Historical Sketches of Western New York - The Seneca Indians, Phelps and Gorham Purchase, Mary Jemison, Jemima Wilkinson, Joseph Smith, Jr., And Mormonism, Morgan and Antimasonry, the Fox Sisters and Rochester Knockings #224227

Having given up business some years ago on account of ill health, and determining upon my recovery not again to take an active hand in the dizzy games that are played on the stock exchange and the board of trade, yet at the same time wishing, like my old friend, to keep my mind active, I determined to look into the early history of that section of the State where I was born and jot down such things as might be of interest to myself and possibly to others resident in the Genesee Country.