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Joseph Ellicott (November 1, 1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania – August 19, 1826 in New York City) was an American surveyor, city planner, land office agent, lawyer and politician of the Quaker faith.
Joseph Ellicott was a surveyor and land agent for the Holland Company in New York. He is credited with founding Buffalo and promoting the Erie canal. He had a tragic end by suicide in 1826.
It was Joseph Ellicott, surveyor and land agent for the Holland Land Company, who designed Buffalo’s layout. Ellicott modeled Buffalo’s street grid pattern after Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s plan of Washington, D.C.
Jan 6, 2013 · Mindful of Buffalo’s strategic location as a port, Joseph Ellicott was a strong advocate for a canal to be built from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. He served as one of the first Erie Canal Commissioners and was appointed in 1816 to supervise the canal construction.
Jan 1, 2013 · January 1, 2013 by Angela Keppel. Ellicott Street is one of the main north-south thoroughfares in Downtown Buffalo. As most people know, the street was named for Joseph Ellicott, the surveyor of the Holland Land Company who laid out the City of Buffalo.
Forty years old and accustomed to travel, Joseph Ellicott was happy to be back. During the past month’s journey from Philadelphia, Ellicott had seen few familiar faces. Here at home, though, he knew just about everyone—indeed, all twenty-five residents of the settlement! But that was in 1800.
Jan 4, 2013 · Joseph Ellicott was appointed Resident Agent of the Holland Land Company and opened an office in Batavia in 1801. He oversaw the surveying crews to complete the subdividing the land into townships , each six square miles. The townships were then subdivided into lots.
