Excerpt from The Annals of Binghamton, and of the Country Connected With It: From the Earliest Settlement For some number of years past it had been felt by some individuals of the place to be very desirable that, in some practicable and easy form, the most important incidents relating to the early settlement of the village should be preserved for the supposed satisfaction and utility of the rising and future generations. It was several times spoken of, and proposed to some of the earliest settlers, to make minutes of what they still remembered relative to themselves and their compeers after they became identified with the settlement. In compliance, it is supposed, with such a request, many years ago Col. Rose made historical minutes to an important extent; but unfortunately they were afterward lost, or, as it is believed, accidentally burnt; so that nothing remained of them. In relation to one important place within the section of country these Annals are designed to embrace, to wit: Elmira, Solomon Southwick, some few years since, wrote a pamphlet, entitled "Views of Elmira," in which he gives the first settlement of the neighborhood and the first laying out of that village, with the early stages of its progress. 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.