Geneseo is a town in Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. It is at the south fade away of the five-county Rochester Metropolitan Area. The population of the town was 10,483 at the 2010 census.

The English name “Geneseo” is an anglicization of the Iroquois name for the earlier Iroquois town there, Gen-nis-he-yo (which means “beautiful valley”). The village of Geneseo lies within the western ration of the town. The village and town are known today mainly as the house of the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Near Geneseo was the largest Seneca village, Chenussio, a middle of skill for the Iroquois Confederacy. It was next the confederacy’s “bread basket”, with orchards, vineyards, and fields of maize and vegetables.

During the American Revolution, the Seneca joined the British and the Tories adjacent to the colonists who were case for independence. The alliance’s raids from the west were a major threat to the American cause, and General Washington sent the Sullivan Expedition to neutralize the Iroquois. As Sullivan’s army approached Geneseo bearing in mind their “scorched earth” policy, the Senecas repeatedly fell back. However, a large Seneca party ambushed one of Sullivan’s scouting parties, carried them as prisoners to Geneseo and painful them to death. When Sullivan’s troops arrived and found the savagely mutilated bodies, they became annoyed and destroyed anything that could sustain the Iroquois. No longer practiced to court case from Geneseo and the surrounding area, about 5,000 Seneca fled to British-held Fort Niagara, where they spent one of the coldest winters upon record, with much loss of life, in camps outdoor the fort subsequent to only the little amount of supplies the British could spare.