EARLY SETTLERS

in the Towns of Elbridge, Camillus and Van Buren

Submitted by Sue Outman Wells. E-mail: ewells@mis.net

From the (Syracuse?) Journal, Feb. 18, 1895

Click here to view the note submitted by Kathy Crowell

...."The following is the census of electors resident in the old town of Camillus taken in 1807. The town of Camillus at that time included the present towns of Elbridge, Camillus and Van Buren, and the list is a guide to the earliest pioneers of those three towns. The electoral franchise at the time this census was taken was limited to landholders and tenants so that probably a large number of families then resident are not in the list:--

James Abrahams, Abel Allen, Jonathan Babcock, John Baily, Ira Barns, Phinehas Barns, Jacob Baron, Chancey Bartholomew, John Belknap, Asa Bingham, Jonathan Bingham, Henry W. Bond, Christop'r Bracket, Ezra Bracket, John Bracket, John C. Briton, Giles Bronson, Daniel Cambell, Levi Campbell, Nathan Campbell, Moses Carpenter, Absalom Chandler, Benoni Chandler, Jacob Chandler, Winslow Churchil, John Clark, Levi Clark, Elijah Cole, Samuel Coleman, Laban Cooper, Sylvenus Cooper, Calvin Corey, Reynolds Corey, Peleg Cornell, Stephen Crego, Lemuel Crossman, Josiah Curtis, Silas Decamp, Peter Delaney, Jonathan Dickinson, Luther Dodge, Philip Dodge, David Dunning, Isaac Earll, Peter Eastman, Benjamin Elliott, Jonathan Elliott, Thomas Ferril, Moses Folton, Robert Folton, Jonathan Foster, Lemuel Fox, John H. Frisbie, Enoch Goodrich, Ephraim Gorham, Nathan Gorham, Ralph Griswold, Benjamin Guild, David Haines, Henry Halstead, Stephen Halstead, Eber Hart, Noah Hawley, John Healy, Conrad Hess, Daniel Hess, Derius Hess, Frederick Hess, John Hess, David Hill, Ebenezer Hill, Abraham Hollet, Jehiel Hopping, Jonathan Hyde, Smiten Irish, Jeremiah Johnson, George Kane, Jacob Keller, William Kelly, John Kester (?), Timothy Ketchum, John Laid, William Laken, Jacob Lambertson, Nich's Lambertson, William H. Lee, Rodney Leonard, Isaac Linsday, Elijah Linsday, Ezeriah Lothrop, Daniel Lowe, John Manro, Squier Manro, Chester Marshal, Harlow Marshal, Josiah Marshal, Simon Marshal, John Martin, David McCraken, Henry McDowell, James McGlochlan, John McHarry, Daniel McQueen, Peter McQueen, George H. Menter, Jacob Millan, Timothy Miller, Jesse Munger, Asahel North, John North, Peter Olney, Jacob Outman, Abraham Paddock, James Paddock, John Paddock, David Palmer, Jonathan Palmer, David Parish, Jonathan Parish, Josiah Parish, Samuel Parish, Squier Patchin, John Pelton, David Perry, John Perry, Nicholas Pickard, Samuel Pierce, Samuel Powers, James Ransom, Abraham Redman, David Redman, John Redman, John Redman, 2d, Michael Redman, William Reed, Elijah Rice, Nathan'l Richmond, Noah Roberts, Amos Robinson, John Robinson, 2d, Joseph Robinson, Rowland Robinson, Seth Robinson, Jacob B. Roe, Abraham Rogers, Isaac Rogers, Moses Rogers, Gilbert Rose, Jonathan Rowlee (?), Daniel Savage, Israel D. Scofield, Samuel Seely, Michael Shannon, Benoni Sherman, Frederick Shutes, Stephen Shutes, Bartus Signor, Benjamin Simpson, John Simpson, Abiram Skeel, Nathan Skeel, Isaac Smith, Perry Sowle, Abel Spalding, Amasa Spalding, Thomas Stage, Henry K. Stevens, John Stevins, Peter Stitson, Benjamin Streeter, Benjamin Tabor, Daniel Tabor, Asher Tappen, Gabriel Tappin, John Tappin, Martin Tichenor, Ezra Tyler, Ichabod Tyler, John Truesdale, Adam Walrodt, Amos Warner, Hannel Warner, Henry Warner, Seth Warner, Calvin Waterman, Augustus Wheedon, Glazier Wheeler, Wildar Wheeler, William Wheeler, Joseph White, Jedediah Wilbert, John Williams, Joseph Wilson, James Wisenor, Jesse Wood, Nathan Wood, Reuben Woodard, Aaron Wright, Josiah Wright, Zenas Wright, Cadwallader Wygant, John Wygent, James Young."

NOTE: The following list was produced in Dwight H. Bruce (ed.), Onondaga's Centennial. Boston Publishing Co., 1896, Vol. I, pp. 663-665. In a footnote, Bruce noted that "the spelling of these names is copied from the records, though in many instances it is known to be erroneous, or different from the present style." Whether Bruce provided the names to the press, or whether the paper used the original records is not clear. Bruce's version varies slightly from the paper's version, as follows: Phineas Barns, Chauncey Bartholomew, Winslow Churchill, Isaac Lindsay, Elijah Lindsay, Chester Marshall, Harlow Marshall, Josiah Marshall, Simon Marshall, John Munro (instead of Manro), Squire Munro (instead of Manro, as it also spelled in the Town of Camillus Census of 1810), Squire Patchin, Samuel Seeley, John Stevens and John Wygant. The first names of Christopher Bracket, Nicholas Lambertson, and Nathaniel Richmond were fully spelled out, and the question marks for John Kester and Jonathan Rowlee were absent in Bruce's book.

Kathy Crowell, August 14, 1998.

Submitted 18 February 1998
Updated 15 August 1998