Feb 23
Monroe County (on second attempt by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester) and Livingston County are formed from parts of Ontario
and Genesee counties. Colonel Rochester becomes county clerk. Geneseo becomes
the seat of Livingston County, Rochester the seat of Monroe. Mendon becomes
part of Monroe County. Avon lawyer George Hosmer is named as Livingston's
district attorney. The Orleans County Town of Clarenden is formed from the
Monroe County Town of Sweden. The Monroe County Town of Inverness (quickly
renamed Wheatland) is created out of the Livingston County Town of Caledonia. Monroe
County’s population is about 23,000. ** The first brick home in Rochester is completed.
Mar 16
The Cayuga County town of Conquest is formed out
of Cato Township. ** The Erie County towns of Collins and Sardinia are established.
Mar 23
Erie County’s Town of Evans is established.
Mar 23
Erie County’s Town of Evans is established.
Mar 29
Cattaraugus County’s Town of Farmersville is
formed from the Town of Ischua (later Franklinville).
Mar 31
The state legislature incorporates the Ontario
Canal Company, capitalized at $100,000, to connect Canandaigua Lake to the Erie
Canal. Nothing is ever done.
Apr 2
Erie County is created out of Niagara County.
Apr 24
Benjamin Barber Conable is born prematurely to
Rufus and Sophia Conable in Gainsville, due to the jostling of the cart
bringing them from western Massachusetts to their new home there.
May
Contracts are let for the Deep Cut portion of the
Erie Canal at Lockport.
May 8
The Rochester Board of Supervisors meets for the
first time. ** The first Monroe County
Court is held in the loft of Rochester’s Eagle Tavern.
May 9
The Monroe County Medical Society is organized.
May 21
The contract to build the five-step Erie Canal
locks at Lockport is awarded to Claudius Boughton, Joseph Comstock, Oliver
Culver, and John Maynard.
May 23
Ontario Canal Company commissioners N. Gorham, Z.
Seymour, Asa Stanley, P. P. Bates, and William H. Adams open the books for
subscriptions, at Coe’s Hotel in Canandaigua.
May 30
The Monroe County Bible Society is founded.
Jun 12
Ontario Canal Company subscriptions reach $20,000.
Jul 1
The first dance in the village of Connewango is
held at the home of Russel Pennock.
August
Contractor William Britton, aided by 30 convicts
from Auburn Prison, begins construction of Rochesterville’s Erie Canal Aqueduct
over the Genesee River.
Oct 26
Joseph Ellicott, Resident-Agent for Batavia’s
Holland Land Office, resigns due to ill health and increasing criticism of his
performance.
Nov 1
The Lake Erie Steamboat Company’s Great Lakes
steamer Walk-in-the-Water runs
aground in Lake Erie off Buffalo. There are no injuries. Judge Samuel Wilkeson
makes a deal with a representative from the steamboat company. He will see the
boat is freed by May first of the following year or forfeit $150 for each day
the deadline is missed. The company will build a new boat in Buffalo if the
deadline is met.
Dec 4
Archibald S. Clarke, native Marylander and New
York State lawyer and congressman, dies in Clarence, in his early thirties.
State
The towns of Almond and Independence are split off
from Alfred. ** The improved canal between
Cayuga & Seneca lakes is completed, encompassing 1.72 miles of canal and 8
stone locks. ** Monroe and Livingston
counties are carved out of Genesee County. Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, who led
the drive for a new county on the Genesee after a 1817 drive failed, is named clerk of Monroe County;
Matthew Brown is named chairman of the Board of Town Supervisors. Mr. Rochester
is also named the county's first representative in the State Assembly. ** Nathan Burt of Mt. Morris
settles in Connewango.
** In Cayuga
County Conquest, Ira, and Victory are taken off the town of Cato. ** The Monroe County Sheriff's
Office is formed. Brockport merchant James Seymour is appointed as the first
sheriff. ** The approximate date James
Percival buys out The Moscow Advertiser and Genesee Farmer, moves it from Moscow, New York, to Geneseo and
renames it The Livingston Register. ** Andrew Allen, Isaac
Eggleston, Amos and David Orton, James Strong, and Hiram Wood settle along Five
Mile Creek at Allegany
** Presbyterian
minister the Reverend Robert Hunter conducts the first religious service in the
Allegany County town of Allen. ** Residents name their village Lockport. ** William Allen arrives in Geneseo
from Adams. He will become a land agent for the Wadsworths for the next 45
years. ** William A. Hart drills the
first gas well in the U. S., in Fredonia. ** Samuel Fowler is born to Horace and Mary Taylor
Fowler in Cohocton.
** Canandaigua
entrepreneur Bela Coe repurchases the stage mail franchise for his hotel from
the heirs of Sylvanus Marvin. He will lease the tavern for a time, then sell it
and return to Buffalo.
** Canastota
pioneer Reuben Perkins sells the remaining 228 acres of his 328-acre
patent. ** The Bank of Geneva opens on
the south side of Pulteney Park, which becomes known as Bank Alley. ** The state has 202,510
eligible voters. ** The recent
formation of new counties has eliminated “double districts” in New York, some
dating back to 1810.
** Former
Benton, Ontario County (later Yates County), town supervisor Elijah Spencer
serves in the 17th U.S. congress for a two-year term. ** Williams College graduate
Moses Hayden opens a law office in York. ** Connecticut Law School graduate Frederick
Whittlesley is admitted to the bar in Utica, begins practicing in Cooperstown.
briefly before moving on to Rochester. ** Millers Andrew Lincoln and Samuel Rich build a
dam across Monroe County’s Irondequoit Creek, just south of where the future
Linden Avenue bridge will cross, creating a 50-acre mill pond later named
Spring Lake. ** Millers Andrew Lincoln,
Rich and Lathrop build a dam across Irondequoit Creek, just south of where the
future Linden Avenue bridge will cross, creating a 50-acre grist mill pond
later named Spring Lake.
Auburn
The Auburn Theological Seminary opens. ** Auburn Prison experiments
with solitary confinement without labor. The method is not a success. ** Master-builder and
carpenter John I. Hagaman opens a school of architectural design.
Buffalo
The city's first theater opens across Main Street
from the Eagle Tavern. It does not do well.
Connewango
The wife of early settler John Farlee dies in the fall
- the first death of an adult in town. She’s buried in her garden, in the midst
of a raging snow-storm. No minister is present; a friend offers a prayer. ** Nathan Burt of Mount Morris
and Daniel Newcomb of Goshen settle in town, as does John Darling of Vermont.
Darling becomes trapped overnight
by wolves in his sugar house later in the year. ** Benjamin Darling and his wife and five children
arrive from Vermont, having traveled for four weeks by ox-team and sled. ** Peter Pennock arrives from
Genesee County; Luman Beach arrives from Caledonia.
Erie Canal
Construction at Rochesterville is completed. The
stretch between Utica and High Falls is also completed. ** The state signs construction contracts for the
Niagara County portion of the canal. ** The Seneca Lock Navigation Company opens a
channel south to Seneca Lake.
Oswego
The shipbuilding firm of Townsend, Bronson &
Co. is dissolved.
** A lighthouse
is built on Lake Ontario.
Pittsford
Dr. John
Ray dies at the age of 78. ** Young cabinet maker and future student of
telegraphy Charles Came moves into the village.
Rochesterville
The first jail in the settlement is built on North
Fitzhugh Street, a log cabin with cells along a central corridor. ** The first court house is
built. ** The Reverend Charles Buck's
The Young Christian's Guide is
published by printer Everard Peck. ** Peck publishes Lindley Murray's adaptation from
the 28th English edition of English Grammar. ** Myron Holley and John Gilbert begin construction
of a stone warehouse at the future junction of the Erie Canal and one of its
feeders. ** Massachusetts native Daniel
Dewey Barnard opens a law office here. ** Thurlow Weed moves here from Weedsport, goes to
work for the Rochester Telegraph
as an assistant editor.
Missouri
Hathaway Richmond, father of fifteen-year-old
future Batavia railroad tycoon Dean Richmond, dies in St. Louis at about 48
years of age.
U. S. Government
Former general Peter Buell Porter enters the
Fourteenth Congress, his third,
non-consecutive term. He is joined by Micah
Brooks, both men representing New York’s District 21, a divided double district
until later in the year when new counties are formed.
Netherlands
The government discards records
of the East India Company and the West India Company dating prior to 1700.
© 2012 David Minor / Eagles Byte
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