in 1789 when sanger became the first whitestown town supervisor, whitestown extended north to the st. lawrence river, south to pennsylvania and west to lake erie - a vast area including the entire central new york military tract. in 1791, an act of the new york state legislature that called for the towns of westmoreland, steuben, paris, mexico, and peru to be split out of whitestown also called for the first town meeting of the "new" whitestown to be held at sanger's house.