Town of Milford
Annual Minutes
1824
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
1824

Page 224 continued

New division of Roads wards
We the Undersigned Commifsioners of the town of Milford do agree that it is prudent
 to divide the 26th ward and make two wards of the Same by dividing at the South 
part of John Whaleys house the North ward to be known by the No 51 and also to 
divide the 18 ward at the North line of George Schermerhorn farm on the west part 
to be known by the No of 55 furthermore that part of the 7th ward to be annexed to 
the 6th ward which formerly belong to it that is to say to the East corner of __ 
Jacob Young waggon house eastwardly
February the 28th 1824				John Low      }Comrs of
Jacob Young }Highways
Ezra Adams }T Clk



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At the annual town Meeting of the freeholders and Inhabitants of the town of 
Milford held at the house of Peter Collier on Tuesday the second day of March 1824 
the following persons were elected to office Viz

Ezra Adams………….} Town Clerk
Peter Collier………….}Supervisor
John I Quackenbofs     }
Aaron Low…………...}Afsefsors
Rodney Arnalee……...}
Daniel Lee…………...}Constable and Collector
William Richardson…,}
Samuel Bixby………..} Overseers of Poor
Walter Fitch………….}
Jacob Young…………}Comrs of Highways
John Low…………….}
David Mackey……….}
Elisha G Barnes……...}Constables
Timothy Sabins……...}
Ezra Adams………….}
Levi Stewart…………}Comrs of Schools
Jacob Dietz…………..}
Joseph Rice………….}
Asa B. Brown……….}Inspectors of Schools
Joseph Lindsey……...}

Page 226

David L Sayre……………….}
Levi Adams…………………}
William V White……………}Pound Masters
David Fairchild……………..}
Bers Peete…………………..}
Peter Collier………………...}
Stephen Baker……………..}Fence Viewers 
John Moon…………………}That the Same be elected 
Amos Waters………………}for pound Masters and 
Eli Rose……………………}Fence Viewers as they
William Angel……………..}Stood last year
Path Masters
No of Wards
1	Amos Sweet
2	Levi Stewart
3	Griswold Walsworth
4	William Scott
5	Peter Collier
6	Henry Ousterhout Jun
7	David Marvin
8	Peter Boice
9	Abraham Brewer
10	Peter Quackenbofs
11	James McDonald
12	Reuben Westcott Jun
13	Samuel Griffin
15	      John Crydenwise
16	      Daniel Bates
17       Reuben Westcott
18       John Wilcox


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Names of Path Masters 

19	Gideon Ray
20	Daniel Lee
21	Zebediah Martin
22	Lorenzo Bates
23	Ira W. Chapels
24	S_u_eley Stone
25	Jacob Dingman
26	Samuel Crippen
27	Horace Bifsell
28	J T Qiackenbofs
29	Abraham Blin
30	James Allen]
31	John Lawford
32	Elihu Pratt
33	Harvey C Jewel
34	John T Burnside
35	Baltas Simmons
36	David Peete
37	Isaac Peete
38	Asher Barnard
39	James Wilharty
40	Jasper Varrs
41	William Blind
42	Aaron Newkerk
43	John A Cronkhite
44	Elias Rogers
45	Admiral W Wickham
46	Isaac Hungerford
47	Obadiah Gifford
48	Peter Marlatt
49	Nehemiah Edson
50	Alonzo Bridgsfs


Page 228

Names of Path Masters
51	David Culley
52	Cornelius Lane 
53	Isaac Fadonburgh
54	Henry L Miller
55	Francis W Welman

Voted that Said town raise for the support of the Poor $325.25

Voted that the bye laws of Said town Stand as they did the last year

Voted that the Next Annual Town Meeting be held at the house of Peter Collier in 
the Said Town.




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This day the books and papers of the overseers of the poor of the town of Milford 
is transferred from the hands of Simeon Walling and Richard Swartwant late 
overseers into the hands of William Richardson and Samuel Bixby the present 
Overseers and find due to the Said Simeon Walling from the Said town the sum of 
twenty one dollars and twenty six cents March the 8th 1824
							Ezra Adams…..}Town Clerk
							Peter Collier…..}Supervisor
							Joseph Westcott }J{
							Levi Stewart…..}JP
We have this day transferred the books and papers of the overseers of the Poor of 
the town of Milford from the hands of Simeon Walling and Richard Swartwant late 
overseers of Said town into the hands of Samuel Bixby and William Richardson the 
present overseers of Said town and find due from the Said town to Richard Swartwant 
55 cents one Note against Harvey Bifsell of $5.00 dated the 16th day of November 
1822  also another against Joseph Westcott of $5.00 dated February 24th 1824 which 
is due to the Said town of Milford March the 8th 1824
							Peter Collier….}Supervisor
							Ezra Adams…..}T Clerk
							Joseph Westcott.}JP
							Levi Stewart…..}JP

Page 232

Survey of A Road laying on Crumhorn Mountain Begins at a Stake on the line between 
the towns of Milford and Meriland South 85 degrees West 85 links from a pine tree 
Marked with the letter A and runs from the North 6 degrees West 34 Chains

Thence North 14 degrees East 15 Chains
Thence North 20 degrees East 20 Chains
Thence North 31 degrees East 12 Chains
Thence North 39 degrees East 6 Chains
Thence North 20 degrees East 16 Chains
Thence North 52 degrees East 34 Chains
Untill it intersects the road leading from the Susquehannah River acrost the 
Crumhorn Mountain Isaiah Wilcox in Maryland Containing a distance of one Mile and a 
half and 68 Rods
David L Sayre Surveyor					Walter Fitch…}Comrs of
Milford 16th February 1824					John Low……}Highways
								Ezra Adams…} Town Clerk
Alteration in a Road say begins at the east side of a poll Bridge that crofses a 
Small run of Water a few chains west from the dwelling house of Amariah Enos and 
runs from thence South 77 East 5 Chains thence North 79 East 15 Chains Untill it 
Intersects the Road leading from James Cyphers in Milford to the Town of Lawrence 
Containing a distance of eighty Rods
1st of May 1824						Walter Fitch…}Comrs of
D L Sayre Surveyor						John Low……}Highways


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