From the History of Onondaga County
The township of Camillus, embracing the present towns of Elbridge and Van Buren, was peopled mostly with settlers from New England.
Among these, in the year 1790, only nine years later than the first white resident of the town, came David Mnnro, then a lad fourteen years old, born December 8, 1784, and fifth in the line of descent from John Munro, who emigrated from Scotland, and settled in Massachusetts at an early period.
David accompanied his father, Squire Munro, who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and who then in the prime of life, being forty-two years of age, came from New England, bringing with him his four sons, John, David, Nathan, and Philip A., all of them since well known throughout the county and settled near where the village of Elbridge now stands.
As Daniel grew up to manhood he developed into a large and powerful man, fully marked with the characteristic family traits of enterprise, untiring industry, economy, and self-reliance.
In 1807 he was married to Abigail Carpenter, of the same town, and in 1808 he purchased a farm on lot number eighty, Camillus, and settled where Camillus Village now stands, where only two frame houses were then erected.
The country was then covered with forests, and Mr. Munro cleared up his farm, which was heavily timbered, doing much of the labor with his own hands.
Here he resided for fifty-eight years, enlarging his farm by the purchase of adjacent lands from time to time. He died May 10, 1866, being over eighty years of age at the time of his decease. His wife was six years younger than himself, having been born December 3, 1790, and she survived him nearly two years.
There were eight children born of the marriage, of whom six still survive, viz.: John C. Munro, born October 17, 1809 ; James M. Munro, born November 13, 1813 ; David A. Munro, born August 17, 1818 ; Mary A., wife of Thomas W. Hill, of Elbridge.
The township of Camillus, embracing the present towns of Elbridge and Van Buren, was peopled mostly with settlers from New England.
Among these, in the year 1790, only nine years later than the first white resident of the town, came David Mnnro, then a lad fourteen years old, born December 8, 1784, and fifth in the line of descent from John Munro, who emigrated from Scotland, and settled in Massachusetts at an early period.
David accompanied his father, Squire Munro, who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and who then in the prime of life, being forty-two years of age, came from New England, bringing with him his four sons, John, David, Nathan, and Philip A., all of them since well known throughout the county and settled near where the village of Elbridge now stands.
As Daniel grew up to manhood he developed into a large and powerful man, fully marked with the characteristic family traits of enterprise, untiring industry, economy, and self-reliance.
In 1807 he was married to Abigail Carpenter, of the same town, and in 1808 he purchased a farm on lot number eighty, Camillus, and settled where Camillus Village now stands, where only two frame houses were then erected.
The country was then covered with forests, and Mr. Munro cleared up his farm, which was heavily timbered, doing much of the labor with his own hands.
Here he resided for fifty-eight years, enlarging his farm by the purchase of adjacent lands from time to time. He died May 10, 1866, being over eighty years of age at the time of his decease. His wife was six years younger than himself, having been born December 3, 1790, and she survived him nearly two years.
There were eight children born of the marriage, of whom six still survive, viz.: John C. Munro, born October 17, 1809 ; James M. Munro, born November 13, 1813 ; David A. Munro, born August 17, 1818 ; Mary A., wife of Thomas W. Hill, of Elbridge.
From the History of Onondaga County
The township of Camillus, embracing the present towns of Elbridge and Van Buren, was peopled mostly with settlers from New England.
Among these, in the year 1790, only nine years later than the first white resident of the town, came David Mnnro, then a lad fourteen years old, born December 8, 1784, and fifth in the line of descent from John Munro, who emigrated from Scotland, and settled in Massachusetts at an early period.
David accompanied his father, Squire Munro, who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and who then in the prime of life, being forty-two years of age, came from New England, bringing with him his four sons, John, David, Nathan, and Philip A., all of them since well known throughout the county and settled near where the village of Elbridge now stands.
As Daniel grew up to manhood he developed into a large and powerful man, fully marked with the characteristic family traits of enterprise, untiring industry, economy, and self-reliance.
In 1807 he was married to Abigail Carpenter, of the same town, and in 1808 he purchased a farm on lot number eighty, Camillus, and settled where Camillus Village now stands, where only two frame houses were then erected.
The country was then covered with forests, and Mr. Munro cleared up his farm, which was heavily timbered, doing much of the labor with his own hands.
Here he resided for fifty-eight years, enlarging his farm by the purchase of adjacent lands from time to time. He died May 10, 1866, being over eighty years of age at the time of his decease. His wife was six years younger than himself, having been born December 3, 1790, and she survived him nearly two years.
There were eight children born of the marriage, of whom six still survive, viz.: John C. Munro, born October 17, 1809 ; James M. Munro, born November 13, 1813 ; David A. Munro, born August 17, 1818 ; Mary A., wife of Thomas W. Hill, of Elbridge.
The township of Camillus, embracing the present towns of Elbridge and Van Buren, was peopled mostly with settlers from New England.
Among these, in the year 1790, only nine years later than the first white resident of the town, came David Mnnro, then a lad fourteen years old, born December 8, 1784, and fifth in the line of descent from John Munro, who emigrated from Scotland, and settled in Massachusetts at an early period.
David accompanied his father, Squire Munro, who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and who then in the prime of life, being forty-two years of age, came from New England, bringing with him his four sons, John, David, Nathan, and Philip A., all of them since well known throughout the county and settled near where the village of Elbridge now stands.
As Daniel grew up to manhood he developed into a large and powerful man, fully marked with the characteristic family traits of enterprise, untiring industry, economy, and self-reliance.
In 1807 he was married to Abigail Carpenter, of the same town, and in 1808 he purchased a farm on lot number eighty, Camillus, and settled where Camillus Village now stands, where only two frame houses were then erected.
The country was then covered with forests, and Mr. Munro cleared up his farm, which was heavily timbered, doing much of the labor with his own hands.
Here he resided for fifty-eight years, enlarging his farm by the purchase of adjacent lands from time to time. He died May 10, 1866, being over eighty years of age at the time of his decease. His wife was six years younger than himself, having been born December 3, 1790, and she survived him nearly two years.
There were eight children born of the marriage, of whom six still survive, viz.: John C. Munro, born October 17, 1809 ; James M. Munro, born November 13, 1813 ; David A. Munro, born August 17, 1818 ; Mary A., wife of Thomas W. Hill, of Elbridge.
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