Gazetteer of New York, 1860 & 1861, page 716

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716 _f WYOMING COUNTY.

town. Besides the co. buildings, it contains 5 churches, an academy,¹ 2 newspaper offices, a bank,
an insurance company and office, and several important manufactories.² Pop. 1,200. South
Warsaw (p. o.) is a hamlet. East Warsaw is a p.o. The first settlement was made at
WarsaAV Village, by Elizur Webster, in 1803.³ The first church (Cong.) was organized July 14,
1808; Rev. John Lindsley was the first preacher. Their church edifice was built in 1817, and is
still occupied.⁴

WETHERSFIELD—was formed from Orangeville, April 12,1823. It is an interior town,
lying s. w. of the center of the co. Its surface is a rolling upland. Tonawanda, East Coy, and
Wiscoy Creeks all take their rise in this town. Wethersfield Springs, (p. v.,) in the
N. e. corner, contains 3 churches and 25 dwellings. Hermitage, (p. v.,) on the e. border of the
town, contains 2 churches and 20 dwellings. Smiths Corners (Wethersfield p.o.) is a
hamlet. The first settlement was made on Lot 11, in 1810, by Lewis Hancock, Guy Morgan,
and Calvin Clifford, from Jefferson co.⁵ Rev. Mr. Boomer (Bap.) was the first preacher.⁶

Acres of Land, Valuation, Population, Dicellings, Families, Freeholders, Schools, Live
Stock, Agricxdtural Products, and Domestic Manufactures, of Wyoming County.

Names of Towns.	Acres of Land.		Valuation of 1858.			Population.		1 4 i	No. of Families.	Freeholders.	Schools.
Names of Towns.	Improved.	1 © I	Real Estate. 1	Personal Property.	Total.	1	Females.	1 4 i	No. of Families.	Freeholders.	No. of Districts.	111 S-S
Attica.......................	16,432	8,628	$636,112	$111,350	$747,462	1,327	1,352	500	540	406	13	957
Bennington...............	22.377	13,110	455,430	18,611	474,041	1,301	1,254	512	545	493	16	941
Castile.......................	17,970*	5,755	771,060	84,303	855,363	1,185	1,158	472	408	374	14	826
China........................	15,756	13,583	500.246	47,800	548,046	1,051	1,057	345	389	316	13	800
Covington..................	12.344*	2,980	471,823	31,375	503,198	670	660	248	255	216	10	430
Eagle........................	12,916	9.923	307,008	7,175	314,183	733	657	264	283	215	10	588
Gainesville.................	14,128*	6,290	462,024	50,550	512,574	884	869	350	361	312	10	634
Genesee Falls.............	5,772*	2,925	239,470	9,350	248,820	560	#8	218	225	145	4	190
Java.........................	17,996	11,709	423,362	22,315	445,677	1,187	1,108	408	422	383	12	992
Middlebury................	15,500	4,603	493,092	7-5,530	568,622	904	883	351	376	323	15	690
Orangeville................	14,336	6,464	300,722	30,098	330,820	730	711	251	244	231	9	459
Perry........................	17,984	4,771	738,719	126,875	865,594	1,253	1,307	. 490	532	384	13	801
• Pike..........................	11,084	5.930	399,268	23,700	422,968	930	957	351	370	280	10	741
Sheldon.....................	17,795	11,656	382,299	35,400	417,699	1,347	1,319	495	519	432	15	1,225
Warsaw.....................	16,442	4,782	740,790	148,650	889,440	1,393	1,401	510	525	452	16	1,049
Wethersfield...............	12,820*	9,655*	330,577	50,150	380,727	734	728	276	291	246	10	549
Total..................	241,654*	122,764*	7,652,002	8J3,232	8,525,234	16,189	15,959	6,041	6,285	5,208	190	11,872

	Live Stock.					Agricultural Products.
						Bush, of Gkain.		£
Names of Towns.		fJ⁸
Names of Towns.		•8 a*		1	•1	e	ei a £	2	% $ ’S3	ii ■5 a,	3 £	^r© «• e S	ll
	$ '		J	§	1	£	$	§	cqO,	BIN			<§■8
Attica.......................	592	1,318	1,354	5,203	744	10,276	39,212*	5,205	11,364	40,530	54,785	145,950	346
Bennington................	806	2,098	1,355	9,743	699	5,981	67,082	6,410	15,261	20,781	90,896	14,618	1,297
Castile.......................	871	1,434	887	6,825	1,281	108,259*	68,278*	2,597.	13,027	19,079	97,002	7,171	1.185
China........................	619	2,164	1,326	4,837	615	208	69,871*	4,683*	15,724	6,694	123,976	25,100	1,761
Covington..................	585	710	488	7,451	581	60,321	31,589	2,130	5,782	10,735	56,920	3,945	291
Eagle,.......................	556	1,317	832	4,708	514	967	68,181*	2,808	17,509	5,790	77,838	16,986	1,130
Gainesville.................	694	1,235	752	7,522	766	17,788*	62,494*	2,437	13,806	24,396	76,267	15,720	433
Genesee Falls.............	183	404	261	1,832	299	12,988	24,991	934	4,479	7,449	14,485	100	104
Java.........................	•687	2,179	1,470	6,795	927	3,741	90,358*	3,995	16,520	12,962	131,090	42,050	3,747
Middlebury................	769	1,168	993	11,531	851	66,078*	53,502*	4,360	9,153	35.499	81,770	74,025	164
Orangeville................	501	1,195	1,584	2,303	590	4,298	32,890	4,605	10,902	19,248	63.010	273,150	946
Perry........................	953	1,349	899	8,551	1,023	60,625	60,955	2,834*	17,203	29,524	105,260	15,718	1,945
Pike..........................	602	1,111	924	4,856	568	6,443	51,971	2,624	14,431	21,016	73,887	28,617	336
Sheldon.....................	623	2,209	1,602	5,607	841	3,611	64,176*	5,859	12,940	25,649	121,962	67,310	1,146
W arsaw.....................	789	1,237	975	2,095	816	18,744	36.800*	4,043	14,700	33,288	88,076	27,505	456
Wethersfiel^..............	528	1,183	1,035	3,506	559	4,946*	56,089*	2,896*	11,131	10,650	76,724	65,140	1,886
Total.................	10,358	22,311	16,737	93,365	11,674	385,276	878,444*	58,421*	203,932	323,290	1,333,948	823,105	17,173

Webster kept the first inn, in 1809; and Absalom Green and
Dan’l Shaw, the first store, in the same year. Solomon Morris
built the first gristmill, in 1808.

* The census reports 6 churches; Presb., Cong., Bap., F. W.
Bap., Prot. E., and M. E.

6 John W. Parry, from Oneida co., settled at Wethersfield
Springs in the fall of 1810, and built the first house at that
place. _ The first school was taught by O. Martin. The first
gristmill was erected by James Cravath, in 1812, on East Coy
Creek; and the first sawmill, by Calvin Clifford, on the same creek,
in 1810. . ^

⁶ The census reports 6 churches; 2 Bap., and ¹ each Cone.,
Prot. E., M. E., and Christian.

It was incorp. by the regents in 1853, and is under the
management of a village board of education.

* Sash and blinds, horse rakes, carriages, and waterproof oil
blacking.

s In the same year, Wm. Webster, Shubael Morris, Amos Kin¬
ney, Elijah Cutting, and Joseph Palmer settled in the s. part
of the town, and Josiah Hovey in the n. part. The first set¬
tlers were mostly from New England. The first child born
Was Eliza Webster, in 1804; the first marriage was that of
Silas C. Fargo and Catharine Whiting; and the first death,
that of an infant son of Sterling Stearns, in 1804. The first
death of an adult was that of Dwight Noble, in 1808. The
first school was taught by Samuel McWhorter, in 1807. Elizur

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