Saga of the Ridge

213 pp. A regional history of western New York, beginning with the formation of the ridge itself, and continuing through early settlement up to the point of publication. CONTENTS: Ice Age, Formation of Ridge, Early Occupants, Treaty of Big Tree; Coming of Asa and Betsey, Cutting logs for Cabin, Tapping Maples; Building and Roofing the Cabin; Furnishings, Cutting Planks, Clearing Crop Land, The new Garden; Leaching ashes, Wheat and Corn Crop, A Strange Visitor, First Burial; Census of Ridgeway, Town Officers, Threshing Grain; School, Perry's Store, Cold Year; Fishing, Making Shingles, More Settlers; Birth in the Forest, Paying Joe Ellicott; Asa Hunting; Lansing Bailey's Life; Burning Newark, British Capture Fort Niagara, Gaines Militia Advance to Lewiston, Battle at Molyneauxs, Buffalo Burned, Flight of People Eastward; Oliver Booth Tavern, Joe Ellicott Visit, Sam fills the Jug, Cold Summer of 1816, Mail and Post Office; British attack Fort Erie, Three Gaines Men go to Fort Erie, Fighting to destroy Cannon, Results; Dr. Jesse Beech settles in Gaines, Dr. John Beech, their life, William Morgan; Mary Anne's Family settles in Gaines, Digging a Well, Schools, Church, Firsts of Gaines; Building the Erie Canal, Difficulties at Mohawk, Montezuma, Lockport, Boat Load of Wheat goes to Albany; A Journey on the Old Stagecoach, Locking the Boats Up and Down, The Old Day Book, William Babbit; People whose ancestors purchased land of the Holland Land Company; Index