Geneva is a city in Ontario and Seneca counties in the U.S. state of New York. It is at the northern terminate of Seneca Lake; all home portions of the city are within Ontario County; the water portions are in Seneca County. The population was 13,261 at the 2010 census. The city is supposedly named after the city and canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The main treaty of the Seneca was spelled Zoneshio by in advance white settlers, and was described as being two miles north of Seneca Lake.

The city borders, and was following part of, the town of Geneva. The city identifies as the “Lake Trout Capital of the World.”

The area was long occupied by the Seneca tribe, which had time-honored a major village of Kanadaseaga here by 1687. The British helped fortify the village neighboring the French of Canada during the Seven Years’ War (locally known as the French and Indian War); later they other defensive fortifications adjoining the Americans during the Revolutionary War. During the latter warfare, the punitive Sullivan Expedition of 1779 mounted by radical forces destroyed many of the dwellings, as skillfully as the winter stores of the people, and they abandoned the ruins. Following the court case and the motivated removal of the Seneca from their indigenous land, European-Americans established here not quite 1793. They developed a town encouraged by the Pulteney Association, which owned the land and was selling plots.

At the decline of the Revolutionary War, Lt. Col. Seth Reed (né Read), who had fought at Bunker Hill, was one of many pioneers who moved from Massachusetts into Ontario County. By trade when the Seneca, he bought a tract of estate eighteen miles in extent. (This was illegal, as and no-one else the US organization was authorized to make estate deals afterward the Native Americans.) This occurred in 1787, while his wife Hannah stayed in Uxbridge, Massachusetts in the flavor of their family. “Seth Read moved his wife Hannah and their associates to Geneva, Ontario County, New York in the winter of 1790”.