Added today to the Chenango County site - Otselic Business Directory for 1869 - 70: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/69otselc.htm As this township borders Cortland and Madison counties there are many surnames that sound familiar and while the specific names may not be familiar to me, the surnames certainly are and having now studied central New York state for the last 5 years they seem like old friends. They are names that I've seen here on the lists, in cemeteries of the region, my own research or from the Wisconsin connections to central New York. Some of the surnames that stood out: Babcock, Beckwith, Card, Chesebro, Crandall, Dutton, Fish, Jacquith, Kenyon, Kinney, Lamphere, Messenger, Miner, Soul(e), Stanbro, Stearns, Tallett, Ufford, Wildman, Wolcott. I got to thinking of those whose occupations were other than farmer and wondered how many of those occupations no longer exist or are true speciality occupations today. Almost all of them are recognizable even to us in the 21st century but there was at least one that I'm not sure what it was the person did: ashery. Was this a what we call a chimney sweep? Tim Stowell