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| | The History of New York State, Book VII, Chapter III |
 | | In the compromise of the conflicting claims of New York and Massachusetts to districts now in New York, a line was drawn from Pennsylvania to, and through, the present Wayne County, west of which, Massachusetts had the "preemption right,' or the first right to buy land from the Indians, the rightful owners. |
 | | The old "Preemption Line," the boundary fixed by the States of Massachusetts and New York, beyond which the inhabitants of the former-mentioned State has the first right of purchase from the Indians, almost divided the present county in halves, and was located three miles west of Sodus Bay. |
 | | The town was surveyed by Joseph Colt in lots of a quarter acre; a hotel was built; $20,000 dollars was expended in the first two years in improvements; Sodus quickly passed from the doubtful class to the head of the towns of the region. |
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