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suit the first settlers here. The name of Buffalo Creek had then become all establish. Congress in 1805 established a collection district here by that name; and I have seen a letter from Joseph Ellicott, the Holland land company’s local agent dated august 24th 1807 in which, speaking of the lots of this village he calls it “New Amsterdam alias Buffalo,” Thus was the name, probably by some public act of the inhabitants themselves transferred from the creek to the village and probably about this time is because the popular name of the place. But the first legal recognition which I find of it, is in the law of the state.