Early settlers of Brownville, Jefferson, New York

Town of Brownsville



Jacob Brown, developer, 1797-1799 (from Bucks Co., PA. Quaker family; died 1828)

Samuel Brown, 1799 (Jacob’s father)

Christopher, Joseph, Benjamin, Samuel, William Brown (relatives of Jacob)

Mary Newland, Hannah Skinner, Abigail Evans (relatives of Jacob)

Henry, Thomas, George Brown (& George’s sons) (relatives of Jacob)

Richardson Avery, 1799

John W. Collins, 1799

Nathan Parish, 1799

Horace Mathers, 1799

Charles Welch, 1800 (husband of Eunice Cole)

Otis Britton, 1800

William Dillon

Capt. William Cole

Jonathan Webb

Stephen Gould

Oliver Bartholomew, 1801, from Watertown

William Webb (Jonathan’s father), 1802

Silas Lewis, 1802

Leonard & Abner Wilson, 1802

John Cole, 1802

John Baxter, 1802

Isaac & Melvin Moffatt, 1802

Frederick Avery, 1802

Stephen Stanley, 1802

Peter & Solomon Ingalls

Horatio Sprague

Eleazer Ball

Eliphalet Peck

Mr. Sherwin

Isaac Luther

Mr. Burlingame

Daniel Ackerman

Jeremiah Carpenter

Jesse Stone

George Rounds

James Douglass

Samuel & Luther Reed

Henry Adams

Mr. Folsom

Henry Ward



Byron Cole, grist mill

Col. William Lord

Alanson Skinner, 1814, from NH

Gen. Thomas Lewis, from Otsego Co.

Luther Stevens

Barnabus Eaton

Josiah Bonney

Eber Palmer

Gage Meacham

Caleb J. Bates

John Parish

Samuel Hopper

Elijah Ainsworth

John Gould

David Augsbury

Solomon Makepeace

Eliot Makepeace

Abner Wood

William Moss

David Youngs

Stephen Gould

Joel Meacham

Levi Wheelock

John Folts

Eliot Alton

David Dillaback

Lewis Gould

Jeremiah Phelps

Joshua, Elisha and John Gustin

Elisha Gustin Jr.

Erastus Cornwall

Peter Paddock

Nathaniel Whitney

W.A. Silsby

Thomas Pudney

Orvin Davis

Henry Thomas

George and Cornelius Salisbury

Isaac Cornwall

Nathan Cole

John Stewart

John Shellmer

Daniel Cornwall

Curtis Golden

Samuel Ray

Henry Baker

Stephen Farr

Obadiah Rhodes

Benjamin Cole

Daniel Deming

Arnold Miller

Warren Steward

Samuel Cronkhite

William Stewart

Ephraim Strong

Jeremiah Cheeseman

Noah Lyman

Aaron Dresser

John & Barnabus Dighton

M. L. Booth

Anthony Graves, 1814

Josiah Dean, 1814

Otis & Ebenezer N. Britton, 1814

Moses Cole, 1814

Samuel Knapp, 1814

Thomas Nelson, 1814 (+ Thomas Nelson Jr.)

Charles Welch, 1814

William Cole, 1814

George Hoffman, 1814

Titus Gould, 1814

John Allen, 1814

Auhelus Doxey, 1814

Abner Brown, 1814

John Paddock, 1814

B. Dillaback, 1814

William Dillen, 1814

Edward Hawkins, 1814

Henry & Thomas Brown, 1814

Henry Hentze, 1814

Joseph, David, & Isaac Petit, 1814

Mr. Cleveland, 1814

William Maffle, 1814

Peter Acker, 1814

Daniel & Jacob Woodward, 1814

James Wright, 1814

Capt. William Knox

Robert Smith

Eliphalet, Samuel & Nathaniel Peck

Jacob Kilborn

Joseph Rhodes

James Pride

Henry Ward

Alexander Moffatt, 1805 (sons Aquilla, Jonathan, Hosea, Alexander, Hinman)

Jonathan, Elijah, & Dustin Emerson, 1805 (+ father)

Samuel & John P. Shelly

Mr. Smith (+ sons Hugh, Ely, Elias)

Isaac Day

David Lyttle

Jeremiah Phelps

Solon Stone

Jeremiah Winegar

Kendall Hursley

Joshua Eaton

Jesse Babcock

Sylvanus Pool

John T. Wood

James A. Bell

Solomon Meyer