Excerpt from Festal Gathering of the Early Settlers and Present Inhabitants of Virgil: Held on Thursday, the 25th of August, 1853

In 1794, John M. Frank, who had a patent. For lot No. 43, zame to ascertain its location and condition. Lle came along lines of lots by marked trees. Taking the present south line of the Town, upon which his lot was bounded, made his discoveries and returned. The next vear he came, made a beginning in the forest, erected a house, re turned to his family and made preparations to move on. He came from Montgomery to Cooperstown, then down the Susquehanna to Chenango l'oiut, thence up the Chenango and Tioughnioga rivers to Chaplin's, thence on the State road to a point it 'ar where the village now is, thence southerly, passing near where Murdock's Tannery stands, and so on over the hill to near where Mr. Iiotchkiss now lives, and then to the building he had erected. They arrived in November. 1795, after a journey of six weeks. And from that time till spring saw none but their own family. The man whom he had employed to move them in brought the family, and l\lr. F 'ank came out on foot and drove seven head of cattle and six sheep. The sheep went away a little from the house a few davs after their arrival, got out of sight and were never heard of after, and it was supposed that the Wolves took them. The cattle were wintered on browse, and all lived except one yearling. Samuel Marvin, who moved the family, agreed further, that he would clear two acres and furnish the family with provisions for one year for three hundred acres off the east side of the lot, which agreements were mutually fulfilled.' It is well to understand, that, though the patents were for the whole square mile, yet the State reserved to itself the right to retain one hundred acres in the southeast corner of each lot, and give an equal amount in (lhio, unless the person to receive the patent should give notice of his wish to have his land together, also charged the patentee eight dollars for surnwiug, and, in default of payment, reserved fifty acres in one corner, called the Survey of fifty acres. L.' Mr. Frank gave notice and saved the one lumdred acres, but could not raise the eight dollars to save the tiftv, though he offered a cow for the money, and also proposed to mortgage the whole lot in security; consequently the fifty acres were alienated, constituting part of the farm now oxnted by l). L. Bronson.

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