The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 422
Town of Scipio/Early Settlements

Several additions were made to the settlements in 1800; among them Micah Hathaway, from Massachusetts, who died June 22d, 1857, aged 89; a German family named Roraback, who settled at Scipio Center, and removed at an early day to Crooked Lake; Richard Hudson, from Columbia county, who died here in 1834, and whose son Richard N[.], who was born in the town in 1804, is now living there; and Peter Wyckoff, from New Jersey, who came in with his family, consisting of his wife and five children, Peter, Henry, Jemima, widow of John O'Hara, now living in Scipio, Nellie, wife of Hiram O'Hara, who is also living in Scipio, and Sarah, and settled on the north line, on the farm adjoining that of Gardner Wyckoff, in Fleming, where he died. Peter, who was then a year old, removed in 1856 or '7 to Fleming, and settled where Hiram Babcock now lives. Mary E., the widow of his son Peter C., is living with her son George and daughter Grace, wife of Dr. Frank Hoxie, at Fleming village, on one of the finest farms in the county. Peter, another of her sons, is living in New York city, and is the eldest son of the sixth family who have named the eldest son Peter. Peter and Henry, sons of the elder Wyckoff, who settled in Scipio, married sisters of John and Hiram O'Hara, who in turn married the Wyckoffs' sisters, thus presenting an illustration of a rare occurrence - two brothers and two sisters in one family marrying two brothers and two sisters in another.

Daniel P. Van Liew came in from New Jersey about 1800. Robert Knox, from Ireland, settled in 1802, where his son John Knox now lives. Samuel Green, father of Samuel W. Green, tailor and postmaster at Sherwood, an Orthodox Friend, came in from Pennsylvania in 1804. William Fleming settled here previous to 1807, January 13th of which year he died. His widow afterwards married William R. Bancroft, who settled in 1814, a little east of Scipioville, where he died December 10th, 1857, aged nearly 89. His son, William F. Bancroft, is living at Barbers Corners, which place derives its name from Deacon William Barber, who was an early settler, and died there February 2d, 1844, aged 77. Olive, his wife, died December 7th, 1857, aged nearly 98. Barber came as early as 1796, in which year his name appears among the town officers.

Ezra St. John settled about 1807, on the south line of the town, on the farm now occupied by Andrew Heffron, where he died July 22, 1824, aged 77.

John Beardsley, from Connecticut, settled in 1808, near the center of the town, and after three or four years he removed to the east ridge in Venice, where he remained till 1836, when he removed to Auburn and continued to reside there till his death May 11th, 1857. He was Supervisor in Scipio and Justice of the Peace several years. He was County Judge a few years under the First Constitution; was Member of the Assembly in 1832 and '33; and represented the 7th District in the State Senate in 1836-'39. In 1840 he became president of the Cayuga County Bank, now the Cayuga National Bank of Auburn; and in 1843 he became agent of the State prison at Auburn. Four sons and four daughters are living, viz: Nelson, president of the Cayuga National Bank of Auburn; Roswell, a merchant in North Lansing, Tompkins county, where he has held the office of postmaster over fifty years, and who is reputed to have been postmaster longer than any other individual in the United States; William C., who is living in retirement in Auburn; Alonzo G., who is treasurer of the Oswego Starch Company, and D. M. Osborne & Co.'s establishment, a member of the firm of Beardsley, Wheeler & Co., of Auburn, and vice-president of the Cayuga County National Bank; Caroline E., wife of L. W. Nye, of Auburn; Alice J. wife of James M. Holden, of New York; Mariette B.[,] widow of N. B. S. Eldred; and Augusta B., wife of William Newell, of New York.

Joseph Hoxie came from Washington county in 1809, in which year his son Zebulon, who is now living in Scipio, was born there. Another son, Allen, is also living in Scipio. Thomas Hale settled in the town about 1809, and soon afterwards engaged in mercantile business with Orrin Peck. He died in October, 1852, aged 72. Wm Wooden came from Putnam county in 1810, and settled one and one-half miles south-west of Scipioville, on 100 acres now owned by Hiram Lyon, where he died in March 1819. He had eight children, none of whom are living. They were David, Palmer, Henry, William, Philip, Susan, afterwards wife of Ezra Hawley, and Mary, afterwards wife of Henry Hawley. Two of David's children are living, viz: William D., at Scipioville, where he and William T. Stow were

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