Town of Naples, NY Website
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On April 23, 1788, Nathaniel Gorham and Oliver Phelps secured from Hon. John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, the right to purchase lands west of the Hudson River in the State of New York. On July 8, 1788, a large part of Western New York was deeded to Phelps and Gorham by the Indians.
Sixty settlers at Partridgefield and Windsor formed a compact and selected a committee to buy a township. This committee sent Edward Kibbe, William Cady and Nathan Watkins to select the purchase.
Township No. 7 consisting of 21,120 acres was bought for about twelve cents on an acre. The Indians had hunting and fishing privileges for twenty years.
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