Isaac Shipley House

Isaac Shipley House Placed on the National register of Historic Places inNovember 15,2022

We had an out of country Antiquarian stay with us for a few days in March. I had the opportunity to see an acquisition o...
03/30/2026

We had an out of country Antiquarian stay with us for a few days in March. I had the opportunity to see an acquisition of his in the US. Published in 1801, Damberges Travels, was translated from the German of Christian Frederick Damberger. I was fascinated to find out the uniqueness of this book. Travels through the Interior of Africa was an instant popular success following its publication in 1801. The book generated significant commercial interest across Europe and North America. Booksellers in London and Paris competed for translation rights even before the original German edition was printed. In its first year alone, no fewer than seven different English, Scottish, Irish, and American versions were published. News of the extraordinary journey spread rapidly across Europe, making it one of the best-known travel narratives of the early 19th century. THE BOOK WAS A 'HOAX' . It was debunked by scholars in Jena and Göttingen. Investigations revealed the work was likely a fictional compilation by a German master of arts or printer from Wittenberg named Junge, using the pseudonym Zacharias Taurinius or Damberger.

Fred Teats bought his first car in 1907. Five years later in 1912 he bought a Roll Royce. I asked AI to generate a pictu...
03/14/2026

Fred Teats bought his first car in 1907. Five years later in 1912 he bought a Roll Royce. I asked AI to generate a picture of Fred Teats sitting in his 1912 Rolls Royce in his driveway.

An AI generated image of Isaac Shipley's house with the porch that was added for Fred Teats in 1900. Getting harder and ...
03/08/2026

An AI generated image of Isaac Shipley's house with the porch that was added for Fred Teats in 1900. Getting harder and harder to tell what is real and what isn't

Untouched snow blissfully peaceful... Some history... It was 1899, three years after Frederick Hamilton Teats bought th...
02/02/2026

Untouched snow blissfully peaceful...

Some history... It was 1899, three years after Frederick Hamilton Teats bought the Isaac Shipley House and the remaining 40 acres of Isaac's property, once a265 acre farm that this Sort/Pack house was built. Fred and his wife living in Rochester at the time did not move into their new house until 1900. There would be a short period of time after which Fred Teats once again had the acreage that Isaac's father William bought in August of 1823 (one hundred acres). Fred's one hundred acre farm became known as Lake View Fruit Farm. At that time Fred's father John Henry Teats, his home about 1 mile south of Fred's property and Fred's 2 youngest brothers at that household (James Percival and Willis Raymond), their farm was known as the J.H. Teats & Sons Lake Avenue Fruit Farms. Fred's next youngest brother Sylvester Cooper like Fred had left his parents house at an early age not wanting to farm for a living had lived in several different locations, (Rochester, Geneva, Williamson and out of state) before inheriting one third ownership of Fred's estate along with his two daughters Marguerite and Hazel upon the death of Fred's wife in 1921. (Fred died in 1913) Fred's father had passed, Sylvester died only a few years after inheriting Fred's estate at which time Fred's two youngest bothers kept the J. H. Teats & Sons farms successfully operating renaming it the Teats Brothers Farms. Hazel Teats eventually receiving full ownership of Fred's estate married Roger Stevenson shortly after her father Sylvester's death renaming Fred's one hundred acre farm the Teats/Robinson Lake View Farm and remained a part of the massive 1,100 hundred+ plus acre farms that were owned and operated by the Teats brothers.

The now restored Sort/Pack House (127 years old) will last many more generations.

It would be about 25 years after Isaac's house was built in 1850 that James Craggs had his mansard roof house built in ...
01/25/2026

It would be about 25 years after Isaac's house was built in 1850 that James Craggs had his mansard roof house built in Pultneyville. Isaac and James were the same age, both of their parents from Yorkshire England, with James parents arriving about the time Isaac's house was built. A hand me down tale of the Shipley clan tells an interesting story of where the money came from for James Craggs to complete his house enabling him to 'outdo' Isaac's.

A January 23, 1879 news article about a train with 6 carloads of 'silkworms'? from California to New York.
01/24/2026

A January 23, 1879 news article about a train with 6 carloads of 'silkworms'? from California to New York.

It was today 12/27/1901 that John Teats, Fred Teats father held his first Christmas Party in his new house just north of...
12/27/2025

It was today 12/27/1901 that John Teats, Fred Teats father held his first Christmas Party in his new house just north of his outbuildings. After John died in 1907 the house went to his youngest son Willis Raymond.

LOCAL NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO TODAY..... A bit of excitement!... It wasn't only in the big cities ...
12/18/2025

LOCAL NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO TODAY..... A bit of excitement!... It wasn't only in the big cities ...

Isaac Shipley House Trivia - Isaac Shipley was never a Mason but one of his nephews, William Waters Shipley was the 'Gra...
11/25/2025

Isaac Shipley House Trivia - Isaac Shipley was never a Mason but one of his nephews, William Waters Shipley was the 'Grand Master' of the local Mason organization in Pultneyville a total of 6 non-consecutive years. Isaac's father, William E. Shipley was an Anti-Mason.

10/27/2025

Isaac Shipley House Trivia – Borough-English? Part of Isaac's inheritance in 1850 was his 4200+ sq ft house on Lake Ave as well as financial gain. His inheritance was because of an English tradition his father brought here from Yorkshire England called Borough- English or Ultimogeniture where the youngest male stays in the parent's house, cares for them thru their final years, not allowed the chance to learn a trade or to marry. In 1850 Isaac's parents were in their later 60s when the massive brick house was completed. Isaac born March 21, 1826 had just turned 24. Records show that the circa 1817 Shipley homestead in Pultneyville now standing for 33 years on the East side of Jay St near where it meets Hamilton St shortly after 1850 no longer belonged to Isaac's father. A census of Wayne County in August of 1850 shows Isaac, Isaac's brother John, Isaac's parents and 19 year old Matilda Rufull also from England in the same household. Matilda most likely the domestic help. The Lake Ave property was 100 acres being farmed by Isaac and his brother his 2nd next eldest brother John even years after John's marriage to Melissa Sherburne. Isaac's father William died in 1859, his mother Elizabeth in 1863. It would be 1863 when Isaac married Hudlah Sherburne, Melisa's sister 13 years after moving into the brick house on Lake Ave. The above mentioned sequence of events support Isaac's adherence to his father's tradition of Borough – English and his inheritance. Isaac's father bought multiple large land properties prior to 1823 for each of his other sons. Isaac's 100 acres was bought in August of 1823 by his father William when Elizabeth was pregnant with Isaac.

10/27/2025

Isaac Shipley House Trivia – Its Halloween so I thought this would be a good time for a true story or maybe a tall tale. People constantly ask us if our house being 175 years old is haunted. Neighbors when we moved here in 2012 told us the last short term owners told them it was...with doors slamming, paintings falling off walls and items on furniture found on the floor far from the furniture they sat on. One of the first unexplained activities after we moved in didn't happened to us but... a contractor and his son suddenly left the house mid day and didn't return for 3 days. The son telling us he had to convince his father to come back to the house to finish the work later telling us what his father said happened... For us no doors have slammed, paintings didn't fall of the walls and items on furniture stayed where we placed them … but that's far from the end of this story...

10/22/2025

Isaac Shipley House Trivia – (a sadder part of the home's history)... The Isaac Shipley house was built with a 'coffin door'. In the first 90 year history of the Isaac Shipley House, six wakes were held in this house (1892, 1915, 1918, 1933, 1935 & 1940). *(not in order). They were for a 22 month old baby, a 15 year old boy (an accidental homicide in the house), three owners and one owner's wife. The baby died in Miami, Florida. The wake held in this house upon its return here, buried 2 days later.

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7470 Lake Avenue
Williamson, NY
14589

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