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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



CIVIL LIST. 



We have given a list of the supervisors from 1801 to 

 1822. The town clerks for the same period were Joseph 

 A. Rathbun, 1801-4; James McBurney, 1804-9; John 

 Stephens, 1809-12; Simeon Bacon, 1812; James Mc- 

 Burney, 1813-18; John R. Stephens, 1818-20; Samuel 

 Russell, 1821 ; Uriah Stephens, 1822. 



TABULATED LIST FROM 1822 TO 1878 INCLUSIVE. 



Town Clerks. 

 Uriah Stephens. 



Collectors. 

 Nathan Hallett. 



Joshua Chapman. Elijah Guyon. 



Uriah Stephens. 

 Nathan Hallett. 



Jeremiah Baker. 



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Nathan Hallett. 

 Moses Hallett. 



Nehemiah Thomas. 

 Joseph Abel. 

 Obediah Stephens. 

 Elisha G. Stephens. 



A. N. Jar vis. 

 Samuel Taylor. 



Supervisors. 



1823. Wm. Stephens. 



1824. " " 



1825. " 



1826. " " 



1827. Joshua Chapman. 



1828. Wm. Stephens. 



1829. " " 



1830. Wm. Bennett. 



1831. " 



1832. " '' 



1833. Wm. Stephens. 



1834. " 



1835. Elias Stephens. 



1836. " 



1837. " 



1838. Finley McClure. 



1839. Daniel Jameson. 



1840. " " 



1841. II. C. Whitwood. 



1842. " " 



1843. Finley McClure. 



1844. '' '' 



1845. Wm. H. Mead. 



1846. '' 



1847. Obediah Stephens. Joshua C. Stephens. Wm. Hallett 

 1848. 



" Wm. Jameson. 



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Nathan Stephens. Noah Baker. 



'<■ " D. McH. Stephens. 



Jeremiah Baker. " " 



Charles Moore. James Moore. 



Hector C. Baker. John Shearer, Jr. 



'' '' De Witt C. Stephens. 



Joshua C. Stephens. John W. Stearns. 

 C. H. Stephens. A. H. Athcrton. 



Joshua C. Stephens. De Witt C. Stephens. 

 Moses Hallett. " " 



N. C. Taylor. Miner Sammons. 



1849. " " 



1850. '' " 



1851. Hart Eason. 



1852. " '' 



1853. Wm. B. Jones. 



1854. " " 



1855. Hart Eason. 



1856. " '' 



1857. Joshua C. Stephens. Lucius A. Waldo. 



1858. " '' " " 



1859. Lucius A. Waldo. 



1860. " " 



M. H. Stephens. 



Miner Sammons. 



M. H. Stephens. 



W. W. Bennett. 

 Abram M. Stephens. 

 Wm. Sammons. 

 Abram M. Stephens. 



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Thomas Hallett. 

 Abram M. Stephens. 



1861. Nelson Hallett. 



1862. " " 



1863. Wm. H. Mead. 



1864. " " 



1865. N. C. Taylor. 



1866. '• 



1867. George Riddell. 



1868. " 



1869. Thomas Hallett. 



1870. John H. Brown. 



1871. " 



1872. " ''' 



1873. George Riddell. 



1874. " " 



1875. Miner Sammons. 



1876. " " 



1877. Albert J. Carter. 



1878. Smith Eason. 



Thos. L. Langley. 



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Henry Bennett. 



Obed. Stephens, Jr. L. H. Pierce. 



John H. Brown. 



Tim. R. Stephens. 

 Francis Converse. 



Delancy King. 

 Andrew Hallett. 



Joseph Ashley, Jr. 



Eli Soule 



* AVarren T. Davis. 



" *' Edwin E. Baker. 



George S. Beasted. Harrison Cooley. 



J. E. McCaig. 

 D. C. Corbett. 



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Perry J. Hallett. 

 M. E. Burrell. 



Benj. C. Richey. 



Abram Stephens. 



JUSTICES ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. 



1830. John D. Jameson. 



1831. Elijah Guyon. 



1832. Orlando Bridgman. 



1833. Jerathmel Powers, Jr. 



1834. John D. Jameson. 



1835. Obadiah Stephens. 



1836. Elijah Guyon. 

 Isaac Jones. 



1837. Joshua Chapman. 

 Lucius Gushing. 



1838. 



1839. 

 1840. 

 1841. 



1842. 

 1843. 



1844. 



1845. 

 1846. 



1847. 

 1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 

 1851. 

 1852. 

 1853. 

 1854. 

 1855, 

 1856, 

 1857, 

 1858, 



Morris Hallett. 

 William B. Jones. 

 Elias Stephens. 

 John Sherer. 

 Jerathmel Powers, Jr. 

 Edmund Cook. 

 William B. Jones. 

 Benjamin Stephens. 

 Joshua Chapman. 

 Jeremiah Baker. 

 Elias Stephens. 

 John Sherer. 

 Daniel D. Davis. 

 William B. Jones. 

 Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 John H. Brown. 

 John Sherer. 

 B. C. Richey. 

 Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 Edward L. Payne. 

 Robert Boyd. 

 Peter Masten. 

 Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 Robert Boyd. 

 Amos B. Stanton. 

 Charles H. Conklin. 



1859. 



1860. 

 1861. 

 1862. 

 1863. 



1864. 

 1865. 

 1866. 

 1867. 

 1868. 

 1869. 



1870. 



1871. 



1872. 

 1873. 

 1874. 



1875. 

 1876. 



1877, 

 1878. 



Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 L. P. Weed. 

 John Carter. 

 John H. Consalus. 

 Amos B. Stanton. 

 Benjamin C. Richey. 

 Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 C. W. Daniels. 

 John H. Consalus. 

 M. R. Millard. 

 C. AV. Daniels. 

 Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 John H. Consalus. 

 Nathan S. Baker. 

 William B Jones. 

 Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 Morgan R. Millard. 

 John H. Consalus. 

 William B. Jones. 

 George Crosby. 

 William B. Jones. 

 Elijah Hallett. 

 Phineas 0. Stephens. 

 H. S. Beebe. 

 Morgan R. Millard. 

 James B. Hargrave. 



VILLAGE OF CANISTEO. 



EARLY HISTORY. 



In the large open valley where the village is now situated 

 stood anciently a Delaware Indian town, known in colonial 

 history as the " Kanestio Castle." It consisted of about 

 60 hewed log houses, with stone chimneys in each. This 

 village or castle was the seat of At-weet-se-ra, the " Dela- 

 ware King," who, in 1765, the year after the destruction 

 of the place by Montour and Brant, made a treaty with 

 Sir William Johnson, at Johnson Hall, on the Mohawk. 

 Sir William Johnson had sent an expedition under Capt. 

 Montour, in the summer of 1764, and destroyed the place 

 because its inhabitants refused to give up two murderers 

 who had killed two German traders somewhere in the 

 country of the Senecas. The inhabitants of the ancient 

 castle were a mixed set of Indians, of different tribes, 

 chiefly Delawares, fugitive slaves, and deserters from the 

 British army. They had settled in the broad, open valley 

 and built there their strong houses, and, at the time of 

 their destruction, had a considerable number of horses, 

 horned cattle and swine. (See chapter on the Indian 

 Occupancy of Steuben County.) 



When the first white explorers came here, in 1788, they 

 were attracted by this broad, open valley, and, in conse- 

 quence of its richness and immediate advantages for culti- 

 vation, were induced to purchase the large tract of adjoining 

 lands. Col. Arthur Erwiu drew lot No. 1, where the village 

 is now situated, but he exchanged lots with Solomon Ben- 

 nett, who was the first settler in a log house at the Corners, 

 which soon came to be called " Bennettsville." Mr. Ben- 

 nett built the first mill one-fourth of a mile east on Bennett's 

 Creek, to which place he afterwards removed. Nicholas 

 Doughty was the first blacksmith on the site of the village. 

 He was a well-educated Grerman and an excellent citizen. 

 Solomon Bennett opened the first store and kept the first 

 hotel at the village. It is worthy of note that this hotel 

 property has ever since, till within a few years, been kept 



