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	Joseph Ellicott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Ellicott (November 1, 1760 - August 19, 1826) was a surveyor, city planner, land office agent, canal commissioner and judge born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, of the Quaker faith.
		In 1790, his brother Andrew Ellicott was hired by the federal government to survey the new federal district, which was to become the new capital city of Washington.
		Ellicott had never married, and at his death left an estate valued at about $600,000, which was a considerable fortune in that day.
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	Andrew Ellicott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ellicott showed considerable diplomatic talent during this joint project to bring it to a successful completion, and he presented his final report with maps to the government in 1800.
		Ellicott returned to private practice and was hired in February 1811 by David B. Mitchell, then governor of Georgia, to re-survey the border between Georgia and North Carolina to settle a border dispute between these two states.
		In 1817, Ellicott was again called upon to participate as astronomer in a field survey to establish the western border between Canada and the United States, which had been defined after the War of 1812 in the Treaty of Ghent to run along 45°N. It was the last big survey that he performed.
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	Index: Joseph Ellicott
		Joseph Ellicott was also a very experienced surveyor of large parcels of land on the frontier.
		Joseph Ellicott had been through the Buffalo Creek area before in 1789 while assisting his brother Andrew with the surveying of the western boundary line of New York at this time the Hamlet had about five log cabins and a large Indian encampment.
		Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company contributed funds and material to relieve the influx of refugees in Batavia.
	www.landmark-niagara.org /bac/ell (3353 words)

	Ellicott City. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		The community grew up around Ellicotts’ Mills, one of whose founders, Joseph Ellicott, was the father of the surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, who redrew L’Enfant’s plans of Washington for Thomas Jefferson.
		Ellicott was helped by Benjamin Banneker, his protegé and an early fl scientist.
		Another brother, Joseph, founded Buffalo, N.Y. The exterior of the stone Baltimore and Ohio station has changed little since the first horse-cars were hauled here from Baltimore on May 24, 1830.
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	Laying Out of Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As substantial as the structure, Joseph Ellicott, the man, was an imposing figure who also made a permanent mark on Buffalo.
		Ellicott persisted in calling it New Amsterdam, but the inhabitants preferred the name of Buffalo Creek which was later shortened to Buffalo.
		Prior to its management by Ellicott, the area had developed very little Ellicott had foreseen the potential of New Amsterdam and in l 799 had planned the layout of the village When he came as resident agent the following year, Ellicott had to wait for satisfactory quarters to be built..
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	The Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY, Biographical Notices of Ellicott and Mix
		Ellicott came from Wales to America at an early day, and were among the early pioneers in Buck's County, Pennsylvania.
		Joseph Ellicott was thoroughly educated as a surveyor, by lessons given him by his elder brother, Andrew.
		Joseph Ellicott was never married, but for his numerous family of relatives he made most ample provision, some of the choicest lands on the Holland Purchase being selected and secured by title to the Ellicotts.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/orl/ch30/ellicottmix.html (1020 words)

	mdhs.org > Explore > Exhibitions
		This silver pap boat was used to feed Sarah Ellicott (1755-1779), the second of nine children born to Judith Bleeker Ellicott and Joseph Ellicott, when she was an infant.
		Joseph Ellicott was the founder of Ellicott's Upper Mills in 1774.
		Sarah was the sister of Andrew Ellicott, one of the surveyors of Washington, DC.
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	Joseph Ellicott Complex Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Ellicott Complex is a 38-building mega-structure consisting of dormitories, dining facilities, academic departments, administrative offices, and classrooms.
		Joseph Ellicott (1760-1826), the first resident agent of the Holland Land Company, surveyed the Western New York wilderness in 1798.
		Ellicott was an early advocate of the Erie Canal.
	wings.buffalo.edu /services/fac/fpd/bldgs/xref/ellctt/ellctt.htm (167 words)

	Absolution for the Sin of being a Politician by Lynne Belluscio
		MARCH 25, 2002 - In 1800, Joseph Ellicott became the resident land agent for the Holland Purchase.
		Ellicott soon realized that his only recourse was to enter the political arena, and to attempt to create a new county.
		Ellicott was a strong supporter of the Jeffersonian Republicans, and believed in expansionism and the rights of the common man. He relied on David Ogden to secure the votes of the Federalists.
	www.leroyny.com /News/2002/0325/Historical (723 words)

	Joseph Ellicott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ellicott felt that the area where Buffalo Creek entered into Lake Erie would become the most important settlement in the area, and over time become even larger and more important than the village of Batavia.
		Ellicott early on purchased an 100 acre lot bounded by Eagle St, Swan St., Jefferson St., and what is now Main St. on which he intended to erect a large mansion.
		Ellicott played an important role in the founding and location of what is now St. Paul's Cathedral.
	stpaulscathedral.org /about/history/quartercentury/1800/ellicott.htm (314 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph aided his brother in the survey of Washington, D.C. soon after that site was selected for the nation's capital.
		Ellicott became wealthy working for the Holland Land Company, first as a surveyor, then as agent, and acquired large tracts of land, much of it in Niagara County.
		Ellicott also purchased land at the Rapids on both sides of Tonawanda Creek, with the intention of building a dam and using water power for mills.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /kostoff2.html (558 words)

	Joseph Ellicott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ellicott: This is a name distinguished in more than one of the original states.
		Joseph Ellicott, more especially referred to herein, was the surveyor, and is considered the founder of Buffalo, the second city in importance of the Empire State.
		Joseph, of this second generation, was a skilled mechanic and something of a scientist in a practical way.
	ah.bfn.org /h/ell/bio (767 words)

	Holland Land Co.
		In 1801 Joseph Ellicott located his first land office in Ransom's tavern in hope of Intercepting travelers, Pennsylvania Germans headed for the crossing to Canada and New Englanders heading west to the Connecticut Reserve of Ohio, and persuading them to settle in Western New York.
		In 1804 a map of all the lands owned by the Holland Land Co., was published by Joseph and Benjamin Ellicott, showing the Town grid and the established "wagon roads." The Buffalo Road is shown but not the Batavia Road.
		However Joseph Ellicott mounted an advertising campaign in 1803 and 1804, investing company money in newspaper ads, handbills and maps, promoting settlement in the company's lands.
	www.landmark-niagara.org /hull/hol (1038 words)

	ED YOUNG'S TRUE VALUE ~A History of the Town of Amherst NY Chapter 2~
		Because the Article of Agreement was between Joseph Ellicott as agent for the Holland Lana Company and his brother Benjamin and John Thomson, who were surveyors under him, there is some uncertainty as to the legality of the record.
		Isaac Bowman purchased the house in 1812 and it reverted to Joseph Ellicott in 1818, on a Sheriff's deed and foreclosure of a mortgage of two thousand dollars.
		In his report to the Holland Land Company, Joseph Ellicott stated that, since the title of the property has been disputed, he felt that it would be policy to sell it to his brother Benjamin, convincing the public of the right of the company's title.
	www.edyoungs.com /events/toa_book_chapter2.php (1516 words)

	BENJAMIN BANNEKER 1731-1806 - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Ellicott was an amateur mathematician and astronomer and lent Banneker books on astronomy and mathematics as well as instruments for observing the stars.
		Ellicott made it in Pennsylvania before he moved to Ellicott Mills where through his nephew he met Banneker.
		George Ellicott was the person with whom Banneker had a ongoing relationship through the shairng of books and instruments.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html (1310 words)

	NYNY 1800-1803
		Batavia's Holland Land Company surveyor Joseph Ellicott completes the two-and-a half-year survey of their holdings, at a total cost of $70,291.69.
		Joseph Ellicott gives the settlement of Batavia its name, honoring his employers' country.
		Joseph Ellicott has the log office torn down and moves business into a frame building on the site.
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	Elba, New York - Elba History
		n 1798, Joseph Ellicott, an experienced surveyor representing the Holland Land Company, came into the area with men and equipment to survey the vast tract of land and laid it out into townships and ranges.
		Ellicott estimated the wages needed for six months were $19,830 and an additional $7,356 for the cost of equipment, which did not include the necessary funds for transportation nor for "wine, spirits, brandy and medicine."
		It was Joseph Ellicott who was responsible for the road being laid out from Batavia north to Pine Hill or "The Pinery" as it was called in 1802.
	www.iinc.com /elba/history.html (656 words)

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		Andrew and Joseph Ellicott founded Ellicott City which became one of the greatest milling and manufacturing towns in the East.
		By 1861, Ellicott's Mills was a prosperous farming and manufacturing area, one of the greatest milling and manufacturing towns in the east.
		The only chartered city in the county, Ellicott City lost its charter in 1935 and was designated an historic district by the county in 1973 and today serves as the county seat.
	www.ellicottcitymd.com /area.htm (571 words)

	The Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY, Town of Shelby
		Joseph Ellicott notices those tracts of land that seemed to possess peculiar advantages, and located some of the best for himself.
		He is remembered for his many acts of kindness to the new settlers, and especially for the interest he took in the welfare of the Indians at Tonawanda.
		Ellicott removed from Batavia with his family to reside in Shelby, in 1817.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/orl/ch28/shelby.html (1007 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		Joseph Ellicott was the vain and choleric surveyor who founded Genesee County and its seat, the town of Batavia, saying, "God made Buffalo--I will try and make Batavia."
		Ellicott was a melancholy martinet and met a ghastly end, hanging himself with a handkerchief and leaving a pathetic suicide note that read: "However much I give to people, they do not love me." Defying the laws of good taste, we squeezed a gag or two out of this.
		Ellicott was a dictatorial Quaker who did not organize the Welcome Wagon for McGee's Irish-Catholic forebears.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=110001916 (1212 words)

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		That Elizabeth was the sister of Joseph Elicott, Gent.
		In the Council Journal of 1751, Granville Co SC: Petition of Elicot Story, the heir at law of Zachary Story, his uncle, for whom "one of the hunting islands containing 372 A. was surveyed on 7 July 1732" was approved and granted.
		Note by em: A question I have is the reason Ellicott Story would have petitioned for land in 1751 as the heir at law of Zachariah Story Sr.
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	Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901 - Buffalo Architecture at the Time of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Ellicott's city was modest in size and was negotiated on foot, horseback, or horse-drawn carriage.
		Throughout the century Delaware Avenue, one of Ellicott's original streets, remained a street of imposing mansions, some designed by such distinguished practitioners as Boston-based H. Richardson (the Dorsheimer [Fig.
		12], Root and Metcalfe houses), and Joseph Lyman Silsbee of Chicago (the J.M. Bemis House [Fig.
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	Town OF POLAND HISTORY
		It was in 1798 that Amzi Atwater a surveyor of the Holland Land Company was on a survey of this area and reported back to Joseph Ellicott, Agent of the Company, about the beautiful forest of white pines, measuring from 5 to 6 feet in breath, also maple, birch, beech, and chestnut.
		In 1803, Dr. Kennedy married Jane L. Ellicott, daughter of Andrew Ellicott of Lancaster, PA. Through this marriage, Doctor Kennedy became on very friendly relations with Joseph Ellicott, agent of the Holland Land Company.
		Joseph Ellicott's knowledge of this wonderful forest land, gave him the opportunity to offer to Doctor Kennedy a tract of land he had asked for.
	www.cclslib.org /kennedy/townofpolandhistory.htm (333 words)

	World Canals 1810-1819
		Holland Land Company agent Paoli Busti writes from Philadelphia to Joseph Ellicott in Batavia, New York, recounting a conversation with a St. Lawrence merchant named Parish who believes that western New York goods should be shipped via the St. Lawrence.
		Holland Land Company agent Joseph Ellicott writes from Batavia to his boss Paolo Busti in Philadelphia, reporting on his meeting in Albany with the canal commissioners, in which they attempted to find out just how much land the Holland group would be willing to donate for such a waterway.
		Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Samuel Young, Joseph Ellicott and Myron Holley are appointed as commissioners for an Erie Canal.
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	Survey
		Ellicott spent the winter of 1797-1798 in Philadelphia preparing for the
		Ellicott's objectives for the survey were to lay out the 3.3 million acres of
		Joseph Ellicott started the final task during the winter of 1798 - 1799.
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	ED YOUNG'S TRUE VALUE ~A History of the Town of Amherst NY Chapter 3~
		Joseph Ellicott often mentioned the necessity of making land sales with little or no advance payment.
		Jonas Williams purchased property in 1808 and erected two mills on opposite banks of the falls of Ellicott Creek, stimulating a settlement called Williams Mills until after the War of 1812.
		Other purchasers, prior to the formation of the Town of Amherst included John Long, Abraham Miller and Joseph Ellicott in 1811; Nathaniel Henshaw and Peter Blocher in 1813; Timothy Hopkins, John Road and Adam Fulmer in 1814; Jacob Frick, Christian Staley, John Besar and Juba Storrs in 1817.
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