The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . ndsor and Lebanonbeing neighboring towns. Each was of Scotch-Irish descent. As Harper had lived with men ofthat stock in Cherry Valley, so had Mr. Wattles,before coming to the Ouleout, lived with Scotch-Irish at a settlement near Bloomville on the Dela-ware. Mr. Wattless wife was Scotch and a mem-ber of his family was married to a man in CherryValley. While it therefore is true that the com-ing of these men marked the beginning of the Con-necticut stream to Wattless Ferr
The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . ndsor and Lebanonbeing neighboring towns. Each was of Scotch-Irish descent. As Harper had lived with men ofthat stock in Cherry Valley, so had Mr. Wattles,before coming to the Ouleout, lived with Scotch-Irish at a settlement near Bloomville on the Dela-ware. Mr. Wattless wife was Scotch and a mem-ber of his family was married to a man in CherryValley. While it therefore is true that the com-ing of these men marked the beginning of the Con-necticut stream to Wattless Ferry, their coming wasan outcome of influences exerted once more by thatScotch-Irish people who first planted settlements inthe Susquehanna Valley. While engaged in making the survey, Mr. Wat-tles selected a site for his home in Franklin. He * Franklin was named after William Franklin, the natural son of Ben-jamin Franklin, who owned land in what is now that town. He wasone of the colonial governors of New Jersey, and his fathers only became a Tory in the Revolution and thus embittered the old age ofhis father. 348. < 5 2 $ WATTLESS FERRY erected a log house with an elm-bark roof, andbrought his family from Bloomville in 1785. Be-sides his wife he had three children, his brother Johncarrying one of the children in his arms. The house-hold goods were transported on the backs of horses,and at night they camped out in the open woods,reaching the Ouleout on the following day. Indians still dwelt along this stream, and madeclaims to the judges land. But a council soonresulted in an agreement by which his title was ac-knowledged after the Indians had received severalpresents, including a barrel of rum. For six monthsMrs. Wattles never saw any white man except herhusband and his brother. Wolves were numerousin the forest, and their frequent howling made thenights extremely uncomfortable. About 1800 Judge Wattles sold his farm, and fortwenty-five years afterward lived in East Si
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