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Early settlers of the time included Rouse Perry, Benjamin Brown, Jesse Brown and Joshua Brown, Elias Gilbert, Jabez French, Abraham Lane, Isaac Lane and Jacob Lane, Francis Briggs and Peleg Briggs, Jr., Edward Craft, David Southerland and John Griffin.

Around 1805, Griffin and Riggs operated an ashery store and a distillery north of Nettle Valley, on what would eventually become the Erwin Wells farm in 1929.

Riggs left, and in 1812, Griffin sold the operation to his brother-in-law, Richard M. Williams.

Williams became an associate judge of Yates County ; he largely concentrated on the manufacture of potash and whisky, and died on June 4, 1837.

Williams ' son, Richard H. Williams, was elected to the state senate in 1845, and served for two years before his term was cut short by the adoption of the 1846 constitution.