This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goodemote, Vosburg, Wilcox, Bond, Sanders Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1790 Message Board Post: SOURCE: History of the Original Town of Concord being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins and Sardinia, Erie County, New York By Erasmus Briggs Picton Press, Camden, Maine (originally printed Rochester, NY, 1883) Every Name Index by June Partridge Zintz, June 1992 James Goodemote. The GOODEMOTES came to Ashford, Cattaraugus county, from near Kinderhook, Columbia county, N.Y., where James’ father, Philip GOODEMOTE, was born in 1796. he came to Ashford about 1816, and bought land of the Holland Land company near the Cattaraugus creek. He was then unmarried and was accompanied by his brother John. In the Fall of 1820, their father, John GOODEMOTE, and their brothers, Baltus, Harry and William came, all settling in Ashford. Philip, father of James, a soldier of 1812, was married in 1820 to Harriet VOSBURG. They had four sons and four daughters: James, Eliza, Philip Jr., Ann, John, Sally, David, and Sophia. James GOODEMOTE was born in Ashford in 1821; was married in 1846 to Maria WILCOX. They have two children living: Linda married Warner BOND, and James P. Mr. GOODEMOTE lives on the first farm cleared in the town of Ashford; it was cleared about 1815 by Nathan SANDERS. Mrs. GOODEMOTE’s father owned the farm fifty years ago, and it has been in possession of the family since.