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- In April, 1803, two men, William Skinner and Stephen Lindsey, came through Redfield and Boylston into the present town of Sandy Creek. The former, who was a man of considerable property, settled in the eastern part of what is now Lacona village, where, on the banks of Sandy Creek, he purchased 400 acres of land. Mr. Lindsey went on to Ellisburg, but soon settled about half a mile from Wigwam Cove in the extreme northwest corner of this town. His daughter, Eunice, then about twelve years old, died that summer and was the first white person whose death occurred in the town's present limits. Mr. Skinner had an adopted son, Levi. then five years of age, and was accompanied by two young men named Btrtler and Moreton, who lived with him through the summer and engaged in clearing land for themselves. The latter sold out to Mr. Skinner in the fall, and both he and Butler returned to Oneida county, whence the first settlers came. Mr. Skinner bought some land in Ellisburg and moved back and forth no less than seven times in two years. About 1807 he sold his Sandy Creek property to Peter Whiteside and settled permanently in Ellisburg.
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