Town of Milford
Annual Minutes
1822
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
1822

Page 210

We the Commifsioners do adjudge it necefsary to connect the 51st ward with the 2nd 
and do Connect the Same. Milford February 26th 1822
							John C Kittle }Comrs of
							Walter Fitch  }Highways
							Ezra Adams  }Town Clk

We the Commifsioners do adjudge it Necefsary to connect the 46th ward with 30th 
ward and do connect the same  Febry 26th 1822


[New page, unnumbered]

At the Annual Town Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of 
Milford held at the house of Peter Colliers on Tuesday the 5th day of March 1822 
the following Persons were elected to office Viz

Peter Collier…………………….}Supervisor
Ezra Adams……………………..}Town Clerk
Charles Morris…………………..}
Rodney Arnold………………….}Afsefsors
Samuel Bixby……………………}
Daniel Lee……………………….}Constable and Collector
Thomas Baker…………………..}Overseers 
Simeon Walling………………...}of the Poor
John Low……………………… }
Walter Fitch……………………} Commifsioners of Highways
Lemuel Shereman………………}
Laman Stewart………………….}
Zachri Ward…………………… }Constables
David Mackey………………… }
Ezra Adams…………………….}
Jacob Dietz……………………..} Coms of Schools
Levi Stewart……………………}
Samuel Rufsell…………………}
William Knapp…………………}Inspectors of Schools
Joseph Rice…………………….}







Page 212

Abel Babcock………………… .}
William Wilcox………………. }
James Westcott…………………}Pound Masters
Peter Collier…………………..}
Simeon Walling………………}
John Yager……………………}
Levi Stewart………………….}
William Wilcox………………} Fence Viewers
Charles Morris………………..}
William Collier………………}
Lawrance Sw_rt………………}
Nathan Bennet………………..}
Path Masters
Ward No	1st Amos Sweet
                	2 Orin C Starr
		3 Richard Swartwant
		4 Stephen Baker
		5 Peter Collier
		6. Philip Posler
		7 Jacob Youngs
		8 Jeremiah S Walling
		9 Abraham _ Houghtaling
		10 John Quackenbofs
		11 William Angel
		12 Walter Fitch
		13 John L Westcott
		15 John Crydenwise
		16 Read Baker
		17 Reuben Westcott
		18 George Schermerhorn
		

[New page, unnumbered]

19 Abel Lyon
		20 Daniel Lee
		21 Andrew Shute Jun
		22 William Barnard Jun
		23 William Wilcox
		24 Squier Stone
		25 William Stevens
		26 Samuel Rufsell
		27 Isaac Coon
		28 John T Quackenbofs
		29 Thomas Mantor
		30 William Chidester
		31 John Low
		32 Reuben Beales
		33 David Ellis
		34 George Coon
		35 Alpheus Cutting 
		36 Henry Gifford
		37 Nathan Bennet
		38 Asher Barnard
		39 Elisha Lyon Jun
		40 Joseph Varrs
		41 Frederick Bornt
		42 Jacob Coon
		43 John A Cronkhite
		44 Rasisell Bowdish
		46 Isaac Hugnerford
		47 William Richardson
		48 Cornelius Van Buren
		49 Abial D Blodget
		50 Salman Rufsell
		52 Cornelius Lane
		53 Thomas Swert
		54 Cornelius Miller


Page 214

Voted that the town of Milford Raise seventy nine dollars and eighty four cents to 
pay William Whitford for the expense and damage which he has been at for carrying 
Betsy Thore a pauper of Said town into the town of Hartwick} Notice that the Said 
town Raise $175 of Poor Money for Sd year

Voted That the by Laws Stand for the present year as they Stood the last year

Voted That the town raise as Much Money as drawn from the State

Voted That the Next Annual Town Meeting to be held at the house of Peter Collier in
 Said Town
							Ezra Adams } Town Clk

Survey of a Road Near Nehemiah Edsons Beginning at a Stake North 26 degrees East 
one chain and fifty links from the North east corner of Said Edson’s dwelling House 
and runs from thence
North 66 Degrees West 37 Chains
Thence North 29 Degrees West 3 Chains
Thence North 65 Degrees West 24 Chains
Thence South 78 Degrees West 43 Chains
It intersects the Road that leads from Bennoni Adams to William Richardsons in 
Milford containing a distance of one Mile and a quarter and twenty eight Rods

Milford April the 19h 1822				Walter Fitch         }Comrs of
David L Sayre 					Lemuel Shereman }Highways
Surveyor


[New page, unnumbered]

Marks
William Wellman’s mark is a square crop on both ears and a halfpenny on the right 
on the underside 

Stray Horse
Broke into the inclosure of the Subscriber on or about the 8th day of June Trist a 
large Sorrel Horse three years old about fifteen hands high one hind foot white 
Swish tail a white spot in his forehead Which the owner May have by proving 
property and paying charges and take him away
Milford June the 12th 1822				Gideon Ray
							Ezra Adams } T Clk

John L Westcott Mark is a Swallowtail on the end of each ear and halfpenny on the 
Upper and under side of the right
Jacob Dingman’s Mark is a Slanting Slit on the Upper and under Side of the left ear 
and a Slit on the Underside of the Right
William Cunningham Mark is a crop of the left ear and a ____ allowed ____ in the 
end of  right ear


Page 216

Came into the Inclosure of the Subscriber on or about the 20th day of May last a 
dark brindle yearling Bool Middle size the owner is desired to prove property pay 
charges and take him away November the 27th 1822
							Richard Swartwout
Alteration of the Road leading from Jeremiah Collier in Milford to Peter Colliers 
begins at a birch tree Marked II Standing east from the lands occupied by Jeremiah 
Collier and runs thence south 85 degrees east 88 chains 
Thence south 71 degrees east 7 hcains
Thence south 63 degrees east 10 chains 
Untill it intersects the road that leads from John T Quackenbofs to Peter Collier 
containing a distance of one Mile & a quarter & twenty rods Milford 28th Nov 1822

David L Sayre Surveyor				Walter Fitch        }Comrs of
							Lemuel Sherman }Highways
Alteration of the Road leading from John T Quackenbofs in Milford to Peter Collier 
begins at a small hemlock sapling Marked
A and runs from thence South 59 degrees
East 13 chains thence south 62 degrees
East 9 chains thence south 45 degrees
East 5 chains thence South 31 degrees
East 15 chains thence south 14 degrees
East 12 chains until it intersects the road that leades from James Westcotts in 
Milford to Peter Colliers containing a distance of two hundred and sixteen rods

Milford 28 Nov 1822
David L Sayre Surveyor				Walter Fitch        }Comrs of
							Lemuel Sherman }Highways



[New page, unnumbered]

Marks
Holdin Eldred Mark is crofs of the Right ear and a half crop on the Underside of 
the left 

Thomas Eldred Mark is crop off the Right ear and a Swallow tail on the end of the 
left ear
















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