At the Annual Town Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Otsego assembled at the
House of last held by the inhabitants. Resolved that we adjourn to the House of Wm
Lewis. Carried
Present
H. B. Sprague )
H. Perkins ) Justices
On Motion Resolved at the House of Wm Lewis that the Town choose four Constables.
Carried
That the Town choose three assessors - carried
That the height of fences be 4 1/2 feet
Resolved. That the Collector be allowed 5 per cent for Collecting - Carried
Resolved That Cattle, Sheep, Hogs & Horses Shall not be permitted to roam at Large at
any time under the penalty of Twenty five cents for each & every offence.
Resolved - That Rams Shall not be permitted to roam at Large from the first of Aug to
25th Nov. under the penalty of five Dollars - Carried
Resolved that the School Commissioners be allowed one Dollar for Day - Carried
Resolved. That School Inspectors Shall Visit each School in town once in Summer
Twice in the winter and that they be allowed fifty cents for each teacher inspected -
provided that when more than two persons are inspected in one day that then the
inspectors be allowed 10 shillings pr day if more than two are inspected and that they
report at the next annual Town Meeting.
1842 - page 2
The following persons were duly Elected to the Several offices to which their names are
annexed for the ensuing year viz
George A. Starkweather Supervisor
Henry P. Metcalf Town Clerk
Leander Plumb )
Delos D. Pier ) Assessors
Benjamin F. K ? )
John Thayer Collector
Caleb Thayer )
John Northrup ) Overseere of the Poor
Timothy Waterman )
Rensselaer Waterman ) Coms of Highways
William Kinney )
Philip Roof )
Cornelius Van Horn ) Com of Schools
Alson Preston )
Luther Burdett )
Isaac Fairchild ) School Inspectors
Ira Tannor )
John Hurd ) Constables
Richard A. Freeman )
John Bunn )
Ellery Cory Town Sealer
Hezekiah B. Sprague the incumbant
Orestes Badger ) Justices
Hiram S. Babcock )
1842 - page 3
Ward No 1 John H. Benedict No. 39 Albert Ulmstead
2 Ora Peabody 40 Joel Squires, jr
3 John Clark 41 Demis Clark
4 John Allen 42 Thos. Taylor 2d
5. Abram S. Van Horn 43 Cyrenus Warren
6 Abel Brook 44 James Hinds
7 B. Fitch 45 Nehemiah Hinds
8 Reuben Hinds 46 Horace Taylor
9 Joseph Cheney 47 Marlin Coates
10 John C. Williams 48 James Crosby
11 Thos. S. Higby 49 John Wilson
12 Peter Edget 50 Wm Russell
13 Constantine King 51 Alex. Taylor
14 Isaac R. Drake 52 Geo. P. Dalphin
15 Wm Higby 53 John Hinds
16 Israel Loomis, jr 54 Ambrose Hyde
17 Walter P. Tunnicliff 55 James Johnson
18 Frederick Williams 56 Wm Benjamin
19 Abram B. Van Horn 57 Franklin Easton
20 Col. Eldred 58 John crossed out, Francis added, Taylor
21 Albert Matthewson 59 Harry Firman
22 Saml. Bosworth 60 G. Washington Adams
23 Lyman Dunbar 61 (new one from 54)
24 B. S. Moore
25 Orlands Elsworth From the minutes
26 Shubal Allen H Babcock
27 John Soser / Losee ? T Clk
28 Russell Warren
29 Anderson Wetherall
30 Marcus H Scribner
31 Minor Smith
32 Walter Van Horn
33 Leister Taylor
34 Sanford G. Knowlton
35 Leonard Welden No. of Persons Assessed 540
36 Benjamin Roberts Days - 1850
37 Andrew Shaw
38 Jeremiah Shawl
1842 - page 4
Town of Otsego ) Certificate of Drawing of Hiram S. Babcock and Orestes Badger
March 3d 1842 )
We certify that on the third day of March 1842, one of the Justices elected
for the Town of Otsego the above named Hiram S. Babcock and Orestes Badger, also
one of the Justices elected for said Town, by mutual consent approved, without any
notice having been served upon them, and in the presence of the Supervisor at his office
in Cooperstown, and having drawn lots agreeably to law, the said Hiram S. Babcock
drew for two years from first January 1842 and Orestes Badger drew for four years from
the first day of January last.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names, the day and year
aforesaid March 3, 1842 signed Geo. A. Starkweather
Supervisor
Henry P. Metcalf
Town Clerk