Livingston MSS
'Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing,
And Hudson majestic so sweetly was flowing,
The groves rang with music & accents of pleasure
And nature in rapture beat time to the measure,
When Helen and Jonas, so true and so loving,
Along the green lawn were seen arm in arm moving,
Sweet daffodils, violets and roses spontaneous
Wherever they wandered sprang up instantaneous.
The ascent the lovers at length were seen climbing
Whose summit is grac'd by the temple of Hymen:
The genius presiding no sooner perceived them
But, spreading his pinions, he flew to receive them;
With kindest of greetings pronounced them well come
While hollidays clangor rang loud to the welkin.

New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
'TWAS summer, when softly the zephyrs were blowing,
And Hudson majestic so sweetly was flowing;
The groves rang with music and accents of pleasure,
And nature in rapture beat time to the measure:
When Strephon and Phillis, so true and so loving,
Along the green lawn were seen arm in arm moving;
Sweet daffodils, violets, and roses spontaneous,
Wherever they rambled sprang up instantaneous.

The ascent the lovers at length were seen climbing,
Whose summit is grac'd by the temple of Hymen:
The Genius presiding, no sooner perceiv'd them,
But spreading his pinions, he flew to receive them;
With kindest of greetings pronounced them welcome;
While holliday's clangour rang loud to the welkin.

Whitesboro's Golden Age, p. 87

Jonas Platt
The year before E.K. Kane was born, in 1794, there settled in Whitesboro another lawyer, Arthur Breese, who subsequently became prominent in the politics of the county. That lawyer was a native of New Jersey, graduated at princeton College, read law in Philadelphia with the celebrated Elias Boudinot, was admitted to the bar in 1792, and when he located in Whitesboro was but twenty-five years old. His wife was a sister of Mrs. Jonas Platt [THIS IS WRONG; Catharine was the NEICE of Helen Livingston Platt], and as Mr. Platt was county clerk of Herkimer county in 1794, he made Arthur Breese, the lawyer alluded to, deputy county clerk.

In 1796 Mr. Breese was elected to the Assembly, as successor to Jonas Platt in that body, and when Oneida county was formed, in 1798, Mr. Breese was appointed the first surrogate, and held that office for ten years afterward; surely those brothers-in-law had their share of offices. A law partnership between Messrs. Platt and Breese was formed, and their marriage, business, social and political ties were strong indeed.