The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 456
Town of Moravia

wide-spread notoriety as a cook, and the traveler at any hour of the day or night was sure of a substantial and digestible meal."  "Upon the sign used to inform the public of the name of the tavern was painted the figures 1801, the first three of which were nearly obliterated, so that it was often jocosely remarked that 'Aunt Cady' had kept tavern there ever since the year one." Zadoc died March 6th, 1846, aged 82 years; and Lucy, his wife, January 21st, 1854, aged eighty-five. None of their children are living. Artemas and Isaac Cady were sons of theirs. The former was a Member of Assembly in 1840; the latter is particularly well remembered for his zeal in the cause of human freedom, religion and temperance. He died August 26th, 1864, aged sixty-nine years.

Newman and Noah Cole came in about 1797. The latter lived near the residence of C. S. Jennings, where he owned a still. He died March 20th, 1870, aged sixty-nine years. William Everson came in with his father from New Jersey in 1797, and settled on the farm where he lived till 1864, when he removed to Moravia. In 1818, he married Miss Kate Thompson, by whom he raised a highly esteemed and worthy family. He died at the age of eighty. John Summerton, from Stillwater, settled about 1797, on lot 46, in the north-east corner of the town, which lot he bought. He died in 1803, while on the way to Albany with a load of wheat. His children were Phineas, Thomas, Phebe, afterwards wife of Henry Persoll, Jr., and Katurah, afterwards wife of Samuel Royce, all of whom are dead. Their children have left the country.

A man named Bucklin came in as early as 1798, in which year he had a small tan yard near the cold spring on the Morse farm. His principal business was tanning deerskins. In the fall of 1798 the first schoolhouse was built near the residence of Dr. Alley, in Moravia, and a school was taught therein the following year by Levi Goodrich, and the second year by David Wright. David Royce, who was born in New Haven, Conn., November 27th, 1798, came to Moravia with his father in 1800, Thomas and Timothy West, brothers, came in from Saratoga county in 1800, and each bought two adjoining survey fifties. They were Quakers. Thomas settled on the farm now owned and occupied by his son-in-law, Elondo Greenfield, and died there March 9th, 1868, aged eighty-eight. His children were, Clarissa J, afterwards wife of William Titus, and Mary Minerva, afterwards wife of Elondo Greenfield, both of whom are dead. Timothy sold his land to Calvin Curtis, whose son, D. N. Curtis, now occupies it, and removed to Ohio.

Jeremiah Sabin settled at Montville in 1801. He was noted for his large stature and great strength. He and his son Jeremiah and Zadoc Rhodes, Sr., each with his family, occupied that year the Bennett house at Montville, previously occupied by Zadoc Cady as a tavern. Rhodes soon after removed to the brickyard and commenced the manufacture of brick. The senior Sabin put up the distillery east of the gristmill. A portion of the walls of the lower story was formed of the natural rock, the rest consisting of laid stone. The upper part was of wood, and was framed. He died August 6th, 1847, aged seventy-five years.

In 1802, Oliver Dake built the red house now standing at the head of the gulf. It is the oldest building in the town of Moravia. In this year, too, James Powers, Sr., and Thomas hunt were engaged in the tanning business, near the cemetery gate ; and Joseph Pierce built the saw-mill at the upper falls of Pierce Creek. It was burned in 1816 or '17. Saturday night, April 25th, 1818, James Powers' two children were drowned.

In 1803, Stoyell deeded to Lemuel Spooner the carding works and turning lathe on the north side of the creek and west of the bridge, at Montville. These were then the only carding works in the south Part of the County. Spooner soon after sold them to John Demmon and Benjamin Dexter, by whom they were run as late as 1815. It was in these works that Millard Fillmore learned the trade of wool carding and cloth dressing. They were afterwards owned and run by Slocum Smith, who enlarged them and added the manufacture of cloth; and still later by Christopher Kenyon, -- Smith, Joseph Tinker, and lastly by -- Simpkins. They were then dismantled, and the building has been used for a lath-mill, planing-mill, and, at the present time, as a barrel factory.

William Alley, a mason, came in from Sullivan County in 1805, and settled two miles north of Moravia, on the farm now occupied by Joseph McClintock. He died in Moravia in 1850, aged

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