Pioneer history of the Holland Purchase of western New York : embracing some account of the ancient remains, and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland Company ; including reminiscences of the War of 1812 ; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie Canal, etc., etc., etc. . NDicoTT a: CO HOLLAND PURCHASE. 567 EBENEZER MIX. The artist, it will be conceded, has been successful. The featureshe has presented will be recognised in every school district uponthe Holland Purchase. To have rendered the portrait more familiarthe old land office clerk should have been rep
Pioneer history of the Holland Purchase of western New York : embracing some account of the ancient remains, and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland Company ; including reminiscences of the War of 1812 ; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie Canal, etc., etc., etc. . NDicoTT a: CO HOLLAND PURCHASE. 567 EBENEZER MIX. The artist, it will be conceded, has been successful. The featureshe has presented will be recognised in every school district uponthe Holland Purchase. To have rendered the portrait more familiarthe old land office clerk should have been represented holding inhis hands an - article, (tattered and torn, upon its reverse side,endorsements, assignments, and re-assignments,) peering over itwith a mathematical eye, determining metes and boundaries, adjust-ing conflicting claims, modifying or reviewing, or perhaps can-celling it preparatory to a deed in fee. Then the picture wouldhave been true to life and reality; but these are associations thatall the old settlers will readily supply. Mr. Mix is a native of New Haven, Conn. He became aresident at Batavia in 1809; working first at his trade, that of amason, he became a school teacher, then a student at law in theoffice of Daniel B. Brown, Esq., and in March, 1811, entered intothe service o
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