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From: Cindy Amrhein <>
Subject: [NY-WESTERN] Livingston Republican 4/11/1850
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:31:17 -0500


Livingston Republican
April, 11, 1850

Wm. W. JONES of Leicester, was the first male child born west of
Utica. He was born in Geneva, Dec. 1786.
The first grist mill erected in this vicinity was built by Capt.
GANSON. Judge HOSMER, of Avon, built a sawmill on the Conesus, in 1796
-- the first one in this region. The WADSWORTHS one the same year, on
the same stream. Stn(??) , who was the father of Horatio JONES' first
wife, built the first framed house in the Genesee Valley.
In 1794, all the inhabitants from the mouth of the river to
Williamsburg -- which was located near ALLEN'S Tavern, between this
place and Mt. Morris -- were Judge HOSMER at Avon, Gad WADSWORTH,
Gilbert R. BERRY, Wm. MARKHAM, Ransom SMITH, Peter SHNEFFEL, Wm.
HENEHER, and Ebenezer MERRY.
Solomon WOODRUFF was the first white settler in the town of Livonia,
having removed to that town in 1793, in 1795 Phillip SHORT settled at
the foot of Hemlock Lake.

--
Cindy Amrhein
Historian/Abstractor

Town of Alabama Historian
Genesee Co., NY

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Genesee County, NY website. Includes History Department, (under "Historian")
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