Lisa Saunders's Blog, page 5
February 22, 2021
Erie Canal in Clyde: Mural Memorializes Lincoln's Visit
On Feb 18, 2021, Jim Saunders stands in front of the mural depicting Lincoln's inaugural train stop in Clyde, NY, which occurred exactly 160 years earlier on Feb 18, 1861. Ice skaters are seen on the Erie Canal. Excerpt from my epic poem, "Walking the Erie Canal: Secrets of the 8th Wonder, CMV and Pandemic Pizza" by Lisa Saunders:
Standing in the snow beside the painted citizens of Clyde on February18th, 2021,we imagined them shivering as they listened to Abraham Lincoln.His train stopped beside the Canal exactly 160 earlier on his inaugural trip to Washington—it was so cold, the skaters seen in the Canal seemed unworried the ice was too thin.
Sign to the mural reads: "The canal village of Clyde was the only stop made between Rochester and Syracuse by the Lincoln Inaugural Train Monday, February 18,1861. This mural, from the brush of Robert Gillespie, depicts the President-elect addressing an immense crowed which had gathered at the depot." Learn more: http://muralmania.org/lincolns-visit-to-clyde-mural/
From a sign in Clyde (courtesy of Galen Historical Society) regarding Lincoln's brief visit: "During his inaugural train's stop in Clyde, President-Elect, Abraham Lincoln, sporting his new beard, spoke these brief words from the platform of his railway car to a large crowd on February 18, 1861. 'I merely appear before you to say good morning and farewell. I did not come to make a speech, nor have I time to make one if I did. I now bid you good morning, and when the train starts, I will come out again to bid you farewell.'"
Jim and Lisa Saunders walking the 360-mile Erie Canalway Challenge realized they should have brought snow shoes for this leg of the trip in Clyde on Feb 18, 2021.
Took a pizza break at Papa's Place in Clyde where they were happy to find a bathroom.
What we are doing
Walking the Erie Canal:
Secrets of the 8th Wonder, CMV and Pandemic Pizza
by Lisa Saunders
WHAT THIS BLOG/FUTURE BOOK IS ABOUT
While searching for the 7 Wonders of the old Erie Canal, itself considered the 8th Wonder of the World, an upstate New York plump baby boomer wonders if she’ll ever finish walking the entire 360-mile Erie Canalway Trail between Buffalo and Albany. So far, Lisa has endured swarms of mosquitoes, loud gunshots, snakes, snow, violent wind cracking trees above, aching feet and a dead possum. Will she find an outhouse in time? Will she uncover what truly happened to Aunt Rebecca whose body was found in a car submerged in the Canal? Lisa’s progress is continually interrupted as the global pandemic upends her life with demands from her regal mother held prisoner in assisted living, and by home-schooling two young grandchildren when her daughter leaves her job in a castle to work remotely. When deciding on the 7 Wonders, should Lisa only consider the overgrown, stone aqueduct arches and locks hidden along the Old Erie Canal, or also the engineering marvels on the modern, fully operational Erie Canal? And, how will this latest writing project ever get Lisa thin and famous when the only food near the trail is pizza and ice-cream? Trekking alongside is her detail-oriented, rather fussy husband, Jim. They haven’t spent this much time together since their undergraduate days at Cornell. Now a retired Pfizer scientist, Jim is ready to share in Lisa’s latest adventure, hoping to combine their talents to raise awareness of another “C-virus” plaguing the country, cytomegalovirus (CMV). Will their fight for an amendment to the current CMV law in the State of New York be as tough to pass as the legislation to build the original Erie Canal, derogatively called "Clinton’s Ditch"? Will they agree on the 7 Wonders, what kind of pizza to order and overcome the obstacles on the Trail to impact the world—much the same way the Erie Canal did?
Join the Fun!Erie Canalway Map and Guide (map, p.4): https://eriecanalway.org/application/files/5715/9127/5496/ECNHC_MapGuide_2020_final-spreads.pdfCycle the Trail: www.ptny.org/cycle-the-erie-canalEmpire State Trail: empiretrail.ny.govErie Canalway Challenge: eriecanalway.org/explore/challenge
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February 20, 2021
Started Walking Erie Canalway Challenge in Camillus—half way between Buffalo and Albany
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Erie Canal midpoint—Camillus
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February 18, 2021
Erie Canal in Clyde
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February 6, 2021
Skating on site of Old Erie Canal in Syracuse
Waking the new Empire State Trail has made it so much easier for us to walk the Erie Canalway Trail in downtown Syracuse. Just moments before I shot this, yesterday's ice skaters looked just like those of yesteryear pictured on the plaque in Clinton's Square. So excited to see two remnants of the old Canal preserved on the Square.
See images of historic canal stones in warmer December 2020
OTHER FROM THAT TRIP NEAR THE ERIE CANALWAY TRAIL
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February 1, 2021
Ice fisherman says 8-inch ice near Lock 24 on Erie Canal in Baldwinsville, NY
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Sunday on the Erie Canal/Seneca River in Baldwinsville, NY. Water at Lock 24 frozen over
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January 28, 2021
Baby it's cold outside!
We strapped on ice cleats and grabbed a walking stick to help us trek through the cold, snow and ice on the newly constructed Empire State Trail (part of Erie Canalway Trail) near Onondaga Lake, or "Salt Lake" as it was once known for its salty brine springs around the southern end. Syracuse was a major producer of salt, which was shipped east and west along the Erie Canal. The Empire State/Erie Canalway Trails lead to New York State Fair Grounds.
New York State Fair grounds in background.
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January 23, 2021
Help Wanted: Weary Grandparents Seeking to Hitch a Ride on Erie Canal to raise CMV awareness. Plus, new discoveries on 750-mile Empire State Trail!
Jim and Lisa Saunders on Erie Canalway Trail/Empire State Trail off Warner's Rd, Camillus, in Jan., 2021.Dear Folks,
A small boating magazine is publishing our Erie Canal quest and desire to hitch a ride on the Canal. I didn't tell the editor how I abandoned ship on my last adventure (as told in my book, Mystic Seafarer's Trail). I'm hoping to gain a new reputation as a fearless voyager. Unlike the sea, canal travel is so slow I'm not likely to lose my mind imagining going down with the ship.
Jim wearing adventure hat. We are below the old Richmond Aqueduct beside the current Erie Canal through Montezuma Heritage Park. Although boating portions of the Erie Canal rather than walking is "cheating," some of the 360-mile trail is located directly on a busy road, which isn't fun for a walker. A couple flew east from the State of Washington to do what we are attempting to do and decided to cheat by taking car rides for some of the on-road portions. It took them 26 days to complete their journey (they camped along the way), and they noticed that unlike Washington with its frequent coffee offerings, pizza is the only fare found in Canal villages. You can see their photos and walking journal here: https://bellinghamwalks.com/2016/06/1...
If any of you have ideas for where we can publish our "help wanted" blurb (print, online, Facebook), please let me know. Trying to appear adventurous, this is what I submitted for publication in the Feb. 2021 issue of Messing Around on Boats:
Help Wanted: Weary Grandparents Seeking to Hitch a Ride on the Erie Canal
by Lisa Saunders
Although my husband and I are trying to walk the entire 360-mile Erie Canalway Trail in New York for my latest writing venture, we would love to boat through and photograph the locks along the modern Erie Canal. I am the author of the book, Mystic Seafarer's Trail and you can "meet" me in the film, "Mystic Seafarers Trail" by Gregory Pettys, with undersea explorer Captain Bill Palmer on the Thunderfish. Captain Bill shares underwater footage on the wrecks he dives such as German U-boat, U-853. My current project is a book tentatively titled, "Walking the Erie Canal Trail: Secrets of the 8th Wonder of the World, CMV and Pandemic Pizza"...[then I summarize what our quest is and why--see below my signature].
If you live anywhere in New York or are willing to travel here, you may wish to start your own hiking/biking quest, especially now the Erie Canalway Trail is linked to the newly completed, 750-mile Empire State Trail (https://empiretrail.ny.gov/), which goes from Manhattan to Canada and west to Buffalo. It officially opened in December. Because the Empire State Trail gained access to parts of the old Erie Canal that runs through private property, last week Jim and I got to investigate overgrown Lock 50, known as Gere's Lock, near the intersection of Gere Lock and Horan Roads in Camillu (my great-grandmother Mary Sisson McDowell was born in Camillus). The Camillus Erie Canal Museum region is great place to view all kinds of structures on the original Erie Canal (referred to as Clinton's Ditch) and the expanded Old Erie Canal, such as the only restored, fully operational Nile Mile Creek Aqueduct.
According to NY's press release about the Empire State Trail, it is "the nation's longest multi-use state trail" and "spans 750-miles total, 75 percent of which is off-road trails ideal for cyclists, hikers, runners, cross-country skiers and snow-shoers. The new recreational trail, which runs from New York City through the Hudson and Champlain Valleys to Canada, and from Albany to Buffalo along the Erie Canal, will provide a safe and scenic pathway for New Yorkers...The Empire State Trail website provides quick and easy access to trail information including segment descriptions, access points, trail distances, parking areas, restrooms, and nearby amenities and attractions." Here is a map of the new part of the trail we are currently walking: https://empiretrail.ny.gov/rochester-syracuse/camillus-syracuse.
I keep this photo of my Aunt Rebecca found dead in the Erie Canal on my desk to remind me I owe it to her to investigate how she got there. I still haven't seen a coroner's report on my Aunt Rebecca to see if I agree with the suicide verdict, but last month, when reading a genealogy book on my family, I did find out that two of my ancestors were engineers on the expanded Erie Canal--Jacob Leach (my 4th great grandfather) and his son Augustus (my 3rd gg) of Lyons, NY. Jacob was responsible for the Canal portion near us in Jordan (we regularly eat at Jordan's Towpath Pizza). An 1840 article in the Onondaga Standard Extra covered Jacob's committee meeting: "Mr. Jacob Leach, was the resident engineer and in the presence of the chief engineer, strongly urged to press his work forwards faster than he was going on with it. He was directed to excavate 10,000 yards monthly and had increase the number of laborers and had erected 20 shanties"(10/24/1840).
In the 1850s, Jacob's son, Augustus, was employed by the corps of civil engineers and was promoted to overseeing the section from Syracuse to Buffalo. According to his 1901 obituary, Augustus "also invented and drafted plans for the drop gate for locks that were accepted by the state and have continued in use to the present time." There is a street and bridge named Leach Road in Lyons that crosses over the Erie Canal. (More info on Jacob and Augustus below my signature.)
When Jim and I are not overseeing Zoom school with our grandson or driving Mom to her appointments, I've been meeting with NY legislators over Zoom trying to get them to amend the current CMV law. I need to get public attention for this cause--especially if a new bill is submitted for voting on. One way to raise awareness is through publicizing Jim's and my Erie Canal quest!
I would love any advice you have on anything!
Sincerely,
Lisa Saunders
Baldwinsville, NY (Lock 24 on Erie Canal, near Syracuse)
Author of history and children's books
Summary of our quest:
"Walking the Erie Canal Trail: Secrets of the 8th Wonder of the World, CMV and Pandemic Pizza"
While searching for the 7 Wonders of the Old Erie Canal, itself considered the 8th Wonder of the World, an upstate New York plump baby boomer wonders if she’ll ever finish walking the entire 360-mile trail between Buffalo and Albany. So far, Lisa Saunders has endured swarms of mosquitoes, snakes, gunshots, violent wind cracking tree limbs above, aching feet and a dead possum. Will she find an outhouse in time? Will she uncover what truly happened to Aunt Rebecca whose body was found in a car submerged in the Canal? Lisa’s progress is continually interrupted as the global pandemic upends her life with demands from her regal mother held prisoner in assisted living, and by home-schooling two young grandchildren when her daughter leaves her job in a castle to work remotely. When deciding on the 7 Wonders, should she only consider the overgrown, stone aqueduct arches and locks hidden along the Old Erie Canal, or also the engineering marvels on the modern, fully operational Erie Canal?And, how will this latest writing project ever get Lisa thin and famous when the only food near the trail is pizza and ice-cream? Trekking alongside is her detail-oriented, rather fussy husband, Jim. They haven’t spent this much time together since their undergraduate days at Cornell. Now a retired Pfizer scientist, Jim is ready to share in Lisa’s latest adventure, hoping to combine their talents to raise awareness of another “C-virus” plaguing the country, cytomegalovirus (CMV). Will their fight for an amendment to the current CMV law in New York be as tough to pass as the legislation to fund the Erie Canal? Will they agree on what kind of pizza to order, find their “new normal” and overcome the obstacles along the Erie Canalway Trail to impact the world—much the same way the Erie Canal did?
Jacob and August Leach, engineers on the 19th century Erie Canal
Jacob Leach--Find a Grave:
Augustus Mortimer Leach--Find a Grave:
Jacob's son, Augustus Mortimer Leach, was educated at Geneva Academy, now Hobart College. Born the year the first Erie Canal opened, 1825, Augustus died in 1901, four years before construction began on the modern Erie Canal (once referred to as New York State Barge Canal). Augustus Leach's obituary tells of his career and states that Augustus "secured an early business training under his father Jacob in the milling business. In his college course he showed a natural talent for drafting and drawing, and after his graduation he worked as a draughtman for the corps of civil engineers engaged in plotting a new route for the Erie canal through [the Lyons] section. From them he acquired knowledge of civil engineering and he soon rose to a position of prominence in the department of state engineer and surveyor. In the early [18] fifties he was placed in charge of the engineering work on the western section of the Erie canal, having under his supervision the section extending from Syracuse to Buffalo. On the completion of this work he surveyed the Genesee Valley canal from Rochester to Olean [south and a little west of Rochester] and built a big storage dam at Cuba [near Olean]. During this period he also invented and drafted plans for the drop gate for locks that were accepted by the state and have continued in use to the present time [1901]. According to his obit: "From 1855 to 1857 [Augustus] was assistant state engineer under Van Rensselear Richmond of Lyons who was then state engineer and surveyor. During the latter park of that period, Mr. Leach lived in Rochester and Cuba, Allegany County. Later he became engaged in the milling business in Brooklyn together with his father-in-law and a Brooklyn miller under the firm name of Smith, Leach and Jewell. In a few years Mr. Leach, whose early training in the milling business under his father had adapted him for the work, bought out his partners and for ten years conduced the business alone. During the Civil War he had many contracts for furnishing supplies to the government, and both then and at its close his business was remarkably successful so that in 1870 he had amassed a fortune on which he was well able to retire... "
Augustus bought a massive house on a hill in Lyons when he returned from Brooklyn. Calling it Terrace Lawn, it still stands today at 27 Cherry Street. After his death, his son Francis (Frank) Leach lost the family fortune in a bad investment. The dwindling funds could no longer support Augustus's widow and Frank committed suicide in 1912.
Leach photos and information found in book, "The Sisson Family of Lyons, New York", pages 234-243, published 2005 by David Arne Sisson. See: https://www.worldcat.org/title/sisson-family-of-lyons-new-york-elisha-1763-1844-and-elizabeth-chappel-sisson-1763-1826-their-son-william-sisson-1787-1863-and-some-of-their-ancestors-and-descendants-and-those-of-betsey-gale-sisson-1790-1847-harriet-arne-sisson-1825-1902-polly-munro-arne-1794-1878-emma-leach-sisson-1860-1930-with-some-new-clues-to-the-lives-of-williams-sisters-elizabeth-sisson-ellis-and-hannah-burdick-sisson-churchill/oclc/865847739
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Need advice on where to post "Help Wanted: Weary Grandparents Attempting to Hitchhike on Erie Canal" to raise CMV awareness. Plus, new fun on 750-mile Empire State Trail!
Jim and Lisa Saunders on Erie Canalway Trail/Empire State Trail off Warner's Rd, Camillus, in Jan., 2021.Dear Folks,
A small boating magazine is publishing our Erie Canal quest and desire to hitch a ride on the Canal. I didn't tell the editor how I abandoned ship on my last quest (as told in my book, Mystic Seafarer's Trail). I'm hoping to gain a new reputation as a fearless voyager. The editor liked the photos I submitted of us and thought we looked like an adventurous couple (perhaps Jim's cool hat gives that impression). Unlike the sea, canal travel is so slow and calm, I'm not likely to lose my mind imagining going down with the ship.
Jim wearing adventure hat. We are below the old Richmond Aqueduct next to the current Erie Canal in Montezuma Heritage Park. Although boating portions of the Erie Canal rather than walking is "cheating," some of the 360-mile trail is located directly on a busy road, which isn't fun for a walker. A couple flew east from the State of Washington to do what we are attempting to do and decided to cheat by taking car rides for some of the on-road portions. It took them 26 days to complete their journey (they camped along the way), and they noticed that unlike Washington with its frequent coffee offerings, pizza is the only fare found in Canal villages. You can see their photos and walking journal here: https://bellinghamwalks.com/2016/06/1...
If any of you have media suggestions for posting our "help wanted" blurb (print, online, Facebook), please let me know. Trying to appear adventurous, this is what I submitted for publication in the Feb. 2021 issue of Messing Around on Boats:
Help Wanted: Weary Grandparents Attempting to Hitchhike on the Erie Canal
by Lisa Saunders
Although my husband and I are trying to walk the entire 360-mile Erie Canalway Trail in New York for my latest writing venture, we would love to boat through and photograph the locks along the modern Erie Canal. I am the author of the book, Mystic Seafarer's Trail and you can "meet" me in the film, "Mystic Seafarers Trail" by Gregory Pettys, with undersea explorer Captain Bill Palmer on the Thunderfish. Captain Bill shares underwater footage on the wrecks he dives such as German U-boat, U-853. My current project is a book tentatively titled, "Walking the Erie Canal Trail: Secrets of the 8th Wonder of the World, CMV and Pandemic Pizza"...[then I summarize what our quest is and why--see below my signature].
If you live anywhere in New York or are willing to travel here, you may wish to start your own hiking/biking quest, especially now the Erie Canalway Trail is linked to the newly completed, 750-mile Empire State Trail (https://empiretrail.ny.gov/), which goes from Manhattan to Canada and west to Buffalo. It officially opened in December. Because the Empire State Trail gained access to parts of the old Erie Canal that runs through private property, last week Jim and I got to investigate overgrown Lock 50, known as Gere's Lock, near the intersection of Gere Lock and Horan Roads in Camillu (my great-grandmother Mary Sisson McDowell was born in Camillus). The Camillus Erie Canal Museum region is great place to view all kinds of structures on the original Erie Canal (referred to as Clinton's Ditch) and the expanded Old Erie Canal, such as the only restored, fully operational Nile Mile Creek Aqueduct.
According to NY's press release about the Empire State Trail, it is "the nation's longest multi-use state trail" and "spans 750-miles total, 75 percent of which is off-road trails ideal for cyclists, hikers, runners, cross-country skiers and snow-shoers. The new recreational trail, which runs from New York City through the Hudson and Champlain Valleys to Canada, and from Albany to Buffalo along the Erie Canal, will provide a safe and scenic pathway for New Yorkers...The Empire State Trail website provides quick and easy access to trail information including segment descriptions, access points, trail distances, parking areas, restrooms, and nearby amenities and attractions." Here is a map of the new part of the trail we are currently walking: https://empiretrail.ny.gov/rochester-syracuse/camillus-syracuse.
I keep this photo of my Aunt Rebecca found dead in the Erie Canal on my desk to remind me I owe it to her to investigate how she got there. I still haven't seen a coroner's report on my Aunt Rebecca to see if I agree with the suicide verdict, but last month, when reading a genealogy book on my family, I did find out that two of my ancestors were engineers on the expanded Erie Canal--Jacob Leach (my 4th great grandfather) and his son Augustus (my 3rd gg) of Lyons, NY. Jacob was responsible for the Canal portion near us in Jordan (we regularly eat at Jordan's Towpath Pizza). An 1840 article in the Onondaga Standard Extra covered Jacob's committee meeting: "Mr. Jacob Leach, was the resident engineer and in the presence of the chief engineer, strongly urged to press his work forwards faster than he was going on with it. He was directed to excavate 10,000 yards monthly and had increase the number of laborers and had erected 20 shanties"(10/24/1840).
In the 1850s, Jacob's son, Augustus, was employed by the corps of civil engineers and was promoted to overseeing the section from Syracuse to Buffalo. According to his 1901 obituary, Augustus "also invented and drafted plans for the drop gate for locks that were accepted by the state and have continued in use to the present time." There is a street and bridge named Leach Road in Lyons that crosses over the Erie Canal. (More info on Jacob and Augustus below my signature.)
When Jim and I are not overseeing Zoom school with our grandson or driving Mom to her appointments, I've been meeting with NY legislators over Zoom trying to get them to amend the current CMV law. I need to get public attention for this cause--especially if a new bill is submitted for voting on. One way to raise awareness is through publicizing Jim's and my Erie Canal quest!
I would love any advice you have on anything!
Sincerely,
Lisa Saunders
Baldwinsville, NY (Lock 24 on Erie Canal, near Syracuse)
Author of history and children's books
Summary of our quest:
"Walking the Erie Canal Trail: Secrets of the 8th Wonder of the World, CMV and Pandemic Pizza"
While searching for the 7 Wonders of the Old Erie Canal, itself considered the 8th Wonder of the World, an upstate New York plump baby boomer wonders if she’ll ever finish walking the entire 360-mile trail between Buffalo and Albany. So far, Lisa Saunders has endured swarms of mosquitoes, snakes, gunshots, violent wind cracking tree limbs above, aching feet and a dead possum. Will she find an outhouse in time? Will she uncover what truly happened to Aunt Rebecca whose body was found in a car submerged in the Canal? Lisa’s progress is continually interrupted as the global pandemic upends her life with demands from her regal mother held prisoner in assisted living, and by home-schooling two young grandchildren when her daughter leaves her job in a castle to work remotely. When deciding on the 7 Wonders, should she only consider the overgrown, stone aqueduct arches and locks hidden along the Old Erie Canal, or also the engineering marvels on the modern, fully operational Erie Canal?And, how will this latest writing project ever get Lisa thin and famous when the only food near the trail is pizza and ice-cream? Trekking alongside is her detail-oriented, rather fussy husband, Jim. They haven’t spent this much time together since their undergraduate days at Cornell. Now a retired Pfizer scientist, Jim is ready to share in Lisa’s latest adventure, hoping to combine their talents to raise awareness of another “C-virus” plaguing the country, cytomegalovirus (CMV). Will their fight for an amendment to the current CMV law in New York be as tough to pass as the legislation to fund the Erie Canal? Will they agree on what kind of pizza to order, find their “new normal” and overcome the obstacles along the Erie Canalway Trail to impact the world—much the same way the Erie Canal did?
Jacob and August Leach, engineers on the 19th century Erie Canal
Jacob Leach--Find a Grave:
Augustus Mortimer Leach--Find a Grave:
Jacob's son, Augustus Mortimer Leach, was educated at Geneva Academy, now Hobart College. Born the year the first Erie Canal opened, 1825, Augustus died in 1901, four years before construction began on the modern Erie Canal (once referred to as New York State Barge Canal). Augustus Leach's obituary tells of his career and states that Augustus "secured an early business training under his father Jacob in the milling business. In his college course he showed a natural talent for drafting and drawing, and after his graduation he worked as a draughtman for the corps of civil engineers engaged in plotting a new route for the Erie canal through [the Lyons] section. From them he acquired knowledge of civil engineering and he soon rose to a position of prominence in the department of state engineer and surveyor. In the early [18] fifties he was placed in charge of the engineering work on the western section of the Erie canal, having under his supervision the section extending from Syracuse to Buffalo. On the completion of this work he surveyed the Genesee Valley canal from Rochester to Olean [south and a little west of Rochester] and built a big storage dam at Cuba [near Olean]. During this period he also invented and drafted plans for the drop gate for locks that were accepted by the state and have continued in use to the present time [1901]. According to his obit: "From 1855 to 1857 [Augustus] was assistant state engineer under Van Rensselear Richmond of Lyons who was then state engineer and surveyor. During the latter park of that period, Mr. Leach lived in Rochester and Cuba, Allegany County. Later he became engaged in the milling business in Brooklyn together with his father-in-law and a Brooklyn miller under the firm name of Smith, Leach and Jewell. In a few years Mr. Leach, whose early training in the milling business under his father had adapted him for the work, bought out his partners and for ten years conduced the business alone. During the Civil War he had many contracts for furnishing supplies to the government, and both then and at its close his business was remarkably successful so that in 1870 he had amassed a fortune on which he was well able to retire... "
Augustus bought a massive house on a hill in Lyons when he returned from Brooklyn. Calling it Terrace Lawn, it still stands today at 27 Cherry Street. After his death, his son Francis (Frank) Leach lost the family fortune in a bad investment. The dwindling funds could no longer support Augustus's widow and Frank committed suicide in 1912.
Leach photos and information found in book, "The Sisson Family of Lyons, New York", pages 234-243, published 2005 by David Arne Sisson. See: https://www.worldcat.org/title/sisson-family-of-lyons-new-york-elisha-1763-1844-and-elizabeth-chappel-sisson-1763-1826-their-son-william-sisson-1787-1863-and-some-of-their-ancestors-and-descendants-and-those-of-betsey-gale-sisson-1790-1847-harriet-arne-sisson-1825-1902-polly-munro-arne-1794-1878-emma-leach-sisson-1860-1930-with-some-new-clues-to-the-lives-of-williams-sisters-elizabeth-sisson-ellis-and-hannah-burdick-sisson-churchill/oclc/865847739
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