Annals and recollections of Oneida County, Part 4

Author: Jones, Pomroy
Publication date: 1851
Publisher: Rome [N.Y.] : Published by the author
Number of Pages: 926


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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.


1


30


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


33


ONEIDA COUNTY.


II. ]


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.


34


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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ONEIDA COUNTY.


11.]


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


36


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


37


ONEIDA COUNTY.


n.]


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.


38


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.


39


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.


40


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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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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