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SLAVERY AGITATION.
It is, perhaps, not generally known that an attempt was made, commencing in 1796, when four men petitioned Congress from Kaskaskia, Illinois, to introduce
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slavery into Indiana Territory, but such was the fact. In 1803 the subject was again brought before Congress, when it was strongly opposed by John Randolph, of Virginia. In 1804 it was a third time urged, and a resolution was introduced in the House suspending the ninth article of the ordinance of 1787, thereby establishing or permitting slavery in the Territory, under certain restrictions. This resolution was laid over or referred until 1807, when it was finally disposed of by the Senate, which declared it inexpedient to suspend the ninth article of the ordinance of 1787, which expressly prohibits slavery in the Northwest Territory.
FIRST COUNTIES ORGANIZED.
The first county organized after Michigan became a separate Territory was Wayne, by proclamation of the governor, November 21, 1815. It embraced all that portion of the territory to which the Indian title had been extinguished by Governor Hull's treaty with the Indians in 1807.
Monroe county was established September 4, 1817; Macomb, January 15, 1818; and Mackinaw, Brown, and Crawford counties, October 26, 1818 .*
FIRST PUBLIC LANDS IN MARKET-FIRST STEAMER.
In 1818 a portion of the public lands, which had recently been surveyed in the southeastern part of the Territory, were brought into market.
During this same season the first steamer made her appearance on Lake Erie. . She was called the " Walk-in-the-water," after a celebrated chief of the Hurons. t
DELEGATE IN CONGRESS.
In 1819, Michigan was authorized to send a delegate to represent her people in the national legislature. The opening of markets for the sale of lands, and the advent of steam navigation, gave a wonderful impetus to immigration, and Michigan began to fill up rapidly. In 1820 the population was eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and in 1830 it had increased to thirty-one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine.
In 1823 a legislative council was authorized, consisting of nine members ap- pointed by the president of the United States. From this time the judges ceased to exercise legislative power. In 1825 the number of the council was increased to thirteen.
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In this year, also, all county officers, excepting those of a judicial character, were made elective; and the appointments remaining in the hands of the city executive were made subject to the approval of the council.
The opening of the Erie canal from Albany to Buffalo, in 1825, greatly in- creased the flow of emigration to the west.
In 1827 the electors of the Territory were authorized to choose a number of persons corresponding with that at which the members of the council was fixed, and their election was made absolute. The legislative council was empowered to enact all laws not inconsistent with the ordinance of 1787, subject to revision by Congress, and the absolute veto of the territorial governor.
A judiciary system was established and the militia organized.
During Governor Cass' administration an expedition for the exploration of the northern portions of the Territory, then but little known, was fitted out in the spring of 1820. The expedition was under the control of Governor Cass, and was accompanied by a mineralogist, a topographical engineer, and a physician. The escort consisted of about thirty regular soldiers, and the whole formed a company of sixty six men. The celebrated Indian delineator, Henry R. School- craft, also accompanied the party. The commanding officers of all the posts upon the lakes were directed to aid and assist by every means in their power. The expedition left Detroit on the 24th of May, in bark canoes, manned by voyageurs and Indians.
They passed along the shores of Lake Huron, visited Mackinaw, and soon arrived at the Sault St. Marie, which was considered a favorable location for a military post. Here a council was held with the Indians, who were at first opposed to the establishment of a post, and very hostile; but the bold course of the governor overawed them, and a treaty was concluded by which the Indians ceded a tract of land four miles square around the Sault. The expedition visited the south shore of Lake Superior, and made valuable discoveries and examinations, and finally returned to Detroit by way of Lake Michigan. Schoolcraft after- wards published an account of the expedition.
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Upon the resignation of his office of governor by General Cass, to take his seat in President Jackson's cabinet, General George B. Porter, of Pennsylvania, was appointed in his stead. This change occurred in July, 1831, and Governor Porter entered upon the discharge of the duties of his office in September following.
# The last two are now in Wisconsin.
His Indian name was My-ee-rah.
# Now Toledo, Ohio.
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The only disturbing element during Governor Porter's administration was the short and decisive Black Hawk war of 1832-33, but this was confined princi- pally to that part of the Territory now constituting the State of Wisconsin.
During his administration many new townships were organized, and roads con- structed into the interior. During 1832 the following roads were constructed or authorized by the council : from Point-du-chene to the Fort Gratiot turnpike; from Battle Creek to the mouth of the Kalamazoo river ; from a point in the Chicago road to the county-seat of Calhoun county ; from Pontiac to Ann Ar- bor ; from Southfield to Detroit; from Rochester to Lapeer; from Pontiac to Adrian ; from Vistulat to Indiana; from Branch county to the mouth of the St. Joseph river ; from Ten Eyck's to the principal meridian ; from Ecorce to the Chicago road ; from Jacksonburgh to the mouth of the St. Joseph river, and from Monguagon to St. Joseph.
The same year the legislative council passed an act to provide for the establish- ment and regulation of common schools. An act was also passed incorporating the " Lake Michigan Steamboat Company," with a capital of forty thousand dollars.
The first act authorizing the formation of a railroad company was also passed this year. This was the act incorporating the Detroit and St. Joseph railroad company. The same council also passed an act incorporating the " Bank of the River Raisin," with a branch at Pontiac. This was the third bank established in the Territory.
The Bank of Michigan, with a branch at Bronson, had been incorporated in 1817, and the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of Michigan, with a branch at St. Joseph, in 1829.
The same council authorized a vote of the inhabitants to be taken on the question of organizing a State government. The vote was taken on the first Tuesday of October of that year (1832), which resulted in a small majority in favor of the measure. But the vote was so light that it was very doubtful if it represented the sentiments of the majority of the people, and no further steps were taken in that direction for the space of two years.
It was about this time that a change was made in the manner of disposing of the public lands, which was of great benefit to the settlers in the west. Previous to 1820, the price of government land was two dollars per acre. One-fourth of this was to be paid at the time of purchase, and the remainder in three annual installments. The land was subject to forfeiture if these payments were not promptly met. A discount was allowed of eight per cent. if the whole amount was paid in advance. This system was found to be productive of serious evils.
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Under the new arrangement the price was reduced to one dollar and a quarter per acre, and the whole was required to be paid at the time of purchase.
On the 6th of July, 1834, occurred the death of Governor Porter, and the secretary, Stevens T. Mason, by the provisions of the law for the government of the Territory, became governor.
CHAPTER VI.
PRELIMINARY STEPS LOOKING TO THE FORMATION OF A STATE GOVERN- MENT-CENSUS OF THE TERRITORY-CONVENTION AND FORMATION OF A STATE CONSTITUTION - ELECTION OF STATE OFFICERS-ADMITTED INTO THE UNION-FIRST GOVERNOR-THE TOLEDO WAR-THE MEXICAN WAR -WAR OF THE REBELLION-GOVERNORS AND RULERS UNDER THE VA- RIOUS NATIONALITIES-STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS.
THE ordinance of 1787 provided that the Northwest Territory should be di- vided into not less than three nor more than five States, as Congress should de- termine. Three States had already been formed from that Territory, viz., Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. By that ordinance, and subsequent acts of Congress con- ferring upon Michigan the benefits of its provisions, Michigan was entitled to admission into the Union as a State so soon as her free white population num- bered sixty thousand. In 1834, Michigan took the preliminary steps to secure for herself the rights to which she claimed to be entitled. x On the 6th of Sep- tember of that year, the legislative council passed an act directing a census to be taken. The result showed that there were eighty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-three free white inhabitants in the Territory. At the next session of the council, in January, 1835, an act was passed authorizing a convention to be held at Detroit on the second Monday of May following. This convention was composed of eighty-nine delegates. It met upon the day specified, and con-
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tinued in session until the 24th of June. A constitution was formed and sub- mitted to the people in the October following, and by them adopted. At the same election, a full set of State officers and a legislature were elected to act under the Constitution. In November following the legislature met, and the whole machinery of a State government was set in motion. Stevens T. Mason, the secretary of the Territory, and acting governor after the decease of Governor Porter, was the governor of the new State.
In 1835-36 occurred the famous " Toledo War," upon the question of the boundary line between Michigan and the State of Ohio. The line, as defined by the ordinance of 1787, sometimes called the " Fulton Line," from the name of the surveyor, would have given Michigan the mouth of the Maumee bay, and the ground on which the busy city of Toledo now stands.
The excitement ran so high that the militia of Ohio and Michigan Territory was organized to the amount of some ten thousand men upon each side, and matters looked serious until Congress by an act passed January 27, 1837, settled the dispute and admitted Michigan as a State, with the upper peninsula thrown in to balance the loss of the valuable strip of country along the southern border.
- The constitution of 1835 remained the fundamental law until the revised con- stitution of 1850 was adopted.
MEXICAN WAR.
During the war with the Mexican republic Michigan furnished one volunteer regiment of infantry, under command of Colonel Thomas W. Stockton, and one independent company of cavalry, raised at Detroit by Captain A. T. McReynolds. There were also three companies recruited in the State for the Fifteenth Regular Infantry, United States army, to wit: Company A, Captain Samuel E. Beach, recruited at Pontiac; Company C, Captain Isaac D. Toll, at present a prominent citizen of St. Joseph county; and Company G, Captain Winans, raised in Monroe county. A historical sketch and complete roll of Captain Beach's company will be found in the military record of the county.
THE GREAT REBELLION.
When the terrible storm of civil war broke over the country in April, 1861, the sons of Michigan responded grandly, and during the four succeeding years the State furnished an aggregate of ninety thousand seven hundred and twenty- seven men of all arms to the Union army. Of this large force, three hundred and forty-six commissioned officers and thirteen thousand and fifty-nine men laid down their lives in defense of a common country, and for the perpetuity of a free government.
"Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallow'd spot Where Valor proudly sleeps."
A history and roster of the troops furnished by Oakland County will be found in another place.
POPULATION OF THE STATE.
The population of the State of Michigan, according to the various United States and State censuses, has been as follows :
In 1810
4,762 In 1854 507,521
" 1820
8,896
" 1860
749,113
" 1830
31,639
" 1864
803,661
1806-1824. John Griffin.
1828-1832. William Woodbridge.
1808-1828. James Witherell.
1832-1836. George Morell.
1824-1836. Solomon Sibley.
1832-1836. Ross Wilkins.
CHANCELLORS OF THE STATE.
1837-1842. Elon Farnsworth.
1842-1846. Randolph Manning ..
JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT UNDER CONSTITUTION OF 1835.
1836-1842. William A. Fletcher. 1852-1857. Joseph T. Copeland. T
1836-1847. Epaphroditus Ransom.
1852-1857. Saml. T. Douglas.
1836-1842. George Morell. 1852-1857.
David Johnson.
1837-1848, 1852-1855. Chas. W. Whipple.
1851-1857. Abner Pratt.
1842-1845. Alpheus Felch.
1855-1858. Nathaniel Bacon.
1843-1846. David Goodwin.
1856-1858. E. H. C. Wilson.
1848-1851. Edward Mundy.
1857. Benj. F. H. Witherell .**
1845-1852, 1854-1857. Warner Wing.
1857. Benj. F. Graves .**
1846-1850. George Miles.
1857. . Josiah Turner .***
1848-1854, 1856-1858. S. M. Green.T
1857. Edwin Lawrence .****
1851-1858. George Martin.
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1765. James Murray.
1774. Henry Hamilton.
1766. Paulus Emilius Irving.
1775. Henry Hope.
1766. Sir Guy Carleton.
1776. Lord Dorchester.
1770. Hector T. Cramahe.
1778. Henry Hamilton.
1774. Sir Guy Carleton.
1791. Alured Clarke.
1774. Frederick Haldimand.
AMERICAN TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS.
1805-1812. Wm. Hull.
1834-1835. Stevens T. Mason. ¿
1813-1831. Lewis Cass.
1835-1836. John S. Horner.
1831-1834. Geo. B. Porter.
STATE GOVERNORS.
1835-1839. Stevens T. Mason.
Part of 1853-1854. Andrew Parsons į
1840-1841. William Woodbridge.
1855-1858. Kingsley S. Bingham.
Part of 1841. James Wright Gordon.#
1859-1860. Moses Wisner.t
1842-1845. John S. Barry.
1861-1864. Austin Blair.
1846.
Alpheus Felch.
1865-1868. Henry H. Crapo.
1848. William L. Greenly.#
1869-1872. Henry P. Baldwin.
1848-1849. Epaphroditus Ransom.
1873-1876.
John J. Bagley.
1850-1851. John S. Barry.
1877-1879. Charles M. Creswell.
1852-1853.
Robert McClelland.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS.
1836-1839. Edward Mundy.
1859-1860.
Edmund B. Fairfield.
1840-1841. James Wright Gordon.
1861-1862.
James Birney.
1842-1845.
0. D. Richardson .¿
1863-1864. Charles S. May.
1846-1847.
Wm. L. Greenly.
1865-1866. Ebenezer O. Grosvenor.
1848-1851.
Wm. M. Fenton. -
1867-1868. Dwight May.
1852.
Calvin Britain.
1869-1872.
Morgan Bates.
1853-1854.
Andrew Parsons.
1873-1874. Henry H. Holt.
1855-1858.
Geo. A. Coe.
1875-1876. Alonzo Sessions.
SENATORS IN CONGRESS.
1836-1841. John Norvell.
1850-1857. Lewis Cass.
1836-1840. Lucius Lyon.
1853-1859. Charles E. Stuart.
1840-1845.
Augustus S. Porter.
1857-1875. Zachariah Chandler.
1841-1847.
William Woodbridge.
1859-1861. Kingsley S. Bingham.
1845-1848.
Lewis Cass.
1861-1871. Jacob M. Howard.
1848-1849.
Thomas O. Fitzgerald.
1871-1877. Thomas W. Ferry.
1847-1853.
Alpheus Felch.
DELEGATES AND REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
The delegates in Congress during Territorial rule were as follows :|
Sixteenth Congress : First Session, 1819-20 .- William Woodbridge. Second Session, 1820- 21 .- Solomon Sibley, in place of Mr. Woodbridge, resigned.
Seventeenth Congress : First Session, 1821-22, and Second Session, 1822-23 .- Solomon Sibley. Eighteenth Congress : First Session, 1824, and Second Session, 1824-25 .- Gabriel Richard. Nineteenth Congress : First Session, 1825-26, and Second Session, 1827 .- Austin E. Wing. Twentieth Congress : First Session, 1827-28, and Second Session, 1828 .- Austin E. Wing. Twenty-First Congress : First Session, 1829-30, and Second Session, 1830-31 .- John Biddle.
Twenty-Second Congress : First Session, 1831-32, and Second Session, 1832-33 .- Austin E. Wing.
Twenty-Third Congress : First Session, 1833-34, and Second Session, 1834-35 .- Lucius Lyon. Twenty-Fourth Congress : First Session, 1835-36 .- Geo. W. Jones.
The members who have represented the district from Oakland County, since the admission into the Union, have been : James B. Hunt, 1843-47; Hester L. Stevens, 1853-55; Rowland E. Trowbridge, 1861-63; Augustus C. Baldwin, 1863-65 ; and Mark S. Brewer, 1877-79.
JUDGES OF TERRITORIAL SUPREME COURT.
1805-1824. Augustus B. Woodward.
1824-1827. John Hunt.
1805-1808. Frederick Bates.
1,184,282
" 1850
397,654
" 1874 1,334,031
GOVERNORS UNDER THREE NATIONALITIES.
The governors of Michigan under the various authorities of France, England and the United States have been as follows :
FRENCH.
1608-1635. Sir Saml. Champlain. *
1685. M. de Nouville.
1689. Sieur de Frontenac.
1648-1658. M. de Aillebout. 1699. Sieur de Callieres.
1658-1660. Viscount de Argenson.
1661-1663. Baron de Avangour.
1663. M. de Mesey.
1665. Marquis de Tracy.
...... Baron de Longueil.
1666.
M. de Courcelles.
1752.
Marquis Duquesne.
1755. Sieur de Vaudreuil de Cavagnac.
1682. M. de la Barre.
* With the exception of three years, from 1629 to 1632, during which Canada was held by the English.
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1846. Elon Farnsworth.
1635-1647. M. de Montmagny.
1703. Count de Vaudreuil.
1726. Marquis de Beauharnois.
1747. Count de Gallissonière.
1672. Louis, Count de Frontenac.
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1827-1832. Henry Chipman.
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JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT UNDER PRESENT ORGANIZATION.
1858-1868. George Martin. 1858-1873. James V. Campbell.t
1858-1864. Randolph Manning.# 1865-1875. Thomas M. Cooley.}
1858 to close of 1873. Isaac P. Christiancy. 1868-1875. Benj. F. Graves.
DELEGATES IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.
In the various legislative councils for the Territory of Michigan, from 1824 to 1836, Oakland County was represented as follows :
Council of 1824 .- Col. Stephen Mack, Hon. Roger Sprague.
Council of 1826 .- Hon. Wm. F. Moseley, Hon. Sidney Dole.
Council of 1828 .- Hon. Thomas J. Drake, Hon. Stephen V. R. Trowbridge.
Council of 1830 .-- Hon. Thomas J. Drake, Hon. Daniel Le Roy.
Council of 1832 .- Hon. Charles C. Hascall, Hon. Roger Sprague.
Council of 1834 .- Hon. Saml. Satterlee, Hon. Charles C. Hascall.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
In January, 1835, an act was passed by the legislative council authorizing a convention for the purpose of framing a State constitution. This convention, which was composed of eighty-nine delegates, met on the second Monday in May, 1835, at Detroit. The following is a list of the delegates from Oakland County: Isaac I. Voorheis, Benjamin B. Morris, Randolph Manning, William Patrick, Seneca Newberry, Jonathan Chase, Joshua B. Taylor, Thomas Curtis, Elijah F. Cook, Norman Davidson, Ebenezer Reynolds, John Ellenwood, Saml. White, and Jeremiah Riggs. The constitution framed by this convention was submitted to the people at the October election of that year and adopted. The vote of Oak- land County stood nine hundred and twenty-five for adoption, and four hundred and ninety-five against it. Farmington was the only town in the county that voted against it.
The senators for Oakland, chosen at this election, were John Stockton, John Clark, and Ebenezer Reynolds; and the representatives were Origen D. Richard- son, Johnson Niles, Isaac I. Voorheis, George Brownell, John Ellenwood, and Hiram Higby. The legislature met at Detroit, in November, and elected John Norvell and Lucius Lyon United States senators, but it does not appear that it transacted any considerable amount of business.
The new State government was submitted to by the people, although at the same time a Territorial government was in existence, with John S. Horner as nomi- nal governor. In June, 1836, Congress passed an act admitting the Territory under the conditions that the people by the action of a convention chosen for that sole purpose should accept the State boundary on the south as claimed by Ohio, and as a compensation for this surrender receive the upper peninsula.
Oakland County elected the following six delegates to this convention, which met at Ann Arbor, on the fourth Monday of September, 1836: William Dra- per, Origen D. Richardson, Seth A. L. Warner, Samuel Satterlee, Edward W. Peck, and John L. Brownell.
This convention, after due deliberation, rejected the proposition of Congress ; but the interested office-holders, elected in 1835, and some others who were very anxious that the State government should continue, called a second convention, which was nicknamed by its opponents the " Frost-Bitten Convention," and which also met at Ann Arbor, in December, 1836.
The delegates from Oakland County to this second convention were twelve in number, as follows, and were unanimously elected, according to the returns on file in the clerk's office : Gideon O. Whittemore, James B. Hunt, Hiram Barrett, Joseph Coats, David Chase, Benjamin B. Morris, Charles Grant, Parley W. C. Gates, John S. Leavenworth, Henry S. Babcock, William R. Crooks, and Samuel White.
This convention proceeded at once to ratify and accept the conditions offered by Congress, and although there was much discussion as to the legality of the proceedings, the people eventually concluded to make a virtue of necessity and abide by the action of the last convention ; and when Congress, after a hot debate, finally admitted the State in January, 1837, everybody breathed more freely, and from that time the machinery of a State government has been in successful opera- tion.
STATE SENATORS, THIRD DISTRICT.
The members of the State Senate since the admission, from Oakland County, have been as follows :
1837. Elijah F. Cook, John Benton.
1838. Stephen V. R. Trowbridge (full term), Thomas J. Drake (to fill vacancy).
1839. Thomas J. Drake, John P. Le Roy.
1840. Stephen V. R. Trowbridge, Daniel B. Wakefield.
1841. Daniel B. Wakefield, Isaac Wixom,
1842. (Changed to sixth district.) Sanford M. Green.
1843. Alvin N. Hart, Johnson Niles.
1844. Gardner D. Williams.
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1845. Sanford M. Green, Wm. M. Fenton.
1846. Andrew Parsons, Elijah B. Witherbee. The latter died, and in 1847 Alvin N. Hart was elected to fill the vacancy.
- 1847. Edward H. Thompson, James McCabe. 1848. Jonathan P. King, Alvin N. Hart.
1849. Thornton F. Broadhead, Noah Beach.
1850. Samuel Axford, Elijah J. Roberts, John P. Le Roy ; the latter to fill vacancy.
In 1852 the county was divided into two districts,-the fourth and fifth,- and elected for the fourth district Seneca Newberry, and for the fifth, David A. Wright.
1854. Fourth district, Alfred J. Boss ; fifth district, Willard B. Arms.
1856. Districts changed to fifth and sixth; fifth district, Rowland E. Trowbridge; sixth district, Willard B. Arms.
1858. Fifth district, Rowland E. Trowbridge; sixth district, James M. Hoyt.
1860. Fifth district, Byron G. Stout; sixth district, John G. Owen.
1862. Fifth district, Charles V. Babcock ; sixth district, Peter Dow.
1864. Fifth district, Loren L. Treat; sixth district, James M. Hoyt.
1866. Made one district ; fifth district, Charles Draper.
1868. P. Dean Warner.
1870. Layman B. Price.
1872. (Made twentieth district.) Mark S. Brewer.
1874. Volney C. Babcock.
1876. Elliott R. Wilcox.
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
The members of the House of Representatives in the State legislature from Oakland County since Michigan was admitted into the Union have been as follows :
1836. Pitts Phillips, Wm. Burbank, Haran Haskins, Geo. W. Wisner, Henry K. Foote, William Yerkes.
1837. L. N. Gantt, Isaac Adams, Isaac Wixom, D. B. Wakefield, Jesse Decker, F. J. B. Crane.
1838. Jonathan Chase, John S. Livermore, Jeremiah Clark, Jesse Decker, Isaac Wixom, Ammos Davis.
1839. Ammos Davis, John H. Button, Rollin Sprague, Daniel F. Ingalls, Henry R. Foote, Daniel F. Johnson.
1840. There is no certificate of the election of representatives in the clerk's office. But by a tolerably careful examination of the township election returns on file it appears that the fol- lowing persons were chosen, though the vote was exceedingly close : Jeremiah Clark, Rufus Tinney, O. D. Richardson, Thomas Curtis, Nathan S. Philbrick, Joseph Coats.
1841. Alfred H. Hanscom, John S. Livermore, Henry S. Babcock, Joseph Arnold, John A. Wendell,'Samuel Axford.
1842. William Poppleton, Wm. A. Pratt, Wm. Snell, William Gage, Harvey Seeley, Daniel S. Lee.
1843. Wm. A. Pratt, Elbridge G. Knowlton, A. C. Baldwin, Pliny Power, John Davis, Wm.
Snell.
1844. Augustus S. Johnson, Wm. A. Pratt, John Galloway, Alfred H. Hanscom, Seymour Arnold, Horace Stevens.
1845. John Davis, Hiram Barritt, John Thomas, A. C. Baldwin, James Webster, Charles Baldwin. 1846. Peter D. Makeley, Thomas N. Loomis, Oliver P. Davison, Jesse Seeley, Thomas McGraw, Milton C. Botsford.
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