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East Ridge Lodge No. 415, I. O. O. F., of Sodus, was initiated in August, 1849, and its charter was granted from Baltimore, Md., in De- cember, 1850. It continued in existence until 1857, when it disbanded.
Butler Lodge No. 504, I. O. O. F., was initiated December 29, 1882, with twenty-two members. Its charter was granted October 13, 1882. The first officers were: N. De L. Bowen, N. G .; Dr. James F. Munn, V. G. ; N. R. Hurd, secretary; James L. Wadsworth, treasurer. The lodge was instituted by district deputy G. M. James T. George of Newark,
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assisted by others from abroad. The successive N. G.'s of the lodge have been : James F. Munn, M. D., E. H. Cady, J. E. Rogers, Andrew J. Bradway, De Witt C. Wheeler. H. O. Baggerly, jr., Henry W. Cro- foot, James L. Wadsworth, Ensign L. Adams, D. P. Mitchell, William HI. Clapp, Henry D. Wetmore, Charles C. Taylor, Alexander C. Clapp, Selden E. Helmer, Thomas S. Law, Dudley S. Reed, James Wheeler, George W. Williams, Hurley HI. Hopkins, Dr. William J. Coppernoll, Selden E. Helmer. The officers for 1894 are as follows: Silas D. Cro- foot, N. G .; James Shannon, V. G .; D. P. Mitchell, secretary; William H. Clapp, treasurer. Gorham H. Wilson is delegate to the Odd Fellows Home Association at Lockport, the first from this lodge. The member- ship is fifty.
Ontario Shore Lodge No. 495, of Wolcott, was initiated February 9, 1882, with H. L. Bowen, J. Madison Henslee, W. A. Coventry, J. A. Merrill, Albert Dodd, and S. H. Foster as charter members. The first officers were: Rev. H. L. Bowen, N. G .; J. Madison Henslee, V. G .; S. H. Foster, secretary; J. A. Merrill, treasurer; W. A. Coventry, P. G. Forty-five candidates were initiated. The officers for 1894 are as follows: Walter Darling, N. G .; R. B. Smith, V. G .; E. H. Kellogg, secretary; E. E. Shafft, treasurer.
CHAPTER XIV.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES, COUNTY INSTITUTIONS, &C.
Mention has made in an early page of this work that one of the meas- ures adopted by Charles Williamson for the encouragement of settlers, was the holding of fairs for the advancement of agriculture in Western New York. It was his intention to continue them semi-annually. The first fair held in Ontario county was at Geneva in 1807, and a notice in the newspaper announced the exhibition in October of a large number of cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, etc., with samples of wheat and other grains from different parts of Genesee county. The next fair was held on the first Tuesday in May, 1808.
Of the annual appropriation of $20,000, provided by the Legislature in March, 1818, to be distributed in various counties of this State and
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to be used in aid of agriculture through premiums offered at fairs, On- tario county received $1,000. In February, 1819, a meeting was held at which the first Ontario County Agricultural Society was formed. A premium list was afterward prepared, and the first fair held, beginning October 18, at Canandaigua.
We need not follow the fortunes of that organization further than to note that Wayne county farmers had their share in its exhibitions and general prosperity. In 1830 an exhibition of flowers, fruits, and gar- den vegetables was held in Lyons, which awakened considerable inter- est and was well attended. Other similar exhibitions were held in New- ark, Lyons and Palmyra, at some of which limited numbers of live stock were shown.
In December, 1838, a meeting was held in Lyons and the Wayne County Agricultural Society was organized. The following first officers were elected : president, Hon. John Boynton; first vice-president, Dr. C. S. Button; second vice-president, Samuel Hecox; third vice-presi- dent, Samuel E. Hudson; fourth vice-president, Reuben H. Foster; fifth vice-president, J. P. Bartle; secretary, Hamilton Rogers; execu- tive committee, C. S. Button, F. Hemingway, John Baker, Samuel West, Abel Fairchilds; committee on field crops, William R. Smith, William D. Cook, A. G .. Barney.
After the adoption of the constitution this society had ten years of unexampled prosperity. , The annual fairs were held at Palmyra, New- ark, Lyons, Clyde, and Rose Valley, the place selected each year at the annual meeting.
At the meeting in Lyons, in December, 1848, the following officers were elected: president, J. D. Ford; vice-presidents, E. N. Thomas, Samuel Hudson, Jacob Furgeson, A. G. Percy, John Barrodale, Jede- diah Wilder, Joel Hale; recording secretary, N. B. Caswell; corres- ponding secretary, J. J. Thomas; treasurer, P. W. Kenyon; executive committee, W. P. Nottingham, Cullen Foster, Daniel Kenyon, Daniel Jenison, E. Flint.
At this meeting an important resolution was adopted, indicating both that the society was not in as prosperous a condition as formerly and that the belief was general that a permanent location should be secured as one means of renewing former prosperity. Six years later, in De- cember, 1854, it was finally resolved "that the fairs of the society shall hereafter be permanently located at Lyons." To carry out this purpose a new society was organized under a legislative act passed April 13,
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1855, and on the 23d of that month the old society met in Lyons, paid their liabilities, transferred the money remaining in the treasury (about $300) to the new society, and disbanded. At a meeting held May 15, 1855, the following officers were elected: President, De Witt Van Slyck ; vice-president, Robert Ennis; secretary, P. P. Bradish; treasurer, Wil- liam D. Perrine; directors, E. N. Thomas, A. G. Percy, E. B. Kellogg, S. Tineklepaugh, Alfred Hale, Henry Teachout.
Subscriptions were solicited in Lyons, and the citizens promptly gave $1,700, and the Board of Managers purchased eleven acres of land on the Clyde River, a little east of Lyons village, possessing natural feat- ures that render it one of the best sites in the State for such purposes. The board erected a large hall 56 x 80 feet, with galleries, at a cost of $1,200, the land having cost $1, 710. The building was burned in 1877 and a short period of discouragement and apathy succeeded. During two years, fairs were held first in Wolcott and next in Sodus. About 1879 the Lyons Driving Park Association was formed and bought six acres lying on the west side of the fair grounds, and constructed on the whole a half-mile track. A joint lease was made in the same year be- tween the two societies for ten years, each organization to have exclu- sive use of the grounds during fairs and races, and all revenues accru- ing from other sources were to be divided equally between the two or- ganizations. The arrangement created dissatisfaction which culminated in 1881 in the erection of the present fair building by the Agricultural Society, and the beginning of litigation, which ended only in the dis- bandment of the Driving Park Association in 1886. J. C. Myers was made president of the Agricultural Society in 1885, at which time he bought in the entire stock of the Driving Park Association amounting to $3, 400, and transferred it to the Agricultural Society. This action gave the latter society possession of eighteen acres of land and build- ings. In the meantime it had become badly involved in debt and liti- gation, but under the energetic direction of Mr. Myers and his associate officers, a very successful fair was held in 1885, the premiums were paid in full, debts were extinguished and additional structures erected on the grounds. In 1889 Mr. Myers declined the presidency and another period of decline set in, continuing until the spring of 1894, at which time a debt had accumulated of over $1,800. Mr. Myers was then again induced to accept the presidency of the society, and an effort is now in progress to place its affairs in prosperous condition. The officers of the society for 1894 are as follows: president, Joseph C. Myers; vice-
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president, Dwight Chamberlain; secretary, William E. Collum; treas. uaer, C. M. Baltzel.
The following named persons, among others, became life-members of this society: R. L. Adams, William H. Adams, John Adams, Walter Akenhead, Philip Althen, Silas Bashford, Clark Bartlett, P. P. Bradish, W. L. Belden, S. W. Belden, Henry Baltzel, George H. Boehmler, J. S. Boice, E. W. Bottom, B. J. Bradley, M. Brownson, James M. Brad- ley, John Bradley, Daniel Chapman, E. C. Cosart, F. E. Cornwell, Co- lumbus Croul, George W. Cramer, William Clark, Frederick Deck, Mrs. M. Dunn, Robert Ennis, Elizur Flint, S. B. Gavitt, Daniel Goetzman, L. Griswold, N. W. Geer, H. Graham, William Howlett, Amos Har- rington, Thomas Harrington, S. S. Herrick, S. D. Holmes, John Hano, II. G. Hotchkiss, Alfred Hale, Jacob Jeheer, S. H. Klinck, William H. King, M. S. Leach, Heman J. Leach, Edwin B. Leach, S. Lewis, Isaac Lovejoy, John Layton, E. G. Leonard, Joseph McCall, N. R. Mirick, Milton Mirick, H. C. Mead, J. T. Mackenzie, Z. Moore, William D. Perrine, J. B. Pierce, H. W. Putney, E. B. Price, F. H. Palmeter, A. D. Polhamus, Charles Pickett, Caleb Rice, Aaron Remsen, Erastus Rogers, B. R. Rogers, Thomas Rogers, James Rogers, G. R. Rudd, John Robinson, D. R. Rozell, John C. Roys, William H. Sisson, E. W. Sylvester, B. R. Streety, John H. Spencer. Samuel Scott, jr., Lyman Sherwood, William Smelt, Newell Taft, Henry Teachout, E. N. Thomas, E. P. Taylor, E. G. Thurston, Job Travice, De Witt C. Van Slyck, William Van Camp, William Van Marter, B. P. Van Marter, Michael Vanderbilt, John Vanderbilt, P. R. Westfall, John Westfall, Daniel Westfall, W. W. Wormwood, John Walter, Harvey Warren, Denison Wilder.
The Palmyra Union Agricultural Society. - About the time that measures were adopted for the permanent location of the County Agri- cultural Society in Lyons, the farmers of the southwestern and western parts of the county organized the society bearing the above title. The date of organization was June 26, 1856, and the following were elected the first officers: President, Martin Butterfield; vice-presidents, Stephen Hyde, William H. Teller, Russell Stoddard; secretary, Carlton H. Rogers; treasurer, Joseph C. Lovett; directors, Luther Sandford, Stephen K. Williams, Theron G. Yeomans, Daniel Gates, William HI. Rogers, and Jacob C. Pettitt. Besides these men the following were charter members: A. Salisbury, L. Robinson, Joel Foster, F. D. Rogers, A. J. Downing, J. M. Briggs, J. G. Philipps, William R. John-
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son, George H. Cuyler, W. P. Nottingham, A. Sherman, and W. F. Aldrich.
This society purchased about twenty acres of land of Daniel Gates in 1856 at a cost of $3,000, and a floral hall was erected the same year. The first fair was held in the fall of 1856, and they have been continued annually ever since, all of which have been successful. The society as a whole has been prosperous; premiums have been paid in full; several dividends on stock have been paid and there is now (1894) about $300 in the treasury.
The officers of this society for 1894 are as follows: President, Charles D. Johnson (served since 1879 and was recording secretary from 1864 to 1889); corresponding secretary, E. S. Averill (served since 1868); re- cording secretary, P. F. Aldrich; treasurer, David S. Aldrich.
The following persons have held the office of president of this society : Martin Butterfield, 1857; Luther Sanford, 1858-59; Eliab Yeomans, 1860-61; Abraham I. Carle, 1862; Henry J. Foster, 1863; Nahum War- ner, 1864-65; William P. Nottingham, 1866-69; Henry Sawyer, 1870; William P. Nottingham, 1871 37; Henry M. Clark, 1878 79; Charles D. Johnson, 1880-94.
The Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Association of Galen was organized at Liberty Hall in Clyde, December 22, 1849, and had quite a successful existence until a few years since, when it was closed out. The first officers were: Joseph Watson, president; Benjamin H. Streeter, secretary; Matthew Mackie, treasurer; Jacob T. Van Buskirk, librarian. Owing to the determined opposition of the early officers to horse racing, the organization passed through a period of decline, and on December 27, 1856, the last board of officers of the old association was elected as follows: Maynard Dayton, president; E. D. Kellog, A. Snedaker, E. Ringer, S. J. Lape, P. T. Chamberlain, vice-presidents; George W. Cowles, secretary; Thomas Plumtree, treasurer. Just prior to this date a new interest had been awakened in the annual fairs and prosperity seemed about to dawn. Having no legal existence, the of- ficers and members met March 14, 1857, and dissolved the old associa- tion, immediately reorganizing as the Galen Agricultural Society, which was duly incorporated. The following officers were chosen: Maynard Dayton, president; Matthew Mackie, vice-president; George W. Cowles, secretary ; Thomas Plumtree, treasurer. From this time until 1888, in- clusive, the society held fairs and had exhibitions of trotting horses in the park established by William HI. Saunders, where commodious build-
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ings had been erected. January 21, 1888, the name was changed to the Eastern Wayne Agricultural Society, with William S. Hunt, president; L. N. Snow, vice-president; E. W. Sherman, secretary; and Frank Backman, treasurer. The exhibition of 1889 was held at Wolcott, and soon afterward the society disbanded.
The Newark Fair Association was organized at Newark in 1891, with these officers: J. Dupha Reeves, president; C. E. Leggett, treasurer; C. II. Perkins, secretary. Successful fairs were held for three years. In 1894 the association disbanded and the property passed to another society.
The Sodus Agricultural Society was organized August 16, 1828, with the following as the first officers: HI. C. Weaver, president; H. B. Pulver, vice-president; L. H. Clark, secretary; W. J. Filkins, treasurer; E. Rogers, general superintendent; R. F. Norris, J. Vosburgh, J. A. Boyd, Milton Proseus, John Hopp, Orville Carpenter, directors. Grounds owned by Lorenzo Whitney, on which he had constructed a half-mile track, were leased by the society, and successful fairs have been regu- larly held since the first organization. The successive presidents of this society have been as follows: Harvey C. Weaver, 1879-81; M. Tinkle- paugh, 1882-84; C. A. Whitbeck, 1883; John A. Boyd, 1885-86; M. Tinklepaugh, 1887-93; C. R. Sprong, 1888-90; C. A. Whitbeck, 1891- 93. The officers for 1894 are as follows: M. Tinklepaugh, president; E. B. Whitbeck, vice-president; W. J. Toor, secretary; A. J. Maxon, treasurer; D. L. Weaver, general superintendent; H. M. Barnes, M. J. Seymour, M. Tinklepaugh, John A. Sargent, John Gulick, William Tinklepaugh, directors.
The Marion Horse Trotters' Association was organized August 1, 1890, its name indicating its objects. Officers: T. M. Clark, president; J. C. Rich, secretary ; A. P. Williams, treasurer. A tract of land, one- half mile north of Marion village, was leased of B. D. Davis for five years, and a half-mile track constructed. The Executive Committee consists of A. P. Williams, J. B. Malcolm, F. C. Rich, T. M. Clark, and J. C. Rich.
County Poor House. - The buildings of the Wayne county poor-house are situated upon the county farm, which lies some two miles west of the village of Lyons. The farm contains 190 acres, the greater part of which is tillable. The buildings consist of a main part (sixty by eighty feet) and two stories above the basement; a wooden structure connects with the same, in size twenty by forty feet; there is a wood, a wash,
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and other out-buildings; there is also in the same inclosure an asylum for lunatics, built of brick (twenty-six by fifty-four feet), and one story high. A project is now (1894) on foot for the erection of a hospital building. Rooms are kept clean and well ventilated. James T. Wisner was superintendent a number of years, and made many improvements. Annually the supervisors visit the farm on a tour of inspection.
CHAPTER XV.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF PALMYRA.
Palmyra, including Macedon, originally formed a part of the district of Tolland in the County of Ontario; this district was organized in a primitive manner in January, 1789, being contemporary with the great district of Sodus on the north and west. Macedon was set off January 29, 1823, and upon the organization of Wayne county on April 11, of that year, the town of Palmyra comprised its present area of 19, 430 acres. It includes township 12, second range, of the Pultney estate. It is bounded on the north by Marion, on the east by Arcadia, on the south by Ontario county, and on the west by Macedon, and lies in the southwest part of Wayne county.
The surface is broken into hills and valleys, which trend generally north and south. The soil is a calcareous loam, with marl on the creek bottoms, and drift, sand, and gravel on the highlands. Ganargwa (Mud) Creek, the principal stream, flows easterly through the town, and affords some good mill sites; in earlier days it was utilized for navigation. Its main tributaries are Red Creeks, one joining it at Palmyra village, and the other a little east of East Palmyra. The soil is well adapted to agricultural purposes, and throughout the town are found many excellent farms. It was originally covered with heavy timber, which long afforded employment for several saw mills. These dense forests have long since given place to fertile fields, productive orchards, and pleasant homes. The inhabitants, some of whom are descended from the original settlers, ably maintain the thrifty principles implanted by the sturdy pioneers, who opened the way for commercial progress and personal enjoyment. Wheat raising, once the chief agri-
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cultural production, has been suspended by a system of mixed farming; for many years considerable attention has been devoted to fruit grow- ing, especially to apples. Here the famous Osband pear originated. Of late years the production of peppermint has been profitably carried on
The first highway was what is now Canandaigua street, leading south- ward from Palmyra village; it was opened about 1793, and for many years was maintained as a plank road. An extension of this thorough- fare was the old Sodus road, which ran north and northeast to Sodus Point, and which was opened in 1794 by Captain Charles Williamson, who paid $757 for its construction. In 1793 a road was surveyed from Deacon Foster's house, westwardly, by the houses of Joel Foster, Wil- liam Willson, Weaver Osband, Gideon Durfee, and Swift's Ash Works, to Webb Harwood's. In the old book of records appears this notice under date of June 6, 1796: "A division of the highways in the district of Tolland in County of Ontario are as follows:" and the record pro- ceeds to describe twelve road districts; William Rogers and Reuben Town, highway commissioners, and Jonathan Edwards, town clerk. In 1797 another division was made. In 1805 the town had 15 road districts; 1807, 18; 1810, 23; 1816, 32. A part of the present road from Palmyra to Pultneyville was surveyed June 13, 1820, by Isaac Durfee and Luman Harrison, highway commissioners, "with the poor old town compass." Canandaigua street, above mentioned, was resurveyed in 1810, and October 8, 1828, was again surveyed, this time five rods wide, to Man- chester, Ontario county; it then became a State road, and at this time George Crane, Alva Hendee, and Joshua Downer were commissioners of highways. The town now has 47 road districts.
January 16, 1799, "Mud Creek." (Ganargwa Creek) was officially de- clared a navigable stream from the west line of road district 12, second range, to mouth of same (creek), by Benjamin Wells and John Swift, "superintendents of highways."
The completion of the Erie Canal through the town in 1825 imparted a new impetus to local settlement and commercial prosperity, and the advent of the New York Central Railroad in 1853, with stations at Pal- myra and East Palmyra, added another improvement. The West Shore Railroad, with a station at Palmyra village, was opened in 1884. These thoroughfares afford unsurpassed transportation facilities.
The town was primitively known by the name of Swift, for John Swift, the first settler, but it was soon changed to Tolland, or the District of
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Tolland, which remained the designation until January 4, 1796, when, at a meeting held for the purpose, the historie name of Palmyra was de- cided upon, in this wise: Daniel Sawyer, brother of Mrs. Swift, was en- gaged to Miss Dosha Boughton, the first school teacher, and had been reading ancient history ; and as Palmyra of old had a Zenobia he thought it proper his future wife should have a Palmyra, so the name was adopted without dissent.
The first town meeting was held at the house of Gideon Durfee in April, 1796, more than eight years after the District of Tolland was formed. The first officers elected were: John Swift, "moderator, in- spector, and supervisor;" Jonathan Edwards, town clerk: Festus Gold- smith, Jonathan Warner, Humphrey Sherman, assessors; William Por- ter, collector; Noah Porter and Thomas Goldsmith, overseers of the poor; Jared Comstock, Reuben Town, William Rogers, commissioners of high- ways; James Bradish, and James Reeves, constables; James Reeves, John Hurlbut, Joel Foster, Luther Sanford, David Warner, Benjamin Wood, Abner Hill, Cyrus Parker, Thomas Hamilton, Henry Lovell, Nerman Merry, Nathan Harris, Jacob Gannett, pathmasters; David Warner, John Hurlbut, Elias Reeves, fenceviewers; Isaac Kelly, pound- master. Joel Foster bid off the first earmark and Jonah Howell the second ; forty-nine persons paid for earmarks at this meeting. A bounty of $5 was voted on wolves and two cents each on "crows, squirrels, woodpeckers, and blackbirds." It was voted that a pound be erected "near Daniel Sawyer's old house."
The following list of those who had "carmarks " for stock recorded embraces nearly all of the heads of families in the District of Tolland in 1796;
James Reeves, David Warner,
Joel W. Foster,
Lemuel Spear,
Isaac Howell,
David II. Foster,
William Porter,
John Russell,
John Swift,
Israel Delano,
David Culver,
Nathan Reeves,
Timothy Conant,
Gideon Durfee, jr.,
Gideon Durfee,
Festus Goldsmith,
Reuben Town,
Humphrey Sherman,
William Jackway, John Crandall,
John Gibson, Noah Porter,
Job Durfee,
Pardon Wilcox,
Oliver Clark,
Moses Culver, Elias Reeves,
Henry Lovetell,
Thomas Goldsmith,
Thomas Rogers,
Reuben Town,
Joseph Bradish, Edward Durfee,
Benjamin Luce,
John Hulburt,
Bennett Bates,
Luther Sanford, Benjamin Clark,
Darius Comstock,
Alexander Rowley,
Benjamin Woods,
Nathan Harriss,
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Jonah Howell,
Jonathan Warner, Robert Hinds. Joel Foster,
The supervisors of Palmyra have been as follows:
John Swift, 1796,
William Beal, 18-46, Augustus Elmendorf, 1847-48
Jonah Howell, 1797-98,
Thomas W. Gurney, 1849,
Nathan Comstock, 1803,
Augustus Elmendorf, 1850, Pomeroy Tucker, 1851-52, Abraham I. Carle, 1853,
William Rogers, 1807-08, Pardon Durfee, 1809-14,
Philip Palmer, 1854, Charles E. Thurber. 1855,
David White, 1815-20, James White, 1821-22,
A. P. Crandall, 1856-58,
William Rogers, 1823,
William II. Bowman, 1859,
Stephen Sherman, 1824,
William B. Crandall, 1860,
Frederick Smith, 1825,
Henry S. Flower, 1861-65, Charles I. Ferrin, 1866,
Frederick Smith, 1827-28,
Charles D. Johnson, 1867-70, William Foster, 1871,
Frederick Smith, 1832-31,
Henry P. Knowles, 1872-73,
Ambrose Salisbury, 1835.37,
Robert Johnson, 1874,
George W. Cuyler, 1838-39,
George Harrison, 1875-79,
James Hubbell, 1840-41,
Henry M. Clark, 1880-81,
Ambrose Salisbury, 1842,
Nelson Reeves, 1882-84,
Samuel Cole, 1843,
Henry R. Durfece, 1885-88,
Samuel E. Hudson, 1844, Pomeroy Tucker, 1845,
James O. Clark, 1889-92. William W. Edgerton, 1893-94,
The town officers for 1894 are: W. W. Edgerton, supervisor; Alex- ander P. Milne, town clerk; Charles P. Winslow, Charles H. Chapman, Jones L. Warner, assessors; Charles H. Brown, overseer of the poor; Sylvester Selleck, collector; Salem W. Sweezey, highway commissioner; E. Il. Clark, Joseph J. Rogers, James P. Tuttle, Mark C. Finley, jus- tices of the peace. The first record of incumbents of the latter office appears in 1805, when William Rogers and Pardon Durfee became jus- tices.
In 1762 a colony of 200 settlers located in the beautiful valley of Wyoming in Northeast Pennsylvania; in 1774 their number had in- creased to'about 2,000. Conflicting claims led to the Pennamite war, and several of the settlers, forming a company, decided to emigrate. They chose John Swift and John Jenkins their agents to select and buy new lands. Jenkins had previously been a surveyor for the Phelps and Gorham purchase, and with Mr. Swift he came to Canandaigua, where they contracted for township twelve, second range (the present town of
John Swift, 1799-02,
John Swift, 1804- 06,
Stephen Sherman, 1826,
Ambrose Salisbury, 1829-31,
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