Souvenir of Black Lake
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Excerpt from Souvenir of Black Lake: A Story of the Past and Present In 1792 Alexander Macomb purchased of the State of New York all of the town of Rossie and several hundred thousand acres more for 8 pence an acre. He failed to secure a title. In 1796 the State bought the land of the Mohawk Indians. Two years later it was offered for sale at Albany and bid in by individuals, the principal buyer being Alexander Macomb. He sold a large tract to David Ogden, and he in turn sold a part of it to his brother-in-law Abijah Hannnond, a merchant prince of New York City. Without seeing the land Hammond sold 28,871 acres to David Parish. It was known that Black Lake extended from the settlement near Ogdensburg to the boundary of Mr. Parish´s possessions. According to tradition, on one of the expeditions the party camped on an island, calling it Tavern Island, the name it still bears today. Early in the Spring of 1810 Mr. Parish sent D. W. Church to the head of Black Lake to locate a water power. He found one on Indian River. That Summer, with the necessary assistants and building materials, he boarded a Canadian bateau, landing about sunset at what is now the village of Rossie. The next day the first house was built. For sixty years thereafter the Parish family, father and sons, spent their money freely for the development of this section. The last one of the family to reside - here a nephew of David Parish - was given the title of Baron von Seftonberg by Austria, and at once removed to that country. The town of Rossie was named by Mr. Parish after a castle in Scotland owned by his brother-in-law. In 1812 iron ore was discovered and a furnace was constructed to smelt the ores. For years all of the ore mined was hauled to Rossie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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