There is also a website source mentioning Parson Smith's relationship with the Seward family: "In a 24 July 1836 letter from Seward in Westfield NY to his wife Frances at their home in Auburn NY, Seward described his initial arrival in western New York. “We landed in the rain at Dunkirk, at two o’clock on Thursday [21 July].” A half hour carriage ride brought them into Fredonia NY, “a very pretty village,” where the party “took breakfast the next morning with our old friend the Rev. Lucius Smith and his family.” Smith was at that time the rector of Fredonia’s Episcopal Church, and it was at his home that Seward first met his longtime friend Hanson A. Risley ( ) of Fredonia. In editor Willard McKinstry’s “Memorial of Hanson A. Risley,” which appeared in the Fredonia Censor of 6 September 1893, McKinstry said that after their marriage “the young couple went to board at Parson Smith’s. The parson came from Auburn and while there had married Wm. H. Seward to Miss Miller. When Gov. S. came from Auburn to Westfield to take charge of the Land office, he stopped to visit his old friend Parson Smith, and there formed Mr. Risley’s acquaintance, and began a friendship which lasted through life.”