The pioneers of Hopewell were Daniel Gates, Daniel Warner, Ezra Pratt, Samuel Day, George Chapin, Irael Chapin, Jr., Frederick Follett, Thomas Sawyer, Benjamin Wells, and Mr. Sweet from Massachusetts. William Wyckoff came from Pennsylvania. A son was born to Benjamin Wells on Feb. 4, 1791, named Benjamin jr.; this was the first birth. Calvin Bacon opened a school in 1792.
Richard Jones came from Maryland in 1805. Other early settlers were Nathaniel Lewis, Elam Smith, Vimri Densmore, Elijah Ellis, John Russell, David W. Beach, William Bodman, Erastus Leonard, Luther Porter, Robert Penn, Samuel Bush, Joshua Case, Oliver and William Babcock, John Ricker, Amos Knapp, Silas Benham, C. P. Bush, Daniel Warren, Shuball Clark, John Hart, John Faurot, George Chapin, Russell Warren, Dedrick Coursen, Robert Davidson, Moses DePew, John Gregg, James Moore, James Birdseye, Edward Root, Ezekiel Crane, John McCauley, David Aldrich, Amos, Amasa and James Gillett, Joseph Lee, Oliver Warren, Elam Crane, Ezra and Leonard Knapp, Thaddeus Benham, Elijah Higby, William Canfield, Andrew Bush, Elder Anson Shay, John Kellogg, Thomas Edmundson, Daniel Macumber, Capt. Thomas Davis, Rufus Warner, Apollas Baker, John Church, Jonas Whitney, Asel and Constant Balcom, Eben and Eli Benham and Ezra Newton.
Also the families of Thomas, Derr, Spangle, Skinner, Cleveland, Knapp, Marks, Sly, Purdy, Ketcham, Brundage, Bishop, Pembroke, Woodin and Knickerbocker came to settle early.Return to the Ontario Co.
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