First of its kind - Amos Sottle, First Non-Indian Settler. - First of its Kind on Waymarking.com

The plaque on the site states

AMOS SOTTLE: First Non-Indian settler of Hanover and Chautauqua county, build his home nearby in 1796. Indian friend, farmer, fiddler, and worker on the HLC survey.

According to EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY

The late Hon. Samuel A. Brown, in a course of lectures at the Academy in Jamestown, in 1843, said in his second lecture: "Col. McMahan and Mc-Henry, both from Pennsylvania, may, with propriety, I think, be styled the pioneers of Chautauqua county, as they were the first who purchased and settled with the intention of making this county their permanent residence; though one Amos Sottle had resided from 1796 to 1800 on the Cattaraugus bottoms in Hanover; was then absent two or three years; but afterwards returned and became a permanent resident."

This statement was probably made on the authority of Henry H. Hawkins, of Silver Creek, who, in a letter to Mr. Brown, dated Hanover, Feb. 2, 1843, wrote as follows:

"SIR: Amos Sottle came on to the Cattaraugus bottoms, and settled in the year 1796, being then about twenty-one years old, and has resided here ever since that time, with the exception of between two and three years, from about 1800 or 1801, which he spent in what was then called the Northwestern Territory. He is one who helped make the survey of the whole country in 1798 and 1799, under Joseph Ellicott, surveyor of the Holland Land Company."

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