Anna Sweet, born in Milton, Saratoga county, a twin with Anson, was married to Hon. Nathan Williams, March 14, 1805. Her husband was a merchant and had a store on the Four Corners, north of the old homestead, opposite of Charles' Hotel. She died Aug. 22, 1807, leaving two children, Luna, who married John R. Wright, and Miphry, who died young.

Pamelia Sweet, born in Saratoga Co., married Jost C. Finck, a lineal descendant of General Andrew Finck, of revolutionary fame, and of German origin, in 1808. He was the lawyer of the family; removed to Johnstown, Montgomery county, then back to Pompey, then on a farm which his father-in-law gave him in Camillus, on No. 10, where he remained till 1832, then to Cato, then to Weedsport, then to Allegany county, where she died January 18, 1839. Her children were Mariah, who married Asoph Kinne, Anna, who married Orlando Galt, Jacintha, who married Lewis P. Roode, Edmund A., Amelia, who married Rev. A. J. Crandall, Eliza, who married Rev. Walter Hare, Lucy, who married B. Brooks Joslin and Hulbert. Amelia resides at Cazenovia, all the remainder are west.

Kneeland Sweet was born in Pompey February 5, 1794, we think the oldest person born in town, at this writing.

He received the best education attainable in that day, being sent by his father to Johnstown Academy for the polish. In 1820 he came in possession of the Old Homestead, about 300 acres of land, and heavily stocked with horses, sheep and cattle, and implements of every kind, the most complete in town.

He married Julia Ann Kennedy, of Marcellus, in 1819; they removed to Manlius about 1833, and to Mason, Mich., 1842, previous to the war he removed to Granby, Mo., where Mrs. Sweet died 1866. Their children were Warren G., a farmer at Granby, Mo., Loren, a farmer and merchant at Mason, Mich., J. Frances, who married the Hon. James A. Chase and resides at Buffalo, William G., a

farmer at Mason, Mich., Isabel, who maried the Hon. Jerome B. Fitzgerald, Edgar B. and Andalusia, who died young, and Frederick K., the youngest grand-child of Timothy, a Druggist at Lockport, N. Y. Kneeland resides with his daughter Isabel at Niles, Mich.

Horace Sweet, born in Pompey April 1, 1796, was never calculated for anything but a farmer, it was his glory, his pride and the height of his ambition to be called a "good farmer." His earley education was on the farm, and that continually, it being thought worse than useless to expend time and money on any one who expected to be a farmer. He lived in the expectation of having the "Old Homestead" all his early life, and by diligence and industry fitted himself for the responsible situation. In 1817 he married Candace Avery, and for two years managed the farm. In 1819 his father gave him a small farm where Hiram Clement now resides. In 1823 he removed to the farm two and one-half miles north of the Hill, where he added to his acres and his family in about equal proportion.

His experiments in farming were continual and always too extensive, for when a failure, the loss was too great He tried all sorts of grain and all kinds of implements. He purchased the second cast-iron plow in town, and used the first. He had the first threshing machine, the second horserake, the second mowing machine, the first drill, the first roller, the first sub-soil plow, one of the first of the Michigan sub-soil plows, and among the minor implements, was ever ready to try for a better one.

In the cultivation of his farm he always desired to be in advance. He purchased stone for the front fence in 1834 at quite a cost, and had drains in every low place as early as 1840. He always wanted to "plow deep" and in many of the fields every stone that the plow hit in the bottom of the furrow was taken out. Foul stuff was his abomination, and many a day was spent in pulling charlick and daisies with corresponding backache. He always wanted to do things so much better than was absolutely necessary, that he

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needed a fortune to back him. As we said at the commencement his ambition was to be called a "good farmer.' This distinction he achieved "if he did not make a cent."

His back was injured by a fall about four years previous to his death, and he suffered long, but finally like a shook of corn cut by an early frost, he departed August 4, 1858 aged 62. His children are Clarence H., mechanic, who resides at Knowlesville, Anson A., mechanic, Syracuse, Homer D. L., Genius of the "Claud Melnot school," resides at Syracuse, Wheaton B., the only representative of the fifty grand-children of Timothy remaining in town, William A., mechanical engineer at Syracuse, John E., Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, Helen L., who died 1842, and Anna E., widow of Charles C. Bates, resides at Syracuse.

JOHN TODD.

John Todd was one of the early settlers of Pompey, and owned and occupied the farm now occupied by M. R. Dyer. He and his wife will be remembered as good, honest christian people-members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Todd was decidedly opposed to instrumental music in church, and when Mr. John Talbert assisted the choir with his bass viol, she left the church, for she said, "having introduced fiddling in church, the next thing would be dancing.”

Mr. Todd died about the year 1830, and Mrs. Todd lived several years thereafter-a member of the family of the late Pitt Dyer. They left no children.

SAMUEL TALBOT.

Samuel Talbot, one of the early pioneers and settlers of the old township of Pompey, was born in the town of Stoughton, Mass., August 15, 1778. Young Talbot when about twenty years of age, started with his wife, together with the families of Asa Drake, and Holmes to seek heir fortunes in (what was then considered) the far west,

amidst the wilds and uncultivated regions of "York State." Their means for transporting their families and household goods were very primitive and simple, yet their perseverance and courage overcame the many perplexing annoyances they met with on their journey. Their course was pursued through the unbroken country and forests, fording streams and rivers, frequently being delayed in making rafts upon which the latter were crossed. Their furniture and provisions were drawn by two yokes of oxen, hitched to each sled. On arriving at the Hudson near the city of Albany, they crossed upon the ice. Here it was found necessary to make a halt long enough to put new wooden shoes upon two of the sleds which had completely worn off; the third sled proved equal to the task, and did not receive any repairs until they arrived at Pompey. Talbot settled in the north-west part of the town, where he remained about ten years; he then removed to Cleveland Mills, Steuben county. The house he occupied in that place caught fire and was consumed together with nearly all its furniture. He then removed to the Cohocton River, one and a half miles from Liberty Corners, and purchased a farm of 108 acres, exchanged that land with one Sexton, of Poultney, but the title of the property proving spurious, he lost everything he paid on it, and was left with only a few articles of household goods,besides a pair of young cattle, with which he removed back to Pompey and worked the Grimes' farm upon shares for two years. He then purchased a small farm of fifty acres, paying for it from a dowry his wife received from her father. The same farm is now occupied and owned by his only living daughter, Mrs. Morse. He died with small-pox in 1859, aged eighty-one years; his wife also died from the same disease the same year, being one or two years his senior.

Mr. Talbot was a descendant of the Talbots of Straffordshire, England, whose history, both civil and military, are well known to many historical readers of the present day. The first American Talbot was impressed upon a British

man-of-war vessel, while bathing with other boys of about his own age on the English coast. His name was Peter, son of the Earl of Shrewsbury. IIe escaped from the vessel in 1662, and swam to the Rhode Island shore. From thence he proceeded to Stoughton, Mass. He left a son George, who left Peter, who was father of the subject of this sketch. Samuel, not unlike his progenitors, was six feet and five inches in height, large bony frame, muscular and was possessed of an enduring constitution. There are many incidents told of his remarkable strength and endurance, among the number we will relate the following: Talbot had acquired considerable skill in the use of carpenter's tools, and in those days he was often called upon to assist the early settlers in building their cabins and houses. He had occasion to work at house building in Ohio, soon after the Erie canal was opened for business; on his return from that State in the fall, he came from Buffalo in a boat, landing at Syracuse with his large tool chest which was left upon the bank of the canal, while he sought for some means to transport it to Pompey Hill. He could find no farmer or neighbor of his in town, and it being Saturday in the afternoon, he concluded to carry it upon his back, which he did by the aid of straps and cords, arriving at his home about midnight. He did not remove the chest from his back until he arrived home, only stopping occasionally and resting by leaning the chest upon a stump or by the side of a tree on the route through the forests. As a wood-chopper he had but few equals in this section of the State. An incident is frequently told by residents of Pompey, who are now living and cán vouch for the facts.

Talbot's wife wanted a pair of andirons or "fire dogs" for their huge fire place, which were already decorated with "cranes" and "hooks," but not complete without the articles above mentioned. Young Talbot with his axe upon his shoulder started for Mickles' Furnace, which was located about two miles south of Syracuse, near the junction of the two roads leading from Onondaga Hill and Onondaga Hol