History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people, Volume I, Part 28

Author: Downs, John Phillips, 1853- ed. [from old catalog]; Hedley, Fenwick, Y., joint ed. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] American historical society, inc.
Number of Pages: 649

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Philo Hopson, from Herkimer county, set- tled a mile north of Hartfield upon land bought in 1809. At an early day he and Wil- liam Bateman built a sawmill at Hartfield.

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Zaccheus Hanchett settled on lot number 23. Dexter Barns, a noted axe-maker, first settled in Stockton, where he built its first blacksmith shop. He removed to Hartfield, where he died. Darius Dexter, after cutting out Main street and clearing the public square in Mayville in 1808, returned east and came back the next spring with his wife and purchased land on lot 20, northeast of Hartfield. John, William, Daniel, Winsor, Otis, Samuel, George and Ste- phen, brothers of Darius, it is believed came with him in 1809. His brother William and John W. Winsor took up other parts of the lot. Samuel in 1809 took land on lot number 17. John was county clerk thirteen years. He and Darius had a store and ashery at Dewittville. In 1830 they removed to East Jamestown and built mills, and the place took the name of Dex- terville. Captain Anson Leet, of Connecticut, who came to Stockton in 1810, and in 1814 purchased the land at Point Chautauqua, for- merly known as Leet's Point, was the first to settle at Point Chautauqua. He had eleven children. The next year William Hunt settled on lot 29, township 3, his land including the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds. In the south- eastern part of the town Samuel Porter, Jared Irwin, Ichabod Wing, Ephraim Hammond and Robert Lawson were early settlers. Rich- ard Whitney settled upon lot 21, David Morris upon lot 38. In the south part of the town the early settlers were: Alfred Paddock, David Adams, Robert Donaldson, Palta Sweatland, Dennis Hart, Ava Hart, Samuel Hustis and William Fowler. In the southwest Jacob Put- nam and in the north Joseph Davis found homes. William T. Howe settled a mile north- east of Mayville in 1816. Samuel B. Porter bought 200 acres four miles south of Mayville, cleared one acre, built a log cabin, and brought his second wife, Mary Justina Johnson, and his two youngest children to their new home in the wilderness. Mrs. Porter died in Novem- ber, 1848, Mr. Porter in October, 1863.

Mayville, as the place for holding the courts, the meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the keeping of the public records and the transac- tion of the general business of the county, naturally attracted influential citizens to be- come residents. Samuel S. Whallon, when a boy, came with his parents to Mayville about IS12 and resided there until his death in 1858. He was a prominent merchant, a member of Assembly, and in 1856 was elected canal com- missioner and held that office until he died. About 1815 Jedidiah Tracy moved to Mayville from Erie county, Pennsylvania, and kept for many years one of the best inns in the county.

Robertson Whiteside settled in Chautauqua about 1820 ; he was subsequently county treas- urer and a member of Assembly. Jesse Brooks came to Mayville and became a merchant ; he was postmaster for twenty years, succeeding Jedidiah Tracy. William Green, long a well- known lawyer, came to Mayville in 1824. His brother, Richard O., once a county clerk, and George A., surrogate, came later. In 1828 in- creased communication with Jamestown was given to Mayville by the sidewheel steamboat "Chautauque ;" she made her first trip July 4, 1828. This year Omar Farwell came and engaged in the tanning business and estab- lished a store. John Birdsall about this time became a resident and one of its most distin- guished citizens. Daniel Tennant, from Scot- land, about 1748 settled in Connecticut, where his son Daniel was born about 1761 and when eighteen entered the Revolutionary army, was at West Point at the time of the treason of Arnold, saw the American cannon spiked pre- paratory to a surrender to the British and saw Major Andre, after his capture. He married Miss Hale, of Irish birth, who had two brothers in the American army. After the war he set- tled at Waterville, Oneida county. Daniel Tennant, his son, born in 1802, came to this county in 1827 and bought wild timber land about three miles northeast of Hartfield. He married Hephzibah M. Leech, who was born in Connecticut in 1807, moved to Buffalo with her parents, whose home was burned by the British in 1812. Mrs. Tennant died in 1874; Mr. Tennant died in 1890.

Between 1830 and 1835 many public im- provements were made in the town and many citizens of worth came to Mayville. In 1830 it was incorporated as a village. In 1831 Mat- thew P. Bemus, son of Charles Bemus, came to reside. He was born in Ellery, January 4, 1831. He was one of the most public-spirited citizens, took an active part in the building of the Cross Cut railroad, and held many impor- tant public positions. In 1832 the county poor- house was erected and the jail was built. An act was passed that year to incorporate the Mayville & Portland Railroad Company, capi- tal $150,000, to construct a railroad from Port- land Harbor to Chautauqua Lake; the design was not carried into execution. In 1833 Don- ald McKinzie came to Mayville. He was one of the most distinguished citizens in the county. August 18, 1825, he married Adelgonda Hum- bert Droz, daughter of Alphonzo Humbert Droz, of Berne, Switzerland. He resided here until his death, January 20, 1851, after a life of much adventure. He was a man of ability,

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of enterprise and of honor, and left a large re- spected family. In April, 1834, Mayville Acad- emy was incorporated, and a substantial build- ing of brick erected. In the fall the "Mayville Sentinel" was established by William Kibbe. About a year afterward, Beman Brockway be- came proprietor and conducted it successfully for ten years, when he removed to Oswego. It was then conducted by John F. Phelps until his decease in 1878.

In 1835 the new court house was built, and the public execution of Damon occurred in Mayville on the sidehill not far from the Acad- emy. February 6, 1836, the land office was de- stroyed by a mob, and was thereafter opened and kept at Westfield.

William A. Mayborne came to Mayville to re- side about 1836, and William Gifford about 1841. In 1854 Milton Smith was elected sheriff, and became a lifelong resident of Mayville. Amos K. Warren, afterwards sheriff, came in 1862. One of the most important events favorably affecting the interests of Mayville was the building of the Buffalo & Oil Creek Cross Cut railroad, now the Western New York & Penn- sylvania railroad, chartered in 1865.

A county farm of one hundred acres having been purchased near Dewittville, a substantial brick building was erected in 1832, which was used until the present one was erected in 1870. Buildings for the unfortunate have been suc- cessively erected there in 1839, 1851, 1858, 1868, 1903 and 1904. The present main build- ing is four stories high, with frontage of 104 feet and depth of 68 feet. From the rear there is a center wing twenty-two feet wide, fifty- seven feet six inches long, two stories high. The cost of the building was $36,226, and its furnishings $1,500. When it was built it was the most beautiful building in the county, and was declared by official visitors to be the finest and best managed county house in the State. The farm now has 338 5/10 acres, and the whole property is valued over $100,000.

As a result of the Chautauqua movement egun in 1873, Fair Point has been transformed nto a permanent village of importance, while he lands bordering the upper part of the lake within the town have wonderfully increased in alue. On September 30, 1875, Point Chau- auqua Association was incorporated, that be- ng the beginning of the improvement of Leet's Point, many fine homes now adding to the beauty of that most sightly point on the lake- hore. These enterprises assured Mayville's permanent prosperity, and water works, pav- ng, electricity and railways followed in a tri- Imphal march of modern progress. The Chau-

tauqua Institution will be made the subject of a special chapter.

The First Baptist Church of Mayville was organized with thirty-eight members, by Elder Jonathan Wilson, a pioneer missionary from Vermont, February 7, 1820. Mr. Wilson was the first pastor of the church. The church edi- fice was built in 1834.

The Chautauqua Society of the Methodist Episcopal church at Mayville was formed about 1820. A house of worship was erected in 1851.

St. Paul's Church of Mayville was organized with about twenty members in April, 1823, by Rev. David Brown, the first pastor. The first church edifice was completed in January, 1828, and consecrated by Bishop Habart, September 4. 1828. The present house was built in 1859, and consecrated by Bishop Coxe, May 18, 1865. Rev. G. W. Sinclair Ayres entered upon the rectorship of this church, November 1, 1893.

The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Dewittville was formed with ten members in 1835. by William Gifford. This house of wor- ship was purchased of the Baptists the same year. The first pastor was Rev. Mr. Burgess.

The First Free-Will Baptist Church of Chau- tauqua Hill, four miles north from Hartfield, was organized with five members in 1840, by Rev. T. V. Main, the first pastor, and a Mr. Neely. A house of worship was built about 1842.

Summit Church, Methodist Episcopal, near Summit Station, where a class had been formed, built a house of worship through the instrumentality, it is said, of John H. Flagler in 1849. The first pastor after the completion of the church building was Rev. John K. Hal- lock.

The Christian Church at Dewittville was organized December 25, 1852, by Rev. E. H. Mosher, the first pastor, and E. H. Halladay. Their church edifice was erected in 1856.

Mount Pleasant Church, United Brethren, three and a half miles southeast from Mayville, was organized with eight members in 1858 by Rev. Z. Sullivan, the first pastor. A church edifice was built in 1865.

The United Brethren in Christ, of Elm Flats, was organized with eight members, February 1, 1863, by Rev. N. R. Luce, the first pastor. A house of worship was erected in 1861 ; the present one in 1870.

St. Peter's Church, German United Evan- gelical Protestant, at Mayville, was organized with twenty members in 1871 by Rev. O. Schro- der. Their church edifice was erected in 1871. The first pastor was Rev. Jacob Weber.

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The Swedish Lutherans organized a church at Mayville in 1870, built in 1872. Church and parsonage are worth $4,000.

Summit Lodge, No. 312, Free and Accepted Masons, was instituted at Mayville, in 1818, and derived its name from its location on the summit of the watershed between the Missis- sippi and the St. Lawrence river systems. The first meeting was held in Asahel Lyon's rooms ; the first officers were John Dexter, worthy master; James M. Cochrane, senior warden; Asahel Lyon, junior warden; David Eason, treasurer ; Calvin Macomber, secretary. The lodge was discontinued in 1824, and was re- vived on November 4, 1850, as No. 219. Its last meeting at Mayville was held February 14, 1851, and it was moved to Westfield.

Peacock Lodge, No. 696, Free and Accepted Masons, held its first meeting U. D., February 28, 1869, and received its charter June 9, 1869. The lodge perpetuates the name of a distin- guished and worthy brother, William Peacock, who was ever governed by true Masonic prin- ciples. The first officers elected were N. G. Luke, worshipful master ; George Wood, senior warden ; John F. Young, junior warden ; Amos K. Warren, treasurer; O. E. Tiffany, secre- tary ; William S. Gleason, senior deacon ; Peter M. Pickard, junior deacon.

Supervisors-John McMahan, 1805-07; Ar- thur Bell, 1808; Thos. Prendergast, 1809; Matt. Prendergast, 1810-11; Samuel Ayres, 1812; John Scott, 1813 : John E. Marshall, 1814 : Mar- tin Prendergast, 1815-16-18, and 1819-33; John Dexter, 1817 : Jabez B. Burrows, 1834-36; Wm. Prendergast. 1837-39; Alva Cottrell, 1840-41- 46; Dexter Barnes, 1842; Cyrus Underwood, 1843-44; Wm. Green, 1845; Williard W. Crafts, 1847-48-53; Martin Prendergast, 1849-61-64; Stephen W. Hunt, 1850-51 ; Hiram A. Pratt, 1852; David Woods, 1854-55; John Birdsall, 1856-57 ; Wm. Gifford, 1858-59 ; Milton G. Free- man, 1860; Daniel H. Hewes, 1865; Wm. P. Whiteside, 1866: Matt. P. Bemus, 1867-72; John Birdsall, 1873-74; Sidney R. Lawson, 1875-76; James M. Hunt, 1877; Lewis T. Har- rington, 1878-79; Ezra J. Scofield, 1880-83 ; Eldred Lott, 1884; J. Franklin Hunt, 1885-87; Herman Sixbey, 1888-89: Geo. W. Hewes, 1890-03; Thos. Hutson, 1894-96; Willis H. Tennant, 1897-99; August Anderson, 1900-03; Thos. Hutson, 1904-07; Marion W. Scofield, 1908-13 ; Martin P. Whallon, 1914-20.

The population of Chautauqua, according to the New York State census of 1915 was: Citi- zens, 3,854; aliens, 79; Mayville reporting 1,201.

The Chautauqua Print Shop at Chautauqua

and the Chautauqua Cabinet Company at May- ville are the principal industries, although Mayville has four small plants and Summer- vale two. The assessed value of real estate in the town in 1918 was $3,371,384; full value, $4,297,105. Good schools abound in all parts of the town.

Cherry Creek-The town of Cherry Creek, situated in the northern and eastern part of the county, was set off from the town of Ellington on May 4, 1829. When Surveyor Joshua Bent- ley, Jr., found the center of the new town to be on an island in a stream, he cut down a small cherry tree, made it into a sharpened stake, drove it down, and named the stream Cherry creek. The town took its name from the creek, settlement was made, and a village started in the locality once famous for its cherry trees, to which was given the name Cherry Creek.

Original purchases in township 4, Range 10:

1815-March. Joshua Bentley, 15; April, Joshua Bentley, 9 (settled on by Joshua M. Kent) ; May, Gard- ner Crandall.

1816-May, Barber Babcock, 19: June, Ely D. Pen- dleton, 20; October, Reuben Cheney, 18.

1817-June, Elam Edson, 18; November, Rufus Hitchcock, 49.

1818-April, John Smith, 17; August, Hiram Hill, 49. 1821-October, John P. Hadley, 41; Henry Bab- cock, 20; Alvah Hadley, 41; Julius Gibbs, 41; Robert James, 36; Nathaniel Gibbs, Jr., II; Eliphalet Wilcox, 17, Robert Page, 13.

1823-March, James Carr, 14: December, Enos A. Bronson, 56.

1824-February, Eason Matteson, 10; March, Ira B. Tanner, 46; May, Amos Abbey, 64; Nathan Worden, 16; June, Jared Ingalls, 22: Ira Bassett, 25; July, Ward King, 17: October, William G. Carr, 24; Dudley Waters, 48.

1825 -- April, John Luce, 58; William Lathrop, 24; May, Ira Bassett and Samuel W. Wilcox, Jr., 25; Sep- tember, George Burdeck, 38; October, Aury Cronk -. hite, 21; Arahel H. Mallory, 21; Eddy Wetherly, 28 ;? November, Robert James, Jr., 35.

1826-April, Putnam Farrington, 63; October, Lyman Town and Thomas King, 56; December, Henry Luce, 55.

1827-April, Ebenezer Still, Jr., 39; June, Stephen Blaisdell, 18: September, Nehemiah Osborne, 31; Israel Seeley, 31; Issachar Hammond, 30.

1829-June, William A. Bowen, 13; July, Thomas King, 18; December, Sylvester Osborne, 14.

The statement is now unhesitatingly made that the first settlement in the town of Cherry Creek was made by Joseph M. Kent, on lot 9, in the spring of 1815. He was born in Royal- ton, Vermont, and after having lived in Herki- mer and Onondaga counties, New York, re- moved to Chautauqua county, settling in what is now Cherry Creek with his wife and seven children. Mr. Kent, his son George, Nancy, his eldest daughter, and John P. Kent, a nephew, cleared the first land and raised the

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first crop of potatoes. The next spring, desti- tute of provisions and money, he felled a pine tree and made a canoe sixty feet in length, launched it in Conewango creek, put into it fifteen hundred pounds of maple sugar and some black salts, and ran it down to Pittsburgh. He there exchanged his cargo for flour, pork, salt, and with the help of his son George pushed his vessel with pikepoles back to Cherry Creek, having been absent about three weeks.

Joshua Bentley, Jr., the second settler, set- tled on lot 15, now known as the Decker farm, September 1, 1815. He had located in Ellery about 1808, and was one of the surveyors that ran the lines in this part of the county prior to its settlement. Cherry Creek's first road was cut out by John Kent, brother of Joseph M., one of the first purchasers of land in Villenova. In the spring of 1810 he built his house on the old Indian camping grounds at the headwaters of the Conewango, also the first sawmill and gristmill in the eastern part of the county. Where the Indian trail from the Cattaraugus Reservation to the Allegheny crossed the farm later owned by Alfred H. Blaisdell, there were two large springs where the Indians had a camp with a stone fireplace. This camp was almost constantly occupied by parties of In- dians, who stopped to fish and hunt as they passed either north or south.

John P. Kent, a son, and John Dighton, in the summer of 1812, cut out the first road through from Kent's Mill in Villenova, sixteen miles through Cherry Creek to Kennedyville, for which they received from the Holland Land Company ten dollars per mile. This road fol- lowed the line of the Conewango Valley on the Indian trail running on the west side of the village. Three years later they cut out another road to Sinclairville, branching off from the old road on lot 16 in Cherry Creek, taking a south- westerly line, passing the homes of Gardiner Crandall and Isaac Curtis on lot 23. At that time they were the only residents in town on this road. This has been known as the old Kent road, and is now called Kent street. Gar- diner Crandall and Isaac Curtis had each pur- chased one hundred acres on lot 23. Mr. Cran- dall built a log house twenty-six by twenty, and in the spring of 1816 both families moved into it and lived there until Mr. Curtis could build. Mr. Crandall lived many years in Cherry Creek, and became the father of twenty- two children by two wives. Stephen Curtis, a brother of Isaac, settled on adjoining land, and left two sons, Henry L. and John H. Curtis. James Marks the next purchaser of land (his deed calling for one hundred sixty acres in the

south part of lot 20, bearing date October 20, 1815), built his log house, covered with bark and without any floor, and moved in his furni- ture, consisting of an ax, a gun and a "baking kittle." This was the first house built in the now incorporated village of Cherry Creek. His house soon after became unoccupied and re- mained so until about 1824; it was then fitted up for a schoolhouse for the first school taught in the village. Its teacher, Angeline Picker- ing, became the wife of John Babcock and set- tled in Busti. In May, 1816, Barber Babcock on lot 19, Ely D. Pendleton on lot 20 and Reu- ben Cheeney on lot 18, became settlers of Cherry Creek, lived here many years, raised families, cleared up farms and made homes. In June, 1817, Elam Edson, William Weaver, on lot 18, Rufus Hitchcock and Hiram Hill on lot 49. John Smith, lot 17, Henry Bab- cock, lot 20, Nathaniel Gibbs, Jr., lot II, Eli- phalet W. Wilcox, lot 17, Robert Page, lot 28, were settlers. Daniel Hadley from Ver- mont came with his family, November 9, 1817. Three of his sons settled in Cherry Creek, Niles and Alvah on parts of lot 41, John P. on lot 27, near the village. He married the daughter of Robert James, also an early settler. He took an active part in laying out and cutting out early roads in Cherry Creek and in getting the town set off from Ellington in 1829. He also frequently served in town offices and was town clerk at the time of his death. He held militia offices from corporal to major.

In the southwest part of the town lived Al- vah Hadley, whose son, Ozro A., was for a time acting Governor of Arkansas, and Niles Hadley, who lived and died on his early pur- chased home. Also settled here Mr. Ward and his sons, William, On and Ai; Hudson Smith, John Howard, Nathaniel Dunham, Arthur Hines, Addison Phillips, John Luce, Reuben A. Bullock, Myron Field, Horatio Hill. Joseph Price on lot 42 had three sons : John, Lawrence and David. Abraham T. Andrus settled where the late John D. Mount lived. In the north- west part were: John Bartlett, Ira B. Tan- ner, Alvah Bannister, Elkanah Steward, Oliver Carpenter, Anson Newton, Wilbur Burdick, John Essex, J. Richardson, Eben Abbey, Put- nam Farrington, a general of the War of 1812. Ora Parks, who settled in 1824 on lot 37, three miles in the woods from neighbors, cleared his farm and raised a large family. Enos A. Bron- son came from Connecticut and settled on lot 56, near the north line, in 1825, where he died in 1858. His sons were William, Horace, Allen L., and Monson M.

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house was made the first attempt at a village in the town in the spring of 1820, on lot 34. Here settled Robert James, Montgomery Evans, Norton Still, David Myers, Horatio Hill, Demas Stone, Robert James, Jr., and Randall Spencer, who held the first Methodist class meetings in his house for a number of years. A burying ground was soon laid out. Pliny Shattuck opened a blacksmith shop here in 1831. The hopes of having a village at this point were soon blasted.

George H. Frost, from Renssalaer county, came in 1823. and built the second house in what is now the village of Cherry Creek, on the south part of lot 20, where C. D. Leonard's cheese factory once stood (land taken up by James Marks in 1815). Mr. Frost became the first settler with a family in the village, kept the first tavern, and was the first postmaster ; he afterward kept a store, later lived on a farm, but returned to the village, where he died in 1873. He had been for several years super- visor.

William Green, Almeron Bly, Elam Edson, Ira Bassett, John Bovee, Rollins Kilburn, Harry James, Aaron Bartlett, John P. Hadley, Thomas Berry, Cyrus Thatcher and Alfred Goodrich were early settlers in the village. In the vicinity were Michael Page, Eddy Weather- ly, Jotham Godfrey, Stephen Blaisdell, Julius Gibbs, Henry Babcock, William Kilbourn and Thomas Carter, who established a tannery with a shoe shop. In the central part, Robert James settled in 1820, on lot 36, where he died. Of his sons, Robert J. was supervisor in 1831-32;

Jonathan was a physician. Thomas Mount brought his wife and fourteen children from New Jersey. His sons were Ezekiel, John, Hezekiah, Furman and Samuel. Anthony Morian settled on lot 44 in 1835 and raised a family of ten children.

In the southeast part, Wanton King settled on lot 9 in 1820; his sons were Thomas Ward and Obediah. On lot 12, Josiah Crumb settled. Eason Matteson located on lot 18 in 1820. In the south part the early settlers were: Daniel Waggoner, Isaac C. Brown, William S. Bul- lock, Moses Ells, Clark Losee, George W. Hitchcock. Job Eddy settled on lot 23. in the northeast part in 1820. Thomas Wilcox, from Hanover, was an early settler, first on lot 17, in 1819, on lot 21 in 1824, and on lot 24 in 1829, where he died. He was noted for his industry and for clearing much land. His sons were Daniel, Erastus, Alfred and Harlow. James Carr settled in 1823 on lot 15, land bought of Joshua Bentley, Jr., and afterwards kept store in the village. He was supervisor of Elling-

ton in 1828-29 and the first supervisor of Cherry Creek. He had one son, Andrew J. William G. Carr came in October, 1829, with wife and two children and settled on lot 15, Jarius Nash from Stephentown, an early school teacher, settled on lot 23. Jared Ingalls located on all of lot 22 in 1825 and built a sawmill. Daniel B. Parsons, from Madison county, set- tled in 1850 on lot 23, where he died. Both he and his son, Reuben W., were supervisors. William Weaver, in ISI7, settled on lot 18; a few years after on lot 14, where he died. On Powers Hill, George Sheffield settled on lot 29; his sons were Aaron, Hiram, Alanson and Judson. Daniel Powers, a son-in-law, from whom the hill takes its name, settled on the same lot.

The first birth in town was that of Lydia, 3.95 11-0 "rms The zenrdi rbom daughter of Joseph M. and Patty Kent, in 1816; she married Charles B. Green, of Elling- ton. The first marriage was James Battles to Rachael, daughter of Daniel Hadley, June 6, 1819. The first death was that of Rufus Hitch- cock in 1820; he fell from the roof of his house just as he had completed it, and fractured his skull. The first school was taught by Reuben Cheeney, in the south part of the town. The first merchant was Seth Grover, who started in zlue Che lutit Treets 255 ho trade in 1831. He had in connection with his store an ashery and a pearling oven. Later Cyrus Thatcher and George H. Frost were in trade. The first resident physician, Horace ugh sc Form of : the -les fr The Ch (mis). Morgan, came in 1829. He was followed by Oliver B. Main, Edwin G. Bly, T. G. Walker and others. Among the early tailors were Jonathan Greenman and Russell Bartlett. The first sawmill was built by William Kilburn in 1824 on Cherry Creek, near the village; he attached, the next year, a shop for making spinning wheels, chairs, etc., to his mill. The second sawmill was built by Robert James and William Green in 1833. The first grist mill was built by Hull Nickerson in 1828, near the ? »erkir site of Price's sawmill. It had one run of 893 : pre stones and was used only for corn. It was known for years as the old "pepper" mill. In 1848 Joseph Kent built a grist mill with all rå Ju @ hist Ber modern appliances with three runs of stones. This mill was burned in 1869 and rebuilt in 1870 by Silas Vinton. Immediately under the grocery store of C. L. Frost a large spring bub- bled up. In the early days of settlement this was much larger than now and overflowed Va quite an area of land. The deer found some attractive quality in the water not present in *mas d ke Ch any other spring and resorted there often in numbers. This gave it the name of "the deer lick," by which it was long known.

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History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people, Volume I, Part 28

Author: Downs, John Phillips, 1853- ed. [from old catalog]; Hedley, Fenwick, Y., joint ed. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] American historical society, inc. Number of Pages: 649

Author: Downs, John Phillips, 1853- ed. [from old catalog]; Hedley, Fenwick, Y., joint ed. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] American historical society, inc.
Number of Pages: 649