ONONDAGA;

OR

REMINISCENCES

OF

EARLIER AND LATER TIMES;

BEING A SERIES OF HISTORICAL SKETCHES RELATIVE TO ONONDAGA; WITH
NOTES ON THE SEVERAL TOWNS IN THE COUNTY,

AND

OSWEGO.

BY JOSHUA V. H. CLARK, A. M.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SYRACUSE:

STODDARD AND BABCOCK.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
FEB 17 1961

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
JOSHUA V. H. CLARK, A. M.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Northern District of New-York.

STEREOTYPED BY

BAKER & TIERNAN,

SYRACUSE, N. Y.

CONTENTS, VOL. II.

CHAPTER XII.

ONONDAGA SALT SPRINGS.

Owned by Su

First Laws in

When First Visited by the French. Salt made by the Indians.

William Johnson. First Manufacturers. Federal Company.

respect to Salt Springs, passed 1797. First Superintendent. Powers and Du-

ties of Superintendent and Lessees. Rules observed in Making and Packing

Salt. Coarse Salt. Progress of Manufacture. Borings. Table of Statistics.

List of Superintendents and Inspectors. Modes of Manufacture. Onondaga

Lake. Formation of the Onondaga Valley. Illustrations. Dr. William Kirk-

patrick.

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CHAPTER XIII.

ERIE CANAL.

Biographical Sketch of Hon. James Geddes. Origin of Internal Improvements.

Inland Lock Navigation Company. Erie Canal. Hydraulic Cement

CHAPTER XIV.

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SYRACUSE.

Biographical Sketch of Hon. Joshua Forman. The City of Syracuse. Its Rise

and Progress.

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CHAPTER XV.

NOTES ON THE SEVERAL TOWNS OF ONONDAGA COUNTY.

ONONDAGA. Asa Danforth, Esq. Thaddeus M. Wood, Esq. Jasper Hopper,