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1813, February 23. Moris S. Miller, James Dean, David Ostrom, Henry McNiel, George Brayton, Richard Sanger, Jesse Curtiss, Gerrit G. Lansing, Benjamin Wright, John Storrs, Peter Pratt.
1814, April 5. Messrs. Miller, Dean, Ostrom, MeNiel, Curtiss, Lansing, Wright, Storrs, and Pratt, re-appointed ; and Levi Carpenter, Jr., and Frederick Stanley, additional.
1815, April 15. M. S. Miller, Joseph Jennings, Solomon Wolcott, Prosper Rudd, Daniel Ashley, Peter Pratt, James S. Kip, Sherman Barnes, Thomas H. Hamilton, Asahel Curtiss, Charles Wylie, Joseph Grant.
1818, April 24. Messrs. Miller, Wylie, Grant, and Hamil- ton, with Ezekiel Bacon additional.
1821, March 21. Messrs. Miller, Grant, and Hamilton, with Truman Enos and Joshua Hathaway additional.
1823, February 3. Messrs. Miller, Enos, Hathaway, and Grant, with Samuel Jones additional.
1824, November 22. Samuel Beardsley, First Judge, in place of M. S. Miller, deceased.
1825, March 9. Henry R. Storrs, in place of Samuel Beardsley, who declined the appointment.
1826, April 5. James Dean (son of former Judge Dean), in place of Truman Enos, who resigned upon his election to the State Senate.
1828, February 5. Messrs. Hathaway, Grant, and Jones, re-appointed.
1830, January 15. Chester Hayden, First Judge, and Israel Stoddard.
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ANNALS OF ONEIDA COUNTY. [CHAP.
1831, April S. Reuben Tower, of Sangerfield, in place of James Dean, whose term had expired.
1832, February 10. Nathan Kimball, of Augusta, in place of Reuben Tower, resigned.
1833, February 6. John P. Sherwood, of Vernon, and Arnon Comstock, of Western, in place of Messrs. Jones and Hathaway, whose terms had expired.
1835, January 23. Chester Hayden, of Utica. First Judge, and Israel Stoddard re-appointed.
1837, February 21. Nathan Kimball re-appointed.
1838, February 2. Pomroy Jones, of Westmoreland. in place of J. P. Sherwood, resigned ; and March 9, Arnon Comstock re-appointed.
1840, February 2. Fortune C. White, of Whitestown, First Judge, rice Hayden ; and April 14, Seth B. Roberts, of Rome, rice Stoddard.
1843, February 10. Chester Hayden and Amos Wood- worth, of Florence, rice Messrs. Kimball and Comstock, whose terms had expired, and Pomroy Jones re-appointed.
1845, February 21. P. Sheldon Root, of Utica, First Judge, rice White; and April 14. Ebenezer Robbins. of Lee, rice Roberts.
1846, May 12. Othniel S. Williams, of Kirkland, rice Hayden.
1847, June. P. Sheldon Root elected County Judge
Upon the organization of Herkimer County in 1791, Henry Staring was appointed First Judge, and Michael Myers, Hugh White, and Abraham Hardenburgh, Judges and Justices of the Peace; and Jedediah Sanger and Amos. Wetmore, of Whitestown, Alexander Parkman and Ephraim Blackmer. of Westmoreland, and John Bank, Patrick Camp- bell, and William Veeder, Assistant Justices and Justices of the Peace.
11. ]
Votes for Governor in the several towns of Oneida County
from 1801 to 1822 inclusive ; also the votes for and against the Convention and Constitution of 1821-2, with the names of all the towns in the county since its organ- ization.
1801. 180-1.
1807.
1810.
1813.
-
-
Stephen Van Rensselaer.
Morgan Lewis .*
Aaron Burr.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
Morgan Lewis.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
Jonas Platt.
Daniel D. Tompkins.t
Stephen Van Rensselaer.
Adams
89
41
Augusta
22 175 131
87 139 176 150 200
74 126
Boonville
11
74
15
52
11 80
Bridgwater
5 130
41
63
52
67
63
88
65
72
Brownville.
26
65
Bengal.
Camden.
11
36
84
65
64
88
46 25 68 110
37
43
Champion
17
29
30
61
7
6
23
Deerfield
20
41
45
55
52
41
62
70
65
Ellisburgh
38
34
88
22
125 27 2
17 25 5
33
29
20
22
Fredericksburgh
Harrisburgh
33 100
Leyden
14
59
74
43
Lowville. Lee.
28
140
29
89
26
Mexico
17
27
10
53
33
62
61
43
73
Martinsburgh
64
1
Paris
17 612 128 403 143 412 187 465 158 500
Rutland.
85
49
99
28
151
55
Floyd
Florence
5
6
44 129
Constantia
19 55
* Morgain Luis also had 11 votes in Bridgwater.
+ Daniel D. Tomkins also had 31 votes in Mexico.
ONEIDA COUNTY
31
TOWNS.
George Clinton.
32
ANNALS OF ONEIDA COUNTY.
[CHAT,
Votes for Governor, &c., in Oneida County.
.
(Continued from last page.)
1801.| 1804. | 1807.
1810. | 1813.
-
TOWNS.
George Clinton.
Stephen Van Rensselaer. >
Morgan Lewis.
Aaron Burr.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
Morgan Lewis.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
Jonas Platt.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
Stephen Van Rensselaer. )
Remsen.
1
32
32
9
16
22
19
14| 15
17
Redfield.
24
50
53
54
3|
57
2
Richland
37
25
73
79
71
125
Rome
84
60
96
33 138
68
100
82 116
76
Steuben
3
47
74
27
89
42
83
57
45 58
Scriba
23
6
Sangerfield
40
89
34 118
44 133
42 137
Turin
1
48
60
47
1
51
14
47
31
66
45
82
55 103
Verona
68
15
81
36
98
53
91
76
Vernon
73
93 102
78
88 102 142 213
Volney
5
26
Watertown
29
27
105
58
Westmoreland.
23
149
35
63
54 101
48 93
64'143
Whitestown.
27
485 128 278 144 322 161
372 161 364
Williamstown
37
11
34
48 30 56
Western .
91|
12,248
1995
1/255
20,210 15
Trenton
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Votes for Governor, &c., in Oneida County. (Continued from last page.)
1816.
1817.| 1820. | 1821. | 1822.
1822.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
Rufus King.
De Witt Clinton.
Scattering.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
De Witt Clinton.
For Convention.
Against Convention.
For Constitution.
Against Constitution.
| Joseph C. Yates. | Scattering.
Augusta.
73 134
105
2
66 104 183
14
69
88 221
Boonville
40
62
54
24
36
54
44
59
15
90
Bridgwater
63
81
104
1
35
86
95
102
87
65
181
Bengal
30
21
Camden
53
97
86
89
166
74
64
47
253
6
Constantia
5
11
17
30
25
91
3
72
10
Deerfield.
78
48
72
33
97
103
81
95
84 210
2
Floyd
109
27
97
72
61 162
47 140
41 176
Florence
14
19
28
16
41
40
17
31
18
59
Lee
97
35
95
123
32 136
19 126
27 185
Mexico.
19
21
42
1 17
64
New Haven
33
31
45
20
12 126
Orwell
24
54
15
68
8
Paris.
430 272 409 252 269 621 14
Remsen
16
9
31
31
29
9
16
23
58
Redfield
38
28
3
41
9
Richland
139 115
51
66
64 391
Rome
116 108 124
96
140
354
22
222
44
412
Steuben.
41
54
35
3 44
51 122
3
74
4 115
Scriba
15
9
15
16
108
Sangerfield
58|125
96
2
26 142
121
97
72
89 321
Trenton
83 100
95
3
25 122|244
64 139
90 448
9
Verona
104
73
101
78
95|180
50 134
83 262
Vienna
75
20 149
80
71
73
58 164
Vernon
80
127
106
20
196 140
151
67
164 219
Volney
15
19
2
3 61
21 147
35 108
39
Westmoreland
65 155 154
95
135|207 104 154 109 354
2
Whitestown
140|355
293 17 103 260 359
141 294 126 600
1
Williamstown
43
44
38
64
32
62
26
51
12
Western
140
14 129
134
24|241
13|197
5/263
186
433
340
8
129
41 133 122 167 108 122 221
Utica
3
TOWNS.
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ANNALS OF ONEIDA COUNTY.
ECHAP.
Votes for Governor at each election since the adoption of the Constitution of 1821.
1824.
1826.
1828.
1830.
1 1832.
1834.
1836.
-
TOWNS.
Samuel Young.
De Witt Clinton.
Wm. B. Rochester.
De Witt Clinton.
Martin Van Buren.
Smith Thompson.
Enos T. Throop.
Francis Granger.
William L. Marcy.
Francis Granger.
William L. Marcy.
William H. Seward.
William L. Marcy.
Jesse Buel.
1. Annsville
76 116
58 145
96 157
142
188
29 263 217
247
172 196 113
5. Bridgwater
113|135
93 130
127
112 132
167|124 174 135 159 134 66
6. Camden
54 161
50 183
90 186 146
167|175
194 171 223 138 168
7. Deerfield.
149 204
132
169 291 213 272
147 230 145 247 150 193
71
8. Florence
45
34 43
44
42
71
49 99
60 113
74 1071
23
9. Floyd
154
90
122
92 183 125 206
77,217
97 191
82 162
40
10. Kirkland
251 505 215 171 222 284 267 323 220 215
11. Lee
193
77
160
92 323 107 242
14 383 113 335 135 286
88
12. Marcy
160
97 168 104 151 27
13. Marshall
140 117 192 219 222 206 161 104
14. New Hartford
163 328 188 264 200 325 191 344 163 248
15. Paris 287 704 233 511 165 319 205 261 214 317
219 297 146 204
16. Remsen
47
52
26 75 45 132
77
74 77 153
72
163 85| 71
17. Rome
277 257 297 235
448 299 354 192 434 353 497 295 165 101
18. Sangerfield
91 228 63 199 151
235
196
173 235 221 236 222 182 141
19. Steuben
116 49.103
42 127
114 115 130 139 152 152 154 137 00
20. Trenton.
117 250 122
201 169 353 229 212 259 323 265 310 212 216
21. Utica !
150 384 246
460 470 715 501
323,470 689 472 776 461 503
22. Vornon
52 391
76 343 196 367
290 277 289 331 309 302 254 125
23. Verona
178 187 160 162 351 |206 295
232 358 255 364 261 259 149
24. Vienna 80 139 100 166 165 142 181 113 265
110 252 121 233 32
25. Western
310 41 236
33 380
50 3-16 15 387
41 373
47 357
26. Westmoreland 250 230 205 199 253 276 266 252 281 301 243 286 217 179
27. Whitestown 255 516 2 44 409 203 349 292 247 342 378 315 415 223 23S
75 150 129 153
99.133
73
2. Augusta
126 222 188 164 243 225 247 208 305 248 314 231 236 101
3. Ava.
4. Boonville
120
92 115 126 163
180
In 1828, Solomon Southwick, the Anti-Masonic Candidate for Gov -. ernor, received 136 votes in the county. In 1824, the votes of Steuben were rejected by the County Canvassers, on account of an error in the date of returns (1823 instead of the right year), by a vote of ? to 8.
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Votes for Governor, &c., continued.
1838. | 1810.
1842.
1844.
1846.
1848.
1850.
-
-
~
- ---
William L. Marcy.
William H. Seward.
William C. Bouek.
William H. Seward.
William C. Bouck.
Luther Bradish.
Silas Wright.
Millard Fillmore.
Alvan Stewart.
Silas Wright.
John Young.
R. H. Walworth.
Hamilton Fish.
John A. Dix:
Horatio Seymour.
Washington Hunt.
1 159 115
191
177
189
126 210
173
23 194
152 143
175
72
245
165
2.227
117
257 204 229
176 233
173
52 169 34
94
15
71
72
98 349
324
5 146 121 154 158 149
120,161
131
22 129
103
120
130
39
152
115
6 161 176 173 279 169 165 210
209
59|135
190
56
183 251
292
249
7 226 104 271 167 183 102 235
142
54 166
108
99
99 193
256
101 86
9 159
56 219
86:172 56 193
80
16 151
58 125
57 46
191
71
10 258 211 284 323 264 290 266
311
28 220
292 125
283 180
276
268
11 317
97 453 149 392 136 432
188
31 269
158 210
163 178
368
222 73
13 190 130 235 210 176 139 221
199
27 183
33
169
342 166
345
87
237
3.40
15 237 197 244 315 225 229 264
316
66 228
31
63
156
32
158
116
132
195
516
35,382
433
410
479
198
677
560
18 236 190 281 248 268 192 285
222
7 210
183
169
189 111
271
17-
19 116 141 138 195 124 117 140
190
37
53
142
58
124
94
141
141
20 242 237 311 348 268 277 293
337
79 202
292
64
271
256
271
344
21 603 658 785 877 776 796 852 1034 109 530 1087 449
1034 703 1201 1059
22 318 309 270 326 254 264 301
304
36 240
244|113
243 143
270
29:
23 227 256 485 391 415 351 494
451
25 332
417 200
420
200
436
517
24|273
86 334 152 339 99.371
108
38 292
88
46
119 315
419
173
25 358 52 475 104 373
57 354
116
25
37
266 281
67|
72
325
137
26 240 237 315 305 280 268 296
282
48 213
235 137
210 207
301
291
27 244 354 322 424 265 359 325
404
94 183
382 149|
3721212
290
465
8 113
41 127
82|135
47 179
86
45 49
117
30
60
195
298
12 140
66 211 126 157
67 212
104
15 116
66 57
5-4
112
299|241
272
385
16
17 464 359 578 519 569 410 577 67 163 94|214 91 140 120
138|170
167
19.1
14 162 331 231 391 203 307 240
399
268 336
305
16 145
255
96
152
177|102
221
195
3
83
4218
227
460 333 290
231 206
62 100
174
133
272
202
NOTE -The numbers at the commencement of the lines indicate the towns as numbered on the preceding page.
TOWNS.
166
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ANNALS OF ONEIDA COUNTY.
[CHAP. Population of Oneida County at various periods.
TOWNS.
1800.|1810.|1820.1830.| 1840.| 1850.
Annsville -
1481
1765
2688
Augusta -
1598
2004
2771
3058
2175
2271
Ava
1027
Boonville
393
1294
2746
5519
3309
Bridgwater
1061
1170
1533
1608
1418
1308
Bengal
454
Camden
384
1132 153
1772
1945
2331
2820
Champion
143
Deerfield
1048
1232
2346
4182
3120
2287
Florence
396
640
964
1259
2587
Floyd
767
970
1498
1699
1742
1419
Kirkland -
2505
2984
3421
Lowville
300
Leyden
622
Lee -
2186
2514
2936
3025
Marcy -
1799
1857
Marshall
1908
2251
2115
Mexico
240
845
New Hartford
3599
3819
4847
Paris
4721
5418
6707
2765
2844
4283
Remsen
224
489
912
1400
1638
2384
Rome -
1497
2003
3569
4360
5680
7920
Redfield -
107
362
Richland -
947
Sangerfield
1143
1324
2011
2272
2251
2371
Steuben
552
1105
1461
2094
1993
1754
Scriba
328
Trenton
6:24
1548
2617
3221
3178
3540
Turin
440
Utica
2972
8323 12782
17556
Vernon
1519
2707
3045
3043
3089
Verona
1014
2447
3739
4504
5587
Vienna
1307
1766
2530
3436
Westmoreland
1542
1135
2791
3303
3105
3292
Western -
1493
2416
2237
2419
3488
2524
Whitestown -
4212
4912
5219
4410
5156
5820
Williamstown
562
Watertown
119
22837 33792 50997 71326 85300 99543
Constantia
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ONEIDA COUNTY.
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MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY, WITH THE YEAR OF THEIR ELECTION.
1798. Henry MeNiel, David Ostrom, Abel French.
1799. David Ostrom, John Hall, Nathan Smith.
1800. David Ostrom, Abel French, Jesse Curtiss.
1801. David Ostrom, Joel Bristol, Abel French.
#802. James Dean, Senior, Abel French, John Lay, Aaron Morse.
1803. David Ostrom, Joseph Kirkland, David Coffeen, Abraham Van Eps.
1804. George Brayton, Joseph Jennings, Joseph Kirkland. A tie vote between Benjamin Wright and Walter Martin.
1805. George Brayton, Joseph Jennings, Thomas Hart.
1806. George Brayton, Charles Z. Platt, Uri Doolittle.
1807. Benjamin Wright, Henry MeNiel, Thomas R. Gold.
1808. Benjamin Wright, David Ostrom, James Dean. Senior, John Storrs, Joel Bristol.
1809. David Ostrom, John Storrs, John Humaston, Samuel Chandler, Levi Carpenter, Jr.
1810. George Huntington, Henry MeNiel, John Storrs, Isaac Brayton, George Doolittle.
1811. George Huntington, Joel Bristol, Erastus Clark, Isaac Brayton, John Storrs.
1812. George Huntington, Josiah Bacon, John Lay. Erastus Clark, Nathan Townsend.
1813. Isaac Brayton, Henry MeNiel, Theodore Sill. James Lynch, Laurens Hull.
1814. John Storrs, Theodore Sill, John Lay, James Lynch, Rufus Pettibone.
1815. James Lynch, Richard Sanger, Roderick Morrison, Isaac Brayton, Jesse Curtiss.
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ANNALS OF ONEIDA COUNTY. [CHAP.
1816. Henry Huntington, Martin Hawley, David Ambler, Wheeler Barnes, Newton Marsh.
1817. Henry Huntington, Joseph Kirkland, Nathan Wil- liams, George Brayton, Theor Woodruff.
1818. Ezekiel Bacon, George Huntington, Theor Wood- ruff, Luther Guiteau, Senior, David P. Hoyt.
1819. George Huntington, Henry McNiel, James Dean, Jr., Theophilus S. Morgan, John Storrs.
1820. George Huntington, Joseph Kirkland, Allen Fraser, William Root, Josiah Bacon.
1821. George Huntington, Greene C. Bronson, Israel Stoddard, Samuel Chandler, Peter Pratt. (Jonas Platt, Henry Huntington, Ezekiel Bacon, Nathan Williams, Samuel S. Breese, Delegates to Constitutional Convention.)
1822. Henry Wager, Thomas H. Hamilton, James Lynch, Uri Doolittle, Samuel Wetmore.
1823. Henry Wager, Joseph Allen, Joseph Grant, Apollos Cooper, John Ruger.
1824. Joseph Kirkland, Israel Stoddard, David Pierson, Samuel Woodworth, Broughton White.
1825. Theodore Sill, Laurens Hull, Aaron Barnes, Israel Stoddard, Russell Clark.
1826. Theodore Sill, Winthrop II. Chandler, Benjamin P. Johnson, John Billings, John Parker.
1827. Thomas E. Clark, Benjamin P. Johnson, Gardiner Avery, Eli Savage. Linus Parker.
1828. Reuben Bacon, Fortune C. White, Benjamin P. Johnson, Eli Savage, Reuben Tower.
1829. Eli Savage, Arnon Comstock, Linus Parker, Ithai Thompson, Elisha Pettibone.
1830. Arnon Comstock, David Moulton, Reuben Bettis, Riley Shepherd, John F. Trowbridge.
1831. David Moulton, Daniel Twitchel, Lemuel Hongh, Rutger B. Miller, Nathaniel Fitch.
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ONEIDA COUNTY.
II.]
1832. Ichabod C. Baker, Squire Utley, David Wager, Levi Buckingham, John Dewey.
1833. Ithai Thompson, Hiram Shays, Israel S. Parker, Aaron Stafford, Pomroy Jones.
1834. Amos Woodworth, Merit Brooks, Dan P. Cadwell. David Wager, Riley Shepherd.
1835. Henry Graves, Jared C. Pettibone, John W. Hale, John Stryker, William Knight.
1836. Andrew S. Pond, Lester N. Fowler, John I. Cook, Levi Buckingham.
1837. Russell Fuller, Fortune C. White, James S. T. Stranahan, Henry Hearsey.
1838. Ward Hunt, Israel Stoddard, Jesse Armstrong, Amasa S. Newberry.
1839. Charles A. Mann, John F. Trowbridge, Nelson Dawley, Anson Knibloe.
· 1840. Nathaniel Odell, Luke Hitchcock, Calvin Dawley, Joseph Halleck.
1841. Horatio Seymour, Dewitt C. Stephens, Ebenezer Robbins, Ichabod C. Baker.
1842. John H. Tower, Amos S. Fassett, David Murray, Dan P. Cadwell.
1843. Horatio Seymour, James Douglass, Richard Empy, Justus Childs.
1844. Horatio Seymour, Andrew Billings, Calvert Com- stock, Merit Brooks.
1845. Benjamin F. Cooper, Chauncey C. Cook, Daniel G. Dorrance, Russell Fuller.
1846. John Dean, Nathan Burchard, Abel E. Chandler, Isaac Curry. (Charles P. Kirkland, Hervey Brayton, Ed- ward Huntington, Julius Candee, Delegates to the Constitu- tional Convention.)
1847. Luke Smith, Warren Converse, Bloomfield J. Beach, Henry Wager.
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ANNALS OF ONEIDA COUNTY. [CHAP.
1848. Oliver Prescott, Nehemiah N. Pierce, James M. Elwood, Chauncey Stevens.
1849. William J. Bacon, Ralph McIntosh, Robert Frazier, Luther Leland.
1850. Joseph Benedict, Lorenzo Rouse, Lewis Rider, George Brayton.
Michael Myers was the Member of Assembly from Her- kimer County in 1792-3, and Jedediah Sanger in the years 1794-5, and in 1796-7 no one was returned.
SITERIFFS AND COUNTY CLERKS,
With the years of their first appointment, or commencement of term of office under an election. Under the Constitution of 1777 Sheriff's. were appointed annually, and under that of 1821 they were elected for three years. Clerks held their office three years.
SHERIFFS :-
1798. William Colbrath.
1799. Elizur Moseley.
1800. Charles C. Brodhead.
1804. James S. Kip.
1807. Benajah Merrill.
1808. James S. Kip.
1810. Benajah Merrill.
1811. James S. Kip.
1815. Apollos Cooper.
1819. John B. Pcase.
1821. John E. Hinman.
1823. John E. Hinman (elected).
1826. David Pierson
1829. John E. Ilinman.
1832. Samuel M. Mott.
1835. Erastus Willard.
1838. Lyman Curtiss.
1841. David Moulton
1842, Dec. 24. Theodore S. Fax- ton, app'd by Gov. Seward. 1843, Jan. 13. Israel S. Parker, appointed by Gov. Bouck.
1844. Palmer V. Kellogg.
1847. Lester Barker.
1850. John R. Jones.
CLERKS: -
1798. Jonas Platt.
1799. Francis A. Bloodgood.
1802. Abram Camp.
1803. Francis A. Bloodgood (who held the office ten years ).
1813. Abram Camp.
1815. Francis A. Bloodgood (again clerk for 6 years)
1821. Eliasaph Dorchester.
1823. Do. do. (clected).
1826. John H. Ostrom.
1829. John H. Ostrom.
1832. George Brown.
1835. John D. Leland.
1838. James Dean.
1811. P. Sheldon Root.
1844. Delos De Wolf.
1847. Patrick Mahon.
1850. Alexander Rae.
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William Colbrath was Sheriff of Herkimer County from its organization until Oneida County was organized, in 1798. Jonas Platt was Clerk of Herkimer County from its organ- ization until the organization of Oneida County, when he was appointed Clerk of the latter. Mr. Platt resided in Whitestown, and this will doubtless account for a fact of considerable interest, and not very generally known; i. c., that the Records of Deeds and Mortgages recorded in Herkimer County, from its organization (1791) to the organ- ization of Oneida County (1798), are in the Clerk's office of Oncida County, at Utica. These records fill eight large volumes, and are evidence of conveyances and incumbrances affecting lands in the present Counties of Herkimer, Oneida, Madison, Onondaga, etc., including sales of " soldiers' rights" in the Military Tract, conveyances and powers of attorney from original patentees and their representatives, from In- dians, etc. It was a fortunate circumstance that they were retained in this county, otherwise they would have been destroyed when the Clerk's Office of Herkimer County was burned in 1804.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AYD SURROGATES,
With the year of their first appointment, or of commencement of term of office by election.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS :-
SURROGATES :-
1798. Thomas R. Gold. 1798. Arthur Breese.
1801. Nathan Williams.
1808. Joshua Hathaway.
1813. Erastus Clark.
1816. Thomas II. Hubbard.
1815. Joshua Hathaway.
1818. Nathan Williams.
1819. Greene C. Bronson.
1821. Samuel Beardsley.
1821. Joshua Hathaway.
1826. Hiram Denio. 1827. Henry A. Foster.
1834. Iehabod C. Baker.
1841. Timothy Jenkins.
1845 .· Calvert Comstock.
1850. Roscoe Conkling, appt'd by Governor.
1851. Samuel B. Garvin.
1831. Alanson Bennett.
1835. Henry A. Foster.
1837. John Stryker.
1847. Othniel S. Williams.
1813. Joseph Kirkland.
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ANNALS OF ONEIDA COUNTY.
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CAPITAL TRIALS AND CONVICTIONS.
Oneida Oyer and Terminer, held at the School House near Fort Stanwix, on the 5th day of June, 1798. Present -Hon. James Kent, Judge of the Supreme Court; Geo. Huntington, Judge of Oneida County; Thomas Cassety and Elizur Moseley, Assistant Justices.
The People 25. 7 Sylvia Wood, alias Sylvia Brown.
Thos. R. Gold, Esq., Assistant Attorney General.
The prisoner had been indicted at the May term of the Oneida General Sessions, 1798. The charge was, that the prisoner had, on the 29th of April, 1798, murdered her hus- band, Major Wood, in the town of Augusta, by shooting him with a gun charged with shot.
The husband died the next day ; but previous to his death, his deposition, with those of the wife and Letty Forbes, was taken by Thomas Cassety, Esq., a Justice of the Peace, by which it appears that the wife was intoxicated, (she and her husband having attended an election on that day,) and while her husband was attempting to restrain her, she seized a gun and inflicted the fatal wound. Samuel Dill, Moses B. El- dridge, Silas Perkins, Reuben Reynolds, Job Babcock, Jeremiah Stevens, Walter Hyde, John Wright, Wm. Jaff, Philo Hizer, Rowland Potter, and Nahum Morse, were em- panelled as jury for the prisoner's trial. Thomas Cassety, Joseph Letty, Polly Forbes, and Timothy Pond, were witnesses for the people; and William Stutely and Ichabod Stafford for the prisoner. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and she was sentenced to be hung on the 29th of June (inst.), between 10 A. M. and 2 P. M., and that her
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body be delivered to Dr. Amos G. Hull for dissection. Upon the morning of the day appointed for her execution, she was found dead in her cell in Herkimer jail, having hanged herself with the expectation that she could thus evade the whole of the sentence. In this, however, she was mis- taken, for science had its subject.
Oneida Oyer and Terminer, at the School House near Fort Stanwix, on the 16th of June, 1801. Present-Hon. James Kent, Judge of the Supreme Court ; Hon. Jedediah Sanger and David Ostrom, County Judges ; and Amos Wetmore and Peter Colt, Esqrs., Assistant Justices.
The People 2'S. Thos. R. Gold, Esq., Assistant Attorney General.
George Peters.
The prisoner was a Montauk Indian, born at Montauk Point, Long Island. The remnant of his nation, with rem- nants of several other coast tribes of Indians, had formed a new tribe, significantly called the Brothertons, with which the prisoner resided. He was charged with killing his wife. Eunice Peters, at Rome, on the 24th day of February, 1800. An inquest was held by Coroner Bill Smith over the body of deceased, and the verdict was, that prisoner had murdered her by striking her upon the head with a club, or wooden poker. The following persons composed the jury upon his trial, viz .:- Lot Fuller, Grove Hulbert, Jotham Gaylord, Henry Crane, Loomis Kellogg, Ebenezer Markham, Peter Eastman, Nathaniel Montague, Nathan Hemingway, Truman Blackman, Abel Wilcox, and Joseph Phelps, who rendered a verdict of guilty. Peters was sentenced to be hung on the 28th day of August, 1801, and he was accordingly executed, under the direction of Sheriff Brodhead, upon the hill west of the village of Whitesboro.
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The Court made an order in this cause, directing seven dollars and fifty cents to be paid to Solomon Rich for " vietualling Indian witnesses."
Oneida Oyer and Terminer, held at the Court House in Rome, June 12th, 1817. Present-Hon. Smith Thompson, Judge of the Supreme Court; and Morris S. Miller, James S. Kip, and Joshua Hathaway, County Judges.
The People 2's. Thomas II. Hubbard, Esq., District Attorney.
John Tuhi.
The indictment was found after a Coroner's Inquest had been held. The indictment charged that the prisoner mur- dered Joseph Tuhi on the 1st of May, 1817, in the town of Paris, by inflicting a deep wound upon his head with an axe. The two Tuhis were cousins, and had been to Clinton attending a militia muster, where, becoming intoxicated, they quarrelled about a small sum borrowed by one from the other, and John formed the design of killing Joseph. They belonged to the Brotherton tribe of Indians. Upon the trial the prisoner was convicted, and was sentenced to be hung on the 25th day of July then next, between 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. He was accordingly executed at the time appointed, by Apollos Cooper, Esq., then Sheriff, assisted by John B. Pease, Under Sheriff, upon that part of the city of Utica now known as Corn Hill.
Oncida Oyer and Terminer, held at Whitestown, Decem- ber 19th and 20th, 1817. Present-Hon. Jonas Platt, Judge of the Supreme Court; and M. S. Miller, Joseph Jennings, Solomon Wolcott, and J. S. Kip, County Judges.
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The People, US. John Harris, John Denny, James O'Brien, David Linus, J and Roswell T. Pratt.
T. H. Hubbard and N. Wil- liams for People. Messrs. Gold & White for prisoners.
The prisoners were indicted at the same term in which they were tried, and were charged with having, on the 19th of August, 1817, set fire to the jail in Rome, by which means one Elisha Green was suffocated to death. The prison- ers (as well as Green) were at the time confined in jail for different offences, and in that way attempted to escape, but before they could effect their purpose they were compelled to cry for help, and when extricated were all nearly dead. Green took no part in setting fire to the building, and no intention to kill him was shown. The jury found the prisoners guilty of murder, and they were sentenced to be executed on the second Friday in February, 1818. The gallows was erected, coffins prepared, and a large concourse had collected to witness the execution ; but on the previous evening a reprieve had arrived from the Governor, changing their punishment to imprisonment for life. Harris, Linus, and O'Brien were in jail under a sentence to the State's Prison for three years, for grand larceny, Denny under an indictment for an assault with intent, etc., and Pratt under an indictment for passing counterfeit money. Denny and Linus were Oneida Indians.
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