Wetzel Ancestry - A Tree of Life
1791 - 1869 (77 years)bio- Burt, Benjamin & Mercy Rickey
Benjamin & Mercy Burt
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THE BURT FAMILY
The first Burt to settle in Potter County was Benjamin IV. He was the first of eight children of Benjamin III and Johanna Parshal Burt, who lived at Chemung Flats, NY. He married Mercy Rickey.
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Others who accepted John Keating's offer of a free deed and 50 acres of land in the new Potter County, to the first 50 families who would settle thereon, clear 5 acres, build a home and remain for 5 years.
Benjamin accepted the wonderful offer. Others who did the same and settled in, or near, Roulet, were:
- John and Burrel Lyman
- Ransom Beckwith,
- Jacob, Samuel, & Truman Streeter.
In the spring of 1810, Benjamin came without his family to the present site of Burtville, built a log cabin, cleared some land, raised some potatoes and corn which he stored in a granary made from split pine logs, and in the fall, returned to his home near Elmira.
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