On Aug 26, 2013, the 1877 diary of Hila Dassance was sold through the eBay. The current whereabouts of the diary are not known. However, the seller provided an extensive guide to its contents. Note especially the extensive quotes from the diary at the end of this description:
Diary of Hila Dassance: a young teacher living with her parents in Newfield, N.Y. [Near Ithaca, N.Y.]
Hila’s name is spelled three different ways on the census roles. For some reason, Hila does not refer to her brother Hiram (140 th N.Y.) who died in Andersonville prison in 1864 . Several family members served in the Union Army, most in the 109 th or 140 th N.Y. Infantry.
One of them, Stephen Dassance (cousin) was also imprisoned in Andersonville. He survived but was permanently disabled.
* Good condition: One full page for each day. All days written in full . Hand-written in pen. Clear writing. Binding tight.
* Members of several generations of the family are named. Dozens of names of neighbors also.
Included is Andrew Chafee who married a Dassace. Andrew was in the 15 th N.Y. Engineers. Thomas Brind is referred to many times in the diary:
2-15 / 4-2 / 8-12 / 10-14,19. Hila was expecting to marry him but he suddenly married someone else. Thomas and his new wife were also close neighbors!
* Large family plots in Dassance and Woodlawn Cemeteries not far from where Hila lived.
Over 40 Dassances are buried there. Today there is a Dassance Rd. and a Chafee Creek Rd.
* The Census rolls for 1860, 1870, and 1880 mention eleven different Dassance families -- all within less than a mile of one another.
The intermarried Chafee and Schoolcraft families were also neighbors. In 1880, for example, in the Newfield enumeration district, the census taker visited
houses #173 to 176 belonging to: Joshua Dassance.; Olney Dassance; Andrew Chafee; and Fredrick Schoolcraft.
He then visited houses #186 to 196 belonging to: Margarete Dassance; Jane Dassance; Thomas Brind; Hosea Dassance (Hila’s house);
David Dassance; and Maria L. Dassance.
* Hila died in 1886 at the age of 43.
Some of the major topics in the diary:
Teaching School – 1-1 [describes her school] // 2-8 [couldn’t get fire going in school house] // 2-15 [several boys came to the school house at night and spilled ink over things] “I had to find out who had done it and then whip them. Oh, I don’t like to do such things. I don’t like teaching just on that account.
I have felt bad all the forenoon they have all gone out to play now.” // 2-22 [has not been paid her wages] // 4-2 “Daniel Gore came to hire me to teach school.”
// 4-4 “Harvey came down and hired me gave me 22 shillings a week I like a fool agreed to take it.” [English money still used sometimes to keep accounts] //
10-15 “I have had a [school] vacation of three weeks… I got three dollars seventy five cents for a week. Oh what a dirty school house I have got.” // 10-22…25
Ithaca Institute: we went up to Mrs. Fergusson’s and engaged board there [$2] went down to the Institute and registered…we went and heard the lecture in the evening
[next day] got there just as the exercises commenced…this afternoon we had an examination in arithmetic, this evening we had a lecture on Physiology and Hygiene [next day]
we stayed at the Institute till noon… we went to the Institute again in the evening [next day] got to the Institute in time to take an examination….
[In notes at end of diary: January, wages $22.36.]
Money Matters – 2-5 [lent Harvey Ballard $20.00] // 5-14 “I let Jerome have one hundred dollars and he [went to Ithaca] and got the mortgage recorded.
I never expected I would hold a mortgage against anybody but I am not entirely happy now I wonder if people knew if they would think more of me….” //
5-19 “Lent B. B. McAlister $100.00 and took a note.” [entry at end of diary]. “Burdett paid $75 of borrowed money.” [entry at end of diary]. //
8-8 borrowed $10.00 of Father to pay ..
Submitted by Starfishin
Diary of Hila Dassance: a young teacher living with her parents in Newfield, N.Y. [Near Ithaca, N.Y.]
Hila’s name is spelled three different ways on the census roles. For some reason, Hila does not refer to her brother Hiram (140 th N.Y.) who died in Andersonville prison in 1864 . Several family members served in the Union Army, most in the 109 th or 140 th N.Y. Infantry.
One of them, Stephen Dassance (cousin) was also imprisoned in Andersonville. He survived but was permanently disabled.
* Good condition: One full page for each day. All days written in full . Hand-written in pen. Clear writing. Binding tight.
* Members of several generations of the family are named. Dozens of names of neighbors also.
Included is Andrew Chafee who married a Dassace. Andrew was in the 15 th N.Y. Engineers. Thomas Brind is referred to many times in the diary:
2-15 / 4-2 / 8-12 / 10-14,19. Hila was expecting to marry him but he suddenly married someone else. Thomas and his new wife were also close neighbors!
* Large family plots in Dassance and Woodlawn Cemeteries not far from where Hila lived.
Over 40 Dassances are buried there. Today there is a Dassance Rd. and a Chafee Creek Rd.
* The Census rolls for 1860, 1870, and 1880 mention eleven different Dassance families -- all within less than a mile of one another.
The intermarried Chafee and Schoolcraft families were also neighbors. In 1880, for example, in the Newfield enumeration district, the census taker visited
houses #173 to 176 belonging to: Joshua Dassance.; Olney Dassance; Andrew Chafee; and Fredrick Schoolcraft.
He then visited houses #186 to 196 belonging to: Margarete Dassance; Jane Dassance; Thomas Brind; Hosea Dassance (Hila’s house);
David Dassance; and Maria L. Dassance.
* Hila died in 1886 at the age of 43.
Some of the major topics in the diary:
Teaching School – 1-1 [describes her school] // 2-8 [couldn’t get fire going in school house] // 2-15 [several boys came to the school house at night and spilled ink over things] “I had to find out who had done it and then whip them. Oh, I don’t like to do such things. I don’t like teaching just on that account.
I have felt bad all the forenoon they have all gone out to play now.” // 2-22 [has not been paid her wages] // 4-2 “Daniel Gore came to hire me to teach school.”
// 4-4 “Harvey came down and hired me gave me 22 shillings a week I like a fool agreed to take it.” [English money still used sometimes to keep accounts] //
10-15 “I have had a [school] vacation of three weeks… I got three dollars seventy five cents for a week. Oh what a dirty school house I have got.” // 10-22…25
Ithaca Institute: we went up to Mrs. Fergusson’s and engaged board there [$2] went down to the Institute and registered…we went and heard the lecture in the evening
[next day] got there just as the exercises commenced…this afternoon we had an examination in arithmetic, this evening we had a lecture on Physiology and Hygiene [next day]
we stayed at the Institute till noon… we went to the Institute again in the evening [next day] got to the Institute in time to take an examination….
[In notes at end of diary: January, wages $22.36.]
Money Matters – 2-5 [lent Harvey Ballard $20.00] // 5-14 “I let Jerome have one hundred dollars and he [went to Ithaca] and got the mortgage recorded.
I never expected I would hold a mortgage against anybody but I am not entirely happy now I wonder if people knew if they would think more of me….” //
5-19 “Lent B. B. McAlister $100.00 and took a note.” [entry at end of diary]. “Burdett paid $75 of borrowed money.” [entry at end of diary]. //
8-8 borrowed $10.00 of Father to pay ..
Submitted by Starfishin
On Aug 26, 2013, the 1877 diary of Hila Dassance was sold through the eBay. The current whereabouts of the diary are not known. However, the seller provided an extensive guide to its contents. Note especially the extensive quotes from the diary at the end of this description:
Diary of Hila Dassance: a young teacher living with her parents in Newfield, N.Y. [Near Ithaca, N.Y.]
Hila’s name is spelled three different ways on the census roles. For some reason, Hila does not refer to her brother Hiram (140 th N.Y.) who died in Andersonville prison in 1864 . Several family members served in the Union Army, most in the 109 th or 140 th N.Y. Infantry.
One of them, Stephen Dassance (cousin) was also imprisoned in Andersonville. He survived but was permanently disabled.
* Good condition: One full page for each day. All days written in full . Hand-written in pen. Clear writing. Binding tight.
* Members of several generations of the family are named. Dozens of names of neighbors also.
Included is Andrew Chafee who married a Dassace. Andrew was in the 15 th N.Y. Engineers. Thomas Brind is referred to many times in the diary:
2-15 / 4-2 / 8-12 / 10-14,19. Hila was expecting to marry him but he suddenly married someone else. Thomas and his new wife were also close neighbors!
* Large family plots in Dassance and Woodlawn Cemeteries not far from where Hila lived.
Over 40 Dassances are buried there. Today there is a Dassance Rd. and a Chafee Creek Rd.
* The Census rolls for 1860, 1870, and 1880 mention eleven different Dassance families -- all within less than a mile of one another.
The intermarried Chafee and Schoolcraft families were also neighbors. In 1880, for example, in the Newfield enumeration district, the census taker visited
houses #173 to 176 belonging to: Joshua Dassance.; Olney Dassance; Andrew Chafee; and Fredrick Schoolcraft.
He then visited houses #186 to 196 belonging to: Margarete Dassance; Jane Dassance; Thomas Brind; Hosea Dassance (Hila’s house);
David Dassance; and Maria L. Dassance.
* Hila died in 1886 at the age of 43.
Some of the major topics in the diary:
Teaching School – 1-1 [describes her school] // 2-8 [couldn’t get fire going in school house] // 2-15 [several boys came to the school house at night and spilled ink over things] “I had to find out who had done it and then whip them. Oh, I don’t like to do such things. I don’t like teaching just on that account.
I have felt bad all the forenoon they have all gone out to play now.” // 2-22 [has not been paid her wages] // 4-2 “Daniel Gore came to hire me to teach school.”
// 4-4 “Harvey came down and hired me gave me 22 shillings a week I like a fool agreed to take it.” [English money still used sometimes to keep accounts] //
10-15 “I have had a [school] vacation of three weeks… I got three dollars seventy five cents for a week. Oh what a dirty school house I have got.” // 10-22…25
Ithaca Institute: we went up to Mrs. Fergusson’s and engaged board there [$2] went down to the Institute and registered…we went and heard the lecture in the evening
[next day] got there just as the exercises commenced…this afternoon we had an examination in arithmetic, this evening we had a lecture on Physiology and Hygiene [next day]
we stayed at the Institute till noon… we went to the Institute again in the evening [next day] got to the Institute in time to take an examination….
[In notes at end of diary: January, wages $22.36.]
Money Matters – 2-5 [lent Harvey Ballard $20.00] // 5-14 “I let Jerome have one hundred dollars and he [went to Ithaca] and got the mortgage recorded.
I never expected I would hold a mortgage against anybody but I am not entirely happy now I wonder if people knew if they would think more of me….” //
5-19 “Lent B. B. McAlister $100.00 and took a note.” [entry at end of diary]. “Burdett paid $75 of borrowed money.” [entry at end of diary]. //
8-8 borrowed $10.00 of Father to pay ..
Submitted by Starfishin
Diary of Hila Dassance: a young teacher living with her parents in Newfield, N.Y. [Near Ithaca, N.Y.]
Hila’s name is spelled three different ways on the census roles. For some reason, Hila does not refer to her brother Hiram (140 th N.Y.) who died in Andersonville prison in 1864 . Several family members served in the Union Army, most in the 109 th or 140 th N.Y. Infantry.
One of them, Stephen Dassance (cousin) was also imprisoned in Andersonville. He survived but was permanently disabled.
* Good condition: One full page for each day. All days written in full . Hand-written in pen. Clear writing. Binding tight.
* Members of several generations of the family are named. Dozens of names of neighbors also.
Included is Andrew Chafee who married a Dassace. Andrew was in the 15 th N.Y. Engineers. Thomas Brind is referred to many times in the diary:
2-15 / 4-2 / 8-12 / 10-14,19. Hila was expecting to marry him but he suddenly married someone else. Thomas and his new wife were also close neighbors!
* Large family plots in Dassance and Woodlawn Cemeteries not far from where Hila lived.
Over 40 Dassances are buried there. Today there is a Dassance Rd. and a Chafee Creek Rd.
* The Census rolls for 1860, 1870, and 1880 mention eleven different Dassance families -- all within less than a mile of one another.
The intermarried Chafee and Schoolcraft families were also neighbors. In 1880, for example, in the Newfield enumeration district, the census taker visited
houses #173 to 176 belonging to: Joshua Dassance.; Olney Dassance; Andrew Chafee; and Fredrick Schoolcraft.
He then visited houses #186 to 196 belonging to: Margarete Dassance; Jane Dassance; Thomas Brind; Hosea Dassance (Hila’s house);
David Dassance; and Maria L. Dassance.
* Hila died in 1886 at the age of 43.
Some of the major topics in the diary:
Teaching School – 1-1 [describes her school] // 2-8 [couldn’t get fire going in school house] // 2-15 [several boys came to the school house at night and spilled ink over things] “I had to find out who had done it and then whip them. Oh, I don’t like to do such things. I don’t like teaching just on that account.
I have felt bad all the forenoon they have all gone out to play now.” // 2-22 [has not been paid her wages] // 4-2 “Daniel Gore came to hire me to teach school.”
// 4-4 “Harvey came down and hired me gave me 22 shillings a week I like a fool agreed to take it.” [English money still used sometimes to keep accounts] //
10-15 “I have had a [school] vacation of three weeks… I got three dollars seventy five cents for a week. Oh what a dirty school house I have got.” // 10-22…25
Ithaca Institute: we went up to Mrs. Fergusson’s and engaged board there [$2] went down to the Institute and registered…we went and heard the lecture in the evening
[next day] got there just as the exercises commenced…this afternoon we had an examination in arithmetic, this evening we had a lecture on Physiology and Hygiene [next day]
we stayed at the Institute till noon… we went to the Institute again in the evening [next day] got to the Institute in time to take an examination….
[In notes at end of diary: January, wages $22.36.]
Money Matters – 2-5 [lent Harvey Ballard $20.00] // 5-14 “I let Jerome have one hundred dollars and he [went to Ithaca] and got the mortgage recorded.
I never expected I would hold a mortgage against anybody but I am not entirely happy now I wonder if people knew if they would think more of me….” //
5-19 “Lent B. B. McAlister $100.00 and took a note.” [entry at end of diary]. “Burdett paid $75 of borrowed money.” [entry at end of diary]. //
8-8 borrowed $10.00 of Father to pay ..
Submitted by Starfishin
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