At a special town meeting, April 13, 1814, the first school officers were elected, as follows, viz.: School Commissioners, Henry Fellows, Brooks Mason, John Shoecraft School Inspectors, David Camp, Henry Sherman, Wm. Thirty dollars were appropriated for the poor, and fifty dollars as a bounty for wolves, at five dollars each. It was voted to build a pound on the southwest corner of Elijah Case's farm, and Peter Martet, Isaac Beatty, and Elijah Case were appointed a committee to construct it, at a cost of forty dollars, appropriated for that purpose. Shew, Reuben Bailey Committee of Inspection of Accounts, Ezra Randall, Ebenezer Peet, David Camp Collector, Daniel Wilson Pound-master, Elijah Case Overseers of Highways and Road Districts, twenty-five. Spears Constables, Daniel Wilson, Joseph J.
Kellogg Road Commissioners, Caleb Lyon, John Shoecraft, David Lee Overseers of the Poor, Benjamin Tripp, W. McKinstry Town Clerk, Brooks Mason Assessors Nathaniel Case, Charles P. McKinstry's store, near the present village of Penfield, and, under the direction of Caleb Lyon, Esq., proceeded to elect the following officers, viz.: On that day all the freeholders entitled by law to vote met in town meetin, at the school-house near Wm. On March 30, 1810, the town of Penfield, which then also included Webster, was set off but the first election of town officers, according to the records, did not take place until April 2, 1811. On April 6, 1806, all that territory embraced in the six northeastern towns of Monroe County was brought under one town organization, and known as the town of Boyle. Source: History of Monroe County, New York Everts, Ensign & Everts 1788-1877 HISTORY OF THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES in Monroe County, NY
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