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Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Mintues 1837 Page 294 At the annual town meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Milford held at the houfe of Jesse Mumford on Tuesday the 7th day of March 1837 the following Resolves were pafsed and likewise the following Persons were chosen officers for said town for the following year Viz Resolved that 1 there is 3 Afsefsors Resolved that 2 there is 4 Constables Resolved that 3 there is 5 Pound Masters Resolved that 4 that we raise as much money for Common Schools as we receive from the State Resolved that 5 that the fence viewers, Commifsioners, and Inspectors of Common Schools receive one dollar per day when engaged in the duties of their offices Resolved that 6 that the collector receive five per cent for collecting List of Persons Elected to office for 1837 John Moore Jr Town Clerk Peter Collier Supervisor Thomas Burnside Justice of the Peace William H Watkins Collector Stephen Platt Zebediah Martin Afsefsors Peter Cline William H Watkins Hiram Sargents Orson V Mumford Constables James G Walley Alonzo Bridges Robinson Aylesworth Com of HWays Richard B Moris Page 295 Benajah P.Aylesworth Overseers of the Poor Luther Brewer Peter Cline Denison R Boyce Com of Schools Allen Baker John Moore Jr James Fern Inspect of Schools James G Walley Joseph Westcott Town Sealer Path Masters No of Wards 1 Christopher Ellis 2 Norman Griswold 3 Alonzo Bridges 4 William P Waite 5 Luther Brewer 6 John Armstrong 7 Daniel Winsor 8 Moses Chidester 9 Timothy Cook 10 Jared Goodyear 11 James Fern 12 John Deitz 13 Andrew Shute Jun 14 Hiram C Cline 15 Lorenzo Bates 16 John Aylesworth 17 Eli Rose 18 Alexander Cummings 19 John Willcox 20 George Aylesworth 21 Smith Humphrey 22 Nicholas Schermerhorn 23 Alo_e Lyon 24 William Stevens Jr 25 John A Cronkhite 26 George W Newton 27 Elmon Wakefield 28 Beezer Reed 29 Zuri Wellman 30 Elias Marvin 31 George W Davis 32 Lyman Scott 33 Andrew Stone 34 Chester Whitford 35 William Whitford 36 David Mead 37 Harvy Houghton 38 Jerah Grover Page 296 39 Aaron Lane 40 Warren Ackley 41 Nehemiah W Kingman 42 Nathaniel Applebee 43 William Smalling 44 Peter Miller 45 John Low 46 Alfred Mosher 47 James North 48 Henry Smith 49 Daniel Wright 50 Abram Gurney 51 Wm Crouch 52 Rufus Houghton 53 Eli Rose Jr 54 Jeriel Preston 55 Thomas Burnside Pound Masters Orange Bifsell Joseph Westcott Peter Collier Thomas Hoag Cyrus Steer We the Inspectors of this Annual Town Meeting held at the house of Jefse Mumford on the 7 day of March 1837 certify that the above is a list of the officers elected for the town of Milford for the ensuing year Levi Stewart } Thomas Burnside }Justices Henry Willcox } Joseph Westcott } John Moore Jr Town Clk James North Solomon Peck John How Gloud Burnside Jeremiah Bowman Simeon Manzer Ira Quimby Henry Coon James Quackenbofs 2 to be ____ to 12 to the 12 Ward Page 297 Order for laying out a Highway through improved lands without the consent of the owner At a meeting of the Commifsioners of Highways of the Town of Milford in the County of Otsego at the hands of Jefse Mumford in Said Town on the 6th day of May 1837 for the purpose of deciding on the application of Stephen Platt and Solomon Peck for laying out a Highway pafsing through the improved land occupied by Philip G Schermerhorn which twelve reputable freeholders of the Said Town have duly certified that it was Necefsary and Proper to lay all the said Commifsioners having met and deliberated on the Subject and embraced in this order and due notice of the time and place of the Said Meeting having been given to the Said Occupant. It is ordered and determined by the said Commifsioners that a Highway be laid out pursuant to the Said application __________ on the Schenevus Creek near Henry Coons and running thence northerly through lands of Stephen Platt and others and also through the improved lands occupied by Philip G Schermerhorn and Westerly of the old road which is an alteration of the old road through the lands occupied by Said Schermerhorn The courses and distances whereof according to a survey thereof which the Said commifsion have caused to be made are as follows Beginning at the Schenevus creek road and running from thence North 27° W 2 Chains 35 links North 38° West 9 Chains 50 links Page 300 North 44° West 6 Chains 50 links North 20° West 8 Chains 40 links North 30° West 14 Chains 20 links North 42° West 7 Chains 00 links North 8° West 13 Chains 66 links North 9° West 3 Chains 50 links North 10° West 2 Chains 20 links North 5° West 2 Chains 00 links North 12° West 2 Chains 50 links North 14° West 3 Chains 90 links North 13° West 5 Chains 00 links North 20° West 7 Chains 75 links North 23° West 3 Chains 25 links North 26° West 2 Chains 24 links North 27° West 2 Chains 00 links North 36° West 10 Chains 42 links North 33° West 12 Chains 00 links North 30° West 12 Chains 00 links North 23° West 8 Chains 83 links North 27 West 4 Chains 25 links North 7° West 5 Chains 10 links North 2° West 2 Chains 18 links North 42° East 6 Chains 50 links North 57° East 5 Chains 00 links North 65° East 4 Chains 00 links East 8 Chains 51 links North 77° East 3 Chains 50 links North 79° East 3 Chains 11 links North 80° East 3 Chains 82 links North 67° East 3 Chains 00 links North 70° East 24 Chains 88 links North 43° East 9 Chains 00 links North 40° East 5 Chains 50 links North 36° East 3 Chains 50 links North 5° East 10 Chains 00 links North 12° West 6 Chains 30 links 247.35 to the old road from Portland Mills making the whole distance 3 miles 29 rods 10 links Page 301 And it is further ordered that the line above described Shall be the center of the Said highway and the Said highway shall be of the width of three rods In witness whereof the said comifsioners have subscribed their names the 8 day of May 1837 Alonzo Bridges }Com Robinson Aylesworth }of Richard B Moris }Hways