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- "After he arrived at manhood Job Shipman resided for a time in Green County, New York, later in Wayne County, New York, and in the summer of 1804, by way of Lake Ontario, he moved to Carlton, Orleans County, New York."
In a letter to Colonel Stephen Vaughn Shipman [6] in December 13, 1858, Job's son Israel Shipman wrote, "I am the only child of Job Shipman. My father was born at Saybrook, Connecticut on July 2, 1772. He was a farmer, a very tall man, 6'2-3/4" high, well proportioned, and took great delight in clearing new land. He was considered to be very honest, industrious, and humane. For $2 per acre, he purchased in 1804, 173 acres in the Holland Purchase, in sight of Lake Ontario where I was born and still live. [Turner's Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, p. 457, lists Job Shipman under the year 1804, on Tier 16 Range 2). It was howling wilderness, inhabited by wild beasts and rattlesnakes in abundance. It was a hard country to settle. My father fared very hard, having to subsist on fish and potatoes until he cleared a piece of land sufficient to raise produce. He lived three weeks one time without seeing or eating a morsel of bread. Salmon were then in abundance in the streams. One time he had a barrel of salmon dressed and put down, but neglected to them out of the open. That night a bear destroyed the whole barrel. Mosquitoes were a terrible nuisance in those days. My father had to sleep at first in the logging field on a board, sometimes with a smoke smudge beneath to get rid of the mosquitoes. In this bachelor way he struggled until he married my mother in 1815. After my father's death, my mother and I continued to run the farm."
The first town meetings in Carlton for two or three years were held at Job's dwelling. It was one of the best log houses in town; had a shingled roof, board floor, and stood near the middle of town. However, not all of the voters assembled could get in at once. The compromised the matter by allowing the Inspectors to sit in the house while the voters handed their ballots through the window from without. In cold weather even the liberal potations of whiskey would not warm the crowd sufficiently, so they made a large log heap near the house, which being set on fire, answered the purpose.
"A member of the Methodist Church for sixty years." Letter to Colonel Stephen Vaughn Shipman [6].
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1772 - 1833 (60 years)
