Readers' Theatre Script from Historical Data Part 3

Reader Three: One half-township of Owego
Reader Two: including the village
Reader Three: had already been acquired from the Oneida by James McMaster. Some delicate negotiations led to his claim being recognized as the McMaster Patent.
Reader Four: Elihu Parsons
Ira Seymour
Elisha Bradley
Elnathan Curtis
Eliphalet Parsons, a settler of Lisle
Orringh Stoddard
Josiah Bradley
Isaac Curtis
Jacob Parsons
Ashbel Strong
Reader One: Three of the original eleven soon came to this part of the county to “view the land.” These men were Amos Patterson, his brother-in-law, Colonel Avid Pixley and Captain Joseph Raymond.
Reader Two: The tract of land was divided into lots, each of the sixty proprietors taking his share of lots according to the amount of money he had invested.
Reader Four: Beulah Patterson Brown, one of the founders of the Congregational Church of Newark Valley
Henry Williams Dwight
Oliver Partridge, Jr.
Thaddeus Thompson
Elijah Brown
Azariah Egleston
Amos Patterson
Caleb Walker
John Brown
Jonathan Edwards, uncle to Aaron Burr
Silas Pepoon
Reader Three: On the original map
Reader One: now property of Library of Cornell University
Reader Three: each lot was marked on inch wide by two and one-half inches long.
The first settlers set out from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1791, arriving in what is now Berkshire on April 1.
Reader Four: William Walker
Samuel Brown, head proprietor and Uncle to Abraham and Isaac Brown, first settlers of Berkshire
Jonathan Ingersol
Benjamin Pierson
Ebenezer Williams
Samuel Brown, Jr.
Isaac Jenks, whose descendents settled Jenksville
Jeremiah H. Pierson
Jonathan Woodbridge