in 1800, jonas platt, the clerk of oneida county, addressed the citizens of the county concerning a dispute over the boundaries of the county and the construction of a county courthouse and jail in rome. the 1798 act establishing the county called for a courthouse and jail to be built near fort stanwix. sanger would have benefited had the county seat been located near his land holdings in new hartford. dominick lynch, who owned the land that became rome, plotted out a village there named lynchville and donated to the county land for the courthouse and jail. sanger responded formally with a printed broadside entitled "an answer to general jonas platt's address to the people of the county of oneida". there is no record that sanger offered to donate any land for county buildings.