Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . ery old French maps this lake is recorded as Lac town was erected from Marcellus on the 26th of February, 1830,and on March 18, 1840, a small part of Spafford was annexed, makingthe present area 23,600 acres. The town records were burned in 1835,which fact precludes the possibility of c|uoting from them any items ofinterest respecting the earlier years of the towns history. John Thompson, a Scotchman, has always received the credit ofmaking the first permanent white settlement within the present limitsof this town, but painstaking
Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . ery old French maps this lake is recorded as Lac town was erected from Marcellus on the 26th of February, 1830,and on March 18, 1840, a small part of Spafford was annexed, makingthe present area 23,600 acres. The town records were burned in 1835,which fact precludes the possibility of c|uoting from them any items ofinterest respecting the earlier years of the towns history. John Thompson, a Scotchman, has always received the credit ofmaking the first permanent white settlement within the present limitsof this town, but painstaking research has developed the fact that thathonor probably belongs to Abraham A. Cuddeback, who arrived herewith his wife and eight children from Minisink, N. Y., on July 14, 1794,after a journey of forty-three days. Clark and others state thatThompson came in with his family in 1793 and located on lot 18, on theColonel Lamb farm, near the Cayuga county line, receiving his land ascompensation for his services while employed in establishing the. (^^aa/uaa/vo^ ^ a (tw^/^^^^^^ O^JLy^^-^
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