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Sottle was probably the first white settler. It is believed at Irving, where he lived, that he came into the country in 1796, remained there from that time except when he was with Ellicott while the survey of the town- ship lines were being made and two years spent in Ohio near Sandusky ; that he came back to Cattaraugus in 1801 or 1802, with Sidney as he claimed. . Just what year he came back is disputed. He was on lot 59, C. V. with a
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clearing there when the survey was made. He and Lane both talked Seneca. He married a colored woman at Buffalo and lived with her until her death about 1844. His son John died at Cattaraugus and was buried in the graveyard in the sandbank near the lake. This was the first cemetery in the town. Sottle, after he built on lot 61, C. V., about 1845, moved Jolin's remains to lot 61 near the house. Many of the remains of the other early inhabitants buried there were moved to Hanover Centre cemetery and the railroad company has since carried away the sand bank, cemetery and all. It has been said that Chloe, Sottle's wife, was a mulatto, but as I recol- lect her she seemed a genuine negress-decidedly black. She was a good neighbor and kind-hearted. They had about the only orchard in the vicin- ity in the early days, and seldom a boy went to " Aunt Chloe " for apples in time of apples but what he got some. This was no small tax as apples were scarce and boys were numerous. All who knew her gave her credit for accumulating and saving the property Sottle had. He was intemperate. Sottle was fairly well educated, somewhat eccentric, and fond of using large words. One of his neighbors had a small yard near Sottle's house where he had yarded sheep, but he plowed it and planted corn. The ground being rich the corn grew large. Sottle was passing one day when the neighbor asked if he did not think it was a good field of corn. Sottle said "yes, there was only one objection to it, that was the circumference." He died in 1848 at Irving.
These were evidently the earliest settlers. Ezekiel Lane appears to have been a roving man. We first hear of him at Buffalo in October 1798. (See Turners Hist. Hol. Purchase page 418, where Mr. James Brisbane says "'There were then at Buffalo the loghouse of Middaugh and Lane.") Lane was son-in-law of Middaugh. In iSoo Ezekiel Lane was one of the three who paid taxes at Buffalo (Id. page 391), then, in 1803, he took up lands at Tonawanda (Id. page 453), yet when Cattaraugus village was surveyed he lived on what became lot 48 C. V. I can get no exact date of his settle- ment. In my boyhood I knew Lane well. He was frequently at my father's house, spending days and weeks there. He was alone, his wife having died before 1830. She was buried on lot 48, C. V., where the Cattaraugus now runs. He made his home in a small house belonging to Sottle, built for a cheese house. Lane was very old then (from 1837 to 1845) and was fond of talking of his early life and journeys. My brothers and I liked to hear him talk. He told of coming from Canada with the Indians, crossing the Niag- ara just below the falls, getting down the bank on the other side by help of the bushes and projecting rocks, crossing the river in canoes, and climbing on this side by pulling themselves up by the bushes. . They followed the river to Lake Erie to Buffalo when there was not a house in New York west of Rochester. They came along the lake near the shore in canoes, and he
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crossed overland with them through the woods to the Conewango and went down the Allegany to Pittsburgh. He talked Seneca apparently as well as the Indians. He was familiar with this whole county and the adjoining country before other whites came. Chautauqua lake, Cassadaga, and the Conewango country he often spoke of as being the best hunting and trapping sections. He married a " Mohawk Dutch " woman, and, as he used to say, .she was " short, stubbed and stont." He was tall and rawboned. She just came under his arm. He boasted of her strength and said she could stand with both feet in a half-bushel measure and shoulder two bushels of wheat without taking her feet out. He remained at Irving until about 1845. He built the house on lot 47, C. V., known as the Bonney House. It was " raised " the day of the total eclipse, June 16, 1816.
The Cattaraugus settlement was at or near the mouth of the creek and was known as Cattaraugus, and the harbor made there by the government was called " Cattaraugus harbor." Yet the first postoffice there was called "Acasto." It must have kept this name until the formation of the Irving Company in 1836. The first map of what was afterward " Irving village plot " was called " the map of the village of Acasto." Dr. H. P. Wilcox's Albany papers came as late as 1850 addressed " Acasto." Some time about 1836 the name must have been changed. The postoffice was located at the lower village, Irving. The upper village, now Irving, was then called La Grange. During President Tyler's administration C. R. Leland was appointed postmaster, and the office moved to La Grange. The name of the office was not changed, but La Grange village gradually took the postoffice name, Irving. Yet the place was so generally known as Cattaraugus that letters were frequently (especially by sailors) directed to Cattaraugus.
The date of settlement of many of the pioneers cannot be definitely fixed. In some cases it can be gotten at from family traditions, but in many cases we can only fix on the time they were here by the date of their contracts for land. Sometimes the parties had been here a year or more before making contracts. After the survey was made settlers began to come in more rap- idly. In 1804 Charles Avery took lot 3, C. V. He kept a store there and
remained there as late as 1816, in which year he was pathmaster at Cattarau- gus. Avery was the first person who took up land in Hanover. He was on the land at the time of the survey. He had evidently located his land and bought as soon as it was in the market. This same year William G. Sidney took up lots 1 and 2 C. V. which he transferred to Capt. John Mack. Sidney kept the " Cattaraugus House," which he sold to Mack. Sidney came to Cattaraugus in 1801 or 1802 and remained there until he died in 1807. Capt. John Mack who bought of Sidney, came in 1806, and kept the hotel and ferry there a long time. His daughter Elizabeth married Judge Richard Smith
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at the Cattaraugus House in January 1807. This was the first marriage in Hanover. Judge Smith then lived in what is now Erie county but soon after moved to Hanover near Forestville and taught school there and at Silver Creek. He was one of the earliest teachers. Rev. Chalon Burgess was one of his scholars at Silver Creek. After Captain Mack's death, his son John kept the tavern some years, and then bought lot 68 on the lake where he built and kept a tavern until 1840 when he built the farmhouse near the railroad. Some years later he removed to South Bend, Ind. Capt. John Sydnor as early as 1803 or 1804 came to Cattaraugus and was there a num- ber of years. A number of the early settlers of the county speak of having put up over night at Sydnor's, and often they speak of his being a splendid penman. Sydnor seems never to have taken up land in Hanover, but died here. February 23, 1805, Abel Cleveland and David Dickinson bought lot 74, T. 6 R. 10. The greater part of Silver Creek is on this lot. It is pro- bable they selected the lands before the survey and took title or the contract soon as survey was made, as on the land company's books is this record : " The above lot was taken up in the year 1804 or the latter part of 1803. For date see contract." The greater part, all but about thirty acres was con- veyed either by the land company or by Cleveland & Dickinson, to John E. Howard before 1805. C. & D. built a sawmill on the thirty acres-the first in town. To this mill they attached a " mortar and pestle " for pounding corn into meal. This was the first gristmill in town. Those mills were sold to Jolin E. Howard in 1805 or 1806. I get no trace of either Cleveland or . Dickinson after 1806. In 1805 Jesse and John Skinner took up lot 73, the southern part of Silver Creek, and John Tyler took up lot 10, near Nashville. Tyler apparently gave up his contract. I do not hear of him after 1805 ; in 1810 the land company sold this lot to Guy Webster. Turner in his history (p. 461) says that " in 1806 Aaron Dolph, William Tuttle, Elijah Lane and Henry Johnson took up lands at Irving." It is very doubtful if they settled there or perfected their titles, as none of the early residents seem to have known them, and I know of no transfer of lands there by any of them. In 1806 Abner Cooley bought lot 61, north of Forestville. In 1806 Jolin E. Howard was the only resident at Silver Creek, and owned lot 74, including the mills built by Cleveland & Dickinson. Artemas Clothier and Norman Spink came into Hanover this year and lived near Silver Creek. In 1806 also Sottle first bought in town. He bought lots 55 and 59, C. V. In 1807 John Smith and David Scott articled lot 73 (afterwards sold to Artemas Clothier), part of the same lot articled to Jesse and Jolin Skinner (in 1805) at Silver Creek. In August 1807, Samuel Johnson took up lot 68 on the Lake adjoining Cattaraugus Village. He sold lot 68 and in 1809 bought lot 51 near Forestville, moved there and remained until his death. This lot was afterwards bought by John Mack. Ezra Puffer bought this same year
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(1807) lot 58 C. V .; he seems never to have located there, but went to that part which became Villenova. He held a number of town offices in Hano- ver, was the first supervisor of Villenova, and moved to Indiana in 1843. In 1808 Rufus Washburn bought lot 57 near Forestville, and Benjamin Ken- yon bought lot 63, C. V., built a house and lived there until his death about 1830. Walter Lull and Martin B. Tubbs bought lot 50, (1808) near Forest- ville and the same year Sylvanus Maybee took up lot 7. In 1808 Jehial Moore settled at Forestville. He is said to have built the first house in For- estville, and in 1809 he moved his family in, and also built the first sawmill below the Falls, and the first gristmill in 1810. In February 1814 he moved to Ohio.
In 1809 Amos Ingraham bought lot 5, C. V. Ingraham was drowned about 1835 in Cattaraugus creek. This gave the name "The Ingraham Hole " to a deep place in the creek which it still retains. Daniel Holbrook bought lot 58, Forestville, built and lived there. While Hanover included Villenova and Sheridan, the town-meetings and elections were held at Mr. Holbrook's. This year in September Guy Webster bought lot 3, Nashville. The little settlement in the southeast part was called " Webster settlement " until after 1814. Artemas Clothier this year bought part of lot 73, the south part of Silver Creek. He was a farmer and surveyor, and lived near Silver Creek until his death in 1879. Joseph Brownell in December 1809 bought lot II near Nashville. He was, by the town record's, the first supervisor elected and hield other offices. The same year Asher Cooley bought lot 33 near Forestville. In 1810 Ephraim Hall came from Lowell, Mass., to La Grange. He located on lot 44, C. V., where he built and lived a few years. He also bought lot 43, C. V., known as the " Island." While living on lot 44, there was an ice-jam in Cattaraugus creek, setting the water back over the flats. Hall was awakened in the night by running water. He jumped out of bed into about a foot of water, got his family upstairs, and they lived in the chamber three days with no fire or light except one candle. At length some men ran the bow of a boat into the open door and the family. were relieved. By this jam Mr. Hall lost about ninety head of young cattle. Half was justice of the peace of Pomfret, and frequently held court at Fre- donia. He had II children, all dead except Rev. William Hall of Salamanca, from whom I got these facts about his father. After the experience with high water Mr. Hall bought part of lot 11, C. V., and built on its high grounds, and lived there until about 1832, when he sold and bought part of lot 48, including the sawmill on the creek. In the war of 1812 a British war vessel chased an American schooner into the creck. The schooner ran as far up as it could to escape, and the crew quickly gathered the settlers and Indians to protect the schooner. The British fired a few shots and gave up the chase. Esquire Hall was one of the whites, and Morris Halftown one
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of the Indians in the company. Mr. Hall died in 1859. Rev. William Hall and his sisters were early teachers at Cattaraugus.
In ISI0 Thomas Chapman bought part of lot 13 north of Nashville, James Webb part of lot 10, Uriah Nash, No. 19, at Nashville, and Daniel Farnham lot 51, Joseph Lull lot 50, Thomas White lot 57, James Bennett lot 59, Forestville, and William Jones lot 33 and James Knapp lot 18, both between Forestville and Nashville. In 1811 Job Knight bought lot 63, Hezekiah Fish lot 53.
Dr. Jacob Burgess came into Hanover, settled at Silver Creek in 1811. He was the first physician in town. In 1812 he bought lot 74, south of Sil- ver creek. He lived at Silver Creek until his death in 1855. He left one son, Rev. Chalon Burgess, and two daughters.
Isaac Smith from Whately, Massachusetts, came to Sheridan in 1810, and to Hanover that year or the next, bought with Erastus Scott lots 45-53, west of Smith's Mills. He was in the war of 1812 at Buffalo, contracted fever in the service and died. Rodney B. Smith, the founder of Smith's Mills, was his son. "When but 15, in 1812, he took his brother's place in the army, and was in the battles of Chippewa, Black Rock and Williams- ville." His son, Major Hiram Smith, of Jamestown, was quartermaster in the civil war, and has been twice the nominee of the Democratic party for member of Congress. Major George R. Smith, son of Major Hiram, is a graduate of West Point, and in 1SS2 was appointed paymaster in the U. S. Army.
Reuben Edmonds came in ISHI, took lots 55-77. Lot 55 was near Han- over Center, and lot 74 in Silver Creek. In 1812, Nedabiah Angell bought lot 47 at Angell's settlement (Hanover Center). He soon took a promi- nent part in affairs. It is thought that he was the acting supervisor in 1813. Yet there is no record of his election. There seems to have been no lands taken up in 1813. In 1814 Jonathan L. Bartoo settled at Forestville, bought a farm and resided there a number of years. In 1816 he sold his farm and mill to Nathan Mixer, moved to Erie county and died in 1852. In 1814 Benjamin Smith bought lot 45, and Otis Tower lot 69 near Angell settlement. Otis Tower remained in town until his death. In 1816 David Convis bought lot 54, south of Angell settlement. Norman Spink lot 52 near Forestville ; he bought afterwards between the creeks near Silver Creek, and died in Sil- ver Creek. George E. Kirkland, No. 5, on the east side of the town and Walter Libbey, No. 12, between Smith's Mills and Nashville. In 1817, Thomas Nevins bought lot 37 west of Smith's Mills ; William McManus lot 32 south part of town ; Samuel P. McKee, lot 35 east of Forestville. In 1818 Solomon Gregory bought part of lot 59, Forestville ; in 1822 James Beach bought lot 33 between Nashville and Forestville ; in 1823 William Patter- son bought lot 53 north of Forestville, and Israel Patterson No. 43 east of
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Forestville ; in 1826 George Love bought No. 3 near Nashville; in 1827 William Dinsmore bought lot 32, south line, and Belinus Green bought lot 36, C. V. He built on this lot and resided there until his death in the seven- ties. .
Albert G. Dow, a native of New Hampshire, came here in 1827, and after a residence of 19 years removed to Randolph. He was early elected to office at Silver Creek and was for eight years a justice of the peace at Ran- dolph and served as supervisor ten years ; in 1863 and 1864 was member of assembly from the Second District of Cattaraugus county. In 1873 he was elected state senator in the Thirty-second District (Cattaraugus and Chautau- qua counties), and served one term (1874-75). From 1860 to 1880 he was engaged in private banking business ; in 1881 he organized the Salamanca National Bank at Salamanca, and was its president until his resignation in 1890. His son, Charles M. Dow, has been president of the Jamestown National Bank since its organization.
After 1827 settlers began to come in rapidly. Those who took up lands were not the only residents. There were many who came and remained who do not appear on the company's books, either never bought or bought of individuals. As early as 1818 Philo Newton, from Massachusetts, came and remained until his death. Nine sons came with him who settled at La Grange, and many of their descendants live here. Henry J. Newton, of Sil- ver Creek, the last surviving son of Philo, died in the spring of 1894. Rufus L. Bonney, a soldier of 1812, came in soon after the war. Bonney died at Irving in 1886, aged 86. He married a daughter of John Smith who came about 1807. Nathan Mixer came to Forestville in 1817. He was super -. visor for ten years, three terms a member of Assembly, and for a time asso- ciate judge of the county. He died at Forestville in 1871. Geo. Love in 1820 settled for life near Forestville. Forestville was early known as Wal- nut Falls. The first postoffice there was called Hanover, and it is said Mr. Love brought the change of name to Forestville. Jeremiah Ellsworth, M. D., came in 1828, settled at Silver Creek, practiced medicine until 1846, moved to Ellington and from there to Corry, Pa. He was supervisor of Han- over three terins. While at Ellington he was twice elected member of assem- bly. In 1873 he was elected mayor of Corry. Comfort Birdsey came to Portland from Oneida in 1828 with his mother, a widow with three sons and three daughters. They came to Hanover the same year and settled between Hanover Center and Silver Creek. Mr. Birdsey was a man of good, safe judgement, and much respected, holding various offices. He died in 1893.
In 1812, when Hanover was formed, there was a scattering population, in various parts. There were four centers, hardly villages : Silver Creek then Fayette, Irving then Cattaraugus, Forestville and Nashville (Webster Settlement). At the first election for member of assembly, April 1813, in
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Hanover, which comprised Sheridan and Villenova, the whole number of votes cast was only 112. James Williams received 67, and Jacob Houghton 45. There is no record showing any town election in 1812 or 1813. The first town-meeting of which there is record preserved is thus recorded : " Resolutions and proceedings of the annual town-meeting held at the house of Daniel Holbrook for the year 1814, April 5th. Bethel Willoughby chosen moderator. Resolved, that Joseph Brownell be and is hereby appointed super- visor for the year ensuing. Resolved, that Samuel J. Smith be and is hereby appointed clerk for the year ensuing. Resolved, that Ezra Puffer, Nedabiah Angell and Miles Webster is hereby appointed assessors." The date " 1813" given by Mr. Young and Judge Foote as that when Daniel Russell was chosen supervisor is wrong. The record is some pages later in the record book and says " 1815." The error arose from mistaking a 5 for a 3. The supervisors have been : Joseph Brownell, 1814-16-17-18-19; Daniel Russell, 1815-28-9-30 ; Nathan Mixer, 1820-1-2-3-4-6-7-31-2-6; Seth Snow, 1825; Oliver Lee, 1833-4-5 ; William Colville, Jr., 1837-46-50-1 ; Ebenezer R. Avery, 1838; Adolphus F. Morrison, 1839-48; Ezekiel B. Gurnsey, 1840; Thomas C. Hale, 1841 ; Jeremiah Ellsworth, 1842-44-45 ; Orson Stiles, 1843 ; Henry H. Hawkins, 1847 ; Charles H. Lee, 1849-52 ; Hiram Smith, 1853-4 ; Clark C. Swift, 1855-6; Hiram Smith, 2d, 1857-8-9; Chandler Scott, 1860- I-2-7 ; Cyrus D. Angell, 1863; William D. Talcott, 1864; Nahum S. Scott, 1865-6; John D. Hiller, 1868-9; Norman B. Brown, 1870-1 ; Smith Clark, 1872-3 ; Le Roy Andrus, 1874; Carlos Ewell, 1875-6 ; O. Lee Swift, 1877-8 ; John G. Record, 1879; Sethi M. Tompkins, 1880-1 ; Jason Knapp, 1882-3-4- 5; Albert H. Stebbins, 1886-7-8-9-90-1-3 ; John McAdam, 1892 ; Asa Dye, 1894.
The population of Hanover in 1835 was 3,520, in 1890, 4,616. Silver Creek had 666 inhabitants in 1870, in 1890, 1,678. Forestville in 1870 had 722 population, in 1890, 788. This shows the increase of the town in fifty- five years to have been 1,096, that the increase in Silver Creek in the twenty years from 1870 to 1890 was 1,012, and in Forestville the gain was 66-in both villages 1,078. This leaves only eighteen more in the town outside these villages than there was in 1835. This shows if any gain has been made in Smith's Mills or other smaller villages, that there has been a loss of popula- tion in the town outside the villages since 1835. This seems to be the case all through the town. In 1879 the assessed valuation of real estate was $1,691,015, personal, $188,800; in ISSS real estate, $1,540,253 ; personal, $152,540; in 1893 real estate $1,528,020, personal $118,375. There are in 1894, 34 stores, 2 tanneries, 7 sawmills, 18 manufactories, 23 cheese factories, to blacksmith shops, I canning factory, and 2 banks in town.
In 1830 and after that the lands were taken up more rapidly, and various branches of business began to spring up in different parts of the town. In
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1828 Oliver Lee had bought of John E. Howard the mill property and other lands on lot 74 at Silver Creek, and opened a store. He soon built up a large trade with the Indians and settlers reaching to the south line of the county. When Lee came there were but eight or ten houses in Silver Creek. Oliver Lee died at Buffalo in 1846. C. C. Swift came from Batavia as a clerk for O. Lee sent by Ellicott in answer to Lee's request for a man who talked Seneca. He remained with Lee as clerk and partner until Lee closed busi- ness at Silver Creek. He married Lee's daughter and now lives at Silver Creek. The early merchants at Silver Creek were Stephen Clark, John E. Howard and Manning Case. After these came John M. Cummings. The village was west of Walnut creek before 1828. The postoffice, then Fayette, was kept in a store on that side when Oliver Lee came. In 1832 Win. Van Duzer was postmaster and moved the office to Lee's store, east side of Walnut creek and between the two creeks. O. Lee & C. C. Swift continued in mercantile business until about 1846. Afterward there were engaged in business there Ammi Marchant & Daniel Rumsey in 1829 ; Foot & Rumsey ; Rumsey & H. N. Farnham. The firm was H. N. Farnham & Co. With Farnham as the " Co." were at different times Justin Clark & Joseph Wells. Farnham's business was sold to Mack Montgomery & Charles Wells and continued by Chas. Wells to 1872. E. R. Ballard, and H. H. Hawkins traded in the O. Lee store. Silas Gates, O. Lee Swift and Porter Smith were also traders. There are in trade now Stewart & Co. ; Horton Brothers ; Montgomery & Talcott ; F. C. Mathias & Co. ; C. J. Newendorf ; Mr. Alling ; Charles Taber ; George Gaston ; Mrs. Weston ; George Shofner & Son ; Wm. Campbell & F. Lipsey.
At Cattaraugus, soon after 1830, the U. S. government commenced build- ing a harbor and expended much money in building piers, etc., to protect and keep the channel open. Thus a village grew up at the mouth of the creek and was known as Cattaraugus. Stores and storehouses were built there. Considerable freighting business was done, and large quantities of lumber shipped, as the harbor gave an outlet to market for lumber, and soon five or six lumber mills were built at La Grange, a mile and a half above the har- bor. The Irving Company was formed August 17, 1836, and bought about 20 C. V. lots at the mouth of the creek. The company was composed of William Kent, Lewis Eaton, Augustus C. Stevens, Henry P. Wilcox, Thur- low Weed, Erastus Corning, Thomas W. Olcott, William Samuel Johnson, Hamlet Scranton, John V. S. Pruyn, Pierre A. Barker, Hiram Pratt and Thomas B. Stoddard. The title to a large amount of land bought by the company was owned by Rufus Reed, who conveyed it to Augustus C. Stev- ens in 1835. He conveyed lots 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, C. V. The Irving village plot included the first 24 C. V. lots.
John I. Thorn and family and Niram Sackett and family, from Dutchess
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county, came to Portland in 1829, and to Hanover in 1830 and located at La Grange. Thorn bought of Squire Ephraim Hall lot II C. V., and Sackett lots 47, 48, C. V. of Holland Land Company and of C. A. H. McGregor, a nephew of Ellicott, lots 43, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, and 58, C. V., and lot 59 of Sottle. Sackett afterward owned the two sawmills on the creek, and carried on lumbering and merchandising there along with his farming. A large part of his lands he sold afterwards to John J. and E. B. Guernsey. He was elected for several terms justice of the peace, and was for a number of years one of the judges of the court of common pleas. He died at Irving in 1869 aged 72. He was " affable and courteous in his manner, decided in his convictions, a man of strict integrity and of comprehensive mind, and scrupulously just ; evincing in his judicial character those qualities of mind and heart which made him both the able and the just judge." His children were Jehiel, John J., Joseph T., Marcus, Semantha and Niram, Jr.
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