Onondaga's Centennial:Gleanings of a Century

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Onondaga County, New York

Onondaga's Centennial:Gleanings of a Century

• by Dwight Hall Bruce, 1834-1908
• published by The Boston History Company, Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1896

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Volumes 1 and 2:

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007696678

• https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/genealogy-glh13568211/

Volume 1:

• https://books.google.com/books/about/Onondaga_s_Centennial.html?id=CWQUSQAACAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/onondagascentenn01bruc_0/page/n8

Volume 2:

• https://books.google.com/books/about/Onondaga_s_Centennial.html?id=LCJEAQAAMAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/onondagascentenn02bruc/page/n6

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Chapter I.

Original Ten Counties — Montgomery County — Herkimer County — Onondaga County— Act Erecting Onondaga County — Map of Original County — Reduction of Territory of Onondaga County— The Military Tract — Land Gratuities of New York State — Land Commissioners- — Acts Relative to the Military Tract and Bounty Lands — Survey of the Military Lands — " Survey Fifty "— Various Descriptions of Military Tract Boundaries — Reservations in the Military Tract — "State's Hundred" — Townships of the Military Tract — Contention and Litigation over Land Titles

Chapter II. Natural Characterists. Topography of the County — Streams — Waterfalls and Cascades — Lakes — Peculiarity of the Green Lakes — Springs — Geology

Chapter III. The Ethnology of Onondaga — Utensils of the Early Peoples — Sites of Indian Towns — Camps— Cemeteries — Mounds — Forts— Johnson's Fort.

Chapter IV. Name of Iroquois — Traditions — Hiawatha — Wampum — Confederates — Clans — Families — First Accounts — Villages — Language — Months — Feasts — Worship — Character

Chapter V. Champlain's Invasion — Iroquois Fort — Jesuits — Hurons and Iroquois — Jogues — Hurons at Onondaga — Onondaga Ambassadors — Andastes — Overthrow of Hurons and Neutrals

Chapter VI. French Invited by Mohawks— Onondagas— Negotiations— Le Moyne's Journey- Councils — Addresses — Fire — Baptisms — Erie War — Return— Onondaga Lake— Salt Springs— Rivers

Chapter VII. Peace Ratified — Journey of Dablon and Chaumonot — Otihatangue — Oneida River — Reception — Council — Onondaga Lake — Place of Settlement — Erie Child — Religious Services — Presents — French Prisoner — Onondaga and Cayuga Songs — Presents and Addresses — Chapel — Christmas Eve — Stockade — Stories — The Journey — Hunger — Gannentaa — Councils — Fruits — Country —Customs— Slaves— Privations— Plots— Flight— The Settlement

Chapter VIII. The Iroguois And The French. Onondaga Victory — Tortures — Truce — Captives — Le Moyne's Mission — His Return — DeTracy — Missions Resumed — Baptism of Garakontie — Mohawk Condolence — Catechising — Drunkenness

Chapter IX. English and Iroquois — La Salle — Garakonties Death — Missions — Southern Wars and Lands — De la Barre — Garangula — Greenhalgh — Dekanissora — De Nonville — Invasion of Canada — Millet's Capture

Chapter X. Iroquois and English — Blacksmiths — Aqueendera — Frontenac's Invasion — Black Kettle— Embassies — Colonel Romer — Dekanissora and Jesuits — French Fort — Oswego — Beaver Lands

Chapter XI. Pennsylvania Councils — Conrad Weiser — Black Prince — Bartram — Sir William Johnson— Peace

Chapter XII. Moravians Zeisberger — Spangenberg — Cammerhoff — Vocabularies —War — Picquet — Peace — Discouragements — New Plans

Chapter XIII. War — Oswego — French Activity — Battle Island — Onondaga Fort — Condolence Fall of Oswego — French Privations — New Forts — Brewerton — Niagara Taken — Quebec — Fort Lewis

Chapter XIV. Indian Dissatisfaction— Medals — Kirkland's Visit — Pontiac — Trade — Discontent — Grants to Cherokees — Johnson — Property Line — Tryon County — Indian Customs — Grievances — Johnson's Death — Indian Mourning

Chapter XV. The Revolution — Mohawk Valley — Conference — The Johnsons — Campaign of 1776 — Burgoyne and St. Leger — Fort Stanwix and Oriskany — Oswego — Molly Brant — Expedition against Onondaga — Beatty's Journal — Results — Johnson's Raid — Turtle Tree — Attempt on Oswego — Close of the War — List of Revolutionary Soldiers

Chapter XVI. Unsettled Affairs — Treaty of Stanwix — Kirkland and Proctor — Later Treaties — Onondaga Sales — Original Reservation — Onondagas since the Revolution — Captain John and other Chiefs

Chapter XVII. Webster and Newkirk — Danforth — Lessee Company — Cockburn and Vanderkemp — Frenchman's Island — Roads — Divisions of Counties and Erection of Onondaga— Towns

Chapter XVIII. Through The War Of 1812. The First Decade — Transportation — Highways — The First Newspapers — The Salt Industry — Beginning of the War of 1812-15 — The Militia — Onondaga's Regiments and Companies — The Old Arsenal — Events of 1813 — Capture of Oswego by the British — Treaty of Ghent — Turnpike Companies — Boundary of Onondaga County — Reduction to Present Area

Chapter XIX. From 1815 to 1830. Events of Importance— Canal Agitation— Construction of the Erie Canal— Its Business— Other Canal Schemes— Changes in Civil Divisions— A Glimpse of Syracuse and other Villages in 1829.

Chapter XX. Era of Prosperity — Cholera — Railroads — Turnpikes — The First Bank — Financial Inflation and Wreck — The " Patriot War" — Illustrations of Salina and Syracuse in 1840

Chapter XXI. Increase in Population — Agricultural Development — The First Plank Road — The Direct Road —The Syracuse and Oswego Railroad — The Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad — The Telegraph — Public Buildings — The "Jerry Rescue"— The Financial Panic of 1857

Chapter XXII. The War Period. The Beginning of the War — Military Enthusiasm — Captain Butler's Company — Captain Jenney's Artillery [Company — The 12th Regiment — The 122d Regiment — Bounties and Bounty Legislation — The 101st Regiment — The 149th Regiment — The Draft — The 185th Regiment — Statistics of Bounty Indebtedness

Chapter XXIII. From 1865 To The Present. Gain in Population— Inflation and Contraction — Railroads — The Cardiff Giant- Syracuse University — The West Shore Railroad — Bridges — The Centennial Celebration

Chapter XXIV. from tin' Formation of the County — Republicans and Federalists — m ..i the Federalists — The Clintonians and Bucktails — The Democrats— " Vigilance Committees"— The Anti-Masons — Opposition to Sunday Mails— The Whigs — The Abolitionists— The Campaign of 1840— The Hunkers and Barnburners — The Temperance Movement — The Free Soilers — The Carson League — The " Free Democracy" — The Know Nothings — Birth of the Republican Party — Syracuse as the "City of Conventions" — Civil List.

Chapter XXV. Public Institutions. The County Poorhouse — Onondaga County Penitentiary — Onondaga County Agricultural Society — Onondaga County Clerk's Office — Onondaga County Orphan Asylum — Onondaga Historical Society

Chapter XXVI. The Bench And The Bar Of Onondaga County. Comparison of the State Law with the Common Law — Evolution of the Courts — The Court of Appeals — The Supreme Court — The Court of Chancery — The County Court — The Surrogate's Court — Justice's Court — District Attorneys — Sheriffs — Court Buildings — Judicial Officers — Personal Sketches — Miscellaneous.

Chapter XXVII. The Medical Profession. The Onondaga County Medical Society — Synopsis of its Acts to the Present Day — Its Essayists — Its Presidents — List of its Members — The Syracuse Medical Association — List of its Members — Its Officers — Its Essayists— Syracuse Medical College — Biographical Sketches of Deceased Physicians — Sketch of Homeopathy — Homeopathic Medical Society — Its Members — Its Officers — Its Necrology — The Central New York Homeopathic Medical Society

Chapter XXVIII. The Village And The City Of Syracuse

Chapter XXIX. The Town Of Pompey

Chapter XXX. The Town Of Marcellus

Chapter XXXI. The Town Of Camillus

Chapter XXXII. The Town Of Elbridge

Chapter XXXIII. The Town Of Van Buren

Chapter XXXIV. The Town Of Lysander

Chapter XXXV. The Town Of Manilus

Chapter XXXVI. The Town Of Cicero

Chapter XXXVII. The Town Of Clay

Chapter XXXVIII.The Town Of Onondaga

Chapter XXXIX. The Town Of Fabius

Chapter XL. The Town Of Tully

Chapter XLI. The Town Of Spafford

Chapter XLII. The Town Of Otisco

Volume 2

Chapter XLIII. The Town Of Salina

Chapter XLIV. The Town Of Lafayette

Chapter XLV. The Town Of Skaneateles

Chapter XLVI. The Town Of Dewitt

Chapter XLVII. The Town Of Geddes

Chapter XLVIII. The Onondaga Indians And Their Reservation

Chapter XLIX. General Summary

Part II-Biographical

Biographical Sketches

Part III-Family Sketches

Family Sketches

Indexes

Part I

Part II

Part III

Portraits

Illustrations And Maps