E-text prepared by Linda Cantoni and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ONEONTA by DUDLEY M. CAMPBELL. Oneonta, N.Y.: Herald and Democrat Press 1883 * * * * * HENRY SAUNDERS Bookseller AND Stationer, Oneonta, N.Y. _Miscellaneous, School and Blank Books, Family and Pocket Bibles, Photograph Albums, Scrap Books, Pocket Books, Gold Pens, &c._ FINE WALL PAPERS AND CEILING DECORATIONS ALWAYS ON HAND CHRISTMAS, VALENTINE, Cards NEW YEAR, EASTER, IN THEIR SEASON. Stationery and Stationery Articles of all Kinds. _GOOD GOODS! LOW PRICES!_ * * * * * MORRIS BROTHERS, WHOLESALE FLOUR GRAIN AND SEEDS. CHESTNUT STREET, ONEONTA, N.Y. * * * * * Mendel Brothers, MAIN STREET, Oneonta, N.Y. DRY GOODS, _Ready-Made Clothing_, FURNISHING GOODS, TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAGS, HATS, CAPS, OIL CLOTHS, CARPETS, Etc. _THE LONGEST ESTABLISHED MERCANTILE HOUSE IN TOWN._ * * * * * A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ONEONTA by DUDLEY M. CAMPBELL Preface. In the preparation of the following pages, I have not attempted to give a complete history of the town of Oneonta. My main object has been to put into a more preservative form some of the facts that have been derived from the recollection of the older inhabitants as well as from family papers, which, in the lapse of time, would be forgotten and lost to the public. This is not so much a history as it is a sketch of history, but it may be made a beginning of a more pretentious historical work. I have endeavored to make it trustworthy, and in my efforts in this direction, I have not relied upon any information pretended to be conveyed in the recently published large "History of Otsego County," which is better known as a voluminous compilation of gross inaccuracies in which are transmitted to future times the names of the good and bad, equally bespattered with praise. If the names of any of the older settlers have not received deserved mention, the omission is due to the fact that their representatives or those having information to give, have withheld or neglected to furnish facts which they alone could furnish. D.M.C. ONEONTA, _April, 1883_. _CHAPTER I._