Excerpt from Our County and Its People: A History of the Valley and County of Chemung, From the Closing Years of the Eighteenth Century There may be some things in what follows relating to the early history of the valley that do not tally or harmonize with what have been for years considered to be accepted facts. But every incident that is related of those or later times has been verified from sources that will admit of no question. Many a good story has been omit ted that has only tradition or hearsay for a foundation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.