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Jennifer Mackley's 2012 discovery of 1832 Woodruff home site in Richland Township New York - with photographs by Richard Lambert

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Page 1: Wilford Woodruff in New York

The life of

WILFORD WOODRUFF

New YorkV

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Born in Avon, Connecticut on March 1, 1807

Baptized in Richland Township, New York on December 29, 1833

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Home where Wilford Woodruff was born and raised. 1892 photo by Junius F. Wells

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Farmington Mill of Cowles, Deming & Camp where Wilford worked in the 1820s.

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PalmyraRichland

Fayette

Toronto, Canada

Mendon Spafford

Why did the Woodruff brothers leave Connecticut to buy a mill and farm in New York?

200 years of family roots in Connecticut where generations of Woodruffs had owned mills

The spiritual answer is evident in the towns surrounding Richland …

and the events that took place in the area in the 1820s-1830s.

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John Taylor

Toronto

Wilford Woodruff

Joseph Smith Richland

Palmyra Martin Harris

Mendon Spafford

Brigham Young Zerah Pulsipher

Fayette

Peter Whitmer

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The physical evidence of their path begins with Ozem Thompson Woodruff leaving CT

In 1819 to help build the Erie Canal (1817-1825). Then settling in the Daysville area in

Richland Township, NY and inviting his brothers to join him.

Daysville Station on the NY Central Railroad (photo taken 2009)

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1829 Map of Oswego County showing townships, roads and mills!

Richland Township

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May 3, 1832

Willford Woodruff

paid $1,000 to Constant

and Lucene Soul

for 50 acres of Lot #57

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Note: The words Azmon

Woodruff and Ozem

Woodruff erased

on the 4th line.

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June 15, 1832 Willford, Azmon, and Ozem T. Woodruff purchased 67 acres of Lot #70

from Rudolph and Elizabeth Bunner. Lot 70 included the mill shown on the 1829 map.

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Purchase price $264. 57

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Dated

June 15th, 1832

67 and 34/100

acres

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Enlarged portion of

1829 map showing

Richland Township

with lots 57 and 70

outlined in red.

The Woodruffs

purchased

portions of lots 57

and 70, where the

“x” marks the spot

of their mill on

Grindstone Creek.

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In the 1832 deeds the Woodruffs bought:

50 acres of Lot 57 (a rectangle) covering 5/8 of the lot starting at

the SW corner 27 chains and 27 links x 18 chains and 31 links x 27

chains and 27 links to S edge x 18 chains and 31 links along S edge

back to beginning at SW corner

and 67 1/3 acres of Lot 70 (an Idaho shaped piece) starting at

the NW corner 36 chains to the SW corner x 36 chains and 75 links to

the SE corner x 2 chains and 88 links up the E edge x 4 chains and 52

links to the Hiway x 16 chains along the Hiway x 9 chains and 50 links

N x 1 chain and 18 links W to center of Grindstone Creek x follow the

“windings and turnings” of the Creek x ? chains 10 links to N edge x 1

chain 7 links to beginning at NW corner

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The portions of Lots 57 and 70 which the Woodruffs purchased outlined on the

1829 map 2012 map

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Current NY Dept of Ecology

map of the same area

along Grindstone Creek

Outlining both Lot 57 and

70 and the junction

of County Route 28 and

Salisbury Road where their

Home and the mill were

Located.

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Richard and Ron’s August 2012 route … retracing the December 1833 path

of missionaries Zerah Pulsipher and Elijah Cheney

A – Spafford (home of Zerah Pulsipher)

B – Fabius (home of Elijah Cheney

C – Daysville (home of Woodruff brothers)

A

C

B

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Spafford Hollow Cemetery where Nelson Pulsipher’s headstone is found

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Nelson Pulsiper died May 7, 1824 age 4 years

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Hill east of Spafford Corners where Zerah helped build the Freewill Baptist Church in 1828.

John Gould served as pastor. He, along with the Pulsiphers, Roundys, and Cheneys, were

among the hundreds converted to the restored gospel in the 1830s.

They left the Spafford area to join the Saints in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, in what became

known as the “Mormon Exodus.”

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Mary Brown and Zerah Pulsipher

Spafford, Onondaga County, New York

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In December 1833, when Zerah

announced God wanted him to preach the

gospel, his wife Mary asked where he was

going and when he would return. He

answered, “I don’t know, only that I am

going to preach the Gospel. The Lord will

show me where to go. I am going where

He guides me.”

Zerah and his friend Elijah walked

over 60 miles before Zerah felt impressed

to stop at the Woodruff’s home.

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Zerah Pulsipher’s home in Spafford Elijah Cheney’s home in Scott

Woodruffs home in Richland

http://www.old-maps.com/NY/ny-state/NY_1832_Burr_web.jpg

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Grindstone Creek/Richland area 2012 … 180 years later

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Junction of

County Rt 28 and

Salisbury Road

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Creasy’s

portion of

Lot 70

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Looking East - Grindstone Creek is across the road behind the car

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Municipality of Richland Property Records

Legal Property Description: 9 acres of Lot 70 111-001-000 Deed Book: 2009 Page: 7754

New Owners: Troy and Shelley Creasy building their new house on the portion of Lot 70 once

owned by Wilford, Thompson and Azmon Woodruff

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Tom Creasy with Richard Lambert standing in front of pieces of the foundation of the

building on Lot 70 discovered when the Creaseys began constructing their house.

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Looking north on Grindstone Creek at the spot

where Wilford and Azmon Woodruff were baptized December 31, 1833.

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Looking south on Grindstone Creek at what might have been the millpond

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Example of another mill on Grindstone Creek with the mill pond.

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Baptism of Wilford Woodruff

as pictured in the movie “The

Great Apostasy.”

Of his baptism

Wilford Woodruff

wrote, "The snow

was about three feet

deep, the day was

cold, and the water

was mixed with ice

and snow, yet I did

not feel the cold."

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Zerah Pulsipher

Born June 24 1789 in Roddingham, VT

Married Polly Randall in 1810 (d. 1812)

Married Mary Brown 1815 (1799-1886)

Baptized January 11, 1832 in Spafford, NY

Baptized Wilford and Azmon Woodruff

December 31, 1833

Moved to Kirtland, Ohio 1835

A President of 1st Quorum of 70 1838

Moved to Far West, Missouri 1838

Moved to Nauvoo, Illinois 1840

Endowed in Nauvoo Temple 1845

Captain of 100 in exodus to Utah 1848

Ordained a patriarch

Died January 1, 1872 in Hebron, Utah

Daughter Sarah Ann Pulsipher Alger

helped complete temple work

for Eminent Women in St. George Temple

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Elijah Cheney

Born September 14, 1785 in Barrington, MA

Moved to New York in 1795

Married Achsa Thompson March 14, 1811

Served in the War of 1812

Moved to Scott, NY in 1821

Baptized February 1, 1832 by Jared Carter

Ordained an Elder in 1833

Preached gospel to Wilford Woodruff in 1833

Moved to Kirtland in 1835

Moved to Far West in 1839

Moved to Mason, Illinois in 1840

Endowed in Nauvoo Temple February 1846

Reached Utah in June 1849

Died November 3, 1863 in Centerville, Utah

From 1815-1819, Elijah’s brother Zacheus Cheney,

a cloth maker, was master to apprentice Millard Fillmore,

future President of the United States.

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Born in Avon, Connecticut March 1, 1807

Died in San Francisco, California September 2, 1898

Boston, Massachusetts 1839 Salt Lake City, Utah 1894