he unloaded it, built him a house, and lived with his family.

The next season he planted corn at that place and built a grist and saw
mill on Genesee Falls, now called Rochester.

At the time Allen built the mills, he had an old German living with him by
the name of Andrews, whom he sent in a canoe down the river with his mill
irons. Allen went down at the same time; but before they got to the mills
Allen threw the old man overboard and drowned him, as it was then
generally believed, for he was never seen or heard of afterwards.

In the course of the season in which Allen built his mills, he became
acquainted with the daughter of a white man, who was moving to Niagara.
She was handsome, and Allen soon got into her good graces, so that be
married and took her home, to be a joint partner with Sally, the squaw,
whom she had never heard of till she got home and found her in full
possession; but it was too late for her to retrace the hasty steps she had
taken, for her father had left her in the care of a tender husband and
gone on. She, however, found that she enjoyed at least an equal half of
her husband's affections, and made herself contented. Her father's name I
have forgotten, but her's was Lucy.

Allen was not contented with two wives, for in a short time after he had
married Lucy he came up to my house, where he found a young woman who had
an old husband with her. They had been on a long journey, and called at my
place to recruit and rest themselves. She filled Allen's eye, and he
accordingly fixed upon a plan to get her into his possession. He praised
his situation, enumerated his advantages, and finally persuaded them to go
home and tarry with him a few days at least, and partake of a part of his
comforts. They accepted his generous invitation and went home with him.