Excerpt from Gazetteer and Business Directory of Ontario County, N. Y., For 1867-68French's Gazetteer of the State of New York, and from Turner's History of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. Many others have kindly volunteered their aid, to all of whom we return sincere thanks.When it is known that time, equal to nearly three years' labor, if done by one man, has been devoted to the canvass, and the great difficulty many times experienced by the agents in collecting the necessary information, it is believed the patrons of the work willwillingly excuse any seemingly short-comings in the complete ness of the work.The advertisers in this work represent many of the leading busi ness men of the County, and we most cheerfully commend them all to the patronage of those under whose observation these pages may come.So complete a canvass of a county for a Business Directory, and the additions of farmers' names, together with the number of acres owned or leased by each, the whole arranged alphabetically, after their appropriate post office addresses, we believe has never been attempted by any other publisher.That errors may have occurred in so great a number of names and dates as are here given, is probable. The indulgence of the reader is solicited in marking such as had been observed in the sub sequent reading of the proofs, and which are noted in the Errata, following the Introduction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.