Town of Milford
Annual Minutes
1820
Copied by : Jayne Davis Szaz


Comments on My Transcription of the Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes

In the early 1990s Marion Brophy made photocopies for me of the Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes at the New York State Library in Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, in reply to my request for information about my great great great grandfather, Christopher ELLI.S. As far as I know, the Minutes I have transcribed are all that remain of the Town of Milford's Annual Town Meeting Minutes, but I may be wrong about that; there may be Minutes for years before 1811 and after 1840. For anyone who wants to inquire of the library, its address is New York State Historical Association/The Farmers' Museum, Research Library, P.O. Box 800, Cooperstown, New York 13326, its telephone number is 607-547-1400, and its website is http://www.nysha.org/about/index.htm. The call number for the Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes is N593.82(2). However, the Minutes for 1812 and 1813 are probably lost; if not, Marion would have sent copies of them to me also.

I have transcribed the information from The Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes for 1811 and 1814-1840 and have entered the information into separate documents by year. My comments are in brackets [ ].

You may notice that some pages are missing and, I presume, lost, and that some of the page numbers within the documents are out of sequence. That apparently happened because the responsible town clerk did not enter the information about an event until some time after the event. For instance, information from page 256 appears in the years 1827, 1828, and 1829 because information for those years appears on that one page. Also, some page numbers appear in two consecutive years because the town clerk continued writing minutes for the current year on the sheet used for the previous year rather than taking a new sheet of paper.

The page numbers are as they appear in the original document. Where [New page, unnumbered] appears at the top of the page, the photocopying must have cut off the page number. These missing page numbers seem to be the odd-numbered pages.

I have copied the text as it appears in the original document, which means I have retained the spelling of the original document. . Where I could not read letters or words, I have substituted underlining of the same length as the missing letters or words. There is little punctuation; the first, a comma, shows up in the late 1820s.

Where the town clerk left a space blank that should have been filled with a name or a word or words, I have typed (blank).

The researcher should look through all of the years to find her/his ancestor(s) because some of the names were spelled one way on one page and another way on another page or pages. Some of the names appear over the entire span of years while others appear only once or twice. 



Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes
1820

[New page, unnumbered]

Survey of an Alteration in the Road that leads from James McDonalds in Milford to 
Peter Colliers Inn in Milford Say begin 20 links South from a small Hickory tree 
Standing on the south East side of a small Brook Near to the dwelling house of the 
Widow Margaret Morenius and runs from thence North 89 degrees East 60 Chaines 
thence North 72 East 14 Chaines thence south 80 East 14.00 Chaines where it 
Intersects the Road a little west from the dwelling house of Peter A Houghtaling 
Containing a distance of one Mile and 32 Rods.

Milford 26th February 1820
David L Sayre						Walter Fitch      }Comrs of
Surveyor						W E McDonald }Highways
							Ezra Adams      }Town Clerk

Page 192

We the Comrs of Highways do agree to alter the Ward No 24 and 23 and take from the 
24th ward from David Bates to the g__d_ board near the Schoolhouse and sit it to 
the 23rd ward so that the 23 ward begins at the corner by David Bates and runs to 
the Road that leads by Asher Barnards house

The Comrs agree to divide the wards No 2 into three wards No 2d to begin where it 
does and runs until it Strikes No 3 the other one to begin at the old Donelly house 
and runs until it Intersects the River road near the Meeting house and the other 
beginning at the Susquehannah Bridge and ends where it Intersects the River road 
Near Sayre Store 
Feb 25th 1820
							S Bixby        } Comrs of
							Walter Fitch }  Highways


[New page, unnumbered]

At the Annual Town Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of 
Milford held at the house of William Whites in the Town of Milford on the 7th day 
of March 1820 the following Persons were Elected to office Viz

Ezra Adams……………………..}Town Clerk
Peter Collier……………………..}Supervisor
Asa Eddy……………………… .}
Samuel Bixby…………………...} Afsefsors
Jacob Dietz…………………….. }
Daniel Lee……………………... }Const & Collector
Thomas Baker…………………. }Overseers of Poor
Simeon Walling……………….. }
Walter Fitch…………………… }
William E McDonald………….  }Comrs of Highways
Daniel French………………….  }
Thomas R Mumford…………….}
Jeremiah S Watting……………  }Constables
Joseph Meriam………………...  }
Levi Stewart…………………..   }
David L Sayre………………...   }Comrs of Schools
Jacob Dietz……………………  }
Joseph Rice…………………...  }
Rodney Arnold……………….  }Inspectors of Schools
Johannes Jost Dietz…………..  }


Page 194

John Moore……………………}
Levi Adams……………………}Pound Masters
James Westcott………………...} 
Simeon Walling……………….}
George Wilcox………………..}
John Moore……………………}
Beers Peete……………………..}Fence Viewers
Nicholas Beams……………….}
Ellis McDonald………………..}
Walter Fitch…………………...}
Names of Path Masters
Henry Scott……………………} 1
David L Sayre…………………} 2
Samuel Smith………………….} 3
James Westcott………………..} 4
William Collier………………. }5
William Cox…………………..} 6
Nicholas Beames……………...} 7
Peter Boys…………………….}8
Nathan Bennett………………..}9
John Quakenbofs……………..}10
Frederic Brown……………….}11
Peter Quakenboss…………….}12
Samuel Griffin……………….}13
Ethan Stevens………………..}15
Oren Adams………………...}16
Samuel Miller………………..}17
Jacob Wellman………………}18
Thomas Ray………………….}19
Daniel Lee……………………}20


[New page unnumbered]

Andrew Shute Jun……………}21
Ebenezer Wilcox…………….}22
William Wilcox…………….. }23
Squire Stone…………………}24
Jacob Dingman……………...}25
John L Westcott…………….}26
Harvey Bifsell……………...}27
Finl. Dinnenny……………...}29
John Mumford………………}30
John Low Jun……………….}31
Reuben Beales……………...}32
Amos Waters……………… }33
Lemuel Sherman……………}34
Baltus Samons………………}35
Henry Gifford……………… }36
Robert Marble………………}37
Asher Barnard………………}38
Alvin Lyon………………….}39
Joseph Varrs………………...}40
John Yawger………………..}41
Aaron Newcork…………….}42
Benoni Adams……………...}43
Reuben Westcott…………...}44
Daniel Fairchild……………}46
Aaron Lane…………………}4?
Daniel Griswold……………}47

[A page that bore the rest of the names and assignments of the pathmasters must be 
missing here]


[New page, unnumberedk]

thence North 63 Degrees West 2..00
thence North 42 Degrees West 3..00
thence North 36 Degrees West 4..00
thence Due West Degrees       24.50
thence South 27 Degrees West 2..00
thence North 67 Degrees West 5..00

Untill it Intersects the Road that leades from Asahel Marvins to the Town of 
Lawrens near to the dwelling house of David Yagers Containing a Distance of one 
Mile and three quarters and ten Rods

David L Sayre						Walter Fitch  }Comrs of
Surveyor						Daniel French}Highways
							Ezra Adams   }Town Ck
Milford Oct 6th 1820

Came into the Inclosure of the subscriber the beginning of September last three 
Sheep the one Marked with a crop of the right ear and a whole & slit the other two 
marked a crop of one Ear & a slit and hole the owner is desired to come and prove 
property pay the charges and take them away Milford

December 22d..1820					Nick Kittle


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