Here in New York the Federal government begins taking control of Great Lakes international trade. Ignoring last year's report from its own surveyor general, they declare Buffalo, rather than Black Rock, as an official Lake Erie port of entry. And, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Genesee River, a customs agent is appointed for Charlotte. The state moves on with its own business. Oneida County gives birth to fraternal twins, Jefferson and Lewis counties.
Land sales continue briskly.
300 lots are sold in the Holland Land Purchase at the western end of the state. At the Falls of the Genesee River, Charles Carroll, William Fitzhugh and Nathaniel Rochester buy up Ebenezer Allan's One Hundred Acre Tract, and William Cole establishes a ferry. Between the Hundred Acres and the Holland lands, the Phelps and Gorham Tract begins filling up with immigrants from the Scottish highlands and a Presbyterian Kirk is established at Caledonia. Genesee developer James Wadsworth lays out a nearby town to be known as Churchville, elsewhere in the state communities are begun at Tonawanda, in the west, and Kingston along the Hudson. Up north in Antwerp an industry gets under way as entrepreneurs begin turning local rock into millstones.