The Willing Story 1795-1850

• Title	The Willing Story 1795-1850
  Author	Hazel M. Shear
  Publisher	Name: Hazel M. Shear; Location: Wellsville, NY; Date: 1960;
  Source ID	S2842
  Linked to Individuals: 6	Ellis, Calvin Knickerbocker, Peter sr Lyman, Major Isaac Ensign? Palmer, N. B. Taggart, John Whitney, Jacob

  
  

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  20240214GHLn- from "The Willing Story 1795-1850" by Hazel M. Shear, p.29 - The northern part of this road was known as the Pennsylvania Road by 1826 or perhaps earlier. The Pennsylvania Road which entered the town at Shongo was the route by which many of our settlers coming from that state arrived in the town. Potter County, Pa., was formed in 1804. In 1816 Isaac Lyman, N. B. Palmer, Peter Knickerbocker, Jacob Whitney, John Taggart and Calvin Ellis were appointed by the court to “lay off a road from a point on the State line through which the Genesee passes, and in a southern direction to the Jersey Shore Road near the ten-mile tree.” This met or was the beginning of our New York State road which was called the Pennsylvania Road and was also referred to occasionally as the Angelica Road. It connected with what our Pennsylvania historians choose to call the Dyke Road which came from Shoemaker’s Corners, now Elm Valley, to Ceres. Four Chamberlain brothers from Pennsylvania ...