• He is a farmer; living in LaFayette, N. Y.2328, p 443

• He was very prominent in town and a bio of him is found in the county history, Clayton’s Onondaga in 1878.118, p 2

• [excerpts] Chas. W. Hoyt was born in the town of Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y. in 1804. His father came to this county in 1798. His father was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and drew a pension until his death. Chas. W. Hoyt, the subject of this sketch, was united in marriage, in 1824, to Miss Harriet Knapp, daughter of Ezra and Mary Knapp. Of this marriage were born three children. In 1842 he was married, the second time, to Miss Mary Knapp, sister to his first wife. Of this marriage was born three children.
Among the old men of this county, few, if any, can look back upon a life os so much hard labor as Chas. W. Hoyt, having cleared of the original forest, and caused to be cleared, many acres of land.
Like many other men who were, and are now, the bone and framework of this country, he now lives, in his seventy-fourth year, one of the few old living landmarks of our country’s pioneers, surrounded by kind children to smooth his pathway as his time of release from earth draws near, having led a life of integrity and uprightness of character, honored by all who knew him, and at the writing of this brief sketch bids fair for more years of usefulness to his friends.2327

• VILLAGE OF LA FAYETTE.
This little hamlet lies about one mile west of the Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad at Onativia, or LaFayette Station. It contains about twenty dwellings, a postoffice, a church, a hotel, three stores and two blacksmith shops.
Among the oldest settlers are C. W. Hoyt, Caleb B. Jackson, James Baker, Luther Baker and L. O. Hill.3948, p 5

• Charles W. Hoyt was born in the town of Pompey on April 30th, 1804. He is the son of Ezekiel Hoyt, a Captain in the Revolutionary war. Captain Hoyt settled in Pompey in 1798 and was the father of eight children, of whom Charles was the youngest. Captain Hoyt owned about 400 acres on the State road, two miles east of Lafayette Square.
“Within my earliest recollections,” says Mr. Hoyt, “father had about twenty-five acres of clearing. Our house was a rude affair of logs, with but a single room below and a loft above for us children to sleep in.
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• I have photographs of his (Gen. Isaac Hall] house, now gone, owned by Charles W. Hoyt from abt 1846 to 1867. Also have pic of Chas. W. Hoyt and of his village home where he lived 1867-1892, also now gone.3950

• 1850 Census: LaFayette, Onondaga, New York. Age 46, b NY.2330
• 1860 Census: LaFayette, Onondaga, New York. Age 56, b NY. Farmer. $22,400; $2,300.3951
• 1870 Census: LaFayette, Onondaga, New York. Age 66, b NY. Retired farmer. $3,000; $10,000.3952
• 1880 Census: LaFayette, Onondaga, New York. Age 76, b NY. Farmer. Parents b CT.3953

• Lafayette. This town, named after the Marquis de LaFayette, was taken from Pompey and Onondaga and organized April 15, 1825. That portion of the town taken from Onondaga was purchased by the State of the Indians in 1817, and sold to the white settlers in 1822. The town contains 28,200 acres of land, of which 6,400 acres, not taxable, belongs to the Onondaga Reservation. The surface of the town is hilly and broken, the high ridge between Butternut and Onondaga Creeks, the two principal streams, having steep declivities and rising from three to six hundred feet in altitude. The valleys on the east and west of this ridge - Sherman Hollow and Christian Hollow - extend the entire length of the town, and present an unusually rich and beautiful landscape when viewed from the summits.3948, p 1