At a meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of Otsego held at the Court house in the village
of Cooperstown in the said Town of Otsego on the first Tuesday in March AD 1835
Present Chester Jarvis )
Seth Doubleday Jr ) Justices
Chauncy Stevens Esquire )
The Town Clerk being absent it was on Motion Resolved that Henry Brown be and he is hereby appointed Clerk Pro tem -
Resolved that the Town will choose three assessors and four Constables for the ensuing year -
Resolved that the School Commissioners and inspectors be allowed for their services one dollar and twenty five cents per diem -
Resolved that no Cattle, sheep, hogs or horses shall be permitted to roam at large in said Town at any time during the year
ensuing under the penalty of twenty five cents for each and every offense-
Resolved that the Collector for his services be allowed five per cent Commission -
Resolved that the Town raise the sum of one hundred dollars and that the sum be paid to the Commissioners of high ways for
the improvement of roads and bridges and in payment of prudent debts -
Resolved that 4 1/2 feet in height shall be requisite to constitute a lawful fence -
The meeting then proceeded to ballot for Town officers for the ensuing year where upon the following persons were
duly elected to fill the several offices opposite their respective names -- Viz --
Elihu Phinney Supervisor
George Pomeroy Town Clerk
Charles Jarvis Justice of the Peace for four years from and after the 1st Jany next
James Paul )
Zebulon Gibbs 2 ) Assessors
Leander Plumb )
1835 - page 2
Jabez Chapman )
James Johnson 2 ) Coms of highways
Buckingham Fitch )
Elisha Doubleday )
William Williams ) Coms of Schools
Chester Jarvis )
George A C Luce )
William Stark ) Inspectors of Schools
Erasmus Richardson )
John Brewer 2 )
Garratt Olendorf ) Overseers of the Poor
Benjamin Ruggles Collector
Orson Smith )
Benjamin Ruggles )
Ira Tanner ) Constables
Lewis Nash )
Ellery Cory Sealer of Weights & Meas
Pathmasters
Ward No. 1 Harry Clark
2 Daniel Peck
3 Jared Clark
4. Isaac Williams
5. Francis Misson
6. Daniel Carpenter
7. Buckingham Fitch
8. J. G Staring
9. Joseph Cheney
10. John Patten
11 Thomas Higby
12 Zattu Andrus
13 David Hicock
14 Thomas Rutenber
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15 David Marvin 61 Eleazer Johnson Riley Fields
16 Rufus Preston 62 Nehemiah Hinds 2d
17 John Newton 64 Jacob Gates
18 Charles Sumner 65 John Bissel Benjamin Bissell
19 Abraham Van Horn 66 Homer Beadle
20 Daniel P. Barney 67 Dennis Clark
21 Jacob Wiley
22 Joseph Tibbetts From the minutes
23 Charles Bliss Henry Brown
24 James Kelly Town Clerk Pro: tem
25 Jacob Johnson
26 Daniel Hicock
27 Hiram Coonrodt Chester Jarvis )
28 Julius Warren Seth Doubleday ) Justices
29 Warren Babbitt Chancy Stevens )
30 Samuel Lawrence
31 Andrew Metcalf
32 John Williams
33 John Lumley
34 Andrew Lisk
35 Orlow Underwood
36 Benjamin Roberts
37 Robert De Long
38 Henry Newcomb
39 William Patten
41 Rensselaer Fitch
42 John Sutherland
44 John Hinds
45 Martin Pickens
46 David R Beach John Clark
37 Nathaniel Mott
48 Cyrenus Johnson
50 William Russel
51 Edward Lewis
53 Isaac House
56 Benedict Price
57 Alexander Hicock
58 Francis Taylor
59 Isaac Tucker
60 Samuel Morris
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