Onondaga South Hollow, now South Onondaga, is a small village on the west branch of the creek. Some of the early settlers in this part of the town previous to 1800 were...Daniel Chaffee.
.....Daniel Chafee settled on the lot north of Lot No. 28 (which was owned by his brother David Chafee) in 1800.
Daniel Chaffee moved to Yates Twp. in 1833, the same time as many Kenyons, and in fact his daughter Julia married Samuel Kenyon, and later Benjamin Kenyon. Daniel was a farmer by occupation and farmed along Lake Ontario near the Orleans County line near or next to the Kenyon Farm. Daniel's gravesite is unknown although it may be Beecher-Kenyon Cemetery which bordered Chaffee and Kenyon land and is where his wife Huldah Hall Chaffee is buried. She died only 6 months before he did and there is an empty gravestone base beside her tombstone. There was much damage done in this cemetery which lay unattended for 60 years until cleared again about 1996.
NOTE: On the Orleans Co. GENWEB site listing for this cemetery it does list Daniel Chaffee as being buried in this cemetery (from an older listing)
Daniel Chaffee was born in Ashford, Conn., Oct 10, 1779 and died in Yates, NY April 21, 1864. He married in Onondaga, Ny, Huldah, daughter of Isaiah HALL (NOTE: Wrong - daughter of Azariah Hall) of that place. She died in Yates in 1869 and was buried there. She was a member of the Baptist church. Daniel Chaffee served as a private in the War of 1812. He was a farmer in Onondaga and in 1833 moved to Yates and settled on a farm where he and his wife lived the rest of their lives. He had a light complexion, blue eyes and was 5"10" in height."
---From the "Chaffee Genealogy" by William H. Chaffee, written 1909 (lib. ref. #: R929.2, C342) copy at Onondaga Co. Public Library:
p.163, #499.