From: "Barbara Lake Peters" <barmusic@erols.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:26:48 -0500

from "History of Greene county, NY" Hope Farm Press 1969:
p.297:  Benjamin Spees, EDWARD LAKE, and Eleazer Knowles were among the
first settlers in the vicinity of Greenville village.  In the summer of
1781 they left their homes in the good old State of Connecticut on
horseback, crossed the river at Hudson, and made their perilous way
through the forest wo where the village of Greenville now stands.
Locating their lands, they returned to their homes in Woodbury,
CT........the following winter with their families and a few others they
began preparation for homes in this region, which was then the Far West.
 EDWARD LAKE made his purchase and built his cabin where the residence
of Ezra Sherrill now stands.  It is located on the Prevost Patent."
   (looking in the index, the Prevost Patent was 12,000 acres in
Greenville & Durham)

1776 census Maryland:  HENRY LAKE lived at Straight's Hundred in
Dorchester Co.  Only LAKE listed in the census.  He had 3 males under
10, 1 male at 30-40.
There were 2 females under 10, one between 10-16, and one at 30-40.