Town of Milford
Annual Minutes
1828
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
1828
Page 251

Milford March 4th 1828
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Milford held this day at the housse 
of Wm V White it was Resolved that there be $125 Raised for the Support of the Poor
 the ensuing year

2nd Resolved that the Town Raise $100 to be paid to Aaron Chidester in addition to 
A sum agreed to by him with the commifsioners for building a Bridge acrofs the 
Susquehannah River by John Mumfords   The following are the names of the persons 
elected to Ofice for the ensuing year

Asa Eddy					Town Clerk
Peter Collier					Supervisor
Daniel Lee					Constable and Collector
Judah Waters Jr……}	       }				
Cyrus Richmond      }				Afsefsors
William Richardson }
Ralf Jordan              }        			Commifsioers
William Scott          }				of 
Walter Fitch            }				Highways
George Coone         }				Overseers
Richard Swartwout  }				of the Poor
Thomas Coon          }                		Commifsioners
Consider King         }				of
John Whiteside        }				Schools
Joseph Rice             }				Inspectors
William Fern          } 				of
Joseph Linsey        .}				Schools


Page 252

David Mackey		}
Hiram Mumford	}			Constables
David Sullivan            }
Thomas D Alexander }			
William V White        }			Pound
Asahel Marvin           .}			
Beeres Peet                .}
Peter Collier              .}			Masters
Thomas Baker          . }			
Tunus Snooke           .}				Fence
Judah Waters Jr
Reuben Beals
Aaron Lane
Eli Rose					Viewers

Path Masters
No 1 Christopher Ellis			
No 2 Levi Stewart
Bi 3 Griswold Walworth				
No 4 William V White			
No 5 William Collier				
No 6 William Yeomans			
No 7 David Marvin				
No 8 Sylvenus Smith				
No 9 Abram A Houghtaling			
No 10 Abram Yager				
No 11 Zachariah Van Louven			
No 12 Aaron D Rose				
No 13 Joseph Brightman
No 14 Abram Gurney			
No 15 Edward Segar				
No 16 Willard Lee				
No 17 George Aylesworth
No 18 John Wilcox
No 19 Warren Lyon
No 20 Thomas Hoag
No 21 Andrew Shute jr
No 22 Ebenezer Wilcox
No 23 Ira Chappel
No 24 William Barnard
No 25 Robert Martin
No 26 Daniel Babcock
No 27 Elias Rogers Jr
No 28 James Coats
No 29 William Burns
No 30 ________ Allen
No 31 John Browell
No 32 Charls Ellis
No 33 Thomas J Waters
No 34 Richard Avery
No 35 Parker Wilson
No 36 Beers Peet
No 37 Taber Shove
No 38 William Sharp
No 39 James Weatherly
No 40 Augustus Vars
No 41 Henry H Miller
No 42 Aaron Newkark
No 43 John A Cronkhite
No 44 Benjamin Aylesworth
No 45 Ira A Aylesworth
No 46 Isaac Hungerford
No 47 E__nd Griswold


Page 253

No 48 William Wellman
No 49 Zuri Wellman
No 50 Thomas D Alexander
No 51 William Winslow
No 52 Corneleas Lane
No 53 Tunus Snuke
No 54 Jacob Yager
No 55 Henry Schermerhorn
No 56 Richard Swartwout
No 57 William Scott
No 58 David Morrell
No 59 Thomas Burnside
No 60 Ichaikim Van Valkenburg
No 61 Abraham Gurney
No 62 Adam G Cook
No 63 Samuel Yomans

Voted that the By Laws remain as they were Pafsed in the year 1823

Voted that the next Annual Town Meeting be held at the house of William V White in 
Said Town To Commence at 9 Oclock AM
							Asa Eddy Town Clk
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We Levi Stewart Joseph Westcott and Jacob Dietz Esquires being Three Justices of 
the peace for the Town of Milford in the County of Otsego Having been certified 
that the following vacancies of town officers for Said Town Have occurred and have 
remained vacant for the Space of at least Twelve Days

Viz one Commifsioner of Schools, Two Inspectors of Schools
We therefore in pursuance of the Statue in such case made and provided to appoint 
the following persons to fill said vacancies until the next Annual Town Meeting

Viz John Moore jr Commifsioner of Schools
Alpha Bligh       } Inspectors
William Knapp } of Schools
Done at Milford this 8th Day of November 1828
							Joseph Westcott }Justices
							Levi Stewart      } of the
							Jacob Dietz      } Peace

Page 255

Survey of an alteration in a Road leading from Bezer Reeds to the Town of Laurens. 
Begins at a Stake and Stones standing on the North side of Said highway and Runs 
thence S 68º W 6 Chains 25 Links. When it enters the Road leading from Edmond 
Richmond to the Town of Laurens, being 25 Rods in Length
Milford September 22nd 1828				Ralph Jordan }Com
Mark A Sayre Surveyor				Walter Fitch   }High
							William Scott }Way
Survey of an alteration in a Road leading from Amos Waters to the Town of Maryland.
 Begins at a Stake and Stones standing about four Rods in a South direction from a 
Beach Tree Standing in Said High Way and Runs Thence North 56º East 5 Chs 50 Links

Thence North 70º East 3 Chains 00
Thence North 40º East 2 Chains 60
Thence North 59º East 6 Chains 00
Thence North 77º East 2 Chains 00
Thence South 7º West 4 Chains 00
Thence South 13º East 3 Chains 00
Thence South 30º East 2 Chains 00
Thence South 40º East 3 Chains 20
Thence South 20º East 4 Chains 00
Where it enters the Road before mentioned Leading from Amos Waters to the Town of 
Maryland being one Hundred and Forty one Rods and five Links in Length

Milford  Nov 28th 1828				Ralph Jordan  }High Way
Mark A Sayre Surveyor				William Scott }Com
Asa Eddy Town Clerk


Page 256

				Stray Sheep
Came into the enclosures on or about the fifteenth of September last Four teen 
Sheep Marked as follows, Two with a Crop on the left ear and half Crop on the 
right; the remainder with a half penny under the left ear. The owner is requested 
to Call prove property, pay Charges and take them away.
Milford, November 25, 1828					Silas Wellman
 

Page 260

Survey of a Road in the Town of Milford which begins at a pine tree marked with the 
 letter A and on the line between the Town of Milford and the Town of Maryland and 
runs thence on a line between Lands now owned by Nathaniel Rose and Amos Adams

N 6º W 43 Chains 75 Links
Thence N 8º E 10 Chains 00 Links
Thence North 22 Chains 00Links
Thence N 10º W 5  Chains 00 Links
Thence N 20º W 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 10º W 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 4º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 19º E 3 Chains 00 Links 
Thence N 16º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 39º E 7 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 42º E 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 58º E 5 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 64º E 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 59º E 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 60º E 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence East       6 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 86º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 46º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 44º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence North…..3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 2º W 1 Chain 00 Links
Thence N 9º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 4º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 3º W 1 Chain 00 Links
Thence N 22º E 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 40º W 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 51º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 65º E 6 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 66º E 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 84º E 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 81º E 5 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 52º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 42º E 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 5º E 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 9º E 5 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 5º E 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 40º W 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 51º W 5 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 63º W 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 51 º W 5 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 63º W 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 51º W 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 63º W 4 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 51º W 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 43º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 16º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 58º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 30º W 5 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 37º W 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 26º W 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 4º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 31º W 3 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 19º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 14º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 3º W 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 1º E 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 19º E 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 2º E 2 Chains 00 Links
Thence N 5º W 1 Chain 00 Links  244 Chains where it intersects

A road leading from a house now occupied by Daniel Pratt to the Town of Maryland 
Being Three Miles and Sixteen Rods in Length
Milford						Alonzo Bridges }Com of
Mark  A Sayre Surveyor				William Scott   }High Ways
							Asa Eddy Town Clk

[This survey was not dated. I think it took place in 1828.]




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