Editing Annsville, New York (section)

==History==
Annsville was settled in April 1793 when John W. Bloomfield moved from [[Burlington, New Jersey]] to what is now the hamlet of [[Taberg]], and erected a [[saw mill]] and a [[grist mill]].<ref name="Wager">Our County and Its People:A Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York, Daniel Elbridge Wager, The Boston History Company, 1896</ref><ref name="Durant">History of Oneida County New York, Samuel W. Durant, Philadelphia, Everts & Gariss, 1878</ref>

===Land===
Annsville's territory is land first acquired by John and Nicholas Roosevelt in 1791 from the New York State Land Commission.  This [[Land patent|patent]] was for 530,000 acres situated in present [[Oswego County, New York|Oswego]] and [[Oneida County, New York|Oneida]] counties.  Approximately 499,000 acres of the Roosevelt Tract became ''Scriba’s Patent'' in 1793 as partial payment of debts owed to the Scriba Bank by the Roosevelts. The land was divided into Townships at this time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scribahistoricalsociety.org/our-story/|title=SCRIBA: A GENEALOGIST'S HISTORY}}</ref> Annsville contains portions of towns 1,2,3, and 8.<ref name="Durant"/>

===Early settlers===

Early settlers of the northern part of the town include Benjamin, Jonathan, James, and Abraham Morton (brothers) who arrived from [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] in June 1803.  Daniel Miller arrived from [[Granville, Massachusetts]] in 1804.  Jonathan and Samuel Stanford arrived in 1805, and Peter Abbott, [[American Revolutionary War|revolutionary war]] veteran, from [[Windham, Vermont]] in 1806.

Also arriving in 1806 was Elias Brewster, who moved from the nearby town of [[Western, New York|Western]], having arrived there from [[Connecticut]] in 1790. Other settlers to the town were Adam P. Campbell, Nicholas Armstrong, and Dan Taft.<ref name="Wager"/><ref name="Durant"/>

===Commerce===
In addition to farming, much of the early economic activity was related to [[lumber]], made possible by the abundance of trees and the water power of streams to run saw mills.  Lumber and various lumber products were manufactured in large quantity.  [[Pig iron]] was produced by the Oneida Iron and Glass Manufacturing Company from around 1811.<ref name="Wager"/>

The railroad reached Annsville with the construction of the Watertown & Rome Railroad, later the [[Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad]], with a station near the hamlet of Taberg in the 1840s.<ref name="Durant"/>

===Civic formation===
The town was formed on April 12, 1823, from land taken from Lee, Florence, Camden and Vienna.  The town was named after Ann Bloomfield, wife of John W. Bloomfield.  The first town meeting was held on March 2, 1824.  The following positions were filled: [[town supervisor]], [[town clerk]], [[Tax assessment|assessor]]s (3), commissioners of highways (3), [[Overseer of the poor|overseers of the poor]] (2), [[Tax collector|collector]], commissioners of schools (3), inspectors of schools (3), [[constable]]s (3), [[poundmaster]]s (2).<ref name="Wager"/><ref name="Durant"/>