HISTORY OF THE FARM. 14. 
Having now made a hasty review of local history, let 
us come directly to the point and take up the history of 
the farm in question. The Barron farm lies in the old 
Morris reserve. Robert Morris sold a large portion of this | 
land to the Carrolls, wno in turn opened it up for settlement. 
The farm was sold by them in i824 to Johnathan Barron. A 
log shanty was built near the site of the present house, the 
location being chosen largely because of the presence of 
numerous springs of soft water which flow from the bases of 
the hills toward the east through small swales, and clearings 
soon made. The first timber cut was about the present 
farm buildings on the Volusia Loan. At first commercial 
agriculture was not attem ted, time veing yeeen only to the 
clearing of the land and to the growth of sufficient material 
tor the support of the family. In a few years the log 
Shanty was displaced by a frame house which stands to-day 
in good condition, Barns were built. Wheat was then 
grown in yuite large yuantities., The grain was drawn to 
market at Geneseo, about virteen miles distant, whence it 
was floated down the Genesee River to Rochester, the Flour city. 
About 1834 the rarm was sold to Moses Barron. At first 
he gave a considerable amount of attention to grain growing. 
He was a Vermonter, therefore a stockman, and conseyuently 
he introduced animals. For many years he maintained u,yon 
