"Justus Tower settled in Waterville in 1802 and built a house and a grist mill. In 1803 he built the White Mills and operated both. A freshet in April, 1804, carried away all the dams of the place, and Mr. Tower and John J. Williams, Jr. were drowned."
Sources
Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York edited by Daniel Elbridge Wager
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Justus by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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