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100 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
Classification No. 3, Section 3
Am't Loss Am't Classed
Original Grantees £ s. d. Classified by (1 £ s. d.
Heirs of Eichard William
Joseph Packwood 817 5 4 Parkin, late of New 817 5 4
Bathsheba Smith 465 14 10 London, Connecticut, 407 10 6
Eichard Potter 382 2 3 (deceased) 119 11 2
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Am't Loss
Original Grantees s. d.
Samuel Lattimer 910 19 5
Eichard Potter 382 2 3
Thomas Bowlay, or Boyd 49 17 1
Ann Hancock 140 3 6
Eichard Stroud 23 15 0
Eben May 15 16 1
Widow Austus Piner ... 48 0 0
Bathsheba Skinner 180 0 1)
Jacob Fenk 130 8 10
Ichabod Powers 620 8 0
Jeremiah Miller 2,535 18 10
Classification No. 4, Section 4
Am't Classed
Classified by £ s. d.
Heirs of William Stewart,
New London, Connecticut
341 5 11
Heirs of Eichard Parkins,
deceased 262 11 1 •
Heirs of Eichard Parkins,
deceased 49 17 1
Heirs of Eichard Parkins,
deceased 93 9 0
Heirs of Eichard Parkins,
deceased 23 15 0
Heirs of Eichard Parkins,
deceased 15 16 1
Heirs of Eidmrd Parkins,
decciii-ed 48 0 0
Heirs of Richard Parkins,
deceased 60 0 0
Heirs of Iticlunl Parkins,
deceased 130 8 10
Heirs of Mellaril Parkins,
deceased 206 16 0
William AVinthrop, NCAV
York 62 8 0
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The time of the first settlement within the present limits of this
township is uncertain, but it is generally believed that a French trading
post established at the mouth of the river about 1749 was the first white
settlement in this part of the state. This settlement was abandoned previous
to the Revolutionary war.
The early settlement of Huron ToAvnship was quite intimately connected
with that in the northeastern part of Alilan, and the Aloravian
mission founded there might perhaps as justly have been credited to
Huron, since both townships were organized under one local government
until 1820. B. F. Flemond is said to have visited the country along the
lower Huron as early as 1790; but however that may be, he settled
here in 1805, on land known as lot 15, and lying on the east bank of
the river just above the present Lake Shore & Alichigan Southern Railroad
bridge.
Mr. Flemond was a very remarkable man for his time. He was not