This week I received copies of a few pages from the "History of Wayne County, New York" published by Everts, Ensign and Everts, 1877. The account of the settlement of Walworth begins on page 185. Near the bottom of the page is the mention of the arrival in 1808 of "David Tiffany and Rowland Sackett, from Massachusetts ..." But something else on the page caught my eye ... The concerns of an early environmentalist: "Primitive Settlements." "The first settlement was commenced in 1799, when four families, by the name Millett, - Andrew, John, Samuel, and Daniel, settled in the southeast part of the town, as did a younger brother named Alexander. Daniel went to Ohio and took up his residence. He was in the woods one evening, and being mistaken in the gloom for a bear, was fired upon by a hunter and shot. Andrew became insane and hung himself. His mind was deranged from the belief that the world would soon be without wood, as it was being so rapidly cut away. Had he realized the mighty carbon-heaps stored just beneath the soil in such immense tracts, it would have gone far to effect a cure..." So it appears that in the early 1800s there was at least one who was concerned that men were depleating the world's resources. Thurmon TSFA Historian