Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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12 BARRY. staple. It sold for 25 cents per pound. John and Willia1n Liv- ingston had a large quantity of honey, and pressed it for the Wax, throwing away the honey. They sold the wax to John Aull. of Lexington. and with the proceeds entered 80 acres of land. We . had a sugar camp, but our neighbors sweetened their coee with honey. which was called sweetening. It sold for 10 cents per pound. Beai-s meat was not sold; but when one was killed, the meat was divided among th.e neighbors. The rst winter after our arrival in Clay we found a bears hole, near the house. When, by strategem. we had killed it, it weighed 310 pounds. Wolves were abundant, and would have annoyed us. had we not kept dogs. Septcnzber .24. .1829By treaty. the Delaware tribe of Indians were granted a. body of land extending from the Kaw River to the Leavenworth Reserve. BARRY. .l[(u(-Izl 9, 18;29A town and postoice are established at Barry. They were so named in honor of V. F. Barry. Post1naster- General. The enterprise of Peter H. Burnett made it a point of importance. He afterwards became the rst territorial governor of California. and lately died in San Francisco. 1830. STEAMBOATS. Prior to 1830. only an occasional steamer ventured up the dangerous Missouri. The rst regular boat was the Otoc. Captain J. R. Hill. She was succeeded by the Hancock. The Globe. Cap- tain \ineland. n1ade a trip for the Government in 1830. Boats -aine in the spring and summer. but never stayed over winter. SURVEYS. 111 the fall of 1830. John (.. Mc(oy. who died at Kansas City Septeniber 2. 1889. surveyed the north line of the Delaware lands, and laid oft the Reserve, on the east side of the Missouri. The south and east line of the Reserve was the old bed of Bee (rm-1;. The original limits of the Reserve. east of the Blissouri, mnlmu-el 0.000 at-resbut it has been reduced to less than 1.000 new-s. On the west side of the Missouri. 5.904 acres were re~ .v1Hl. The stmtll line is four miles long. INDIA N (0l7.TIT.. 84/mnIm 2.5. I.30Maj. John Donglierty. agent for the lnv1n--s.ln-ltla 1-ounc-il with his tribe at Fort l.eavenworth. 1931. Tllv niails from Liberty to the Fort, at rst carried weekly by lH~I.I. are Im\ 1-)1l(")P(l tri-weekly by hack. Robert (aim is al-