Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-14
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Germ, and = BEL end sTs I00 YS1TS Old owned
By Hiram Paul, Mortified, Summit %.
Another poWdsf-horn Was exhibited marked
with the name Of Edmund Richmond, 1856,
and ssalso, q When thls you see, remember
me-" He was in the camp at Ticondsrogn.
|, G. 3. Adams, Of Cleveland, exhibited
Bible 200 years old and more. A family
record is commenced III.
! 4 AlpaiF Of shears wers shown which were
bought at EsWburgh in 1879 or 1900 By VIM.
W. Williams.
Mrs. Peter Tbatehst sxhiblssa 4 cap made
long ago, BY Hannah Adams, when % years
Of age. 80 sa saaa ras.1
Also a piece Of q wedding dress which was
EoFn By Mrs. Thatehsr's grsat-grsat-grand-
mother. u
Also, pewter porringer from which Mrs.
T. vas fed when "a child, which was brought
from England BY the Adsnsos Of llassaehu-
setts, in 1880, together with plate which
was exhibited with It.
bullet was shown which was dug out Of
house in Cambridge which vas oeeapisda at
the time Of the battle Of Lexington by Ad-
ans, and was Completely riddled with bull
lets, a,-
r. a stock buckle was exhibited which was
taken of the neck Of q young British ofaesr
who was killed in that engagement and car
ried into the Adams house All these are
now IN the possession Of Mrs. Peter Thateh-
er. 1aa1 sil .saal.A III
A silver cup aSo years old was exhibited
by Mrs. James ". HerriclE, Of FWinsburgh.
A trenchsr brought 10 Euclid IN lso4, by
VIVA. II. Coleman, was shDRns us;fs
Another very intsrestingrelie was an anvil
With which Isaac BsaraslsyE thason Of Abra-
ham Beardsley, commenced the blacksmith
ing business in the town Of Hauti1gton, Fair
6eldcounty, GOpnectieut about thsysar 1850.
The anvil vas given By him. to his son Eli,
who removed to GsthaFinss, oTioga (nOW
Schuyler county, New. York. uesFly. 60 years
ago where he kept t iR service for nearly 40
years Hs gave 4 to his sonAmmou, who
removed to STOW, Summit county, Ohio, in
the year 1887. BE, during the present year,
gave it to his son, Irad L. BearisleE, Of Cleye-
Land in whose possession it now Is. The
bottom of the anvil is groged for forging
bayoaets and the grsat-grandIather Of the
present owner did good service with &c during
the Revolutionary war. 81 o.
There was carved English oak chest that
was brought over with the Pilgrims in the
Nay Flower. It is owned By Ms. Kellogg,
of the West Side, who received it from her
father, Mr. Hawkins Of ofVermoht. HsrsoeiYed
it from his grandmother, Mrs. Emerson
It is still in remarkable good state OF pres
erTatiOn, the elaborate carving on the front
side shining as brightly, perhaps, as when
it landed on Plymouth Rock
Among other curiOsities a John Brown pike
was exhibited as an article that ffttT years
hence would be curious relic. -
A sword and belt were exhibited which
weDe worn BY Maj Elisha Taylor ofelsvsland
in the war Of 1912, for the defence Of free
trade and sailors rights. IN ~
A table cover was shown IS years old
which was spun by Mrs.. Alger, Of Rock
port -
A jack knife, fork and spoon, al ia ons,
which was used in the Revolution, was ez-
hibited as was an old pair of shoe buckles BY
]. N. Kingsbury. as m a 81.
A erOckery cream pitcher, 400 years old
was exhibited by Mrs. Bell Fer8
E Humphrey Of Euclid, had an old mortar
and pestle, and Mrs. B. SmTth Of Cleveland,
an old bonnet.
The first edition of MoOre's Geography,
published in 1898, was exhibited.
A pair Of stays, 100 years old, were exhib-
tied. The exhibitor was invited to put them
on, but thought his slender waist would not
fill them.
A par Of tea-cups, sugar bowl and cream
er, which are 1o1 years old, were exhibited.
They are now the property Of the Wssson
family, Of Cleveland. oa--
Lyon Richards, Of Mayfeld, exhibited a
pairof vinegar eruets and spoons, 200 years
old; also portrait, of the same period.
A Berkshire paper was shown, which was
published in 1880, and a dilapidated History
Of the Revolution, which sold fox s55.
A letter from Capt Allen Gaylord was
shown with rank roll Of the men Of his
company in the War of 1879.
Samuel A. Dunnel, Of solon, exhibited a
number Of shoe lasts Of the period Of 100
yaars ago. Their styles and shapes would
hardly pass now &C.,
Henry Alger, of ROekpoEt, presented his
shoemaker's bench, thatwas made Of a board
that he hewed out forty-eight years ago,
when he first moved into the woods in Lock
port, and his shoemaker's clamps made at
the same time; and the -lap-stone he ham
mered the first piece Of leather on. after he
came into 0hiol BE also had twO-ouart
iron kettle, that he paid 81 so for. That was
the first iron ware they had when they be
gan to keep house, Except the half Of
broken tea-kettls.)
&. He also had tray-adz that was Used by
his grandfather, Matthew AIger, in Con
neoticut some ninety years ago, to make
trays to set milk in, and smooth out sap
troughs, &c. He also had an old non pitch
fork in coed repair, that was used b. his
grandfather nearly four score years ago. He
also presented for inspection 4 bsdspead,
made out Of a red broadeloth cloak that Ms.
Alger's mother used to wear, some seventy
years ago.
A commission was shown, given to Rev.
John Seward, Jr., as Captain Of the Riae
Brigade, 4th Division Of Ohio AIilftia, signed
by Jeremiah Monroe, 1890.
There may have been, and doubtless were
some relics upon the grounds which We did
not get, but the foregoing list comprises the
most that were there.
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