Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Early History of Rochester: 1810 to 1827, With Comparisons of Its Growth and Progress to 1860
The following extract from a letter to John Kelsey, Esq, author of the Lives of the Pioneers of Rochester, dated August 2 d, 1854, explains itself:
Dear Sir:
"Agreeable to your request we have prepared a Profile or Map of Rochesterville, (the now city of Rochester, ) as it was in March, 1814.
More than 40 years having now elapsed since this vision was presented to our boyish eyes; and while we are tracing out the lines marked by our memory in years when we could hardly picture to ourselves a hope that we should this clay walk among the living in a populous city, the one-twentieth of whose faces we hardly recognize; all this passed before us now like a dream of a night or like a tale that is told. We believe we have placed upon the Map all the dwellings, business houses, mills, &c., that were erected in what was then called Rochesterville, together with the names and business of each occupant. A hundred reminiscences pass before us that we would be -lad to here recite if we had time and you space for the matter.
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