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Excerpt from Corning and Vicinity In 1787 Frederick Calkins, of Vermont, erected a log cabin on the bank of the Chemung River, within the bounds of the present city of Coming. This was the first home to be built by a white man in the Genesee Country. In 1788 an Indian Treaty was held at Buffalo Creek, and in 1789 at the foot of Canandaigua Lake. These treaties Opened the Genesee wilderness for settlement as far west as the Genesee River. At the close of the Indian Treaty held at Canandaigua in the Summer of 1789, Oliver Phelps, one of the principals in the purchase of the Genesee Country, deeded the townships that bear their names to Colonel Arthur Erwin, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, of New Jersey. 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.