was with the Indian Sachem, Massasoit. It is the oldest 
 act of diplomacy recorded in New England, and was 
 sacredly kept for more than half a century. 
 
 The trials and vicissitudes of this colony cannot be fully 
 detailed here. Through scenes of gloom and misery these 
 Pilgrim Fathers struggled, opening the way to an asylum 
 for those who would go to the wilderness for the purity of 
 religion or the liberty of conscience. They were the 
 servants of posterity; the benefactors of succeeding 
 generations. 
 
 Out of the depths of the past and of early New England 
 rise the names of John Winthrop, Governor of Massa¬ 
 chusetts ; Miles Standish, the warrior Pilgrim of the May¬ 
 flower; Peregrine White, the first Pilgrim child; John 
 Elliott, the Pilgrim minister; John Mason, the Indian 
 warrior; Thomas Hooker, the light of the Western 
 Churches; and Roger Williams, who was banished from 
 
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 Massachusetts, only to erect a more perfect altar of freedom 
 within the boundaries of Rhode Island and Providence. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that the founders of the Common¬ 
 wealth, comprising the people of New England, were 
 Englishmen. While the emigration to New England began 
 in 1620, it was not large, until 1630, and in 1640 it had 
 nearly ceased. These New England people, consisting at 
 that time of not more than twenty thousand persons, 
 thenceforward multiplied on their own soil, in remark- 
 aide seclusion from other communities for nearly one and 
 a half centuries. Some slight emigrations from it took 
 place at an early day, but they were soon discontinued, and 
 it was not until the last quarter of the 18th century that 
 those swarms began to depart from New England, which 
 have since occupied so vast a portion of the United States. 
 During this long period the identity of New Englanders 
 remained unimpaired. No race was ever more homo¬ 
 geneous down to half a century ago. It is said that the 
 millions of living persons, either bom in New England, or 
 tracing their origin to the natives of that region, are 
 descendants of those twenty thousand Englishmen who 
 came over to New England before the early emigration 
 ceased, upon the meeting of the long Parliament. The 
 Cromwellian Scotch prisoners at Boston can scarcely be 
 traced. A few families of French Huguenots in Massa¬ 
 chusetts ; a few Scotch-Irish families in New Hampshire, 
 constitute the main exceptions. 
 
 Thus the people of New England, until the last half 
 century, were a singularly unmixed race. No county in 
 England can furnish purer English blood. The Pilgrim 
 Fathers also represented a peculiar type of the Englishmen 
 of the 17th century. A very large majority were Puritans. 
 Occasionally there were other elements, but a substantial 
 
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 conformity to the Puritan standard became universal. Thus 
 this people, aloof from foreign influence for one and a half 
 centuries, was forming its own character, creating its own 
 discipline and solving its own problems. 
 
 Until the war of 1775, New England knew but little of. 
 the commonwealths which finally engaged with her in that 
 conflict. Until then, Massachusetts and Virginia, the two 
 principal English Colonies, had no mutual ties ; no com¬ 
 mon action, and but few relations either of business or 
 acquaintance. 
 
 New Englanders in those early days had distinct and 
 positive characteristics. They were a prolific race. They 
 married early in life and married often if opportunity 
 occurred. They always rejoiced to have their homes 
 “ edified and beautified with many children.” 
 
 They were emphatically a thinking community. Their 
 strong traits of character were not of the hand, the pocket 
 oi 1 the heart, but of the brain. New England was filled 
 with graduates of the great English universities of Cam¬ 
 bridge and Oxford. Especially were their clergy, men not 
 merely of deep piety, but scholars of eminent learning. 
 
 In their log houses, with the howling of the wolves 
 ringing in their ears, they read the Hebrew Bible and the 
 classic authors of Greece and Rome. They were a 
 thoroughly intellectual people. Yet religion was still the 
 one supreme thing in life, and towards this end their efforts 
 were all directed. 
 
 It was a life of severity and rigid discipline even to as¬ 
 ceticism, and from it some dark shadows fall. 
 
 To-day we smile when we read that an aged and devout 
 female saint expressed deep horror that a whalebone should 
 be worn in the bodice, and that a certain godly man had 
 his band “ something stiffened with starchthat the 
 
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 smoke of tobacco was compared to the smoke ascending 
 from the bottomless pit; that grave divines thundered 
 against long hair, and that statesmen in solemn conclave 
 counseled how they might crop the heads of the multitude. 
 
 They could not tolerate an unbeliever. They were 
 divided into closely related communities that were possessed 
 of local self-government. No one, unless a member of the 
 church, was allowed a voice in the State. Every man was 
 educated. Labor was regarded as honorable ; idleness as 
 disgraceful. Their minds and consciences were constantly 
 at work. Thus under no warm, mellow sky, but upon the 
 bleak New England coast they worked out their own 
 society and their own development. 
 
 In physical and spiritual stock the people of New Eng¬ 
 land were well started, and of such a race under such 
 circumstances, any result however unparalleled, might well 
 be predicted. They each rejoiced in what they believed to 
 be the glory of God’s intervention in aiding them in their 
 work of erecting a great religious commonwealth in 
 America. 
 
 Their emigration to the New World was a sacred and 
 not a secular act. They were soldiers of Christ, doing 
 battle under his banners and looking for their reward 
 beyond the clouds. Such were some of the most important 
 circumstances attending the development of early New 
 England life. 
 
 We have spoken of their first years of distress. They 
 were soon followed by seasons of abundance and happiness. 
 A nation had been planted ! A commonwealth matured ! 
 Plenty soon prevailed. The people were full of affection 
 and their objects of love were around them. They enjoyed 
 religion. They were ever industrious, enterprising and 
 frugal. Affluence naturally followed these conditions of 
 
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 life. The duration of life increased, and the purity of 
 their morals made the picture of colonial felicity almost 
 without a blemish. 
 
 * In 1613 fifty towns and villages dotted the landscape of 
 the New World. One million of dollars had been ex¬ 
 pended in settling and developing this. People, manu¬ 
 factures, commerce and the arts were rapidly introduced. 
 Over 300 emigrant ships had anchored in Massachusetts 
 Bay. Over twenty thousand people had found an asylum. 
 
 These circumstances paved the way for the creation of 
 an incipient Union ! A political organization was formed, 
 embracing Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New 
 Haven, called “ The United Colonies of New England,” a 
 confederacy which lasted nearly half a century. 
 
 Thus did New England take the foremost step in political ’ 
 science and create a government of the most unmixed 
 simplicity. 
 
 We cannot here follow New England in her chronological 
 development. We all know how gallantly she acted her 
 part in the severe conflicts between the aggressions of the 
 mother country and the independence of the colonies of 
 America. 
 
 It was Massachusetts who in 1664, bravely and success¬ 
 fully repelled the bold attempt of Charles the Second to 
 control the New England Colonies, and who sent back to 
 England in humiliation her Royal Commissioners who 
 landed at Boston, intending to subvert the colonial liberties. 
 
 In King Philip’s war many of the pride and flower of 
 New England fell upon the field ; but with the death of 
 this Indian warrior in 1676, the Indian race was swept 
 from New England. 
 
 We are all familiar with the futile attempt of James the 
 Second in 1686, to revoke the Colonial Charters, and how 
 
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 in that hour of dangerous invasion, it seemed as if the 
 liberties of New England were departing forever. 
 
 How Massachusetts lay prostrate at the feet of this 
 English despot. How Joseph Wadsworth snatched the* 
 Charter of Connecticut and concealed it in the hollow of 
 the Charter Oak! And how before the Summer of 1688 
 had gone, the undying spirit of New England Independence 
 asserted itself, shining with meridian power, and the former 
 liberties of New England were regained and placed upon a 
 permanent foundation. IIow Massachusetts in 1690, 
 gloriously came to the rescue of her mother country in her 
 war with France, and uttered in aid thereof, the first 
 American paper money ! How all New England joined 
 hands in those several fierce confiicts which finally resulted 
 in the overthrow of French power in America. 
 
 As we approach the period of the American Revolution, 
 New England shines forth as the brilliant, glittering, 
 guiding star of American Liberty. Massachusetts alone 
 had within her borders two hundred thousand souls of 
 European ancestry, among whom the principles of Puri¬ 
 tanism held universal sway. Her system of free schools 
 caused New England to lead in the cause of education. 
 Within her borders prior to the Revolution, so universal 
 were her means of education, that there was not to be 
 found in all New England an adult who could not read and 
 write. Already the Colleges of Harvard, William and 
 Mary, Princeton, Dartmouth and Yale were busy educating 
 the people of New England. 
 
 We need not be surprised that when the storm of the 
 Revolution burst with its terrible earnestness and fury, 
 New England was ready for the conflict. Not indeed 
 in “men of war” or disciplined soldiery or approved 
 weapons of modern warfare, but equipped with that 
 
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 material of heart and brain and principle from which 
 springs forth a race of soldiers and an army of men, who 
 may die, but will never surrender. 
 
 It was James Otis, of Massachusetts, “ that flame of tire ” 
 as he was called by John Adams, who presided at the birth 
 and baptism of American Independence. It was his speech 
 before the General Court of Massachusetts against English 
 Writs of Assistance, that insured National Freedom. 
 
 Samuel Adams and the “Boston Tea Party,” adorn the 
 pages of New England history. The Boston Port Bill 
 inaugurated the American Revolution. Concord, Lexing¬ 
 ton and Bunker Hill are Mecca’s for the freedom-loving 
 pilgrims of the world. 
 
 We cannot say that there is no fleck or dark spot upon 
 the horizon of New England which the ardent historian 
 would not fain obliterate. Humanity even in its most 
 exalted forms may hardly aspire to absolute perfection. 
 
 The picture of Massachusetts would not be accurate 
 without the blemish of the witchcraft of Salem. The same 
 town that banished Roger Williams, at a later day became 
 the scene of the most fatal delusion of modern times. Yet 
 the faults and imperfections of New England may well 
 be forgotten in the dazzling glory of her achievements. 
 
 In the silent but onward march of human progress, she 
 has always been in the van. Her incomparable line of 
 soldiers, patriots, scholars, jurists, divines and statesmen 
 attest her perfect development. In the thickest of the 
 battle, the flags of New England were ever to be seen. In 
 the darkest hour of National peril she became an im¬ 
 pregnable tower of strength. 
 
 When the dangerous heresy of State Rights in 1830, 
 threatened to dissever the Union; when the glittering 
 theories of Southern aggression paled the faces of our 
 
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 patriot statesmen, and the Union seemed rocking in uncer¬ 
 tainty, it was New England’s unrivaled master of American 
 oratory, Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, that fearless 
 expounder of the nation’s Constitution, who arose in the 
 Senate of the United States, and with his irresistible and 
 unanswerable logic and argumentation overwhelmed in 
 dismay the brilliant advocates of Disunion. 
 
 New England has long been the center of American 
 power. When once her gates opened to emigration, her 
 principles spread rapidly to the neighboring States, and 
 finally imbued the whole continent. Her influence and her 
 greatness have long since ceased to be measured by her 
 geographical boundaries. From the rocky shores of the 
 Atlantic to the golden slopes of the Pacific, go where you 
 will, and you shall feel and appreciate tire influence of 
 New England in American civilization. What department 
 of human knowledge has she not explored ? What store¬ 
 houses of religious, literary, political and scientific wealth 
 she has securely garnered. What land opened to the lessons 
 of the 19th century, has not heard her voice ? Who can 
 doubt that in our last great struggle for national life, New 
 England was the controlling vital factor in the full regen¬ 
 eration of the American Republic ? 
 
 New England has expanded beyond the boundaries of 
 this Western Hemisphere. She is no longer the rebellious 
 subject of Old England. Conscious of her superiority she 
 challenges the admiration and the competition of all 
 Europe. 
 
 The Pilgrim Fathers of the 17th century sleep in honor¬ 
 ed graves. As the years roll on, more heroic seem their 
 labors; more radiant their glory; and more plainly is re¬ 
 vealed the hand of God in their history. 
 
 We, the descendants of New England, are proud of our 
 
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 ancestry. We revere their memory and cherish their 
 traditions. Onr hearts go ont to them in unmeasured 
 gratitude. “ They builded better than they knew.” 
 
 An impenetrable veil conceals the future of our country. 
 It is wrapped in the mysteries of God. 
 
 Not long since, in the city of New York, the mournful 
 requiem, and the funereal dirge commemorated the last 
 scene in the busy life of one of New England’s most 
 gifted sons, that patriarch of journalism and the earliest 
 of America’s most famous poets, William Cullen Bryant. 
 Silvered with the snows of more than eighty winters he de¬ 
 parted ; transmitting to us the example of a pure and en¬ 
 nobled life ; a New England character of the highest type ; 
 unsullied with the taints of worldly temptations and un¬ 
 marred by the heels of time. More than half a century 
 ago, while yet a student in New England’s classic halls, he 
 laid down this immortal rule of life, which like virtue, lias 
 furnished its own best reward, and won for him an im¬ 
 perishable fame. 
 
 It shall be the benediction which I invoke upon the 
 descendants of New England. 
 
 “So live, that when thy summons comes to join 
 The innumerable caravan that moves 
 To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take 
 His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
 
 Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, 
 
 Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed 
 By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave 
 Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.” 
 
 K. D. K. 
 
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 THE MILITARY TRACT. 
 
 In tlu 1 early settlement of several counties of Central 
 New York, the “Military Tract” had a conspicuous part, 
 and a sketch of its history will have considerable 
 interest at this time when the facts are less familiar 
 than they were half a century ago. The settlement of 
 titles and the gradual subdivision of these lands have 
 obliterated the distinctive lines which for a time kept fresh 
 the boundaries and divisions of the “ Military Tract,” but 
 nevertheless whoever now undertakes to search out the 
 claims of ownership to property in that great “ Tract,” will 
 speedily discover the importance of a familiarity with 
 the history of it. The facts connected with the creation, 
 laying out and distribution of these lands are briefly as 
 follows:— 
 
 On the 16th of September, 1776, the ‘ Congress of the 
 United States passed a resolution giving bounty lands to 
 officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, serving in 
 the Continental army. The last two named parties to 
 receive each one hundred acres. The officers bearing com¬ 
 missions to receive from one hundred and fifty to five 
 hundred acres each. By a resolution passed August 12, 
 1780, it was declared a Major-General should receive 
 eleven hundred acres of land. 
 
 In 1783, March 27th, the Legislature of the State of 
 New York 
 
 Resolved , “ That this State is willing not only to take 
 upon themselves to discharge the engagements thus made 
 by Congress, so far as it relates to the line of this State, 
 but likewise, as a gratuity to said line; and to evince the 
 just sense this Legislature entertains of the patriotism and 
 virtue of the troops of this State, serving in the army of 
 
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 the United States, it is ordered that besides the bounty 
 land so promised by Congress this Legislature will by law 
 provide that the Major-Generals and Brigadier-Generals 
 now serving in the line of the army of the United States, 
 and being citizens of this State; and the officers and 
 privates of regiments of infantry commanded by Colonels 
 Yan Schaick and Van Cortland, and of the artillery com¬ 
 manded by Colonel Lamb, and of the corps of sappers and 
 miners, as were when they entered the service inhabitants 
 of this State, together witli others, herein mentioned, shall 
 severally have granted to them the following quantities of 
 
 land, to wit :— 
 
 To Major-Generals.5,500 acres. 
 
 To Brigadier-Generals.4,250 “ 
 
 To Colonels.2,500 “ 
 
 To Lieutenant-Colonels.2,250 “ 
 
 To Majors.2,000 “ 
 
 To Captains and Regimental Surgeons, each. .1,500 “ 
 
 To Chaplains.2,000 “ 
 
 To Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates. .. 500 “ 
 
 It was also 
 
 Resolved , “ That the lands to be granted as bounty from 
 the United States and as a gratuity from this State, shall 
 be laid out in townships of six miles square, and into one 
 hundred and fifty-six lots of one hundred and fifty acres 
 each ; two lots whereof shall be reserved for the use of 
 ministers of the gospel, and two for the use of schools.” 
 
 The location of these lands was fixed by resolution 
 passed on the 25th of July, 1782, in the central portion of 
 the State. The Legislature from time to time modified 
 this act, until it was ordered May 11, 1784, that the town¬ 
 ships to be surveyed should contain 60,000 acres of land, 
 and one hundred lots of 600 acres each, and be laid out as 
 nearly in squares as local circumstances will admit; and be 
 numbered one progressively, to the last inclusive, and 
 
“ The Commissioners of the Land Office shall likewise 
 designate every township by such name as they shall deem 
 proper.” By this act it was provided, that if any person 
 should assign to the Surveyor-General of the State, for the 
 use of the people of the State, their claim to lands to be 
 assigned to them by act of Congress above referred to, 
 they should receive a like number of acres of land to be 
 located in this State and so far as possible, in one tract; if 
 the amount did not exceed one-fourtli of a township. 
 April t>, 1790, it was ordered by the Legislature that the 
 quantity of fifty acres in one of the corners of the lots to 
 be laid out in squares of 000 acres, shall be subject to the 
 payment of the sum of forty-eight shillings to the Surveyor- 
 General, as a compensation in full for his services in survey¬ 
 ing, mapping and numbering the lots. If this sum of 
 forty-eight shillings remained unpaid two years after the 
 issue of the patents, this fifty acres was to be sold 
 at public vendue ; and the money arising from the sale 
 paid, to the amount of forty-eight shillings, to the Surveyor- 
 General, and any surplus was to be used to defray the 
 expenses of constructing roads in the tract. By act of 
 1789, six lots in each township were reserved, one for the 
 promotion of the gospel, one for public schools, one to 
 promote literature, and the remaining to satisfy any claim 
 arising by a person's drawing lots, the greater part of 
 which was covered by water. The act of 17S0 provided 
 that if the soldiers who were to receive one hundred acres 
 or more from the United States, failed to relinquish their 
 claims to the State, then the Commissioners were to reserve 
 for the use of the people of the State one hundred acres in 
 each lot to which such person was entitled. This gave rise 
 to the term “ State’s Hundred,” so frequently applied to 
 sections of land on the “ Military Tract.” 
 
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 The Land Commissioners consisted of the Governor, 
 Lieutenant-Governor, Speaker of the Assembly, Secretary 
 of State, Attorney-General and the Treasurer, and Auditor 
 of the Canal Department, the presence of three being nec¬ 
 essary to form a quorum. At a meeting of this Commission, 
 held at the Secretary’s office in the city of New York, on 
 Saturday, 3d of July, 1790, there were present, his 
 excellency George Clinton, Governor, Lewis A. Scott, 
 Secretary, Gerard Bancker, Treasurer, and Peter T. Gur- 
 tenius, Auditor. 
 
 “ The Treasurer laid before the Board maps of the 
 survey of twenty-five townships made by the Surveyor- 
 General, Simeon DeWitt, on each of which maps the said 
 townships respectively were subdivided into one hundred 
 lots, containing six hundred acres each; whereupon the 
 Board caused the townships and lots therein to be 
 numbered according to law, and designated them by the 
 names they now bear, to-wit: Lysander, Hannibal, Cato, 
 Brutus, Camillus, Manlius, Cicero, Pompey,” &e. (How 
 much Simeon DeWitt had to do with the naming of the 
 towns does not appear, although he is generally credited 
 with this nomenclature). The claims of persons entitled 
 by law to lands were presented ; and Robert Harper and 
 Lewis A. Scott were appointed to draw by ballot, as had 
 previously been provided by act of Legislature, the lots 
 of land to which they were entitled. These twenty-five 
 townships constituted at the time, the “Military Tract,” 
 embracing the present counties of Onondaga, Cayuga, 
 Cortland, Seneca, part of Tompkins and part of Oswego, 
 except certain reserves for the Onondaga and Seneca 
 Indians, and for the State of New York in the vicinity of 
 the Salt Springs. Surveyor-General DeWitt personally 
 laid out the “ Military Tract,” by plotting and mapping 
 
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 tlu> boundaries and calculating the whole area. He was 
 assisted in his held duties by several competent sub¬ 
 ordinates. Under this division towns and townships were 
 frequently confounded ; a town often embraced several 
 townships. As settlements increased, some of the towns 
 were subdivided. The whole “Tract” originally contained 
 about one million eight hundred thousand acres, or about 
 three thousand rights, exclusive of reservations. The 
 Indian titles were extinguished by the treaty of Fort 
 Stanwix, September 12, 1788. 
 
 Letters-patent were afterwards issued to the proper 
 claimants, signed by the Governor and Secretary of State, 
 to which were affixed the great seal of the State. These 
 letters patent reserved to the State “all gold and silver mines, 
 and also live acres of every one hundred, for highways.” 
 If, within the term of seven years, there was not one actual 
 settlement made on the lot of land granted, the same 
 reverted to the State. 
 
 The soldiers who were entitled to these lands, in nearly 
 every instance sold their claim ; and frequently more than 
 once. The consideration received was often very small. 
 Speculators who purchased! these titles afterwards sold to 
 the settlers. No place for recording deeds being available, 
 the same lands were not unfrequently purchased from 
 parties who had not the first title, and settlers found 
 themselves in possession of conflicting titles, and in some 
 instances, without any just claims whatever. To adjust 
 these opposing interests, the Legislature, about the year 
 1795, appointed a commission, who from the best informa¬ 
 tion gained, awarded the titles to the proper parties. Until 
 this commission was appointed and had performed its 
 work, the “ Military Tract ” did not rapidly become 
 settled. Settlers preferred to preempt land, or to settle 
 upon lands whose titles were more to be relied upon. 
 
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 In illustrating the evil which grew out of the repeated 
 sales of these lands and the confusion of ownership, we 
 cite the case of Mr. Joseph Shattuck, who purchased a title 
 to a lot of land in the town of Pompey, settled upon it 
 with nine sons, men grown; he cleared sixty acres, built a 
 log house and a log barn, when, to his surprise, he learned 
 that the lot properly belonged to Conrad Bush, who 
 through legal process ejected him from the premises. He 
 then bought a farm near this one, and having made some 
 improvements upon it was forced to leave it to others. He 
 then declared he would not remain upon the “ Military 
 Tract,” and, with six sons, he went west, to the town of 
 Cohocton, Genesee county, and there made a permanent 
 settlement. These experiences will apply in the case of 
 many of the early settlers and improvers of these lands, 
 hut long since all the elements of confusion and conflicting 
 titles were extinguished, and to very few of the present 
 peaceful occupants of these lands are the facts of the early 
 history of them known. Little, indeed, do we of to-day 
 appreciate the trials and difficulties of those who laid the 
 foundation of our present prosperity. 
 
 GENEALOGICAL RECORD. 
 
 Tracing our ancestral line, reaching two hundred and 
 fifty years or more into the past, we arc able in the light of 
 reliable records, to follow Henry Kinne, born in 1624, 
 from Holland to Salem, Mass., where he settled on a farm 
 in 1653. It is believed that he was born in Norfolk, 
 England, where his father, Sir Thomas Kinne, lived, 
 having been knighted by the government for some signal 
 service rendered it; and that following the tide of emigra- 
 
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 tion through Holland, where they sought greater religious 
 liberty, but found less than the fullest freedom, Henry 
 came to Salem at about thirty years of age. He was 
 a prosperous farmer, and was employed to some extent in 
 ecclesiastical work. 
 
 His children were eight in number, three sons and live 
 daughters. His second son, Thomas, from whom our 
 branch springs, was born in 1656, and in 1677 was 
 married to Elizabeth Knight, by whom he had four sons, 
 of whom Thomas the oldest, and who is in our line, 
 removed to Preston, now Griswold, Conn., in 1715, at the 
 age of thirty-seven. When this Thomas the 2d sold out- 
 in Salem, he signed his name Kinne to a deed, and carried 
 this spelling of the name to Connecticut with him, and 
 his gravestone now stands on the banks of the Taekany 
 river, in Griswold, bearing this same form which the 
 Kinnes still use, at least the Onondaga county branch. 
 
 Thomas Kinne had ten sons and six daughters born to 
 him from 1702 to 1727. His oldest son, Jeremiah, who 
 died in Voluntown, Conn., married Mary Starkweather, 
 and had thirteen children, of whom the fifth, a son, David, 
 married Eunice Cogswell, by whom twelve children were 
 born to him. The eighth, a- daughter, Elizabeth, was the 
 mother of eleven children, of whom the writer, Emerson 
 Kinne, is the second. The sixth son of Thomas Kinne was 
 Moses, who died in Voluntown, Conn. He also had 
 a numerous family of whom Cyrus was one, and the one 
 in our line. 
 
 His third son, Prentiss Kinne, was the father of the 
 writer. 
 
 Having thus traced our lineage, recapitulated and 
 abridged, it stands thus: 
 
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 Born. 
 
 1624, Henry Kenney, 
 1656, Thomas Kenney, 
 1678, Thomas Kinne, 
 Born. Died. 
 
 1710, Moses Kinne, 1788 
 1746, Cyrus Kinne, 1808 
 1773, Prentiss Kinne,1830 
 
 Died. 
 
 Salem, 1712 
 “ 1687 
 
 Preston, 1756 
 
 Born. Died. 
 
 1702, Jeremiah Kinne, 1798 
 1736, David Kinne, 1808 
 1774, Elizabeth Kinne, 1820 
 
 HISTORY OF CYRUS KINNE. 
 
 Cyras Kinne, the progenitor of the Kinne family of 
 this County of Onondaga, was born in Voluntown, Wind¬ 
 ham County, State of Connecticut, Aug 11, 1746. As 
 stated above he was one of a numerous family of brothers, 
 four of whom were on the tented fields of the Revolution. 
 
 Cyrus Kinne married Comfort Palmer, of Voluntown, 
 in the year 1768, and resided there until the year 1779, 
 when he removed to the township of Petersburgh, Rensse¬ 
 laer County, State of New York, on land then known as 
 the Van Rensselaer estate. 
 
 In the year 1791, while on business in the city of Troy, 
 where the Surveyor General, Simeon DeWitt, was holding 
 a public, sale of some State lands lying in what is now the 
 County of Onondaga, he became sufficiently interested, to 
 look over the map where these lands were represented as 
 lying. Noticing the numerous streams running through 
 these lands, he was induced to bid on some of the survey 
 fifties. As a consequence several of these lots, lying in 
 what is now the town of Manlius, were struck off to him. 
 Returning home he told his family what he had done, and 
 so soon as he could arrange his business he started on 
 
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 horseback to view the country where some of this land lay. 
 At this time, there were hut few inhabitants west of Utica, 
 and west of Oneida there were no roads, only Indian trails, 
 lie came, looked over the land he had purchased, and 
 found some of it to be good for farming land, and some to 
 be low and swampy, but was so well pleased with the gen¬ 
 eral appearance of the country, that he bought more land 
 lying near that already purchased. 
 
 Returning home he sold his leased land which he held 
 on the Patroon’s Manor, closed up his business, and in the 
 month of March, 1792, started with an ox-team before a 
 sled, and one horse, accompanied by his four oldest sons, 
 namely, Ezra, Zachariah, Prentiss and Ethel. 
 
 W est of Oneida they were obliged to .cut their own roads. 
 The writer of this sketch has often heard one of the num¬ 
 ber relate incidents that occurred during the journey. 
 
 There being no bridges they crossed the streams as best 
 they could, sometimes unloading the heavy articles and 
 carrying them over the streams on fallen trees and reload¬ 
 ing them. 
 
 They came through this new and wild country to where 
 Fayetteville now is, about the first of April, and settled on 
 some of the land he had bought, built a log house, cleared 
 some land and planted corn and potatoes. 
 
 In the month of June he returned to bring the remaining 
 part of his family to his new home. From the time he 
 left, in June, until his return, in July, the four boys above 
 named that were left in the new home in the forest, 
 had by turns to be their own housekeepers, and they have 
 often been heard to say, that it seemed very pleasant to 
 have their mother occupying her accustomed place at the 
 table with them. 
 
 The nearest grist-mill was at Oneida, but grist-mills, as 
 
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 well as saw-inills, were soon erected and put in order for 
 use. 
 
 Cyrus Kinne was a mechanic as well as a farmer. He 
 brought with him a set of blacksmith tools with which he 
 did the first blacksmith work that was done in the town of 
 Manlius. 
 
 Land was rapidly cleared and brought under cultivation, 
 wheat and corn were soon grown in quantities sufficient 
 for home consumption. 
 
 Albany was the nearest market for their surplus of pro¬ 
 duce, and it soon became the business of the more able 
 farmers to carry their surplus produce on sleighs to Albany 
 in the winter, as the roads in summer were almost impass¬ 
 able. Fish and wild game were very plenty. Limestone 
 Creek, running through some of the land that Mr. Kinne 
 had bought and occupied, was well stocked' with salmon. 
 They were easily taken, so easily that they were sometimes 
 caught with pitchforks. 
 
 The father of the writer has often been heard to say, 
 that he caught seven large ones in an afternoon. Bears 
 and wolves were troublesome, so that sheep had to be fold¬ 
 ed at night. Pigs and even small hogs were often taken 
 out. of the pen and carried off. But this state of things 
 did not long continue, as settlements thickened and inroads 
 were made into these forests the wild animals became shy 
 and receded before the march of the sturdy settlers. 
 
 The father of these stalwart boys, mindful of their com¬ 
 ing wants, as they might desire to settle in homes of their 
 own and rear families, had made his own, by ample 
 purchases, sufficient quantities of land to give each, one 
 hundred acres. 
 
 His three oldest, Ezra, Zachariah and Prentiss he set¬ 
 tled in the town of Manlius, now DeWitt. His fourth 
 
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 son, Ethel, settled in Manlius, but he soon sold his one 
 hundred acres and settled in the town of Cicero. Zebu- 
 Ion and Moses , twins, were settled in the town of Locke, 
 Cayuga County, but the location not suiting them the land 
 was sold, and they settled in the town of Cicero. This 
 town has since been divided, and one of the hundred acres 
 lies in the town of Clay. His seventh son, Joshua , also 
 settled in the town of Cicero. His eighth son, Cyrus , was 
 settled in Manlius. His ninth son, Japheth was settled in 
 what is now the town of Clay, on a hundred acres adjoin¬ 
 ing that of his brother Moses. His tenth son, Palmer, 
 was not of age at the death of his father, but was provided 
 by will with a farm in the town of Cicero. 
 
 The oldest daughter, Rachel , was married to William 
 Williams, and settled in the town of Manlius. 
 
 The youngest daughter, Comfort , married Jerry Spring- 
 sted, and settled in the town of Cicero. 
 
 Cyrus Kinne, Esq., died Aug. 8th, 1808, at the age of 
 sixty-two years. He left a large farm lying on the north 
 side of the road running through the village of Fayette¬ 
 ville, to be sold and the avails of the same to be divided 
 among his children. 
 
 The first inhabitants of the town of Manlius, were chiefly 
 from Hew England. Some few families located in differ¬ 
 ent parts of the town, from 1790 to 1793; but it was not 
 till 1794, the date of the organization of the county, that 
 Manlius was much known abroad. In that year settlers 
 began to look towards it as a desirable place to locate as a 
 residence. 
 
 The first town-meeting was held at the tavern of Benja¬ 
 min Morehouse, April 1st, 1794. Cyrus Kinne was chosen 
 Chairman, and Levi Jerome Secretary of this meeting. 
 
 In every sphere in which Mr. Kinne was called to act, 
 
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 he was an active and energetic man. In looking over the 
 minutes of the Baptist Church at Fayetteville, we notice 
 that Gyrus Kinne was one of the most prominent persons 
 in the organization of that church of that place, then 
 known as Manlius Four Corners. 
 
 Cyrus Kinne and Gersham Breed came to this place in 
 1792, and were soon followed by Daniel Campbell. These 
 three, in company with Mrs. Susanna Ward, formed them¬ 
 selves into a conference for religious worship, maintaining 
 covenant meetings and enjoying occasional preaching. 
 
 In 1798 three young men were added to the conference, 
 which was soon still further augmented by other Christian 
 families who had moved into the neighborhood. Their 
 first meetings were of necessity held in private dwellings, 
 but for many years afterwards were held in the wood and 
 stone school houses. In 1804, a council was called, at 
 which Father Bennett and Elder John Peck were present, 
 and this company of brethren and sisters, in number about 
 twenty, were recognized as a regular and independent 
 church. In attendance at this meeting, we notice the 
 names of some of them. Cyrus Kinne, Gersham Breed, 
 Daniel Campbell, Jabez York, Lewis Sweeting, John 
 Jones, Zopher Ivnowlton, Orris Hopkins, William Breed, 
 Allen Breed, Palmer Breed, Washington Worden, Susanna 
 Ward, Mary Terrill, Amelia Breed, Hannah Breed, Lucre- 
 tia Worden, Mrs. Kinne, Elizabeth Hopkins and Walter 
 Worden. Brother Gersham Breed was licensed as preacher. 
 In 1812 he was ordained and became the first pastor of 
 the church. 
 
 Mr. Kinne was notably identified with the early history 
 of the county, was one of the first Justices of the Peace 
 in the county, and tradition says he married the first couple 
 that were married in the town of Manlius. 
 
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 Nearly all of his children reared large families. 
 
 Ezra, his eldest son, married Mary Young; there were 
 born to them twelve children. 
 
 Zacluiriah, the second son, married Diadama Barnes; to 
 them ten children were born. 
 
 Prentice Kinne, the third son, married Elizabeth Kinne, 
 a distant relative ; eleven children were born to them. 
 
 Ethel, the fourth son, married a Miss Eaton ; five chil¬ 
 dren were born to them—four sons and one daughter. 
 
 Zebulon, the fifth son, married Lucy Markham, by 
 whom he had eight children. 
 
 Hoses, the sixth son, married Betsey Williams ; these 
 reared eight children. 
 
 Joshua, the seventh son, married a Miss Leach; they 
 reared eight children. 
 
 Cyrus, the eighth son, married Asenith Warner; they 
 reared four children. 
 
 Japhcth, the ninth son, married Temperance Palmer ; 
 they reared four children. 
 
 Palmer, the tenth son, married Polly Carr; they reared 
 six children. 
 
 Rachel, the elder of the two daughters, married AYil- 
 liam Williams ; they reared four children. 
 
 Comfort, the younger daughter, married Jerry Spring- 
 sted ; they reared six children. 
 
 The above shows Cyrus Kinne to have had eighty-six 
 grandchildren arrive at maturity. 
 
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 FAMILY OF PRENTICE KINNE. 
 
 As shown above, the grandfathers of Prentice Kinne 
 and Elizabeth Kinne were brothers, and hence their fathers 
 were cousins. 
 
 They were married January 16th, 1800, at the home of 
 her father, in the town of Plainfield, Connecticut. In 
 the spring of 1800 they commenced housekeeping on the 
 farm where they lived the remainder of their lives. 
 
 Mr. Kinne has often been heard to say that he was the 
 first white man that ever struck a blow on his hundred 
 acres, unless it was done by a surveyor. 
 
 The farm was cleared and made very productive, and 
 became the home of a large and happy family. 
 
 Julius C., the oldest son, was born October 19th, 1802. 
 
 He and Mrs. Rachel Willard were married October, 
 1831. They had five children, four sons and a daughter; 
 two of the sons died in childhood. 
 
 Emerson , the second son, was born February 16th, 1804. 
 
 He and Miss Janet Luddington were married May 23rd, 
 1833. They have no living children. 
 
 Marvin , the third son, born March 4th, 1806, died Feb¬ 
 ruary 23rd, 1813. 
 
 Eunice , the oldest daughter, was born October 22nd, 
 
 1807, and was married to Wesley Bailey, August 23rd, 
 1833. There were born to them six children, three of 
 whom died in childhood. 
 
 Mason Prentice , the fourth son, born November 30th, 
 
 1808, was married to Mary Jane Spaulding, 1840. They 
 had five children, two of them died in childhood. 
 
 Ethridge, the fifth son, was born May 26th, 1810. 
 
 He married Sophronia Young, October 17th, 1837. 
 There were born to them six children—three sons and 
 three daughters ; one son and one daughter died young. 
 
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 X. Hildreth, the sixth son, whs born March 20th, 1812, 
 and married Diantha Kinne. 
 
 There were born to them four children—three sons and 
 a daughter; one son and the daughter died in infancy. 
 
 Their son, Eugene , lived to manhood. 
 
 Emily , the second daughter, born December 4th, 1813, 
 married Curran Elms, and had seven children—four sons 
 and three daughters. 
 
 tSalome , third daughter, born May 8th, 1815, married 
 Dewitt C. Peck, October 29th, 1840, and had seven chil¬ 
 dren, six sons and a daughter. Two sons died in childhood. 
 
 Atlas, the seventh son, born May 27th, 1817, and mar¬ 
 ried Renette Palmer, May 8, 1839. He died March 15th, 
 1845. 
 
 Ansel, the eighth son, born May 17th, 1820, married 
 Emma Merrick, October 16, 1849. There were born to 
 them seven children, three sons and four daughters; one 
 son and one daughter died in childhood. 
 
 George N., the ninth son, and by the second marriage, 
 was born January 24th, 1829. 
 
 There are now, March 13, 1879, thirty-one living chil¬ 
 dren of the second generation of Prentice Kinne. 
 
 Having thus briefly traversed the line of our ancestry 
 through seven generations, it is deemed desirable and pro¬ 
 per, to pause and review, giving more extended notes, from 
 personal knowledge and observation, of the histories and 
 incidents connected with the family of our parents, Pren¬ 
 tice and Elizabeth Kinne, of revered and blessed memory ! 
 
 As one that knew Prentice Kinne better, and recollects 
 more of him than any other person now living, I deem it 
 not out of place to commit some of these recollections to 
 paper. 
 
 My earliest remembrance of my father was at the burial 
 
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 of my grandfather, Cyrus Kinne, in the year 1808, when I 
 was four years old. 
 
 I very clearly recall seeing my father with three of his 
 brothers act as hearers, taking up the coffin at the house 
 and lowering it into the grave. Some years later I learned 
 that this was done at the request of grandfather, something 
 very unusual at this late day. 
 
 A few years later, in 1812, I remember seeing him when 
 he commanded a train band, and a little later when he 
 was second in command of a regiment during the war. lie 
 had no difficulty in gaining and holding the attention of his 
 command. In illustration of this fact, I will here relate an 
 incident that occurred during the war of 1812 and 1815. 
 At one time the British effected a landing at Oswego, took 
 possession of the garrison, drove our force out of the place 
 and destroyed the government property. The country be¬ 
 came alarmed. The military of Onondaga County was 
 called out and ordered to repair to Oswego as soon as pos¬ 
 sible. The regiment was commanded by Col. Thaddeus 
 M. Wood. A short time previous to this, my father had 
 been promoted from a captaincy to the second in command 
 of the regiment. His commission had been forwarded to 
 the County Clerk’s office, then at Onondaga Hollow, but 
 lie had not taken it from the office, consequently was not in 
 command. But he resolved to go as a private. He set my 
 older brother and myself to molding bullets, which he put 
 into a bag, and the powder into a flask, shouldered his tire- 
 lock and started for Salt Point, as it was then called, the 
 regiment having been ordered to rendezvous at this place, 
 thence to proceed to Oswego. Col. Wood seeing my father 
 without his uniform, remonstrated with him for so appear¬ 
 ing. Father replied that lie was not in commission, to 
 which Col. Wood said “ You are not going in this way. 
 
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 You send home for your uniform and I will send to the 
 Clerk’s otliee for your commission. It was so arranged. 
 The troops were placed on board boats. There being but 
 little wind the boats had to be propelled mostly by oars, 
 hence but slow progress made. The men at the oars com¬ 
 plained and wished to be relieved. The soldiers refused to 
 assist, saying their work was to tight, not to row boats. 
 Father seeing the situation, and being in command on that 
 boat, arose, drew his sword and addressed them thus :— 
 “ Fellow Soldiers: This is no time to parley or hesitate. 
 We are called upon to drive an invading enemy from our 
 soil. They have gained a foothold. We know not but they 
 may be now burning and pillaging the homes of our citi¬ 
 zens. It is as much our business to get where they are, as 
 to tight them when we are there. Let me not see a man 
 refuse to take his turn at the oar. I am one with you and 
 will take my turn.” There was no more holding Ijack; 
 every man was ready to do his share. 
 
 In 1814 the services of the militia were again in requisi¬ 
 tion. Gen. Brown, then in command at Sachets Harbor, 
 suspecting the design of the enemy to be, to attack that 
 place by crossing over from Canada, a requisition was made 
 by the Governor, and the military were called out. Col. 
 Wood was first in command and Major Kinne second. The 
 regiment was ordered to rendezvous at Manlius Tillage. 
 Thence the regiment marched by way of Rome to Smith’s 
 Mills, a place some twelve or fourteen miles distant from 
 Sachets Harbor. Here the regiment encamped and await¬ 
 ed orders. During the encampment, Col. Wood being ill, 
 the command devolved upon Major Kinne. By this timely 
 caution and preparation, the suspected attack was prevent¬ 
 ed, and after a month’s service, the regiment was disbanded 
 and returned by way of Oswego to their homes. 
 
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 In military father was a strict disciplinarian, and this 
 trait was prominent in the government of his family. A 
 look or a tap with his finger was generally sufficient to 
 command attention. The rod was sometimes used, but 
 always reluctantly. I have often seen the tears course 
 down his face before using it. lie was always kind and lov¬ 
 ing, especially so to our excellent mother, always enjoining 
 upon the children to he mindful of her wants and make her 
 task as light as possible. He was looked upon by his 
 neighbors as a model man, in his family. He had one 
 fault, and who is without faults ? I speak of this painfully 
 and reluctantly, but kindly. He sometimes indulged in the 
 use of ardent spirits. The habit was formed in times, 
 when it was deemed proper for the best of men, to keep it 
 in their side-boards, and offer it to their friends and guests. 
 Moreover, social men were even more apt to form habits of 
 excess in this respect, than others. So then we cast kindly 
 the mantle of charity over this, more a misfortune than a 
 fault. 
 
 Our mother , Elizabeth Kinne , was the daughter of Da¬ 
 vid Kinne, of Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, 
 who was the son of Jeremiah Kinne, who was the son of 
 Thomas Kinne 2nd. Jeremiah was a brother of Moses 
 Kinne, who was the father of Cyrus Kinne, our grandfa¬ 
 ther on father’s side, which makes, as seen in the first part 
 of this sketch, our grandfathers cousins. 
 
 In 1796, while my father was on a visit to his native 
 place in Yoluntown, Connecticut, he was invited to visit 
 the family of David Kinne, of Plainfield, a distance of fif¬ 
 teen miles. There, for the first time, he saw Elizabeth, 
 who in time became his wife. My father has often said to 
 me that he journeyed to Connecticut five consecutive win¬ 
 ters. In January, 1800, he was married, and in January, 
 
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 l SOI, moved to Manlius, Onondaga County, N. Y., where 
 they commenced housekeeping. 
 
 In October, 1802, their son Julius was born. Our moth¬ 
 er inherited a strong constitution, possessed great powers of 
 endurance, or she never could have stood the hardships and 
 privations incident to a commencement of a married life in 
 a wilderness home. I well recollect her in my childhood 
 days. Patient and untiring in her devotion to her children, 
 always pleasant, she never permitted to pass, unimproved, 
 any good opportunity of inculcating the principles of truth¬ 
 fulness and love to each other. So soon as we were old 
 enough to be made useful, there was work for hands to 
 perform. We had tasks set for us by our father, when he 
 was to be absent on buisness. Left alone, our work would 
 sometimes become irksome, and we discouraged and often 
 out of patience. Our mother always had a word of en¬ 
 couragement for us, sometimes saying we were getting 
 along finely, and our task would soon he done, and father 
 would be pleased with what we had done. I never heard a 
 word drop from her lips, that ran counter to any order that 
 our father had given us. If she thought he was too severe 
 in his requirements of us, it never reached our ears. She 
 always taught us to be obedient to every command he gave 
 us. I remember on some occasions, when things were not 
 pleasant, mother’s saying, “ When you see anything wrong- 
 in others, he sure to avoid it in yourselves.” 
 
 Mother was born and reared in a Christian family, but 
 never made a public profession of religion, yet she incul¬ 
 cated the principles of Christianity in the minds of her 
 children, by both example and precept, always prized good 
 conduct above riches, and has often been heard to say that 
 it was her prayer, that none of her children be rich, nor did 
 she want to see them poor, but never above the necessity 
 
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 of laboring with their hands for their bread. She died 
 November 5th, 1820 in the forty-seventh year of her age, 
 of cancer in the breast, leaving ten children, the youngest, 
 Ansel, only five months old. Love and peace to her 
 memory ! 
 
 In 1821 father married Eunice Jones of Madison Coun¬ 
 ty, formerly a resident of Preston, Windham County, Con¬ 
 necticut. In January, 1829, a son was born to them, 
 George N. Kinne. 
 
 Father died July 19, 1830, in the fifty-seventh year of 
 his age. Our stepmother was a good woman and a good 
 mother to us all, and I have reason to believe that she was 
 a Christian. She died October 22, 1858; 
 
 FAMILY OF JULIUS C. KINNE. 
 
 Julius C. Kinne , the oldest son of Prentice Kinne, as 
 noted above, was born Oct. 19th, 1802. 
 
 Inheriting a strong constitution, having early acquired 
 habits of industry, and possessing an intuitive perception of 
 right and duty, he soon became the natural reliance of his 
 parents for their young and numerous family. Owing to 
 this fact, and the meagre facility for acquiring an education 
 seventy years ago, he was able to obtain a knowdedge of 
 only the elements of an English education. 
 
 On the death of his father, which occurred at. an early 
 period of his majority, the responsibility of directing affairs 
 of a large family of brothers and sisters devolved upon 
 him, a responsibility which he discharged with such signal 
 fidelity that the young members came to regard him with 
 mingled feelings of paternal and fraternal affection. 
 
 Thoroughness and perseverance were the characteristics 
 
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 which marked every transaction of his life. His home, Ms 
 grounds and every feature of his farm bore evidence of this. 
 Nor were his business relations with the community in which 
 he lived less marked by these traits. Whatever project or 
 enterprise engaged his time or attention engaged the whole 
 of it, and no honorable means were left untried until suc¬ 
 cess had crowned his efforts. 
 
 He was a close observer of the political movements of 
 his time and often an active participant in their strifes. 
 Elected to the Legislature of 1845 and again to that of 1846, 
 his habits of industry and perseverance did not desert him 
 there, but were available in the discharge of the various 
 legislative duties to which he devoted his whole energies. 
 His firm and consistent course while here fully met the 
 views of his constituents and won the confidence of Gover¬ 
 nor Wright—a confidence which he ever appreciated and 
 never betrayed. With the interest of the community in 
 which he had always lived he was emphatically identified. 
 Upright in character, sound in judgment, his advice was 
 often sought. Strong in his sympathies he was the friend 
 of the indigent and afflicted. None such ever turned from 
 his door unrelieved where relief was possible. 
 
 Skilled in the appliances of means to an end and gener¬ 
 ous to a fault, his assistance was often solicited by those in 
 perplexed circumstances, and many in the community held 
 him in grateful remembrance for such assistance. 
 
 But he rests from his labors, having died as he lived, with 
 a firm confidence in a just, merciful and immutable Prov¬ 
 idence. 
 
 His death occurred August 5th, 1857. A widow and 
 three children survive him. The widow now lives with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Helen Williams, in Muskegon, State of 
 Michigan. 
 
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 ■Howard A., the oldest son, married Hannah Tobin and 
 moved to the State of Iowa in 1860, where he now resides. 
 During the war of the Rebellion he enlisted in a regiment 
 of cavalry that was raised in Iowa, and mustered into ser¬ 
 vice, he went with the brigade commanded by General 
 Sully of the regular army, into Dakota Territory, where 
 he did service against the Indians and suffered untold hard¬ 
 ships for three years, and at the close of the war was must¬ 
 ered out of the service with credit to himself as a soldier. 
 
 Edward 1 the second son of Julius C. and Rachel 
 Ivinne, was horn Feb. 9th, 1841, in DeWitt, Onondaga 
 County. He attended the High School of Syracuse, grad¬ 
 uated from Cazenovia Seminary, Michigan University, and 
 for four years was in the Columbia Law School at Wash¬ 
 ington, D. C., and was admitted to the Supreme Court of 
 that District. 
 
 In 1867 he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, was admit¬ 
 ted to the bar and commenced the practice of law. In 1868 
 he was admitted to practice in the United States Court. 
 
 He has been Recorder and District Attorney, and was 
 Mayor of the city of Ann Arbor in 1875 and re-elected in 
 1876. 
 
 In the year of 1867 he married Mary C. Hawkins, 
 daughter of Judge Gluey Hawkins, and has one son. Few 
 young men have a finer record or brighter prospects. 
 
 EMERSON IvINNE. 
 
 Emerson Kinne, the second son, was horn Feb. 16th, 
 1804. By referring to the dates of birth of these two 
 brothers, it will be seen that their ages differ only by six¬ 
 teen months, so that they grew to their maturity somewhat 
 
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 as twins, in sympathy, in purpose, in plans and in enter¬ 
 prise. Botli inheriting good constitutions, subjected to the 
 same discipline, enduring similar hardships, privations and 
 disadvantages, they came to be the twofold directors and 
 stalwart leaders of the numerous family of growing boys 
 and girls, at the time Julius and Emerson reached their ma¬ 
 jority. Meagre opportunities for an education coupled with 
 the fact that they were the chief dependence of their pa¬ 
 rents for the support of the family, their education was 
 similarly limited. This lack felt by him, Emerson never 
 sought a civil office. 
 
 The first he ever held was that of commissioner of high¬ 
 ways for 1832 in the old town of Manilus. Not in attend¬ 
 ance at the caucus which nominated him, he was much sur¬ 
 prised when informed of the fact. His associates were 
 Reuben H. Bangs and Seth Spencer. 
 
 The ticket was elected, and re-elected in 1833, but ever 
 after that he declined holding any office in the town. Af¬ 
 ter the town was divided his residence was in the new town 
 of De Witt, and in 1848. he was elected one of the asses¬ 
 sors of the town. In 1S51, lie was nominated and elect¬ 
 ed Supervisor, but was not at the caucus that put him in 
 nomination. He was elected over his opponent, Mr. Jo¬ 
 seph Breed, an excellent and popular man, was re-elected, 
 with very little opposition, and the third time with but one 
 opposing vote. This closed all his civil services. 
 
 He was often called upon to act as guardian for minor 
 children, and in settling differences between individuals. 
 As executor, or administrator he settled the estates of sev¬ 
 eral persons. Was appointed by the Chancellor, the gen¬ 
 eral guardian of four of the minor children of the late 
 Seth Young, namely, Maria, Cordelia, William and Louisa 
 Young, with power to divide the real estate, and convey 
 
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 the same by title deed. He was appointed executor of the 
 will of the late Atlas Kinne; also of the will of the late 
 John I. Devoe, and administrator of the will of the late 
 John Devoe. Appointed also administrator of the estate 
 of the late Julius C. Kinne, and the guardian of his two 
 sons, Howard and Edward, and again, administrator of the 
 estate of the late George N. Kinne, and of the estate of 
 the late Zebulon Kinne. Nearly all of these were settled 
 to the entire satisfaction of the parties interested. 
 
 From a boy up he took an interest and pride in military 
 affairs. It may be that this tendency was inherited or in¬ 
 spired from his father, who, it has been seen, served under 
 several commissions previous to the war of 1812, and did 
 some service in that war as second in command of a regi¬ 
 ment at Smith’s Mills, near Sackets Harbor, in 1814. In 
 1828 he was commissioned Ensign of a company of infant¬ 
 ry by acting Governor Nathaniel Pitcher, and was elected 
 Lieutenant in 1829, and Captain in 1830. In 1833 was 
 elected Major, and in 1834 Lieutenant Colonel, and pro¬ 
 moted to the command of the regiment in 1835. lie was 
 in command of this regiment for two years, and it was 
 said to be the best disciplined regiment in the brigade. 
 This compliment was bestowed by the commandant of the 
 brigade. In 1837, he was commissioned Brigade Inspector 
 of the Twenty-seventh Brigade of Infantry of the State of 
 New York. As an officer he was pleasant and affable, 
 though rigidly strict in discipline. It has been said of him, 
 that his presence was commanding, his bearing dignified, 
 his decisions generally just and his commands inexorable. 
 Another said of him, “ He is one of Nature’s noblemen.” 
 
 Politically, he was a Democrat, and during the Rebellion 
 • he was what was termed a war Democrat, sustaining the 
 Government in crushing out the most causeless of rebel- 
 
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 lions, and nothing but his age prevented his taking an act¬ 
 ive part in it. 
 
 In 1833, he married Miss Janet Luddington. They have 
 no living children. In 1S31 he made a public profession 
 of religion and united with the Baptist Church of Syracuse, 
 where he has now a religious home. During that long- 
 period, lie has labored in his humble way to promote the 
 cause of Christ. 
 
 In 1831 he commenced taking the Baptist Register , then 
 published in Utica, and lias continued to do so through all 
 of its changes up to the present time. The entire publica¬ 
 tion for fifty years, is still preserved and kept for the bene¬ 
 fit of some person into whose hands it may fall. 
 
 Caution and care, prudence and push have characterized 
 his life history, and this character has impressed itself up¬ 
 on many who have had personal knowledge of these char¬ 
 acteristics. In short, his whole life has been an example 
 of rare merit, challenging the admiration of all who knew 
 him. 
 
 Marvin , the third son, was born March 4, 1806 ; was a 
 very affectionate and kind-hearted boy, traits well remem¬ 
 bered and appreciated by his older brothers. He did not 
 inherit a strong constitution. Ilis death, which occurred 
 February 23, 1813, was his parents’ first great grief, which 
 was deeply shared in by the older brothers. 
 
 Eunice , the oldest daughter, born October 22nd, 1807, 
 was a kind and dutiful daughter, laboring untiringly for 
 the welfare of the youuger members of the family. At 
 the age of thirteen the death of her mother occurred, leav¬ 
 ing her at this tender age, the oldest of eight children, the 
 youngest a babe of five months. Heroic as was deemed 
 the struggle of the older boys, mentioned before, it had its 
 grand counterpart in this sister, who so well discharged the 
 
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 duties, and nobly met the responsibilities, now newly pre- 
 eipitated upon her. The babe of live months, now of three¬ 
 score years, desires gratefully to record this tribute to bis 
 sainted sister’s memory. To liipa, she was more than a sis 
 ter. To her care and kindness, he, doubtless, owes his life, 
 and this care and kindness never ceased while she lived. 
 
 She was united in marriage with Wesley Bailey, August 
 23rd, 1833. Mr. Bailey was all that a good husband and 
 kind father could be to his family. His life was mainly 
 spent in editing and publishing papers, especially in the in¬ 
 terest of Anti-slavery and Temperance. 
 
 The liberty Press and Utica Teetotaller were published 
 in Utica, each for many years. See app. 
 
 There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey six children, 
 live sons and one daughter. Two sons died in childhood, 
 the daughter, Janet, died at the age of seven years, and 
 was a lovely little girl. Their oldest son, E. P. Bailey, 
 was born Oct., 1834, at Manlius, New York. His early 
 opportunity for an education was well improved. His 
 father not having the means to give his son a college ed¬ 
 ucation, took him into his printing office at an early age 
 in the city of Utica, there to learn the art of setting type. 
 He soon found that there was work to be done at the desk 
 with a pen, and preferring this to type-setting he was of tell¬ 
 er found in the office than in the printing room. 
 
 Some twenty-live years ago, by the consent of-his father, 
 he left the office of the Liberty Press for the Observer office. 
 The Observer was owned and published by Mr. Grove. 
 
 After working in that office for a number of years he 
 bought an interest in the paper. It is now published by the 
 firm of Grove & Bailey. For the last few years Mr. Grove 
 has spent most of his time in New York, the business of 
 the office being conducted almost entirely by Mr. Bailey. 
 
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 As :i political as well as a family paper it stands on a par 
 with any paper in the State. It. has a reputation as well 
 as an influence second to none. 
 
 In September, 1857, he married Julia S. Wetherby, 
 adopted daughter of Emerson and Janet Kinne. There 
 was born to them a daughter, Feb. 1st, 1860. Mrs. Bai¬ 
 ley’s health soon failed, and July 9th, 1860, she died, leav¬ 
 ing a sorrowing husband and a babe that never knew the 
 care of a mother. In 1868 Mr. Bailey married Miss Han¬ 
 nah Chapman, of Utica. 
 
 There have been born to them four children, three sons 
 and a daughter. The second, named Clinton, died in 
 childhood. Two little hoys and a darling little daughter 
 are the light of their home. Nettie , their daughter, now 
 twenty years old, is making herself useful in the loving 
 care she has, for her little brothers and sister. 
 
 Ansel N., the second son of Eunice and Wesley Bailey, 
 horn 1835; received a fair education and went into his 
 father’s printing office with his older brother, E. P. Bailey, 
 and there learned the art of printing as well as conducting 
 a newspaper. In 1860 Mr. Wesley Bailey left Utica and 
 moved to Decorah, Iowa, and there published the Decorah 
 Republican, where it is continued by his two younger sons, 
 Ansel K. and Alvan Stewart. In 1858 Ansel married Miss 
 Sarah Uigham, of Utica. There were born to them four 
 children, three sons and one daughter, the latter was born 
 in Utica Jan. 9th, 1860; their sons Edwin and Arthur K., 
 were born in Decorab. 
 
 Ansel K. Bailey, County Treasurer for some time and 
 Postmaster for several years, is regarded as a useful man 
 in the community, is highly respected as upright in charac¬ 
 ter and sound in judgement. 
 
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 Alvan Stewart Bailey is with his brother Ansel in the 
 publishing of the Decorah Republican , and both are 
 prospering. 
 
 FAMILY OF MASON P. KINNE. 
 
 Mason P., fourth son of Prentice Kinne, was born in 
 Manlius—now DeWitt, Nov. 30th, 1808. He received as 
 good an education as the common schools of that early day 
 afforded, and assisted his father on the farm until the death 
 of the latter, when there was added to the old farm more 
 land, and thus enlarged it was conducted by the live older 
 brothers in the interest of the entire family. 
 
 This was continued for several years to the mutual satis¬ 
 faction of all, and they were known and spoken of at home 
 and abroad as the “Kinne hoys.” 
 
 The two older brothers, Julius and Emerson, having 
 married, it was thought best to separate. Mason, Elbridge 
 and Hildreth retaining the old farm, having already pur¬ 
 chased the interest of all that had arrived at the age of 
 twenty-one years, with the understanding that they were 
 to secure the interest of all the minor heirs as they ar¬ 
 rived at a proper age, so that the old farm might not he 
 divided. This was accomplished amicably and satisfactorily. 
 
 The farming interest was conducted by these three 
 brothers for several years. 
 
 On Jan. 30th, 1840, Mason P. married Mary Jane 
 Spaulding, of Clarkson, Monroe County. There were 
 born to them five children, four sons and a daughter. The 
 daughter and a son died young, the daughter at about four 
 years of age and the son, Ansel, at thirteen. 
 
 Charles Mason, their eldest son, horn April 11th, 1841, 
 
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 graduated from the Syracuse High School Jan. 1859, and 
 immediately sailed for San Francisco, California, where he 
 was employed in an agricultural warehouse until 1862, 
 when, as a member of the “California Hundred,” he came 
 out with that body, equipped at their own expense, enlisted 
 and sailed from San Francisco for Boston. Here the com¬ 
 pany tendered their services to Gov. Andrew and were 
 mustered into service, being joined to the 2d Massachusetts 
 Cavalry. 
 
 lie was in over forty battles, and was once wounded. 
 For his gallantry he was made Captain and Asst. Adj. 
 Gen. of the Regular Brigade, First Cavalry Division under 
 Gen. Gibbs. He was urged to remain in the regular army 
 but lie declared that the work for which he enlisted and 
 volunteered was accomplished, viz : the Rebellion put down. 
 He received an honorable discharge with a recommend for 
 brevet Major for faithful service and meritorious conduct. 
 He came home in July, 1865, and remained until the fol¬ 
 lowing spring when he returned to California with a wife 
 and one child. They now have three children, one son and 
 two daughters. Already, at the age of forty, his enterprise 
 and push have won him a competence and an honorable 
 standing in the community. (See app.) 
 
 Porter S., the second son, was a student in the High 
 School of Syracuse ; studied medicine, and is now practic¬ 
 ing in Paterson, New Jersey. He married Amelia Smylie, 
 of Paterson ; they have two children. 
 
 Arthur , the third son, graduated from the High School 
 of Syracuse; studied medicine as a profession and is now 
 practicing in the city of Syracuse. He married Julia Smy¬ 
 lie Oct. 14th, 1880. 
 
 Mason P. Kinne now resides on a part of the old farm. 
 He has ever been an industrious business man, never seek- 
 
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 ing notoriety, but has been called to discharge the duties 
 of several offices of the town, such as Assessor for ten years, 
 Commissioner of Highways and Town Superintendent of 
 Common Schools. Mr. Kinne always voted the Democratic 
 ticket until 1853, since that time he has voted with the Re¬ 
 publican party. He lias exemplified the character of a 
 consistent Christian. 
 
 FAMILY OF ELBRIDGE KINNE. 
 
 Elbridge , the fifth son, was born in Manlius, May 26th, 
 1810. Oct. 17th, 1837, he married Sophronia Young, 
 daughter of Rev. Seth Young, of Dewitt, Onondaga county. 
 There were born to them six children, three sons and three 
 daughters. Their oldest, Theodore Y., was a graduate of 
 the High School of Syracuse; studied medicine and com¬ 
 menced practice in Syracuse in the office of the late Dr. 
 Clary. He volunteered as Asst. Surgeon in the Union 
 army against the Rebellion; served in Virginia; went 
 with his corps to Texas, and in July, 1865, received an hon¬ 
 orable discharge. He returned home and the next spring 
 commenced the practice of his profession again, and located 
 in Paterson, New Jersey, where he now resides doing a 
 prosperous business. He is not only a successful practi¬ 
 tioner, but has large influence in the community where he 
 resides. He was once chosen to read a paper before the 
 Society of Homeopathists, of the State of New Jersey. 
 He was again chosen to address the National Association 
 at Philadelphia. In September, 1861, he married Ella 
 Nottingham, of DeWitt. There were born to them three 
 children, a son and two daughters. 
 
 Willie, oldest son of T.Y., was drowned while bathing in 
 
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 the river, at the age of sixteen. lie was a very promis¬ 
 ing and cultured young student. 
 
 Eliza , oldest daughter of Elbridge, was married to B. F. 
 Barker, a young clergyman of the M. E. Church, June 4th, 
 1.803. They have four children, three sons and a daughter. 
 
 Sop/ironia Janet, the second daughter of Elbridge, born 
 September 15th, 1844, is a teacher of music, and a consistent 
 Christian lady and dutiful daughter. 
 
 E. Olin , second son, now living, was a graduate of 
 the High School of Syracuse, the University of the same 
 place, and of the Medical College of Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
 He is now practicing medicine in Syracuse, the eye and 
 ear being a specialty with him. He is said to be a very 
 thorough student. 
 
 Cornelia , a little daughter, died in childhood. 
 
 Albert, never a healthy child, died at the age of fifteen. 
 
 Elbridge Kinne, has ever resided on the old farm. In¬ 
 heriting a strong constitution, he has ever been a laborious 
 man, and in every place in farm work could lead where any 
 could follow. Never ambitious for office, he has often 
 been elected to till some of the first offices of his town, as 
 Supervisor, Justice of the Peace and Assessor for several 
 years. In 1831 he made a public profession of religion 
 and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, where he 
 has ever maintained a consistent, Christian character, and 
 for over forty years has held official positions in the church 
 and borne its burdens through all these years. He has been 
 class-leader in the church for over forty years and clerk of 
 the board of trustees of the same for forty-eight years, and 
 been present at every meeting of the board except two, 
 from which he was detained by personal sickness. Politi¬ 
 cally a Democrat, he has voted with the Republican party 
 ever since its formation. 
 
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 FAMILY OF N. HILDRETH KINNE. 
 
 N. Hildreth , the sixth son of Prentice , was horn March 
 20th, 1812. At the age of twenty-one, was in company 
 with his older brothers on a large farm for several years, 
 and was prosperous in the business. During this time he 
 was tendered the captaincy of a rifle company, attached to 
 the 176th Regiment of Infantry, commanded by his broth¬ 
 er Emerson. He was not a member of this company at 
 this time, "but accepted the offer, was elected and commis¬ 
 sioned. He uniformed the company at his own expense; 
 presented it with a beautiful stand of colors emblematical 
 of the corps. The company soon attained a high rank in 
 point of discipline, second to none in the regiment. He 
 was assisted in-this by his Lieutenant, D. C. Peck. About 
 this time he severed his interest with his brothers, took his 
 means and purchased a dairy farm in Oswego County, and 
 remained there a few years, when, his health failing, he 
 sold and came to the city of Syracuse to reside. lie was 
 elected one of the Coroners of the County. In 1860, his 
 health having somewhat improved, he ■ moved to Eaton 
 County, Michigan, on to a small farm, where he now re¬ 
 sides. In the the year 1840, March 9th, N. II. and Dian- 
 tha Kinne were married. There were born to them four 
 children, two dying in infancy. 
 
 Eugene , their oldest son, arrived at mature age, and was 
 a faithful hoy and a good scholar. He assisted his father 
 on the farm in the summer seasons, and taught school in 
 the winter. Never very robust, his health failed, and he 
 died August 7th, 1877. 
 
 Emerson , their second son, is an excellent hoy, has al¬ 
 ways been on the farm with his father, and is now his main 
 reliance. 
 
 N. Hildreth made a public profession of religion in the 
 
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 year 1862, and united with the Baptist Church of Syracuse, 
 and lias ever been a devoted Christian, fie has suffered 
 much from impaired health, and for the last live years, has 
 been almost entirely confined to the house. There he is, 
 prostrated and helpless, with little hope of ever mingling 
 with the busy world and enjoying its activities, patiently 
 waiting for the call to that rest promised to the faithful. 
 
 FAMILY OF EMILY KINNE. 
 
 Emily , the second daughter, born December 4th, 1813, 
 was married to Mr. Curran Elms, a mechanic. They set¬ 
 tled in Fayetteville. There were born to them seven chil¬ 
 dren, four sons and three daughters. They moved from 
 Fayetteville to YanBuren County, Michigan, and bought a 
 small farm, on which father and sons labored until the Re¬ 
 bellion, when the two oldest sons, George and Byron en¬ 
 listed, joined the army, were with Gen. Sherman on his 
 great “ march to the sea,” and earned, each of them a com¬ 
 mission. At the close of the war they were honorably dis¬ 
 charged. 
 
 George is married and is living on a farm near Jackson, 
 Michigan. 
 
 Byron is a mechanic and lives in Chicago. 
 
 Frederick , their third son is a salesman in a store for the 
 sale of agricultural implements, in Charlotte, Michigan. 
 
 Jules, their fourth son, has recently graduated as a 
 Homeopathic M. D., is married and has one child, a daugh¬ 
 ter. He is expecting to settle in tfie West as a practicing 
 physician. More recently his brother, Byron, has gradu¬ 
 ated as a physician of the same school. 
 
 Lottie, their oldest daughter, married the Rev. Mr. Yal- 
 
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 entine, and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her two 
 sisters, Lois and Florence live with her most of the time, 
 are unmarried, Florence teaching in one of the schools of 
 the same place. 
 
 Their mother, our sister Emily , died in the Spring of 
 1877. Mr. Elms is still living in Kalamazoo County, 
 Michigan, at seventy years of age, hale and hearty. 
 
 FAMILY OF SALOME KINNE. 
 
 Salome , the third daughter of Prentice and Elizabeth 
 Kinne , was born May 8th, 1815, and married DeWitt C. 
 Peck, October 29th, 1840. There were born to them 
 seven children, six sons and a daughter. 
 
 Herbert D. was born April 2nd, 1842. Attending the 
 High School of Syracuse and the Cazenovia Seminary, he 
 was in possession of a good education, when at the age of 
 twenty-two he entered the United States Army as 2nd 
 Lieutenant in Company E, New York Cavalry. He was 
 mustered in at Rochester, N. Y., January 30th, 1864. Af¬ 
 ter participating in several engagements in the Wilderness 
 and at other points, on the march of Grant’s army towards 
 Petersburg, he was captured at Ream’s Station, June 28th, 
 1864, while engaged in Wilson’s raid on the Weldon and 
 Petersburg Railroad. Lieut. Peck’s prison life among the 
 Rebels embraced limited periods, at Libby, Macon, Savan¬ 
 nah, Charleston, Columbia and Wilmington prison, where 
 he was paroled March 1st, 1865. Lee’s surrender having 
 canceled his parole, he came home on a furlough, remained 
 a short time, then returned and joined his regiment. Soon 
 after he received a Captain’s commission, and remained in 
 
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 Virginia on Provost duty until August, 1865, when his 
 regiment was mustered out. 
 
 He was married to Amanda Burns, of Richmond, Ohio, 
 and three children have been born to them. They now re¬ 
 side in Steubenville, Ohio. For some years he was en¬ 
 gaged in a coal mine at Rush Run, now in mercantile 
 trade. 
 
 Albert D., their second son, was born May 13th, 1846. 
 Reared on the farm, educated in the district school, at the 
 Syracuse High School, and at Cazenovia Seminary. He 
 married Augusta Smurr, of Columbus, Ohio, settled on a 
 farm in Sac County, Iowa, was elected Recorder of that 
 County, and is now in that public service making a record 
 creditable to himself. 
 
 Clinton G., their third son now living, was born with a 
 twin brother, Charles B., January 25th, 1852. 
 
 Charles died April 6th, 1858. 
 
 Edward A., born April 11th, 1849, died December 27tli, 
 1857. 
 
 Clinton G. was reared and educated as were the broth¬ 
 ers, graduated from the High School, Syracuse. Spent one 
 summer on the farm in Iowa, with his brother Albert, 
 came home the following winter, and has labored on the 
 farm with his father, since. In June, 1878, he married 
 Fannie Ferris of DeWitt. His health is impaired, and he 
 and his wife spent the winter of ’79 and ’80 in the State of 
 Iowa. 
 
 Willard, //., the fourth living son of DeWitt and Sa¬ 
 lome Beck, born October 5tli, 1854, educated as the broth¬ 
 ers were, has spent his life thus far on the farm with his 
 father, having taught school some in winters. He now re¬ 
 sides in Iowa, engaged in the lumber trade. 
 
 Alary E., the only daughter, born February 15, 1856, is 
 
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 well educated, a graduate from the High School, an excel¬ 
 lent and dutiful daughter, residing at home. 
 
 DeWitt C. Peek and his wife Salome made a profession 
 of religion before they were married, and united with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, where they have led exem¬ 
 plary and devoted Christian lives, the influence of which 
 has not been lost on their children, or the community in 
 which they have lived. 
 
 Politically Mr. Peck was a Whig, casting his votes with 
 that party until the organization of the Republican party, 
 with which he has acted since. He has been elected to 
 several offices of the town, but they have been imposed up¬ 
 on him, he never sought them. 
 
 FAMILY OP ATLAS KINNE. 
 
 Atlas , the seventh son of Prentice and Elizabeth Kinne , 
 was born May 27th, 1817. He obtained a good common 
 school education, and added thereto somewhat of an aca¬ 
 demic scholarship, and commenced teaching before his ma¬ 
 jority. Was on the farm with his brothers some after 
 this, hut most of his time was spent in teaching. At the 
 age of twenty-two he was married to Renette Palmer of 
 Fayetteville, Onondaga County, N. Y. There were no 
 children born to them. 
 
 He was ambitious and energetic beyond his strength, 
 and his constitution yielded under the excessive labor and 
 exposure to which he was apt to subject himself. One who 
 knew him well wrote, after his death, the following: 
 
 Died. —In DeWitt, Saturday evening, March 15, 1845, 
 of Consumption, Mr. Atlas Kinne, in the twenty-eighth 
 year of his age. 
 
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 The deceased was the son of the late Prentice Kinne 
 Esq., and a member of a family of twelve children, ten of 
 whom were living at the time of his death. He is the first 
 of the number cut down in the vigor of manhood, a stroke 
 that is most deeply felt by the family, and mourned by a 
 large circle of friends and acquaintances. Trained to 
 habits of industry, active and intelligent, as well as ambi¬ 
 tious, he had promised himself much from this world, and 
 few have fairer hopes than he had, of honorable distinction 
 with their fellowmen. But in the midst of fair promises, 
 he was called to contemplate death, to think of the spirit 
 world as near at hand. There is hope that repentance and 
 faith had their perfect work ; that reconciled and renewed, 
 his affections, though late, were set on things above. He 
 has left a devoted wife to mourn thus early, the loss of one 
 on whom she had fixed her dearest earthly hopes and fond¬ 
 est expectations. 
 
 FAMILY OF ANSEL E. KINNE. 
 
 AnselE ., the eighth son of Prentice Kinne, was born May 
 17th, 1820, received a good common school education, pre¬ 
 pared for College at the Cazenovia Seminary at the age of 
 twenty-four, and has spent most of his life in teaching. 
 At the age of twenty-nine, in October, 1849, he married 
 Emma Merrick of Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 From 1855 to 1864 he taught one of the city schools. 
 Receiving an appointment from Gen. Saxton as Superin¬ 
 tendent of Freedmcn, at Fernandina, Florida, he entered 
 upon its duties in Jan. 1864. In 1865 he removed his 
 family to Florida, remaining there two years in charge 
 of freedmen and their schools when he received the ap¬ 
 pointment of State Superintendent of Schools for Florida. 
 This appointment was declined and he returned to Syra¬ 
 cuse, and in Nov., 1867, re-entered the school room as 
 
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 teacher where he now remains, having taught in Syracuse 
 twenty-two years in all. 
 
 There have been born to them seven children, three sons 
 and four daughters ; one son and one daughter died in 
 childhood. 
 
 Charles U Kinne , the oldest son, received his education 
 in the schools of Syracuse, ending with the High School. 
 At the age of eighteen he returned to Florida as private 
 secretary to Gov. Reed. At the expiration of Gov. Reed’s 
 term of office lie returned home and engaged in clerical 
 duties until the spring of 1875, when his health became 
 impaired and for relief was advised to go to Florida. There 
 he somewhat regained his health, and in April, 1877, was 
 married to Elizabeth Reddy, daughter of Rev. Dr. Reddy, 
 of Syracuse, New York. He still resides in Florida, en¬ 
 gaged in a large hardware store as bookkeeper. They have 
 one son nearly two years of age, Ansel Reddy Kinne. 
 
 Lucius M. Kinne , the second son, born Aug. 1855, also 
 received his education in the schools of Syracuse, ending 
 his school days in the High School. He has been engaged 
 in a bank for eight years and is now teller in the Trust and 
 Deposit Company of Onondaga. 
 
 Mary A. Kinne , the eldest daughter, born Sept., 1860; 
 graduated at the High School in June, 1880, and is now 
 finishing her education in doing and learning to do house¬ 
 work. 
 
 Kittie E. Kinne , the second daughter, born July, 1862 ; 
 graduated at the High School in June, 1880, and is now 
 taking a course in a teachers’ training class. 
 
 Chlohelle Kinne , the third daughter, born June, 1868, 
 is now in her father’s school preparing for the High 
 School, which she may enter in 1882, if life and success in 
 preparation are granted her. 
 
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 These children have responded to the care and culture, 
 such as their parents have been permitted to give them, in 
 a manner that indicates affectionate loyalty to family rela¬ 
 tion and a proper respect to its claims. 
 
 GEORGE N. KINNE. 
 
 George JST., the ninth son of Prentice Kinne, and by the 
 second marriage, was born Jan. 24th, 1829. Up to the 
 age of ten years he was a smart, active, intelligent boy ; at 
 that time his mental as well as his physical powers seemed 
 to pause in their development, and indeed, never resumed 
 a healthy or vigorous growth or improvement. 
 
 Soon after his death the following obituary appeared in 
 print, which Avas truthful to the letter: 
 
 Died. —In Dewitt, Onondaga County, on the 8th of ISTov., 
 1856, of typhoid fever, Mr. George N. Kinne, in the 28th 
 year of his age. 
 
 Candor and conscientiousness with entire truthfulness, 
 Avere elements of character which shone through the life 
 of the deceased. He was religiously inclined from early 
 youth, and in his closing hours evinced a full preparation 
 for the life which is to come. A widowed mother and many 
 relatives and friends are deeply afflicted by this bereavement. 
 
 FAMILY OF EZRA KINNE. 
 
 Ezra Kinne , eldest son of Cyrus Kinne, was born Jan. 
 14th, 1778, and came to Manlius, Onondaga County, New 
 York, Avith his father as stated above. In 1793 he married 
 Mary Young and settled in the same town where they lived 
 and died. Mary, his wife, died in 1824, and Ezra in 1829. 
 Their children, twelve in number, are as follows: 
 
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 Hannah Koine, born Feb. 1795, .married James Van- 
 Slyke and died in 1823. Two children, Nancy and Emeline. 
 
 Aaron Kinne , oldest son of Ezra, was born Oct. 23d, 
 1796. He married Laura Smith. A jeweller by trade, he 
 followed the business for many years, but in later life, he 
 was a preacher of the Universalist persuasion. He resided 
 in Madison County, New York, for several years and re¬ 
 moved to Illinois where he died in 1846. They reared four 
 children, two sons and two daughters. 
 
 Harriet , the oldest daughter, was born May 17th, 1820. 
 She married a clergyman in Illinois, Rev. Mr. Gardner. 
 
 Melissa , the second daughter, married and lives in 
 Illinois. 
 
 Thomas -Jefferson, the eldest son of Aaron, was in the 
 war of Secession and held the commissions of captain and 
 colonel, and acquitted himself with honor. 
 
 Since the war he has been engaged by the government 
 in various relations to the Revenue Department. 
 
 In that connection he now is, and located in Chicago, 
 Illinois. 
 
 When mustered out, he was brevetted Brig. Gen. for 
 meritorious conduct. 
 
 He was appointed Special Agent of the Revenue De¬ 
 partment and visited all the principal cities of the United 
 States. 
 
 Elizabeth Kinne, second daughter of Ezra Kinne, was 
 born Jan. 18th, 1799, and married James Breed and died 
 in 1840. They had several children ; one is a physician 
 in the west, perhaps two, and are prominent men. 
 
 Mary Kinne, third daughter, born Dec. 12th, 1800; 
 married Quartus Frost, had several children, and died in 
 1835. 
 
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 Situ Kinnd, fourtji daughter, born Nov. 16th, 1802. 
 Married Hiram Tishell Feb., 1834, and died in 1874. 
 
 Cyrus Kinne , second son of Ezra, was horn Aug. 16th, 
 1804 ; married April 25th, 1824, and died Dec. 1.7th, 1866. 
 
 Justus Ilult Kinne , third son of Ezra, was horn Aug.. 
 3d, 1S06; married Prudence Harris Dec., 1S31, and died 
 March 26th, 1868. He removed to Illinois early in life 
 and became a substantial, well-to-do farmer. One son, 
 James, was in the war, and was mortally wounded and died 
 in the hospital. 
 
 Thomas Jetferson, fourth son of Ezra Ivinne, was born 
 May 3d, 1808. He married Ann Sargent ; was a jeweler 
 and removed to Illinois about the time his brother did and 
 became the possessor of a fair competence in the pursuit of 
 his trade in Joilet, Illinois, where in 1872 he died, leaving 
 his widow in the possession and pursuit of his business. 
 She still pursues it and prospers. They had no children. 
 Thomas was social, free-hearted and jolly. 
 
 Luke Kinne , fifth son of Ezra, was born June 26th, 
 1810; married Emeline Stone, a very estimable lady, Dec. 
 25th, 1831. He was a blacksmith by trade and pursued 
 for many years the trade of his choice. But for forty years 
 he endeavored to preach the Gospel to others. He had 
 been a professor of the faith for many years previous to 
 entering the ministry. He died in the triumph of the 
 faith May 25th, 1880. 
 
 He left a widow and several children. TIis widow still 
 lives and has a home with her youngest son, Sylvester 
 Kinne, at Valparaiso, Indiana. 
 
 Sarah Kinne , fifth daughter of Ezra Kinne, was born 
 1811; married George Hilts, and now. lives in Manlius, 
 Onondaga County, New York. 
 
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 Vasti K'mne , sixth daughter of Ezra Kinne, was born 
 1814; married Arvin West. 
 
 Itaphae! K'mne , sixth son of Ezra Kinne, was born July 
 9th, 1817, and married Matilda Kinne, a distant relative. 
 He now lives in Arlington, Knox County, Illinois. 
 
 FAMILY OF ZACHAR1AII KINNE. 
 
 Zachariah Kinne , the second son of Cyrus Kinne, was 
 born Feb. 24th, 1772, in Preston, New London County, 
 Connecticut. At the age of twenty-two years be married 
 Diadama Barnes in Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, 
 May, 1794, and settled in Fayetteville, on or near the farm 
 of bis father, in the same month and year. He was temp¬ 
 erate, economical, original and somewhat eccentric. He 
 was a farmer, and at his death, which occurred July 1st, 
 1850, had acquired some property, and assisted to settle his 
 numerous family not remote from bis own home. His 
 children were thirteen in number, eight sons and five 
 daughters. 
 
 Diana , the eldest daughter, was born May 29th, 1795, 
 and in 1815 married Cromwell Cook and settled in Salina, 
 where she died in 1840, Dec. 25th. 
 
 Rite , the oldest son, was born April 1st, 1797, and mar¬ 
 ried Polly Strong Jan. 1st, 1817; settled in DeWitt, On¬ 
 ondaga County, New York, where he died Aug., 1865. 
 
 PZtineas , the second son, born April 14th, 1799; mar¬ 
 ried Elizabeth Strong, May, 1820; settled in DeWitt; was 
 a miller, and died in Manlius, New York, 1865. 
 
 Ira, the third son, died in infancy. 
 
 Mary , the second daughter, born 1802; married a Mr. 
 
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 Cleveland and dic'd 1X75, at. Iter daughter’s in Syracuse, 
 New York. 
 
 Adah, the third daughter, horn 1804; married John 
 Keller, settled in Sullivan, Madison County, New York, 
 and died, March, 1873. 
 
 Esop, the fourth son, was horn July 12th, 1806; mar¬ 
 ried Lydia Beebe; settled on a farm in Salina, now within 
 the city limits of Syracuse, where he died in 1871. He 
 reared a somewhat numerous family of children. 
 
 David, is a Baptist minister in Illinois. 
 
 La Vega , is a lawyer in Wisconsin. 
 
 Gilbert , is a farmer in Michigan. 
 
 Lydia , a daughter, married and lives in Syracuse. 
 
 Cyrus’ born 1808; married Abiali Townsend, settled in 
 DeWitt and now lives in that town. 
 
 Rachel , the fourth daughter, married Elisha Eggleston, 
 and died June 18th, 1849, in Canada West. 
 
 Barnes , died in infancy. 
 
 Lydia , the fifth daughter, born -July 15th, 1816; mar¬ 
 ried George Lansing and died Dec. 5th, 1841. 
 
 ZachariaJb , born May 15th, 1818 : married Betsey Keller, 
 settled on a farm within the limits of the present city of 
 Syracuse, New York, and now lives in southwestern Michi¬ 
 gan. 
 
 Benjamin , the youngest son, born May 8th, 1820; mar¬ 
 ried Mary Jane McSchoaler Jan. 29th, 1840, settled in 
 Sullivan, New York, and died in Schroeppel, Oswego 
 County, New York; was a farmer. 
 
 FAMILY OF ETHEL KINNE. 
 
 Ethel Kinne , the fourth son of Cyrus Kinne, was born 
 April 3d, 1775, and died Jan. 30th, 1857, at the age of 82 
 
 
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 years. He married Betsey Eaton; he settled in Manlius, 
 Onondaga County, but removed to Cicero, where he lived 
 and died. 
 
 Parsons, his oldest son, was born September 17th, 1797, 
 and married Phoebe Landers, who was born Dee. 13th, 
 1798, and has a numerous family. 
 
 Lewis lives in Palermo, Oswego County, New York. 
 
 Levi, second son, lives in Brewerton, Onondaga County, 
 New York. 
 
 Betsey Ann lives in Clyde. 
 
 Juliet lives in Brewerton. 
 
 Ethel is a farmer and lives in DeWitt, ()nondaga County. 
 
 Harvey lives in Michigan. 
 
 Alula, unmarried, lives with her brother Ethel. 
 
 Hannah lives in Brewerton. 
 
 Salome lives at Blodgett’s Mills, Cortland County. 
 
 Palmer Kinne, second son of Ethel Kinne, married a 
 Miss Porter; had six children, viz: Sophronia, Chester, 
 Eliza, Riley, Charles P. and Esther. 
 
 Sophronia married Mr. Lasher, and lives in Chicago. 
 
 Chester went west; is a lawyer in Chicago. 
 
 Riley died sometime ago. 
 
 Charles P. lives in Illinois. 
 
 Eliza lives in Chicago, as also Esther. 
 
 Alndah, only daughter of Ethel Kinne, married Jon¬ 
 athan Emmons and resides in Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Jackson, third son of Ethel Kinne, married Mary Jane 
 Veder; had two children. Married again and had one 
 child. Children all dead. Father and children died in the 
 west. 
 
 Harry, youngest son of Ethel Kinne, married Susan 
 Waite; had six children; lives in Camden, Oneida County, 
 New York. 
 
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 FAMILY OF ZEBULON KINNE. 
 
 Zebulon Kinne, fifth son of Cyrus Kinne and twin 
 brother of Moses Kinne, was born Jan. 12th, 1780, in Hens 
 selaer County, New York. Came to Onondaga at the age 
 of twelve years with his father. He married Lucy Mark¬ 
 ham and settled on a farm in Manlius, now DeWitt, Onon¬ 
 daga County. During his majority and previous to his 
 marriage, he commenced clearing a farm near the present 
 village of Brewerton, but soon purchased the farm of 180 
 acres, situate as above, and on which the village of East 
 Syracuse now stands. They reared eight children, four 
 sons and four daughters. 
 
 Jfanassah, the oldest son. died in his minority. 
 
 ■Tames, the second son, married Miss Hay and settled on 
 a farm near Belle Isle, Onondaga County. He left the farm 
 about 1860 ; it is not known, if living, where he is. No 
 children were born to them. 
 
 Rufus R., third son of Zebulon, born about 1820 or ’21 ; 
 married Miss Julia Clark, of Salina ; settled with Iris fath¬ 
 er, at whose death, which occurred Aug., 1865, Rufus came 
 in possession, by will, of the homestead and farm, under 
 conditions and provisions respecting the other members of 
 the family. By the locating of East Syracuse the farm be¬ 
 came very valuable, much of if is now occupied by dwell¬ 
 ings, stores, railroad shops, &c. 
 
 He was a stirring business man; was a Democrat in pol¬ 
 itics, and a kind husband and father. He died in the 
 spring of 1880, leaving a widow and one daughter. A 
 little son died in infancy some years ago. 
 
 Chester , four® son of Zebulon Kinne, was married, and 
 one of the children, a young man of twenty, now lives in 
 Montana, a bright, active and promising young man. His 
 
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 father, Chester Kinne, resides with one of the sisters in the 
 western part of this State. 
 
 Lucy , the oldest daughter, married Mr. Pendleton, and 
 after his death a Mr. Dallaby. She has no children. She 
 is a very energetic, business woman; now resides in Brock- 
 port, New York. 
 
 Emetine , the second daughter of Zelmlon, married Mr. 
 Palmer; they now reside in the western part of the State 
 of New York. 
 
 Elizabeth , the third daughter, married a physician, by 
 whom she had some children. She became impaired in 
 health of body and mind and is now residing and has lived 
 for years, a helpless dependant at the old homestead, cared 
 for during their lives by her father and mother, and pro¬ 
 vided for in the will of her father. 
 
 Olivia, the fourth daughter, married Mr. Kent; has lived 
 in Syracuse, New York, many years, and is now residing 
 in Rochester with her second husband, a Mi-. Hammond. 
 
 Zebulon Klnne died at the age of eighty-five years. Mrs. 
 Kinne survived him only a few days. Mr. Kinne, for sev¬ 
 eral years previous to his marriage, lived with and labored 
 for his brother Prentice, on the farm. And, as their farms 
 adjoined, an unusual and fraternal intimacy existed and con¬ 
 tinued many years. The families of these brothers, Pren¬ 
 tice and Zebulon, long after the death of Prentice, continued 
 to live near each other and in very intimate and friendly re¬ 
 lation. Mr. Kinne was a man of strong purposes and will, 
 generally just—always kind. For many years previous to 
 his death he was a member of the First Baptist Church ol 
 Syracuse. He was so proverbially kind to every body that 
 many, irrespective of the relation which the word conveys, 
 called him “ Uncle. " 
 
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 FAMILY OF MOSES KINNE. 
 
 Moses Kinne , the seventh son of Cyrus Kinne, whs horn 
 June 12th, 1780, in Rensselaer County, New York; re¬ 
 moved with his father to Fayetteville, Onondaga County, 
 New York, March 14th, 1803. He married Betsey Wil¬ 
 liams and settled in Cicero, Onondaga County, and died in 
 Euclid in the town of Clay, formerly Cicero, New York, 
 September 20th, 1855, being seventy-live years of age. 
 There were born to them ten children, four sons and six 
 daughters. 
 
 Abigail , the oldest daughter, born Jan. 17th, 1804 ; mar¬ 
 ried Ephraim Soule and settled in Euclid, New York, and 
 died March 4th, 1856, in the town of Salina, New York. 
 Her husband, Mr. Soule, was the maker of the “ Sovereign 
 Balm Pill, ” so well and widely known throughout this and 
 other States for its excellent remedial properties. He was 
 a man of wealth and influence. 
 
 Moses Kinne, jr., the second child and oldest son of Mo¬ 
 ses Kinne, sen., was born Aug. 15th, 1805, and married 
 Polly Warner; was a farmer; settled in Clay, where he 
 died, July 5th, 1852. § 
 
 Alberti, the second son, born Oct. 17th, 1807; married 
 Phoebe Breed Oct. 10th, 1832; settled in Clay, where they 
 had two children born to them, a son and a daughter. Al¬ 
 len B. and Julia. He died at Woodard, Onondaga County, 
 New York, where his children still reside, May 12th, 1879. 
 
 Amanda, the second daughter, born Nov. 4th, 1809 ; 
 married Wilburn Hale and settled in Belgium, New York. 
 
 Harriet, third daughter, born Nov. 21st, 1811; married 
 Samuel Lounsbury and settled in Belgium, New York. 
 
 Almira, fourth daughter of Moses Kinne, Escp, born 
 Oct. 17th, 1813; married a Mr. Way, in Euclid, 1833? 
 and died in Detroit, Michigan, 1868. 
 
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 Jerome , third son, horn Aug. 2d, 1818, married Harriet 
 Soule; and settled in Sehroeppel, Oswego County, New 
 York. He was a farmer. 
 
 Ora , fifth daughter, born Jan., 1819; married Daniel 
 Warner; settled in Palermo, New York, where she died, 
 
 1841. 
 
 f Julia, sixth daughter, born Jan. 21st, 1821; married a 
 Mr. Kore in 1845; settled in 1855 in Iladley, Michigan. 
 
 Frank , youngest son, horn May 22d, 1822 ; married Mrs. 
 Euretta Foster in 1849, and settled in Syracuse, but re¬ 
 moved to Hudson, Michigan, where he died in 1872. 
 
 Moses Kinne was a member of the Legislature in, 1825, 
 associate of the late James R. Lawrence. He held the of¬ 
 fices of Supervisor and Justice of the Peace in his town. 
 Upright in character, dignified in bearing, he was held in 
 respect by the community in which he lived and died. (See 
 app.) 
 
 FAMILY OF JOSHUA KINNE. 
 
 Joshua Kinne was born in Steventown, Rensselaer 
 County, New York, Aug. 31st, 1782. At the age of 
 twenty-three he was united in marriage with Miss Melinda 
 Leach, of Pompey, Onondaga County, and soon after re¬ 
 moved to Cicero, in the same county, where he commenced 
 preaching and where he probably professed religion. In 
 1815 he removed to Marion, Wayne County, where he was 
 ordained, and served the church there as pastor twelve years. 
 About 1830 lie moved to Greece, Monroe County, and 
 served the church at that place seven years. Here, in 1832, 
 his wife died, and in 1833 lie married Mrs. Diantha Ben¬ 
 nett. Removing from Greece, he resided in Sodus some 
 years, preaching in Ontario and Williamson. 
 
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 About 1843 he removed to Fairfield, Lenawee County, 
 Michigan. For fifteen years he preached in the several 
 places, Lodi, Nankin, Unadilla, Waterloo and LeRoy. He 
 died at LeRoy, Oct. 17th, 1858, in the seventy-seventh 
 year of his age. lie rode on horseback eight miles, preached 
 and returned, the Sunday before his death. There were 
 born to him four sons and four daughters. Moses P., the 
 oldest son, was born Jan. 10th, 1805; Susannah, the old¬ 
 est daughter, was born March 3d, 1806; Rachel, born Jan. 
 24th, 1808 ; Niles , born Sept. 26th, 1809; Sily, born Feb. 
 3d, 1811 ; Melinda , born Aug. 30th, 1812 ; Afred B.^ 
 born Dec. 26th, 1815; Joshua, jr., born May 19th, 1817. 
 
 Moses P., the oldest son, married and settled in Medina, 
 Michigan. He was a farmer, and died a few years since 
 over seventy years of age, leaving two daughters. 
 
 Susannah, the oldest daughter, married Reuben Sim¬ 
 mons, and settled in the vicinity of Ottawa, Illinois. They 
 now reside at Guthrie Center, Iowa. They have a large 
 family. 
 
 Raeliel married Welcome Porter, and settled in a place 
 on the border of Oneida Lake, where she died in 1830, 
 leaving two children ; one of these, Cyrus Kinne Porter, 
 resides in Buffalo, New York, is an architect of the firm of 
 Porter & Percival. 
 
 Niles, born in Cicero, Onondaga County, New York ; born 
 again while a little child, probably not more than six years 
 old, but did not profess religion until about 1831. He first 
 united with the Baptist Church in Greece, Monroe County, 
 being baptized by his father. About fourteen years of his 
 early manhood were occupied in teaching. He was licensed 
 to preach by the First Baptist Church, of Rochester, New 
 York, and was there ordained Aug. 28th, 1844. In Sept, 
 he removed with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 
 
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 in Fel>., 1845, entered upon his first pastorate at Beloit. 
 Here he remained until July, 1850, and had the joy of see¬ 
 ing a church of twenty-five members increased to more 
 than two hundred, and left them with the best church edi¬ 
 fice in the town. His next pastorate was at St. Charles, 
 Kane County, Illinois. His labors as a minister from that 
 time to the present have been in Illinois, with the exception 
 of one year at Grass Lake, Michigan. 
 
 He has served the following churches, as pastor, viz ; Bar¬ 
 ry, Pittsfield twice, Carrolton, Oak Mill, Lebanon, Troy, 
 Payson, Carthage twice, Bushnell, and now New Canton. 
 His education was obtained in the public schools, Palmyra, 
 New York, High School, and at Rochester Collegiate In¬ 
 stitute. In 1833 he was married to Miss Ruth H. Rowe, 
 who died Aug., 1835, leaving a son, now living in Beloit, 
 Wisconsin. He is a baker by trade. In 1837 he was mar¬ 
 ried a second time, to Miss Williams, of Greece, Monroe 
 County, New York. Six children were born to them, three 
 sons and three daughters. Three died in infancy. Abi- 
 jah Theodore , the oldest son living, is a deacon in the Bap¬ 
 tist Church, resides in Barry, and is now employed in the 
 Exchange Bank in that town. Niles Henry , the second 
 son, spent three years in the army during the war for the 
 Union ; is now a farmer living four miles south of Barry. 
 The only daughter living is Mrs. Scarborough. All three 
 of the children are members of the Baptist Church, both 
 the sons being deacons. 
 
 Melinda , the youngest daughter of Joshua lvinne, mar¬ 
 ried Ezra I). Lay, and now lives at Ypsilanti, Michigan. 
 Mr. Lay is a wealthy farmer, an elder in the Presbyterian 
 Church, and has been a member of the Legislature of Mich¬ 
 igan. His wife and daughter are still members of the 
 Baptist Church. They have only a son and daughter living. 
 
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 Alfred />., born in Cicero, Onondaga County, New 
 York, was two years old when his father removed to Mari¬ 
 on, Wayne County, New York. In 1S30 he made a pro¬ 
 fession of religion and united with the Baptist Church in 
 the town of Greece, Monroe County, New York. In 1836 
 he married Miss Harriet M. Bennett in Palmyra, New 
 York. In 1842 was licensed to preach by the Baptist 
 Church, of Sodus, New York. In 1845 he moved to Mich¬ 
 igan, and in 1848 was ordained, and was pastor of the fol¬ 
 lowing churches, viz: Marion, Livingston Co., Dansville, 
 Ingham Co., Leroy and Williamston, of the same county, 
 Belleville, Wayne Co. Mrs. Kinne died in Williamston, 
 March 26th, 1872. There were born to them four sons 
 and two daughters. The daughters died young. A son, 
 Cyrus Adalbert, was killed at Brentwood, Tennessee, May 
 21st, 1863, aged 21 years, while a Union soldier in the ser¬ 
 vice of his country. Newton Irving, Elliott Bennett and 
 Lewis Judson, sons of Alfred B. Kinne, are still living. 
 Newton I. and Elliott B. are married, and reside in Lake 
 County, Michigan; the former having one son and three 
 daughters, the latter one son. Lewis Judson still lives with 
 his father, who was married the second time in July, 1880, 
 to Lucy Stanly, and now resides in the city of Lansing, 
 Michigan. 
 
 Joshua, jr., the youngest son of the Rev. Joshua Kinne, 
 was born in Marion, Wayne Co., New York, 1817; was 
 married in Plymouth, Wayne Co., Michigan, to Miss Mary 
 A. Blanchard, April, 1841, by whom he had two sons, Alon¬ 
 zo and Melvin, both of whom are still living. Alonzo is 
 married and resides in Williamston, Michigan, and has 
 three sons. Mr. Joshua Kinne, jr., died in the hospital at 
 Stephenson, Alabama, Dec. 27th, 1864, forty-seven years 
 of age, while serving in the Union army. 
 
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 FAMILY OF CYRUS KINNE, JR. 
 
 Cyrus Kinne, Jr. the eighth son of Cyrus, sen., was giv¬ 
 en a farm of a hundred acres, but never settled upon it. 
 His father had begun the erection of a saw-mill before his 
 death, which occurred in the year 1808. Cyrus chose tore- 
 main at the old homestead, in the care of his mother. He 
 completed the erection of the saw-mill and busied himself 
 on the farm and at the mill for several years, and during 
 this time married Asenath Warner, and commenced house¬ 
 keeping near where his mill was located. There were born 
 to them five children. He died in the summer of 1824, 
 while, in point of years, in the prime of life. He was an 
 active man and in intellect equal to either of his brothers. 
 He was the first one of the ten sons stricken in death. 
 
 Samantha, his oldest daughter, married Felix Fralick 
 in Oswego Co., N. Y. They had five children; two 
 daughters only, Armantha and Letitia, lived to become 
 adults. The older married Mr. Ostrander, in Oswego Co., 
 and the younger a Mr. Benedict of the same county, and 
 now lives in Eaton Co., Mich. 
 
 Diantha L. Rhine married N. Hildreth Kinne, son of 
 Prentice Kinne, whose record.has been given in preceding 
 pages. 
 
 Fidelia, the youngest daughter, married a Mr. Perry and 
 removed to Sunfield, Mich., many years ago and died soon 
 after her arrival leaving no children. 
 
 K. Hiram Kinne, son of Cyrus Kinne, jr., married Sa¬ 
 rah Cheever, and four children were born to them, viz: 
 Eldora, died in infancy; Cyrus, 3d, died young; Alice, 
 now Mrs. Mills, lives in Muskegon, Mich., and another El¬ 
 dora lives with her aunt, Diantha L., her parents, Hiram 
 and Sarah, having died many years ago. 
 
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 FAMILY OF JAPHETH KINNE. 
 
 Japheth Rhine, the ninth son of Cyrus Kinne, at the age 
 of nine years removed to Manlius with his father. At the 
 age of twenty-one he returned to Rensselaer County and 
 labored on a farm by the month. In April, 1807, he mar¬ 
 ried Temperance Palmer by whom he had nine children, 
 only four of whom—two sons and two daughters, reached 
 manhood and womanhood. In 1808 he returned to Onon¬ 
 daga County and in 1810 settled on a hundred acres of land 
 in the town of Cicero, given him by his father Cyrus. 
 Here he lived for more than twenty-live years. In 1836 
 or ’37 he removed to Ira, Cayuga County, 1ST. Y., where he 
 bought a farm and where he lived eight years, and then re¬ 
 moved to Oswego County, N. Y. Here, in 1857, his wife 
 died. In 1858, at the age of seventy-five, he married the 
 widow Huyke, an acquaintance and friend of his youth, 
 with whom he lived seven years, when she died. His sons, 
 Darius and TJri, had removed to Michigan and died. His 
 youngest daughter had married Mr. Walsh and also re¬ 
 moved to Michigan. His daughter Roxana, married Mr. 
 Benedict and still lived in Oswego County. In 1865 
 Japheth Kinne sold his farm and removed to Michigan 
 with his daughters ; his sons having died he resided with 
 the daughters alternately until 1868, when Mrs. Walsh 
 died. The father continued to reside with his daughter, 
 Mrs. Benedict, until 1873, when at the age of eighty-seven 
 years he also died. The daughter still lives (in 1881) where 
 the father died, at Bismarck, Michigan. 
 
 In all the years of early pioneer life, amid the hardships 
 incident thereto, in changes, in afflictions, in middle man¬ 
 hood and in age, Japheth Kinne bore himself steadily in 
 the strong fortitude of a Christian faith. About 1825 he 
 
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 united witli the Baptist Church of Cicero, and was chosen 
 deacon and as such served many years. In the division of 
 the town the church was also divided and a new church or¬ 
 ganized in the new town of Clay. Mr. Kinne was elected 
 deacon and clerk of the new church and was continued so 
 long as he lived in the town. He held several offices of 
 trust, but never sought political notoriety. 
 
 FAMILY OF PALMER KINNE. 
 
 Palmer Kinne , the tenth and youngest son of Cyrus 
 Kinne, was not of age when his father died, but was pro¬ 
 vided for by will, with one hundred acres of land lying in 
 the township of Cicero. He married Polly Carr, settled 
 on his land and for several years resided thereon, and in 
 1835 removed to Illinois. There were eleven children born 
 to them, some of whom died in childhood. 
 
 Cynthia L. Kinne , the oldest child, born Feb. 11th, 
 1811 ; married LeRoy Hudson in 1840. 
 
 De Witt D. Kinne , died in childhood. 
 
 Caleb P. Kinne , born May 10th, 1814; was in the 
 Union army in the South three years, and died in 1873. 
 
 Eli M. Kinne , born April 12th, 1816 ; married Maria 
 Heath in 1839, by whom he had Warner C. Kinne. In 
 1847 he was again married to Laura Fisk and had by her 
 Palmer F. Kinne. 
 
 Mary Ann Kinne , born April 12th, 1818 ; died Sept. 
 13th, 1840. 
 
 David L. Kinne died in childhood. 
 
 Warner N. Kinne also died young. 
 
 Sylvanua II. Kinne , born Feb. 7th, 1824; married Mary 
 Austin by whom he had twelve children. 
 
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 Susan J. Kinne, born March 16th, 1S26; married Nor¬ 
 man C. Fisk in 1851, by whom she had Norman L. Fisk in 
 1852. In the same year Mr. Fisk, her husband, died. In 
 1858 Mrs. Fisk married Orrin Stafford by whom she had 
 four children. The eldest, Maria, (Minnie) A. Stafford, now 
 a young lady of twenty-two years, very kindly furnished 
 much aud indeed most of the material of this, her grand¬ 
 father’s record. The writer well remembers little Minnie 
 when visiting at her father’s house fifteen years since. 
 
 Eliza II. Kinne , the fourth daughter and tenth child, 
 was born June 3d, 1828. 
 
 Maria C. Kinne , the fifth daughter and youngest child 
 of Palmer Kinne, born March 24th, 1832; married Ethan 
 Carpenter Oct., 1857, by whom she had four children. 
 
 Pliny P. Hudson, son of Cynthia L. Hudson and grand¬ 
 son of Palmer Kinne, was in the war of the Rebellion 
 nearly a year. 
 
 Sylvanus H. Kinne was in the Mexican war a short time. 
 
 Eli M. Kinne was Postmaster and Justice of the Peace, 
 and was in company with his brother-in-law, Mr. Carpenter, 
 many years since. 
 
 Illinois is the State in which most of Palmer Kinne’s 
 numerous descendants reside. He died Nov. 15tli, 1869, 
 his wife having died July 18tli, 1865. 
 
 FAMILY OF RACHEL KINNE. 
 
 Rachel Kinne, the oldest daughter of Zachariah Kinne, 
 married William Williams; settled on land a little east of 
 Manlius Center. Here she died leaving four children, two 
 sons and two daughters. Mr. Williams married again but 
 died soon after. 
 
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 The elder son, Kinne Williams, married and settled in the 
 town of Cicero. Several children were born to them. Iiis 
 sons have attained to honorable distinction and positions in 
 society. 
 
 The second son, Ezra Williams , as a boy and as a man 
 was very industrious. He married and settled in the old 
 township of Manlius; here his wife died. Since then he 
 has been twice married and has resided in various localities, 
 and is now a resident of one of the western States. 
 
 The oldest daughter of Rachel Kinne, named Anna , mar¬ 
 ried Mr. Haywood who settled on a farm near Kirkville. 
 
 A son now occupies the farm—both parents deceased. 
 
 The second daughter of Rachel (Kinne) Williams, Com¬ 
 fort , married Collins Bunnell. They reared a family of 
 children. The mother died and Mr. Bunnell married again 
 and moved, some years ago, to the State of Illinois. 
 
 FAMILY OF COMFORT KINNE. 
 
 Comfort Kinne , the youngest daughter of Cyrus Kinne, 
 was married to Jacob Springsted. They were provided 
 with a farm in the town of Cicero, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
 There were born to them several children. Mr. Springsted 
 was a very industrious man, a good husband and a kind 
 father. About the year 1820 he moved into the western 
 part of this State, and soon after into the State of Illinois 
 where all knowledge of them to the writer is lost. 
 
 I regret that a fuller record, which Mr. Springsted well 
 deserves, is beyond my reach. 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OF MOSES KINNE. 
 
 Moses Kinne, together with his twin brother, Zebulou, 
 opened his eyes upon the light in Stonington, Connecticut, 
 Monday, June 12th, 1780, little more than 101 years ago. 
 It was said that of the two babies Moses was much the 
 smaller, though in mature life seemed as robust and was 
 certainly superior in weight and size. Very few incidents 
 of his early life can be recalled at this late date. An occur¬ 
 rence, which doubtless had much influence on his life, took 
 place in his fifteenth year. He was in the fallow where 
 the men were busy logging when, a log being in readiness 
 to place on the pile, an older brother requested him to lift 
 one end. The sudden and violent exertion caused the 
 breaking of a blood vessel. A severe hemorrhage followed 
 that reduced his strength alarmingly. When able to en¬ 
 dure the fatigue of travel, a sojourn at the seaside with 
 ocean baths twice a day, was advised. He spent a year 
 there, returning greatly improved in health; his system, 
 however, not recovering its normal tone for some years. 
 
 The will of Cyrus Kinne, a copy of which is before me, 
 mentions Moses as his sixth son; six other children came 
 into this already large family, and one can readily imagine 
 there were many steps to he taken by somebody, conse¬ 
 quently Moses, on account of being less able than his 
 lirothers to perform outdoor labor, was often called upon to 
 aid his mother in her household duties, frequently doing 
 the family washing. Tradition hath it that upon one oc¬ 
 casion the ruffled cotton shirt—a choice possession in those 
 days of homespun—belonging to his oldest brother, Zacha- 
 riah, was put in the kettle with the linen sheets, shirts, 
 pantaloons, etc., and all “ boiled up ” together in lye, the 
 f avorite “ cleansing fluid ” of those early times, and one, 
 
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 that while “whitening” linen, tended to “yellow” cotton, 
 it at least rendered this particular shirt so dingy that Zach- 
 ariah looked upon it as ruined, and proceeded to chastise 
 Moses after the approved method then in vogue. But 
 whether he ever discovered to what he owed the disaster 
 that had occurred to his treasure, whether to accident or 
 sly humor on the part of the washer-boy, narrator failed to 
 state. It might have been that the garment, being an im¬ 
 portant factor in the owner’s “ sparking ” outfit, offered 
 itself as a temptation to “tease ” not easily resisted. 
 
 From the fact that Moses was employed so much in 
 household tasks may have arisen his interest in women’s 
 work, so called, for in his own home he gave a helping 
 hand on many occasions that to most men do not present 
 themselves. The labor of frying cakes he always took up¬ 
 on himself when not otherwise occupied, his daughters 
 mixing and rolling out, for owing to appliances connected 
 with a fire-place and used in the work, it was, he consider¬ 
 ed, too laborious for the women. Yet he was heard to say in 
 his later life that he did not then realize how much he could 
 assist already heavily burdened hands, in ways that cost him 
 very little effort. This kindness and thoughtfulness for 
 women did not at all impair his dignity, nor did he seem to 
 fear that it would, should it come to the knowledge of oth¬ 
 er men. 
 
 It was said that he once thought seriously of studying 
 medicine for which he had a predilection. What changed his 
 mind was not related. He was married in early life, 1802, 
 at twenty-two, to Elizabeth or Betsey Williams, born at 
 Windham, Connecticut, May 30th, 1782, and who came in¬ 
 to Manlius from Vermont, her adopted State, with a mar¬ 
 ried sister. As it was then no disgrace to work out, she 
 found employment in Cyrus Kinne’s family, where Moses 
 
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 became acquainted with her. It would he interesting to 
 know how much she received a. week; wages were not 
 high—teachers of the best grades getting only ten or twelve 
 shillings a week, house help, perhaps half that. She has 
 been described as the “ smartest” girl in her neighborhood, 
 working always rapidly and with judgment. The young 
 couple, after marriage, remained with the old people a few 
 months, then began housekeeping in Locke, Cayuga County, 
 where their two oldest children, Abigail and Moses, were 
 born. They lived in Locke only three years, removing 
 thence upon 150 acres in Cicero, afterwards Clay, Ononda¬ 
 ga County. The place now, called Euclid occupies the south 
 part of said farm, then a wilderness. The clearing 
 made at that time being the first in the central part of the 
 town, others following immediately. 
 
 As an incident of those early times, and remembered in 
 connection with the events of that year, it was stated that 
 soon after the removal of the family to their future home 
 in early autumn of 1806, a deep snow fell, Oct. 17th, and 
 receiving additions from time to time did not finally disappear 
 till the following February. Not a very inviting prospect, cer¬ 
 tainly, but there was much to be done and the first winter 
 was consumed in settling, in adjusting themselves to the 
 new order of things and becoming accpiainted with neigh¬ 
 bors and surroundings. Yet they were not among strangers 
 entirely for a family named Lynn accompanied them from 
 Manlius, purchasing within a mile or two of them. Within 
 the next three years two brothers, Palmer and Japheth, 
 and a sister, Comfort, located in the same town. At first 
 the family dwelt in a log house of a very comfortable and 
 roomy style, which, after eight or ten years, proving too 
 small for the wants of the increasing numbers, gave way 
 for a spacious frame dwelling, that after more than sixty- 
 
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 five years is doing good service as a section of a very mod¬ 
 ern house. 
 
 The second and third winters he (Moses) taught school, 
 also in a log house; in summer found plenty of occupation 
 in clearing off and logging—piling up logs preparatory to 
 burning, at which he was called a good hand, for even in 
 the apparently simple matter of piling logs good judgment 
 comes in play. But particularly was he famous at breaking 
 and driving oxen, seldom or never meeting with an acci¬ 
 dent—practice in guiding them among the stumps doubtless 
 giving him aptness. Indeed, in all feats of strength and skill, 
 dear to the heart of the frontiersman, he took the lead. The 
 prestige thus gained may have smoothed the road for him 
 to political preferment, as he began his public career soon 
 sifter his settlement in his new home; serving first as Jus¬ 
 tice, then as Supervisor, which office he filled acceptably 
 eighteen years, and during that time served one term in the 
 Legislature. 
 
 It is stated that one of his first official acts as Justice was 
 marrying a couple on the opposite side of the Oneida river 
 in Oswego County, a mile distant. In the evening, discuss¬ 
 ing the event with his brother-in-law, Joseph Williams, a 
 shrewd politician, it was concluded that the ceremony was 
 illegal, because out of his jurisdiction, and the two proceed¬ 
 ed immediately to the river that divides the two counties 
 where Mr. W. procured a boat and rowing across—the only 
 method at that time and for some years after—he aroused 
 the pair, it being 10 o’clock p. m., to whom lie briefly ex¬ 
 plained, and returned with them to the waiting justice, who 
 then and there legalized his work. As each of the party 
 was desirous of keeping the matter secret it was a surprise 
 to hear it publicly mentioned, and wonder being expressed 
 
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 as to how it came out, it was found there had been a list¬ 
 ener concealed in the grass. 
 
 When entering upon his political life he affiliated with 
 the Loco Focos, but afterward saw tit, to join the ranks of the 
 Whigs. It was at this time lie was elected to the Legisla¬ 
 ture as a. party expression of satisfaction at his course, no 
 doubt, in turning to them in his strength. 
 
 As he occupied the position of supervisor so long he had 
 an extensive acquaintance and was well known through a 
 wide extent of territory. People in that day of few neigh¬ 
 bors were not deterred from social intercourse by distance 
 or lack of facilities that seem to us great. 
 
 When he began on his farm in Cicero the site of Syra¬ 
 cuse was an impenetrable cedar swamp, and no one predict¬ 
 ed, not even the boldest, it would be the most valuable 
 section in Central New York, consequently it was avoided 
 by those selecting land. Yet he once thought of buying at, 
 or near there before purchasing in Cicero. 
 
 Not a long time has elapsed since many were living who 
 were the associates of Moses Kinne in his public life. 
 Among them Gen. J. R. Lawrence, who conversed several 
 times with his son, Albern, and recalled with much interest 
 incidents of their work when both were in the Legislature 
 together, and of their journeys to and from the capital, 
 when journeying was not quite so easily accomplished as 
 now. He also spoke of him as an able man and much re¬ 
 spected by his party. Concerning his domestic life, it is 
 remembered that while exacting obedience he was ever a 
 tender father, and though compelled from pressure of pub¬ 
 lic duties to be absent much, his home was ever in his 
 mind. This home was not that originally carved out of the 
 wilderness. That had long before been sold and another house 
 built near the “corners,” as Euclid was familiarly known. 
 
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 To this home were many visitors, strangers and friends, 
 welcomed. 
 
 His wife, in her later years, was an invalid, and her 
 room next to the family room and nearly as large, was really 
 the social center for the married sons and daughters who 
 came often to spend an hour or day with “ mother,” or to 
 consult with the father. Nearly all lived within an hour’s 
 drive and some in the same place. Of the ten sons and 
 daughters only two were unmarried at the time of their 
 mother’s death, which took place in 1844. She left a mem¬ 
 ory fragrant of good deeds and devoted piety. 
 
 After the death of his wife his youngest daughter mar¬ 
 ried, and he soon after sold the homestead to his son-in-law, 
 E. L. Soule, taking up his abode with his widowed daugh¬ 
 ter, Mrs. Lounsbury, thereafter dividing his time and what 
 little labor he felt himself able to perform between his 
 children, ever retaining until the last, a warm interest in 
 each household, even to its least and youngest member. I 
 have, myself, seen him put himself to much inconvenience 
 to wait upon his married daughters, not at all because they 
 were in need, but because it gave him pleasure. About four 
 years previous to his death three daughters, Mrs. Hale, 
 Way and Kore, moved to Michigan, and he twice made the 
 journey to assure himself of their welfare, the last time 
 driving the entire distance. While there he contracted 
 chill fever, and returning home lived only a week, dying at 
 the advanced age of seventy-five years. 
 
 It is not known whether Mr. Kinne ever became a mem¬ 
 ber of any church, but his sympathies were with the Chris¬ 
 tian or Disciple church of which his wife was a member. His 
 religious experience dates from the time of Elder Morrell's 
 work in Euclid when a church of that denomination was 
 organized there. Ministers of other persuasions sought his 
 
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 friendly home, and he extended aid to all religions enter¬ 
 prises in the community. 
 
 A Baptist Church was built on a lot of his, given for the 
 purpose, and whenever a meeting of more than usual im¬ 
 portance was held in it those from a distance were sure of 
 entertainment at ’Squire Kinne’s house. His impressive 
 manner and fitting words in devotion are well remembered, 
 his forgiving spirit gratefully borne in mind. It is a. source 
 of gratification to those of his children and grandchildren 
 who remain, to reflect that this long and useful career, 
 while destitute of startling events, was one of unblemished 
 reputation politically, that his private life was unstained 
 by any irregularity, that though trials of various kinds as¬ 
 sailed him, and death twice entered his household, he was 
 still cheerful, companionable and seemed always relying on 
 strength Divine. 
 
 My recollection of his personal appearance is of a tall, 
 erect, stately frame fully six feet in height, broad-shoulder¬ 
 ed, rather deep-chested, surmounted by a shapely head, 
 face deeply furrowed yet not rendered repulsive thereby, 
 keen blue or gray-blue eyes, overhanging brows, smoothly 
 shaven and dimpled chin, hair quite gray, very thin and ap¬ 
 proaching baldness on the top of the head ; his bearing was 
 dignified almost to austerity. In conversation instructive 
 and entertaining, unsullied by any coarse allusions of what¬ 
 ever nature, possessing a fund of anecdote and wit and 
 well informed on current topics, though not given to mere 
 book lore. In dress and habits quiet, neat and orderly and 
 always the gentleman. Some speak of him as having been 
 fine looking—I think he was. 
 
 His daughter, Mrs. Hale, adds that her father “carried 
 the domestic habits of his early training through life, and 
 always, when upon arising and building the fire, put every- 
 
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 thing in readiness for getting the breakfast, (his older sons, 
 Moses and Albern, performed these offices while fliev re¬ 
 mained at home.) He was ever a kind and devoted hus¬ 
 band, and during her mother’s long illness was tender, 
 and watchfnl as any mother of her child, and never, when 
 entering the house from business or labor, paused till with¬ 
 in the sick room and had taken a seat near her. A kind 
 and indulgent parent always anxious for the welfare and 
 happiness of his family, and a genial neighbor and friend 
 to all in need.” 
 
 It is not claimed that the subject of this sketch was with¬ 
 out a fault, but the same grave covers both them and his 
 mortal frame. .1. k. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 C. MASON KINNE. 
 
 The Grand Army of the Republic, based on the best 
 ideas of this nation, viz : the tender memories of the pat¬ 
 riot dead, a bond of union of honorably discharged soldiers 
 of the Union, and on the high purpose to preserve and per¬ 
 petuate the honor and glory of our country soundly saved 
 from domestic discord, civil anarchy and ruin at the hands 
 of its disloyal citizens, is broad enough to unite and enroll 
 in its membership more than a hundred thousand of the pat¬ 
 riotic defenders of the country. 
 
 Gen. Grant, President Garfield and a host of command¬ 
 ing generals are members of the organization. The whole 
 country is reached by its influence. Its Departments and its 
 Posts cover the largest and best area of the country. In 
 
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 flic California Department alone there are seventeen Posts. 
 The Commander of this Department is Col. C. Mason Kin- 
 ne, elected to the position in 1880 and re-elected in 1881. 
 He was a member of the first Post established on-the Cali¬ 
 fornia coast. His early history has been briefly given in 
 the body of this work. His courage and patriotism are 
 preserved in the country’s records and the hearts . of his 
 comrades in arms. But in the citizen walks of life his tal¬ 
 ent and his tact find ample field for development and useful 
 exercise. Active and energetic in the pursuit of a respon¬ 
 sible and lucrative calling, he still finds time to gratify an 
 unconquerable thirst for investigation of scientific subjects. 
 He is now the President of the San Francisco Microscop¬ 
 ical Society, and as a member of that society his investiga¬ 
 tions in the past years have, through the society, found easy 
 access to the columns of the papers and ready acceptance 
 with men of even riper years and experience, and show a 
 very careful and accurate observation of the minute and the 
 beautiful of creation. He loves to lift the veil and peer 
 into the hidden treasures that refuse revelation to all but 
 the eager and appreciative. He has exploded the long ac¬ 
 cepted theory that the fly walks the ceiling by atmospheric 
 pressure, and some of the school books that contained this 
 theory have had it expunged therefrom. 
 
 He is the designer of a Beautiful and imposing monu¬ 
 ment erected in the Soldiers’ Cemetery of San Francisco at 
 a cost of $20,000. It stands on a base on which is inscribed, 
 
 “ To the Memory of California’s Patriotic Dead, Who 
 Served During the War for the Union. 
 
 ‘ Mustered Out.’ ” 
 
 The monument itself, is a cannon in a vertical position, 
 mouth upward, holding a cannon ball bearing an eagle with 
 spread pinions and looking skyward. Beside the monument 
 
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 stands the goddess, Patriotism, with one arm resting on its 
 pedestal and one foot on its hasal ledge, her whole figure 
 embowered with floral wreaths. 
 
 At the erection of this monument in 1872, very interest¬ 
 ing ceremonies were witnessed. Among the speakers on 
 that occasion was Col. C. M. Kinne. His address was so 
 full of history of the war from 1863 to the surrender in 
 1865, so graphically drawn, so replete with patriotic senti¬ 
 ments that it deserves a permanent place, but its length and 
 the purposes of this record forbid its insertion herein. Its 
 closing paragraphs must suffice : 
 
 “We can show our appreciation of the devotion of those 
 who freely gave their lives for the land they loved, by a 
 hatred of disloyalty and its adherents everywhere. It is well 
 to forgive the traitor his sins; give him the rights of citi¬ 
 zenship ; let general amnesty be his; permit him to aspire 
 
 to the highest positions of honor and trust, but there- 
 
 stop. Remember that ‘ eternal vigilance is the price of lib¬ 
 erty,’ and that having been weighed in the balance and 
 found wanting, we must allow more than a decade to elapse 
 before we give him the power to betray us again. 
 
 “ It may do for some to prate of our brave but misguided 
 Southern brethren, and claim the courage with which 
 they fought as adding to the valor of a great nation; but 
 there the meagre sentiment ends, and when they ask us to 
 forget traitorous deeds and shake hands over the graves of 
 our loyal martyrs, they ask too much. 
 
 “ Sentiment may do for to-day, but to-morrow—and to¬ 
 morrow, and until this Memorial Day comes again and 
 again, we are ‘ on guard ’ with fixed bayonets, and without 
 the staunch old countersign ‘ Loyalty,’ none shall pass. 
 
 “There are those who would ‘sink the soldier and for¬ 
 get the very word,’ but from the heart of a just and grate- 
 
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 ful people swells the mighty surge of recollection, bearing 
 on its crest the memory of the days when defeat followed 
 defeat until our very existence as a nation was jeopardized, 
 and sympathizers with the Rebellion sent word to our boys 
 to come borne, allow the Union to be broken and ‘ let our 
 wayward sisters go in peace.’ They may remember that 
 the loyal sons of the North sent back quite another answer 
 —sent up another shout: 4 We are coming, we are coming, 
 three hundred thousand more! ’ giving our army a new and 
 mighty impulse. Thinking bayonets decreed that the na¬ 
 tion was not to die, and swelled the thinned ranks of our 
 battered armies. Then Sheridan rode down from Winches¬ 
 ter and sent the braggart Early, whirling up the valley. 
 Thomas hurled Hood and his legions from the heights about 
 Nashville. Sherman hewed a pathway forty miles wide, 
 from Atlanta to the sea; and Grant, the master mind, con¬ 
 trolling all, though ten thousand shells burst beneath his 
 feet, and a tempest of bullets whistled around his head, 
 never loosed his grasp on Lee’s throat till the final sur¬ 
 render under the old apple tree at Appomattox. 
 
 “ There are those who would take into full fellowship the 
 traitor; but memory brings up before us a peaceful, pros¬ 
 perous people plunged into a fratricidal war, that a slave 
 oligarchy might dictate to the world from the throne of 
 King Cotton. But we realize the fact, that the public 
 faith and credit will not be maintained by trusting, now, 
 those who did all they could, then, to destroy it, and who 
 covertly advocated repudiation, or the assumption of their 
 own hell-begotten debts. That the services of the Union 
 soldiers and sailors will not be remembered or honorably 
 requited if we school ourselves to regard the Rebel as their 
 peer. That the rights of four millions of citizens will not 
 lie guaranteed if their traitor masters, who fought to bind 
 
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 firmer their bonds, are regarded as worthy of utter forgive¬ 
 ness and national confidence.” 
 
 In youth and manhood, in war and in peace, C. M. Kinne 
 has sustained a worthy record. 
 
 WESLEY BAILEY. 
 
 Wesley Bailey, by marriage with the eldest daughter of 
 Prentice Kinne, became identified with the Kinne family 
 in 1833. The family record, now under the eye of the 
 writer, relates: that on the 14th day of August, in that 
 year, Wesley Bailey, son of Elder Elijah Bailey, was united 
 to Eunice Kinne, daughter of Prentice Kinne, by Elder 
 Allen, of the Baptist Church in Syracuse, and that the event 
 occurred in Manlius, since DeWitt, in the county of Onon¬ 
 daga. 
 
 Wesley Bailey, born in Readsville, Vermont, in 1808, 
 had come to DeWitt, the home of the Kinnes, in the years 
 previous, as a teacher of the district school. To the school, 
 with her taller and well grown brothers, came Eunice, their 
 eldest sister, and after their mother's death, their chief de¬ 
 pendence in the home circle. The new teacher was light¬ 
 hearted and companionable, and easily established good re¬ 
 lations with those under his charge. For some of them it 
 was afterwards much easier to understand how he had gained 
 their regard, than to understand how he had won the affec¬ 
 tion of their elder and sedate sister. He was sanguine; she 
 was sober, earnest—not too prone to look on the brightest 
 side. IIow much of the earnestness, sincerity and conscien¬ 
 tiousness afterwards exhibited as a part of bis character, 
 was due to the companionship which began in the year of 
 their marriage, cannot be computed; but that the union 
 was a happy, and in all respects a fortunate one, cannot be 
 
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 doubted. Such qualifications as he needed for the ministry, 
 in which his father was a figure of some note, he completed 
 soon after his marriage. 
 
 In 1838 he was a Reformed Methodist preacher in South 
 Cortland, Cortland Co., and the editor of a religious journal 
 with the old-fashioned title of The South Cortland Lumi¬ 
 nary '. When, two years later, he went to Fayetteville, On¬ 
 ondaga Co., he removed his publication office and conducted 
 his paper there during his residence in that village, and his 
 ministry at the neighboring point known as the High Bridge. 
 
 The editor, from conviction and study, became an Abol¬ 
 itionist lief ore he came to Fayetteville, and he gave no lit¬ 
 tle attention in his columns to the discussion of the iniquity 
 of human slavery. He was at his desk when a messenger 
 came from the then young city of Utica, representing that 
 great .man, Alvan Stewart, requesting Mr. Bailey’s removal 
 to Utica, and his assumption of the duty of conducting the 
 Abolition journal, which had recently been mobbed for its 
 earnest utterances. The eminent Abolitionist had read but 
 two of the issues of the Fayetteville journal, but had been 
 impressed with the pointed, happy and effective way in 
 which Mr. Bailey put forth his views on the subject near to 
 Mr. Stewart’s heart. There was the earnestness of Garri¬ 
 son, but a tact of which he was incapable. There was the 
 sincerity of Goodell and Beriah Green, but it came to the 
 eye and sense of the reader with an attractive side. 
 
 “ That is the man we want,” said the able Abolitionist, 
 lawyer and orator. “ Go and bring him to Utica.” The 
 messenger was successful, and in the fall of 1842 Mr. Bai¬ 
 ley, with much encouragement, but with no assistance be¬ 
 yond the good will of his Abolition friends, began the pub¬ 
 lication of an anti-slavery journal in Utica,— The Liberty 
 - Tress , successor to I'he Friend of Man. Hot to be mobbed ; 
 
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 not to make enemies. For it belonged neither to his ex¬ 
 perience nor to his nature to make enemies by his always 
 good-humored, but effective way, of offering his opinions to 
 the public. 
 
 Until the close of 1848, he continued his labors as an 
 Abolitionist, and then,foreseeing in the awakened conscience 
 of the country, the doom of slavery, and led to take note 
 of the evils of intemperance, he changed the name of his 
 paper from The Liberty Press to The, Uticcc Teetotaller. 
 He continued these journals until he was elected State’s 
 Prison Inspector by the Republican party in 1856, when 
 he resigned its management to his second son, in order that 
 he might conscientiously give his whole time to the State 
 which, by a commanding vote, had asked his services. For 
 three years, inspired with the best wish to help the unfort¬ 
 unate and the erring, he served the State of New York, and 
 at the close of his service lie removed to Iowa with his 
 wife and two younger sons ; starting a paper in the enter¬ 
 prising city of Decorah, only to relinquish its labors as these 
 two sons came to his relief and assumed the duties his (dicer- > 
 ful spirit was none too ready to relinquish. 
 
 Eunice Kinne Bailey, his faithful and devoted wife, died 
 in Decorah in April, 1869, after a long illness, from par¬ 
 alysis. 
 
 Wesley and Eunice Kinne Bailey had six children. Of 
 these, three survive at the present writing. The eldest is 
 E. Prentice Bailey, born Aug. 15th, 1834, in the town of 
 Manlius. At the age of nineteen he entered the office of 
 the Utica Daily Observer , with which journal he has re¬ 
 mained connected for more than a quarter of a century. In 
 1867 lie became one of its owners, and from that date until 
 the present he has held a place among the journalists of the 
 State which need not here be estimated. 
 
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 The second son, Ansel Kinne Bailey, was born in Erie Co., 
 N. Y., Nov. 18th, 1835. With some rare qualifications for 
 his future work, he succeeded his father as the editor of The 
 Teetotaller in 1857, and accompanied him to Iowa in 1860, 
 where the father and son started the Decorah Republican , 
 which is now published hy Ansel Iv. Bailey and Brother, 
 the junior being Alvan Stewart Bailey, born in 1847, and 
 named in honor of his father’s early friend, before men¬ 
 tioned. 
 
 Wesley Bailey, leaving to these two sons a task to which 
 they were fully adequate, retired from active business sev¬ 
 eral years ago, but at the date this is written is in the en¬ 
 joyment of good health and a happy old age. Honored, 
 not alone by his kindred, but by all who know of his labors 
 for the Master, and humanity. 
 
 E. P. \i. 
 

 INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Introduction . 3 
 
 New England and New Englanders . 7 
 
 The Military Tract. 24 
 
 Genealogical Record . 29 
 
 History of Cyrus Kinne . 31 
 
 Family of Prentice Kinne . 37 
 
 “ Julius C. Kinne . 43 
 
 Emerson Kinne . 45 
 
 Family of Eunice Kinne . 48 
 
 “ Mason P. Kinne . 51 
 
 “ Elbridge Kinne . 53 
 
 “ N. Hildreth Kinne . 55 
 
 “ Emily Kinne . 56 
 
 “ Salome Kinne . 57 
 
 Atlas Kinne . 59 
 
 Family of Ansel E. Kinne . 60 
 
 George N. Kinne . 62 
 
62 
 
 Family of Ezra Kinne. 
 
 “ Zachariah Kinne. 
 
 “ Ethel Kinne. 
 
 “■ Zebulon Kinne. 
 
 “ Moses Kinne. 
 
 “ Joshua Kinne. 
 
 “ Cyrus Kinne, jr. 
 
 Japheth Kinne. 
 
 “ Palmer Kinne. 
 
 Rachel Kinne. 
 
 “ Comfort Kinne. 
 
 Reminiscences of Moses Kinne, by his grandaugliter, 
 
 Julia Kinne.. 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 C. Mason Kinne. 
 
 Wesley Bailey, by his son, E. P. Bailey. 
 
 70 
 
 71 
 
 75 
 
 76 
 
 77 
 
 78 
 
 79 
 
 80 
 
 87 
 
 87 
 
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 ERRATA. 
 
 In the 5th line from the bottom of page 78, for “Zechariah ” read 
 Cyrus. 
 
 At the close of page 44 insert the following:—“Helen M, only 
 daughter of Julius C. Kinne, was married Feb. 3, 1857, to Dr. O. C. 
 Williams of Mich.” 
 
 In 20th line, on page 52, at the period insert “ having married 
 Lizzie K. D’Arcy of Boston, April 11, 1864,” 
 
 Page 56, fourth line from bottom, read Julius for “Jules.” Page 
 70, first line, read sixth for “seventh.” 
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 Mrs Rachel W. Kinne, widow of Julius C. Kinne, died Dec. 12, 
 1881, at the residence of her son-in-law Dr. O. C. Williams, in 
 Muskegon, Michigan. 
 
 Col. Emerson Kinne died at his residence in DeWitt, Dec. 20th, 
 1881, in the 78th year of his age.