Our County And Its People : a History of the Valley And County of Chemung, From the Closing Years of the Eighteenth Century
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The Connecticut claimants sent up to settle thereon, on the strip of land which was called the "Connecticut Gore," an agent by the name of John Rockwell. It effected nothing, the position was uncomfortable for the agent, and he returned to Connecticut. He subse- quently came back to the neighborhood, however, making his perma- nent home over the Pennsylvania line in Tioga County. He was the grandfather of the Hon. Hosea H. Rockwell, the member of Congress from the Elmira district. Among others ...who came into this town about 1790 were John Mc- Henry and John and WiUiam Fitzsimmons. Abraham, son of John Mc- Henry, was born on the John D. Miller farm in 1 797 and died on the same place in 1846. Wihiam Fitzsimmons was a soldier under Sullivan in his 424 OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE. expedition of 1779. Gen. Seth Marvin, who was with the surveyors in 1788, purchased a large tract, in the valley of Seeley Creek, a part of the Wells and Holbrook patent, and his son, Archibald Marvin, settled near Pine Woods in 1802.
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