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The HIoughtaling patent was west of the Bronk patent and bears date of 1697, a grant to Matthias Houghtaling.
One of the oldest industries in Coxsackie is the Marble and Granite works. Just when the works were started we do not know, but they were started by William E. Leigh at West Coxsackie, later Levi Bedell was connected with the enterprise. D. Meade and W. G. Fox succeeded them and conducted the business for about twelve years. Messrs. Titus and Shufelt have been at the helm for 22 years, and they have a model plant with electric equipment, 30 horse power, and a large number of men busy cut- ting fine monumental work. Their patronage extends over a large field. They have erected some of the finest stones in the county. A notable piece of artistic work is the sarcophagus that marks the last resting place of John N. Briggs at Coeymans.
The Coxsackie Malleable and Grey Iron Company establish- ed a plant at Coxsackie in 1866, and these buildings were destroy- ed by fire in 1871, entailing a loss of $50,000.
The A. B. Newbury Machine Works, originally established
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The Last Old Toll Gate, at Climax.
at Windham Center in 1851, were moved to Coxsackie in 1866. manufacturing printing presses. This business was very prosper- ous for many years, and several offices in Greene county are using presses of the Newbury's.
The Coxsackie Flour, Feed and Plaster Mill was established by E. D. Hallock.
The Kennedy Valve Manufactory was one of Coxsackie's greatest industries, and employed a large number of men, but after a number of years they moved most of their machinery out of town and the works have gone into a state of delapidation.
The American Valve Company established a few years later has a pay roll of $1,400 per week and employs from 60 to 120 men, and is still doing a good business there. O. L. Whitman is superintendent. They are building an addition of 50x40 to their plant.
The ice industry was started at Coxsackie by Hiram Van Steenburgh of Catskill, in 1850.
The canning industry was established in Coxsackie by E.H. Lounsberry in 1872.
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Among the principal business men of Coxsackie are: E. S. Anthony ice dealer, Levi Bedell miller and shipper, Myer Bresky clothier, N. A. Calkins attorney, E. H. Merriam pres. Trolley Wheel company, D. H. Daley attorney, C. H. Delameter cooper, C. Dolan butcher, William P. Franklin publisher, E. W. Gardner optician, G. B. Gardner jeweler, John Goodwin lumber dealer, D. Geroe Greene ice dealer, Oscar J. Greene grocer, W. R. Church hardware, Frank Hadley grocer, E. C. Hallenbeck attorney, Wni. H. Hallenbeck builder, John Hoag barber, Frank C. Hoag nurs- eryman, George W. Hood grist mill operator, George Hubbard grocer and liveryman, Harry A Jordan druggist, George W. Lamb insurance, James H. Lampman undertaker, John Loutfian phys- ician, E. H. Miller Shirt and Collar Mfg., W. C. Brady & Son undertaker, Platt Coonley pres. National Bank, J. G. Newbury iron works, Albert Parker cashier bank, Teunis Petchel merchant, William J. Perry hotelkeeper, E. B. Raum supt. Trolley Co., Mark C. Richtmyer and Nelson Richtmyer clothiers, Irving W. Saxe dentist, Paul Schaad propr. West Shore hotel, Frank R. Shufelt and Irving Titus marble dealers, F. H. Sutherland sec. Reed & Powell Co., Wm. B. Townsend clerk Board of Supervisors, Frank Tremmel hardware dealer, C. W. Van Alstyne pres. Union Wheel Co., R. H. Van Denburgh physician, I. E. Van Hoesen physician, Andrew Van Slyke physician, J. H. Whitbeck presi- dent Whitbeck Co., Curtiss and Warren attorneys, Frank Vermil- yea propr. Park Hotel, W. C. Wilson dentist, Bagley Brothers grocers, Dayton B. Smith supervisor and newsdealer, S. B.Corey milk dealer, P. V. Washburn & Son coal and lumber.
Haas Brothers garage, F. T. Bennett and C. Durand pho- tographers, Smith 5 and 10 cent store, I. Gardner moving pic- tures.
The pastors of the several churches are:
First Reformed, W. A. Dumont,
Second Reformed, Samuel T. Clifton,
Methodist, T. W. Mackey,
Catholic, Father Gregan.
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The Hermance Memorial. Library was the gift of Miss Eleanor Hermance of Coxsackie in 1908. It is fully endowed and the value of the property, furnishings and books amounts to about $11,000. The income from the endowment was last yeas $3,509. The building is open daily except Sundays, 10 to 12, 3 to 5, and 7 to 9. The trustees are 1. W. Van Slyke, pres., Arthur E. Pow- ell, treasurer, J. C. McClure and W. R. Church.
George II. Scott Hook & Ladder Company was the first fire organization, as the Hudson River Engine Company in 1860, with the Old Deluge hand engine. They still have in their hose house a hand engine of a later date. This company was disbanded in 1880 having been robbed of its funds, and on Feb. 7, 1881 was reorganized as the Geo. H. Scott Hook &' Ladder Company, with George H. Scott, Scotty as he has been familiarily known ever since, as president, and A. G. Case as vice president, J.E. Brown, jr. foremsn, R. C. Hallock first asst., Alfred Smith 2d asst., W. H. Salisbury, jr. secy., E. W. Stone treas.
The present officers are E. W. Gardner pres., Charles Par- slow foreman, W. H. Parslow secy., Dr. W. I. Saxe treas.
D. M. Halmilton Hose Company No. 2 was organized Feb. 18, 1871. George Carter is president and foreman.
Number 3 Hose Company is located at West Coxsackie with Frank J. Collier as foreman and president and has a fine record for fire work.
Number 4 Hose Company is located at the Upper landing and David Wallace is foreman.
The officers of the 1. O.O. F. of Coxsackie are: N. G. Hen- ry Seaney, V. G. Haskel Jones, Rec. Sec'y Charles Parslow, Fin. Sce'y Jas. Whitaker, Treasurer Chas. Collins, Trustee W. H.Par- slow.
The officers of the Modern Woodmen of Coxsackie are: Worthy Consul Wm. G. Rommel, Worthy Advisor Myron Case,
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The village officers are: W. Ralph Church Pres., Fred P. Aley and Samuel T. Burroughs trustees, Wm. H Salisbury Treas., Abram Spoor collector
Banker Wm. W. Doherty, Escort James F. Stacy, Clerk J. W. Tolley, Managers S. T. Clifton, Cyrus Countryman and George Overbaugh.
Durham
Durham formed a part of Al- bany county, district of Coxsackie, and retained the name of Coxsackie up to 1790, when a portion was taken off and the town of Freehold formed. And this section known as Freehold took in Greenville, Cairo, Windham, Ashland and Prattsville, and all of the town of Conesville in Schoharie county, about 150,000 acres. The balance of 31,000 acres was called Durham.
Many of the early settlers came from Durham, Conn., and that fact brought about the name of the town. Lucius De Witt is said to have been John E. Huyck the first settler about 1770, and among those who followed were Hen- drick and John Plank, Augustine Shue, Frederick Gruyslaer, Johnathan Baldwin, Augustus Pratt, John Hull, Eliakim Strong, Timothy Munger, Jairus Chittenden, and others whose names are still in living generations. Oak Hill was originally Dewittsville. Most of these people found their settlement at New Durham, and made their way from Connecticut. After reaching Catskill by sloop, they took a pack on their backs and with axe, gun, and blankets went into forests on foot, all prior of 1784.
The Baldwins trace their generations back to Flanders, in
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864, and allege that Baldwin IX was emperor of Constantinople in 1204, and that five successive Baldwins were kings at Jerusa- lem. Johnathan Baldwin who settled at Durham, died at the age of 91. Selah Strong, another of the early settlers, was a lieu- tenant in the French and Indian war. He occupied the place where Horace Strong died in 1915.
Eliakim Strong was one of the organizers of the Presbyter- ian church at Durham, and died in 1800.
John Bagley built a grist mill on Thorpe creek near East Durham.
Capt. Eliakim Stannard was a soldier in the Revolution, and his son Silas was in the war of 1812, and Lyman Stannard was a supervisor of the town.
The Wrights were among the early settlers .Deacon George Wright was in the Revolution.
James Utter, another settler, was a Revolutionary soldier. Utters are still thriving. Addison Utter built a mill at East Dur- ham.
Capt. Thorpe had a saw mill near the same place.
The Pratt family, Johnathan and Abija, came from Say- brook, Conn., and Captain Pratt served in the Revolution. Abija Pratt was the father of Ezra Pratt, who lived on the old home- stead up to the time of his death in 1912, at the age of 82. He was father of Mrs. F. A. Gallt, wife of the publisher of this his- tory.
Icabod Olmsted had only a gun and an axe when he went to Durham, and he cleared all the land on his farm, and died at the age of 95 years.
George Fowler built a saw mill at Oak Hill, Dewittsville.
Jesse Rose was by profession a grave digger, but the natives never died, and so he had nothing to do.
The Cornwalls came from Connecticut in 1788, and Corn-
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wallsville was named in their honor. Capt. Daniel Cornwall serv- ed in the Revolution and died at the age of 90 years. Amos Corn- wall moved to Catskill.
Dr. William Cook was the first physician and he served in the Revolution.
West Durham was settled by John Clover, William Rood, and Captain Daniel Shepherd. Clover was frozen to death while taking food to his family.
Captain John Newell served in the Revolution, and among the early settlers at Durham. This family traces to 1632.
Deacon Coe, Elihue Moss, Deacon Cleaveland, Deacon Chapman, William Ingraham, Thomas Adams, Col. Ezra Post, were early settlers.
In 1800 James Thompson of Durham, Garret Abeel of Catskill, James Bronk of Coxsackie, and William Beach of Cats- kill met and organized the first Board of Supervisors, with Mr. Abeel, chairman.
Jacob Roggen settled at Durham in 1806, was supervisor of Durham 1812-21, assemblyman 1816-22.
Daniel Peck built the first tannery at Oak Hill.
Of the early industries, Levi Tremaine built a tannery, Lucas Dewitt a grist, Joseph Wright a grist mill, Stephen Platt a grist mill, Jared Smith a saw mill, Asa Jones and John Jerome fulling 'mills. Jermiah White, Daniel Peck, Judge Barker built tanneries.
Around 1840 the Cheritree's established a plow factory at Oak Hill and later'a grist mill. This plant was destroyed by fire in 1865, and this business was continued up to about 1900, when it was discontinued.
Calvin Adams had a factory in Oak Hill for the manufact- ure of corn shellers, coffee mills and door trimmings.
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Falls on Thorpe, Creek.
In 1807 the village of Durham was swept by the most dis- astrous fire in its history, a big cabinet making establishment and a number of dwelling houses being destroyed.
The Presbyterian church "at Durham was destroyed by fire in 1894.
The Reformed church was established in Durham in 1787, the church being located 'at Oak Hill. The building was finally torn down and the society discontinued.
The Presbyterian church was organized at New Durham in 1792, by the Rev. Beriah Hotchkin. The first church was built in 1796, and a new church in 1821. The present church was erected in 1895, following the fire in 1894.
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The Baptist church was organized in 1809.
The Methodist church was organized about 1800, at East Durham and later divided and a separate church was organized at Durham and Cornswallville.
St. Paul's Episcopal church was organized at Durham in 1809.
Second Presbyterian church was organized at West Durham in 1815.
The Presbyterian church at Centerville in 1834.
There are traditions of the existence of a Masonic lodge at Durham many years ago, but we have found no record of it. The only one in the town now is Cascade Lodge No. 427, F. & A. M., which was instituted March 16, 1857, with the following officers: D. B. Booth, W, M .; Luman Ramsdell; S. W .; John H. Baldwin, J. W .; A. H. Hayes, S. D .; Amos Sear, J. D .; Calvin Adams, treasurer; Manly B. Mattice, secretary; O. T. Humphrey, S. M. C .; H. J. Peck, J. M. C .; Wellington Peck, orator; Elihu In- galls, tyler. This lodge owns the Masonic Hall in Oak Hill, where communications are held on the first and third Monday in each month. It has an active membership of 137. It has pro- duced one Grand Lodge officer, R. W. Emerson Ford, district deputy grand master for the 15th Masonic district in 1906. The present officers of the lodge are: Charles A. Shultes, W. M .; L. G. Chamberlain, S. W .; Potter A. Scott, J. W .; Leroy Brandow, S. D. ; C. Warwick Newell, J. D .; Ernest L. Ford, treasurer; Paige T. Hoagland, secretary; Elmer Borthwick, S. M. C .; Alfred Hulbert, J. M. C .; Omar Hallock, Orville Hull, stewards; George F. White, marshal; Elisha N. Parks, chaplain; George Burhans, tyler.
The town of Durham has never had many criminals. Pat- trick Flynn, in 1846, murdered James Roberts, a drover, for his money, and he was the first murderer executed in the county,
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Green ville
The town of Greenville was taken from Coxsackie and Freehold in 1803. The town of Freehold subsequently was changed to Dur- ham. Barent Petersen under a grant by Governor Lovelace and confirmed by Queen Anne, was owner of pretty much all of the town. Lieutenant Colonel Augus- tine Prevost had a grant of some 7000 acres and the grant was ac- companied by a certificate from General Gage indicating the valua- ble services of Col. Prevost and his son. This patent was dated 1767, and another grant of lands extend- Lewis Hoose ed south of the Prevost grant to John French, Thomas Lynot, Mar- Van Bergen and others, that extended from the Coeymans patent to Freehold or Durham. Col. Prevost built on the road west of what is now Greenville, a very picturesque mansion of the early colonial period, of which we are able to give a fine view. The writer has passed this old homestead a great many times and al- ways to admire its sturdy lines. And always with complimentary though of the very honorable family that occupied it. It is still one of the most picturesque houses in the town of Greenville, as well as the oldest.
The earliest settlers were the Ramsdells, Rundells, Sherills, Waldrons, Shaws, Kings, Losees, Storys, Calhouns, Barkers, Bots- fords, Lampmans, and Bogarduses, names and generations still honored. So far as we know there are none of the Prevost fami- ly remaining except as they may be under another name.
Major Prevost was born in 1744 and served in the English army with distinction in the French and Indian war. He first
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came to Catskill, then known as Katskill and in 1794 he moved to Greenville. He was a man of great energy and built a number of houses and several mills for sawing lumber and grinding grain, and was back of a number of business enterprises. The Presby- terian church, the first school in Greenville, which afterwards became the Academy, and a school near his residence in which he employed a teacher for the benefit of his own children, were among the tangible evidences of his beneficence. At one time he is said to have been in partnership with Alexander Hamilton, and Aaron Burr his legal adviser. The Major died in 1821. He had three sons, one of whom was lost on the Albion, and another dur- ing the peninsular war, leaving Theodore L., whom the writer of this book remembers, his sole heir and an occupant of the place. Theodore was living on the place when the writer was living at Greenville in 1880.
Benjamin Spees, Edward Lake and Eleazer Knowles made their way from Connecticut on horseback in 1781. Knowles built a cabin on Budd hill, and Spees and Lake built north of Green- yille
Palatine
The first settler was Godfrey Brandow, a Dutchman from the Saugerties section, he having married one of the Oyerbaughs of that section. He built a log house and was followed by Stephen Lampman, who became his neighbor. Brandow died in 1795 and his graye is unmarked. Peter Brandow, a son of Godfred Bran- dow, married Hannah Bogardus of Coxsackie and raised a family of 11 children, most of whom settled in that section and rounded out the century. Jacob Bogardus moved from Coxsackie to Green- ville in 1772, Nanning Bogardus settled in Greenville in 1684, Simon Losee settled in Greenville in 1790, Obadiah King in 1791, The latter lived to be 80 years of age and in 1801 built a saw mill on the Potic Creek, near the place where water for the Catskill water supply was to be taken. Abel Wakely, Edward Wooster, and Reuben Rundell settled near the present village of Greenville, and Nathaniel Fancher at Greenville Center, members of the Nor- ton family at what was afterward called Norton Hill, and Thomas Place at Place's Corners.
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The Prevost House at Greenville, 1793.
Reuben Rundell was another of the pioneers who came from Connectieut, and served as lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. He landed at Catskill and followed the early trail to Green- ville and built a log cabin on the Frank Deane farm. He was killed in 1850 while crossing the Hudson river at Athens, being hit by flying stone. dislodged by a blast on the New York Central railroad.
Dr. Amos Botsford and John Ely were the first medical practitioners in the town, the former passing in 1864. Isaac Hal- lock and Edmund Blackmore had the first hotels in 1818 and 1820. The latter hotel was located near Gayhead and Elder Stew- ard, one of the first pastors of the Baptist church, conducted a hotel, Jacob Flansburgh and Benton Hallock also had hotels in the town.
The village of Greenville is the most populous of the sever- al villages and hamlets in the town. Ransom Hinman was the first merchant. around 1803. The Coonley hotel on the corner was built by Ezra Holley and Jotham Smith, and is quite old. The Bentley store was started in 1842 and operated by Mr. Bentley for
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many years, he being part of the time postmaster. There has been no manufacturing in Greenville village. It is one of the prettiest places in the county and has many handsome residences.
Greenville academy was incorporated in 1816, and the Rev. Beriah Hotchkin, Dr. Amos Botswick and Col. Augustine Prevost, and a number of others were among the incorporators. Sylvester Eaton was the first principal, and James V. D. Ayers, another instructor of note, was later at the head of the Catskill schools.
The Rey. Beriah Hotchkin, mentioned above, was the pio- neer of the early church work, and he came from the settlements of New England and had the distinction of founding the first church west of the Hudson river north of Pennsylvania. His first sermon in Greenville was in Benjamin Spees barn, April 5, 1789, and it is likely that he came at the invitation of Col Prevost. He was installed pastor in 1793. Later the building was used as a tayern and a new house of worship erected in 1801. The Rev. Beriah Hotchkin was pastor of the church until 1824, He died at Plattsburgh in 1829 at the age of 72 years.
Reuben Rundell, to whom we have referred, organized the Episcopal church in 1825, the site being donated by Major Pre- vost. The present structure was built in 1857. We are unable to say who was the first rector.
The Methodist church was organized in 1825 at West Greenville and the church cost about $1,500. Later it was moved to Greenville village and in 1856 rededicated. This building was destroyed by fire in 1873, and the pres nt handsome structure rose in 1874, having cost about $10,000. About this time the writer was located at Greenville, and has pleasant recollections of the then pastor Rev. J. H. Phillips, Bradley S. McCabe, late member of assembly, Pierce Stevens, Alfred Steadman, Arch Stone, Ham- ilton McCabe and Reuben Gedney, who have passed to the church celestial. The Rev. J. B. Stead is pastor.
The Baptist church at Greenville Center was organized in 1793 and its communicants were scattered from New Baltimore to
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South Westerlo. Elder William Stewart was first pastor. He had a farm, and, aside from what he raised, received 3 pecks of buck- wheat for his salary during one year. He died at the age of 90 years. The church was built in 1817. Among its pastors was the Rev. Mr. Bronk, who became a great revivalist. Among those who have stood well in the history of the church, we remember David Losee, Sherman Sanford, William Stevens, George William- son and Russell Townsend, who have gone the way of the earthy.
Another old church of somewhat scattered denomination is the Christian at Freehold. Organized in 1812 by the Rev. Jasper Hazen. It is a model church and has prospered in its century of activity. One of its pastors, the Rev. John Spoor, is said to have baptized 15,000 persons, and to have married 1000, and attended 1500 funerals. He went to Freehold in 1819, and died in the harness in 1864.
The Methodist church at Old Greenville was built in 1812, and one of the early pastors was John Bangs, rated as one of the great preachers of the denomination.
The Norton Hill Methodist church was organized in 1873, and the Rev. John Wood was first pastor. The Rev. W. F. Al- brecht during his pastorate was also principal of the Greenville Academy.
The Gayhead Baptist church was organized in 1853, and had as its first pastor the Rev. George Slater. Among the organ- ized were Cyrastus Betts and Maria Betts, and many others of the same family name.
One of Greenville's foremost citizens was Alexander N. Bentley. Born at Westerlo in 1814 and he took possession of the corner store in 1856, and for 30 years was village postmaster. His wife was a daughter of Josiah Rundell, a pioneer of the town.
Another family intimately connected with the history of Greenville, the Stevens', and it was Reuben who first set foot in the town, after having turned his back on Catskill creek land at $2.50 per acre. He died in 1804 and his son, Reuben, was a sol- dier in the Revolution. His son, Orrin C. Stevens, had 9 chil- dren, and the oldest of the family, James Stevens, known as Cap-
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tain Jim, served with distinction in the Civil war. He was super- visor of the town in 1874, and 1881-82 clerk of the board of sup- ervisors. Samuel Stevens was killed at Petersburgh in 1864.
Ebenezer Jennings moved to Freehold in 1809 and built a grist mill.
Henry Martin Snyder who settled pear Freehold raised a family of 14 children, and ten of the boys served in the war of the Revolution.
Abel Wakeley served in the Revolutionary war and was located at West Point at the time of Arnold's treason.
The Rev. Jasper Hazen also organized the Christian church at Medway, the first of that denomination in the state of New York. That was in 1807, but no building was erected until 1832. And the church of the same denomination at New Baltimore was organized by him.
James M. Austin Lodge No. 557, F. & A. M. was organiz- ed with thirteen charter members in July, 1865, in the Bentley building, Greenville village. Its first officers were: John W. Hoff- man, W. M., Electus Ramsdell, S. W .; Humphrey Wilber, J. W .; E. Wackerhagen, secretary, David Turner, treasurer; James Stevens, S. D .; B. F. Hisert, J. D .; Platt Coonley, tyler. It has had a prosperous career, its membership being reported at 90 on December 31, 1914, and it owns Masonic Hall, where meetings are held on the 2d and 4th Monday of each month. Two grand lodge officers have gone out from this lodge: R. W. William A. Wasson, district deputy grand master in 1892 and 1894, and R. W. John H. Sanford, district deputy master in 1911 and 1912. The lodge officers for 1914 were: Peter R. Stevens, W.M. : Wm. P. Seabridge, S. W .; Chauncey Spalding, J. W .; William S. Van- derbilt, treasurer; George L. Cook, secretary; Eugene Sisson, S. D .; John W. Story, J. D .; James L. Wheeler, tyler.
Successive W. M. have been: John W. Hoffman, John B. Teats, Darius Rundell, Albert Wilber, James Stevens, D.M. Woo- ster, Afred Stedman, W. A. Wasson, John Roe, Arthur Hartt, Chas P. McCabe, George E. Smith, Albert W. Baker, E. L. Wood, John H. Sanford, Eugene Spalding, Jahleel L. Bogardus, John Lampman, Peter R. Stevens.
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Earle W. Jenkins
Halcott
This sturdy mountain town was originally a part of Woodstock, Ul- ster county, and is the smallest in acreage of any town in the county, having 11,122 acres, and the total assessed value of its property is about $65,000.
In 1798 it was taken to form a part of the town of Windham, and in 1813 it was called New Goshen. This name gave way to Lexington, and was so known up to 1853, when Halcott was set off by itself, and named after George W. Halcott, son of Thomas Halcott of that town.
Emigrants from Connecticut were the first to make clearings for homes and farms in the forests of
the section. The records are broken and scarce, and it was after 1800 before there were any settlers. Nathan Stanton and James Simmons were among the number around 1805, and then followed John P. Van Valkenburgh and his brother, Peter Van Valken- burgh, Jehoiachim Van Valkenburgh, Jacob Miller, Peter Van- denburgh, Nathan Covel, Joseph Brooks, Aaron Garrison, and others whose names we have not been able to note.
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