The Life and Times of John Mastick the Pioneer Lawyer of Rochester (Publications of The Rochester Bar Association, Number One) [New York]

54 pp. The pioneer lawyer of Rochester was John Mastick, who located first at the little hamlet called Charlottesburg, at the mouth of the Genesee river. Mr. Mastick came to this region about 1815, and died here in 1826. The second lawyer was Hastings R. Bender, who came to the place, as near as can be ascertained, about 1817, and he was followed during the next few years by Roswell Babbitt, Joseph Spencer, Jesse Dane, and Enos Pomeroy, about in the order named. These were the pioneers of the profession in Monroe county, and each is believed to have been located and in practice previous to the creation of the county, and while its territory formed a part of the older divisions, Ontario and Genesee. Succeeding pages will show who have been the subsequent practitioners in the courts, and we may now briefly call to notice the names of lawyers who have been chosen to the more exalted offices of the profession. - Genealogy Trails