the population of rochester new york is 208,046 residents.
what is the population of rochester new york?
208,046 residents
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rochester () is a city on the southern shore of lake ontario in western new york. with a population of 208,046 residents, rochester is the seat of monroe county and the third most populous city in new york state, after new york city and buffalo. the metropolitan area has a population of just over 1 million people. it is about east of buffalo and west of syracuse.
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ebenezer, or “indian,” allan was from many angles a dramatic and certainly a colorful figure-a man well suited to carry out the purpose of building a new frontier millsite in a mill-site newly acquired "west of the genesee river" in what is now rochester new york. he was chosen to carry out this task by developer oliver phelps. although as a tory ranger he had earned a bad reputation among the settlers to the south and east, allan had later operated for several years as a peaceful trader among the indians along the genesee river. he had two daughters by a seneca wife, and his enterprising activity had made him a figure of some importance in the indian community. allan had proved agreeable to the phelps and gorham purchase in the summer of 1788, and before returning to new england oliver phelps chose this hardy frontiersman as the man to build and operate the mills at the falls of the genesee in what would become rochester new york. it is uncertain whether the one-hundred-acre tract was given as a reward for his co-operation in bringing the indians to terms at buffalo creek, or as an inducement for allan to undertake the expense of building the mills on such a distant and unsettled frontier. in any case, title was promised by the following articles of agreement
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