Early settlers of the township included Norton, Grennell, North, West, Gaylord Griswold, Peck, McMullen, Loomis, Ledyard Bunting, Saunders, Davenport, and Arnold, and the founders and ministers of the Clinton Baptist Church included Rev. Elijah Peck, Rev. John Smitzer, Rev. Horace Jones, Rev. Chas. H. Hubbard, Rev. Alex Smith, Rev. Charles A. Fox, Rev. Henry Curtis, Rev. Geo. V. Walling, Rev. Joseph Curren, Rev. James Spencer, Rev. D.P. Purdon, Rev. B.B. Bunting, Rev. J.R. Remsen, and Rev. James Rainey.