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AH AGED COUPLEJonathan Cory of Highland -Sketch of Hi* Life. * jI recently had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Jonathan Cory of the town of High* land, Sullivan county. lie is almost four score and a half, is a smart, sociable, intelligent', Christian gentleman, and an example ! of activity for many of our young men of the present day. M r. Cory was bora at j Abram (Abrm is an old Indian name) Plains, Wyoming county, Pa., March 30, 1700. When I saw him he was on a visit at his son’s, Mr. H. I). Cory, near Barryville. He was threshing buckwheat in company with others, “ for exercise,” he said. I asked him to give a little history of his life. He said he was past eighty-seven years of age •could walk eighteen miles in a day without fatigue; had done it a short time liefore for his pension papers.He was bora just at tlie close of the Revolutionary war. His parents, with others, were driven by the Indians from Wyoming to Dolsontowo, Orange County. N. V. His uncle, Silas Cory, was captured by the enemy, his skin was pierced full with pine splinters, and then he was raised from the ground with poles, and burned in the presence of the other prisoners. Major John Wood, of Goshen, N. Y., was taken prisoner the same time. He gave a “ sign ” to Brant and was spared, but remained a prisoner for seven years.The Indians were repulsed by General Sullivan and driven off to Niagara Falla, Canada.His wife, daughter of Mr. Joshua Oavis, was bora in the town of Minisink 83 years ago, and is a niece of Col. Thurston who fell in the Minisink tattle at Beaver Brook, and is as cheerful and liappy as himself. They were married by Elder Ball, a Baptist minister of Minisink, in the year 1817. and have lived together pleasantly for 02 years, without even thinking of being divorced, which is undoubtedly too much the custom now-a-days.L V. C.
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Sat, Sep 29, 1877
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