Question for Mr. Vianna
Yes I am in Saratoga County and the Town of Moreau is two towns north of me (about a 30 min drive) Send me your ancestors name and dates he was in this area and I will run a search for deeds.
James Vianna
By George, I think he's got it!.
> > And there ain't no fence like a stone wall.
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> And they've got to be real cheap to build, too. You figure you can build - what? - about 50 ft. of wall in a day while your neighbor's away in town. That would only take maybe a couple of weeks to wall up an acre or so. At $6.00 per hour, that's only about $700. 'Course summer folk would pay more.
Wow Kent you like to spend money!!!
6 bucks an hour!! Ha!..spend thrift.
By George, I think he's got it!.
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> Like that Thoreau guy said, Good fences make good neighbors.
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> And there ain't no fence like a stone wall.
Amen to that!
No Stone Wall to Follow
Yes, New Yorkers can be so extravagant as to have placed both wire and stone fences along the same line.
But they have stood up to take on the New England demand. It's not uncommon to come across workers dismantling the stone walls for sale to fast food joints for that New England touch of landscaping. It may be NY business sense, or it could be they read the entire Frost poem and are in agreement that a better use for the stones would be anything other than a fence.
Still, I think our linear rock mounds are far more pleasing than the scattered rubble left in Texas. And they serve the same purpose by memorializing ancient surveys of great accuracy but questionable precision and description.
As you sit on that gneiss granite boulder chowing an eggmcmuffin, think of the poor NY/NE surveyor hundreds of miles away scratching their head and looking for it.
Question for Mr. Vianna
James A. Sweet and Mary Ann Sweet. James was born in 1796 in Massachusetts, which might not be all that far away depending on where in Massachusetts. Mary Ann was born in 1809. I'm guessing he might have acquired land in his own name starting about 1820. His son, my GG grandfather, was born in New York in 1833, so guessing they were settled in Moreau at that time....might be wrong. Free access to the 1850 Census is what shows them living there at that time. The 1880 Census shows them still in Moreau.
Any help and clues on how to access internet links to local sources will be greatly appreciated.
No Stone Wall to Follow
> Still, I think our linear rock mounds are far more pleasing than the scattered rubble left in Texas. And they serve the same purpose by memorializing ancient surveys of great accuracy but questionable precision and description.
Yes, the New Englanders whose money established this ranch in the 1880's realized that if they wanted to build stone walls around it, they started a century too late.
No Stone Wall to Follow
Where's the people?
Ya know the moon, et al...have rock mounds too...the thing they have in common texas is a lack of people....Hmmmm..
> Nothing like a good cold winter survey. All the bad stuff is frozen.
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and you can walk on water.
No Stone Wall to Follow
> Where's the people?
> Ya know the moon, et al...have rock mounds too...the thing they have in common texas is a lack of people....Hmmmm..
Oh, the Massachusetts capitalists who started the ranch in the middle 1880's didn't actually have the stamina to LIVE in Texas. They just sent their money here. Besides, if they had come to Texas, who would be operating the maple syrup industry? They would have had to bring South Americans to New England to put their expertise on rubber plantations to work in collecting maple sap. With all those South Americans up there who knows how that would have turned out? Robert Frost giving samba lessons?