This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3RB.2ACE/300.1 Message Board Post: Our first resource is Gay's Historical Gazetteer of Tioga Co NY c 1887.There were Horton's here early.None found in Candor Directory in the book. no Ditmars.What time frame? Jane Ditmorse page 383 Town of Owego. Isaac Whittemore first settler on Whittemore Hill neighborhood was born in VT 1798 & located on the old homestead in 1830.He married Jane DITMORSE & reared 12 children,7 living c 1887:Mary A (Mrs Daniel Cornell)Isaac V,Alvin,Virgil,Alonzo W,Egbert,& Harriet (Mrs Fred Rounds). Have you tried the Census? Deeds & Wills are an alternative as NY mandated vitals in 1880 but some places did not begin until after 1900. Town Clerk of Candor has vitals.County Clerk has wills & deeds.