Show an early in western new now york in march 1810 enos stone of lenox mass having inherited from his father acres of land on the east aide side of the genesee river battled cd on his property having brought Ms his wife the entire distance the most of it wilderness on an ox led sled two months later a son was born to him in a cabin he had erected on a previous visit to bis his alons the child was the first white child born in what is now monroe county lie ile waa was named james stoddard lie ile became one of the builders up of the city of Ito rochester cheste and died at charlotte in his eighty second year the cabin in which be he was born was made of planks hewed with an ax by his father and it was the first house ever built in what Is now rochester the year james stoddard stone was born his father raised the first wheat c crop r D p la in monroe count county yand and sledded it to batavia t a on the same sled that had carried his wife from lenot it was ground at batavia and made ten barrels of flour As he lie could not discoe e of it tor for cash at home he put it on the old sled and took it all the way to lenox and sold it that was the first shipment of flour from that region which is now famous for that commodity james stoddard stone lived in the b hougg ou where he died for nearly sixty years yea M boston transcript |