The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 342

Bullock, who was born April 16th, 1754, came in with his family and settled on lot 10, where Ed-ward Waldron, now lives, and died there February 10th, 1819. His wife Hephsibah, was born June, 15th, 1754 and died December 9th, 1825. Amos, his only son, came in with him. He was born April 6th, 1793, and died March 12th, 1813. Nathan Bullock, son of Amos, is living in Michigan; and Mrs. Newton Chamberlain, daughter of Nathan, and granddaughter of Amos, is living in Elbridge. She is the only one of the Bullocks living in the State. The Green's came from the eastern part of the State and settled on lot 21, Chas., where Porter Phelps now lives, and Archibald, on the farm still known as the old Greene farm, which is now owned by Dr. C. C. Cady. Chas., none of whose family are living, died here, and Archibald, in Mentz, where his son Archibald, who resides in Port Byron, is a prominent politician. The Soule family consisted of Howard, Lyman, Jno. Elijah, and Geo., and two sisters, one of whom was subsequently the wife of Jno. Everts, who is living in Auburn, and the other the wife of Elijah Townsend, who is living in Sennett, on a part of the Soule home-stead, where Geo. and the two girls died, and which is still in the hands of their descendants. Howard Soule, died April 24th, 1875, aged eighty-five years. Lyman is living in Auburn; and Jno. and Elijah, twins, in Victory. Peter Douglass settled prior to 1804, in the northwest corner of the town, where his daughter, the widow of James Calhoun, now lives, and died there. His farm lay partly in Brutus. Mrs. Calhoun is the only one of his children liv-ing. Douglass contracted the first marriage in Brutus, January 12th, 1804. His wife was Polly Hamilton, daughter of Jno. Hamilton, one of the pioneer settlers in Brutus. Edmund B. Fellows came in from Massachusetts in 1804, and bought lot 98 of his uncle, who bought a soldier's grant, and in 1805 moved in his family. Edmund died May 20th, 1841, aged sixty-six years. In 1816 he erected the front part of the present hotel in Sennett, and he and his family kept tavern there over forty years, from 1805. His son Henry and grandson Fred-erick P., kept it in turn. Eight grandchildren are living. Jno. G. Skadan came in previous to 1805, and settled near the County house, where Elon Sheldon now lives, and died there March 9th, 1824, aged fifty-four years. His children living are: Mrs. Elon Sheldon, on the old homestead; Catharine, wife of Win. Webber, on the farm originally taken up, opposite the old homestead Mary, wife of Almeron Phelps, on the old Manasseh French place; Samuel, in Michigan; and Mrs. Harvey Crossman, in Alexander, Genesee county. Alanson Eldridge came in from the eastern part of the State about 1805. He took the southwest section of lot 8, and settled where Jno. R. Page now lives. His children, Horace, John and two daughters, one the wife of John Hoagland, all became Mormons. John Wetherby came in as early as 1809, probably a few years before. Of his family of ten boys and one girl, only three are living, viz: Dr. Samuel P. Wetherby, a practicing physician, in Menomonee, Wisconsin; Samuel, a sash and blind maker, in Victory; and David, a merchant, in Auburn. His son John, who was born in Sennett, June 10th, 1809, died July 10th, 1878, at Victory, of which town he was a resident for sixty years, and where for forty-seven years he was a tanner and currier, and was also a manufacturer of and dealer in boots and shoes. Wetherby removed to Victory about 1819. Three sons and two daughters of John Wetherby, Jr., are living in Victory, viz: Addison B., postmaster at Victory village, John C. and Daniel B., farmers, the latter on the homestead, Sarah Jane, wife of Stephen Holt, and Frances, wife of David Wilson; one son, Benjamin F., in New York; one son, Henry Clay, a printer, in Auburn; and another, William H. Seward, who is a jeweler, at Clyde. Joseph Arnold and Martin Bowen, from Massachusetts, and Nathan Fisher, came about 1810. Arnold settled a half-mile west of the village, where Freedom Chatfield now lives. He died here July 18th, 1845, aged seventy-five years. None of his children are living. Bowen settled a mile and a half north-east of the village, where Myron Sheldon, who married his grand-daughter, now lives, and where he died about 1854. His son Spencer is living in Sennett village, and daughter, Amanda, wife of Artemas Glover, in Michigan. Fisher settled on lot 10, where Robert Briscom now lives. . He subsequently removed to the village and died there December 30th, 1851, aged seventy-seven years.

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