Otsego Town Minutes 
1857 

Note -  The record for 1857 has faded so that it is practically impossible to read.  
At first I was not going to attempt to transcribe it,  however, with the aid of a magnifying glass  
and by consulting the minutes for 1858,  I have deciphered  the following: ..

At the annual Town Meeting of the Electors of the Town of Otsego held at the house of Wm  Lewis, in said Town, on Tuesday the __ day of March 1857
					Present         Seth Doubleday  )
						     Hiram Kinny      )
						      Ezra W  Badger )   Justices
						      Francis Williams)
						      H.  P.  Metcalf    Town Clerk

The following persons were duly elected to the several offices to which their names are annexed  
	Levi C. Turner		Supervisor

	Henry P. Metcalf		Town Clerk

	Ezra W. Badger		Justice of the Peace

	Alexander Taylor		Assessor

	John Kellogg		Commissioner of Highways
	
	John K. Leaning )
	Benjamin Kip    )		Overseers of Poor
 
	Stephen Williams		Collector

	Stephen Williams )
	Hugh  Seaton       )
	Daniel Peck         )		Constables
	Richard Thurston )

	Luzerne M. Bolles )
	Eliab  P. Byram     )		Inspectors of Elections
	Isaac  K. Williams )		District  No 1
	
	Everett D. Preston )
	Hiram Barton        )		District  No. 2
	 Elon  Denio         )

	Poll List    690 votes
	Canvass ?  686   "
					
			Path  Masters  for  1857
Dist
1    Caleb Clark			32  Robert  Parshall
3    John Kellogg			33  Richard Davidson
4    Cornelius Van Horne		34  David Wedderspoon
5    John Tarpening			35  Henry Wilsie
6    George Johnson			36  Lorenzo Davis
7    Buckingham Fitch		37  Robert Quaif
8    Orlo Underwood		38  Jeremiah Shaul
9    Daniel Green			39  James Sitts
10  Lewis Davidson			40  Oliver Weldon
11  Colonel  Potter			41  Oliver Freeman
14  Thomas Williams			42  Thomas Taylor  2s
15  Beecher Higby 			43  Joel Squiers
16  Hiram Doane			44  Wm  Hutchins
17  Samuel Ackley			45  James J  Allen
18  Geo  Wright			46  Horace Taylor
19  ?. A. Brown			48  Orville  Plumb
20  Colonel  Eldred			49  Philo Perkins
21  John  Ferns			50  Thomas Russell
22  Joshua Byard			51  Edwin Lewis
23  Hiram Barton			52  E. D. Lewis
24  Hiram  Newell			53  Joel  House
25  Ira  Tanner Jr			54  Charles Bailey
26  Shubal Allen			55  Chester Babbitt
27  Hiram  Coonrod			56  John  Wiley
28  Russell  Warren			58  Sherman  Kinney
29  Henry Camp			59  William Kinney
30  Levi Pierce			60  Olney Z  Andrus
31  Wm  Sitts			61  S  Pashley
				63   Silas Williams

Adjourned to meet at the house of  Wm  Lewis on the first Tuesday in March  1858
					       H 	P. Metcalf  T Clk
Days Assessed  2266 1/2