The town of Sangerfield, Oneida county, N.Y., is situated in the southern part of the county, eighty-eight miles westerly from Albany, on the Cherry Valley turnpike, and seventeen southwest from Utica.  Its latitude is north 43 degrees 54’. With an elevation of about 1,375 feet above tide-water and 800 above Utica and the long level on the Erie canal.  Its shape is nearly that of a parallelogram, and contains about 18,900 acres.  This town was originally known as Township No. Twenty of the twenty townships laid out upon the west side of the Unadilla river.  It was surveyed in the summer of 1789, under a law of the Legislature passed February 25, 1789.  After its survey, and previous to its settlement, it was simply known to the land speculators of the day as “Township No. 20 of the twenty towns.”  It was included in Whitestown, Montgomery county, at the time of the survey, and in 1790 and 1791 was purchased of the State upon speculation, chiefly by Michael Myers, Jedediah Sanger, and John J. Morgan, a considerable portion being subsequently leased in perpetuity.  Feb. 16, 1791, upon the formation of Herkimer county, this township was included in that county, and the first step taken towards its settlement in the fall of this year.  Sangerfield was in Chenango county upon its formation, by an act passed March 15, 1798, but was annexed to Oneida county, April 4, 1804.
The town is essentially an agricultural one, although there is some manufacturing carried on in the village of Waterville, which stands chiefly upon lots Nos. 39 and 40; but a small part of the village is however, in the town of Marshall.
 By the census of June, 1870, the town contained a population 2,513,-- the village of Waterville containing about one-half.  On the 1st of March, 1871, the town numbered among its residents the following persons seventy years of age and upward:-
 
 

Mrs. Joana Carey             98 Mrs. Amy Wilcox             96 John Davis                        92 Mrs. Sally West                90 Jonas Banton                    90 Luthur Warriner                89 George Green                   89 Jonathan Jewett                88 Mrs. Hannah Dye             86 Lemuel Hill                       86 Mrs. Eliza Wells               86 Eleazar Tompkins             85 Mrs. Ziphah Carey           85 Nathaniel Putnam             85 Mrs. Nathaniel Putnam     84 Aaron Stafford                 84 Leander Gridley               84 John McCluskey              84 William Lawton                83 Mrs. __ Day                    82 Pliny Beebe                      82 Zerah Rowell                    82 John Haven                      82 Chauncey Baldwin           80 John Egbert                      80 Mrs. Moses Bush             76 Richard Pugh                   76 Terence Brady                 76 Homer Hale                     76 Joseph Miller                   76 Mrs. Zerah Rowell           75 Mrs. Mary Geer              75 Mrs. A. Miller                 75 Mrs. Joseph De Forrest   74 Chaucey Buell                 74 Henry Tower                   74 Loomis Miller                  74 Abner Stockwell            74 Martin Morgan               74 Isaac Risley                    74 James Ledwell                74 Miller Babbitt                  74 Jeremiah Tooley              74 Mrs. Susan Chase           74 Mrs Henry Tower           73 Mrs. Horace Terry          73 Thomas Keenan              73 John Winchell                  73

Randall Wightman                  80 Mrs. George Leaworthy         80 Mrs. Sarepta Stafford             79 Mrs. Tryphena Stetson           79 John Mott                               79 George Penner                        79 Darius Babcock                      78 Mrs. Amy Owen                     78 Mrs.___ Robinson                  78 Richard Damon                       78 Guy E. Edgerton                     78 Mrs. Susan Benedict               77 Mrs. Gilbert M. Gifford           77 Horace Tower                        77 Horace Bigelow                      77 Philip Lumbard                       77 Harry Chesebrough                77 Medina Preston                      77 Joseph DeForrest                   77 Mrs. Jonas Banton                 76 Mrs. Lemuel Hill                    76 Mrs. Aaron Stafford              76 Mrs. John Mott                     76 Mrs. Eliza Coggshall              76 Mrs. Rhoda Loomis              76 Mrs. Mary Duffy                   73 Hugh Brady                           73 Mrs. Elisha Peck                   73 Elexis Seymour                      73 Mrs. Elexis Seymour             73 Mrs. Dennis Bangs                73 Clark J. Rogers                     73 Bridget Manley                      73 Mrs. Stanton Park                 73 Elijah Conger                        72 Mrs. E. Bigelow                    72 Daniel Wells                          72 Mrs. A.B. Robinson              72 H.B. Norton                         72 Richard Hughes                    72 Mrs. James Ledwell             71 William P. Cleveland            71 Alvin Bugley                        71 Mrs. B. Southwick              71 Lyman Wolcott                   71 Julius Candee                      71 Asa Carter                          70 Adino Winchell                   70

  Ninety-six in all; and it is not a little singular that there is not a Smith, Jones, Brown, Black, or White among them, notwithstanding these families are all represented in the town, and two of them (Jones and White) largely so.  Aaron Stafford and Leander Gridley were born the same day.