Clayton, Jefferson, NY |
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Clayton, Jefferson, NY |
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Clayton A retrospective of three-quarters of a century carries us back to he earliest settlement of what now constitutes the town of Clayton. We are informed, on reliable authority,that the first permanent settlement was perfected inn Clayton, in 1801 or 1802, by one Bartlett, at a place that still bears the name of Bartlett’s Point, and situate about one mile from Clayton village. He had been placed there by Smith & Delamater, land agents of Chaumont, to keep a ferry to Gananoque, Canada, but, after staying a year or two, set fire to his house, as tradition has it, and ran away by its light. (Jefferson County History, L. H. Everts, 1878) |
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