Editing Nathaniel Rochester (section)

===Life on the Genesee===
Rochester's interest in the land he now owned along the Genesee prompted him to relocate his family to the river valley in May 1810.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Joseph |last2=Heininger |first2=Mary Lynn Stevens |title=4 Score & 4 Rochester Portraits 1984 |date=1984 |publisher=Rochester Sesquicentennial Inc. |location=Rochester, N.Y. |page=4}}</ref> On June 10 of that year, the family reached Dansville and established a homestead.

Upon his arrival, Rochester quickly became a leading citizen of Dansville, establishing numerous businesses and mills and playing an active role in the early politics of the town. He offered to sell his share of the Upper Falls tract to Major Carroll, though Carroll convinced him to keep his interest. In January 1814, Rochester sold his property and holdings in Dansville—a grist mill, sawmill, 700 acres of land, interest in a wool carding shop, and the first paper mill in Western New York—for $24,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=24000|start_year=1814}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) and moved to [[East Bloomfield, New York|East Bloomfield]] in [[Ontario County, New York|Ontario County]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Osgood |first1=Howard |title=Rochester; Its Founders and Its Founding |journal=Publications of the Rochester Historical Society |date=1922 |volume=1 |page=55}}</ref>