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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



" ' Here's to niysel', co' a' to mysel'^ 

 Wi' a' my heart here's to me; 

 Here's to myseF co' a' to myseF^ 

 And muckle guid may it do me.' 



Andrew Smith, in 1798. removed to his farm, three 

 miles below Bath, where his grandson, Seneca S. Smith, 

 now resides. He had the following children : Charles A. 

 Smith (deceased) ; Maria, still living; John J. Smith, now 

 residing on a portion of the old homestead ; Andrew 

 (deceased) ; Nqjicy and Elizabeth, both living in the West. 

 His grandchildren, sons and daughters of Charles A. 

 Smith, are John L. Smith, Jane (Mrs. Hezekiah Decker), 

 Jackson Smith, Nancy (Mrs. Julius Smith), William 

 Smith, C. F. Smith (deceased), Seneca S. and Otis H. 

 Smith. 



John J. Smith's children are as follows: Elizabeth 

 (Mrs. C. Ellis), Mary A. (unmarried), Margaret J. (Mrs. 

 Philip Van Scoter, of Hornellsville), Alice (now a teacher 

 in the State Normal School of New Jersey), Fanny (Mrs. 

 Frank Brundage), and Hattie x\., wife of Dr. Ira P. Smith, 

 of Bath. 



There were a number of respectable young men, natives 

 of Scotland, arrived in Bath in the years 1798 and 1794, 

 among whom was Hector McKenzie, said to be the son of 

 a Scotch laird, who was employed as clerk in the land- 

 office.* 



Also, about this time, arrived Robert Campbell, father 

 of Lieut.-Gov. Robert Campbell, Jr., and Daniel McKenzie, 

 both respectable mechanics. Mr. Campbell was an indus- 

 trious and exemplary citizen, and a worthy member of the 

 Presbyterian Church. There was also old Mr. Mullen- 

 der, with a very interesting family, who settled on a farm 

 of Capt. Williamson's, near Bath. They were from Scot- 

 land, and removed afterwards to the old Indian Castk^, near 

 Geneva. 



Henry McElwee and William, his brother, Frank Scott, 

 Charles McClure, Gustavus and Brown Gillespie, Samuel 

 and John Metier, with their large families, were natives of 

 the north of Ireland, whose ancestors were of Scotch 

 descent. They are all dead and gone long since, Henry 

 McElwee has a son Henry, now an old man, residing on 

 his farm at Mud Creek. 



William Dunn, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Bath 

 in the spring of 1793, and kept for a short time a house of 

 entertainment. He was appointed sheriff of the county 

 after its organization. He was a very gentlemanly man. He 

 entered largely into land speculation without capital, and, 

 like many others, his visionary prospects soon vanished. 

 He moved to Newtown, where he shortly after died. Mr. 

 Dunn had two brothers who came to Bath with him, or 

 shortly after, — Robert and Joseph. The former was called 

 Col. Dunn. This military title he obtained on his way 

 from York Co., Pa., to Bath. He was one of a company 

 of adventurers and speculators, who agreed that they should 

 introduce each other by certain assumed titles : some judges, 

 others generals, colonels, majors, but none below the grade 

 of captain. This Col. Dunn would pass anywhere as a 

 gentleman of the first rank in society. 



''• McKenzie died in the West Indies. 



Old Mr. Cruger moved from Newtown to Bath, and 

 kept the house formerly occupied by William Dunn, on the 

 southeast corner of the Pulteney Square. Mr. Cruger was 

 a native of Denmark, — a very pleasant man, full of anecdote 

 and mother wit. He was the father of Gen. Daniel Cruger, 

 a sketch of whose life appears in the history of the Bench 

 and Bar of this county. 



General McClure gives the following autobiographical 

 notes :f 



" I was born in Ireland in the year 1770. My ancestors 

 emigrated from Scotland and settled not far from the city 

 of Londonderry. They belonged to a religious sect called 

 Covenanters, who for conscience' sake had to fly from their 

 country to a place of greater safety, and out of the reach of 

 their cruel and bigoted persecutors. I was kept at school 

 from the age of four years till fifteen. The character and 

 qualifications of those Irish pedagogues, to whom the edu- 

 cation of youth was then committed, is not generally under- 

 stood in this country. They were cruel and tyrannical 

 in the mode and manner of chastising their pupils. Their 

 savage mode of punishment for the least offense was dis- 

 graceful . 



" After leaving school I chose to learn the trade of a 

 carpenter, and at the age of twenty I resolved to come to 

 America. I therefore embarked on board the ship Mary^ 

 of Londonderry^ for Baltimore. We made a quick and 

 pleasant voyage of five weeks. I landed in Baltimore the 

 first week in June, in good health and spirits. The whole 

 of my property consisted of three suits of clothes, three 

 dozen linen shirts, and a chest of tools. As soon as I 

 landed I stepped into a new building, where a number of 

 carpenters were at work, and inquired for the master-builder. 

 I asked him if he wished to employ a journeyman. He 

 said that he did, and inquired how much wages I asked. 

 My answer was that I could not tell ; that I knew nothing 

 of the usages of the country, as I had but a few minutes 

 before landed from the ship. 



" ' Then,' said he, ' I presume you are an Englishman.' 



" ' Not exactly, sir,' I replied. ' Although I have been 

 a subject of King George the Third, of England, my place 

 of nativity was Ireland, but I am of Scotch descent.' 



" ' Ah, well, no matter. Come to-morrow morning and 

 try your hand.' 



" I did so, and worked for him two months, when he 

 paid me $75. Thinks I to myself, this is a good beginning, 

 better than to have remained in Ireland and worked for 

 two shillings and sixpence a day. 



" I then determined to see more of the land of liberty; 

 for at this time I had never traveled beyond the limits of 

 the city. I had some relations near Chambersburg, Pa., 

 and made preparations to visit them. In those days there 

 were no stages, only from city to city on the seaboard. All 

 the trade of the backwoods was carried on by pack-horses, 

 and some few wagons where roads were suitable. I was 

 advised to purchase and fit out a pack-horse, but as to do 

 this would use up half my means, I concluded to be my 



f Gen. McClure was eighty years old when this narrative was 

 written. At the age of sixty-four he removed to Elgin, 111., where 

 he died in the summer of 1851. 



