. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. of thesettlers from Western Pennsylvania or theirimmediate ancestors originally had their homesin Northumberland and other counties on theSusquehanna, and most often had a Protestant-Irish parentage. But it was only for a few of the first yearsthat settlement was chiefly from migrations of men have been generallyfrom the East towards the West, with a strongtendency to follow lines of latitude, and thislaw was substantially observed in the subse-quent settlement of our county. For nearlyfifty years after the first beginn
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. of thesettlers from Western Pennsylvania or theirimmediate ancestors originally had their homesin Northumberland and other counties on theSusquehanna, and most often had a Protestant-Irish parentage. But it was only for a few of the first yearsthat settlement was chiefly from migrations of men have been generallyfrom the East towards the West, with a strongtendency to follow lines of latitude, and thislaw was substantially observed in the subse-quent settlement of our county. For nearlyfifty years after the first beginning of settle-. ! CLOSE OF THE CENTURY—1875-1902 85 merit, immigrants came here almost entirelyfrom the middle and eastern counties of NewYork and from the New England States. Thepioneers of the middle and a portion of theeastern counties of New York, in accordancewith the law of migration, had come from thecounty immediately to the eastward. So it isthat the settlers of Chautauqua county for aperiod of fifty of its earliest years were mainlyof New England extraction. Of our ownearliest pioneers many also were from the Brit-ish Isles—Irishmen, Scotchmen and English-men. Alexander Cochran, a Protestant orScotch-Irishman from the North of Ireland,was the first settler of Ripley ; Alexander Find-ley, an Irishman, from Pennsylvania, was thefirst settler of Mina. When the frontier period had come to a closeby the organization of Chautauqua as a sepa-rate county in the year 1811, the places thathave now proved to be the most importantpoints in the county had all been selected andsettled, including West
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