The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 343
Town of Sennett - Early Settlements

Arthur Stevenson came in from New Jersey, previous to the war of 1812, and settled in the village, where he kept a tavern. He afterwards moved to the farm owned by the heirs of Col. Pratt, of Mentz, two miles west of the village, where he died November 1st, 1821, aged seventy years. His son Arthur is living in Weedsport.

Rev. Edy Mason, from Cheshire, Massachusetts, and Horace, Daniel and John Sunderlin, from Vermont, came in about 1812. Mason settled where his son Edwin now lives. He died on the homestead July 28th, 1864, aged seventy-seven years. Horace Sunderlin married Amos Bennett's daughter, and settled where his son Elvin now lives, and died there March 18, 1875, aged seventy-eight years. Daniel settled in the village, where he died February 13th, 1832, aged thirty-eight years. John, who was a young man, removed about forty years ago to Livingston County, where he died. Horace's children living are, Orson, in Syracuse; Joseph, Elvin, Charles, Ruth, wife of John Austin, and Kate, in Sennett; Judith, wife of Alex. Everts, in Jordan; and Christina, wife of Stephen Cottle, in Brutus.

Henry Polhemus, son of Cornelius, came in from New Jersey, about 1813, and settled in the village, on the place now owned by the heirs of Mason Healy, near where he kept a tavern several years. He removed to Auburn about 1827, and engaged in distilling and afterwards in mercantile business, and died there about 1871.

Cornelius Polhemus came in from New Jersey in 1815, and settled a mile southeast of Sennett, where Edward Munson now lives. He came in with his family, all of whom are dead. He died in the town February 8th, 1839, aged eighty-four years.

Dr. Curtis C. Cady came in from Hinsdale, Massachusetts, in 1815, and settled in the village, where his son Dr. C. C. Cady now lives. He married Philomelia, daughter of Ebenezer Enos, of Oxford, Chenango county, in 1815. He practiced medicine till his death January 18th, 1862, aged sixty-nine years; was Supervisor of Sennett one year; Member of Assembly in 1837; and County Superintendent of Poor some twenty years. His children living are Ebenezer E., a lawyer in Auburn; Elizabeth Lucinda, widow of Grove Bradley, who is living in Lysander, with her daughter Ellen, wife of Enos Smith; Marietta, wife of Martin C. Remington, in Weedsport; and Dr. C. C. Cady, in Sennett.

Deacon John Warn came in from the eastern part of the State about 1815, and settled in the east part, three miles from Sennett, where Thos. Ogden, his son-in-law, now lives. He subsequently removed to where Sheldon Turner, another son-in-law, now lives, about a mile east of Sennett, and died there October 20th, 1868, aged eighty-two years. His children living are, Sarah, wife of Sheldon Turner, Mrs. Thomas Ogden, and George, in Sennett; Catharine, now Mrs. Hubbell, in Elbridge; and John T. and Elizabeth, in Michigan.

Hezekiah Webster, from Connecticut, also came in about 1815, and bought the place of Hezekiah Freeman, on which he settled, and died May 20th, 1835, aged sixty-nine years. Cicero, his son, is living in Brutus, and Goodwin, and another son, in Connecticut. His daughter, the widow of William Emerson, and her children, Emerson and Flora, are living on the homestead.

TOWN OFFICERS. - The first town meeting was held at the house of Ebenezer Phelps, April 3d, 1827, and the following named officers were elected Stephen Dwinell, Supervisor, John Freeman, Clerk; Edward Root, Martin Bowen and Ezra Bingham, Assessors; Ezra Leonard and Ebenezer Healy, Overseers of the Poor; Joseph Bacon, John Miller and Chester Treat, Commissioners of Common Schools; Samuel Hunter, Elisha W. Sheldon and Amaziah Dibble, Trustees of Public Lands, William G. Gifford, Ashbel Chapman and Peter Douglass, Commissioners of Highways; John S. Twiss, Asa K. Buell and Sylvester Willard, Inspectors of Common Schools; Hezekiah G. Webster, John Page, Jr., and Ezra Leonard, Constables, H. G. Webster, Collector.

The present officers (1879) are

Supervisor-Jacob N. Waldron.

Clerk-Edmund D. Fellows.

Justices - B. C. Leonard and Millard B. Coburn.

Assessors--Charles S. Miller, Andrew J. Manroe and Henry M. Shelters.

Commissioners of Highways - Ansel E. Hoyt, A. W. Bowen and Harry B. Hoyt.

Overseers of the Poor--Milliard B. Coburn and Win. Radcliff.

Inspectors of Election-Henry D. Crossman, Myron W. Sheldon and Elvin W. Sunderlin.

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