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l "in Oneida County, Hal. ’ .;3 -'. _'. with family of seveA:::> _ , liviteahi1.c-C, Fre' F of wk at two hundred miles _ l, ,with a family T _ i, .' L =,1 ._" itry without either ' E , railroads cr_r 7 .‘.: l.' _';'::: must have been a i.‘ laborious task» _ _ S. _ _ _ H333, _., J 1'rcici. for a few years before going to ., , . Canada i.n 1799. T:hi' piece is nearly south of the town of _ f _ Oneida and about ter 11103 away from 5*;ckbridge Hill. , V During his adjourn Jr re, his, daughter Anna was married to mr. ; John Warren of ”f? x l' 3“"“*:idge, which is about six [, miles south of Onei' ' '-r-., ,li nontinued to reside until '" she died in 1832. T f The farm upon which she spent her married life is , situated upon a hill about 800 feet above the land at Oneida, ,' From this place, the country is plainly visible for thirty . miles to the north and fifty miles to the east including a good many villages and towns. , _ _ , The vegetation at this farm or on this elevation is two weeks later in coming oat in the spring of the year than it is on the level of the country lying north of.' it. Here John F Warren raised a family of five sons and four daughters. One , of the sons died in early manhood. The other four sons all lived to a good old age and all were useful members of the churh and in the community. Three of them, viz. Hinman, Aaron, , and John were members of! the Baptist Church and John became a minister in that church and laboured as such for many years. His fields of labor were in the Western States. Abner, the V other son'of John Warren was a prominent member of the Methodist Church and a liberal supporter,, At the time I was there, he and his son Lealdus gave $100.00 between them annually to support the gospel in that place although they e..' only had 150 acres of land between them. Knoxville was their _ place of meeting which was in the valley 800 feet below them. ' Mr--Orris Warren, @bner Warren's other son, was _ quite a prominent man. He became a minister of the Methodist Church, was a graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio, and for a number of years filled the office of Editor of the Northern Christian Advocate which is a new paper published by the j Methodist COnference at Auburn, N.Y- Hepbecame a D.D. He married a beautiful young lady of Oberlin, Ohio, in 1860, who _ unfortunately lost<her health in a few years after his ' marriage and was an invalid from that time to the present. I . saw her at Stockbridge soon after her marriage but this was not her home.and I never saw her again although I visited Stock- bridge several times since then. _ The rest of Moses Hinman's family, including Mr. a Bz_eiptuae11, his 'yurrin-law, came with him to Canada in the fall / of the year 1799. At this time, the Government of Canada was _ offering a free grant of land, to heads of families who came in to live here,which was probably the cause of his coming then. His family that came with him to Canada consisted of five daughters, viz. Mary (Briptnel1), Eallah (Winters), Elizabeth.(Wyatt), Tydia (Bissell) and Esther(Lind), and three sons, viz Moses, Aaron, and Truman. One son, Cyrus, ' , was bornxthem in Canada who died in early life. I visited the place that Moses Hinman moved from f ' to Canada in company with Abner Warren when I was there and I was greatly pleased to see it. . Their new home in Canada was about 215 miles from T Pompey Hollow where they lived. The route lay from that place " to Oneida lake by wagon, 16 miles, (this lake is in sight from .r V Abner's old residence) then by row boats over the lake Westerly about fifty miles, and then down the river to Oswego and by sailing vesSel over Take Ontario to Colborne. _ _ . There was no regular line of boats across the lake ', then, no steamboats, and_not much accomodation for landing passengers at any place on the north side of the lake, in this _ part of the country which was generally done.by small boats from the.vessel to the shore.