CHEMUNG CO. NY
Formed 1836 from Tioga
Schuyler formed 1854 from Tompkins, Steuben, Chemung
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1840 Chemung Co. NY Census; semi-alphabetic
Veteran
Pg.298  Joseph Duncan      0000,001  -  0000,01

1850-1860 Chemung Co. NY Census
      No Duncan indexed

1870 Chemung Co. NY Census
6th Ward Elmira
Pg.292, #69-69, DUNKEN, Howard 50 IRE vetiranary surgeon $600-$0, mother of foreign birth
                  Maria 51 IRE K.House (not parents of foreign birth)
Town of Horseheads, P.O. Millport
Pg.364, #516-519, VANGORDER, Jeremiah 59 NY & family & many others
                  (many people, including)
                  DUNKEN, Mahaley (f) 67 NJ
Town of Southport, P.O. Elmira
Pg.383, #178-172, GRORER?, Joseph 62 NY farmer $20,000-$6,000
                  Sarah 63 NY keeps house
                  William 27 NY
                  PRICE, John 22 NY teamster
                  PATTERSON, John 23 NY teamster
                  HOMER, Matilda 15 NY
                  DUNCON, James 16 VA MULATTO
                  GRORER, Defry (f) 21 MI
 

HISTORIES before 1923

"History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers." by H.B. Pierce; pub. Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1879, 922 pgs. (LH2748, HeritageQuest images 6/2007; FHL book 974.7 H2pe and film 934,851 item 5 and 1,597,736 item 6)
      Pg.25: Some of the larger tracts granted in the old town of Chemung, were as follows: John Jackson, Benj. Jackson, John Donton, Joseph Elliott, Reuben Hopkins, James White, Daniel Jackson, Phineas Case, Timothy Duncan, Wm. Elmer, Wm. Thompson, and Anthony Dobbin, lots 177, 171, 182 to 187, inclusive, 9360 acres, Nov. 6, 1788.
      Pg.624: Alexander Wilson, a name well known among American naturalists and readers of natural history, with two friends of like tastes and pursuits, started one bright autumn morning, in 1804, from the city of Philadelphia for a trip on foot through Western New York. ... to Niagara Falls ... he followed the old path to Burdett, arrived about five miles below North Hector, in Lodi, where their guide, Duncan, unexpectedly found relatives in William Duncan and his family, who was an old settler, and whose descendants are still in Seneca and Schuyler Counties. ... (MAD: Lodi, Seneca Co. NY)
 

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