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Brace, Lester

1  on the site of the present village. When Mr. Lester Brace first visited the rock, in 1807, there were no

2  justified and required. In the general melee Mr. Brace's friends fled, seeking other quarters; but he

3  a portion of the journey on snow shoes. Mr. Lester Brace left Bennington in what is now Wyoming county,

4  I have said before that Mr. Lester Brace visited the ferry in 1807. It will be

5  river boatmen who were holding high revel when Mr. Brace arrived; and the landlord, unable to keep them

6  of the old ferry from the memoranda of Mr. Lester Brace.

7  to venture upon business along the river; and Mr. Brace and Mr. St. John, who is represented in this

8  and cold, with the ice running in the river, Mr. Brace, with Mr. St. John, to whom the management of

9  Buffalo creek, and the party, which consisted of Mr. Brace and Mr. St. John and his son, four soldiers and

10  but rose again and spoke encouraging words to Mr. Brace, putting his hand on his shoulder at the same

11  reached shallow water when he disappeared; and Mr. Brace grasped a board which floated near him, by means

12  of the company. It was a cold December day, and Mr. Brace was averse to crossing; for he was unwell, and

13  which induced Leander to swim the Hellespont. Mr. Brace saw the white flag flying on the Canada side,

14  enemy and were the property of the government. Mr. Brace, not caring to dispute the Quartermaster's law,

15  by our army and used for government purposes. Mr. Brace found them in possession of Major Barton, United

16  Among the persons who boarded with Mr. Brace, at the old ferry, was Captain James Rough, a

17  of the ferry lot; and in 1826, Donald Fraser and Lester Brace became its lessees; but the rapid march of

18  way to a more rapid method of propulsion, and Brace and Fraser were bound to put upon the river,

19  Messrs. Brace and Fraser placed the horse-boat on the river;

20  and Fraser placed the horse-boat on the river; Mr. Brace making the journey to Albany to ascertain what

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From the nineteenth century publications of the predecessor of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.