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Gazeteer of the State of New York
J. H. French, 1860

                             ERIE COUNTY

  [-283-]

        BOSTON - was formed from Eden, April 5, 1817.  It is an interior
     town, lying S. of the center of the co.  Its surface is a hilly
     upland, broken by the valley of the N. branch of Eighteen Mile Creek,
     which flows N. W. through near the center of the town.  The valley of
     this stream is about three-fourths of a mile wide.  In this valley the
     soil is a fine, fertile loam, and upon the hills it is a gravelly and
     clayey loam.  BOSTON, (p.v.,) on the N. branch of Eighteen Mile Creek,
     contains 3 churches, 2 gristmills, 2 sawmills, a tannery, a cow-bell
     factory, and 40 houses; BOSTON CENTER, (Patchin p.o.,) on the same
     stream, contains 2 churches, a sawmill, and 20 houses; and NORTH
     BOSTON, (p.v.,) 1 church, a gristmill, a sawmill, and 20 houses.  The
     first settlement was made by Didemus Kinney, in 1803. (7)  The first
     religious services were conducted by Rev. John Spencer, in 1810.
     There are seven churches in town. (8)

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        (7) Oliver and Charles Johnson settled in the town in 1805, and
            Richard Cary and Sam'l Eaton in 1807.  The first birth was that
            of Phinney Johnson, in 1806; the first marriage, that of David
            Stannard and Esther Yaw, in 1810; and the first death, that of
            Joel Beebe, in 1809.  Ethan Howard built the first mill, in
            1810, Job Palmer kept the first inn, in 1811; and Aaron J.
            Tupper the first store, the same year.  The first school was
            taught by Joel Eddy, in 1810.
            
        (8) Bap., Free Will Bap., Evang. Luth., Friends, M. E.,
            Meth. Prot., and Univ.
            

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