Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-03-08
SOUTH NEW LYME


muddy roads. 1t is now clsimed ty our
sugar makers, that we are having fine
run of sap which is being well improved if
we are to judge from the curling smoke is
suing from the numerous sugar bushes.
We think there is more thaa usual en-
gagged in that business this season.
The contract for the stone masonry of
the new school houss is let and the par
tiss are there at work in full force. The
old orchard on the site is fast disappear
ing root and branch. This must have
been one of the oldest orchards in New
Lyme. Thus we see the old times land
marks giving way to make room for new
and popular Improvements. The joiner
work for the school house as well as for
the house of Ralph Formsn are nearly
completed. The Irons place in Dodge
vile was sold this week to a Mr.. Warren
from Bloomfield. 1t will undergo COM
plste repairs when the purchaser will be-
come permanent occupant. NJ. 81. Will
son is building new building to be used
as a saddle and harness shop. 1t is to Oc-
cupy the spare room between his store and
that of P. G. Hydss. Mr.. Wilson has
now been engaged in the harness making
business for the last % years, and for
number of years has run large store en-
tlrely on the cash system, which has proved
a complete success not only to himself but
to those who are so fortunate as to have
the money to pay him for goods. Mr.. Will
son has Just racslvsd large shipment of
q. S. Muskets which cost Uncle Sam $14
a piece, which he is selling for even two
dollars. We should think they were worth
that for old iron. They are bright and
have no appearance of having ever been
used, and are said to be first class shooters.
If we we're to judge from the. pile OF silver
we saw in his store we should not believe
that he intended to ignore the dollar Of
our daddies. He is taking it at par. but
he seems quite anxious to exchange for
gresnbacks and it is easy to be seen that
he is not little troubled to know what he
is going to do with it all. Our merchants
are all receiving it at par. thus far, and
we have been so fortunate as to pile up %
cents of it which we would willingly ex-
change for grsenbacks at only trifing
discount. UNCLE TIM.
March 8, 1878.
SOUTH NEW LYME HISTORY.
Eds Tel:-Though we have failed to re-
ply, yet we have not failed to notice the
Trades that have gracsd your columns for
the last year and half from Mr.. S. G.
Peck, of Rome, aimed at the history of New
Lyme until the old settlers as well as their
immediate descendants have become dis
gusted, or would be if they considered him
worthy of their notice. We would not at
this time condescend to notice this most
uncallad for attack which is well known to
be aimed at the writer of that history,
rather than at the history itself, were il
not that he has asked the Historians who
are now engaged in writing up our county,
to ignore the statements of the first set
tiers of this township who have had the
statements taken from their own lips and
recorded by the historian, Joel Blakeslee
Esq. Mr.. B. was employed by thOm for
that express purpose after the burning Of
heir history which was written up by the
same historian and deposited among the
public archives at jefferson, after the
burning of that history. The pioneers Of
New Lyme, having called to their assist
ence the above named historian, collected
in groups at different times and different
places and there dictated to Mr.. Blakeslee
in accordance to their best recollections
the most prominent events relating to their
perilous journey and almost unparalleled
sufferings endured in making the first
settlements of this now beautiful, wealthy
and flourishing township. This history
as SO given was by the special request Of
the few remaining old settlers copied into
the history of New Lyme, the truthfulnsss
and correctness of which had been fully ap-
proved by them before published in book
form. We are just now assured by one
| WIZ WAS present. at lue LAhluS uOhu VI
those events that the very facts that are
now pronounced untruthful by the NAL
ignent pen of ysur Rome correspondent
were the very words taken from the lips
of Samuel G.. Peck ST. the highly honorsd
and respected sire of the writer alluded to,
whose remains calmly rests beside those Of
his departed and long suffering comrades.
Well it is for his waywasd son that he is not
a resident of this terrestrial globe We
have no fear that the Williams Bros. will
throw aside the oral and recorded testi-
mony of scores Of the first settlers of New
Lyme and institute in its place the state
ment of any one individual however high
his moral standing may be in community.
And now whatever Mr.. Peck may say in
reply to what We have written we shall
no longer follow him in his malicious feel
ing toward US. Conscious as we are that
in the history that we have written that
We are fully sustained by the mass if not
the entire population of New Lyme.
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