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BECJINNINGS OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY — Continued. 



COUNTY. 



TOWN. 



FIRST 

 SETTLEMENT. 



FIRST 

 SAWMILL. 



BUILT BY. 



Delaware, 



Roxbury, 



1789 



1805 



Ferris. 



Delaware, 



Sidney, 



1772 



1790 



■ Carr. 



Delaware, 



Stamford, 



1790 



1795 



Joseph Warn. 



Delaware, 



Tompkins, 



1780 



1786 



Jesse Dickinson.* 



Delaware, 



Walton, 



1785 . 



■- 



M. Goodrich. 



Dutchess, 



Rhinebeck, 



1700 



1740 



Jacob Rutsen. 



Erie, 



Alden, 



1810 



1814 



John C. Rogers. 



Erie, 



Amherst, 



1800 



1801 ■ 



John Thompson. 



Erie, 



Aurora, 



1804 



1806 



Phineas Stephens. 



Erie, 



Brant, 



1818 



1822 



Samuel Butts. 



Erie, 



Cheektowaga, 



1808 



1810 



Samuel Le Suer. 



Erie, 



Clarence, 



1799 



1804 



Asa Ransom. 



Erie, 



Colden, 



1810 



i8ii 



Richard Buftum. 



Erie, 



Collins, 



1808 



1809 



Quaker Colony. 



Erie, 



Concord, 



1807 



1812 



Rufus Eaton. 



Erie, 



East Hamburgh, 



1804 



1803 



David Eddy. 



Erie, 



Eden, 



1808 



1811 



Elisha Welch. 



Erie, 



Elma, 



1829 



1832 



Xj ^ 4- rt V. *• ^^ ^^ 1.- 



ijjS laorooK. 



Erie, 



Evans, 



1804 



1815 







Erie, 



Holland, 



1807 



1815 



Ephraim Woodruff. 



Erie, 



Marilla, 



1829 



1828 



Jesse Barton. 



Erie, 



Sardinia, 



1809 



1812 



Sumner Warren. 



Essex, 



Chesterfield, 



1792 



1802 



Robert Hoyle. 



Essex, 



Crown Point, 



1804 



1810 



Allen Penfield. 



Essex, 



Elizabethtown, 



1792 



1814 



Amos Rice. 



Essex, 



Essex, 



1783 



1784 



Daniel Ross. 



Essex, 



Jay,t 



1796 



1798 



William Mallory. 



■■"This mill, soon after its erection, was carried a-way by the famous " punkin flood" that inundated 

 the valleys of the Susquehanna and its tributaries in the fall of 1787. The corn fields -were swept 

 bare, and the yellow pumpkins that thickly dotted the surface of the swollen streams were so con- 

 spicuous that the descriptive name just mentioned still survives among the household words in Southern 

 New York. 



■[•"In the vicinity of Upper Jay the lumber business was killed as early as 1820 by the girdling of 

 all the trees to facilitate the clearing of the land." (Hist. Essex Co. by H. P. Smith, 1885. Syracuse; 

 D. Mason & Co.) 



