[page 1] Melzar Nye History Middleport Ohio Mr. A. T. Nye Dear Sir: You ask for Some information conserning our branch of the Nye family. I was but five years old in the spring that we emigrated to Marietta. I will in the first place give you a short history of My father. He was born in Tolland town and Tolland County in Oct. 1750 and lived with his father until he was twenty three or twenty four years of age: then he went to Litchfield County Warren town 3/4 of mild from Warren Meeting house, he lived there about fourteen years: in the year 1789 he received a letter from his brother at Marietta saying that he had better sell his property there and move to Marietta. In the spring of 1790 he had his farm sold or traded for a share of land in the "Ohio Company's Purchase", a waggin, two yoke of oxen, and a horse ready for a sta[rt.] I heard one of his neighbors ask him "when he would start"? he made answer "As soon as the grass grew for his team" Father keept no diary so I can not give the exact time, but I rectolect that when we started several of our neighbors came and went with us some ways. Towards night father discovered that t[he]
[page 1] Melzar Nye History Middleport Ohio Mr. A. T. Nye Dear Sir: You ask for Some information conserning our branch of the Nye family. I was but five years old in the spring that we emigrated to Marietta. I will in the first place give you a short history of My father. He was born in Tolland town and Tolland County in Oct. 1750 and lived with his father until he was twenty three or twenty four years of age: then he went to Litchfield County Warren town 3/4 of mild from Warren Meeting house, he lived there about fourteen years: in the year 1789 he received a letter from his brother at Marietta saying that he had better sell his property there and move to Marietta. In the spring of 1790 he had his farm sold or traded for a share of land in the "Ohio Company's Purchase", a waggin, two yoke of oxen, and a horse ready for a sta[rt.] I heard one of his neighbors ask him "when he would start"? he made answer "As soon as the grass grew for his team" Father keept no diary so I can not give the exact time, but I rectolect that when we started several of our neighbors came and went with us some ways. Towards night father discovered that t[he]
