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Mannasseh Prentice, father of Levi Prentice, was born at Preston, Conn., November 25, 1778. He married Susan Lathropp, of Lisbon county, Conn., about the year 1800 and moved to Cazenovia, Tompkins county, N.Y., the same year. He was a captain of New York State Militia in the war of 1812, and died while in the service of his country of campfever in 1814 at Sackets Harbor, N.Y. Levi Prentice, son of Mannasseh and Susan Prentice, was born May 18, 1801, in Cazenovia, N.Y., and came to Ohio with Dr. Tilden in 1817 and married Mary Hartwell, October 13, 1824, who was born in Clarksfield, Canada, East, April 8, 1808. They began housekeeping in a log house that stood on or near the spot where the Thos. Neill House now stands, in Mustcash. They made a business of raising cattle and horses and fishing in Sandusky bay on Willow Point. Game of all kinds that was natural to northern Ohio was plentiful in Mustcash at that time. Deer often went in droves of twenty or twenty-five head and wild turkeys were also plentiful. Mr. Prentice spent but little time hunting. He would occasionally kill a deer when they were handy. There was very little land cleared and fenced at that time. Cold Creek Prairie and Neill's Prairie were unfenced and commons, where stock could graze from early spring until late in the fall and sometimes nearly all winter. The same prairie afforded good wild grass that they mowed with scythes and made into hay and stocked on the ground for (continued to page - 36 -) |