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* In 1870. the population was 701.
+ Marille Union School was established in August. 1867, and the old academy was merend in it about that time. It will accommodate 225 pupils. It has philosophical paratus valued at $181.14, and a library containing 221 volumesand value at :28. It Iucludes an academic, intermediate and first and second primary dobar ments. Tl .- school stands upon an eminence overlooking the entire village. From its ob- Survatory ten towns are visible. The buildings and grounds are valned at $17.000. Organized in December, 1865. G. W. Gifford is Prewident, and E. R. Whiteside,
campingne at to ten mon and turn hout al KAI'S OfAt times. · shops were built in 1999, and give employment to AL ?.
" The er'st, saw and planing mills, of which Warren & Hammond are proprietors, give employment to ten persons. The flouring mill contains three runs of stones.
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the shore of the lake, and the immediate construction of others is contemplated. By the act of incorporation the real estate which the association may hold at any one time is limited in value to $100,000, and the annual income from its personal estate must not exceed $30,000 .*
Peacock Lodge .No. 696 F. & A. M., of Mayville, was organized Feb. 28, 1869, and chartered the 9th of the following June, with twenty members. The present number of members is sixty. Rev. Nicholas G. Luke was Muster in 1869 and '70, and Wm. S. Gleason, in 1871, '2 and '3. Its property is valued at $6.000, and consists of a fine store, over which is the lodge room, which is beautifully furnished and is a model of taste and convenience. Upon the altar lies a beautiful Bible-a present from the ladies of Mayville, and costing $30. The lodge is named in honor of Hon. Wm. Peacock, a zealous mason, who aided liberally in establishing it.
DEWITTVILLE, (p. V.) situated in the east part, on the east shore of Chautauqua Lake, contains two churches, a school house, hotel, two stores, two shoe shops, two blacksmith shops, a cooper shop, a grist mill, steam saw mill, about 32 dwellings and 262 inhabitants.
HARTFIELD, (p. o.) situated on Chautauqua Lake Inlet, con- tains a Union church, store, grist and saw mill, two blacksmith shops, a shingle and planing mill, with cheese box factory attached, a tannery, wagon repair shop, shoe shop, and had 59 inhabitants in 18:0.
SUMMER DALE (p. o.) is a hamlet, five miles south-west of Mayville.
SUMMIT STATION is on the B. C. & P. R. R., four miles from Mayville, by rail.
Chautauqua Creamery, situated in the north-east part of the town, gives employment to five persons and is capable of using the milk of 100 cows.
Wesley M. Cornell's Steam Mill. four miles south of Mayville, was built in 1871. It is operated by a forty horse-power engine, gives employment to six persons, and is capable of sawing 7,000 feet of lumber per day, besides a quantity of lath and shingles.
* The verporators and first trustees were Alonzo Kent, Chas. L. Jeffords, Isaac Mare, John P. Hall, Wm. Giford, Darius Schofield, James E. Chapin, Richard .1. Varhers. John Smallwood. Lewis Miller, Wellington P. Cook, Cyrus Clarke, John Metastock, Joseph Brown. Herman Jones, Sardine Steward, Michael E. Hess, John PARviont. Archibald C. Merrill. AL. W. Moffitt. G. W. Andrews. FrancisH Rot A. I.v med (rus D. Angel who at their tret sur fin; were required to be wed by dat into ilede classes. the money re of the Best coast to hold ofie . for the year, the . of the second, two years, and those of the Third, three years. Eight trusts are thereafter to be elected annually, and hold office for three years, or an- til their successors are elected.
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Settlement was commenced in 1801, by Dr. Alex. McIntyre, who lived in a log hut near the steamboat landing in Mayville. McIntyre had been captured by the Indians, who cut off the rims of his ears. He lived with his captors many years and acquired many of their habits. He was a botanic physician and claimed to have derived his medical skill from the Indians. Jonathan Smith settled near the west shore of the lake about the same time. Peter Barnhart and his son Henry, the former a hero of the Revolution and the latter of the war of 1812, came to this town from Somerset county, Pa., in 1805, and located on the east shore of the lake. Henry was then in his 14th year, and has since resided in the town, Owing to the scarcity of food the first year of their arrival, he says they were obliged to dig up potatoes after they were planted, and to eat musk-rats, coons and porcupines (probably hedge-hogs.) After 1806, they raised corn, which they ground with a hand mill, as there was no grist mill nearer than Pennsylvania, and no roads in the town, except the carrying-place between the lakes, used for the transportation of salt. Martin and Wm. Prender- gast and Mesers. Griffith and Bemus came in 1806. Wm. Prendergast, who was a colonel in the war of 1812, located on the farms now owned by Daniel V. Wilder and Chas. W. Tar- box. The other three settled on the east shore of the lake. Matthew Prendergast and Wm. Prendergast 2d came to this town in 1807. The former settled on the farm now owned by Edward C. Stephens. Among other public offices he held that of county judge of this county. The latter was a native of Dutchess county. lu 1811-12 he commenced the practice of medicine, and pursued the profession successfully for many vears. He was for several years Supervisor of this town. In ISOS Joseph Thaver settled on the site of the present county poor house. Philo Sackett, Mr. Thayer's brother-in-law. also came in 180S, and settled on the site of DeWittville, to which place Thaver removed the following year. Mr. Thayer was drowned in Chautauqua Lake, while crossing upon the ice. His sons-in-law. Joseph Dart and Daniel Curtis, came at the same time and settled at the same place. Nahum Aldrich also accompanied Thaver. - Bennett, Alanson Wade, Isaac Young and John Putnam came about the same time. George and Morrow Lowry, brothers, who had suffered much from defective land titles in Erie county, Pa., settled at May- ville in 1808, or '9. The former, in old age, removed with his son to Kendall county, Ill., where he died, and the latter, after " few yours, removed to Mercer county. Pa, where he died well advancel in years. Russell MMorran, a native of Conn., came here in September, 1809, and, with his brother Daniel, settled
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on lot 21. Waterman Tinckcom came here from Saratoga county, March 5, 1810, and located near Mayville. Judge Wm. Peacock settled at Mayville in November 1810, as the first local agent of the Holland Land Company's Purchase for this county and the west part of Cattaraugus. Mr. Peacock first visited the county about 1799, as assistant surveyor under Joseph Ellicott, and was engaged in running the township lines ; and again in 1804, the year in which the settlement of the town was commenced, when he surveyed the village of Mayville. He also surveyed township 2 in range XIII. and a part of 3 in range XV., about 1803, or a little after surveying the village of Mayville. He came with his wife from Batavia (Genesee county) in the fall of 1810, on horseback, to the house of Mrs. Perry, who lived a little west of Westfield, where his wife remained a short time, while he made preparations for her removal to Mayville. Previous to his arrival at the latter place, Mr. Ellicott, the resident general agent of the Holland Land Company at Batavia, had two log houses built for him, one of which he occupied as an office and the other as a resi- dence. The office was situated a few feet to the left of the walk which approaches his present residence in front, and the residence, a few feet on the right. On his arrival, Mr. Peacock found the buildings so miserably constructed that he im- mediately set about building a new house, and erected the wooden part on the left of the more modern brick addition which forms his present residence. It is 18 by 36 feet, and he completed and moved into it about 1812, occupying a part of the building as an office. He still occupies this old, yet com- fortable apartment, in preference to the spacious brick addition. Hle subsequently built a strong stone vault -- the one broken open by the mob and which is still standing-in which he kept the records of the Land Company. He continued to act as agent until 1835, at which time the interests of the Holland Company were sold to Cary & Lay, of Batavia. He is now in his 94th year, and has good health, though he is suffering from a fall sustained a year and a half ago. When he came in 1810, families named Lowry, Scott, Whiteside, McIntyre, Prendergast (Martin and Dr. Jedediah,) Judge Herrick and others, were living at Mayville. Lowry lived on Main street, and the widow Whiteside nearly opposite him. Scott kept a tavern ou Main street, near the site of the Sentinel office. Martin I'rendergast lived near the site of the Chautauqua House, and Dr. Jedediah Prendergast, on the Main street, ( Erie) at the first rise from the l .... Zachens Dancheth and Asahel. his son, eio . from Herkimer county and purchased land two miles north of Hartfield about 1810. They returned in the fall, and
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in March, 1812, he moved his wife and family, consisting of three sons (Asahel, Ambrose and Wm., the two former of whom still reside here,) and four daughters into the town. Samuel Waterbury came in 1810 or '11. Edward Hovey came in 1811 ; Elisha Wallis and Daniel, his son, in February of the same year, and settled on the farm now occupied by the latter. Wm. C. Chace came to Mayville Sept. 23, 1814, for the purpose of studying medicine, and at the expiration of four years received a diploma. W'm. Hunt and four sons settled on what is known as the Fairpoint farm in 1816. The Fairpoint Camp Meeting grounds are on this farm. Elias Scofield, who was born in the town of Ellery in 1807, has been a resident of this town many years. James McCoul settled in the town March 24, 1818; John Russell, in 1819; and Judge Thomas A. Osborne, in 1822, having come to the county and engaged in the legal profession in partnership with Jacob Houghton the previous year. The first inn* was kept at Mayville, by John Scott, in 1808; and the first store at the same place, by J. & M. Prendergast, three years later.
The First Baptist Church of Mayville was organized with 38 members. by Elder Jonathan Wilson, missionary from the Shaftsbury Board, Vermont, Feb. 2, 1820. Their house of worship was erected in 1834. at a cost of $2.000. and will seat 400 per- sons. The first pastor was Rev. Jonathan Wilson: the present one is Rev. J. H. Mil- ler. There are fifty-three members. The Church property is valued at $7.000.1
The Chautauqua Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Mayville, was or- ganized about 1520, and erected their house of worship in 1851. The bouse will seat 50 persons. There are 143 members. The present pastor is Rev. R. W. Scott of the Erie Conference. The Church property is valued at $6,000.4
st. Paul's Church, of Mayville, was organized with about twenty members in April, 1423. by Rev. David Brown, the first pastor. The first church edifice was contracted April 10, 15.3; was accepted in January. 1828; and consecrated by Bishop Hobart, Sept. 4. 1828. The present one was erected in 1859, and consecrated by Bishop Cox, May 19, 1965. It cost about $3,500, and will seat about 150 persons. The Society numbers forty-one communicants, and has a congregation of 125. The present pas- tris Rev. M. B. Benton. The Church property, consisting of church and rectory is valued. the former at $1.000 and the latter at $2.500. " Its existence has been a colt- tant struggle, but its friends still . hop on -- hope ever,' doing their duty and leav- ing events in His hands, who alone can prosper their work. "s
The First M. E. Church of Derittrille was organized with ten members in 1%5, by Win. Gifford. Their house of worship was purchased of the Baptists the sant year. at a cost of $400. It will seat 20 persons. The first pastor was Rev. Mr. Burgess;
* Upon the organization of the county the Supervisors resolved that the courts should be heid at this inn until a court house should be erected. Upon learning this decision Capt. Seott, with the assistance of other citizens of Mayville, hastily pro cured green planks. joists and boards, which were sawed at Reuben Slayton's saw mill at Ashville, and floated down Goose Creek and up Chautau un Lake to Mayville. A two story framed house was erected in front of and adjoining the log tavern. It was shingled, temporary rouch floors were laid. and a few temporary windows were inserted. In the lower story of this new unfinished park house the first courts were held. The chamber afforded lodging room for a portion of the offi- ("ry of the courts. In this building, which is probably the oldest in Mayville, the Magrille Sentinel is Dow printed.
1 Information furnished by Rev. J. H. Miller, the pastor. : Information furnished by Roy. R. W. Scott, the pastor, who wy .. .Therecords ofer oly history are statt ret among other chargesth, tot da circuit of which we were a part. " hence fumier data cannot be givet.
$ Information furnished by Hon, T. A. Osborne, warden, and clerk of the Vestry since April, 1-23.
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the present one is Rev. Mr. Scott. The Society consists of thirty members, and its property is valued at $350 .*
The First Freewill Baptist Church of Chautauqua Hill (four miles north of Hartfield, was organized with five members in 1840, by Rev. T. V. Main, the first pastor. and Necly. Their house of worship was erected about 1812. and will seat 200 per. sons. The Church property is valued at $500. The Society possesses but little vita !. ity, and the church is now occupied by the Methodists.t
Summit Church (M. E., near Summit Station.) organized a building society through the instrumentality of John H. Flagler in 1849, and in that and the following year s house of worship was erected at a cost of $700. A class had been formed previous to that time. The first pastor. after the completion of the church, was Rev. John K. Hallock; the present one is Rev. Wm. Rice. There were about sixty members at the organization of the Society: at present there are about forty. The church will seat 260 persons. The Church property is valued at $1,500.4
The Christian Church, at Dewittville, was organized with fifteen members Dec. 25. 1552. by Rev. E. H. Mosher, the first pastor. and E. H. Hallady. Their church edi. fice, which will seat 300 persons, was erected in 1856, at a cost of $1.600. The present pastor is Rev. Samuel B. Morse; the present membership, sixty-four. The Church property is valued at $2.000.§
Mt. Pleasant Church (United Brethren, south-east three and one-half miles from Mayville, ) was organized with eight members in 1858, by Rev. Z. Sullivan. the first pastor. The churchedifice was erected in 1865, at a cost of $600, and will seat 15 persons. There are five members. The pastor is Rev. W. Robinson. The Church property is valued at So00.
The United Brethren in Christ of Elm Flute were organized with eight members Fol. 1. 1863. by Roy. N. R. Luce, the first pastor. The first house of worship was erected in 1961: the present one, in is?, at a cost of $1,391, and will seat 300 per- SORS. The Church property is valued at $3.963. 4 The Society numbers 110 mem- bers. and is under the pastoral care of Rev. W. Robinson."
St. Peter's Church. (German United Evangelical Protestant) at Mayville, was or- garized with twenty members in 1871, by Rev. O. Schroder. The church edifice was erected in 1811. at a cost of $2.000, and will seat 300 persons. Rev. Jacob Weber was the first, and is the present pastor. The Society numbers forty; its property is vauled at $2.500 .**
CHERRY CREEK was formed from Ellington May 4. 1829.14 It lies on the east border of the county, a little north of the center, and contains 22.604 acres. The surface is hilly in the north-west, and rolling in the south-east. A swamp on the east border extends the whole length of the town. . Its streams are the Conewango and its tributaries, the principal of which are Clear and Cherry creeks. The soil is a clay and gravelly loam. The people are principally engaged in dairving.
The Buffalo & Jamestown R. R. enters the town in the north-east corner, curving west to the village of Cherry Creek. and leaves it again near the south-east corner. The town has issned bonds to the amount of nearly $50.000 in its aid.
The population of the town in 1870 was 1,359, of whom 1.316 were native, 43, foreign and all, except one, white.
* Information furnished by Seely Scofield, leader.
+ Infonaation furnished by Jason L. Hopson.
* Inf. rmation furnished by John H. Flagler.
$ Information furnished by A. B. Van Namco.
Campi over throw churches in the Harmony circuit.
. I .v. W. Robinson.
ir wird by George Prisitzer. * Thefree town mounting was held at the hotel of George H. Frost, in March, 1\". and Jam > Gerr was elected Supervisor, and Robert James, Tim Birk.
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During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained ten school districts and ten teachers. The number of children of school age was 431; the number attending school, 337; the average attendance, 181; the amount expended for school pur- poses, $2,555.94; and the value of school houses and sites, $3,575.
CHERRY CREEK, (p. v.) situated a little south-east of the center of the town, on the line of the proposed Buffalo & Jamestown railroad, contains three churches, seven stores, a grist mill, two saw mills, a cheese factory* and about 300 in- habitants.
SHATTUCKS CORNERS is a hamlet near the center.
Settlement was commenced on lot 15, in 1812, by Joshua Bentley from Rensselaer county. Joseph Kent settled on lot 9 in 1815, and Willard Cheney, Wm. Weaver, Anson Hen - dricks and Cogsdill Brown, on lot 18, in 1818. The first school was taught the latter year, by Reuben Cheney. The first inn was kept in 1823, by George H. Frost; and the first store, at Cherry Creek, in 1831, by Seth Grover. The first saw mill was built on Cherry Creek in 1824, by Wm. Kilbourn. In 1819 Joshua Bentley lost a two years' old daughter, who was supposed to have been carried off by the Indians. The first marriage was contracted by James Battles and Rachel Hadley ; the first birth was that of Lydia Kent; and the first death that of Rufus Hitchcock, who fell from the roof of a building in 1820.
This town furnished one hundred soldiers during the war of the Rebellion, twenty-five of whom were killed or died of dis- case.
The first religious services were held at the house of Ward King, in ISIT; the Rev. Mr. Hadley . Baptist) was the first preacher ..
The First Freetill Baptist Church, at Cherry Creek, was organized with five mom. bers in 1:26, hy Rov. Thomas Grinneis, the first pastor. Their house of worship was erveld in I, at a cost of 220G. and will what 2 persons. The Society Punkts of sixty-live members, and enjoys the pastoral ministrations of Rer. A. P. Loon. The Church property is valued at $1,000.+
The Regular Buntist Church of Cherry Creek was organized with ton members. Jane 12. I'M1; and erreted its house of worship, which will seat 4 persone. it Isad ata c'est of 31.04. The first pastor was Elder Bennett. At present the print is vacant. There are lo members. The present value of Church property is pas
The M. E. Church, at Cherry Crook, was organized with seven members in 15%, by O. I. Head, the first pastor. Their church edifice was created in lay, at a cost of Stai and will seat Bud persons. The present pastor is Rev. A. Wilder: and the num- her of members, sixty-one. The Church property is valued at $1, 1Mm.
* this factory during the season of 1-72, from April Ist to Xx. 1.1. 1.24.508 sounds of milk wore received. and 151.295 pounds of cheese made. The cost of
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un furnished by s. l. Robertson, clerk. ination furnished by Warren Parsons.
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CLYMER* was formed from Chautauqua, Feb. 9, 1821. Mina was taken off March 23, 1824, and French Creek, April 23, 1829 .¿ It lies upon the south border of the county, west of the center, and contains 21,731 acres. The surface is a hilly upland, broken by the valleys of Broken Straw Creek and its tributaries, the principal of which is Brownell Creek. The soil is a gravelly loam. A quarry, from which stone suitable for grindstones has been taken, was opened many years since in the south-west corner of the town by a Mr. Beardsley. The rock, says Prof. James Hall, is of great extent, and can be casily quarried for all the supply required. Few of the layers are thick enough to afford good building stone.
The Buffalo, Corry & Pittsburgh R. R. extends through the central part of this town.
The population of the town in 1870, was 1486, of whom 1187 were native, 299, foreign and all, except seven, white.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained eight school districts, and employed eight teachers. The num- ber of children of school age was 518; the number attending school, 387 ; the average attendance, 208 ; the amount expended for school purposes, 85,971.79; and the value of school houses and sites, 86,675.
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* Named in honor of George Clymer, a distinguished citizen and patriot of Penn- sylvania and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
+ The first town meeting was held in the house of Gardner Cleveland, April 3. 1821, and the following named officers were chosen: Ande Nobles, Supervisor: Wm. Rice, Roger Haskell aud John M. Fitch, Assessors; David Waldo. Towa Clerk : Roswell Con, John Cleveland and Alex. Findley. Commissioners of Highways; Ephraim Denn, Ando Nobles and John Lynde. School Inspectors; John Heath and Roger Haskell. Situ? Commissioners; Alex. Findley and Roswell Coe. Poor Masters; Ande Nobles and Alex. Findity, Overseers of Highantys; Wm. Thompson, Amon Beebe Jr. and Roger Haskell. Finde Vi Pers and Damage Appraisers; Ande Nobles, Setter of Weights and Metsures; and El Balknap, Constable and Collector.
Thon the erection of the town, the town meetings in Chautauqua were held the first Tuesday in April and this was held to govern the time of holding the meetings in Clynier: the meeting in 1:21 was accordingly held at that time. That year the Legislature was petitioned and a change in the time was effected to the Ist of March. In !22 the Federalists elected a set of officers in March, and the opposite party. learning that the act changing the time of holding meetings did not take effet until May. also elected a set of officers in April, with John Heath, as Supervisor, and Silas Terry, as Clerk. But the new officers, not being free holders, were ineligible, and as they were likely to be ejected by the Federalists, Heath repaired to Mayville and represented the dilemma to JJohn Dexter, the County Clerk, who deeded to each of the new officers a piece of land, in order to legalize their election.
+ By the erection of the town of French Creek, Silas Terry, who was then postmas- ter at Olymer, became a resident of the new town. The residents of Clymer, object- ing to a preanast r residing in another town. forwarded a remonstrance to the Post Master verdad, who sent a copy of it to Mr. Terry. He, being luth to give up the offer and equally so to leave his lind and remove to this town for the jirpose of continuing it. ripresented to the Post Master General that. although he was a resi- coat of French Creek, his house was only the doors from the post office, which was a fuet. withintigh it was three-fourths of a mile distant. The Post Master General. de- rus. notfind the people of Olymer that there was no cause for com. Hand made themthe to his house. Mr. Terry'sfamily settl . 1 er hat dan rather familles living in that part of the town, and in Howthey word over the line into Clymer, preferring to be identified with the early settlements in that town.
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CLYMER, (p. o.) in the south-west part, contains four churches, a school house, hotel, three stores, a shoe shop and 250 to 300 inhabitants .*
NORTH CLYMER (p. o.) is on the B. C. & P. R. R.
KINGS CORNERS is a hamlet on the east line.
CLYMER CENTER is on the B. C. & P. R. R.
J. N. McKay's tannery in this town is the largest in the county. It gives employment to forty persous and is capable of tanning 1,200 sides per week.
About one-half the inhabitants of this town are Hollanders. The first immigrants of this nationality came about twenty- seven years since.
Settlement was commenced about 1820, in which year Gardner (Sen.) and John Cleveland came from French Creek, which then formed a part of this town, and settled on lot 58. Wm. Rice, from Washington county, settled on lot 59, in 1821, Horace and Anson Starkweather and Joseph Wing, in 1822, the former two were from Vermont, and settled on lot 43. Ebenezer Brownell came from Otsego county about 1822, when there were but eighteen families in the original town of Clymer. Nathaniel and Wm. Thompson, from French Creek, and Thomas Russell came in 1823. Harry E. Brownell also settled here in 1823 and has been a resident since. The first birth was that of Patience Russell, who is still living, in 1823 ; the first marriage was contracted the same year by Walter Freeman and Rowencia Brown ; and the first death was that of & daughter of Joseph Wing. Her remains were interred in the present cemetery. John Stowe kept the first store in 1823, and Miss Maria Stowe, the first school, about 1825. Peter Jaquing built the first saw mill near Clymer village, on the site now occupied by Shepard & Hall, in 1825. He afterward built the first grist mill in connection with it. The first tavern was kept at Clymer village in 1826, by Alvin Williams. The first frame building was a barn built by Thomas Russell, and is still standing on the farm now owned by Charles Chappel. In this building the carly settlers were accustomed to hold religious services during the summer months. In the winter their meetings were held in private houses. The first mails were brought by the settlers in turns from Panama. There were then no roads, but in 1826, a road was laid out and a mail line established from Jamestown to Erie, The first law suit was tried before Gardner Cleveland, Jr., in 1824, in a log hnt. The jury room in the loft was reached by means of'a ladder. The
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