ADSIT BIOGRAPHY, ONEIDA CO., NY

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Excerpt from p. 38 of the book, Our County and Its People, A  Descriptive
Work on Oneida County, New York, ed. by Daniel E. Wager, published by The
Boston History Co., 1896. 

    Leonard E. Adsit was born in the town of Steuben, on the farm and in the
house where he now lives, in 1842, son of Erastus Adsit, who was born in
Columbia County in 1802, one of ten children born to Stephen Adsit of
Columbia County.  Stephen was a son of one of three brothers, who came
from England before the Revolutionary War.  He was a farmer, and came to
Steuben, where he purchased the farm, now owned by Leonard E. Adsit, in
1805. He cleared a good portion of it, and here spent his last days. He
participated in the War  of 1812.  Erastus Adsit spent his life on the
homestead, which he purchased of the heirs after his father's demise.  He
was a Whig until 1862, when he became a Democrat, and was well-known as
"Squire Adsit" having been justice for 24 years, and always took an
active interest in town and county affairs.