The Town of Potter is located in the northwest part of the county and is south of Canandaigua.

Early settlers of the time included Rowes Perry, Benjamin Brown, Jesse Brown and Joshua Brown, Elias Gilbert, Jabez French, Abraham Lane, Isaac Lane and Jacob Lane, Francis Briggs and Peleg Briggs, Jr., Edward Craft, David Southerland and John Griffin.

Around 1805, Griffin and Riggs operated an ashery store and a distillery north of Nettle Valley, on what would eventually become the Erwin Wells farm in 1929.

Riggs left, and in 1812, Griffin sold the operation to his brother-in-law, Richard M. Williams.

Williams became an associate judge of Yates County; he largely concentrated on the manufacture of potash and whisky, and died on June 4, 1837.

Luke Conley also built a distillery in Nettle Valley some time after his arrival in Potter in 1805.

For five years, he worked for Judge Potter in payment for 90 acres (360,000 m2) on lot four of the second range.

The tavern sat on the knoll on the east side of the road and just north of the Potter Center Schoolhouse #11.

Many older documents refer to "Darby's Corners," which was the intersection of what we now call Simmons, Mothersell and Middle Rd.

His son, Lindsey D. Warfield, is listed in the 1876 Yates County Atlas at that site.

Other early settlers in the Warfield Neighborhood were a Mr. Wesson, William Foster, and Abraham Florence.

Others were James Southerland, Jacob Voorhees, Peter Lamoreaux, Henry VanWormer who in 1796 settled on the Darwin B. Holbrook farm, which is now owned by the Pendleton family.

At that location there is mention of the "German Meeting House" in 1816, where a Christopher Bergstresser settled near.

It was basically the area of the intersections of Voorhees, West Swamp and Reynolds roads.

At that time there were no houses nearer than Warfield's Corners to the north and Aberham Lane to the south.

Samuel Wyman settled in Nettle Valley in 1809 where Enoch Bordwell and George Green built a sawmill and a log house.

In 1838 he resided in Potter Center and owned a gristmill known as the "Gully Mill" located at the southeast corner of Hagerty Rd.

The carriage or wagon shop owned by George W. Strobridge was located at the point where West Swamp Rd.

Some of the beams and siding of the mill were used by Tony Hiler to repair his house, and make the lean-to additions.

About 1836, Cyrus Daines, James Stout and one Silvernail purchased land in Potter Center off Henry Husted and each established a business and a residence.

The first store was kept by James Turner who was succeeded by Cyrus Daines who continued until his death in 1870.

In 1928 James Blodgett opened a bean plant at the location of the old Aaron Gleason and Hobart carriage shop.

It was his work that established a route from Canandaigua through Rushville, Potter, Naples, Blood's Corners, Liberty, and Prattsburg.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 37.2 square miles (96 km2), all land.