Angelica is a town in the middle of Allegany County, New York, United States.

The town hall is housed in the Old Allegany County Courthouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

[6] Angelica Schuyler Church was an American woman who encouraged other women to fight for their voices, and a witty, society-loving sister of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, who, when young, was much less suited to society than Angelica, preferring to run wild and, when older, tend to the injured soldiers.

As a young woman, Angelica eloped with John Church, who was using the pseudonym “Jack Carter”.

In 1797, the young United States paid back its war debt to Church in the form of 100,000 acres of land in Western New York.

Angelica’s son Philip Schuyler Church travelled to what is now Allegheny and Genesee Counties to take possession of the land, with his surveyor Moses Van Campen.

The historian John S. Minard wrote of the town's establishment in Allegany County and Its People (1896):"The town was formed by an act of the Legislature, passed Feb. 25, 1805, and described as "being in width twelve miles," just that of the Morris Reserve, and in length "from south to north extending thirty-four miles from the Pennsylvania line," taking in about two-thirds of the towns of Granger and Grove.

For their honeymoon, they traveled first by boat, then by raft as far west as Bath, New York, then on horseback to the banks of the Genesee River.

[7] The Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 and New York State Route 17) passes through the town.