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==History== ''Significant portions of this section is sourced from Conover, Chapter XXV.'' The Seneca Indian village of Onnaghee (or Onaghee, aka Snyder-McClure village) was located in Hopewell. It was abandoned sometime before 1750, and the former residents likely founded the newer village at Canandaigua.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_us-AQAAMAAJ&q=onaghee&pg=PA2|title=Seneca Indian Villages: Principal Settlements Between Canandaigua and Seneca Lake|last=Conover|first=George Stillwell|date=January 1, 1889|publisher=publisher not identified|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKhsSFAdL88C|title=Iroquois Population History and Settlement Ecology, AD 1500β1700|date=January 1, 2008|isbn=9781109018172|language=en}}</ref> Settled beginning in 1789, the town of Hopewell, New York, was originally part of a tract of land first called "District of Easton" and then "Lincoln" and was part of the [[Phelps and Gorham Purchase]] of 1788. The original settlers in the area were former New Englanders. According to ''The History of Ontario County New York'', some of the earliest pioneers included "Daniel Gates, Daniel Warner, Ezra Platt, Samuel Day, George Chapin, Israel Chapin, Jr., Frederick Follett, Thomas Sawyer, Benjamin Wells and Mr. Sweet, all of whom were from Massachusetts, while William Wyckoff who was another pioneer, was from Pennsylvania." In 1807, the name of the town was changed again, this time to "Gorham," in honor of [[Nathaniel Gorham]]. The Town of Hopewell was formed out of the northern section of the [[Gorham, New York|Town of Gorham]] on March 29, 1822.<ref> {{ cite book |url = https://archive.org/stream/historyofontario01mill#page/394/mode/2up |title = A History of Ontario County, New York and its people |author = Milliken, Charles F. |publisher = New York : Lewis Historical Publ. Co. |language = en |date = 1911 }} </ref> On April 17, 1823, the first town meeting was held and the first town officers were elected. They were: * Supervisor β Nathan Lewis * Town Clerk β John Prince * Assessors β Elisha Higby, George Brundage, and James Birdseye * Highway Commissioners β Joel S. Hart, Erastus Lamed, and William Canfield * Overseers of the Poor β Rufus Warner and Lemuel Babcock * Commissioner of Schools β William Buchan, Jason Angel, and Joshua Case * Inspector of Schools β Joseph Merrill, William Bodman, and Joel Amsden * Constables β Timothy Dunham, Hiram Dillon, William Lamed, and Joseph Parker * Collector β Walter Wells * Justice of the Peace β Nathaniel Lewis, John Price, Amos Jones and Elisha Higby Between 1830 and 1890, the population of Hopewell ranged from 2,202 (1830) to 1,655 (1890). In 1825 the County Board of Supervisors purchased farmland in the southeastern part of the town and established a home for the county poor. That land today is still owned by Ontario County and is used to house the County Health Facility, County Historian and Archives Center and other County facilities. In 1844 members of the Fourier Society of the City of Rochester established the Ontario Union, a utopian community based on the works of French socialist [[Charles Fourier]], in Hopewell. According to a Fourierist newspaper, the Ontario Union was located at Bates' Mills, about five miles from the main city of Canandaigua, and was home to "chairmakers, carpenters, wheelrights, millwrights, edge tool makers, blacksmiths, machinists, carriage trimmers, &c."<ref>''The Phalanx'', vol. I no. 20, December 9, 1844</ref>
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