After the war, John Bosley again ran his mills until Joseph & Samuel Hutchinson took ownership of the mills by 1791 when Bosley decided to sell out. James Tilghman, the lessor of the land that would become the Washingtonville area, died in 1793. His son William Tilghman soon began to sell off parcels of his Washingtonville area estate. The Hutchinsons bought the area settled by the Bosley family, yet still owned by the Tilghmans, in 1795. In 1796, the Hutchinsons founded the “Town of Washington.” family purchased frontier land in western upstate NewYork in 1792, the Bosley family continued to have a presence in our area until 1795. They moved to New York in the 1790s. John died in 1800 at the age of 65. He is buried in Geneseo, Livingston, NewYork. Although the Bosley Jumping back to the present day, the cabin found in Washingtonville in 2020 is located on a parcel previously leased by Bosley. The log cabin would have housed the
Bosleys as they operated their grist and saw mills, farmed the adjacent land, and continued to clear the area of virgin forest. The residents of Washingtonville, with support from county and state elected officials and agencies, decided they wanted to keep this piece of their history and so the cabin was dismantled piece by piece and placed in storage until a home
and funds were acquired for its reconstruction. In partnership with the Montour-DeLong Community Fair Association, the fair was able to obtain funding to save the two-story cabin and have it rebuilt on their land. The Doolittle Construction Company rebuilt the cabin during
Each piece of wood was labeled prior to being dismantled in Washingtonville so the cabin could later be accurately rebuilt piece-by-piece.
Doorways were fortified and rebuilt.
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