"...Nathaniel Tobey , father of the present Nathaniel M. Tobey, who came in from Bristol Co., Mass. The family originally came from England. He settled on the farm now occupied by his daughter, the wife of A. O. Hart."

Henry B. Pierce and Duane Hamilton Hurd, History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, New York, Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1879, 457, https://archive.org/details/historyoftiogach00peir/mode/2up