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1875 county atlas, Clay Township footnote (p. 62) and directory (p. 91); Howard (1907) I, p. 284
The ground the town stands on was a farm for eighty years before it was a town. Roseland occupies part of Section 23, Township 38 North, Range 2 East. The 1875 county atlas's settler footnote for Clay Township assigns the section, in its own words: "Menzo Webster on Section 23, in 1834" — and the atlas's directory, forty-one years later, still lists him there: "Webster, Menzo — Section 23 — Farmer — Monroe Co., New York — 1834." No plat, store, tavern, post office or crossroads is recorded on the section in any county carrier read, in 1834 or at any later pre-1916 date: the section held a farm, a mill on its river side, and — for a time — the township's first school. The territory that petitioned for incorporation in December 1915 as Roselawn was carved out of farm sections like this one, and the record of its ground before that petition is the township's record, which the following articles carry at the strength the three county books give it.