SETTLEMENT OF THE LOWER CANISTEO VALLEY 
 
                Our notes of the settlement of the lower 
            valley of the Canisteo are very brief. None 
            of the original settlers of Addison are now
            living in the county. We can present nothing 
            more than the names of these pioneers. The 
            settlement of Addison were commenced probably
            in 1790, or shortly after. The settlers were
            Reuben and Lemuel Searles; John, Isaac, and
            James Martin; Jonathan Tracy; William Benham;
            Martin Young, and Isaac Morey. 
 
                The first name of the settlement was 
            Tuscarora. This was afterwards changed to 
            Middletown, and again to Addison. 
 
                The first tavern as kept by Reuben 
            Searles, on Lockerby’s stand. 
 
                George Goodhue built a saw-mill there 
            as early as 1793. 
 
                The first generation of settlers, as 
            we are informed, has become extinct. Messrs.
            William Wombaugh, William B. Jones, John
            and Stephen Towsley, and Rev. Tarathmel 
            Powers, through early settlers, came in a 
            few years after the first settlement. 
 
                 The pioneers of the town of Cameron were
            Joseph Warren, John Helmer, Samuel Baker, and
            Andrew Helmer. 
 
                This meager notice of the settlement of 
            the valley below the present town of Canisteo 
            is the most complete that could be obtained 
            from the best authorities to whom the writer 
            was referred.