ok wanting.

The local history has been already three times recorded, first in 1838
by Fenimore Cooper, whose work was brought down to date by S. T.
Livermore in 1863, and by Samuel M. Shaw in 1886. While now out of print
many copies of these books are still accessible.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE INDIANS 1

II. THE COMING OF THE WHITE MEN 26

III. A BYPATH OF THE REVOLUTION 51

IV. THE BEGINNING OF THE SETTLEMENT 74

V. A VILLAGE IN THE MAKING 89

VI. OLD-TIME LOVE AND RELIGION 109

VII. HOMES AND GOSSIP OF OTHER DAYS 130

VIII. THE PIONEER COURT ROOM 150

IX. FATHER NASH 163

X. THE IMMORTAL NATTY BUMPPO 174

XI. STRANGE TALES OF THE GALLOWS 192

XII. SOLID SURVIVALS 211

XIII. THE BIRTHPLACE OF BASE BALL 247

XIV. FENIMORE COOPER IN THE VILLAGE 258

XV. MR. JUSTICE NELSON 299

XVI. CHRIST CHURCHYARD 326

XVII. FROM APPLE HILL TO FERNLEIGH 339

XVIII. THE LAKE OF ROMANCE AND FISHERMEN 364

XIX. TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINNINGS 393

VILLAGE MAP AND GUIDE 432

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
COOPERSTOWN, from the northwest _Joseph B. Slote_ Frontispiece

THE COOPER GROUNDS _Arthur J. Telfer_ 2

COUNCIL ROCK _Arthur J. Telfer_ 8

THE OTSEGO IROQUOIS PIPE 13

AT MILL ISLAND _Charles Frederick Zabriskie_ 21

JOSEPH BRANT, from the Romney portrait 52

SITE OF CLINTON'S DAM _A. J. Telfer_ 71

OTSEGO LAKE, from Cooperstown _A. J. Telfer_ 78

THE OLDEST HOUSE _Charles A. Schneider_ 86

WILLIAM COOPER, from the Stuart portrait 91

AVERELL COTTAGE _C. A. Schneider_