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The R. W. & O. Railroad (formerly the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad) was finished through the town east and west in 1874, with stations at Alton, Wallington, and Sodus. The Sodus Bay division of what is now
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the Northern Central Railway, running from Sodus Point, southwardly through Wallington and Sodus Center, to Stanley, Ontario county, was projected in 1851; but several years passed before it was finished. It was opened for traffic July 4, 1873. The construction of these railroads had a marked influence on the development of the town; they created new markets and brought into existence new industries.
The road leading from Sodus to Lyons was surveyed by Samuel Sut- ton and was recorded August 14, 1799. In 1803 Sodus (including Lyons and Arcadia) had eight road districts. The old " Sodus road " from the Point to Palmyra was laid out by Capt. Charles Williamson in 1294 and cost him a total of $254 ; it was cut through by Messrs. Lovell and Phil- lips. In 1794 Mr. Williamson also laid out the old Geneva road from Sodus Point to Lyons, nearly on the line of the present Lyons road through Wallington. A system of highways was inaugurated about 1800, and the town now has 108 road districts.
The earliest record of a Sodus town meeting is dated April 2, 1799, ten years after the formation of the district of Sodus. The town or dis- triet meeting was held at the house of Evert Van Wickle, a mile or more northwest of Lyons village, on the present Rogers farm, and the following officers were chosen : Supervisor, Azariah Willis, of Alloway ; town clerk, Joseph Taylor, Lyons; assessors, Norman Mary, Sodus Point, Samuel Caldwell, Marion, Charles Cameron, Lyons; highway commissioners, Moses Gill, Sodus Point, Evert Van Wiekle, Lyons, Timothy Smith, Marion; constables, David Sweezey, Marion, Joseph Wood, Lyons; pound master, Samuel Nelson, Arcadia; collector, David Sweezey, Marion; fence viewer, John Van Wickle, sr., Lyons; poor- masters, William White, Williamson, Reuben Adams, Marion. At a special town meeting in 1799, held at the house of John Riggs, John Perrine, Timothy Smith, and Samuel Caldwell were chosen school com- missioners. Sheep marks were registered by Robert Miller, John Per- rine, Thomas Cole, David Sherman, Evert Van Wickle, Joseph Taylor, William Patten, Samuel Soverhill, Charles Cameron, William White, and John Miller.
There was at this period on the tax roll the names of fifty persons, · some of whom were non-residents; the settlers were doubtless located in Lyons village, on the road from there to Sodus Point, at the Point, and on the Palmyra road, with very few exceptions. Following is the list :
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Evert Van Wickle.
Azariah Willis.
William White.
John Van Wickle.
Moses Sill.
David Sweezey.
Samuel Nelson.
Jabez Sill.
Samuel Caldwell.
John Perrine.
Stephen Bushnell.
Daniel Russell.
Charles Cameron.
Norman Mary.
Robert Martin. Abraham Pratt,
Joseph Wood.
Leonard Stewart.
John Riggs.
Leonard Aldrich.
Nathan Stewart.
Henry Beard.
Andrew Hillett.
Charles Williamson.
Joseph Taylor.
Timothy Smith.
Richard Williams.
George Carr.
William Cogshall.
Sanford Williams.
Ralph Gregory.
Reuben Adams.
David Trowbridge.
Robert Miller.
Moses A. Blakely.
John Taylor.
Elijah Brown.
David Sherman.
Francis Dana.
Ephraim Cleveland.
Lydia Cady.
William Dunn.
Henry Lovewell.
Robert Springer.
William Cogshall.
Amos Richards.
William Cook.
Benjamin Wisner.
Daniel Towle.
Wanton Morey.
In 1799 the district gave Charles Williamson and Nathaniel Norton each twenty-five votes for the Assembly. In 1800 Thomas Morris had the unanimous vote of the district (sixty-eight) for Congress. It has been stated that only twenty-five families were living in the whole town in 1799, and of the fifty persons on the tax roll, six were assessed for per- sonal property. In 1800 $2.00 were voted for wolf scalps "with the skin thereon;" and it was also voted that "hog yokes be eight inches above the neck." It was also voted that Elias Dickinson "be allowed $3.00 for opening town meetings two years past." William Sheppard, Lemuel Chapin, William Dunn, and Nathaniel Norton were candidates for the Assembly ; Samuel Caldwell was town clerk. The town meeting for 1800 was held at the dwelling of Moses Sill at Sodus Point, and that of 1801 at the house of Timothy Smith. In this year thirteen path- masters were chosen, and the territory of the present towns of Wil- liamson, Marion, Walworth, and Ontario was set off to form a separate school district. Mr. Caldwell was again chosen town clerk.
In 1802 the district held no meeting, but three justices of the county- William Rogers, Darius Comstock, and Ezra Patterson-met at the house of Oliver Kendall and appointed John Perrine, supervisor, and Richard Jones, town clerk; the latter served until 1806.
In 1803 the annual town meeting was held at the house of William Gibbs in Lyons, and the pound was located at that village. In 1806 Ezekiel Price was elected town clerk, and served until 1811. In 1807 the wolf bounty was increased to $5.00, and was discontinued in 1808.
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The town meeting of 1809 was held in Lyons at the dwelling of Ezekiel Price; a pound thirty feet square and eight feet high was voted to be built at Sodus, and a tax of $25 was voted for the town poor. In 1810 a bounty of $10 for wolves and panthers was voted, and the towns of Lyons and Arcadia were set off.
The first town meeting of the present town of Sodas was held in 1811 at the house of Daniel Arms, near Wallington, and the following officers were chosen: Nathaniel Merrills, supervisor; Joseph Hathaway, town clerk; Jenks Pullen, Daniel Arms, John Holcomb, highway commis- sioners; Daniel Arms, Daniel Hart, Mark Johnson, assessors; Jenks Pullen, collector; Daniel Hart and Stephen Bushnell, overseers of the poor; Jenks Pullen and Dan H. Harvey, constables. In 1813 the first school inspectors were elected, as follows: Enoch Morse, Thaddeus Bancroft, William Danforth, William N. Lummis, Daniel Arms, and Peter Failing; and the school commissioners for that year were: John Holcomb, Byram Green, and William Wickham. In the same year the town was divided into eleven school districts; a wolf bounty of $25 was voted, and a fine of $5.00 was to be imposed on any person permitting "Canada thistles to blossom on his farm or the highway adjoining."
The first town meeting held at Sodus village was in 1815, and since that year that has been the regular place of meeting. The first justice of the peace was probably Thomas Hathaway, although Williamson held a sort of judicial appointment in Ontario county. In 1822 the fol- lowing were elected: Byram Green, one year; Alanson M. Knapp, two years; Thaddeus Bancroft, three years; James Edwards, four years. The supervisors of Sodus have been as follows:
1799, Azariah Willis, 1800-1, Timothy Smith, 1802-3, John Perine, 1804-6, Daniel Dorsey, 1807-10, Gilbert Howell,
1842, Byram Green, 1843-44, Alanson M. Knapp, 1845, Alexander B. Williams,
1846, Jerry C. Rogers,
1847, Thomas Wickham,
1811-13, Nathaniel Merrills,
1814-24, Enoch Morse,
1825-26, Jonathan L. Powell, 1827, Byram Green, 1828-32, William Danforth,
1833-34, James Edwards, 1835-37, Robert A. Paddock, 1838-39, William Edwards, 1840, Byram Green, 1841, Charles W. Rees, 26
1848, Jedediah Allen, 1849, Andrus A. Whitbeck, 1850, Alanson M. Knapp,
1851-52, Jerry C. Rogers,
1853, Alanson M. Knapp, 1854, Aldice P. Warren, 1855, Noadiah M. Hill,
1856-58, David Poucher, 1859-60, Merritt Thornton, 1861, Levi Gurnee,
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1862-64, Durfee Wilcox,
1881-83, Lewis II. Clark,
1865, George W. Tillotson,
1884-86, John A. Boyd.
1866-61, Lewis Bates,
1887-89, Aldice W. Brower,
1868-71, George W. Tillotson,
1890, Lewis Bates,
1872-74, Louis Bates,
1891-92, Edward H. Sentell,
1875, David Poucher,
1876, Charles D. Gaylord, 1874-80, Rowland Robinson,
1893, E. J. Gatchell, 1894, John A. Boyd.
The town officers for 1894 are: John A. Boyd, supervisor; Frank D. Gaylord, town clerk; E. W. Kelly, Charles C. Wright, C. O. Brundige, Albert Harris, George Emery, justices; George Van Antwerp, Stephen Turner, John T. Pearsall, assessors; John B. Bayless, jr., collector; Charles Emery, David Vaudy, overseers of the poor; P. Riggs, Charles M. Sentell, S. V. Hewett, highway commissioners.
From time immemorial the Indians gathered about Sodus Bay to hunt and fish, and as white settlements crowded them westward they long clung to its old associations by occasional visits. From 1725 to 1750 the French government was frequently advised by its emissaries to built a fort here. In 1759 a force of English and colonial troops, moving westward for the capture of Fort Niagara, stopped one night at the bay. Other expeditions often made it their rendezvous, all of which have been properly noticed in earlier pages of this volume. The locality had undoubtedly been visited previous to 1794 by surveyors, agents, hunters, and other white men, but it was not until that year that Charles Williamson took his small army of choppers, builders and surveyers, and began clearing lands and erecting buildings at Sodus Point. He was not alone in the belief that he was there founding a place destined to future commercial importance. In the year just named and previous to Williamson's arrival, Daniel Russell in the town of Williamson is believed to have been the only permanent settler in all the region north of Palmyra.
Among the first operations at the Point by Williamson was the erection of a tavern. He also built a yacht and launched it on the bay. It is said that his improvements made during about two years cost $20,000. In this tavern he placed Moses and Jabez Sill as landlords. Williamson's hopes and expectations of the locality were not realized.
The builders of this tavern were Hoylarts & Borrekens, who in 1811 were assessed for "eleven lots in Troopville " and "twenty-six acres in the Gore, buildings, etc., $908." During the war of 1812 it was attacked by British soldiers (in June, 1813). It was burned in May, 1881.
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In 1495 Amos Richards, who had lived a short time with his wife and daughter near Daniel Russell (before mentioned), removed to the lake shore, seven miles west of Sodus Point, and built a log cabin on land now owned by Charles H. Toor. After some years Richards left his home and never returned; his wife afterwards married a Mr. Alcock, who died, leaving a widow and daughter to continue the hardships of pioneer life alone. Mrs. Alcock died in 1849, and her daughter, who became Mrs. Jeduthan Morfat, in 1869. Many of the friendly Indians, explorers, and first settlers, as well as Charles Williamson himself, were welcomed in their log cabin, and to Mrs. Morfat a monument has been raised as a memorial to the last of the earliest permanent settler family in town.
About 1796 Elijah Brown located on the Swales lot four miles west of the Point, but soon removed to the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, in Orleans county and died at Irondequoit in 1805. Norman Mary also settled at the Point the same time and Stephen Bushnell purchased the farm occupied in recent years by Ephraim Leiter, and brought in his family in 1803; Mr. Bushnell was commissioner of highways in 1801 and several terms overseer of the poor.
John Boyd and his son Frederick, from Maryland, came in 1798 and settled on the east side of the bay and made a little improvement; but in the next year, being without near neighbors, they removed to the other side and settled on Salmon Creek in what is called "Christian Hollow." Two years later Thomas Boyd, a younger son of John, came and lived in the cabin with his father until 1815, when he married and located on the Geneva road. John Boyd died in 1817 and Frederick returned to Maryland. Sons of Thomas were John A., and Reuben. Other settlers on the Geneva road in 1797 were the Pollock families. In 1800 Richard Sergeant came from Boston and boarded with them for time. He settled a little later on what became the Kitchen farm, and had sons, Artemas, Richard, George, Nathan, William, James and Thomas, and three daughters.
In April, 1801, Ammi Ellsworth, from Connecticut, settled on the Pulver place; Asahel Osburn, his brother-in-law, came with him and built a log house and sowed ten acres of wheat on what has been known as the Irwin farm. Ellsworth also built a log house. Mr. Ellsworth said in later years that when he came in the only neighbors west of him were Daniel Russell, Amos Richards, and Elijah Brown. Stephen Bushnell was, however, a resident at that time. A log house that had
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been built near the Thornton place was early opened as atavern. Mr. Ellsworth lived long in the town and left many descendants, among them Levi Ellsworth, a son, and Mrs. Samuel Hanford, daughter, both resi- dents of Sodus. His daughter Aurelia, familiarly known as "Aunt Aurelia," was born here December 8, 1804, and died on the homestead unmarried, October 29, 1889.
Dr. William N. Lummis, from Philadelphia, settled in the town in 1801, and is noticed in the chapter on the medical profession. He built the old Preston grist mill, a saw mill, a forge, and several dwellings, and was the foremost citizen of the town. His son, Benjamin R., died at Sodus Point in June, 1882. Dr. Thomas G. Lawson came from England and located at the Point at an early day.
Slavery was introduced into Sodus by Col. Peregrine Fitzhugh, who had served in the Revolutionary war and held a position in Washington's life guard. He migrated from Maryland to Geneva in 1800 and thence to Sodus Point in 1803, bringing his family and thirty to forty slaves. The slaves were freed in a few years and for some time composed a colony of their own in the neighborhood of the Point; at one time they numbered eighty persons.
Elder Seba Norton, the pioneer Baptist minister, came to the town in 1804. He was a Revolutionary soldier and lived a short time in Marion before settling in Sodus.
Joseph Hathaway made his settlement on the Thornton place in 1803; and in 1806 John Corey came from Warren county and settled at South Sodus, while Elder Gerum located north of Wallington on the Geneva road. About 1803 Matthew Clark settled near the brick meeting house and at about the same time Isaac Mason began improvement on the farm latterly occupied by D. Wilcox.
Several settlers came in 1807-Jenks Pullen, from Phelps, who loca- ted at South Sodus; Abner Torrey, from the west side of Lake Cham- plain; Samuel Warren from New Hampshire, located at South Sodus and in February, 1808, brought his family; Elijah and Clark were his sons, the former becoming a Methodist preacher, and the latter a pilot on Lake Ontario, where he served in several naval engagements and also'at the battle of Sandy Creek in 1812. Gardner Warren, father of A. P. Warren, was also in the latter engagement.
In 1808 Silas F. Andrews, grandfather of Joseph Andrews, lived in a log house at Sodus Center. About the same year William Young set- tled south of the old Thornton limekiln; he was an old sea captain and
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father of Joseph Young. In 1793 Drniel Arms moved from Chenango county to Ontario county, and afterwards lived in Phelps, whence he came to Sodus in 1808, settling near a spring a little west from Wall- ington station, north of the house of Edward Messenger. In his house the first town meeting was held in 1811, after Sodus had assumed its present limits. In 1809 Mr. Arms erected a saw mill, going to Phelps for men to raise it. He held several town offices, and died November 11, 1830.
Dr. Elisha Mather settled in Sodus in 1810, coming from Jefferson county, and originally from Connecticut. Locating first on the east side of Salmon Creek, he removed in 1821 to Sodus Center, where he practiced his profession. He had a son of the same name.
In township 13 in the southwestern part of Sodus, settlement began in 1802, when Elisha Granger, Noble Granger, and Parson Hunn came in. In March, 1808, John Granger removed from Phelps to Sodus, and three days later Mark Johnson, from Pompey, Onondaga county, came and settled at the "Corners" that took his name. In 1809 Flavel Kingsley settled on the William Filkins farm. In this township (13) Pierce Granger bought 800 acres of land at twenty cents an acre. His tract was divided into four farms of about equal size and the locality became known as "Granger's Settlement."
In 1811 Lyman Dunning, Nathaniel Kellogg, Joseph and Samuel Green, Kitchell Bell, Robert A. Paddock, William Danforth (later a justice) and others, from Williamstown, Mass., settled along the Ridge, while on or near Morse Hill were the families of Bacon, Morse, and Smith. Byram Green was educated in Williams College, and was long one of the assessors, a justice, school commissioner, school inspector, State senator in 1823-4, and supervisor in 1827, 1840 and 1842. His widow, Elizabeth, died here in October, 1881. His father, Captain Joseph Green, was an carly settler. Mr. Danforth was supervisor from 1828 to 1832.
In the neighborhood of the Centenary church and towards Alton the families of Bancroft, Barnard, Knapp, Axtell, Terry, and Warner settled prior to 1812; and at Sodus Point Rodolphus Field, William P. Irwin, and William Wickham located, the latter being a merchant. Gamaliel Case was another settler of that date. About 1813 Enoch Morse came to the town; from 1814 to 1824 inclusive he was supervisor, and in 1826 was member of Assembly. Thomas Wickham and his brother were also early and prominent settlers. Thomas, a son of the
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brother, died here, November 3, 1882. Rodolphus Field served in the war of 1812, cut the first tree on the site of Alton village, and died October 11, 1880.
Levi Allen, born in East Windsor, Conn., March 4, 1780, came to Sodus in March, 1817, and died January 20, 1867. His son, Charles J. Allen, a farmer, carpenter, and groceryman, was born here, March 14, 1820, and died October 12, 1888. Francis Reed, born in 1809, removed to Sodus with his parents about 1816, and died June 12, 1882. Austin M. Richardson, a native of Genesee county, came here in 1829, and died in February, 1881.
In 1815 William Delano came from Maine to Sodus, and settled op- posite the Lefurgey burying ground. He had been here in 1813 in com- pany with Enoch Carl, Richard Hayden, and John Butler; in 1815 also came the Dennis and the Lane families, and soon afterwards the Lightons. William, James, and Joseph Walling, William Champlin, and the Pendell family were also carly settlers. Lemuel Higgins, about 1812; Henry Pulver, who died in March, 1853; Abner Arms, younger brother of Daniel Arms; Mr. Wride, an Englishman and father of Robert; Mr. Hanby, father of Charles Hanby; William Dolloway; Thomas Granger, born in 1803, and died here, September 2, 1881; John Preston, born in England in 1808, and died January 16, 1881; Pardon and Jeremiah Harrington, brothers and noted hunters; and others were prominent among the earlier comers to Sodus.
Among others who became settlers down to about 1845 were: Merritt Thornton in 1816, Robert Bean in 1812, Linus Coleman and Robert D. Dennis in 1818, John R. Proseus in 1821, John Bates in 1825, George W. Baker in 1827, John Harborton and John Toor, sr., in 1831, Sheldon and John B. Goodsell and Clement Harvey in 1832,' Harry Pulver in 1833, Benjamin Rogers, Thomas Lund, and Rodolphus Dingman in 1835, Henry Ward in 1836, Daniel Bloomer, Anson Beebe, and Samuel B. and B. B. Green in 1832, Lyman and P. P. Butts, and John Toor, jr., in 1838, John Melntyre and B. B. Seaman (lawyer) in 1813. John Toor, sr., was born in England in 1801, and died November 11, 1882.
Solomon 'G. Smedley, a native of Vermont, born in 1798, came to Sodus in 1846, and died Narch 27, 1889. Gilbert Van Allen Hill, born in North Chatham, N. Y., in 1817, settled in this town in 1845, and died January 18, 1889; he was father of John C., Noadiah, and Henry Hill, and Mrs. T. H. Hathaway. Azel Carpenter came to Sodus in July, 1817, and died January 5, 1882. Noah W. Silver was born in New
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Jersey in 1821, removed to Sodus about 1845, and died in Alton in August, 1886. Stephen Tinklepaugh was born in this town April 14, 1816, and died at Sodus Point September 10, 1885. Rev. John Gates, born in England in 1789, settled in the town north of the old stone school house in 1830, and died a few months later; he was a Methodist preacher, a teacher, and a farmer; his son John died in February, 1886. Andrew A. Whitbeck, who was born at Kinderhook in 1808, came to Arcadia at the age of twenty-one years, and a few years later settled in Sodus, where he died April 23, 1885; he was a farmer and served as supervisor in 1849. John G. Kelly, born in 1809, came to this town with his father, Myric, in 1827, held several town offices, and died in July, 1882. Jonas Miller, who came to Sodus village in 1841, was born in Columbia county in December, 1817; he died March 19, 1881. Colonel Enoch Granger aquired his title in the State militia; he was born in Phelps, N. Y., in 1801, removed here when eighteen years old, and died in Joy in July, 1882. He was railroad commissioner during the con- struction of the Sodus Point and Southern Railroad.
Daniel MeMillen settled near South Sodus at an early day, and built the first log house and later a frame dwelling ; the latter burned in May, 1887, at which time it was occupied by the four McMillen sisters-Mrs. Betsey Weaver, Mrs. Mary Knapp, Mrs. Rosana Reynold, and Miss Eunice MeMillen. Major W. H. Sentell, who died in December, 1887, was the first commander of Dwight Post No. 109, G. A, R., and several years was collector at Sodus Point.
Dr. William D. Cooke, who was born in Geneva, October 18, 1807, studied medicine and began practice at Penn Yann. In 1835 he pur- chased 200 acres of the old Lummis farm. He was active in the promotion of the Sodus Point Railroad, and was its president and a director for a time. He did not practice his profession here, and died in Vineland, N. J., October 13, 1885.
Major General Gordon Granger was a son of Gaius Granger, and was born in Joy in 1818. In 1841 he was appointed a cadet at West Point, and upon his graduation in 1845 he joined the 2d Infantry for garrison duty in Michigan. In the Mexican war he was promoted captain, and from then until the late war began he served mainly on the Indian frontier. During the Civil War he rendered gallant service, and in March, 1865, was made brevet major-general of volunteers. In July, 1866, he was appointed colonel of the 55th Regiment of Regulars, of which he took command in December, 1870, and held the post until his death in January, 1876.
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Thomas H. Potwine was born in East Windsor, Conn., August 5, 1805, and came to the Sweet Settlement in Sodus in 1835. He was a respected farmer.
Eli Clark came from Massachusetts to this town in 1816, and settled on a farm on lot 9, which he owned until his death in 1871. Here his son, Professor Lewis H. Clark, was born, September 11, 1827. Professor Clark was educated in the common and select schools of this town, and in the Walworth and Macedon Academies, studied law in Chicago, and has devoted most of his life to teaching. He has been principal and a trustee of Sodus Academy several years, and long an elder and prom- inent member of the Presbyterian church. In 1823 he was librarian of the Assembly, and in 1876-67 was executive clerk in the State Senate. Professor Clark is a scholarly writer and has assiduously labored in pre- serving local history. He has published several volumes, among them being his invaluable Military History of Wayne County.
Major A. B. Williams began business in Sodus as a dry goods merchant in the firm of Warner & Williams. In 1840 he was elected supervisor, and in 1841 was appointed collector of customs at Sodus Point. He resigned, and in 1845 was elected county clerk, and again in 1848. In 1855 he was defeated for State treasurer on the Whig ticket, and in 1858 was elected State senator. During the Rebellion he was appointed paymaster with the rank of major. He finally removed to Chicago and died in April, 1873.
David Poucher was several times supervisor of Sodus; he settled here in 1836, and was for a time superintendent of the Erie Canal through the county. In 1889 he was appointed collector of customs at Sodus Point. He died August 11, 1893.
Many other settlers and residents of the town are noticed a little further on in this chapter and in Part II. of this volume.
At the town meeting in 1814 the following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That this town being most exposed to the enemy, it is deemed best to provide ourselves for the defense of the frontier.
Resolved, That William N. Lummis, William Wickham, John Fellows, Thomas Wafer, and Ashur Doolittle be a committee of safety for the town of Sodus.
Resolved, That said committee offer a subscription to the good people of Sodus for funds to defend said town, and that such subscription be demanded only in case of the enemy obtaining command at Lake Ontario.
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