The John Keen(I) (1578-1649) and Associated Families, B. 4-5:
Sprague Keen Note Book
Sprague Keen, son of Zebulon and Hulda Keen, wrote a resume of his early life as experienced by him and his wife Chloe in their homesteading days near Homer, Cortland County, N.Y. It was addressed to Timothy and Susan Keen and written 6-24-1864 (or started then) just two years before his death in 1866. He elaborated upon his conversion to the Christian faith, claiming that while chopping down trees in his woods, one came perilously near striking him on the head, that it surely would have done so but for an act of God. They had many difficulties in acquiring cattle and land and actually lost on property after it was paid for, because of a fault in the negotiations or in the deed.
He wrote:
About every man in the town homer (sic) and Cortland had lived four years in homer (sic) village worked at coopering which give me a chance to get acquainted with great many out in the country their was the county seat of business and that was where the regiment met for training and the two towns met before they were divided and celebrations of the fourth and other gatherings and within one mile and a half from their (sic) my father settled down in the woods when I was a little over seven years old amidst of all kinds of wild beasts and not but 12 or 13 families in the town ten miles square here I grew to 19 and I think I had a good chance to get acquainted with the inhabitants here I comeced (sic) in life for myself had nothing in the world but an acre and a wooman (sic) and she was as empty handed as myself and in starting I thought I would try to be honest and up to my word in my dealings with others for I had seen enough to make me think that honesty was the best policy.
I had no horse for two years I think after I united with the Church for that reason your Mother could not goe (sic) very steady horses were very scarse (sic) in the neighborhood would get a chance to goe on horse back and Carry a baby in her arms and though that was a great privilege to get to meeting when we could both goe at a time would goe to one house but it was seldom that we could the oldest child was not old enough to take care of the youngest after Lydia was born and her Mother got Smart enough I hired a horse one Sunday to go to home to presterian Communion and present her baby for Sprinkling when we got ready to start she gave Lydia a dose of petragoric or Lodlom we started she on horse back and I trotting along by her side that was a common thing in those days to see and thought it was a fair thing too ..."
Sprague Keen Note Book
Sprague Keen, son of Zebulon and Hulda Keen, wrote a resume of his early life as experienced by him and his wife Chloe in their homesteading days near Homer, Cortland County, N.Y. It was addressed to Timothy and Susan Keen and written 6-24-1864 (or started then) just two years before his death in 1866. He elaborated upon his conversion to the Christian faith, claiming that while chopping down trees in his woods, one came perilously near striking him on the head, that it surely would have done so but for an act of God. They had many difficulties in acquiring cattle and land and actually lost on property after it was paid for, because of a fault in the negotiations or in the deed.
He wrote:
About every man in the town homer (sic) and Cortland had lived four years in homer (sic) village worked at coopering which give me a chance to get acquainted with great many out in the country their was the county seat of business and that was where the regiment met for training and the two towns met before they were divided and celebrations of the fourth and other gatherings and within one mile and a half from their (sic) my father settled down in the woods when I was a little over seven years old amidst of all kinds of wild beasts and not but 12 or 13 families in the town ten miles square here I grew to 19 and I think I had a good chance to get acquainted with the inhabitants here I comeced (sic) in life for myself had nothing in the world but an acre and a wooman (sic) and she was as empty handed as myself and in starting I thought I would try to be honest and up to my word in my dealings with others for I had seen enough to make me think that honesty was the best policy.
I had no horse for two years I think after I united with the Church for that reason your Mother could not goe (sic) very steady horses were very scarse (sic) in the neighborhood would get a chance to goe on horse back and Carry a baby in her arms and though that was a great privilege to get to meeting when we could both goe at a time would goe to one house but it was seldom that we could the oldest child was not old enough to take care of the youngest after Lydia was born and her Mother got Smart enough I hired a horse one Sunday to go to home to presterian Communion and present her baby for Sprinkling when we got ready to start she gave Lydia a dose of petragoric or Lodlom we started she on horse back and I trotting along by her side that was a common thing in those days to see and thought it was a fair thing too ..."
The John Keen(I) (1578-1649) and Associated Families, B. 4-5:
Sprague Keen Note Book
Sprague Keen, son of Zebulon and Hulda Keen, wrote a resume of his early life as experienced by him and his wife Chloe in their homesteading days near Homer, Cortland County, N.Y. It was addressed to Timothy and Susan Keen and written 6-24-1864 (or started then) just two years before his death in 1866. He elaborated upon his conversion to the Christian faith, claiming that while chopping down trees in his woods, one came perilously near striking him on the head, that it surely would have done so but for an act of God. They had many difficulties in acquiring cattle and land and actually lost on property after it was paid for, because of a fault in the negotiations or in the deed.
He wrote:
About every man in the town homer (sic) and Cortland had lived four years in homer (sic) village worked at coopering which give me a chance to get acquainted with great many out in the country their was the county seat of business and that was where the regiment met for training and the two towns met before they were divided and celebrations of the fourth and other gatherings and within one mile and a half from their (sic) my father settled down in the woods when I was a little over seven years old amidst of all kinds of wild beasts and not but 12 or 13 families in the town ten miles square here I grew to 19 and I think I had a good chance to get acquainted with the inhabitants here I comeced (sic) in life for myself had nothing in the world but an acre and a wooman (sic) and she was as empty handed as myself and in starting I thought I would try to be honest and up to my word in my dealings with others for I had seen enough to make me think that honesty was the best policy.
I had no horse for two years I think after I united with the Church for that reason your Mother could not goe (sic) very steady horses were very scarse (sic) in the neighborhood would get a chance to goe on horse back and Carry a baby in her arms and though that was a great privilege to get to meeting when we could both goe at a time would goe to one house but it was seldom that we could the oldest child was not old enough to take care of the youngest after Lydia was born and her Mother got Smart enough I hired a horse one Sunday to go to home to presterian Communion and present her baby for Sprinkling when we got ready to start she gave Lydia a dose of petragoric or Lodlom we started she on horse back and I trotting along by her side that was a common thing in those days to see and thought it was a fair thing too ..."
Sprague Keen Note Book
Sprague Keen, son of Zebulon and Hulda Keen, wrote a resume of his early life as experienced by him and his wife Chloe in their homesteading days near Homer, Cortland County, N.Y. It was addressed to Timothy and Susan Keen and written 6-24-1864 (or started then) just two years before his death in 1866. He elaborated upon his conversion to the Christian faith, claiming that while chopping down trees in his woods, one came perilously near striking him on the head, that it surely would have done so but for an act of God. They had many difficulties in acquiring cattle and land and actually lost on property after it was paid for, because of a fault in the negotiations or in the deed.
He wrote:
About every man in the town homer (sic) and Cortland had lived four years in homer (sic) village worked at coopering which give me a chance to get acquainted with great many out in the country their was the county seat of business and that was where the regiment met for training and the two towns met before they were divided and celebrations of the fourth and other gatherings and within one mile and a half from their (sic) my father settled down in the woods when I was a little over seven years old amidst of all kinds of wild beasts and not but 12 or 13 families in the town ten miles square here I grew to 19 and I think I had a good chance to get acquainted with the inhabitants here I comeced (sic) in life for myself had nothing in the world but an acre and a wooman (sic) and she was as empty handed as myself and in starting I thought I would try to be honest and up to my word in my dealings with others for I had seen enough to make me think that honesty was the best policy.
I had no horse for two years I think after I united with the Church for that reason your Mother could not goe (sic) very steady horses were very scarse (sic) in the neighborhood would get a chance to goe on horse back and Carry a baby in her arms and though that was a great privilege to get to meeting when we could both goe at a time would goe to one house but it was seldom that we could the oldest child was not old enough to take care of the youngest after Lydia was born and her Mother got Smart enough I hired a horse one Sunday to go to home to presterian Communion and present her baby for Sprinkling when we got ready to start she gave Lydia a dose of petragoric or Lodlom we started she on horse back and I trotting along by her side that was a common thing in those days to see and thought it was a fair thing too ..."
Family Members
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
