![]() It was offered by a pedler (sic) at my Fathers house in De Ruyter Madison Co NY. 23, 1826, Ezra wrote his name in the first book he owned, "Memoirs of Andrew Jackson." Much later, in 1866, he added a note in the book: ![]() ![]() The following spring - 1826 - Ezra struck out on his own and walked the 33 miles to Syracuse, where he found work as a journeyman carpenter. And a year later he was able to build a two-story house for his parents and family. ![]() In the winter months, the children attended the local school, which for Ezra, now an adolescent, meant only three months a year in the classroom.Īt age 17, Ezra learned carpentry skills to help his father erect a new building for the pottery. But there were also opportunities for hunting and fishing, quilting, apple bees, barn and house raisings and Quaker meetings. Ezra, now age 12, and his younger brother Elijah had to clear land for corn. Conditions for pioneer farmers were difficult. Once again he moved his family, this time back to the De Ruyter Quaker community, north of Cortland, where he began farming. The pottery market suffered, and so did pottery owner Elijah Cornell. The Panic of 1819 - the country's first major financial crisis, with widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing - marked the end of the economic expansion that followed the War of 1812. ![]()
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