Early Settlers On The Mile Strip
Town of Elma, Erie County, New York

The lots on the Mile Strip in Elma were offered for sale by the Ogden Company on January 1st, 1828.
The south side of this Mile Strip is the south line of the present town of Elma, and the Elma part of ths Mile Strip
was divided by survey into thirty-seven lots of about one hunded acres each.

The following named persons and their families were the first
settlers on the Mile Strip in the year and as nearly in the order here is given as can be ascertained:

Taber Earl
Lyman Chandler
Isaac Williams
Russel Brooks
Timothy Treat
Daniel F. Cole
Hiram Pattengill
Jacob R. Davis
John Divens
John Fones
Salathiel Cole
Chester Adams
Jas. & Willard Adams
Anasa & Luther Adams
John Adams
James Davi
Martin Taber (North Star)
Jacob Pattengill
Taber Pattengill
Zina A. Hemstreet
Wilder Hatch
Joshua & Wm. Mitchell
Seth M. Bullis
Samuel Harris
Thomas Cloverdale
Lot 24, bought January 2nd, 1828
Lot 16, bought February, 1828
Lot 15, moved on April 10, 1828
Lot 19 & 20, moved on April 10, 1828
Lot 17, May, 1828
Lot 26, May, 1828
Lot 2, January 1st, 1829
Lot 35, May 5th, 1829
Lot 21, 1829
Lot 24, 1829
Lot 32, 1829
Lot 33, 1829
Lot 13, 1830
Lot 11, 1830 (Cousins)
Lot 20, 1830
Lot N. part of 35, 1831
Lot 29, 1831
Lot 2 & 3, 1831
Lot 2 & 3, 1831
1831
Lot 1. 1832
Lot 23 & 25, 1832
Lot 37, March, 1833
Lot 24, Sept, 1834
Lot 18, 1834
'There were probably other families on the Mile Strip before 1835, but their names and the year of their moving on could not be positively leaned.'

SOURCE:
History of the Town of Elma, Erie County, New York
1620 - 1901, author, Warren Jackman, 1902
Page 77 - 78

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