Erie County (PA) Genealogy
Pomeroy Journals - circa 1820 to 1840
Contributed by Nancy Schlobohm
A web site visitor, Nancy Schlobohm, contributed the very interesting journal extracts shown below. She was searching for, and found, information about her ancestor, Medad Pomeroy and family. As a result, she provided the information that is shown below. Unfortunately, this information has been sitting in your web site coordinator's email box since July 2002. Fortunately, it has been found and is now being posted. Although the article mentions Conneaut Township, it also indicates Cranesville, which is actually a part of Elk Creek Township. As we do not have the "exact" location, this article will be listed associated with both townships.
Additional information concerning this family will be posted at a later date as some clarification is needed. However, since this material contains so many names, it is being posted now.
The
following information is directly quoted from POMEROY HISTORY
August 1939, by William Fisler
Pomeroy:
From
the HISTORY OF
The first Commissioners of Conneaut
Township were Samuel Bradish, Matthew Harington, and Captain David Sawdy.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island,
Captain Sawdy was a blacksmith, a sailor on a whaling
vessel, ship Captain, was taken prisoner in French and Indian War, sailed to
West Indies, and operated drygoods store in Paris New
York. In 1819 he bought farm 1600 acres
in
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In 1920, Joe Richardson, while
rummaging through an old attic, found an account book which had lain hidden for
many long years. Joe was a
THE
TAVERN
at
1837
Imagination must supply part of this
story, although it will not be necessary to draw much from that source. Beside me lies an old account-book in which
James Pomeroy kept the records of his transactions a century ago. this old book is long
and narrow, tattered and torn from abuse, and the writing, while legible, is
badly faded.
Leaning over the bar and chatting
with each customer in turn, James Pomeroy wrote:
Oct
Geo Stuntz 1
Dinner 25
David Sawdy 1
Dinner 25
Daniel
Fleming 1 Dinner 25
Wm Cross 1 Dinner 25
Royal
Cal Davis Paid
Evans Paid
Esq. Hall Paid
Geo R. Cutler 1
Dinner 25
Esq.
Litchfield 1 Dinner 25
Bill
of 26th 1837 To crackers and cheese 37
David
Sawdy Lodging & Breakfast 31
Geo
Cutler " " 31
Esq.
Litchfield " " 31
Wm.
Cross " " 31
David
B. Jackson " " 31
27th David
Sawdy Supper lodging
& Breakfast 56
Here the page is torn and we can
only wonder what business brought together Esquires Ball and Litchfield, the
referees and witnesses? Perhaps it was
land boundaries, or opening a road?
James Pomeroy was in his prime, 42
years old, when he wrote on this page, now brown and mottled; while Harriet,
then 16, went quickly here and there to wait upon the hungry men. The timid child that ran
bout the house; was Steve, my father, then a child of 3.
Sept 15 Peter McKenney
commenced boarding.
Oct 29 Peter McKenney
left boarding
Oct 29 Isaac Pomeroy to 12 lbs. beef @ 4 cents 48
Left
boarding May 3d 1838
35 weeks and one day 2.50 per week
Sep 18 Thos. Annis Dr. to
62 lb. beef 2.40
to 1 drink whsk .06
Oct 2 to 16 lbs. beef @4 .64
total 3.10
Sept 19 Thos. Annis
Cr. by cash 2.46
Oct 30 by potatoes .64 total 3.10
Sep
1
drink and supper 31
2
drinks 12
to breakfast 25
the above
settled
Sep 21 to supper 25
to 1 horse two days 75
to 2 drinks whiskey 13
Sep 25 to one bushel potatoes 25
Nov
to 4 quarts oats
9
to 2 drinks brandy 13
to 1 whsk 6
Emma
Loomis to supper 25
To
crackers & cheese by referees & witnesses 25
A
King to supper 25
Daniel
Fleming to supper 25
paid Jackson .50
Nov 21 Paid
December
Court 1.50
Dec.
to 1 bu. buckwheat .62
to 1 bu. buckwheat .62
Amos
Bradish Debtor to A. Munrow
bill of returns 3.00
George
Pomeroy Debtor to cash for Nathaniel Pomeroy 1.14
June 1837 Elihu Crane Dr. to 1000
ft. of hewed timber
@ 4 cents per foot 40.00
1837
to making wagon axle 1.50
to framing axle tree 1.50
5
meals victuals & lodging 1.31
Horses
to hay 2 nights & 1 day .50
to five pecks of oats .62
Total 5.44
Evidently James Duncan had broken
his wagon axle and had halted his journey at the tavern while James Pomeroy,
who also did carpenter work, made a new axle for him.
1840
to 1/2 bu. oats
The
oats had by DeWolf .19
to two bu. oats fed to Isaac
Pomeroy's & Sherman's
teams oxen .50
to thirty yards factory cloth 3.75
to two axes 1.25
Probably
this cloth was used to make a wagon sheet for a covered wagon
My eye falls upon an entry in a
woman's handwriting, dainty and feminine, possibly written under the critical
gaze of the customer. In fancy I see a
trace of color mounting her cheek as she makes the record:
Aug the 7 Dr. to 25 pounds of flower
at 2 1/2 cents per
pound .62
Dr.
to washing .06
Ruth
Pomeroy Cr. by 14 lbs. cheese
The Tavern Keeper had given Ruth
Pomeroy, who his sister-in-law, credit for one cheese weighing 14 lbs.
But
there is more than the record indicates.
There must be. As I turn the
crumbling leaves I feel very near to these old names. It seems as if they speak in gentle tones,
low and sweet, while closer, closer round about me come the echoes of a day
recorded on its faded page. Waiting
there, beside the pasture fence, the patient cows
watched Ruth take down the bars. She
called out gently, each familiar name and patted them as they passed through
the gate. While carrying the heavy,
brimming pail, a sentimental song rose in her throat. Perhaps in a spring-trough the milk was
cooled. Then carefully the cheese was
put to press. Down in the stone-arched
cave all cool and dark, she placed the cheese upon the shelf to age. Ruth Pomeroy was 37 years old when she walked
into the tavern carrying a 14 lb. cheese.
Ruth was the daughter of Elihu Crane and was
born
Isaac Pomeroy and Ruth Crane were
married and had 9 children; Alden, Clarinda, Mary, Hannah, Sarah, Lucy, Laura,
Eliza, and Jerome (Civil War Vet.) Isaac
died in 1842.
Alden Pomeroy was a farmer and had
169 acres of land. He served 7 years as
Captain of the Pennsylvania State Militia.
Isaac Pomeroy was a brother to my
grandfather James Pomeroy.
It is not disappointing to note that
none of the Pomeroys of our ancestry, since coming to
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From
History of
"
After
several entries in the first pages of the account book, he recorded an index:
A
David
Atwood
John
Alesworth
Thomas
Acres
Thomas
Annis
B
Walter
Bradish Wm.
Boardwell Amos
Bradish
Francis
Brock Stephen
Beckwith Reuben Benton
Nathan
Barton
Noah
Ball Nathaniel Babit Nathaniel
Battles
Richard
Bradish Joshua
Barron Charles
Bagley
C
Fowler
Crane Geo Cutler Jerry Collins
Anson
Canfield Philip Coon John Carter
Elihu Crane Jonas
Cutler Walter Cady
Ephriam Crane Oliver
Cook F. J. Christy
Adoujeah Crane Jabez Cloak
Robert
Condon John
Anson
Crocker Horace Craz
D
Daniel
Driscol Alva
DeWolf
James
Duncan James Dunn
Horace
Darlin Hiram
DeWitt
Darlympl
Driskoll
E G H I
Esquire
Jas. Eaton David Graves Hillgore Lewis Irish
Lyman
Evans L. R. George
Glenn Geo Hoxey
Wm
Hulburt
Samuel
Halstead
J K L. P. Howard L
Obid Jenks Wm
Kelly Jacob Hutchins Litchfield
Abel
James Anthony King
Isaac
Johnson Jacob
Keyser Hogarty Daniel Le Horn
Levi
Joslin Alfred
King Hayman Alfred Leatherby
Joseph
L. Jackson John
Aben Keep T.
Hedges James Lynch
Julius Keepe John
Le Horn
M O P
Wm
Martin Michael
O'Brien Sullivan Porter
Samuel
Main Wm O'Neil Michael Perry
Cornelius
McBride James O'Hara Elias Palmer
Lyman
Maxon Geo
Pomeroy
Daniel
Mansfield Francis
Pierce
David
Matthers Isaac
Pomeroy
Geo
Montgomery John
Perry
Albert
Matthers Nathaniel
Pomeroy
Robert
McKalmy Joseph
Petro
Rober Mac Commins Lewis
Preston
Jesse
Macumber Orson
Pond
Wm
Morgan John
Pomeroy
David
Milks Isaac
Pomeroy
John
Mac Brader Lyman
Pomeroy
Willard
Marifield George
Petro
Cornelius
Mahoney Harry
Pomeroy
John
Mina
John
Maginty
Lyman
Maxon
R S T
O.C.
Randall Gravestone
Sikes Doctor Trowbridge
Samuel
Sherman
James
Swany
Charles
Spiller
Abraham
Spiller
Edward
Sondergrass
Here
the list ends, for the page is torn.
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