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
•It is not unworthy of notice, that in the month of May, 179S, Mr. Eartlos proceeded from his mills, in the centre of Steuben county, with 1{X),00l) feet of boards, for Baltimore, where he arrived, safe and met with so eond -. m.nr!.rct, that he engaged to deliver the same quantity the next spring-.
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the old settlements, or, unJer some enterprising man, formed distmct settlements of their own.
Of those begun in 1796, there were two worthy of notice : that of the Rev. Mr. Gray in Township No. 4, seventh range, who moved from Pennsylvania with a respectable part of his former })arishoners, and a Jersey settlement on the head of the Canascraga Creek ; both of these exhibit instances of industry and enterprize, rare as uncommon. The ensuing season, on the organization of tlie militia of the county of Steuben, this Jersey settlement turned out a company of grenadiers, all in handsome uniform, and completely equipped, composed solely of the young men belonging to it, and the same season, a troop of horse and a company of light infantry were formed at Bath, 'and attached to the battalion of Steuben county.