part of the town of Roxbury, and also over on the edge of Greene
County. I remember, when Grandfather used to tell stories of cruelty
in the army, and of the hardships of the soldiers, she would wriggle
and get very angry. All her children were large. They were as
follows: Sukie, Ezekiel, Charles, Martin, Edmund, William, Thomas,
Hannah, Abby, and Amy (my mother). Aunt Sukie was a short, chubby
woman, always laughing. Uncle Charles was a man of strong Irish
features, like Grandfather. He was a farmer who lived in Genesee
County. Uncle Martin was a farmer of fair intelligence; Ezekiel was
lower in the scale than the others; was intemperate, and after losing
his farm became a day-laborer. He would carry a gin-bottle into the
fields, and would mow the stones as readily as he would the grass--
and I had to turn the grindstone to sharpen his scythe. Uncle Edmund
was a farmer and a pettifogger. Uncle William died comparatively
young; he had nurseries near Rochester. Uncle Thomas was a farmer,
slow and canny, with a quiet, dry humor. Aunt Hannah married Robert
Avery, who drank a good deal; I can't remember anything about her.
Aunt Abby was large and thrifty; she married John Jenkins, and had a
large family. . . . Amy, my mother, was her mother's tenth child.

Mother was born in Rensselaer County near Albany, in 1808. Her
father moved to Delaware County when she was a child, driving there
with an ox-team. Mother "worked out" in her early teens. She was
seventeen or eighteen when she married, February, 1827.

Father and Mother first went to keeping house on Grandfather
Burroughs's old place--not in the log house, but in the frame house
of which you saw the foundations. Brother Hiram was born there.