History of Monroe county, New York with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, Palatial residences, Part 94

Author: McIntosh, W. H. cn; Everts, Ensign, and Everts, Philadelphia, pub
Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts, Ensign and Everts
Number of Pages: 976

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ROBERT BELL.

The subject of this sketch is of Scottish ancestry. He was born in Coleraine. Ireland, January 1, 1798. He visited the U'nited States in 1843 for the purpose of looking up a suitable home for his family, and, after traveling through Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, aod New York, he decided to settle ou a farm in the fertile valley of the Genesee. He returned to Ireland, and emigrated with his family of sis children. arriving in New York in May, 1847. In September fui- lowing he bought and settled on the farm in West Brighton where he new resides. Five children were bora to him in this country. His wife died June 20, 1874, at the age of sixty-two. Two sons compose the well-known firm of R. W. Bell & Co., soap manufacturers, of Buffalo, New York, two others the firm of Bell Brothers, of the same city, and one son and daughter reside with their father. A fioe view of his residence and farm, which is located on the Rochester and Hemlock Lake Plink Road. one mile from Mount Hope cemetery, appears in this werk. It is finely located in one of the most fertile farms in Monroe County. Mr. Bell gives much attention to growing pears, and has a magnificent orchard of fifteen hundred trees, with forty-sis varieties of fruit. His farm is known as the " Pear Valley" farm. Ile carries off first honors at all exhibitions of his fruit, and is well known as a successful fruit-grower. He has also been a large exhibitor of stock, fine horses. Durham cattle, etc., at both the State and county fairs. He has always manifested a strong interest in church and educational matters, and was one of the founders of the United Presbyterian church of Rochester, and is one of the three original members who are still communicant -. He is one of the oldest and must highly esteemed citizens of the county, and has always been found arrayed on the side of justice and truth.

CHARLES COLWELL,

one of the pioneers of Monroe County, was born in the town of Foster, State of Rhode Island, February 17, ITS3. He came to Richfield. Otsero county. Now York, in the year 1792, his father removing to that place with his family at that time. He settled in the present town of Brighton iu the year 1814, where hr took np and cleared a farm, enduring the hardships and privations incident to settlers at that early day. Here he spent his life, dying December 15, 185s.

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PROPERTY OF JULIA F. LEWIS, BRIGHTON, NY.

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James Spring.

MRS JAMES SPERRY

HENRIETTA UNION SCHOOL, FORMERLY MONROE ACADEMY. WONHOE COUNTY, NY

WILLIAM REEVE.

THOMAS REEVE

MRS. ANN REIVE.

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RES. OF WILLIAM REEVE , DECEASED, NOW OCCUPIED BY WM. & THOMAS REEVE, HENRIETTA, MINMOE CO., N V.

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HENRIETTA.

TEN years ago, the writer of this was riding in the stage from Rochester to HIen- ricetta. Among the passengers was an ellerly man going to visit some relatives in Rush. Hle hailed from Michigan, and had traveled much in that and other western States. He was much interested in Heurietta, -a place he had never seen,- and made many inquiries about the village. and especially about Monroe academy. All through Michigan and the west he hal met intelligent and enterprising bien and women who had formerly lived in Henrietta ar received their education in Monroe acahay We wanted to La La la ... sive answers were given. He was told that the stage passed through the centre of the village, in full view of the academy, and he could soon see both for himself. Nearing the Four Corners, the academy and village were pointed out. The stran- ger'a countenance showed a trace of disappointment. " Henrietta is not much uf a place," he remarked, as we rode up to the only hotel and the full proportions of the village were apparent. "That," said we, " is where you are much mistaken. Henrietta is a good deal of a place, but not many people live there." This remark embodies the sentiments of all present and former citizens of the town.

SETTLEMENT.

Long after Pittsford was a thriving settlement, what is now Henrietta was only known as the Woods of West-town. Heavy forests repelled settlement, aod before Rochester bad started it seemed remote from Canandaigua and Pittsford, the only accessible markets. In 1790, Major Isaac Scott received a grant of nine hundred actes, in the southwest part of the town. for his services, and commenced a settle- ment the same year, built a log lint, and cleared twelve or fifteen acres ; but in 1792 he abandoned his clearing, and the tract was merged into that of the pro- prietors. About ibis tithe the township was bought by William and Cornelius Charles Six, of the Hague, Holland, and soon after the latter became sole owner by the death of bis brother. Mr. Wad-worth, while in Enrope, secured the agency for its sale and settlement, but did not bring it into market antu ISOG, when Stephen Rogers surveyed it into farmu lots. In the same year two settlements were begun, one in the east and the other in the west part of the town. Lyman and Warren Hawley came from Avon in the summer of 1806, and located on the John Bushman farm, southwest of the West village. They built a log bonse, cleared sixty or seventy acres that summer, and sowed some wheat. At the same time Jesse Pangburn made a clearing uear where the West Henrietta Hotel now stands. He was a bachelor, and in July, 1806, a party of hunters from Avon found him here one Sunday making yeast for bread which he was preparing to bake for his choppers. Two or three years later, he married the widow of' Asa Baker, a Revo- lutionary soldier, who died leaving a large family of children. Some of these sons, Asa Jr., Leander, Remembrance, and Justus, were long residents of the town. Mr. Pangburn did not have many years. His wife long survived bim, living with her children. One evening in 1811 or 1812 she was chased by a wolf; she climbed a tree, called for help, and the wolf was killed. The east side settlement com- menced on the north and south road, one and a half miles northeast of the village. Joseph Carne, of Pittsford, settled un the Isaac N. Dayton place. Ilis son, Dr. Charles C'urue, of Pittsford, born October 16. 1806. was the first white child born in Henrietta. Moses Wilder made a clearing on George Shodle's farm, and plainted the first apple orchard in the town. Ira Hatch also made a clearing on J. Fowler's place at the same time. His wife was the first white woman in the town. Other ecttlers in 1800 were Charles Rice, Benjamin Boles, Moses Goodale, Thomas Sparks, George Dickinson, Selah Reed, Asa Champlin, Gideun Griswold, Asa Hull, Captain Joseph Beocraft, William Thompson, and Elias Wilder; and Orlando Browu and John Gould in West Henrietta. Several of these moved away in a year or two. In 1807, Jonathan Bu-cell moved in, built a log house on land now owned by Jesse Fowler, near No. 2 school-house, and on January 16, 1808, bis Bon Moody was born, the second male child in town. In April, 1su7, a daughter of Hezekiah Sherwood was born near the Rush line, on Samnel Titus' place, op- Iwite the Bush reservoir, when the mother died; and this is believed to have been the first death in Henrietta. Her body was buried in a fence-corner on the farm where she died. Jonathan Wilder, -- Parish. and Artemias Bager also set- tled io towo, the two latter ocar the East Henrietta Baptist church. Phineas

Baldwin came in the spring of 1807 ; his wife and sons, Jacob, Ansel, and Charles, in the fall of the same year. Silas and Edward Duukam settled ou the Mithan place in 1818. Between here and the village a bear was killed in 1810. In 1307, Asa Burr and wife muved from Connecticut to Avon, and in IS09 to Henrietta. where they settled on the homestead on the river road. now owned by Samuel II. Burr, who says that in 1809 there were but thirteen families in town, showing that many of the carly settlers made their clearing before bringing their faunlies. Is 1609 some of the Sperry family came from Bloomfield, where they had been. for some years. James Sperry came in 1812.

In ISIO, John Briniastool settled on the river road, followed, the next year, by John Cook, Michael Brininstool, Charles Case, Isaac F. Nichols, Frederick Samples, Simon Moore, Charles Cosgrove, fra MeNoll, and Bettertell Hitchcock. About 1810, John Spring located on the farm of W. Bullard and II. D. Tuttle. In 1811, Abijah Gould, John and Andrew Bushman settled in the west part, and William Leggett and his five sons, William Jr., Ira HL., Franklin, Stephen, and Charles, in the east part of the town. Charles Leggett is still living, aged seventy- three, with an excellent memory of early facts and dates. Other early settlers no the river road were Batalla and David Archer, Charles Daniels, an early black- smith, where H. M Webster lives, Harvey Miller, William Frazie, Timothy Tor- rance, and Daniel Bly. James Tinker, with his sons, John C. and James R .. came in 1812. Oo the farm they bought they found Bishop Stillwell, an early settler, and, near the Pittsford line, George L. Valley, who in 1810 burned the first lime-kilo in town. Io 1813, Captain Blodgett built a house on the back part of the Richardsoo farm, and David Scribner owned the part next the woods. One of the first distilleries was built on this farm. Jonathan Smith, a Quaker, from Vermont, built the first saw-mill iu 1811, on the farm afterwards owned by John Gage. Two or three years after, Eager Wells built the second, on the An- drew S. Wadsworth place. He died soon after, and his brother Corwin suc- ceeded to the business. At a later day another saw-mill was erected near Thomas Jackson's place. The streams of this town are all small, with low banks and little fall, affording very poor mill privileges. No flouring-mills have been built in town. Grist-mills were, however, accessible in Pittsford. Stone's. afterwards Mar- vin's, mills, and one near the river, on Mr. Post's place; alsu the Brown mills at the falls, io Rochester. A more serious difficulty was the lack of necessary articles, partly through the poverty of the people. In 1812 and 1813, and even later, the choppers in East Henrietta had to go to West Brighton to grind their axes, there being no grindstone nearer. Leather was necessary in the winter, but in summer most of the settlers went barefoot. About 1813, Richard Daniels bought ten acres, and built a tan-hunse on the brook near Jesse Fowler's residence. Settlers bought hides, had them tanoed, and made their own shoes, or employed traveling shoemakers to make the q. Mr. Austin, living near the Pittsford linc, and Phineas Baldwin, were two of these shoemakers. They would call at a house and make a pair of shoes for each member of the family. It was called " whip- ping the cat." John Gooding was one of the first distillers on the road between Sherman hill and West Henrietta. Ile and his brother Ebenezer came in from Bloomfield in 1812. About 1810, Sidney Warner, a step-son of Asa Hull. built a log shop on the small stream south of John Robertson's house. Ile put in a turning-lathe, run by water-power in the spring freshets, when he would turn out a large amount of wood for chairs, spinning-wheels, reels, ete., and work it up during the summer. Subsequently, David Hedges established the same business at the village. In 1810 he bought one hundred acres, where the academy stands, built a log house, made a clearing, and pursued his trade. One September after- noon, in 1815, Mr. Hedges went into the dense wixxis north of his home to look for his cows. He found them near the Brighton line. Night coming on. he was pursuel by wolves. The cows ran ahead and escapel, while he was obliged to take off his shoes and ascend a tree for safety. One of his shoes falling was seized and torn into shreds hy the wolves, who remained until daylight, awaiting their pry. These were among the last wolves seen in town, as an increased bounty of ten dollars soon caused their extermination. In the north part of the town, for several years, quite a number of squatters subsisted by hunting, ti-hing. and trapping wolves for the bounty, the latter being generally spent for whisky.

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ZAST AND WEST VILLAGES.

Until about 1815 it seemed probable that the village in East Henrietta would be where the Baldwins now live. Deacon Samuel Wise att family settled in 1812, 00 the place opposite Cyrus Baldwin's John Wise built a log blacksmith- shop in IS14, near the old stone shop. Sidney Weaver's turning-hop, the first suw-mill, and Richard Daniel's tannery were near by. But a road had been made from the falls, running through the present village, where the first taverns and stores were built, and that determined the course of travel. John Acer, son of William Acer, of Pittsford, caune in 1510. and bought one hundred and fifty acres, now owned by Samuel Calkins, north of the village. He built a lo house where Mr. Porter lives, chose to the poplar-trees, in which he opened a tavern. In one small room of the same building James Smith sold goods, which he had bronght from Canandaigua. ahout 1812. This was the first storr. Juhn Acer also kept the first post-office, when John Webster, of Rash, carried the mail once a week from Avon. Acer soon after removed to Pitt-ford. He was succeeded by Ebenezer Gooding, who kept the tavern about three years. Auron Acer bought one hundred here's where Hervey aml Alfredl Stone live. On the north- west corner of the latter's farm an old grave-yard once existed, where many of the earliest pioneers were buried. It has long since been plowed over, and the graves obliterated. The first store in Heorietta village was opened by Stephen Cody in 1813, where he settled the year before. It was a small one-story fratue building, long since removed and used as a corn-house.

Benjamin Baldwin succeeded Cody, and built the present brick sture in 1824 and 1825, which he kept until his death in 1827 or 1828, when Elihu Kirby purchased it. Dr. James Lewis kept a small drug-store from 1824 to 1829 in East Henri. A. He was not a practicing physician, though he dispensed medicine. He also kept the post-office after Charles T. Whiffs. where Samuel Calkins now lives, who succeeded John Acer as postmaster. The rapid increase of population was indicated by the numerous small taverns which sprang up to accommodate the incoming settlers. Beside Acer's and Gooding's. a Ing tavern was opened by Isaac Robinson, or better known as " one-eyed Robinson." south of William J. Kimball's, which was afterwards kept by Jacob Baldwin and Richard Wilkins. It became a famous tavern in its day. Jarvis Sherman and Richard Wilkins built the first frame hotel, on the site of the present Henrietta House. afterwards kept by William Pierce a few years, followed by Luther C. Chamberlain. At this time the meet- ings of the Masonic lodge were held in this tavern, in an upper room, beneath the garret. Mrs. Chamberlain, being the original anti-Mason, had cut a bole through the plastering to the garret, and one night statioued a buy over it to watch for the secrets of Masonry and report to her. Making a noise, he exposed his where- aborts, when Roswell Wickwine struck at the hole with his sword, though doing no damage. The meeting was adjourned, after voting that the holding of lodges in the tavern with Mrs. Chamberlain in the building was inexpedient. The village, how- ever, was stirred to its depths next day by her wonderful revelations; but, unfor- tunately for her success. her husband was a Mason. This was about three years before Morgan made his revelations. Soon after a store was erected, and the lodge moved to an upper room without a garret. In 1858 the hotel was burned, and rebuilt by Alfred White. whu then owned it. He was succeededl by William Smith in August, 1867. Jacub Stevens built the large frame building where H. M. Calkins pow lives, in 1817, and kept a hotel three years. Previous to this Stevens had purchased Elizabeth Wilder's place on the Corner northeast of the village, but, finding that the business would not centre there, he 1 . ught the Calkins place. But, the second enterprise not proving profitable, he soid to John Russell in 1821, and moved to Michigan. Dr. Jonah D. Simonds was the first physician io Ilenrietta. He came from Pawlet, Vermont, and settled in IsIl, on land where the hotel now stands. From this he removed to a stuall brick house, north of the Corner, where he died in 1822, at the age of thirty-seven. One of his daughters is Mrs. Anson Lord, of Pittsford, and another Mrs. Havens, of Brighton. Dr. Beadle practiced a short time with Dr. Simonds, but soon. moved away. Dr. Samuel Weeks and Dr. J. II. M. C. Hazeltine, brothers-in-law, succeeded him,- the latter in 1829, and remained until his removal to Inchester a few years ago. For many years he was the only physician in the town, with a practice extending into Rush, Pittsford, aul Brighton. Dr. Rubert Kelsey practiced some time in West Henrietta, until killed by the fall of a tree. Dr. A. Mandeville, of Roch- ester, nvided here from 1815 to 1847. Drs. 11. D. Vosburgh and Robert Lane followed Dr. Hazeltine in sucerwion, and. since the latter's death. Dr. Georgzo Martin has been the resident physician ; he and Dr. In Mont, of West Hen- ricetta, are the only two in town at present practicing.

MANUFACTURES.

The manufacturing interests of' Henrietta are mainly comprised in the exten- vive blacksmith and wagon-making shops of Joseph Williams and Alexander

Williams, in West Henrietta, and tho blacksmith- and wagon-shop of William 1 Kimball, in the East village. Iu very early days Charles Daniels had a blok-mith- shop near H. M. Webster's on the river road, and Satquel Adjutant another. wie to he made wagons, north of Methodist Hill. A blacksmith-shop stood at an early day on the Hunn place, where Tiffany Hunn made " Bull plow-," which he -oll at ten dollars each. They were made of wood, with wrought iron shares, and do- signed for plowing among stumps. These, however, were small establishment -. and continued but a short time. The first blacksmith-shop in West Henriett, village was built in 1516, by Muses Swift, on the hill where Mr. Keye- lives In a year or two he moved to the Williams shop, and sold to a frerm.m. inmed Fruitye. who in 1918 sold to the Williams Brothers. These men had previously built a shop on the southwest corner of the road, on land long occupied by T. 1 Jones, near the swalup. For several years shocing oxen was the principal bu-mese done in the village shops, but latterly they have done an extensive business, stol. through the Messr . Williams, have made West Henrietta what it is. They remained in partnership about fifteen years, when the accumulation of capital ensbiedt them to separate and set up two large establishments. They are a great change trum the log blacksmith-shop in which the brothers commeneed nearly sixty years ago. A. Williams has also a foundry in operation, and a steain saw-mill. The wagon- shop conducted by William J. Kimball and William Churchill was commartwerd in a small way by Jacob and Peter Martin, about thirty-five years ago, from whom it passed to the present owners. David Deming settled in 1816 on the farine north of Methodist Hill, where he died. About 1820 he made the first brick in the town. The first made were used for chimneys and ovens. The ollest brick houses in town-Monroe academy in 1826, and the brick store in the village- were built of brick made in this yard, some of which, the carliest wanufirture. are of enormons size and solidity. The first store opened in West Henriett .. village was about 1829, when Billings & Bush, sons-in-law of Lyman Hawhy. purchased a stock of goods and commenced solling. They built the present store on the Corner. In 1831, Elihu and MI. W. Kirby, of East Henrietta, established a branch store bere, with Bentley Wheeler as manager. Mr. Wheeler afterwanls became owner, and in 1847 or 1848 it was sold to Alonzo D. Webster. who cott- tinued it several years. The present proprietor, Marvin S. Williams, was a >slur in the late war, for which he raised a company. The first hotel here was kept by Henry Chapman in 1821. The present butel was erected in 1831. by Edward Bush. He was succeeded respectively by Chauncey Chapman, John Webster. J. M. Cutler, and Wells Clark, present proprietor. Mr. Bush was also the hrst postmaster, appointed in 1831 : prior to that time the mail was received from the east post-office. Chauncey Chapman held the office from 1835 to 1849, and Marion Williams at present. Long before a store or hotel existed in this villagr. David Jeffords kept a grocery store in an old log house which stood on the ste of Orlow Becbes residence. It bad a good stock of goods and was largely pitcon- ized. Lyman Miller also Lept a large log hotel, where George W. Kinte livr-, north of Methodist Ilill, as early as 1817. But of late years hotels have not lern very profitable away from railroads, which have turned the tide of enterpri-r. The Genesee valley branch of the New York and Erie Railroad is the only line in the town, and its depot is too distant to benefit the village hotel. The Henriette House on the east road is a popular stopping-place with parties who come from Rochester to visit the water-works reservoir on the Rush line.

WATER-WORKS, ETC.

The people of Henrietta lost several thousand dollars by the failure of the .l.l water-works company. Its reservoir was located one mile south of East Henrietta village. A vast amount of labor done upon it by the citizens of the toun wr never paid for. Its failure was ascribed to defective pipe. The highway. from the city line through Brighton, East Henrietta, and Rush, was badly ent up 1; this and other enterprises for several years. An attempt was also made to comle : the gas from the burning well in Bloomfield to Rochester, but it resulted in disastrous failure, through defective pipe. \ number of capitalists from Fimza lost more than one million dollars in this enterprise.

Most of the early settlers of Henrietta were poor. Nearly all the first 1.ir- chasers took ouly an article of agreement, securing the land to them at a sprite i priec. The times were hard, and there was little money to be had for any pur- pose. Payments as agreed were itpossible. The proprietors took advantager . i this condition of affairs, and advanced the price of land sixty-six per cent wal - paid by a certain day. Very many sold their claims; others abandoned them and lost all their improvements, As an instance, John Woodruff. from Hil-nu- Geld, made a clearing in 1810 on the farm now owned by David la. Habs. planted an orchard in 1811, and sold the whale fifty-acre claim in I-l? t.r) barrel of pork, then worth thirty dollars Jacob Fargo, near the Brighton liv. Was more fortunate. le came from T'inmouth, Vermont, in I-12. tenk up fifty acres, and went to chopping woud for Mr. Ely, between the river and Soul:

MRS. ORLOW BELGEE.

ORLOW BEEBEE.

RESIDENCE of ORLOW BEERCE ,

HENRIETTA. MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK.

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RES. OF JAMES STEVENSON, EAST HENRIETTA, MONROE CO., N. Y.

FIRST RES. IN 1817.

STOCK FARM AND RESIDENCE OF J. G. LONGFELLOW, BOSEDER & DEALER N BIONEED SONT HENRIETTA, VIDEO

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RESIDENCE OF L. C . RUSSELL, AGENT FOR WOLTEW & WCOOS VCWIAG & AZ.PING WASA. HENRIETTA, MONROE CO., N. Y.

RESIDENCE OF WARREN CASWELL . WEST HENRIETTA, MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK.

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Clinton street. He earned one bundred dollars. and was offered land now in the city in payment, which he refused, as he wanted the money to pay on his fifty seres. To chtain the n maimuler, he sold every horse, cow, and other stock on the place. This male enough, and a little to spare, before the final day. He went afoot to the Wadsworth agency at tienesee to pay the money. In counting it, three dollars were thrown out as counterfeit, which left him with six cents in his pocket to take him bome. With this be purchased a bowl of bread-and-milk near Avon. Mr. Fargo restocked his farin more cheaply than he had sold, buying from those who deferred selling until necessity compelled them. After wany of the earliest settlers had abandoned or been driven from their homes, the Weds- worths bought up all these unsold claims of the foreigo owuers. These difficul- ties measurably stifled immigration, and new-comers were chary of buying land. Many of the early buyers succce led in retaiuing a part of their original pur- chase, and securing farms of twenty, thirty. or forty acres. On the large unsold traets in the aorth and west. squatters bad located themselves at an early day .- between 1813 and 1820. Some became permanent residents and made valuable citizens, but the greater majority passed onward with the van of settlement, leav- ing no record. The fact that but few of the residents of Henrietta were free- holders was need against them at town meetings, where they were brought into conflict with the older and richer Pittsford settlement. In ISI6 it was voted to adjourn the mext town meeting to the school-house near the Stephen Cody place, which aroused the ire of the Pittsford people. Simeon Stone declared there was not a legal voter in West-town, as under the old State constitution, prior to 1821, only frechokders were legal voters. At the polls he challenged every Henrietta voter as a non-freebolder ; but many of them had received, for one day only, a deed in fee of a small piece of land, aud voted on that. Samuel Felt, an early Pittsford merchant and postmaster, was elected supervisor that year. mainly by the votes of West-town residents. The difficulties growing out of this ledd finally to the separation of the town of Henrietta in 1918. Their disfranchisement under the old constitution made the citizens of this town very zealous for the more liberal constitution of 1821, and contributed largely to confirm the Democratic ascend- eney in town politics during the first twenty years of its existence. The division of the original town was most strennously opposed by Pittsfond. but the rapidly- increasing western settlements in population rendered a new organization inevi- · table. In 1813 these settlements, though never officially named, were known as West-town. The early lists of road overseers will indicate the drift of settlement. Those of 1813 and their location were Charles Case, on the George Martin place ; Benjamin Ware, on the homestead of his son. A. K. Ware; John Dodge, where Mary Ash now lives, who soon after moved away : David Dunbars, father of Silas, Edward, and Daniel, on F. Milhar's and Jesse Fowler's place; John John- stone, in a log house on the cross-road. west of T. Newton ; Simeon Perkins, a fer in early training days, near De Witt's place; Jacob A. Fargo, who lived until a few years ago; Stephen Cody, first storekeeper in East Henrietta ; Thomas Leet, south of the old reservoir ; Thomas Tillotson, on the south part of Sherman Hill, whose father, Elijah Tillotson, was killed at a barn-mising; Daniel Chal- wick, on Stephen MeNoll's place; Egor Wells, on A. S. Wadsworth's farm ; James Sperry and Justus Baker, in the same vicinity ; in 1814. Samuel Wbit- comb, on the Daniel Cornell place; Asa Hull. where Cyrus Ballwin lives, from 1806; Artemas Barnes, near the East Baptist church ; Chandler Huntington and Silas Tillotson, on Sherman Hill; Elijah Little, where Horace Little now lives, which was first settled by John Hibbard, followed by Samuel Cody and his two- sons, Joseph and Stephen, in 1812; Robert Fisher and Iane Sage, northwest of Methodist Hill; Lyman Miller and Seth Swift, brother of Moses, the first black- smith, and Roswell Wiekwine, south of Sherman Hill, with Asa Stannard and Jobn Brininstool. In 1815, Jacob Baldwin, in the East village, was appointed pound-keeper. The road overseers this year were men who resided. until recently, in the town, and are well remembered. Among them were Amasa Aldrich. Daniel Olney, and John Garviu, east of John Hanks, near the Pittsford liue; Sergeant Bagley, where James Stevenson lives; William Leggett, Jacob Preolt, an early blacksmith, George King, Remembrance Baker, and Samuel Dimock, on Method- ist Hill; and Isque Dimond and Michael Brininstool, on Hunn's place, Clay strect.

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History of Monroe county, New York with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, Palatial residences, Part 94

Author: McIntosh, W. H. cn; Everts, Ensign, and Everts, Philadelphia, pub Publication date: 1877 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts, Ensign and Everts Number of Pages: 976

Author: McIntosh, W. H. cn; Everts, Ensign, and Everts, Philadelphia, pub
Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts, Ensign and Everts
Number of Pages: 976