Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-08-24

trOuuen DY SuoW-shoes as U Ucar up tne
children. Esq Taylor, who with his
wife and two small children, who moved
on with me, had gone on the day before.
We were the first families in Wocott; in
Hyde Park there had two families win
tered the year before. To the east of us
it was eighteen miles to inhabitants, and
and no road but marked trees to the south
about 20, where there was infant settle
ments, but no communication with US
and to the north, it was almost indefinite
or to the regions of Canada. ""
81 had now got to the end Of my
journey, and | may say almost to the end
of my property, for had not a mouthful
of meat or kernel of grain for my fami-
ly, nor had | cent of money to buy
with, or property that l could apply to
that purpose. | however had the good
luck to catch saple. The skin carried
fifty miles, and exchanged for half bush
el of wheat, and backed it home We
had now lived three weeks without bread,
though in the time had bought moose
of an Indian, which paid for by selling
the shirt off my back, and backed the
meat five miles, which answered to SUBJ
sist upon. | would here remark that it
was my fate to move on my family at that
memorable time called the scarce season,
which was generally felt through the
state, especially in the northern parts in
the infant settlements; no grain or pro-
vision of any kind, of consequence, was
to be had on the river Lamoile. had
to 60 into New Hampshire, sixty miles,
for the little had for my family, till
harvest. and this was so scanty pittance
that we were under the painful necessity
of allowancing the children till we had
a supply. The three remaining children
that left>in Hyde Park, brought one
at time on my back on snow.shoes as
also the whole Of my goods. ..
l moved from Connecticut with the ex-
pectation of having fifty acres of land
given me when / came on, but this was
: disappointed of, and was under the nee
essity soon after | came on of selling a
yoke of oxen and horse to buy the land
now live on, which reduced my stock to
but one COW; and this had the misfor.
! tune to lose the next winter. That left
me wholly destitute of single hoof of a
creature: of course the second summer
had to support my family without cow
! would here notice that spent the SUN.
t mer before | moved, in Wolcott, il
. making preparation for settlement, which
e however, was Of no avail to me, and
g lost the summer; and to forward my in
e tended preparation, | brought on yoke
of oxen, and left them, when returned
| in the fall with a man in Johnson, tt
D keep through the winter, on certain con.
, dtions but when | came on in the
t spring, one of them was dead, and this
, yoke of oxen that put off for my land
9 was made of the two surviving ones. But
{. to proceed. in the fall had the good for.
J. tune to purchase another COW but my
0 misfortuncs still continued, for in thu
: June following she was killed by sin
: gular accident. Again l was left with
l out COW, and here was again frustrat
q cd in my calculations this last COW lef
: a fine heifer calf that in the next fall
r lost by being choked. Soon after ar
{ rived, took two cows to double in foul
e years. | had one of my own besides
0 which died in calving In June follow
n ing, one Of those taken to double, wal
r killed while fighting; the other wal
b found dead in the yard; both of which
0 had to replace. In the same spring, ont
t Of my neighbor's oxen hooked a bull o
L two years old, which caused his deatl
e sson after. Here was left destitute
e 10 money to buy, or article to traffic fo
% one but there was door opened.
x was informed that merchant in Haver
n hill was buying snakc-root and sicily
l. This was a new kind of traffic that hat
0, no great faith in; but l thought to i'm
. prove every means or semblancv Of mean
K in my power. Accordingly, with th