Excerpt from Gazetteer and Business Directory of Steuben County, N. Y., For 1868-9 Sylvester Gillett, son of Joseph Gillett, one of the early settlers of Corning, then Painted Post, says his father came to this team in 1779 Or 80, but from other informa tion we think he made a mistake in the year; as to the other items we presume he is all right. Mr. G. Was obliged to go to Tioga Point to mill, a distance of forty miles. His mode of transportation was a canoe, and the time occupied by the trip about three days. He purchased a farm u on the river flats for fivedollars an acre; It is now worth about one hundred. In 1813 e was a soldier in the company of Captain John Kenne dy, and at the sortie opposite Black Rock, on the Canada side of the river, was wound ed. He was removed to' the residence of his father-in-law, 'at Honeoye -hollow. Mr. Gillett owned a mare that he frequently rode to his father iii-law's, and while. There awaiting transportation, that mare broke out of her inclosure and went fifty miles to Honeoye Hollow, and was harnessed with. Another house to carry master to 1118 home upon a feather bed. This was regarded at the time as a very singular circumstance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.