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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Settlers first came to Rensselaerville during the Revolution. The first settler was [[Henry Van Dyke]]. Settlers followed from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticuit Connecticut], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts Massachusetts] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutchess_County,_New_York Dutchess County] in New York about 1788 including [[Samuel Jenkins]], [[Melatiah Hatch]], [[Nathanial Hatch]], [[Joseph Woodford]], [[Thomas Brown]], [[Joel Culver]], [[Jonathan Crocker]], [[Ashbel Culver]] and others. They built log cabins and remained in warm weather and in the winter returned east. These settlers were very poor. For the first year or two there was no horses owned within a mile of the village, and they had to carry their sugar 20 or 30 miles on their backs, exchange it for corn and return the same way.<ref name="PMHH"><u>[[People Made It Happen Here]]</u>, </ins>History <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of the Town of Rensselaerville ca. 1788-1950, Published 1977</ref>.</ins></div></td></tr>
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