Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York Embracing Some Acc
Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York Embracing Some Acc
O Orsamus Turner
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) The only interruption to the navigation to this river and the outlet, occurred at Seneca Falls and Waterloo, (then known as Scoys. ) At Seneca Falls we passed our boats up the stream empty, by the strength of a double crew, our loading being taken around by a man named Job Smith, who had a pair of oxen and a rudely constructed cart, the wheels of which were made by sawing off a section of a log, some two and a half or three feet in diameter. At Scoys, we took out about half our load to pass, ...consisting mostly of barrels, which were rolled around the rapids. From the time we left Fort Stanwix, until we arrived at Kana- dasaga, we found no white persons, except at the juncture of Canada and Wood creeks, where a man lived by the name of Armstrong; — at Three River Point, where lived a Mr. Bingham, and at Seneca Falls, where was Job Smith. Geneva was at that time the most important Western settlement, and consisted of some six or seven families, among whom was Col. Reed, (father of the late Rufus Reed, of Erie, Pa.
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