New Hartford, New York
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 Entering New Hartford and Oneida County along County Route 24A.
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| Country | United States |
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| State | New York |
| County | Oneida |
| Population | 22,166 (2010) |
| Town Supervisor | Patrick Tyksinski (R)
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| Timezone | EST |
| - summer (DST) | EDT |
_highlighted.svg) Location in Oneida County and the state of New York.
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New Hartford is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 22,166. The name of New Hartford was provided by a settler family from Hartford, Connecticut.
The Town of New Hartford contains a village, also named New Hartford. New Hartford is the largest suburb of Utica, New York, which is located directly north of the town and village.
New Hartford was settled in March 1788 when Jedediah Sanger, who was bankrupted in 1794 by a fire at his farm in Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire moved to the area.
According to the earliest recorded history (Annals and Recollections of Oneida County, Jones, 1851), Sanger bought 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land at a price of fifty cents an acre. This land, thought to be separated into two equal parts by the Sauquoit Creek, was part of the Town of Whitestown at the time. Within a year, Sanger sold the area east of the creek to Joseph Higbee, the areas' second resident, for one dollar per acre. A subsequent survey found this area was 600 acres (240 ha).
This narrative of a 1000-acre purchase by Sanger for $500 and the ensuing resale to Higbee of half the land for $500 (a 100% profit) is repeated in The History of Oneida County, New York by Samuel W. Durant, 1878 which used the Jones' Annals of 1851 as a primary reference. The story was expressed in an address at the 1888 New Hartford Centennial by Henry Hurlburt, again citing Jones' Annals as his source. It is again repeated in Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York, Wager, 1896.
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