Old Settlers Festival records, 1864.

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Old Settlers Festival records, 1864.

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Lists of early Buffalo settlers; ode for the festival written by Guy H. Salisbury; song "Fifty Years Ago" written by Elizabeth Keller; brief biographies of Dr. Cyrenius Chapin and Benjamin Caryl; reminiscences of Ira Merrill, T.N. Boynton, James Clark, Frances E. Lay, F.P. Billings, and Sophia Reynolds. These early settlers write about the burning of Buffalo during the War of 1812, the old school house on The Terrace at Swan Street, the visit of General Lafayette, early Great Lakes shipping, and pioneer life in Lancaster, N.Y. Includes a note written by Mary B. Weekly; two speeches, one unidentified, the other by Benjamin Hodge; a clipping about the 1864 festival; and a partial program of the sixth anniversary of The Nameless club.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Boynton, Theodore N. (Theodore Noyes), 1819-1898.

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Lay, John, 1789 or 90-1850.

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Billings, Francis P., 1809 or 10-1865.

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Old Settlers Festival (1864 : Buffalo, N.Y.).

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Clark, James, 1794 or 5-1879.

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Allen, Lewis F. (Lewis Falley), 1800-1890

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Reynolds, Sophia, 1782 or 3-1865.

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Caryl, Benjamin, 1773-1856.

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Keller, Elizabeth P.

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Salisbury, Guy H. (Guy Hyde), 1811-1868

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Chapin, Cyrenius, 1769-1838

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Physician and surgeon. Settled in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1806; served during the War of 1812 as colonel of his own company of volunteers. From the description of Papers, 1806-1816. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57054214 ...

Hodge, Benjamin, 1797-1868.

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Wesley, Mary B., 1786 or 7-1869.

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Merrill, Ira, 1794 or 5-1873.

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Lay, Frances E., d. 1893.

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