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Aarou Goodrich, another brother, who came here later
than other members of his family, removed to Tennessee at an early day, where he was admitted to the bar, and prac- tieed successfully for several years. He was, though a Whig, elected to the Legislature of that State in a Democratic district, beating the since notorious traitor, Isham G. Harris. This was in 1847, 1848. During the latter year he was elected a Presidential eleetor on the Whig ticket. In March, 1849, he was appointed by President Taylor Chief-Justice of Minnesota, and took up his residence in St. Paul. He held the first term of court in Ramsey and other counties ; was one of the corporators of the Historical Society in 1849, a charter member of the first Masonic lodge in St. Paul and of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota. He resumed the practice of law in 1851. In the early days of the Republican party he was one of its most ready and effective campaign speakers, and drew up the first Repub- lican platform adopted in Minnesota. "In 1858 he was a member of the convention to prepare a code of pleadings and practice, and submitted a report of marked ability. He was a member of the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860, which resulted in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln, though he labored for William H. Seward. Through the friendship of that statesman he was appointed secretary of legation at Brussels in 1861, which position he held eight years. Returning to St. Paul in 1869, he again resumed the practice of his profession, de- voting his leisure moments to writing a work entitled “ A History of the Character and Achievements of the so-called Christopher Columbus," wherein he opposes the claim of Columbus being the discoverer of America, or of his name being Christopher Columbus. In 1872 he was a member of the convention which nominated for the presidency Horace Greeley, although voting constantly for Judge Davis, of Illinois. He resides at the present time in St. Paul, Minn.
During the year 1836 many other families took up their residence here. Among them were Daniel and Manley Swears (brothers), Hiram Fillmore (a cousin of President Fillmore), Albert Demaree and his sous David, Cornelius, Jacob, and Garrett, Daniel Swears, Sr., James Black, James Kipp, all from Erie Co., N. Y .; Peter Lane, from Ontario Co., N. Y .; John Mancoar, from New York City; James Burden, from Essex Co., N. Y. ; Jacob and Thomas Vantine, John Hosler, from Erie Co., N. Y. ; William Carpenter, Niagara Co., N. Y .; Joseph Russell, Hiram Husted, from Genesce Co., N. Y. ; John L. MeNiel, from Chittenden Co., Vt .; Jacob Thomas and Levi Preston, from Cattaraugus Co., N. Y .; Lewis Cummings, from Erie Co., N. Y.
John L. MeNiel, a descendant of a sterling family of patriots, who participated with the colonists in the French- and-Indian wars, also in the Revolutionary struggle, was born in Charlotte, Chittenden Co., Vt. At the age of twenty-one years he began working for his father, at the rate of $5 per month. Ile afterwards became proprietor of the hotel-stand in Charlotte, a property which had been retained in his family since 1790. Here, by good management and a close attention to all the details of his business, he succeeded in accumulating a few hundred dollars, which he determined to invest in Western lands. Accordingly, in the spring of 1836, with a horse-team and wagon, and some few necessary articles, he began a journey
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JOHN L. MC NEIL.
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via Saratoga, Johnstown, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, and the usual route to Buffalo; thence by the lake to Detroit. It was his intention to stop at Toledo, and locate lands in Northern Ohio, or Southern Michigan. But the captain of the steamer for some reason would not make a landing at the latter eity, and young MeNiel, with others, came on to Detroit. lle then visited Davisonville, and soon after pur- chased the north half of section 11. Returning to Detroit, the horse-team was sold, and a yoke of Ohio steers sub- stituted in their stead.
After building a shanty, some six feet square, which stood near his present barn, he began cutting down the forest, and cleared a few acres of its primeval growth. Ilis neighbors were two or three miles distant in either direction, wolves hovered about him each night, and as the Fourth of July came on, being of a social nature, he fully realized his lonely and uncomfortable position, especially as his mind wandered back to the good old patriotic State of Vermont, and he viewed in thought the noisy celebration of the nation's birthday by his former friends and associates. Onr young pioneer then determined to abandon the pur- suits of a life in the back woods and return to the haunts of civilization. After placing his house in order and closing all modes of ingress, he proceeded to Judge Davison's resi- dence, and acquainted him with his determination. Judge Davison was an intensely practical man, a thorough pio- neer, and soon pointed out to young MeNiel the benefits surely to arise by a continued, undeviating course in the path he had already marked out here. Judge Davison's counsels finally prevailed, coupled with the attractions of his daughter Sylvia, who was married to Mr. MeNiel in the fall of 1837. Mr. MeNiel recalls the fact that he walked sixteen miles-to Lapeer-to obtain the marriage certificate. llis brother, Charles MeNiel, settled in the township in the fall of 1836, and another brother, David, in Grand Blanc, a few years later. John L. MeNiel has occupied many prominent official positions in the gift of his political friends, which is more particularly referred to in an accompanying biographical sketch.
Among the settlers of 1837 were Dr. Cyrus Baldwin, from Grand Blanc, the first resident physician ; Lewis Van Cleve; his son, Lewis, Jr. ; Samuel Winship; Elias Rocka- fellow, the first blacksmith and iron-founder in the town- ship; Fitch R. Tracy, the first merchant ; Samuel Walker, John K. Pearsons, from Canada ; William Goodrich, Moses Wisner,* and Michael Bowers,-all from Cayuga Co., N. Y.
Other settlers who became residents at about this time, or in years very soon thereafter, were Bradley Cartwright and Freeman Coolage, from Genesee Co., N. Y. ; John Van- tine, Erie Co., N. Y .; Julius Barnes, who settled upon section 2; Amos II. Fisk, from Gencsee Co., N. Y. ; Ste- phen Horton, William Surryhne, Moses Frost, William Roberts, Joseph Tyler, Edward Fortune, Albert Vantine, Charles Vantine, Jonathan Frost, Ephraim S. Frost, Ralph C. Atkins, Albert J. Bates, Ira G. Hooton, Peter Vantine, Paul Liscomb, James Vantine, lohn Perritt, Mathew P. Thomas, Jacob HI. Howe, Isaac Carmer, Elijah Carmer, Oliver Palmer, who established the first woolen and cloth-
dressing works at Davisonville, Nathaniel Fairchild, Clark Hutchins, Hiram Maxfield, and Marlin Davison, brother of Norman Davison.
Many of these men, whose names have been but briefly mentioned, possessed an unwritten history which, if told in all its details, would rival the works of the most imagi- native author. But deaths and removals leave a blank which one who seeks to reproduce facts cannot fill. Their places are now filled by others. The wilderness with which they once battled has given place to cultivated fields. Agriculture now spreads out its fields and lawns where the Indian pursued his game. Turnpikes and rail- roads are substituted for deer-paths and Indian trails, and the hum of the spindle and scream of the locomotive have taken the place of the yell of the panther and howl of the wolf.
The following table gives the resident taxpayers in 1844, also the sections upon which taxes were assessed .
Adams, Eber, 7, 8, 9.
Gridley, Barton, 17. Horton, Ira J., 22, 33.
Burpee, Nehemiah S., 18.
Bates, Albert J., 32.
Iloffman, Henry, 13, 18.
Burden, John, 18, 19.
Hutchins, Clark, 18.
Burt, Jobn C.
Holcomb, Daniel, 17.
Bird, John.
Ilartwell, Daniel, 1.
Buzzell, John, S.
llartwell, Daniel F., 1.
Barnes, Julius, 2, 3.
Ilurd, Lovell, 25, 30.
Bates, Ira, 31.
llasler, George, 25, 30.
Blackall, William, 13.
Buzzell, Robert, 31.
Burden, James, 19.
flammell, Barney, 8.
llarding, Daniel, 18.
Brannock, Lyman 11., 14.
Britton, John, 35, 36.
Baldwin, Cyrus, 35.
Johnson, Joseph R., 32.
Johnson, Jonas P., 36.
Knowles, Robert, S.
Britton, John (3d).
Kipp, James, 26, 35.
Beardsley, F. D., 22.
Kline, John A., G.
Barney, Daniel D., 8, 10.
Lobban, William, 5.
Berry, Nathaniel M., 10.
Larabee, Samuel, 10.
Brigham, John, 19, 22, 28.
Lason, Samuel, IS.
Carponter, William, 21.
Lane, l'eter, 23, 24, 26.
Chadbourn, John, 7.
Lane, David. Lobban, James, 4, 5.
Campbell, Charles S., 8.
Liscomb, Paul, 31.
Coolage, Freeman, 14.
Lobban, Alexander, 8.
Carmer, Elijah, 36.
MeNiel, John L., 2, 11.
Case, David, 8.
MeNiel, Charles, 1, 2.
Caldwell, James, 7.
Mancour, John, 20.
Davison, Marlin, 17.
Mitchell, George C., 27, 31.
Davison, Paul G., 8, 9, 22.
Manning, Lyman Il.
Davison, D. C., 9.
MeCraith, James, 5.
Demaree, David, 26, 27.
Norris, Jacob, 33.
Demaree, Garrett.
Owen, Noah, 31.
Dancer, Elins, 27.
Owen, William, 31.
Farrar, Asa, 18.
Owen, George, 32.
French, Joseph I ..
Oldfield, Aaron, 8.
Frost, Moses, 6.
Preston, Levi, 10.
Frost, Jonathan, 2.1.
Pearsons, John K., 12.
Frost, Ephraim, 23, 24.
Pearsons, Joseph, 1.
Fairchild, Nathaniel, 15.
Preston, Roswell, 9, 10.
Goodrich, Reuben, 22, 23.
Powell, Talford, 31. Powell, Daniel, 28. Parshall, Ezra K., 10, 32.
Goodrich, Moses, 15, 29.
Porter, Alanson 11., 28. 34.
Pixley, Theron, 21, 25.
Pulmer, Oliver P. & Co. (grist- mill), s.
Grow, Stillman T., 21.
Rockafellow, Elias, 8.
Horton, James G., 32. Hunt, Elias, 32.
Blair, James, 22.
Barnum, Charles M., 11.
Holcomb, Evaline, 6.
llorton, Stephen, 5.
Ilusted, Iliram, 25.
Black, Ilenry.
Britton, William, 35.
Cummings, Lewis, 3.
Goodrich, Enos, 22.
Goodrich, John S., 15, 21, 22.
Goodrich, Levi W., 9, 17, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28. Goodrich, L. H., 29.
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Rinchart, George, 6. Rhodes, John, 27. Russell, Joseph, 34. Rogers, William, 14. Reece, Andrew, 34. Sanford, Henry C., 19. Smith, George M. C., 13.
Updegraff, George, 15. Vantine, James, 35, 36.
Vantine, John, 2, 8, 15, 22, 28. 33.
Vantine. Jacob, 26.
Vantine, Charles, 26, 27.
Vantine, Thomas, 33.
Swears, Manly, 26.
Vantine, John T.
Swears, Daniel, 26, 35, 36.
Vantine, Peter, 33.
Vantine, Albert, 8, 17.
Stephens, David, 2t. Simons, Simcon, 34. Surryhne, William, 5.
Van Cleve, Lewis, 23.
Williams, L., 10.
Swift, Albert, 19.
Walker, Samuel, 2.
Thomas, Jacob, 2, 11, 11.
Wright, George, 5.
Thomas, Mathew P., 14.
Wilson, Samuel, 7, 34.
Titsworth, George, 26, 27.
Winship, Samuel, 18.
Titsworth, Jacob, 15.
Woodworth. Abial .1., S.
Thompson, Henry M., S.
Withee, John, 13, 11.
Tracy, Fitch R., S.
Prominent among the carly physicians of Genesee County was Dr. Elbridge G. Gale. He was born at Warwick, Franklin Co., Mass., Feb. 2, 1811, and removed with his parents to Shoreham, Addison Co., Vt., in 1818, where he acquired a common-school education. Hle commenced teaching school at the age of sixteen,-teaching each win- ter and working at farming during the summer seasons. Ile afterwards attended three or four terms at the Newton Academy, in Shoreham. He studied medicine with Dr. HIill, of Shoreham, Vt., and graduated from the Vermont Medical College, at Castleton, Vt., in 1834.
In April, 1835, he married Mary Rich, of Shorcham, Vt., and immediately removed to Niagara Co., N. Y., where he commenced the practice of his profession, and remained there until November, 1844, when he, with his family, re- moved to Atlas, Genesee Co., Mich., where he continued the practice of his profession until 1851. The members of his family who came to Michigan with him were his wife, Mary R. Gale, and son, Adrian R. Gale. His wife died in June, 1863, at Shoreham, Vt., while on a visit to her native place, and her funeral sermon was preached by the same minister who married her, nearly thirty years before.
Elbridge G. Gale was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan in 1850, a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1853, and a member of the State Senate in 1861. He was appointed surgeon of the Provost Board of the Sixth District of Michigan in 1863, and held the same office to the close of the war. He was also collector of internal revenue for the Sixth District for two years. His mother, who is descended from the Sargeuts and Washburnes of Massachusetts, is now living at Atlas, in the ninety-third year of her age. Dr. Gale, although owning property in Atlas, resides in Vermont at the present time.
LAND-ENTRIES.
The first entry for land in this township was made by Asa Farrar, who, on the 2d day of September, 1830, pur- chased the west part of the northwest quarter of scetion 18. The next by Norman Davison, who bought the north- cast quarter of section 8, July 23, 1831. Hiram Ford purchased the east one-half of the southeast quarter of seetion 5, Oct. 26, 1831. George P. Morse the northwest part of northwest fractional quarter, May 2, 1833. Norman Herrick the east part of southwest quarter of section 7,
May 10, 1833. Nehemiah S. Burpee, northwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 18, June 5, 1833. Aaron and John Brigham the west half of southeast quarter, northeast quarter and southwest quarter of section 5, Dee. 13, 1833.
The names of those who purchased from the government lands situated in this township are embraced in the follow- ing list. The figures indicating years show the date of the first purchase upon each section.
1833, seetion 1 : George P. Morse, Alonzo Davis, John Vantine, Oliver E. Maltby, Amon W. Langdon, Robert II. Stone, Schuyler V. Brown.
1836, section 2: John Thompson, Duncan Mckenzie, John Vantine, John Dancer, Daniel McIntosh, Julius Barnes, Jacob Thomas.
1836, section 3: John Thompson, Amos H. Fisk, Lewis Cummins, Thomas Sweet, Abel Scelye, William J. King.
1835, section 4: Alexander Lobban, Francis G. Macy, Robert Thompson, Horace B. Harrison.
1831, section 5 : Robert Thompson, Hiram Ford, Aaron Brigham. John Brigham, James McCrath, Alexander Lob- ban, Stephen Horton, Huldah Davison, William Surryhne, James Lobban, Elijah W. Jones.
1836, section 6 : Fitch R. Tracy, Fra Davenport, Moses Frost.
1833, section 7 : Norman Herrick, John L. Carr, Wil- liam Roberts, David Bardo, Nathaniel Ewers, Joseph Char- tres, Joseph Tyler, Ira Davenport, Edward Fortune.
1831, section 8: Norman Davison, Oliver P. Davison, Albert Vantine, Celemma Bates, Sylvia Davison, Paul G. Davison.
1833, section 9: Norman Davison, Alpheus Gould, Sam- nel Bassett, Levi Preston, Paul G. Davison, Phineas Thompson, Francis G. Macy.
1836, section 10: Levi Preston, Ezra K. Parshall, Lewis Cummings, Charles Vantine.
1836, section 11 : John M. Winegar, John L. MeNiel, John Lawton, Jacob Thomas.
1836, section 12: Thomas Wiard, Jr., John K. Pear- sons, David N. Clark, Seth Beckwith, Calvin Carter.
1836, section 13: William Goodrich, Moses Wisner, Michael Bowers.
1836, section 14: Moses Wisner, Bradley Cartwright, Jacob Thomas, Freeman Coolage.
1836, section 15: Levi II. Goodrich, Moses Goodrich, Nathaniel Fairchild, Hiram Fillmore, Francis G. Macy.
Section 16: School lands.
1835, section 17: Moses Goodrich, Albert Vantine, William Dancer, William Carpenter, John Vantine, Tru- man Andrus, Francis G. Macy.
1830, section 18: Asa Farrar, Nehemiah S. Burpee, Samuel Lason, Samuel C. Robinson, Pearson Burpee, Sanıl. Winship, Clark Hutchins, Hiram Maxfield (land-warrant).
1833, section 19 : James Burdon, Augustus McDermott, Levi II. Goodrich, John M. Winegar, Clark Sanford.
1834, section 20 : John Mancour, Moses Goodrich, Enos Goodrich.
183G, section 21 : Levi W. Goodrich, William Carpenter, Francis G. Macy, Aaron Goodrich, John S. Goodrich, Ed- ward Fortune.
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MRS. STEPHEN JORDAN
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1835, section 22: Levi HI. Goodrich, Enos Goodrich, James McCrath, Ira Davenport, Smith Titus, Paul G. Davison, Levi Preston, Eliza S. Goodrich, Clinda Fay, Francis G. Maey.
1835, section 23: David Demaree, Ephraim S. Frost, Smith Titus, Peter Lane, James Kipp.
1836, section 24: Ephraim S. Frost, Peter Lane, Jona- than Frost.
1836, section 25 : Ira Davenport, E. Stone, A. B. Mer- rill, M. P. Thomas, Aaron D. P. Sackett, Iliram HTusted, Peter Lane, Moses Wisner.
1835, section 26: David Demaree, Daniel Swears, Man- ley Swears, Jacob Vantine, James Kipp, Charles Vantine, Ira Davenport.
1835, section 27: David Demarec, Charles Vantine, Ralph C. Atkins, Francis G. Macy.
1835, section 28 : Enos Goodrich, Albert Demarce, John Vantine, Charles Vantine, Eliza S. Goodrich, Francis G. Macy.
1835, seetion 29 : Levi W. Goodrich, John S. Goodrich, Aaron Goodrich, Francis G. Macy.
183G, section 30: Charles Hobsou, Nelson McCarty, Phineas Thompson, Edmund Perry, Jr., Francis G. Maey.
1833, section 31 : Noah Owen, Wallace Godfrey, Fran- eis G. Macy, Gerard Fitch, William Owen, Charles Hol- ton.
1834, seetion 32: Ezra K. Parshall, Samuel T. HTortou, Joseph R. Johnson, Albert J. Bates, Ilullah Bates, Ros- well Hlasford, Ira J. Horton, Daniel Powell.
1834, section 33: Samuel T. Horton, John Vantine, Peter Vantine, Charles Vantine, Joseph Jennings, Jr., Roswell Hlasford.
1836, seetion 34 : Iliram Fillmore, Harriet Conly, John Hassler, Paul Liscomb, Caleb Mills.
1836, seetion 35 : James Vantine, James Kipp, Stephen York, Daniel Swears, Jr., John Perritt, Cyrus Baldwin.
1836, section 36: James Vantine, Ira Davenport, Matthew P. Thomas, Jacob H. Hoover, Julia A. Webster, Isaac Carmer.
CIVIL HISTORY.
By an act of the State Legislature approved March 23, 1836, Atlas township was formed as follows: " All that portion of the county of Lapeer designated by the United States survey as township six, north of range number eight cast, and the south half of township number seven, north of range number eight cast, be and the same is hereby set off and organized into a separate township by the name of Atlas, and the first township-meeting therein shall be held at 'Davison's Mills,' in said township."
That portion which is now included in Davison township, viz., the south half of township seven, north of the same range, was set off to the former towuship in 1840.
By an act of the Legislature approved March 9, 18.13, Atlas, with other townships, viz., Davison, Richfield, and Forest, was detached from Lapeer and annexed to Genesee County.
At the first township-meeting held in the township of Atlas, on the 4th day of April, A.D., 1836, Moses Good- rich was chosen moderator, and Ezra K. Parshall clerk of
the day. There were 22 voters present, and the election for township officers resulted as follows :
" Eara K. Parshall, Supervisor; Norman Davison, Township Clerk ; John Brigham, Asa Farrar, James G. Horton, Assessors : James Lobban, Collector; Moses Goodrich, Aaron Brigham, Directors of the Poor; Moses Goodrich, Paul G. Davison, Asa Farrar, Com- missioners of Highways; James Lobban, Constable ; Oliver P. Davison, Levi W. Goodrich, Ezra K. Parshall, Sebool Commis- sioners for three years ; Norman Davison, Ezra K. Parshall, Muses Goodrich, Alexander Lobban, Justices of the Peace : Moses Goodrich, Oliver P. Davison, Alexander Lobban, Samuel Lason, Fenco-Viewers : Norman Davison, Pound- Keeper : Road District No. I : Oliver P'. Davison, Overseer ; Road District No. 2: John Brigham, Overseer; Road District No. 3: Samuel Lason, Over- sver ; Road District No. 1 : Moses Goodrich, Overseer; Ezra K. Parshall, Oliver P. Davison, James G. Ilorton, Paul G. Davison, Levi W. Goodrich, Sebool Inspectors.
" Voted, That all fences be built of logs, poles, rails, and boards, and to be five feet high, and the spaces between the logs, poles, rails, or boards shall not exceed four inches, until it rises two feet above the ground, to constitute a lawful fence.
" Yoted, That ten dollars bo raised on the taxable property of this township for the purpose of purchasing blank books and stationery for the uso of said township.
" J'oted, That the next annual township-meeting be held at Davi- son's Mills, in said township.
(Sigued) " MOSES GooDRICH, Moderator. " EZRA K. PARSHALL, Clerk.
" NORMAN DAVISON, Justice of the Peace."
The following is a list of the jurors selected May 4. 1839 : Daniel Ilartwell, Elias Rockafellow, Oliver P. Davi- son, Moses Frost, Ira Bates, Ezra K. Parshall, James G. Horton, James Kipp, John Vantine, Lewis Mantor, Jacob II. lloover, Charles Vantine, William Carpenter, Levi Preston, Charles MeNiel, Jr., John K. Pearsous, Nehe- miah S. Burpee, Marlin Davison, Lewis Cummings, Ira J. Ilorton, A. A. Woodworth, Roswell Holcomb, John L. MeNiel, Aaron Oldfield.
The following were chosen as jurors for 1840: Ralph C. Atkins, John Anderson, Julius Barnes, Bradley Cartwright, Elias Dancer, Jonathan Frost, Nathaniel Fairchild, Enos Goodrich, Joseph Russell, Fitch R. Tracy, William Thomas, Jacob Thomas, Albert Vantine, John Chadbourn, ITiram Fillmore, Ephraim Frost, Johu S. Goodrich, Henry lloff- mau, Daniel Ilarding, Peter Lane, James Lobban, William Owen, William Surryhne, Manley Swears, James Vantine, Lewis Van Cleve, Jr.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
The principal township officers from 1836 to 1879, in- elusive, are as follows :
Supervisors.
Township Clerks.
Coltretors.
1836. Ezra K. Parshall.
Norman Davison.
James Lobban.
1837. Enos Goodrich.
Thomas Wilkes.#
1838. Ezra K. Parshall.
F. R. Tracy.
Treasurers. Elias Rockafellow.t
1839. James Kipp.
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1842. Fitch R. Tracy.
James Lobban.
1813.
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1845. James Kipp.
Fitch R. Tracy.
leoben Goodrich.
1816.
D. C. Davisou.
# Elias Rockafellow eleste l in November, 1837, to fill vacancy.
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Supervisors.
Township Clerks. E. G. Gale.
Collectors. Reuben Guodricb.
1847. James Kipp.
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1849. George Kipp.
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1850.
1851. 16
George Owen.
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George C. Bidwell. Reuben Goodrich.
1853. Elbridge G. Gale.
Jesse Cram.
Fitch R. Tracy.
1854. George Kipp.
1855.
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Wm. L. Barnum.
Jacob HI. Hoover. Elias Rockafellow.
1857.
John Algoe.
Jesse Eeles.
1858. William H. Putnam. Fred. G. Bailey.
1859. Iliram Adams.
D. C. Davison.
Jacob Vantine.
1860. Elbridge G. Gale.
Oscar H. Gallup. 44
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46 Jesse Eeles. 06
46 Daniel W. Campbell.
1863. George Kipp.
1864.
Wm. W. Lockwood. Calvin Ilyde.
1865.
Isaac P. Ruberts.
Calvin Bunnell.
1867. Thomas Mathews.
A. W. Mattice.
James R. Kipp.
1868.
Jesse Ecles. .
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1870. Wm. II. Putnam, Jr. David M. Scriver.
Isaac P. Roberts.
1871. .6 Euos HI. Goodrich. 16 Jacob Il. Frost.
1872. Jacob Bedtelyon. A. W. Mattiee.
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Joseph Goodrich.
1874. Wm. H. Putnam, Jr. "
1875. Jacob Redtelyon.
A mos Dalby. HI. E. Rockafellow.
1876.
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1878. Wm. II. Putnam, Jr.
1879. Adrian P. Gale.
Addison Davis. Samuel Spicer.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Norman Davison, Ezra K. Parshall, Moses Goodrich, Alexander Lob- ban, 1836; James Kipp, 1837: Samuel Winship, 1838; James G. Ilorton, 1839; Fitch R. Tracy, 1840 ; James Kipp, 1841 ; John L. McNiel, 1842; Elias Rockafellow, 1843; Levi II. Goodrich, 1844; James Vantine, 1845; John L. MeNiel, Alanson L. Bar- num, 1846; Elias Rockafellow, 1847; George Kipp, 1848; Jesse Eeles, 1849; Charles Kipp, 1850; Alvah Bentley, 1851 : James Kipp, 1852; Jesse Cram, John Vantine, 1853; Junius Sanford, David Royce, Levi Preston, 1854: Jesse Eeles, Ezra M. Crosby, 1855 ; William H. Putnam, Richard C. Satterlee, George Kipp, 1856; B. E. Rust, 1857 ; Jesse Eeles, David Royee, 1858 : Francis King, 1859; Georgo Kipp. 1860; Levi Gillett, Myron Bunnell, . Horace C. Tuttle, 1861; Dradley Cartwright, 1862; Horace C. Tuttle, Daniel L. Hartwell, 1863; Jacob C. Rose, Isaac P. Rob- erts, 1864; Levi Gillett, William Owen, 1865; Thomas Mathews, George Kipp, Samuel Larabee, 1866: Harrison Withee, 1867; John M. Withee, Samuel Larabee, 1868 ; Thomas Mathews, 1869- 70; Samnel Larabee, Jacob Bedtelyou, 1871 ; William II. Putnam, Jr., 1872; Isaac P. Roberts, Adrian P. Gale, James R. Kipp, 1873 : llezekiab R. Dewey, 1874; Adrian P. Gule, 1875; Roswell Preston, 1876; Henry W. Brown, 1877 ; William H. Putnam, Jr., 1878; Adrian P. Gale, 1879.
ASSESSORS.
John Brigbam, Asa Farrar, James G. Ilorton, 1836: John Vantine, John L. MeNiel, Peter Lane, 1837 : Jobn Vantine, John L. Mc- Niel, Samuel Winship, 1838; John Vantine, James Lobban, Lewis Mantor, 1839 : John Vantine, Daniel Ilartwell, John S. Goodrich, 1840 ; James G. Horton, Daniel Hartwell, Daniel Harding, 1841. The supervisors have dune the assessing since the latter date.
COMMISSIONERS OF HIGHWAYS.
Moses Goodrieb, Paul G. Davison, Asa Farrar, 1836: John IIosler, Talford Powell, Moses Frast, 1837 : Charles Vantine, Jobu K. Pearsons, Asa Farrar, 1838; Ira Bates, John K. Pearsons, Arial A. Woodworth. 1839; Ira Bates, Elias Dancer, Levi Prestou, 1840; Ira Bates, James Vantine, Charles MeNiel, Jr., 1841 ; Charles MeNiel, Jr., James Vantine, William Oweu, 1842: Fra
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