and Watson, of Cleveland, Ohio, made them, and sold to farm-
ers in Rutland, on nine months' time, for twenty dollars per
clock. Abel Larkin, Esq., bought one in December, 1813, and
paid for it in flannel at one dollar a yard the next fall. This
clock of Judge Larkin's, bought in 1813, had been in constant
use, and always keeping correct time, was still running in
December, 1893, after eighty years of service.
Among the few equipments of a log cabin, and a great con-
venience for cooking over the fire, was the crane. It was a bar
of iron fastened in staples in one side of the fireplace, and
movable, hung with hooks of different lengths for the use of
the kettles in cooking. The teakettle, the pot with boiled din-
ner and the beans were easily hung over the log fire, while
with a long shovel coals were drawn out from under the fore-
stick and put on the hearth for the oven to bake the bread.
Many a family have enjoyed a supper of mush and milk,
sitting around the family table with bowls for the father and
mother and tin cups and iron spoons for the children. The
best mush was made from the corn, grated on a tin grater, be-
fore the corn was quite hard enough to shell. This was sifted,
and carefully dropped by one hand into the water boiling in the
kettle over the fire, while the other hand stirred it in; it had
to be stirred all the while the meal was passing from the other
hand to avoid lumps, and the boiling continued during the
process. The salt was put in the water first.
To make bread, mills were necessary, and the pioneers used
hand-mills for crushing corn and wheat. In 1791, a floating
mill was built at Marietta. It required swift water to run this
mill, which was operated in the Ohio river not far from the
island now known as Blannerhasset, and ground wheat for the
inhabitants for many miles distant during the Indian War.
Many canoe loads of grain were brought from Graham's Sta-
tion, Point Pleasant and Gailipolis. After Indian hostilities
had ceased, the mill broke loose from its moorings and floated
down the Ohio river some sixty miles, when the chain cable
