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SEYMOUR MURDOCK
Seymour Murdock was born in Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1764. He married Catharine Buck of Amenia. She was born in 1768. They moved from Greene County to Ridgeway in 1810, and located on the Ridge Road, about five miles east of Johnson's Creek. At that time there was no settler between Mr. Murdock's settlement and Lake Ontario on the north; none south to the swamp but Coon and Walsworth in Shelby, and east and west on the Ridge it was several miles to any neighbors. The nearest postoffice, store or church, was at Batavia, thirty miles distant. The nearest gristmill was at Niagara Falls, forty miles distant. Mr. Murdock was one of the first settlers on the Ridge, in Ridgeway. He had eight sons and four daughters. His sons names were Israel, John, Seymour B., Henry, Zimri, Jasper, Hiram, and William. Israel kept public house some fifteen years on the Ridge Road. He was one of the best business men in town. He died in 1831. John died in Gaines, September 19th, 1866. Mr. Seymour Murdock died April 14th, 1833. His wife died September 7th, 1823.
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