MR. WILLIAM PARRY, STEUBEN, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
WILLIAM PARRY came from Caer Mer, Llanengan, Carnarvonshire, North Wales, on the same vessel with Dr. Daniel Roberts, in 1818. His wife, Mary, was a sister of the doctor.He purchased and cleared a farm on the Glynn road, afterward known as the Tinman place.
They had four children, Robert, Anna, John and Jane. Robert was a skillful surgeon whose proficiency in that line was far in advance of all in the profession in this section in the early days.
He located in Steuben, where he died June 10, 1826, at the age of thirty-one years, leaving one son, John, who removed to the west many years ago. Anna Parry married Griffith J. Griffiths (Crydd), and Jane married Owen Roberts (Tinman). The children of Griffith J. and Anna (Parry) Griffiths were Jane, Mary, Ann, John, Margaret, William, Robert G., and Griffith.
Indians were rather frequent visitors to these parts at the time of Mr. Parry's settlement, and each winter parties of them camped near his farm, along Cincinnati creek where they trapped and hunted. About this time Mr. Parry had a pig confined in a low log enclosure or pen in the little clearing he had made in the wilderness, and one night, hearing a disturbance there, he lighted a lantern and went out to investigate the cause. Arriving on the scene he was amazed to see his winter's supply of pork disappearing into the darkness, held in the close embrace of a huge bear, and the distressful cries of the captive porker resounded through the forest long after he was lost to view.