CHAPTER XI.

ONONDAGA COUNTY.

COMFORT TYLER-LESSEE COMPANY-PROPERTY LINE-BURR CONSPIRACY – ORGANIZATION OF ONONDAGA COUNTY-ROADS-GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTY -ORGANIZATION OF COURTS-JUDGES-SURROGATES-CLERKS SHERIFFSTREASURERS-MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-SENATORS-MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLYFIRST BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS-VALUATIONS-CENSUS-EARLY MILITARY AP

POINTMENTS.

COMFORT TYLER was born in the town of Ashford, Connecticut, on the 22d of February, 1764, being the fourth of seven brothers. In the year 1777, when only thirteen years of age, he manifested a strong desire to enter the army, and resolved to enlist as a soldier in defense of his country. At the age of fourteen, he entered the army with his father's consent. His term of service was of short duration, and his duties light, being mostly confined to duty in and about the fortress of West Point. In 1783, he went to Caughnawaga, on the Mohawk River, where he entered upon the business of a surveyor, taught a school; and as is often the case with young men of gifted minds, he made greater advances in useful knowledge than his pupils. Among the superior men who have emigrated from New-England to the wilderness of Western NewYork, a large proportion of them have thought it a necessary preliminary to teach a school, and to learn the art of surveying land, in order to secure a small fund and successfully to make headway in the world. While Mr. Tyler was thus engaged at Caughnawaga, General James Clinton came up the