. The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840. e site of Unadilla village comprises nine lotsof the Wallace or, as it would be better to call it,the Banyar Patent, since its real owner wasneither Alexander nor Hugh Wallace, but Goulds-borough Banyar. They are lots 92 to 100, inclus-ive. Each runs in a northeasterly direction onlines generally parallel. The lots are of somewhatvarying widths with lengths of perhaps ten timesthe widths. Besides Mr. Banyar the non-residentearly owners from whom the settlers obtainedtheir titles included eminent citizens of AlbanyCounty—John Livingston, the Lansin
. The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840. e site of Unadilla village comprises nine lotsof the Wallace or, as it would be better to call it,the Banyar Patent, since its real owner wasneither Alexander nor Hugh Wallace, but Goulds-borough Banyar. They are lots 92 to 100, inclus-ive. Each runs in a northeasterly direction onlines generally parallel. The lots are of somewhatvarying widths with lengths of perhaps ten timesthe widths. Besides Mr. Banyar the non-residentearly owners from whom the settlers obtainedtheir titles included eminent citizens of AlbanyCounty—John Livingston, the Lansings and theVan Vechtens—who seem to have acquired theirholdings from Mr. Banyar. At first leases on theredemption plan were given. Several pioneers hadlong been here before they acquired actual titles,although others purchased soon after coming; butit was not until 1811 that the last village lotpassed from an alien owner to an actual settler. The records of those early transactions are notcomplete. Searches made for the author leave sev-12. UNAMLLA A*-&* «^Wfci-~ AARON AXTELL. eral gaps to be filled. It was not a universal cus-tom in those times to record deeds. A buyer oftenaccepted the old deeds from the man from whomhe purchased. Even in cases where deeds wereeventually recorded several years might haveelapsed after the purchase. In the period from1772 until 1791, during which Unadilla was partof Tryon, or Montgomery County, no recordsexist of any sales by Mr. Banyar or of any sales toor by the Livingstons, Lansings or Van Vechtens,searches for the same having been made for theauthor in vain at Fonda. In Cooperstown theauthor has fared better. Here titles to almost anylot can be traced back to the formation of thecounty in 1791. From these records alone has itbeen possible to prepare the appended account offirst sales to settlers.* First to purchase outright, so far as the recordsshow, was Aaron Axtell, the pioneer blacksmith ofthe village, who was here before 1794. In A
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