"Near the first part of September, 1814, I was drafted, to go to the front at Buffalo. My mother and sisters said that I must not go, for if I did I would never return. They influenced father to hire a substitute for me. We were ordered to meet at the Cayuga bridge on a certain day; so we fitted out my substitute with a knapsack, a blanket and some provisions, and I went out with him to the place of meeting. He was a man who was in the habit of drinking to excess sometimes, and the captain refused to accept of him. I was at first at a loss what to do, but concluded that I would not go home and be called a coward; so I shouldered the knapsack and went on to Buffalo."
"In the summer of 1817, I came out to this town and bought forty acres of wild land. In 1819, I shouldered my ax and pack with some provisions and clothes, came out to this town again, and chopped off a piece of said land, and cut logs to build a log house."
"Joel Hudson was a soldier in the War of 1812, and is now a pensioner. After he came to Springwater he held many town offices and finally was elected justice-of-the-peace, which office he has held for about forty years. He is ninety-two years old, and is as smart as many men at sixty, and comes to the valley a distance of one and a half miles on foot nearly every Sunday to attend church, whether it storms or is fair weather."
From Walbridge's 1887 History of Springwater, New York.
"In the summer of 1817, I came out to this town and bought forty acres of wild land. In 1819, I shouldered my ax and pack with some provisions and clothes, came out to this town again, and chopped off a piece of said land, and cut logs to build a log house."
"Joel Hudson was a soldier in the War of 1812, and is now a pensioner. After he came to Springwater he held many town offices and finally was elected justice-of-the-peace, which office he has held for about forty years. He is ninety-two years old, and is as smart as many men at sixty, and comes to the valley a distance of one and a half miles on foot nearly every Sunday to attend church, whether it storms or is fair weather."
From Walbridge's 1887 History of Springwater, New York.
"Near the first part of September, 1814, I was drafted, to go to the front at Buffalo. My mother and sisters said that I must not go, for if I did I would never return. They influenced father to hire a substitute for me. We were ordered to meet at the Cayuga bridge on a certain day; so we fitted out my substitute with a knapsack, a blanket and some provisions, and I went out with him to the place of meeting. He was a man who was in the habit of drinking to excess sometimes, and the captain refused to accept of him. I was at first at a loss what to do, but concluded that I would not go home and be called a coward; so I shouldered the knapsack and went on to Buffalo."
"In the summer of 1817, I came out to this town and bought forty acres of wild land. In 1819, I shouldered my ax and pack with some provisions and clothes, came out to this town again, and chopped off a piece of said land, and cut logs to build a log house."
"Joel Hudson was a soldier in the War of 1812, and is now a pensioner. After he came to Springwater he held many town offices and finally was elected justice-of-the-peace, which office he has held for about forty years. He is ninety-two years old, and is as smart as many men at sixty, and comes to the valley a distance of one and a half miles on foot nearly every Sunday to attend church, whether it storms or is fair weather."
From Walbridge's 1887 History of Springwater, New York.
"In the summer of 1817, I came out to this town and bought forty acres of wild land. In 1819, I shouldered my ax and pack with some provisions and clothes, came out to this town again, and chopped off a piece of said land, and cut logs to build a log house."
"Joel Hudson was a soldier in the War of 1812, and is now a pensioner. After he came to Springwater he held many town offices and finally was elected justice-of-the-peace, which office he has held for about forty years. He is ninety-two years old, and is as smart as many men at sixty, and comes to the valley a distance of one and a half miles on foot nearly every Sunday to attend church, whether it storms or is fair weather."
From Walbridge's 1887 History of Springwater, New York.
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