Angelica is a town in the middle of Allegany County, New York, United States. The population was 1,284 at the 2020 census. The town is named after Angelica Schuyler Church, a daughter of General Philip Schuyler, sister-in-law of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and wife of John Barker Church. The town was named by Philip Schuyler Church, who was one of the original European settlers of the area, and the son of Angelica and John Barker Church. The village of Angelica is located within this town.

The area was first settled going on for 1802 at Angelica village. The town of Angelica was formed in 1805 from the town of Leicester in Livingston County, before Allegany County was formed. Angelica is the oldest town in Allegany County. The town hall is housed in the Old Allegany County Courthouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Belvidere was with listed in 1972, and the Moses Van Campen House was listed in 2004.

John Barker Church was a British-born merchant who made a fortune supplying the American and French armies during the Revolutionary clash and helped fund the war. He married Angelica Schuyler Church, the eldest daughter of General Philip Schuyler. Angelica Church’s sister Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was married to Alexander Hamilton. In 1797, the juvenile United States paid help its achievement debt to Church in the form of 100,000 acres of home in Western New York. John and Angelica Church’s son Philip Schuyler Church travelled to what is now Allegheny and Genesee Counties to take possession of the land, with his surveyor Moses Van Campen. A planned village was laid out following the plots and design to be reminiscent of Paris, France (a round drive in the center, streets coming to that aspiration to form a star, and five churches situated concerning the circle). In the middle of the circular drive is the village park. Philip named his planned village Angelica, after his mother.

The historian John S. Minard wrote of the town’s establishment in Allegany County and Its People (1896):