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1817-March, Oliver Spafford, 22: Simon Burton, 22; Elijah Fay, 40; May, Isaac Baldwin, 40; June, Martin Smith, 45; July, Asa Brooks, 2; Jewett Prime, 16; Sep- tember, Zadoc Martin, 2, 3.
1818-April, Geo. A. Hitchcock, 16; May, James Bennett, 32; Moses Titcomb, 16.
1820-January, Jewett Prime, 21.
1821 -- October, Wm. Harris, 18; Jos. Harris, 18; W'm. Harris, Jr., 18; David Hurlbut, 18; Sylvester An- drews, 18.
1822-February, Sophia Williams, 24: Wolcott Colt, 17; September, Seth Shattuck, 10; December, John Corning, 14, 15: Wm. Corning, 14; Joshua Crosby, 14. 1823-September, Isaac Howe, 10.
1824-January, Rufus Moore, II; February, Sam- uel Anderson, Jr., 28; October, Jos. Gibbs, 42; Hollis Fay, 42; November, Amos C. Andrews, I.
1825-November, Joshua S. West, 17.
1826-April, Isaac Denton, I.
1827-July, Samuel Thayer, Jr., 23.
1828-September, David Dean, 2: December, James Bennett and others, II; Isaac Sage and others, 11; Frederic Comstock and others, II.
1820-February, Oliver Elliot, 28; March, Henry Mumford, 15.
1830-September, William Case, 13; Lewis Cham- berlain, 13.
1831-May, Lemuel Thayer, Jr., 23.
Original Land Purchases in Township 4.
1810-March, Jerry Bartholomew, 63; April, Leon- ard Vibbard, 62: Perry Hall, 62.
1811-March, Benj. Hutchins, 62; September, Wilder Emerson. 55.
1812-November, Josiah Gibbs, 14.
1815-March, Perry Hillard, 61; May, Wm. Stetson, 55: John T. McIntyre, 55; Ethan A. Owen, 54.
1816-March. Jona. Burtch, 62; May, Calvin Hutch- ins, 46: June. Jere. Klumph, 47: Arch. Ludington, 45; Thos. Klumph, 47: July, Jacob W. Klumph, 47: Octo- her, Jos. Babcock, 48; November, Benj. Hutchins, 54: James Barnes, 54; Asa Fuller, 48: Timothy Carpen- ter, 48.
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1817-February, Reuben B. Patch, 61; Jedediah Thayer, 61; Stephen Smalley, 48; April, Elisha Rogers, 60; Wm. Cotton, 47; Gideon Jones, 45; May, James Lee, 47; August, Lewis Macomber, Stephen B. Macom- ber, 38; October, Erastus Andrews, 40; November, Brewer Hubbell, 40.
1818-July, Zuriel Simmons, 31; August, Reuben B. Patch, 60.
1819-January, Perry Hall, 39; August, Aaron Hall, 60.
Settlement of the town went on rapidly, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 there were thirty families. By 1823 scarcely a corner un- explored, and log cabins were everywhere. On May 11, 1811, Elijah Fay located all of lot 20, township 5, which included all of the west por- tion of Brocton, and erected his log cabin. Hollis Fay, on December 11, 1813, located 160 acres, including the east part of Brocton, cleared a few acres, and built a log cabin. The purchases of James Dunn, 1804, Calvin Barnes, 1816, Abner B. Beebe, 1822, covered the whole plot of Centreville, the site of the village a dense forest through which no road was laid out until 1815.
The first post office, Chautauqua, was estab- lished, and the first postmaster, James Mc- Mahan, appointed in 1806. The second post office in the county was Canadaway, four miles east of Fredonia, established June 18, 1806, Deacon Orsamus Holmes, the first postmaster. The third postoffice was established at now Fredonia, May 6, 1809, Samuel Berry the first postmaster. Mayville private postoffice was established July 1, 1812, Casper Rouse post- master. Portland postoffice, December 7,
1814, Calvin Barnes the first postmaster, his commission dated December 13, 1814. He held the office continuously until September 2, 1829, when the office was discontinued. At the time this office was established, Portland included all east of Chautauqua creek to the Pomfret line, and the Portland postoffice was the first within the bounds of the present town of Portland. North Portland postoffice was established September 3, 1828, Moses Sage, postmaster. He moved to Fredonia in 1830, and with the appointment of his successor, John R. Coney, the name was changed to Port- land. Salem Cross Roads postoffice was estab- lished February 16, 1835. the village and post- office retaining that name until September 7, 1857, when it was changed to Brocton. D. Howell was the first postmaster at Salem Cross Roads.
The first school in the town was opened in the spring of 1810, in a small log building near the dwelling of Capt. James Dunn, who owned the cabin, and was at first attended only by
his children. Soon a few others were allowed to send their children, each contributing to the expense of maintaining the school. Later the same year a school house was built by volun- tary effort, that first school house standing in District No. 3. opposite the site of the later . "old stone school house." Miss Anna Eaton taught the first school in town at Capt. Dunn's. Augustine Klumph taught the first and only school in the new school house in the winter of 1810-II, for the location proving incon- venient, it was abandoned after that first win- ter. With the introduction of the modern pub- lic school system, Portland fell in line and with pride and good judgment erected suitable houses in all the districts and a standard of education has been maintained most credita- ble to the town. The Portland Library was organized November 9, 1824, and $100 sub- scribed for the purchase of books.
The first religious service in Portland was at the home of Capt. James Dunn, in 1810, Rev. John Spencer the preacher. The first regular meetings for worship were instituted in 1814 at the log house of Peter Mckenzie. Those meetings were usually conducted by Amasa West, a teacher at the Cross Roads, now West- field, who later became a preacher. The first Congregational church was formed January 3, 1818, by Rev. John Spencer, with eighteen members.
Methodism was introduced in 1816 by Wil- liam Dunham, who held meetings in his home, a class being formed June 9, 1817, by a circuit rider, Rev. Mr. Goddard. A church was organ- ized in 1822; it was reorganized February 3, 1834, as The First Methodist Episcopal Society in Portland. A church was built in 1868, although a parsonage was built at Portland Center in 1843. The Methodist church at Brocton, a part of the original church, was organized in 1853, and a church edifice erected the same year.
The first Baptist church was organized Sep- tember 20, 1819, with eleven members, in -. creased the first year to sixty-three. On April 6, 1822, this was organized as the First Bap- tist Society of Portland, and in 1834 a house of worship was erected near the center of the village of Brocton, the lot on which it stood donated by Deacon Elijah Fay, one of the first trustees. A brick church was dedicated De- cember 18, 1867. The West Baptist Church in Portland was set off June 22, 1842, and a brick church erected the next year. In 1867 a parsonage was built.
A Universalist Society was formed Septem- ber 21, 1821, by fourteen persons, at the house
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of Simon Burton. On September 24, trustees and a clerk were chosen. About a year later a church was formed with thirty-five members and regular services were practiced for a num- ber of years. On March 24, 1824, the First Universalist Society in Portland was incor- porated, but no property was acquired and the church later ceased to exist. A Roman Catho- ic church was built at Brocton Station in 1873. The Evangelical Lutheran Church was formed n 1872, with a Swedish congregation, and a house of worship dedicated in 1883 at Brocton.
The Brotherhood of the New Life, com- nonly known as The Harris Community, was founded by Rev. Thomas Harris of Amenia, Dutchess county, in October, 1867, with about :,000 acres of farm lands in Portland, mainly long the lake. About seventy-five people ormed the community, which apparently pros- ered, several industries having been estab- ished-haypressing and shipping, a general tursery business, pure native wines, in addi- ion to general farming and grape culture. A otel and restaurant were conducted at Salem- n-Erie, as the village on the Lake Shore & Allegheny Valley railroad was called. The members, men and women, were of high char- cter, absolutely unselfish, but the enterprise vas badly managed, and in 1883 the commu- ity was disrupted, a few going with Harris to ear Santa Barbara, California. while the thers secured what they could of the property nd turned to other pursuits.
Sawmills were found on every stream, the Junham and Sage mills, built in 1816, being he first. Simon Burton built a gristmill at the south of Slippery Rock creek in 1817, and ther gristmills were Coney's, on the same -eek : Godfrey's, on Correll creek; Van Cov- i's, the Brocton, Portland Center, and the [arris Brotherhood Mill. James Parker built he first tannery in 1807, and a carding machine as put in operation at Portland Center in 325 by Orrin Ford, the first proprietor of the aona woolen factory, which later was con- erted into a paper mill. Luther Crosby was he first blacksmith, also a gunsmith. Colton ash, the first settler of Centerville, was the rst wagon-maker, David Eaton the first shoe- aker.
There were sixteen taverns in Portland rior to 1839, the first kept by Capt. James unn, at his home in 1808. Peter Ingersoll pened a tavern in 1800 on the Mckenzie farm. daniel Barnes and William Berry in 1811, avid Joy, 1814: Martin Smith, 1815: John R. toney, 1822; Moses Sage, 1824; and Martin toney, 1828, were all early tavern keepers.
Dr. Lawton Richmond was the first physi- cian in the old town of Portland, coming in 1800-the second licensed physician in the county. Other early practitioners were Drs. Fenn Deming, Silast Spencer, Marcius Simons, Carlton Jones, and Daniel Ingalls.
The first store in the present town of Port- land was in a small room in the log house of Augustus Klumph, the proprietor in 1817, Thomas Klumph, the Klumph home standing on lot 37, township 5. Abial and Frank Silver opened the second store in 1830. The Klumph store was small, worthy of mention only as being the first attempt at merchandising in the town. The Silvers had a good trade, but only operated for two years, when they sold out to William Curtis and E. Tinker.
Dr. Daniel Ingalls and Joseph Lockwood opened the first store in Brocton in 1830. Thomas Klumph, the first merchant in the town, was also the first merchant in Center- ville, opening a store there on Main street in 1832.
When considered in the light of a fruit growing community, Portland takes high rank. It was in here that grape culture was first introduced in the county, all but a very small portion of the town being well adapted to grape growing, apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, strawberries and raspberries are grown extensively. The first orchard in the town was set out by Capt. James Dunn, who brought a small bundle of young apple trees from his Pennsylvania home in 1807. David Eaton planted a nursery in 1807, using seeds brought from Massachusetts. In 1800 he planted a dozen young apple trees, and the same year pear seeds, which bore fruit thirteen years later, David Eaton's pears being famous. Elisha Fay planted seeds brought by him from Massachusetts in 1807, and later set out an orchard. There were later nurseries, and in 1824-25 fruit trees of various kinds were intro- duced from a Long Island nursery. Lincoln Fay, a lifelong market fruit grower, raised and sold trees for many years. Cherries and plums came soon after the apple and pear ; peaches were grown from pits planted in 1807, but have never been a standard crop. Strawberries were first grown in 1855, and raspberries in 1860.
The greatest crop the town produces is grapes, the growing of that fruit having been established in 1818 by Deacon Elijah Fay. From a small beginning, grape culture has spread all over the town, and is a great source of wealth. Wine was first manufactured in Portland by Deacon Fay in 1830, and the few
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gallons he made was the first made in Western New York from cultivated grapes. Each year saw an addition to the amount of wine made, and in 1859 the wine house of Fay, Ryckman & Haywood was built and put in operation, 2,000 gallons being made the first season. There are many large and innumerable small vineyards in the town.
According to the census of 1915 (State), W. E. Dudley was manufacturing grape baskets at Portland, and the Naboth Vineyards were manufacturing grape juice. Other industries are the Paul De Laney Company, Inc., manu- facturers of fruit products ; The Brocton Fruit Juice Company, manufacturers of fruit juices, both located in the village of Brocton; the Brocton Furniture Company and the Crandall Panel Company.
Two newspapers are published in the town, "The Mirror" and "The Grape Belt." There are now three postoffices in the town-Broc- ton, Portland and Prospect. The railroads are all trunk lines-the Lake Shore & Michigan Central, the New York Central, and the Penn- sylvania, stations being established at Vine- yard, Brocton, Portland and Prospect.
Brocton was made an incorporated village, March 20, 1894. The first village election was held April 17, 1894, Garrett E. Ryckman being the first president of the village. In 1915 Broc- ton reported (State census) a population of 1,292.
The State Bank of Brocton was organized as a private bank in 1886 by Dean & Hall, reor- ganized as a State bank in February, 1892, with $30,000 capital, Ralph A. Hall, president. The Brocton Land and Improvement Com- pany bought the remaining property of the Harris Community, about five hundred acres, which was later parceled out in vineyard tracts of five and ten acres.
Both Brocton and Portland are prosperous communities, and in them are found oppor- tunities for self-culture through library, soci- ety and club. The fraternal orders are well represented and the mercantile establishments are in keeping with the demands made upon them.
Dr. Horace C. Taylor practiced medicine in Brocton for half a century until his death, De- cember 21, 1903. He wrote a history of the town of Portland, which was published in 1873-an authority on town history, and has been freely drawn upon in all subsequent his- tories.
In 1829 the assessed valuation of real estate in the town was $99,485; in 1871, $703,815; in 1918, the full value was $3,735,387, the assessed
value, $3,175,079, equalized value, $2,930,676. The population of the town in 1915 was 3,352; of whom 219 were aliens.
Portland has furnished men for every war. waged by the United States since its settle- ment in 1812, when Col. McMahan led his Chautauqua regiment to Buffalo. Portland fur- nished 137 men to the army and navy during the Civil War, besides others credited else- where. Aid was furnished soldiers direct and through hospitals and commissions by three ladies' associations of the town-The Baptis Sewing Circle, Soldiers' Aid Society of Port land, and The Universalist Social. The Ahira Hall Memorial Library of Brocton will have attention in the special chapter on libraries.
John McMahan, the first supervisor of the old town of Chautauqua, was elected in April 1805, 1806, 1807, meeting with the board o Genesee county at Batavia. Arthur Bell, th second supervisor, a veteran of the Revolution ary War, was elected in 1808. The first super visor after the division of the town was elected in 1809, and was the first supervisor of the ol town of Portland elected in 1814. David Eator the second supervisor, served from the ol town of Portland in 1815, for the second tow. of Portland in 1816-17, and for the presen town in 1833-34-35. Thomas B. Campbell wa supervisor nine years, and chairman of th board 1820-25.
Supervisors-1814, Thos. Prendergast ; 1815 17, David Eaton ; 1818-26, Thos. B. Campbell 1827-29, Elisha Arnold ; 1830, Nath. Fay ; 1831 32, Elisha Arnold ; 1833-35, David Eaton ; 183( Asa Andrews; 1837-39, Timothy Judson ; 184 Asa Andrews; 1841-43, Timothy Judson ; 184. Elisha Norton ; 1845, John R. Coney ; 1846-4 Timothy Judson ; 1848, Ebenezer Harris; 184 Timothy Judson ; 1850, Asa Blood; 1851, Joh R. Coney ; 1852-53-54, Timothy Judson ; 185 Chas. A. Marsh : 1856. Darwin G. Goodrich 1857, Ralph D. Fuller ; 1858, Darwin G. Good rich ; 1859, Horace C. Taylor; 1860, Gurdo Taylor ; 1861-62, Horace C. Taylor; 1863-6 Albert Haywood; 1865-66, Joseph B. Fay 1867-68, Albert Eaton : 1869, Joseph E. Harri- 1870-77. Theo. S. Moss ; 1878, Horace C. Ta lor : 1879, J. A. H. Skinner ; 1880-84, Herma J. Dean : 1885-86, Elisha H. Fay; 1887-8 Theodore C. Moss ; 1888-90, Brewer D. Ph lips; 1891, Aug. Blood ; 1892, Brewer D. Ph lips ; 1893, Oscar L. Porter ; 1894-97, Chas. ( Furman ; 1898-99, Theodore C. Moss; 190 1905, Charles F. Crandall ; 1906-07, William ] Fay ; 1908-09, Dr. B. S. Swetland; 1910-1 Geo. R. Pettit ; 1920, Charles F. Crandall.
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CHAPTER XXII.
Towns: Ripley-Sheridan-Sherman-Stockton-Villenova-Westfield.
Ripley-One of the towns of the "Grape Jelt" of Chautauqua county. Ripley's 31,1IO ares are largely devoted to the grape indus- tv, and in the village of Ripley the Randall (ape Juice Company is located, that concern constituting one of its most important indus- tes. Ripley is the extreme western town of te county, bordering on Lake Erie, and until 117 was a part of the town of Portland. The twn was set off in that year and named in For of Gen. E. W. Ripley. The village of Ipley (originally Quincy ) is the principal s:tlement of the town, others being South Ipley, Lombard and Ripley Crossing. The ppulation of the town (State census of 1915) i:2,414 citizens and 68 aliens. Ripley is a sta- t'1 on the New York Central railroad, the Ike Shore & Michigan Central also passing trough the town, following the lake shore. Cie of the natural features of the town is Janson's Falls, a spot of great natural beauty.
The survey of the town into lots was irregu- la, and the shape of the town is somewhat od. Besides the usual dimensions of an ordi- ny township, six miles square, containing an arage of 22,000 acres, there is a tract nearly tungular in shape, being nine miles long east a:1 west, and from less than one mile to nearly far miles in width, containing about 9,000 ares. James McMahan in 1801, before the srvey of the township into lots, bought 4,074 ares, and most of the early settlers bought frm him. The tract bought by Mr. McMahan exended from the lake two miles southward, ail from the east line of the present town of Roley, west to within about half a mile of Qincy, including the old Brockway farm. The sath line of the tract runs nearly parallel with th lake shore, and with the two roads which pas through the tract from east to the west li:2. The tract is about three miles long and tv miles wide, having acute angles at the nctheast and southwest corners. To give a saare form to the lots and farms, the lines fcming the boundaries at the east and west sies of the lots were run at right angles from th lake on the southern boundary of the tract. Tis plan of survey was carried through by tl Holland Land Company to the Pennsyl- vaia line. Of the three tiers of lots in the ) Mahan tract, the one along the lake is nar- rover than the others. The number of lots irthe town is eighty-nine. Colonel McMahan alo bought from his brother John lot 13, ex-
tending cast to the old "cross roads," where he settled, about three-quarters of a mile west of Chautauqua creek. Colonel McMahan was one of the prominent and influential pioneer citizens of Chautauqua county. The uplands of the town were not settled as early as the lands nearer the lake.
At the first town meeting held in Ripley, in 1816, the following were chosen, only a part of the record being available: Supervisor, Amos Atwater : town clerk, Moses Adams; commis- sioners of highways, Alexander Cochran, Bur- ban Brockway, William Bell; commissioners of schools, Elijah Hayden, Stephen Prender- gast. The full ticket elected in 1817 follows: Supervisor, Thomas Prendergast; town clerk, Moses Adams; assessors, Alexander Cochran, Stephen Prendergast, Amos Atwater; over- seers of the poor, Burban Brockway, Alexan- der Cochran; commissioners of highways, James McMahan, Francis Dorchester, Charles Forsythe; constable and collector, Moses E. Stetson; commissioners of schools, Moses Adams, Amos Atwater, William B. Dickson ; inspectors of schools, Gideon Goodrich, James Montgomery, William Bell. Early justices of the town were Perry G. Ellsworth, Burban Brockway, Asa Spear, Elijah Hayden. These men settled west of the McMahan tract on the Erie road.
Original Purchases of Lands in Ripley. 1804-October, Alex. Cochran, 10, II.
1805-September, Nathan Wisner, 13; Samuel Harri- son, 12.
1806-March, Asa Spear, 14: Josiah Farnsworth, 19; WVm. McBride, 15; May, John Akers, 14; August, Wm. Crossgrove, 10.
1807-October, Stephen Prendergast, 16.
1808-June, Perry G. Ellsworth, 20; October, An- drew Spear, 20.
1809-October, Hugh Whitehall, 8; Noah P. Hay- den, 8; Basil Burgess, 15.
1810-April, Jared and Solon Benedict and Elkanah Johnson, 17: July, Richard W. Freeman, 9.
ISHI-September, Wm. Benson, 35.
1815-February, Gideon Goodrich, 24, 26: Alex. Cochran, 86, 87.
1816-February, Robt. Dickson and William A. Judd, 45; March, Oliver Hitchcock. 46; May, John Benson, 44; Samuel Truesdell, 89: James Taylor, 89: July, Thos. Burch, 44; November, Wm. Burch, 43; Pliny Colton, 88; December, Gideon Goodrich, 69.
1817-February, John Rowley. 62: Reuben Ellis, 12; May, Benajah Rexford, 52; July, Benajah Rexford, 37; August, John Squire, 37: November, Jedediah F. Bates, 81.
1818-September, Abner Sprague, 81: November, Phineas Royce, 36: December, Chandler Wattles, 59.
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1819-April, John Gage, 64; November, David Royce, 36.
1820-April, Ansel Edwards, 60.
1821-October, Layton Bentley, 50, 51, 58; Henry Briggs, 60; November, Eli Shove, 36; Benj. C. Ams- den, 36; David Jenkins, 51: Gordon H. Wattles, 51.
1822-January, Alex. Berry, 28; October, John Haight, 34.
1824-March, Aaron Aspinwall, 85.
1825-February, Farley Fuller, 43; June, David Jenkins, 57; August, John C. Hunaford, 35; Daniel Shove, 35; November, Israel Palmer, 52.
1826-May, Admiral Burch, 45; Albert Scott, 20; Henry Adams, 31; Lorenzo Palmer, 32; August, John H. Board, 44; Israel Palmer, 53: September, Luman Hopkins, 85; Joseph Thornton, 44.
1827-January, Chas. Winter, 56; June, David Lom- bard, 34; July, Henry Adams, 30; August, Jos. Hum- phrey, 70; Robt. Dickson, 45; September, Oliver Stet- son and others, 32.
1828-March, Peter Burch, 33; August, Judd W. Cass, 36.
1830-May, Allen Parker, 30.
1831-January, James Macomber, 42; February, John Thorp, 72; April, Samuel Barnes, 43; May, George Ellis, 79; June, Wyman Hill, 53; Gamaliel Parker, 53; Hiram Winter, 48; Walter S. Burgess, 40.
The village of Ripley was first called Quincy, but the origin of the name is obscure. The Buffalo and Erie road, known as the Ellicott road and now as the Main road, was surveyed in 1804. Later the lake and sidehill roads, parallel with the main road, were laid out. Many of the larger farms were divided to suit purchasers who desired to engage in the grape industry.
In 1803 Robert Dunlap, of Otsego county, contracted for lands with Col. McMahan. He afterwards went to Louisiana. William Alex- ander, a native of Ireland, in 1804, bought over five hundred acres of this land, and planted the first orchard in town, for many years con- sidered the best in the county. A stone "tomb table" marking the grave of his brother, Camp- bell Alexander, still exists on the farm which he sold to David Boyd (1902). Campbell Alexander was a lieutenant in the War of 1812. William Alexander was one of the first associate judges of Chautauqua county. The first settler in the west part of the town was Alexander Cochran, who came in 1804. Josiah Farnsworth settled in 1806, near the present village of Ripley ; he also bought lands of the McMahan tract, and was the first settler who paid cash down for his land. He traveled from his home to the office of the Holland Land Company in Bata- via, and made his payments there.
In 1805 William Crossgrove settled near Mr. Cochran. He married Rachel Cochran, and they reared a large family. William Wisner bought a tract of land on the south side of the
main road where is the present village of Rip- ley. Josiah Farnsworth and Jonathan Par sons were the first purchasers of lands on the north side of the road here, and others who. came early were Perry G. Ellsworth, Asa. William and Andrew Spear. Charles For sythe, from Connecticut, settled on the Mc- Mahan tract in 1808. He established sawmills, and made cider and cider brandy. He lived it the village until 1860 and built the first bricl house there. In 1809 Basil Burgess, fron Maryland, bought lands which he sold to Rob ert Dickson from Cherry Valley, and Mose Adams from Dutchess county. Mr. Burges: settled on adjoining lands; Jonathan Adam settled near him; Oliver Loomis settled 01 land which he bought of Perry G. Ellsworth and sold to Thomas Prendergast soon after west of Quincy. In 1809 Silas Baird settler on the western part of the McMahan tract and the next year sold to John Dickson, who in ISII was killed by a falling tree. Burba! Brockway, from Ontario county, bought th farm in 1814. Among early settlers were Far ley Fuller, Oliver Hitchcock, Asahel Peck Silas Baird, Basil Burgess and Andrew Spear all active in establishing a Methodist society Robert and Hugh Cochran settled on the Mai and Lake roads, near the Westfield line. Joh Post bought a farm at East Ripley, and buil a house which was kept as a tavern; he als built the first tannery. Near Mr. Post's place Samuel and David Dickson built and cor ducted a distillery. Gideon Goodrich, fror Saratoga county, settled on the Lake road a an early day, and his sons, Anson and George bought on the Main road, near the village built a tannery, and engaged in making shoe After 1820 Henry Fairchild owned consider. able land in Ripley. Orren Willis bought lan in town, but sold to his brother Anson, wh engaged in the manufacture of horn combt Oliver Stetson, who served in the War of 181 and Elijah Hayden, were early settlers. Cale O. Daughaday moved from Maryland to Pem sylvania, where he bought mills and later r moved to a farm adjoining that of William Crossgrove. He lived in the village from 18: to 1872, when his death occurred. He was a associate judge of the court of common plea and a man greatly respected.
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