named in honor of Hull's victory over the English. He retains the patriotism of his childhood, born as he was upon the nation's birthday; he it is of whom Luther R. Marsh said, upon the occasion of the Re-union of Pompey's children, June 29th, 1871: "that he came from New York with one Hull Hill, who had since acted as though he owned the whole Hill. :

Mary Ann Hill was married to Dr. Rocius Morse, and lived in Elmira; died January 6th, 1870.

James L. Hill was the only child by his second wife; he married an only daughter of Hamilton Allen, of Pompey Valley, and now resides near Syracuse.

JOSIAH HOLBROOK.

Josiah Holbrook was one of the early settlers of Pompey. He was born in the year 1757, in Adams, Mass., and married Rachel Wright. They resided in Adams, where some of their children were born, till 1792, when they commenced their journey to Pompey. Mr. Holbrook had purchased of a soldier a wood-land farm in Pompey, which he had never seen. Equipped as pioneer settlers usually were, with all their household goods loaded upon a cart drawn by a yoke of oxen and a single horse for a leader, in 1792 they came to Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. Here they tarried with his sister till the spring of 1793, when in March they finished their pilgrimage to their future home located on Lot No. 53, the farm recently owned by Mr. Hubbard, east of Pompey Center. The family at that time consisted of Josiah Holbrook, his wife, father and mother and six childrenAbigal, Silas W., Patty, Frestus, Rachel and Electa. After they came to Pompey four more children were born unto them, who, in the order of their ages, were Adolphus, Josiah G., Amanda and Samuel. Adolphus was born in 1793, and is said to be the third white child born in Pompey. Few were then the conveniences of life, and many hardships were encountered. There were no roads or

bridges; by marked trees they came; they pounded their corn in a mortar or went to Whitestown, near Utica, to mill.

It is true that Surveyors, the pioneers of civilization, had come before them and marked the trees, but before the golden harvests could be reaped, the majestic forests must yield to days of constant toil. How many of our generation are fitted for the obstacles which they manfully met, and heroically overcome? About this time, over in Pompey Hollow came Ozias Burr, Samuel Draper and Mr. Lamb. David Green, too, came the same year and settled on what has since been called "Green's Corners." Soon after came Barak Holbrook and Luke Holbrook, who married Wm. Duguid's sisters. William Duguid, another of Pompey's pioneers, who is the ancestor of the Duguid family.

Notwithstanding the limited resources at command, Mr. Holbrook, in common with his town's people, early became interested in public improvements. He was one of the first subscribers to the Pompey Academy fund. As we look over the individual history of Pompey's pioneers, and note the personal sacrifices they made from their small and toilsome gains to the establishment of schools and churches and the interests of society, and make comparison with the present public spirit manifested, we may well pause and ask ourselves whether this is an age of progress in Pompey or of retrogression. Mr. Holbrook was a Christian, and attended the Presbyterian church.

Festus, at the

age

of

Only two of his children are living. eighty-six years, resides in Michigan, having raised a large family who are all dead. Josiah G. resides south of Cold Water, Michigan, and has a large family. These two sons left Pompey and went west in the spring of 1815. All of his children were married while living in Pompey. He died in November, 1831, at the age of seventy-five years, and he and his wife, his father, mother, two sons and three daughters, all lie beneath the green sod of the old hill town which they assisted to make rich with golden harvests.

Silas W. Holbrook, the eldest son of the pioneer Josiah,

married Thankful Skinner, whose father was also a Pompey pioneer, having settled on Lot No. 22, near Oran, in 1794. Their children were Silas L. Holbrook, Levi S. Holbrook, Aurelia Holbrook, Chapin M. Holbrook and Josiah E. Holbrook. Of these Silas L. married Nancy Hubbard, by whom he had three children, Henry L., B. Franklin and Dwight. They all live in Pompey.

Levi S. Holbrook married Fidelia Woodward, September 1, 1831; they have no children. He now resides in Syracuse, having left Pompey a few years ago. He has been honored by his fellow citizens with various public trusts. From 1853 to 1858 inclusive, he represented Pompey in the Board of Supervisors, and the latter year was a member of the State Legislature. From 1862 to 1869 he was a revenue officer of the general government.

Aurelia Holbrook married Samuel E. Tarbell, and they reside in Wisconsin.

Chapin M. Holbrook married Malinda Safford, and they and their only child live in Pompey.

Josiah E. Holbrook married Alcemena Smith, daughter of John Smith, a Pompey pioneer, and they reside in DeWitt, N. Y. They have no children.

Daniel W. Holbrook, another grandchild of the old pioneer, married Martha Porter, of Pompey, and moved to Michigan, where he died. His wife now resides in Syracuse, and her son, Levi, with her. Their only remaining son, Daniel, is a resident of California.

Adolphus Holbrook was twice married, and Josiah G. Holbrook, of Jamesville, N. Y., was one of his children by his first wife. By his second wife he had two children, Maria and Henry H., the son only being now living, making his home in Jamesville, N. Y. His widow lives in Pompey with Lucien Northrup, who was the husband of Maria, who died several years ago. Thus have we traced an imperfect record of another Pompey family, and the reason why we have not made mention of them all, is because our information is not sufficient to make any further record authentic.

JONAS HINMAN.

Jonas and Esther Hinman settled in Pompey in the year 1796 or 1797; he was one of the earliest pioneers of the wilderness of Onondaga County.

It is not necessary in this sketch, to give in detail, nor delineate particularly the hardships and sufferings of those times of which the surviving children and grand-children of those strong souls are conversant; therefore, I pass to the time when Mr. and Mrs. Hinman were two of nine persons who organized the first Baptist Church of Pompey, which, at a later period, moved to Manlius village.

Mr. Hinman's family consisted of twelve children, and while the youngest child was an infant, by trusting too implicitly in human nature, he lost his property, since known as the Hubbard farm. He transplanted the apple orchard, still standing-nearly three-fourths of a century ago, when his oldest children were so small that with difficulty they carried water in little bottles to water and keep alive the trees. At the time he met with his reverse fortune, he was past his prime in life, and broken in health; still, with his hopeful temperament and natural energy, he divided his family, and boldly entered on his second pilgrimage as pioneer in the wilds of Lysander.

When he had there completed his log-cabin, he removed his wife and the younger children to the new home, to share the privations attending a new settlement, with this difference between the first and the last-in the last instance he had eight children to suffer with him, instead of two.

Mr. Hinman was generous to a fault, and his benevolence, supported by a deep-seated sense of christian piety and honor, and a full trust in Providence, and his natural firmness, all working together on his active nervous brain, set the ball in motion which should abolish imprisonment for debt. He looked upon that law as oppressive, unjust and wicked. He was bondsman for the poor, unfortunate men, till at last he released a villain, St. John, who was not a

poor man, but secreted his property, and absconded; consequently Mr. Hinman was obliged to sell his farm to pay the bond, and beggared his family, for which they suffered, as only natural pride and a preponderance of inherited sensitiveness can be made to feel, where poverty was looked upon as low and degrading by those who were more fortunate in possessing material wealth.

I will say to the mothers of the present young generation. of Pompey's children-instruct your children that ignorance is far more degrading in every position or department in life to which they may be called, than honest poverty.

Nearly twenty years later Mr. and Mrs. Hinman returned to Pompey to die among their brethren; their married life was sixty-two years, and in death they were not long separated. Mrs. Hinman died aged seventy-eight; Mr. Hinman survived his wife but one year, aged eighty-six; they were buried in the cemetery at Manlius village.

The names of Mr. Hinman's children, and where located, are as follows: Mary W. Symonds, Watertown, N. Y.; Electa Drake, Yonkers, N. Y.; Sarah Clapp, dead; Hervey, dead; Betsey, dead; Hiram, dead; Horace, Lapeer City, Mich.; Lydia M. Wisner, Mahattan, Kansas; Charlotte N. Clement, Pompey, N. Y.; Heman, St. Catharines, Canada West; Samuel Hayden, unknown; Emily H. Robinson, New York City.

DANIEL KNAPP.

The subject of this notice was Daniel Knapp, who emigrated from Orange County, N. Y., to Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., about the year 1800; he located on a farm one mile north from Pompey Academy; his wife's maiden name was Christianna Phelps, with whom he settled on the above mentioned farm in 1803; they lived together on that farm till 1823, enduring the hardships and engaged in the active labor of pioneer life. During this period, six sons were born unto them. He died August 6th, 1823, and was