The Town of Milo and Its Records
Milo was organized in 1818 from part of the town of Benton in Ontario
County, and then still included part of the modern town of Torrey. Its
original boundaries included the part of the seventh township in the
first range that was not part of Jerusalem, and the land east of that to
Seneca Lake. It was proposed to name it Milan after the city in northern
Italy, but since another town in Dutchess County had a 10-day priority
to use of the name, it was changed to Milo, the provenance of which is
unclear. It was one of Yates County's five original towns.
Milo contains some excellent farmland, and is the only town to have
frontage on two of the beautiful Finger Lakes. The hamlet of Milo Center
was founded in 1789 by several families who came to this part of New
York with the Universal Friend, thus making it the state's oldest continuously
inhabited settlement west of Seneca Lake. Other hamlets persist at Himrod
and Second Milo. The Outlet of Keuka Lake flows through the northern
part of the town east of Penn Yan, and since it is one of the area's
few reliable perennial streams it was once the focus of a thriving water-powered
milling industry. The first mill in western New York was built by the
Univeral Friends in 1790, and the same site was still generating electricity
in 1958.
Milo contains much of the village of Penn Yan, everything south of
North Avenue and east of a line that passes just west of Lakeview
Cemetery. The town hall is in the village of Penn Yan, at 140 Main
Street.
The following series of records were filmed, and (except for the
Vital Records) may be viewed at the town office, at the County
Historian's office, and at the New York State Library in Albany.
TOWN RECORDS ON MICROFILM
ASSESSMENT ROLLS
1890-1972 (missing 1894, 1897, 1899-1901, 1903-7, 1913)
MINUTE BOOKS
1852 - 1992
VITAL RECORDS REGISTERS
Births, deaths and marriages 1888-1913 [INDEX], Births and deaths 1872-1934, Births
and deaths 1914-1919, Births 1923-1938 and deaths 1924-1933, Births
1938-1982, Births 1976-1994, Deaths 1933-1967; Deaths 1967-1989, Deaths
1976-1994, Marriages 1908-1925, Marriages 1925-1943, Marriages 1943-1951,
Marriages 1951-1963; Marriages 1963-1975, Marriages 1975-1983, Marriages
1984-1989, Marriages 1989-1994
HIGHWAY SURVEYS
Road scraper book 1893-1905, Record of highway survey 1800-1869, Record of
highway survey commissioners' minutes 1852-1904
JUSTICE DOCKETS
Justice St. John (civil) 1896-1903; Douglas
(criminal) 1908-1913; Stoll (children's court) 1915; Randolf (civil)
1928-1929; Justice Nielsen (criminal) 1969-1982; (civil) 1970-1979;
(small claims) 1976-1984; (civil) 1979-1985; Justice Nielson (small
claims) 1984-1988; (criminal) 1981-1989; Justice Keilman (criminal)
1974-1977; (civil) 1974-1977; (small claims) 1976-1977; Justice Hart
(civil) 1962-1964; 1964-1965; 1964-1966; Justice Hart (civil) 1966-1967;
1971-1972; 1972-1973; Justice Dunn (civil) 1978-1984; (small claims)
1979-1981; (criminal (1979-1991; (small claims) 1981-1983; Justice Dunn
(small claims) 1983-1984; 1984-1989; 1985-1987; 1987-1989; Justice
Symonds (criminal) 1981-1983; 1989-1991
DISTRICT SCHOOL RECORDS
School bills and apportionments
1856-1905; Supervisor's book of school district business 1872-1901;
Survey of district #10 1899; John T, Andrews v Board of Education 1900;
Orders and cancelled checks for teachers' salary 1906; miscellaneous
district school records 1903-1928
OVERSEER OF THE POOR AND WELFARE RECORDS
Account books 1876-1878; 1878-1883; 1879-1882; 1890-1891; Account books
1893-1895; 1901-1905; 1903-1904; 1904-1905; 1907-1921; Expenditure books
1882-1885; 1883-1884; 1886-1887; 1888-1889; Expenditure books 1899-1900;
1901-1903; 1905-1907 (2); 1907-1912; Cash books 1885-1886; 1887-1888;
1891-1893; 1899-1902; 1903-1905; 1912-1918; Cash books 1914-1921; 1918-1925;
Reports, payment rolls and warrants 1896-1951; 1898-1928; 1899-1904;
1946-1948; 1948; 1951; 1952