Place:Williamstown, Oswego, New York, United States

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NameWilliamstown
TypeTown
Coordinates43.417°N 75.883°W
Located inOswego, New York, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery
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Williamstown is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 1,277 at the 2010 census.

The Town of Williamstown is on the county's eastern boundary.

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History

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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, Oneida, and a small chunk of 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, part of Oneida County at the time on March 24, 1804. Oswego County wasn’t formed until 1816.

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