First settler of Franklin, NY
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N 42° 19.200 W 075° 11.143
18T E 484696 N 4685323
This rock marks the home of Sluman Wattles, the first Settler in the Town of Franklin, New York. It was also the site of the first town meeting.
Waymark Code: WMV51D
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 02/24/2017
Views: 2
text "This Boulder marks the site of the home of Sluman Wattles the first Settler in the Town of Franklin, New York who built a home here in 1785. One hundred feet south stood the "Treaty Elm" under whose branches he made a treaty with the Indians. Erected in May 1927 by the Au-ly-ou-let chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Franklin, New York""
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"The first town meeting was ordered to be held at the house of Sluman Wattles on the first Tuesday in April of the same year. This tract of land was, prior to April 10th, 1792, a part of the town of Harpersfield...The first settler in the Town was Sluman Wattles, who came in the early summer of 1784 to examine, survey and lay out in lots a tract of land, extending from a line near the Susquehanna river, southwardly to the Delaware river, afterward and now called Livingston's patent. It appears that Mr. Wattles had some interest in this patent then, and afterward he was known to be part owner of it......The Indians claiming some title to the lands o which Judge Wattles had settled, or to the patent he had surveyed, it became necessary to negotiate with them;...Here the treaty was arranged, the rum drunk, they received their pay, and left after having, as they expressed it, "a good time." They are believed to have been a part of the Delaware tribe."
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