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| | History of Lewiston, New York |
 | | The usual ordinances for governing the town, regulating the restriction of domestic animals, placing a bounty on bear scalps, raising $200 for improvement of roads, and $75 for support of the poor, were voted at the first town meeting. |
 | | Solomon Gilbert was an early settler in the town, and Joseph Hewitt came in several years before the war, having removed from Connecticut to Genesee county in 1803, and later to the town of Cambria, until he exchanged farms with William Howell and became owner of the place occupied subsequently by his son, J. Hewitt. |
 | | The cavalcade moved from Lewiston, along the river road, in sight of the enemy, and entered Fort Niagara, the blankets of the Indians fluttering in the wind, and the various habiliments of the farmers, the limping and overstrained plow horse. |
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