Annual Minutes 1836 Copied by : Jayne Davis Szaz |
Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes 1836 Page 287 At an annual Town Meeting held at the house of William V White on the First day of March 1836 Resolved 1st That we have Three Afsefsors Resolved 2nd That we have Four Constables Resolved 3rd That we have Five Pound Masters Resolved 4th That we raise as much money for the support of Common Schools as we receive from the State Resolved 5th That the fence viewers receive one dollar per day Resolved 6th That the collector receive five percent Resolved 7th That the Commifsioners and Inspectors of Common Schools receive one dollar per day when in duty of office Resolved 8th That we determine where the next town meeting shall be held by viva voce or by uplifted hands Resolved 9th That the next Town Meeting shall be held at the house of John Mumford The following persons were duly Elected to Office Viz John Moore Jr Town Clerk Peter Collier Supervisor Henry Willcox Justice Peter Cline Zebediah Martin Afsefsors Thomas Burnside William H Watkins Collector Page 288 William H Watkins Levi B Tarbox Constables Job Sargent James G Walley Benanah P Aylesworth William V White Com of Highways Thomas Eddy Henry Willcox Hiram C Cline Overseers of Poor Denison R Boyce Commifsioers Peter Cline of Samuel Rufsell Schools James G Walley Inspectors James Fern of Nelson Furgeson Schools Joseph Westcott Town Sealer Overseers of Highways Ward No 1 Asa Eddy 2 Norman Griswold 3 Alonzo Bridges 4 John Whiteside 5 Richard Swartwout 6 Samuel Rufsell 7 Daniel Windsor 8 Joseph Mumford 9 Timothy Cook 10 Jared Goodyear 11 James Fern 12 James North 13 Peter Cline 14 Hiram C Cline 15 Leonard Baker 16 John Aylesworth 17 Andrew Westcott 18 John Sargent 19 Henry Schermerhorn 20 John Cridenwise 21 Edward Segar 22 Francis Theleman 23 David Duell 24 Jacob Siver 25 John A Cronkhite 26 Solomon E Bostwick 27 Bezer Reed 28 Bezer Reed, Jr 29 Nehemiah Edson 30 Jacob Edson 31 George W Davis 32 Lyman Scott 33 Moses Barnard Page 289 No Wards 34 Harvey Bifsell 35 Chester Whitford 36 William Lahr 37 Hary Houghton 38 Ephraim R Farrington 39 Peter Marlett 40 Adam G Cook 41 Nehemiah W__ingman 42 Augustus Varrs 43 William Smalling 44 John Barnard 45 John Low Jr 46 [blank] Hanar 47 Stephen Platt 48 Samuel Youmans 49 Daniel Right 50 Abraham Gurney 51 William Crouch 52 Rufus Houghton 53 Ira Rowland 54 Jeriel Preston Pound Masters Orange Bifsell Joseph Westcott Peter Collier Thomas Hoag Cyrus Steer We the Inspectors of an election for the purpose of electing officers for the town of Milford do hereby certify that the foregoing list of officers are duly elected for the said town of Milford Dated at Milford March 1st 1836 Allen Baker } Joseph Westcott }Justices Thomas Burnside } Levi Stewart } John Moore Jr } T Clk Page 290 We the undersigned Justices of the Peace for the town of Milford certify that at a special town meeting held at the house of Orange Bifsell on the 26th day of March 1836 for the purpose of supplying the place of Thomas Eddy who has neglected to qualify Alonzo Bridges was duly elected as Commifsioner of Highways to supply said vacancy Dated at Milford March 26th 1836 Levi Stewart }Justices Allen Baker }of Peace Page 291 At a meeting of the Commifsioners of Highway of the town of Milford in the County of Otsego at Peter Colliers Esq in Said town on the 10th day of December 1836 for the purpose of deciding on the application of Daniel Green for Laying out a Highway pafsing through the improved lands of Daniel Green John Green James Quackenbofs Thomas Burnside Peter Collier Jared Goodyear William Dietz John Deitz and Henry Deitz which twelve respectable freeholders of the Said Town have duly certified that it was necefsary and proper to lay out all the said [a word or words must be missing here] the Commifsioners having met and deliberated on the subject embraced in this order and due notice of the time and place of the said meeting having been given to the said William Deitz John Deitz and Henry Deitz who refuse to release – it is ordered by the Commifsioners that a highway be laid out pursuant to the Said application Commencing at the town line between Milford and Oneonta and the South line of Daniel Green thence Northerly through the improved Lands of said Daniel Green thence northerly through the improved lands of said Daniel Green John Green James Quaclembofs Thomas Burnside crofsing the Schenevus Creek near said Burnside thence on the line between Burnside and Collier and Goodyear thence acrost lands of William Dietz to lands of John and Henry Dietz thence on the line between said John & Henry and principally on Henry to the Highway near said Henry’s Cabinet Shop The Courses and Distances _____ according to a survey thereof which the said Commifsioners caused to be made are as follows beginning at the south line of Daniel Green and thence North 54° East 7 Chains North 47° East 24 Chains North 48° East 8 Chains North 55° East 6 Chains North 71° East 7 Chains North 64° East 6˝ Chains North 59° East 10 Chains North 58° East 10 Chains North 64° East 4 Chains North 73° East 3˝ Chains North 57° East 3 Chains North 36° East 2 Chains North 30° East 3 Chains North 18° East 14 Chains North 23° West 10˝ Chains North 87° West 4 Chains North 16° West 5˝ Chains North 26° West 4 Chains North 9° East 3 Chains North 55° East 4 Chains North 17° West 11 Chains North 12° West 11 Chains North 12° East 6 Chains 167 Chains And it is further ordered that the line above described Shall be the center of the said Highway and the said Highway shall be the width of Three rods In witness whereof the Said Commifsioners have hereunto Subscribed their names the 19th day of December 1836 Alonzo Bridges }Commifs Wm V White }of Benajah Aylesworth }Highways Page 293 Came into my enclosure on or about the twentieth Instant to Sheep marked alike the right ear Cropt and the other with a hole So let it be recorded November 28, 1836 William Farewell December the 3 1836 _______I _____Cost _____Year in my Enclosure about seven weakes agon and know ____ or ______ not ___ oner Come _ ___ ____ ______ up and ___ notiz other publack to the Town Clerk in milford wishing the oner to come and pay the Charges and take it away Jacob Farrington [The paragraph above was written in an almost completely unreadable handwriting.]