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Ward

Ward was formed from Alfred and Amity on Nov. 21, 1856. It is an interior town, lying south east of the center of the county.

The first settlement was made in 1817 by Abraham Waldruff of Ontario county. Daniel Ha-t and Hezekiah Ward settled in the north part in 1817-18. George Waldruff kept the first inn at Philips Creek Village, and Waldruff & Cartwright the first store. [Source: J.H.French, Gazetteer of State of New York, 1860, p.168]

Hamilton Child's 1875 Gazetteer - Ward

Cities, Villages and Hamlets

Philips Creek - hamlet near north town line

Town Historian- Vacant -

Town Clerk
Sue Wlasniewski
5755 White Rd
Belmont, NY 14813

Telephone: 585-268-5043

Churches

Methodist Episcopal

Cemeteries

Phillips Creek - code #25-1; (Town 3, Range 1MR, lot 34), Phillips Creek Village; overgrown
Wadsworth Hill - code #25-2; Snodgrass Place
Sprague Cemetery - code #25-3; (lot 22-23), Wadsworth Hill
Reynolds Cemetery - code #25-4; (lot 33), N.Y. Rte. 244
Black - Tucker Cemetery - code #25-5; (lot 8), Vandermark Road
Pierce Cemetery

*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

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