. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. Campto confer with the proprietors at Batavia and ascer-tain definitely theh intention towards the committee were unable, however, to obtain satis-li torv . 1 .. :.s to the matter. A second publicmeeting was held at Mayville, January Nth. 1836. The 1 pie were now greatly aroused, and this meeting was even more numerously attended than the formerone. Leverett Barker was chosen president, and JohnM. Idson. secretary. James Mullett addressed the peo-ple in an impressive speech. Speeches were also madeby Judge Foote and
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. Campto confer with the proprietors at Batavia and ascer-tain definitely theh intention towards the committee were unable, however, to obtain satis-li torv . 1 .. :.s to the matter. A second publicmeeting was held at Mayville, January Nth. 1836. The 1 pie were now greatly aroused, and this meeting was even more numerously attended than the formerone. Leverett Barker was chosen president, and JohnM. Idson. secretary. James Mullett addressed the peo-ple in an impressive speech. Speeches were also madeby Judge Foote and others; a committee of seven wasappointed by the chairman, to which was added thechairman and secretary of this meeting, to confer withWilliam Peacock, the agent of the company for Chau-tauqua County. Mr. Peacock received the committeecoldly, and the little information he gave them wasvery unsatisfactory. The result of this conferenceproduced great excitement, and the excesses which fol-lowed the proposed exactions were such as might havebeen AND OFFICIO. MATVILLB THE HOLLAND LAND PURCHASE 265 The early settlers had braved a wilderness andwrought for themselves homes such as extreme and hardship could accomplish. Thev hadrallied at the call of danger, shed their blood andperiled their lives in defense of the soil. The ownershad grown wealthy by the industry of the settlers, andtheir agents rolled in fatness; to impose such termsat a time and under such circumstances as, in a ma-jority of instances, would deprive the settlers of theirfarms and compel them to abandon their possessions,while a course of fair dealing- and equitable require-ments on the part of the owners would enable them,after a few more years of toil, to call the soil on whichthe fire and vigor of their manhood had been expended,as more than they would submit to or ?e small gatherings of the people in?Ilieott and Ellery. in which the subject was1. The more it was talked over, the more en
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