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The soil is a fine, dark loam in the valleys and a gravelly loam upon the hills. Most of the sum¬
mits are still covered with forests. Tioga Center, (p.v.,) at the mouth of Pipe Creek, con¬
tains a church, several mills, and 60 dwellings. It is a station on the N. Y. & Erie It. R.
Smitbsboro, (p.v.,) on the N.Y & E. R. R., contains 230 inhabitants. Halsey Valley
(n.o.) is a hamlet, in the n.w. corner of the town, on the line of Barton. Straights Cor¬
ners is a p. o. on the n. border. The first settlement was made on Pipe Creek, in 1785, by
Samuel and William Ransom, Primmer, and Andrew Alden, from Wyoming, Penn. Col.
David Pixley, from Mass., and Abner Turner, from N. H., made the first settlement on the river,
in 1791.1 There are 2 churches in town; M. E. and Union.
Acres of Land, Valuation, Population, Dwellings, Families, Freeholders, Schools, Live
Stock, Agricultural Products, and Domestic Manufactures, of Tioga County.
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Names of Towns. |
Acbes of Land. |
Valuation of 1858.. |
Population. |
No. of Dwellings. |
No. of Families. |
I
0
1
553
213,
624
365
170
1,115
189
328
869 |
Schools. |
|
0
1 |
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1
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|
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£ |
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a, ft. |
£ |
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£ |
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22
5
26
13
13
39
9
12
20 |
l-F
So.
-S $
§3 |
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Barton.................
Berkshire-...........
Candor................
Newark...............
Nichols...............
Owego.................
Richford..............
Spencer...............
Tioga................... |
16,629*
9,283
30,769
13,038
12,050
33,801*
8,898
13,445
16,980| |
15,875*
9,613
27,521
16,182
7,363*
26,046*
6,947
12,367
16,508 |
$713,367
145,990
690,945
311,586
321,025
1,680,121
156,016
247,830
648,234 |
$134,450
3,655
37,750
25,675
29,900
518,440
11,600
16,925 ■
21,350 |
$847,817
149,645
728,695
337,261
350,925
2,198,561
167,616
264,755
569,584 |
1,876
533
1,997
.983
945
4,223
598
911
1,550 |
1,966
535
1,897
962
926
4,105
584
894
1,477 |
770
203
744
887
319
1,467
231
357
571 |
775
219
787
403
347
1,376
242
379
579 |
1,657
376
1,476
723
720
3,440
506
709
1.268
L0,S75 |
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Total........... |
154,894| |
138,423* |
4,815,114 |
799,745 |
5,614,859 |
13,616 |
13,346 |
5,049 |
5,107 |
3,926 |
159 |
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Names of Towns. |
Live Stock. |
Agricultural Products. |
1
o
if
£ Fh
§.g_
990
699
4,275
1,238
2.395
3;17o|
644
962
.2,012 |
|
s |
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III |
1
<§ |
i |
1
1 |
Bush, of Grain. |
1
g
£ |
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eqft. |
a,
FftN) |
Dairy Products. |
|
g |
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g
•£
£ |
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ft, Sft |
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I o'!
ft, 6 |
|
Barton.................
Berkshire.-..........
Candor................
Newark.........'.....
Nichols...............
Owego.................
Richford..............
Spencer....,..........
Tioga.................. |
664
293
1,125
583
384
1,383
284
426
536 |
1,850
1,165
2,905
1,558
1,372
3,680
783
1,608
1,789 |
1,621
94'
2,30.
1,38(
1,02(
2,81.
78S
91.
1,15 |
3,265
2,230
7,258
3,545
2,776
8,176
2,143
3,061
3,698 |
1,414
614
2,019
907
1,202
2,837
445
673
1,137 |
9,438*
426*
5,915?
775
6,127*
12,353
775
2,658
6,770 |
102,007*
34.334
169,266
51,789*
83,848#
185,384#
42,208
68,140
91,827 |
4.093
2,709*
6,758*
4,108
2,907*
8,404
2,047
3,078*
4,296 |
9,907
8,795
27,519
17,191
12,116
46,528*
.6,009
9,021
13,432 |
14,400
17,586
23,581
16,445
16,896
29,694
10,927
14,197
25,457 |
167,685
126,340
287,692
- 145,189
102,185
235,444
84,021
90,803
126,424 |
1,610
14,209
15.996
6,210
1,500
4,644
1,625
2.200
2,363 |
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Total........... |
5,678 |
16,710 |
12,95' |
36,152" |
11,248 |
45,239* |
828,805* |
38,401# |
150,518* |
169,183 |
1,365,783 |
50,357 |
16,390* |
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Francis Gragg, Nath’l Goodspeed, Jesse, Ziba, and Amos Miller,
Enos Canfield, Lodowyck Light,-Lyon, and Ezra Smith, from
Westchester co., N.Y.; Geo. Horton, M.Dean, N. Brink, Dr. Tink-
ham, C. Leach, R. Curtis, Wm. S. Jones, T. Madison, C. Schoon¬
over, and James Brooks with 5 sons. |
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Among the early settlers were Joel Farnham, Jeremiati
White, Abel Stafford, Elizur Wright, Samuel Giles, Hugh E.
Eiddis; John Hill, from Mass.; William Taylor, from Saratoga
c.o.; Nathaniel Catlin, Cornelius Taylor, Beriah Mundy, John
Smith, James Schoonover, Taylor, and Hungerford,
from Wyoming, Penn., Daniel Mersereau, from Staten Island;
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