History of Cayuga County NY 1789-1879 by Elliot Storke
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tember 13th, 1863, aged eighty-eight years. His daughter, Mrs. Samuel Warn, is living with her son, Lewis Warn, in the south-east part of the town. In this year (1795), the first marriage was contracted by Nehemiah Smith and Mindevill Morley. The first child born in the town, Sally Smith, in 1795, was the issue of this marriage.

Settlements were made in 1795, by Judge Daniel Sennett, Amos Bennett, Jacob, Rufus and Daniel Sheldon, and Thomas Barnes. Judge Sennett settled on the farm now occupied by Joseph Farrell. About 1825 he moved to the village, and died there. He was a Justice of the Peace of the Circuit Court. Judson Sennett, a grandson of his, is living in Syracuse. Bennett settled on a farm joining Judge Sennett's on the east, where Elvin Sunderlin now lives. He and his wife died on the old homestead. His family are all dead. The Sheldons were from Suffield, Connecticut. Jacob settled on 300 acres, a half mile east of Sennett, on a portion of which his youngest son, Enos, now lives. In 1810 he sold out and removed to Brutus, to the locality known as Jericho, in the south-east part of the town, and settled on a farm now owned by his grandson, Erwin M. Sheldon, where he died August 1st, 1821. Enos, who was born in Sennett in 1800, is the only one of his family of six sons and one daughter living. Thirty-one grand-children are living. Daniel Sheldon came in with Jacob and helped him to build a log cabin. He settled about a mile south-west of the village, where Clark Phelps now lives, and where both he and his wife died. Hiram Sheldon, his son, is living in Sennett village. Rufus Sheldon came soon after Jacob and settled in the village, where Dr. Curtis C. Cady now lives. He built the lower part of that house in 1801, and died there March 10th, 1828, aged fifty-six years. Butler Sheldon, a harness maker in Auburn, is a son of his. Thomas Barnes was also from Connecticut, and Augustus, Chester, Amos and Warren were sons of Thomas. He settled first at Tyler's spring in Auburn, where he took up twenty acres, and after three or four years moved to where Warren now lives, in Sennett, about a mile west of the village, where he took up 100 acres, for which he paid $200. Chester is also living in Sennett, near the old McMaster tavern stand. Augustus, a son, and Sarah, wife of Horace Johns, a daughter of Thomas Barnes, are living in the north-east part of Throop, to which Augustus removed in 1818, and settled where he now lives. He has two sons and three daughters living in that town. In this year (1795) the first school was taught by Betsey Morley; and the first store opened by Sheldon & Lathrop.

In 1797, settlements were made by Jacob Hicks and Benjamin Miller, Revolutionary soldiers, Jabez Remington, Hezekiah Freeman and Jeremiah Johnson. Hicks drew lot 99, and settled on the farm adjoining Amos Bennett's on the north, where Deacon John C. Whitman now lives, and where he died March 3d, 1808, aged fifty-five years. His family removed from the town long ago. Miller settled on lot 17. Remington, who was from Vermont, settled on lot 21, and subsequently removed to where Nathan Hopkins now lives, where he died. Hezekiah Freeman, also from Vermont, a shoemaker, settled about a mile east of Sennett, where Emerson Webster now lives, where he died. Johnson, the pioneer hatter, came in from Rensselaer county, and settled three-fourths of a mile east of the village, where Byrant Smith now lives. He removed to Ohio about 1830, and died there. None of his descendants are living in the town. Manasseh French, the pioneer preacher, settled on fifty acres, about a mile south-west of the village, where Almeron Phillips now lives.

Deacon Wm. Tanner came in from the eastern part of the State before 1800, and settled on lot 99, on the north line of Sennett, where his son John now lives, and where he died March 18th, 1873, aged ninety-six years. His children living, besides John, are Selden, Deacon Wm., and Nathan B., in Brutus; Cyrus, in Sennett; and the widow of Daniel Stanton, in South Butler, Wayne county.

Settlements were made about 1800, by Deacon Phineas Crossman, brother-in-law of Deacon Ebenezer Healy, Nathan Bullock, Chas. And Archibald Greene and the Soules. Crossman was from Connecticut, and settled on fifty acres on lot 21, where Chas. Phelps now lives. He subsequently removed to where Hiram Sheldon, his son-in-law, now lives, and died there. His children living are Hiram and Sarah, wife of Hiram Sheldon, in Sennett; Harvey, in Alexander, Genesee county; and Charles, in Sterling.

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