From Geneva Courier 1 Oct 1879

The English Settlement
Mr. P. F. Bill, of Seneca, sends us the following list of persons who formed what was known as the
English Settlement, in the town of Seneca, (Number Nine, first range,) about the first year of this
century.  They were given him by Mr. Foster S. Watson, from memory.  Mr. Watson is now in his
80th year, having been born in January, 1800.  The list is as follows.
 
 
Zacharia Garbutt
George Wood
John Hadley
John Robson
John Hall
John Dixson
Robert Watson
Foster Sinclair
John Wood
Edward Burral
Edward Hall
Edward Hall, jr.
Thomas Lowry
Joseph Robson

John Robson, called Jack
Thomas Robson, and six sons,
Thomas Robson, jr.
Andrew     "
John          "
Gowen      "    
Robert       "
James        "
James Beattie (scotch)
Robert Crosier
Robert Strahan
Matthew Robson
George Caward
William Brown
Thomas Stokoe
Adam Turnbull
William Wiles
Daniel Fowle
Powel Carpenter
Mathias Aram
Adam Crosier
George Crosier
Thomas Vartie
Frank Wilson
James Blake
Edward Stokoe
John Renwick
George Gray
Benjamin Fowle
Benjamin Moody
William Allen
John Renwick, (1818)
The following were out of the Settlement, but near by:
John Charlton
William Whirlow
Robert Oxtoby
Thomas Griswold
William Barron
Thomas Young
Thomas Charlton
Henry Oxtoby
William Watkinson
John Atkinson
William Hanley



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