tract of land near the river's Upper Falls. The final payment of $1,750 was made on June 22, 1808. Life on the Genesee Rochester's interest in the land he now owned along the Genesee, in part, prompted him to decide to relocate his family to the river valley in May, 1810. On 10 June of that year, the family reached Dansville and established a homestead. Rochester quickly became a leading citizen of Dansville upon his arrival, establishing numerous businesses and mills and playing an active role in the early politics of the town. So busy was his life in Dansville that he offered to sell his share of the Upper Falls tract to Major Carroll, though Carroll convinced him to keep his interest. In January, 1814, Rochester sold his property and holdings in Dansville—a grist mill, saw mill, 700 acres of land, interest in a wool carding shop, and the first paper mill in Western New York—for $24,000 and moved to East Bloomfield in Ontario County. Rochesterville In 1811, Rochester began the process of establishing a town on the Upper Falls tract. He laid out streets on a gridiron pattern and established plots of land for municipal, church, and business use. Later that year, he began to offer the plots for sale: quarter-acre lots on the two main roads—Buffalo Street running east to west and leading to a bridge across the river, and Mill Street running north to south—were sold for $50, except for the northwest lot at Four Corners, which sold for $200; lots on adjoining streets were sold for $30 and buyers were required to pay a $5 deposit and build a home or business twenty-by-sixteen feet within one year in order to secure the lot. He reserved large lot on Buffalo Street for public buildings. While the settlement had previously been called The Falls or Falls Town, the three partners agreed to the name "Rochesterville." When later accused of vanity for the name Rochester quipped, "Should I call [the village] Fitzhugh or Carroll, the slighted gentleman would certainly feel offended with the other; but if I called it by my own name, they would most likely be angry with me; so, it is best to call it Rochester and serve both alike." The first settlers to arrive, on May 1, 1812, were Hamlet Scrantom and his family. Work on their cabin at Four Corners was not yet