Founder of Avon, 1790.
Surgeon in the Sixth Continental Regiment in the war of the Revolution.
"Another important early settler was Dr. Timothy Hosmer, physician, jurist, politician, land owner, tavern keeper. This Connecticut Yankee, a tall, corpulent, scholarly man, who wore breeches of soft deerskin and tied his powdered wig with a ribbon, gave the settlement its first name of Hartford. He was the grandfather of the poet Hosmer."
--from A River Ramble: Saga of the Genesee Valley, by Arch Merrill, 1943.
He was the father of five sons, including:
Sylvester.
Surgeon in the Sixth Continental Regiment in the war of the Revolution.
"Another important early settler was Dr. Timothy Hosmer, physician, jurist, politician, land owner, tavern keeper. This Connecticut Yankee, a tall, corpulent, scholarly man, who wore breeches of soft deerskin and tied his powdered wig with a ribbon, gave the settlement its first name of Hartford. He was the grandfather of the poet Hosmer."
--from A River Ramble: Saga of the Genesee Valley, by Arch Merrill, 1943.
He was the father of five sons, including:
Sylvester.
Founder of Avon, 1790.
Surgeon in the Sixth Continental Regiment in the war of the Revolution.
"Another important early settler was Dr. Timothy Hosmer, physician, jurist, politician, land owner, tavern keeper. This Connecticut Yankee, a tall, corpulent, scholarly man, who wore breeches of soft deerskin and tied his powdered wig with a ribbon, gave the settlement its first name of Hartford. He was the grandfather of the poet Hosmer."
--from A River Ramble: Saga of the Genesee Valley, by Arch Merrill, 1943.
He was the father of five sons, including:
Sylvester.
Surgeon in the Sixth Continental Regiment in the war of the Revolution.
"Another important early settler was Dr. Timothy Hosmer, physician, jurist, politician, land owner, tavern keeper. This Connecticut Yankee, a tall, corpulent, scholarly man, who wore breeches of soft deerskin and tied his powdered wig with a ribbon, gave the settlement its first name of Hartford. He was the grandfather of the poet Hosmer."
--from A River Ramble: Saga of the Genesee Valley, by Arch Merrill, 1943.
He was the father of five sons, including:
Sylvester.
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Founder of Avon, 1790.
Physician - Patriot
Pioneer - Judge
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