1833] Migration of J 'or 'dans and Haw leys 



During the journey from Arcadia to Warsaw, the 

 Jordans had fallen in with another migrating group 

 similarly bound, consisting of David Hawley, his 

 wife, Anne Waldo, and his three sons and three 

 daughters, who were moving from Whitehall (county 

 seat of Washington County) near Lake George. On 

 the way, Huldah, the eldest, became engaged to my 

 father, to whom she was married at Warsaw on 

 May 22, 1833. The young couple now bought an 

 attractive farm situated on the highway leading 

 from Gainesville to Warsaw, six miles away. Across The 

 the road was a magnificent forest of sugar maples, 

 the finest I ever saw, and along our side, in front of arm 

 the house, Father planted an avenue of the same 

 trees. The farm itself, comprising at first only 100 

 acres, afterward grew to 150 and finally to 225, thus 

 extending backward from the road for three quarters 

 of a mile. To the west and about the house the 

 ground, being "maple land," was very rich. Several 

 of the hills farther back, however, were originally 

 largely covered with hemlock trees, and where the 

 hemlock grows the soil is always light and poor. 



The hills that crossed the farm were, in fact, part 

 of a broad terminal moraine of a vanished continental 

 glacier, and to the north of the house rose a steep 

 ridge made up entirely of glacial debris. On the A glacial 

 farther side lay a small, deep glacial pond, full in pond 

 the winter but going almost dry in summer. This 

 we stocked with catfish Ameiurus melas locally 

 known as "bullheads" (in New England "horned 

 pout") brought from Silver Lake, a much larger 

 glacial relic eight miles to the northeast. On the 

 little tarn with its eager and toothsome fishes, I had 

 my first lessons in angling and in swimming as 



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