Editing Williamstown, New York (section)

== History ==
After the Revolutionary War, Williamstown did not exist until plans were made to settle west of the Hudson River. In 1791 Nicholas and John Roosevelt purchased 525,000 that covered most of [[Oswego County, New York|Oswego]], [[Oneida County, New York|Oneida]], and a small chunk of [[Herkimer County, New York|Herkimer]] counties known as the Roosevelt purchase.  In 1794 it was then purchased by George Scriba, which then became the Scriba Patent.  Scriba then broke up most of the land that he purchased into townships and given what is now Williamstown the name Franklin, Township No.5.  Ichabod Comstock was the first to settle in Franklin in 1801.  Judge Henry Williams relocated to Franklin from [[Camden, New York]] in 1802 and shortly after Williams came to Franklin the people renamed the town Williamstown in Williams’s honor. Williamstown became an official town after separating from [[Mexico, New York|Mexico]], part of Oneida County at the time on March 24, 1804. Oswego County wasn’t formed until 1816.<ref>Gorski, Glenna, Clevland, Roberta, Loomis, Willard, Gardner, Florance, La Duke, Anne."A Look at the Past: Williamstown, NY. "Compco, Inc., 1991. Print.</ref>