. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. •nil-: ]!? >.\i l-isii: \ i • ni?? WHERE LAFAYETTE WAS ENTERTAINED, PREDONIA TOWNS—WESTFIELD 243 ward McHenry settled next to McMahan in1802, and opened the first tavern in the county ;he was drowned in 1803. The history of West-field before 1829 is that of Portland and Ripley,the parent towns. The first settlers were im-mortalized with an inscription of their nameson the west side of the monument at TheCrossroads. This monument of Berea sand-stone, with base, is a stone five feet high, twofeet nine and one-half i

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. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. •nil-: ]!? >.\i l-isii: \ i • ni?? WHERE LAFAYETTE WAS ENTERTAINED, PREDONIA TOWNS—WESTFIELD 243 ward McHenry settled next to McMahan in1802, and opened the first tavern in the county ;he was drowned in 1803. The history of West-field before 1829 is that of Portland and Ripley,the parent towns. The first settlers were im-mortalized with an inscription of their nameson the west side of the monument at TheCrossroads. This monument of Berea sand-stone, with base, is a stone five feet high, twofeet nine and one-half inches wide. At the endsof the base are two millstones used in the firstgristmill in the county. Purchases from John McMahan of lands inthe tract bought by him from the Holland Com-pany: 1801—November, John Allen, lot —May, James McMahan, 13; W. and , 25 ; July, Abram Frederick, 7 ; W. andA. Fisher, 19; Martin and Nath. Dickey, 16;November, James Brannan, 3; David Kinkaid,14. 1803—January, Arthur Bell, 3 ; John Chris-topher Dull, 27, 30; John Henry, 12; , 3; James Morehead, 30;

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