life in the form of a journal or diary, perhaps it would be well to give a short sketch of it previous to this time, according to the best of my recollection, and of all the information which I can get upon the subject.

I was born upon Sunday the eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty in the town of Pike Allegany County New York.

There among the hills and the frosts of Allegany I first made my appearance in this world of trouble and vexation of spirit, undoubtedly of very small stature and miniature dimensions.

At the end on one year from this time my parents removed from this place to the town of Middlebury in the County of Genesee upon a farm lying a little west of the village of Wyoming, here they remained for about two years and then, not being contented with their situation, removed to a farm lying about half way between the village of Warsaw and that of Wyoming.

I have always lived at home except for about six weeks which I spent with Geo S. Capwell as clerk in his store in the Village of Wyoming in the later part of the year 1845.