This year several settlements where begun on the Indian line, and one was commenced under the direction of a Mr. Bartles, from the Jerseys, on the outlet of Mud Lake, one of the branches of the Conhocton. Towards the end of summer a set of merchant mills were in considerable forwardness, and lots laid out for a village, called Frederick's Town, alter the name of the founder, Frederick Bartles; before winter the sawmill had got into complete operation,* and several excellent mechanics were settled in the town. The number of emigrants that hadj by this time, moved into the new establishments in every part of the country, and the respectability of many individuals now resident, induced the Legislature of the State to agree to a division of the county of Ontario ; the north part retained the name of Ontario and the part struck off was called Steuben, after the Baron of that name: the town of Bath, only two years before the centre of a wilderness, was fixed on as the seat of justice.

Roads were cut this year in many directions, to connect the different establishments, and many grist and saw-mills were building on the streams adjoining the settlements.

As early as the year 1796, the various settlements had begun to assume an appearance of respectability never before instanced in so new a country. On an enumeration being taken of the inhabitants in the town of Bath, and the district eight miles round it, by the assessors, there were found above eight hundred souls ; also, within the same distance, two schools, one grist-mill, and five saw-mills. Nearly all the settlements had increased in a similar pit)portion ; the number of emigrants each year was supposed to be not less than three thousand souls; these were either engrafted on