Hume
Hume was formed from Pike, Wyoming county on Feb. 20, 1822. It lies upon the north border of the county, west of center.
The first settlement was made at Mill's Mills in 1807 by Roger Mills, from Montgomery county. The first school was taught in the barn of Roger Mills, Jr. in the summer of 1812 by Caroline Russell from Montgomery county. George Mills kept the first inn at Mills Mills in 1815 and Elisha Mills the first store at the same place in 1809. Roger Mills erected first sawmill in 1807, and the first gristmill in 1808. [Source: J.H. French, Gazetteer of State of New York, 1860, p.168]
Cities, Villages and Hamlets
Fillmore - hamlet on the left bank of the genesee River
Hume - formerly Cold Creek
Rossburg - hamlet northeast of Fillmore
Wiscoy - hamlet northeast of Fillmore; formerly called Mixville
Mills Mills - north of Fillmore settled by the Mills family
Rondus Miller Town of Hume Historian PO Box 302 Fillmore, NY 14735 Telephone: 585-567-8399 email: humehistorian@rochester.rr.com | PO Box 302 Fillmore, NY 14735 Telephone: 585-567-2666 | Town of Hume Museum 10842 Claybed Road Hume, New York |
Churches
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Cemeteries
Note: All cemeteries, except #23-7 have been recorded by the Rushford Town Clerk.
*code #s refer to the Allegany County Cemetery Index card file at the Allegany County Historical Society and LDS Family History Library microfilm. See Western New York Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. II, No. 1 |
Miltary
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Book List
- Hume Pioneer Sketches: a History of Early Times, First Settlers, Pioneer Experiences and Hardships, Our Predecessors, the "Six Nations"by John S. Minard, Fillmore, NY, Northern Allegany Observer, 1888; also University Microfilms International.
- Cemetery Records of De Wittville, Hume, and Pomfret, New York and North East Pennsylvania copied and compiled by the D.A.R.; also at FHCs
One of the most serious difficulties which pioneers on the reservation had to encounter was crossing the river. Population was sparse and money scarce, consequently bridges were dispensed with.
The “great flood” of October, 1835, was an event remembered with much interest. It formed a land-mark in the chronology of the town. Whole fields of corn and pumpkins, and stacks of hay and grain, were carried off.
The waters spread over the entire lower flats of the river, nearly a mile wide in some places. Cattle and sheep were drowned, and horses carried away. In some places the channel of the river was changed. The farm of Allen Nourse, embracing in part a beautiful flat, nearly in the form of an ox-bow, was cut entirely in two in a few hours. [History of Allegany County 1806-1876, Beers, p. 310]
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