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

                             ERIE COUNTY

  [-289-]

        COLDEN(4) - was formed from Holland, April 2, 1827. It is an
     interior town, lying S. of the center of the co. The surface is an
     elevated upland, rolling in the E. and hilly in the W. The W. branch
     of Caznove Creek flows through the W. part of the town and is bordered
     by steep declivities 150 to 200 ft. high. The soil is a gravelly loam
     intermixed with clay. Colden, (p.v.,) on Cazenove Creek, contains a
     sawmill, a gristmill, and 34 houses; Glenwood, (p.v.,) on the same
     stream, contains 1 church, 3 sawmills, 2 lath mills, a tannery, and 30
     houses. The first settlement was made in 1810, by Richard Buffum.(5)
     The Presbyterian, at Glenwood, is the only church in town.

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        (4) Named from Cadwallader D. Colden, then in the State Senate.

        (5) Thos. Pope, Josiah Brown, and L. Owen settled in the town in
     1810, and Jesse Southwick, Richard Sweet, Nath'l Bowen, and Silas
     Lewis in 1811. The first birth was that of a child of Thos. Pope, in
     1811; the first marriage, that of Jas. Sweet and Charlotte Buffum, in
     1810; and the first death, that of Nathaniel Bowen, in 1812. Richard
     Buffum built the first mill, in 1810. The first school was taught by
     Mary Eddy, in the winter of 1814.

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