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  Nathaniel Rochester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nathaniel Rochester (21 Feb 1752 - 17 May 1831) He was born in Westmoreland Co., Virginia but raised in North Carolina.
Served many offices during the American Revolution, including member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County, Colonel of Militia, Paymaster to the troops, Justice of the Peace, Commissary General of Military Stores and Clothing, Commissioner to establish and superintend a manufactory of arms.
In 1824 he organized and was the first President of the Bank of Rochester.
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 Ancestry of Nathaniel Hart
Nathaniel Hart was a member of the Transylvania Company and was one of the purchasers of some 20 million acres of land in Kentucky and Tennessee from the Indians in 1775.
Nathaniel Hart, Jr., wrote that his father returned to his home with six or eight of the principal men of the Cherokee Nation, who remained with him until the latter part of the year and assisted in the selection of a large supply of goods to be used in exchange for the land.
Nathaniel Hart and his associates invested much of their time and private fortunes in the venture; they succeeded in obtaining for the colonies peaceful possession of the land from the Indians, thus permitting the opening of the Kentucky territory for colonization.
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 Rochester, William Beatty
William Beatty Rochester was born in Hagerstown, Maryland on January 29, 1789, the eldest son of Nathaniel and Sophia (Beatty) Rochester.
Rochester in the Buffalo area and land speculation in Michigan.
In June of 1838, William Beatty Rochester died in the wreck of the steam packet Pulaski.
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 Rochester Rattlers
The Rochester Rattlers enter the New Balance MLL Championship Weekend as the hottest team on turf after winning their last 5 games in a row.
The playoff party at Nathaniel’s is open to fans of all ages as there is a full restaurant on the premises.
Nathaniel’s will have a 2 for 1 Happy Hour special running for the adults and plenty of fun for all.
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Rochester is surrounded by beautiful suburban areas, rolling countrysides and farmlands, as well as villages such as Pittsford and Fairport that preserve a small-town atmosphere.
Rochester is accessible, approachable, and livable; it offers individuals and families an abundance of opportunities, a lifestyle that provides the time to take advantage of them, and countless ways to make a difference.
Rochester has professional teams for hockey, baseball, soccer, and lacrosse, and the Buffalo Bills are just ninety minutes away (they run their summer training camp less than a mile from Nazareth).
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 Rochester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rochester, New York (United States; this is the largest city called Rochester; pop.
Similar place names include East Rochester, Rochester Hills, and Rochester Township.
Rochester Red Wings, minor-league baseball team in Rochester, New York
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 Rochester. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Rochester has a symphony orchestra; a municipal band; and museums of art, medical science, history, and antique vehicles.
The city is the seat of the Univ. of Rochester, Nazareth College of Rochester, the Rochester Institute of Technology (est.
The city’s cultural features include the Rochester Philharmonic and Eastman School of Music orchestras, the Rochester Museum of Art and Sciences (with a planetarium), the Memorial Art Gallery, the historical society, a zoo, and the Rundell Memorial Building, which houses the public library and an art gallery.
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 Top20Rochester.com - Your Top20Guide to Rochester, NY.
In 1834, Rochester was re-chartered as a city, and by 1840, Rochester was the 19th largest city in America, with a population of 20,191.
Rochester is a home to a number of international businesses, including Eastman Kodak, Bausch and Lomb and Paychex, all of which make Rochester their world headquarters.
Rochester is home to a number of cultural institutions including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the Memorial Art Gallery, the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Strong Museum, the Strasenburg Planetarium, and numerous arts organizations.
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 Rochester 1
Clyde Oliver ROCHESTER was born on Sep 16 1914 in Salem, South Carolina.
George ROCHESTER was born in 1585 in Newcastle upon the Tyne, Kent Co., England.
Nathaniel ROCHESTER was born on Feb 21 1752.
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 Rochester, Nathaniel
The Nathaniel Rochester notebook has been added to this collection as folder 13 of box 2; the Henry Elie Rochester Papers have been processed as collection D.211.
A.R66, the Rochester (Nathaniel) Family Papers, 1777-1888, is one of five collections relating to the Rochester family in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
The diaries describe a trip to Europe in 1833-34, family events, religious feeling, the weather, church attendance, illnesses, etc; D.211, the papers of Henry Elie Rochester (1806-1889), the son of Nathaniel Rochester; and D.240, the William Beatty Rochester Papers (1811-1907), which consists of business correspondence and family financial and legal documents.
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 FIFTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Thomas Hart ROCHESTER was born on SEP 23 1797 in Hagerstown, MD. (Nathaniel Rochester, John Rochester, William Rochester, Nicholas and Ann Rochester) He died on OCT 6 1874.
Nathaniel ROCHESTER was born on FEB 19 1825 in Hagerstown, MD. (Thomas Hart Rochester, Nathaniel Rochester, John Rochester, William Rochester, Nicholas and Ann Rochester) He died on SEP 27 1849.
Caroline Louisa ROCHESTER was born on DEC 22 1829 in Hagerstown, MD. (Thomas Hart Rochester, Nathaniel Rochester, John Rochester, William Rochester, Nicholas and Ann Rochester) She died on FEB 14 1907.
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 Rochester
Rochester company, Hickey-Freeman, is the largest manufacturer of tailored men's clothing in the U.S. with its suits known around the world for their quality.
Rochester's 96-foot "metropolitan" waterfall, the largest to be found in the heart of any major city, has been an attraction for visitors since the 1800s when people traveled to see what was then a magnificent waterfall in the wilderness.
Rochester has a long and proud African-American history that began with a small population of only 300 to 500 people during most of the 1800s, but they were active in creating and sustaining a church, involved with the temperance movement, and contributed to the success of the famous "Underground Railroad."
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 Rochester real estate, NY - America Real Estate Directory
Rochester is located in western New York, it is a deepwater port on the Genesee River and Lake Ontario.
Rochester is a processing and distributing point for an extensive fruit-growing region.
Rochester covers a land area of 36 sq mi, with a mean elevation of 513 ft. According to the 2000 census, whites are 48.3 percent of the population, fls 38.5 percent, Asians 2.2 percent, and Native Americans 0.5 percent.
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 Nathaniel Rochester
ROCHESTER, Nathaniel, pioneer, born in Cople parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 21 February, 1752; died in Rochester, New York, 17 May, 1831.
--His grandson, Thomas Forteseue, physician, born in Rochester, New York, 8 October, 1823; died in Buffalo, New York, 24 May, 1887, was graduated M. at Hobart (then Geneva) college in 1845, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was transferred to the permanent establishment as paymaster on 17 January, 1867, and on 17 February, 1882, was appointed paymaster-general of the army, with the rank of brigadier-general.
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 City Newspaper: Featured story: Featured story: Portrait of a slave trader
The ledger, which was obtained from descendants of Nathaniel Rochester, clearly shows the purchase and subsequent sale of human beings by Rochester and his two partners.
And Rochester most likely would not have encountered any grief when he moved North to Dansville with his slaves in 1810.
Rochester's house, Mount Prospect, was, according to McKelvey, the most elegant home in the town of 2,000 people.
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 Nathaniel rochester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 Rochester, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1835
The volume of water is not very great, nor the roar deep enough to be termed grand, though such praise might have been appropriate before the good people of Rochester had abstracted a part of the unprofitable sublimity of the cascade.
The Genessee has contributed so bountifully to their canals and mill-dams, that it approaches the precipice with diminished pomp, and rushes over it in foamy streams of various width, leaving a broad face of the rock insulated and unwashed, between the two main branches of the falling river.
Its edifices are of dusky brick, and of stone that will not be grayer in a hundred years than now; its churches are Gothic; it is impossible to look at its worn pavements, and conceive how lately the forest-leaves have been swept away.
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 NFO 7 - Rochester, New York
Twenty years later, Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and his partners purchased the land, and in 1817 the settlement was incorporated as Rochesterville.
Rochester's most noteworthy fl citizen was Frederick Douglass, who published his North Star newspaper in downtown Rochester.
The University of Rochester, founded in 1850, is a private, coeducational institution that ranks among the most highly regarded universities in the country.
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 Rochester History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Rochester, New York was founded by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, who together with his partners Charles Carrol and William Fitzhugh purchased a 100-acre tract of land in 1803.
By 1817 Rochester became a village known as "Rochesterville." Colonel Rochester lobbied and was successful in having the Erie Canal routed through the middle of downtown Rochester, making Rochester America's first "boomtown."
The 100-acre tract was bounded by the Genesee River on the east, and went west along Buffalo Street (now called Main St.) to where Clarissa St. (now Ford St.) intersects Main St. Approximately half of the 100 acres was north of Main and half south of Main.
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 Rochester, New York NY, city profile (Monroe County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Rochester, NY Rochester is a city in Monroe County.
Rochester is on the Genesee River and Lake Ontario.
"Rochester is for us, who don't know it at all, a city of any time or country, moonlight, filled with lovers hoving over piano-fortesÂ…a city of handsome streets wrapt in beautiful quiet and dreaming of the golden age.
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 FIFTH GENERATION
William Beatty ROCHESTER was born on JAN 29 1789 in Hagerstown, MD. (Nathaniel Rochester, John Rochester, William Rochester, Nicholas and Ann Rochester) He died on JUN 15 1838.
William Beatty ROCHESTER was born on FEB 15 1826 in Angelica, NY.
Nathaniel Elie ROCHESTER was born on NOV 19 1829 in Rochester, NY.
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 Rochester's 1873 Time Capsule - Twenty-First Annual Report, Board of Directors, Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This book constitutes the 21st annual report of the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics' Association's Board of Directors, including the proceedings of the annual meeting, held April 25, 1871, and the formal opening of the new rooms over the Rochester Savings Bank.
Organized in 1829 by Nathaniel Rochester, the Athenaeum had long been the focal point of Rochester's intellectual life, but its membership and ticket sales were declining.
In 1891, the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics' Association would begin its life as a trade school, a life that would lead to the establishment of Rochester Institute of Technology.
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 Monroe County (NY) Library System - Rochester Images - Genealogical Research
Rochester Images will be an important new source of images and information for genealogical researchers.
It will of course be valuable for those who are researching individuals who were prominent in Rochester history from Nathaniel Rochester himself to internationally known Rochesterians such as Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.
However, Rochester Images will also be valuable for those researchers who are interested in less well-known individuals who are associated with Rochester.
www.rochester.lib.ny.us /rochimag/genealogy.html   (529 words)

  
 WROC TV NEWS 8 NOW ROCHESTER NEW YORK - Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Rochester's village grew, fostered by mills, which ground wheat floated down the Genesee.
And, though half the nurserymen in the state would soon call Rochester home, "Ellwanger and Barry became the most successful and internationally famous," she explains.
"The other effect Ellwanger and Barry had on Rochester that actually changed the face of the greater Rochester area is that when their business began to dwindle, they had been trying to give the city some land to start a park system," says Rosenberg-Naparsteck.
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 Nathaniel Parr ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Nathaniel Currier, The Gem of the Pacific, 1849
Nathaniel Currier, Son and Daughter of Temperance, 1850
Nathaniel Currier, The Whale Fishery *Laying On*., 1852
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 Portrait of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, By John James Audubon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The potential of the 100 foot upper falls was not recognized, or usable by the early settlers.
Rochester did not return the area until 1809, when he traveled the 275 mile journey from Hagerstown to Dansville with his family and household.
Rochester surveyed the plot and laid out streets and lots himself.
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 Nathaniel Currier ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Nathaniel Currier, Queen of the Amazons Attacked by a Lion, 19th century
Nathaniel Currier, Washington"s Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., 19th century
Nathaniel Currier, The U.S. Frigate United States Capturing H.B.M. Frigate Macedonian.
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 The Salvation Army - Rochester Area Services
Rochester, NY - The Salvation Army recently honored extraordinary volunteers and supporters.
Erich Postler of Pittsford is the chairman of Postler Jaeckle Corp. He is a volunteer and financial supporter of many non-profit organizations in Rochester.
He is also associated with the United Way, St. John's Home Foundation, the Nathaniel Rochester Society at Rochester Institute of Technology, Strong Museum, and Rochester Museum & Science Center.
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 Index of Surnames
Rochester, it is my wish that all the remainder of my money and estate be eqally divided between my four grandchildren as above named.
Zina ROCHESTER was born in 1836 in Union Co., SC.
NATHANIEL THRIFT9 ROCHESTER (NATHANIEL8, JOHN7, WILLIAM 2ND6, NICHOLAS5, NICHOLAS< /i>4, GEORGE3, SIR ROBERT2, JOHN1) was born March 14, 1802 in Hagerstown Washington Co, and died June 14, 1883 in Hagerstown Washington Co. He married CATHERINE ANN CUMMINGS June 15, 1836.
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 RIT - News & Events: 2000 College Delegates
Nathaniel Swart, an information technology major from Frewsburg, N.Y., is the recipient of the 1998-99 Internet Marketing and Advertising Association Information Technology Student of the Year Scholarship and the RIT Quality Cup Scholarship.
Marianne Lazzaro, a physician assistant major from Whitesboro, N.Y., is the recipient of an RIT Alumni Scholarship, Nathaniel Rochester Society Scholar Award, a Rochester Regional Physician Assistant Senior Scholarship and is a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
Amotz was a member of the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team, a Nathaniel Rochester Society Scholar, All-American Scholar for the U.S. Achievement Academy, a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the National Residence Hall Honorary Society.
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