Village and Town of Newburgh Records 1803-1838

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At the annual town meeting held at
the Academy in the Village of Newburgh on
the first Tuesday in April 1813

Present

James Hamilton Isaac Belknap Junr Philip Boyd John Thorne

Presiding Justices

Benjamin S Reeve Alexander Ross Hezekiah Belknap Francis Crawford

 

	The Town Meeting being opened
Voted
	That two Lots be set off the poor Lot for a burying ground, one for Strangers and the other for Blacks, to be set off by the overseers of the poor and Isaac Belknap Junr, James Hamilton and Elezer Gidney.
Voted	That the town officers be voted by Ballot agreeably to law be put on one ticket
Voted	That four Constables be chosen for the present Year
Voted	That there be five Assessors for the present year
Voted	That there be appointed ten fence Viewers and pound masters: Viz

Voted

Richard Dennis Daniel Wilson Daniel Belknap Samule W[ ] Elnathan Foster

pound Masters and Fence Viewers

Leonard Cole Thomas Theale Stephen Wood David Wyatt Herman Snider

 

Voted		That the following persons be Overseers Highways
	No 1	Samuel Bond Jun	5		David [Guernsey]
	2	S[ ] [ ]	6		[Hermanus] [snider]
	3	Eleazar [Gidney]	7		William W[ ] Junr
	4	David Bond	8		William Patton

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	9	James Goldsmith	20	Purdy Fowler
	10	David Gardner	21	William Mitchel
	11	John S Trumper	22	Samuel Underhill
	12	Daniel Smith	23	Thomas Roger Purdy by Comr
	14	Seth Terry	24	Caleb Seaman
	15	Titus Adams	25	Jacob Oakley
		David Fowler by Commis	26	John Tucker
	16	Gilbert Nelson	27	Michael Redmond
	17	William Ecker	28	William Wilson Junr
	18	William Smith	29	Richard Coffin
	19	Caleb Fowler	30	John Bloomer

 

Voted	That three hundred Dollars be raised for the support of the Poor the present year
Voted	That Isaac Belknap Junr, James Hamilton and Eleazer Gidney together with the Overseers of the Poor be a committee to form a plan of a house and calculate what the probable expense may be of building a poorhouse etc and report at the next Town Meeting
Voted	That fifty Dollars be raised for Bridges
Voted	That the Town Clerk be allowed twenty five Dollars for his services the present year
Voted	That the town Bye laws be the same as they were last Year
Voted	That Jonathan Fisk Jacob Carpenter and Henry Butterworth be delegates to attend the Delegates Meeting at Goshen on Saturday the 19th instant
Voted	That William Ross [Henry] Butterworth and Thomas [ ] be Commissioners of Schools
Voted	That the supervisor of this town be and he is hereby directed to [levy] on this town at the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors the sum required by the act for the establishment of

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Common Schools to entitle this town to its proportion of the interest of the School Fund.

 

The following town officers were then duly elected Viz

 

Leonard Smith		Supervisor
Aaron Belknap		Town Clerk
Jacob Carpenter James Hamilton John Thorne Daniel Tooker Elisha King		Assessors
James Black		Collector
Chancy Belknap Henry Butterworth William Weir Junr	Commissioners of Highways
John Mandeville Selah Reeve		Overseers of the Poor
James Wayland Asa Rutzer Barton Underhill David M. Dubois		Constables
Return of the town Meeting taken on Tuesday the 6th of april 1913
		Isaac Belknap Junr James Hamilton A Ross	Justices

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Districts of Roads Altered April 19th 1813

District No. 1 eginning at the West Bounds
of the Corporation on the old road East of the
White house occupied by Samuel Waters, thence
West to the house of Samuel Bond Jinor,
including the Crossroad by Widow Niven's house
north of the house lately owned by Sands Belknap
 

No 2 eginning at the North bounds of the
Corporation by Thomas Carscadin's then North
to the North Side of the bridge near Faulknear's
 

No 3 Beginning at the North bounds of the
Corporation North of John Brown's Stone House
then westerly by the North bounds of Henry
Millers land including the road by Eleazor
Gidney's MIll to William Wilson Junr the road
from the house lately owned by Sands Bel-
knap to the West bounds of the Corporation
by Solomon Brundages and the Road from
Walters old place to Belknaps Saw Mill
 

No 4 Beginning at the turnpike road on the West
line of the German Patent Westerly by Daniel
Gidney's to or near Smith Pines intersecting
the rocky forrest road with the Crossroads to
Belknap's Saw Mill and the road by the house
lately owned by Benjamin Darby to the turnpike
 

No 5 Begining at the late Henery Hanmors
westerly to the middle of the causeway East by
Reuben Merritts the crossroad to pleasant Valley
to Daniel Birdsall's north line the road from
Stephen Woods to the Newburgh & Sullivan
Turnpike road
 

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District No 8 Beginning at the house of the
late Charles Belknap thence Westerly to the
turnpike road and from Jonathan Belknaps
to the NewWindsor line
 

The remaining Districts the same as in
March 1812 except the District then numbered
29 which is abolished
 

The following are the names of the men
assessed by the Commissioners of Highways to
work the roads the number of days set
opposite their respective names in the several
Districts to which they are annexed. Viz
 

District No 1	No of days		No of days
Samuel Bond Junr	3	Samuel S Seymour	20
Samuel Bond	2	Samuel Burr	14
Mosses Higby	8	Samuel Burr Junr	6
Edward Alger	1
William Clark	4	No 3
Joseph Hallock	1	Eleazar Gidney	15
John Cunningham	1	Solomon Brunidge	2
Samuel Waters	1	Stephen Watkins	1
Samuel Longfellow	1	John Wood	6
Gabriel Merritt	2	Gideon Sands	2
Blovelt	1	Joseph Devall	3
		Daniel Nortrop	2
No 2		John Milburn	3
Michael Nestles	4	James Manny Junr	2
Thomas Carscadin	4	Francis Lee	1
Austin Merrit	2	Mobray Smith	1
William Whitehead	3	Nathan Smith	1
William Whitehad Junr	2	George Killpatrick	1

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John Peck	1	Charles Cox	6
Eleazer Gidney Junr	1	Thomas Belknap	15
Chancy Graham	1	Jacob Westlake	13
Gilbert C Crissey	3	Patrick McCarty	3
George Stanton	6	John Duke	4
Richard Stanton	3	Henry Smith	2
Uriah Stanton	1	Samuel Johnson	1
Samuel Stanton	1	David Hamilton	2
William Stanton	1	James Black	2
Benjamin Stanton	4	John Miller	1
Henry Coles	1
James Pine	12	No 5
Isaac Newmein	5	David Guernsey	7
Peter Shay	3	Daniel Evans	4
Jonathan Noyes	2	Cornelius D Wood	4
Samuel Miller	4	Eli Evans	1
Henry Miller	1	Stephen Wood	6
Jonathan Pine	1	James L Crawford	1
		Abijah Crawford	1
No 4		William Thomas	4
David Bond	5	Eleazar Wood	1
Joseph Bond	3	Thomas Rodman	5
Silas Gardner	1	John Wear	2
John Edwards	4	William Wear	7
Samuel Weed	5	Daniel Birdsall	13
Samuel Westlake	6	Stephen Wood Junr	1
Stephen Westlake	1	David Wood	1
William Cairns	1
Daniel Gidney	6
Daniel Belknap	15
Henry Cox	8
Stephen Cox	8

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No 6

Hermanus Snider	5	Cornelius Snider	4
John Crowell	10	Henry Hardenberg	3
John Owens	3	Garet Hardenbergh	2
Isaac McM[ ]n	6	Thomas Merrit	4
Gabriel Anderson	2
Thomas McCollam	5	No 8
David McCollam	3	William Patton	12
James Sills	1	Samuel [K] Weed	4
Henry Snider	2	William Trumper	4
John Snider	8	Jonathan Belknap Jr	10
John Killpatrick	2	Hermanus Trumper	1
Henry Hunt	1	John Trumper	3
Uriah Brundage	1	Paul Shearman	2
Jonathan Brundage	1	John Shearman	1
WIlliam Galey	3	Cornelius Wood	5
Robert Waden	4	Joseph Robinson	9
WIlliam Stephens	5	Benjamin Babcock	1
Levi Gambil	1	Charles Miller	2
Alexander Killpatrick	1	Isaac Crissey	4
		Henry Nelson	3
No 7		John Shonee	1
WIlliam Wear Junr	7	Whipple	2
James McCluhan	2	Snedicker	1
Alexander Cox	5	Potts	2
John Jagger	6
Zadock Thorn	3	No 9
George Ingles	2	James Goldsmith	6
Barick Birdsall	7	James Waugh	4
John Thorne	10	John M Sharp	5
John Snider	4	Noah Millspaugh	4
Mr Qua[ ]	1	Gilbert Willet	7

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William Goldsmith2	No 11
John Hanyon	2	John T Trumper	4
James McCormac	1	Jacob Thomas	4
Robert Beatty	12	Jacob Trumper	4
Thomas Beatty	2	William Trumper	4
Robert Waugh	12	Daniel Jones	4
John Boyd	3	Henry Jones Junr	2
William Johnston	1	Henry Jones	8
William McDowel	2	Junis Snider	5
McDowel	1	Daniel Devine	1
Mr Ramsey	1
		No 12
No 10		Daniel Smith	20
David Gardner	8	Joseph Turner	1
Samuel Wright	4	Jesse Gillis	3
Daniel Kronkite	1	Archibald Graham	2
William [Win]terton	3	William Fetter	4
James McCallick	2	Peter Dusenbury	4
William Wilson	1	Nathaniel Huson	1
Isaac Hanyon	3	Joseph Case	3
Daniel Manna	4	William White	1
George Shay	1	Jacob Bloomer	4
John Graham	2	Reuben Holmes	5
James Kidd	2	John Wells	19
		Martin Curran	2
		William Buchanan	5
		Water Simonson	2
		Lewis Quick	1
		Lewis Boyd	2
		Henry Butterworth	8
		John Currin	2
		William Russel	1

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Jonathan Faulkner	8	No 14
Daniel Wilson	11	Seth Terry	3
William Harris	1	Daniel Aldrige	4
Benjamin Millspaugh	1	Gilbert Aldrige	1
Elnathan L Millspaugh	1	Matthew Cropsey	6
Frederick M[ ]h	1	Jasper Cropsey	1
Isaac Winn	1	Andrew Gerow	1
Peter Sifer	2	Gilbert Lockwood	3
John Leroy	1	John Tooker	3
Robert Couhey	1	John Tuten	3
		Henry Lozier	1
No 13		Abraham Lozier	1
John Griggs	7	Leonard Cole	1
Joshua Wyatt	5	Peter Hedgers	1
David Wyatt	7	William Penny	12
Richard Ward	7	John Abrams	5
Richard Ward Junr	3	Gershom Huff	2
Isaac Ward	1	Andrew Merrit	2
Samuel Ward	1	Alexander Ross	10
Samuel Griggs	6	John Russell	1
William Innis	3	Israel Underhill	1
John Lewis	1
John Smith	2	No 15
Elemuel Edwards	7	Titus Adams	2
Stephen Raymond	4	James O Adams	1
Isaac Halsted	8	Robert Ro[rchrons]	1
John S Griggs	4	John Bell	7
John Halsted	7	Mr Kee	1
Platt Raymond	4	Martin Ultz	1
Daniel Griggs	2	Solomon Smith	3
Josiah Brown	1	David Woolsey	9
Garret Smith	1	Luther Smith Woolsey	1
Josiah W Huff	2	Ezra Dean	1
[Hawkins] [King]	1

 

Daniel Holmes	9	No 17	93
Joshua Mastin	1	William Ecker	18
Samuel Fowler	9	Mobray Carpenter	10
Philip Boyd	6	Joseph Carpenter	8
David Fowler	6	Luff Carpenter	8
John Garritt	6	Stephen Van Wyck	4
		William Young	3
No 16		John Stevens	2
Gilbert Nelson	4	Samuel Powell	1
Benoni Clark	18	Hubbel Miller	2
Francis Smith	5	Isaac Cropsey	1
Isaac DeMott	1	John McGinnies	2
John Nelson	1	William Cropsey	1
Timothy Wood	4	Henry Decker	1
Jesse Wood	2	Samuel Purdy	1
Asa Rutzer	2	Nathaniel Purdy	2
James Treadwell	3	Cornelius Decker	1
Levi Quimby	14	Moses Drake	1
Levi [Q] Fowler	3	John Dexter	5
John Gibbs	1	George Bloomer	5
Benjamin S Reeve	4	Adam Warren	1
Andrew K Millspaugh	1	James Dickinson	1
Conrad Haines	1	Archibald Dailey	1
Ed[mond] Conklin	2
Sheldon Jackson	1	No 18
		William Smith	5
		Daniel [He]dges	3
		Samuel Ca[vine]	3
		Arthur Smith	7
		Thomas Theal	5
		John C Carman	6
		John Carman	1

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Cornelius Rumsey	3	David Holms	9
Cornelius Carman	3	James Matt[hews]	1
James Carman	1	David Perry	4
Jotham Thorne	3	William Fowler	4
Gershom Thorne	1
		No 21
No 19		William Mitchell	9
Caleb Fowler	17	Jonathan Cosman	12
Gilbert Kniffen Junr	4	Jacob Cosman	12
Ebenezer Kniffen	4	Samuel Covert	3
William Jennings	11	Henry Cosman	1
John Dubois	7	William Mitchell Jun	1
Joshua Conklin	4
Benjamin Williams	6	No 22
John Cash	1	Samuel Underhill	10
		Jonathan Thorne	4
No 20		Benjamin Birdsall	4
Purdy Fowler	6	Elisha [Ring]	10
Marcus Fowler	3	Thomas Mullinix	12
Samuel Purdy	7	James Mullinix	4
Henry Purdy	2	Lewis Jones	3
Oliver Cosman	12	John Penny	4
Benjamin Ellison	4	Thomas Pekins	3
Jonathan Pierce	1	Solomon Thorne	5
James Cosman	3	David Goldsmith	1
Mary Bloomer	6	John Underhill	2
William Fowler	2
Benajah Cudney	4
John Winn	6
Solomon Miner	2

No 23

Thomas Purdy	3	Christian Crist	4
Rodger Purdy	3	David Belknap Jun	2
Nathaniel Dickinson	1	Nathan Brewster	2
Thomas Simpson	1	Silas Howell	10
Matthew Preston	1	George Hedges	2
Benjamin Garrison	1	Norman Stone	2
William Ward	2	Richard Moore	2
Devin Hollet	1	James Norton	2
John Hollet	1	Benjamin Smith	3
		William Robinson	3
No 24		Joseph Smith	1
Caleb Seaman	5	Ephraim Hunt	1
Ezekiel Brockway	5	Lewis Robinson	1
David Ward	4	Antony Robinson	1
Thomas Ward	2	Nathaniel Boyd	1
Daniel Griggs	3
Palmer Gerow	2	No 26
William Hallet	1	John Tooker	6
Amos Brockway	1	David Fowler	12
Gardner Weed	2	John Fowler	8
Samuel Weed Junr	2	William Conklin	5
		William Conklin Junr	1
No 25		Daniel Fowler	5
Jacob Oakley	6	Solomon Purdy Junr	5
David Belknap	12	Daniel Tooker	6
Daniel Belknap	2	Nathaniel Tooker	6
William Coddington	10	Thomas Purser	12
Robert [Weeks]	7	William Scott	1
Elizabeth Robinson	3	Peter Maybee	1
Justus Belknap	1	Gilbert O Fowler	6

J Allen's
Certificate

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I hereby certify that John Allen has this day produced
to me proof that he is a freeborn citizen of the United
States pursuant to the act of this state relative to election
the said John Allen being of the height of five feet nine
inches & Three fourths of an inch, yellow complexion, black
hair black eyes aged about twenty six years All which
I do hereby certify pursuant to said act Acted 29
April 1813

 

Daniel Belknap Jun Esq

one of the Judges of the court of com mon pleas in [G] for orange county

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No 27
Michael Redmond	9
James Bushfield	5
James Bushfield	3
John Bushfield	3
Thomas Bushfield	3
Mainard Redman	2
Peter Redman	2
Reuben Merritt	3
John Hardenburgh	4
Abraham Hardenburgh	4
Jeromus Hardenburgh	2

No 28

William Wilson Junr	12	Cornelius Osborn	1
Humphry Merritt	1	William Rogers	1
James Waring	9	Edward Wood	1
Benjamin Innis	8	John Redfield	1
Robert Morgan	4	Joseph H Harris	1
William Morgan	1	William Crum	1
James Owens	1	Russel Dickinson	2
		John B[rock]	1
No 29		Alexander Newman	1
Richard Coffin	3	James McKoy	1
C Belknap & Co	30
Chancy Belknap	10	No 30
Stephen Belknap	3	John Bloomer	4
Richard Dennis	6	Leonard Smith	8
William S[ ]	2	Daniel T Smith	6
Jesse Weeks	1	William Bloomer	7
Henry Skinner	3	Samuel Merritt	1
		John Pembrook	1

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At the an Election held in the town of Newburgh
in the County of Orange commencing on Tuesday
the twenty seventh day of April one thousand
eight hundred and thirteen and closing on the
twenty ninth day of the same Month for elect-
ing one Governor and one Lieutenant Governor
for the State of NewYork, two senators for the
Middle District of Said State and four
Members of Assembly to represent this County
of Orange in the Legislature of the State at
the next session. We do certify that on con-
vassing the Vote given at the said Election for
Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Senators
they were as follows Viz:
 

for Governor 254
Daniel D Tompkins had two hundred fifty four votes
Stephen Van Rensaelear had sixty seven votes 67
 

for Lieutenant Governor
John Taylor had two hundred & fifty two Votes 252
George Huntington had sixty seven Votes 676
 

for Senators
Lucas Elmendorf had two hundred & fifty two votes 252
Samuel G Verbryck had two hundred & fifty two Votes 252
Ira Day had sixty seven votes 67
John Sudam Had sixty seven votes 67
 

Given under our hands at Newburgh
this twenty ninth day of April one thousand
eight hundred & thirteen

Leonard Smith James Hamilton Jacob Carpenter John Thorne Elisha King

Inspectors

At an the Election held in the town of Newburgh
in the County of Orange commencing on Tuesday
the twenty seventh day of April one thousand
eight hundred and thirteen and closing on the
twenty ninth day of the same Month for electing
one Governor and one Lieutenant Governor for the
State of NewYork two senators for the Middle
district of Said State and four Members of
Assembly to represent the County of Orange in
the Legislature of this State at the next Session.
We do certify that on convassing the Votes
given at the said Election for Members of
Assembly they were as follows Viz
For

 

William Ross had four hundred & four votes	404
Benjamin Strong had three hundred and seventy eight	378
Joshua Sayre had three hundred & sixty six	366
Benjamin Webb had three hundred & sixty eight	368
Reuben Hopkins had twenty four Votes	24
James Finch Junr had eleven votes	11
James Burt had ten votes	10

Given under our hands at Newburgh
this twenty ninth day of April one thousand
eight hundred & thirteen

Leonard Smith James Hamilton Jacob Carpenter John Thorne Elisha King

Inspectors

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At a special town meeting held at the house of
of John Farnam pursuant to previous notice for the
purpose of choosing a commissioner of Common Schools, Inspectors of Common Schools, and
a Collector to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of James Black held on Saturday the 25th day of
November 1813.

Present
James Hamilton Isaac BelknapJunr Jonathan Cooley	Justices

An Motion

Resolved That there be six Inspectors of Common
Schools elected and that all the officers to be chosen
at this meeting be voted for on one ballot
 

The following Persons were then duly elected
 

John Thorn	Commissioner of Common Schools
Hezekiah Belknap Alexander Ross Daniel Tooker Ward M Gazley George Gordon David Belknap	Inspectors of Common Schools
David M Dubois	Collector

Return of a Special town meeting held at
the house of John Farnam on Saturday the
27th of November 1813

 

A Belknap town Clerk

Isaac Belknap Junr [ ] Hamilton [ ] [Gidny]