Subj:   Sewell
Date:   1/18/01 10:15:14 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:   JAYCONN
To: LesJaneB

Another interesting Newhouse article relating to the Oneida Community at
http://libwww.syr.edu/DigitalCollection/Oneida/first 100/

The packing of fruits and vegetables was always, for sentimental reasons, the
favorite industry of the Community; but its chief support came from the
manufacture of steel traps. When Noyes and his party moved from Putney to
Oneida, they found a lank, long-jawed Vermonter named Sewell Newhouse
established on the site of the old Indian Castle, two miles from Kenwood.
Newhouse had a small blacksmith's shop in which every year he made a few
traps and a rifle or two. The traps were bought mostly by the neighboring
Indians. They cost sixty-two cents apiece, and in his most active years
Newhouse might make between one and two thousand of them, but he generally
interrupted his working season with at least one trip into the woods to do a
little trapping on his own account. He was primarily a woodsman in manner and
habits, and when he joined the Community a year after its start, though he
was always a loyal member, he went pretty much his own way. No member, for
instance, was supposed to keep a dog; but it was noticed that whenever
Newhouse set off to get himself a rabbit, he would always be picked up by a
pretty good hound at one or other of the neighboring farms. It was natural
therefore for him to keep on with his small trap business which, after all,
brought a few dollars into the Community every year.

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