SEYMOUR B. MURDOCK.       "I was born in Dutchess County, N.Y., April 8th, 1796. My father, Seymour Murdock, emigrated to Orleans County in 1810, when I was fourteen years of age, and located on a part of the farm now owned and occupied by me on the Ridge, in Ridgeway. In the transit from Dutchess County, we had a hard time, traveling with an ox team, with a family of twelve persons."      "We were a little over a month on the way, and reached out place of destination June 1st, 1810, and...