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payments, lands were procurable at from four to six dollars per 
acre with a large discount for ready money. The following was 
given as the cost of what was deemed the least a family could do 
with in those days: 
A good log house with two rooms, if made by hired men will 
cost $100 
Oxen per yoke, 70 
A cow, i • 15 
Farming utensils, such as a plow, a harrow, two chains, 
two axes, one hoe, 20 
$205 
Where many combined, however, in forming a settlement, it 
was expected to cost individually still less; a small grist and 
saw mill, it was estimated might be built for about $1000, whqjre 
the dam was not of difficult construction. 
In 1806 when villages were few and very far between, and ta- 
verns were the great landmarks upon the roads, we find the fol- 
lowing given as the route and distances through the Genesee 
country to Niagara: 
From Albany to 
Miles. Miles. 
Humphrey's Tavern, 2 John Denna's, 7 
McKown's, 3 Foster's 5 
Douw's, 2 Morehouse's, 6 
Truax's, 5 Keeler's or Danforth's, 5 
Schenectady, 4-16 Carpenter's, 15 
Groat's, 12 Buck's, 3 
John Fonda's, 12 Goodrich's, 8 
Conolly's, 7 Hujrfrins', 4 
Roseboora's Feny, Canajoharie,. 3-50 Cayujra Bridge. 7-76 
Hudson's, (Indian Castle,) 13 Seneca, 3 
Aldridtre's, (German Flats.).. . 11-74 Geneva 11-190 
Brayton's 13 Amsden's, 6 
Utica, (Old Fort Schuyler,) 3 Wells', 8 
Whitestown 4-94 Sanburn's, (Canandaigua,) .... 4-203 
Ladd's Taverir, 9 Sears and Peck's 13 
Rome, (Fort Stanwix,) 3 Genesee river, 14-235 
Oneida Castle, 8 Indian town of Towanda, 40 
Wemps, 5 Niagara, 35-310 
The above details may serve to exhibit some of the changes 
which have taken place since those days, and recall to the 
traveller the gratification he experienced in finding a good tavern 
and obliging host, upon the route of his laborious journey. 
Note. — It has been asserted by various authorities that a tradi- 
tion exists among the Red-men, that the various Tumuli through- 
out the country, have some connexion with white men who once 
took up their residence among the Indians for the purpose of 
trading; the many forts covered by the full grown forest tree are 
supposed to have had the same origin. A tradition as to a gene- 
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