. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. e of 69 years. The old Munson Mill with its two old fashioned run ofFrench Buhr mill stones, well known for many miles around,was burned on April 24, 1888, and has never been rebuilt. Theold dam has been nearly washed away, and there is little leftsave the ruins of its foundations. The mosses have gatheredupon what remains of [he old wooden water wheels; the walls ofthe old mill are fast crumbling away; bushes and weeds growover the old fireplace once used in the old distillery, but as in thedays gone by, the rocks are still there, the brook
. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. e of 69 years. The old Munson Mill with its two old fashioned run ofFrench Buhr mill stones, well known for many miles around,was burned on April 24, 1888, and has never been rebuilt. Theold dam has been nearly washed away, and there is little leftsave the ruins of its foundations. The mosses have gatheredupon what remains of [he old wooden water wheels; the walls ofthe old mill are fast crumbling away; bushes and weeds growover the old fireplace once used in the old distillery, but as in thedays gone by, the rocks are still there, the brook still flows, andthe sound of its murmurings and ripplings, as among the rocksit takes its peaceful course, will ever bring fond recollections andtender memories to the mind of the writer as does no other spoton earth. Samuel Northup was born in September, 1792, at SouthKingston, R. I. His father, with his family of six sons and onedaughter, came to a new home on the Susquehanna a mile ortwo below Otego, in 1802, where his boyhood passed. He was 48. Our First Old Home Week apprenticed to Harmon Treadwell to learn the carpenters tradeand came with him to Smyrna in October, 1810, stopping thefirst night at Roger Cases, in the old house once occupied by thelate William C Record, now used as a barn. Remaining therehe attended the district school the first winter, but as there wasonly a small amount of building at that time, he went on toCanada with his employer and another, where they found morework. They had one horse which they rode alternately, walk-ing with their tools on their back between rides. They hastilyreturned to Smyrna on the eve of the war of I8l2, and Smyrnawas henceforth his home. He purchased his time of Treadwellbefore he was of age, and started life for himself. January 20,I8l9, he married Rachel Rexford, whose father, Joel Rexford,came to Sherburne from Barkhamsted, Ct., with his family in1808 and they began their home life March 20, I8l9, in a partof the house
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