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History of Bathfor the First Fifty YearsbyAnsel J. McCall
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIIIPart VCaptain Williamson, it would seem, had previously advised Mr. Patrick Colquhoun, who had the management of the affairs of the syndicate, of the name and location of the town, for under date of June 15, 1793, he writes as follows: "I am glad you are so much pleased with your new town of Bath. I hope it may prove a healthy spot, for on this much depends. It is certainly a position infinitely more convenient than Williamsburg, and on this account I am glad you mean to fix your residence there." The Captain, out of compliment to his friends and patrons, had named the principal street running east and west, Morris; the public square, Pulteney; the broad street parallel to it with a similar square, St. Patrick, the street between them, Steuben; and that connecting them, Liberty—names which they have ever since borne, except St. Patrick, which was foolishly changed to Washington a few years since. On the 27th of September, Christian, the eldest daughter of Captain Williamson, died, aged eight years, and lies buried in the old cemetery on Steuben street. It was the first death in the settlement. According to tradition, the first birth was a daughter of Samuel Doyle. The Captain states in his published narrative that previous to the setting in of winter a gristmill and saw-mill located across the Conhocton (at the end of the bridge) were nearly completed, and that already fifteen families had settled in the town. Besides his own, the only famines that are known to have been living here at that time were those of Metcalf, Doyle, Dunn, Corbett, Turner, Aulls, Paul and a German family named Gottleib. Historical Address of Ansel J. McCall, June 6, 1893,
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