We are happy to offer our first items of genealogy and local history from Ontario County, NY, and we plan to offer additional items of historical interest soon. |
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The Ontario County chapter in Mather & Brockett's Geographical History of the State of New York (1848). In the 1840s, New York was still a growing state – still frontier, in parts – and the authors of this volume attempted, with uneven results, to capture the geography and history of the state. We say uneven, because the counties receive uneven treatment. Some are treated at considerable length and offer a complete view of the time of that county, while others are treated very briefly and one supposes that a few were scarcely researched at all. Fortunately this was not one of the latter. The treatment of Ontario County was on the brief side of typical: four pages. We also include in this publication the section on land grants due to their importance in the state’s history. 4++ pages in PDF format, download now for $2.25.
The Ontario County chapter |
See also:
Hotchkin's History of
Western New York State, available on CD-ROM. See also: Noted Women of the Genesee Country by Mary Hotchkin Hoag (undated). |
Ontario County was separated from
Montgomery
County in 1789. You may also want to consult our
Montgomery County page for
locations that may have been affected by this transaction. Ontario County was subsequently divided to form Genesee County, Livingston County, Monroe County, Steuben County, Wayne County, and Yates County. You may want to consult our pages on each of these counties for further information. |
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