The first white man known to settle in this town (which at the time of his advent was part and parcel of Genesee county) was Nathaniel Dyke, a graduate of Yale College , who during the Revolutionary struggle was attached to the staff of General Joseph Warren, at Boston , Mass. , and was subsequently upon the staff of General George Washington. It seems almost like a myth to be told that a graduate of old Yale, and an honored member of the military families of both Generals Warren & Washington, should ostracise himself from the high and fashionable society in which his education, social and military qualifications must have placed him, and cast his lot in a dense wilderness, away from society and friends. But then, there is none so well fitted to open a new country as the man of education and experience, and the social qualities which are the natural accompaniment of the other two. He was a native of Connecticut , and when he first struck out from his native town and State he located at Tioga Point , Pa. , from whence he came to this town in the spring of 1795, and located on the banks of what is known as Dyke's Creek, near the center of the town. His education and military experience well fitted him to become the pioneer settler."
The first white man known to settle in this town (which at the time of his advent was part and parcel of Genesee county) was Nathaniel Dyke, a graduate of Yale College , who during the Revolutionary struggle was attached to the staff of General Joseph Warren, at Boston , Mass. , and was subsequently upon the staff of General George Washington. It seems almost like a myth to be told that a graduate of old Yale, and an honored member of the military families of both Generals Warren & Washington, should ostracise himself from the high and fashionable society in which his education, social and military qualifications must have placed him, and cast his lot in a dense wilderness, away from society and friends. But then, there is none so well fitted to open a new country as the man of education and experience, and the social qualities which are the natural accompaniment of the other two. He was a native of Connecticut , and when he first struck out from his native town and State he located at Tioga Point , Pa. , from whence he came to this town in the spring of 1795, and located on the banks of what is known as Dyke's Creek, near the center of the town. His education and military experience well fitted him to become the pioneer settler."
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