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Patricia, did you ever get answers to your questions? This might help, or at least give some clues:
LEWIS COUNTY
from the
GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
by J. H. French
Published by R. Pearsall Smith
Syracuse, N. Y.
1860
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nylewis/frlewis.htm
The streams flowing from the plateau are generally rapid, furnishing an abundance of water power....Spring grains are readily cultivated; but this co. is particularly adapted to pasturage, dairying forming the principal pursuit of the people. Droughts seldom occur; but the uplands are noted for their deep snows. Within a few years, several extensive establishments have been erected upon Black, Moose, Beaver, and Deer Rivers, for the manufacture of leather, paper, lumber, and articles of wood. Two furnaces for the manufacture of iron from the ore are located near the N. border....The first settlers came from New England and settled at Leyden in 1794. The fame of the "Black River country spread through Mass. and Conn., and within the next ten years the country between Tug Hill and the river rapidly filled up with a laborious, intelligent, and enterprising population.
MARTINSBURGH: Settlement was begun by Gen. Walter Martin, at Martinsburgh, in 1801....Among the first settlers were Elijah Baldwin, Mrs. Richard Arthur and sons, Reuben Pitcher and sons, N. Cheney, Eli Rogers, Ebud Stephens, N. Alexander, Stephen Searle, Joseph Sheldon, Chillus Doty, A. Conkey, D. Ashley, S. Gowdy, C. and D. Shumway, and J. and O. Moore. W. Martin built the first mills, and in 1807 a paper mill.
Sharon
http://groups.msn.com/UpstateNewYorkGenealogyAndHistory
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