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mother and me his whole family - Barney a girl called Bridget - Bryan Barney McEntire a distant relative John Connelly - a school teacher afterwards in Canada - Little John McEntire - Uncle Johns wife (Aunt Katy) I was born in Ireland. We left Ireland in May 1794 and arrived here about August. Lived first at Herkimer where Thomas was born in Feb. 1794. Afterwards lived in N.Y. No 40 Old Slip - Kept boarders - My father bought a farm in the woods about 20 miles north of Herkimer  he cleared 16 acres when he found the land was worth nothing= He traded with Jas McGirt for 200 acres and but 550 acres under - In the exchange the title & the 200 acres proved defective and he became indebted for the whole 750 acres. He deforested 136 [[?]] with Homer in Albany who failed and he lost all - We went to Western in the spring of 1797. My grandfather visited us while we were in Remsen. He went back to Ireland. He was about 100 years old and died afterwards (so Uncle Thomas says) at 110+. Thomas was a clerk in Albany and left because they would let him sit at table with them. In Schenectady he met this woman (Stuart) who became his wife. She had a difficulty with her aunt and he ran away with her. She owned 39 slaves. She told Uncle Philip that she gave Uncle Thomas a check for forty thousand dollars. He died in Amsterdam.

My father cleared about 100 acres in Western. He had hopes that when McGirt died he would leave him the farm at Western but instead he left it to Hosmers children and my father made up his mind he must go where he could make more money to pay for the farm or lose it. I and my father went to Salt Point and were there a year before we moved the family. This was in 1806. In 1807 the family moved there, returned and went back again in 1808. Boiled salt. My father and mother died in 1808 my mother Aug. 16 father 27" The children were all very sick except me and Charles, who was an infant. It must have been a couple of months before we returned to Western. James went to live with his Uncle John clear back in the woods and staid [stayed] there five years. At first all went to the house of Hugh Muller who built a house on fathers land. I went to Squire Salisbury as did Mary Ann. Philip went to Wheelers and Thomas to Dr Blair at Rome. Margaret went to Geo. Braytons. Philip afterward went to Dr Blair in Rome