Mitchell Sabattis

'''Mitchell (Alternately spelled "Mitchel" based on the French "Michel".) Melissa Otis gives dates of 1821 and 1823.

Sabattis married Elizabeth "Betsey" Dornburgh, a fellow early Long Lake settler, 1845. They had at least 11 children, of whom eight reached adulthood. Three of their sons followed their father's trade as guides, and one became a guideboat builder as well. Sabattis continued to live in Newcomb into the 1860s but returned to Long Lake by 1870. Sabattis was recommended as a guide by William H. "Adirondack" Murray in his writings recommending Adirondack travel.

Alongside Cyrus Palmer, he was credited by Alfred L. Donaldson, an early 20th-century historian of the Adirondacks, with assembling the Adirondack guideboat, a light rowed craft carrying a guide and two passengers and that could be carried by a single guide at portages.

Sabattis is memorialized in several place names around Long Lake, including the hamlet around the railroad station west of Long Lake, the Sabattis Scout Reservation, Mount Sabattis, and the nearby Mount Sabattis Recreation Area.