Gazetteer of the State of New York: embracing a comprehensive view of the geography, geology, and general history of the State, and a complete history and description of every county, city, town, village, and locality, Part 1, Part 14

Author: French, J. H. (John Homer), 1824-1888, ed. cn; Place, Frank, 1880-1959, comp
Publication date: 1859
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : R. Pearsall Smith
Number of Pages: 772


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2.000


llarman Van Styck.


Vaughan's Patent ..


llorkimer


April 24, 1770 11, 1770


6.365


Hugh Wallace and others


Walloomsac Patent


Washington.


.lune


15. 1739


12.000


Filward Collins and others.


Walter's Patent.


Westchester.


Feb.


14. 1701


5.000


Robert Waiters.


Walton's Patent


Herkimer.


Ang.


12. 1768


12.000


William Walton and others.


Delaware ..


March 15. 1770


20,000


Hendrick Schneider.


Schuyler's Patent ..


Ilerk. & Oneida ...


May 19, 1737


11,250


Abin. David Schuyler and others


Washington July


18, 1740


12,000


Johu Schuyler and others.


John Morin Scott and others.


Seaton's Patent.


Greene.


July


18, 1767


March 31, 1,65


25.000


Philip Skeene and othere.


Skerne's Patent


Philip Skeene. .6 =


Skinner's Patent


Echoharie


Jan.


40.000


Stephen Skinner and others.


Springfield Patent


Otsego ...


Nov.


4. 1741


17.000


3.000


Lambert Starnberg and others.


Stony Ilill Tract.


Schoharic ....


March 25, 176S.


18.000


Michael Byrne and others.


Strasburgh Township


Delaware


Dec.


Washington. Sept.


5. 17+41


2.000


Martin Garretson Van Bergen and others.


Van Dam's Patent


Orange March 23, 1709


8.000


John Vanghan and others.


Wallace Patent.


Hamilton.


April


a This tract, embracing 50 townships, was surveyed just be- fore the Revolution, but small portions only were granted until after the war. Among those who received patents for large portions after that period were Robert G. Livingston. Isanc Nur- ton. John G. Leake, Abijah Hammond, Frederick Rylander. Philip Livingston, John Thurman, Jacob Watson, Alexander


Macomb. Ph. Rockafeller. White Matlack. Enos Mead, Zephaniah Ifatt. Goldsbrow Banyar, Petrr V. B. Livingston. Joshua Mer- serean. Jonathan Lawrence, Thomas Franklin. Effingham Law. rence. Stephen Crossfield. and others. Extensive tracts have been repeatedly sold for taxes.


(Little, or Upper) .....


April 10, 1706


June 8, 1731,


50,000


Thomas Hawley and others.


Oriskany Patent .....


Oneida


April 18, 1705


Thomas Wenham and others. Charles Read and others.


Rumbout's Patent


Washington


Aug.


7,1764


25,000


Alexander and James Turner and others.


Schaghticoke ..


Wash & Rens.


July


23, 1761


61,000


Sir John Johnson.


93,000


March 10, 1768


5,000


... ...


10.000


3.000


Essex


9.000


5.000


March 19, 1759


2.000


John Stoughton.


Otsego.


Nov. 30, 1769


52


NEW YORK STATE GAZETTEER.


NAME OF PATENT.


County.


Dat.


Extent in Acres.


Patentecs.


Watkins's Patent.


Washington.


March 2, 1775


2,000


John Watkins


Wawayanda Patent


Orange.


April 29, 1703


Dr. John Bridges.


Wawieghinunck Patent


Columbia


Aug.


4,1743


4.380


William and Stephen Bayard.


Weir's l'atent.


Feb.


18, 1775


3.000


Archibald Weir and others.


Wharton's Patent


Essex


April 15, 1765


3,000


John Wharton.


Winne's Patent. 46


Ilerkimer


Oct.


6, 1741


2.000


Peter Winne.


Montgomery ..


Oct.


10, 1741


4,000


Peter Winne and others.


Williams Patent


Aug.


29.1735


14,000


Charles Williams and others.


Wilmot Pateut


Aug.


29, 1735


2,000


Anne Wilmot.


Windecker's Patent.


Nov.


12, 1731


2.000


Hartman Windecker.


Wriesberg Patent.


Essex


Feb.


18, 1775


3,000


Daniel Wriesberg.


Youug's Pateut


Otsego & Scho ..


Oct.


11, 1752


20,000


Frederick Young.


66


.4


Herkimer


Aug.


25, 1752


14,000


Theobald Young and others.


SUBDIVISIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS PURCHASE Of about 6,000,000 acres of Lands ceded to Massachusetts by the State of New York at the Hartford Convention, Dec. 16, 1786.


TRACTS.


Parties.


Date.


Acres.


Counties.


Phelps and Gorham«


Massachusetts to Phelps and Gorham ...


Nov. 21, 1788


2,600,000


Allegany, Livingston,


Monroe,


Ontario,


Morris Reserve.


to Robert Morris.


May 11, 1791


500.000


Allegauy.


Triangular Tract ..


Morris to Le Roy, Bayard. & McEvers.


87.000


Monroe.


Connecticut Tractb


Watson, Cragie, & Greenleaf.


100,000


Orleans and Genesee.


Cragie Tract.


Andrew Cragic.


50,000


Genesee.


Ogden Tract ..


Samuel Ogden.


50,000


Wyoming.


Cottinger Tract.


Gerrit Cottinger


50,000


Wyoming and Allegany.


Forty Thousand Acre Tract


Wilhelm and Jan Willink ...


40,000


Sterritt Tract


Samuel Sterritt


150,000


Church Tract


Jolin B. Church


100,000


Allegany.


Morris Honorary Creditors' Tract ..


¥


Creditors


58,570


Allegany & Livingstou.


Holland Co.'s Purchase.


66


Agents of Holland Co.


1792-93


3,600,000


gus, Allegany, Wyo- ming, Erie. Genesee,


Boston Ten Towns.


Massachusetts to Settlers


Nov. 7, 1787


230,400


Broome and Tioga.


Phelps and Gorham originally contracted for the whole tract at $1.000.000, payablo in a kind of scrip called " Consolidated Securities," then much below par. A rise to par prevented them from fulfilling the agreement.


6 In 1801. conveyed in undivided halves to the state of Conn. aud Sir Wm. Pulteney, the former using part of her School Fund in the purchase. Divided by alternate Iots in 1811.


e Conveyed in four tracts to tho agents of the Holland Co .: viz., 1.500,000, Dec. 24, 1792, to Lo Roy and Lincklaen; 1.000.000 Feb. 27, 1793, to Le Roy, Lincklaen, and Boon; 800,000, July 20, 1793, to the same; and 300,000, same date, to Le Roy, Bayard, and Clarkson.


SUBDIVISION OF MACOMB'S GREAT PURCHASE In Franklin, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and Herkimer Counties.


TRACTS.


Patentees.


Date of Patent.


Acres.


Remarks.


Great Tract No. 1 ..


Daniel McCormick


May


17,1798


821.879


Twenty-seven towns, Franklin co.


6.


3 ...


...


March 3, 1795


640.000


Eighteen towns, St. Lawrence co. Fifteen 66


Antwerp and Jefferson cos.


4:


5 ...


Alexander Macomb


Jan.


10,1792


74.400


Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and Horkimer cos.


Remainder


(1,368,400 )


Purchasers.


Date of Pur- chase.


Chassanis Tract.


Pierre Chassanis & Co ....


April 12, 1793


210,000


.Jefferson and Lewis cos.


Black River Tract


Low. & Henderson ...


July 15, 1795


290,376


¡Boylston Tract.


Samuel Ward


Dec.


18, 1792


817.155 74.400


Jefferson, Oswego, and Lewis, 13 towns. Greig, Lewis co. Five towns, Lewis co.


Ellisburgh


Marvel Ellis .


March 22, 1797


52.834


Lewis co.


Inman's Triangle.


Wm. Inman


Feb. 20, 1793


25.000


Leyden and Lewis, Lewis co.


Watson's Tract.


James Watson


! April -, 1796|


61,433


Lewis co.


Chenango Twenty Townships.


Tp.


Acres.


Date of Patent.


Patentees.


Tp.


-Irres.


Date of Patent.


Patentecs.


1 27,187


June 14. 1793 April 16. 1794


Alexander Webster.


11


26.200


Jan. 28, 1793


Leonard M. Cutting.


2 26.245


William S. Smith.


12: 24.185


April 16, 1794


3 24.624


13! 24.218


March 2. 1793


4


24.400


..


14: 26.030


June 1. 1793


5


26.200


:


15' 25.335


Dec. 29, 1792


6


24,384


March 2, 1793


Thos. Imilow. jr.


i


17 |15.008


6


25,780


April 16. 1794 ..


Williun S. Smith.


22.565


May 3, 1793


John J. Morgan.


9| 24.205


19: 20.750


..


24.300


Jan. 13, 1793


James Talmadge.


i 20, 24.856


John Taylor.


24.186


Jan. 21. 1793


Robert C. Livingston.


16| 18.713


Feb. 14, 1793 .6 66


Thos. Ludlow and J. Shipperly. Leonard M. Cutting. .. ..


Brantingham Tract ..


Wm. Inman.


Feb.


20,1793


Constable's Towns


2 ..


66


May 17,1798


553.020


4 ...


450,950


..


6. 7


66


66


Wyoming & Livingston. Allegany.


Chautauqua, Cattaran-


Orleans. and Niagara.


Whiteboro Township


Delaware.


March 10, 1770


38,000


Henry White and others.


Schuyler, Steuben,


Wayne, and Yates.


Wm. Matlack, gr.


f Harrison, Hoffman.


James Constable.


53


LANDS.


Table of the Principal Tracts Which have been granted in small parcels by the State, under the Commissioners of the Land Office.


NAME OF TRACT.


County.


No. of Lots.


Remarks.


Adgate's 3.600 acre Tract


Esscx


7


Bedlington Tract


Delaware.


Benson Township.


Hamilton.


383


Bergen's Purchase


Hamiltou and Fulton


Black Rock Village


Erie


Braut Lake Tract.


Warren


254


Bristol Tract.


Schoharie


62 4


$ ) Unappropriated lands remaining at close of Revolu- tion.


Bulwagga Bay Tract


Essex


Butler's Tract.


Drlaware.


7


Part of Hardensburgh Patent.


Canastota Tract.


Madison ..


91


Gospel and Schools for Chenango Twenty Towns.


Chemung Township.


Chemung


205


Chenango Township


Broome


49,710 acres to A. Hammond and others.


Chenango Twenty Towns.


Madison, Chenango, Oncida Chenango


Clinton Township


Cookynago Tract ..


Delaware and Broome.


Cowasselon Tract.


Madison


Cının Horn Mountain Tract ..


Otsego


Delaware Tract ...


Broome.


Essex Tract ..


Essex


Fayette Township


Chenango.


Fort Ann Tract


Washington


Fort Covington Village


Franklin


French Mountain Tract.


Warren


Grand Island.


Eric.


Greene co. Tract.


Greene.


108


Greene Township


Chenango


...


Gore. Old Military, and Refugee Tract


Clinton


6S


Gures. others in great number.


Hambdeu Township.


Tioga


Robert Morris and Alexander Macomb.


Ilagne Tract


Warren and Essex.


62 234


Islands in great number.


Jax Tract.


Essex and Clinton


Lake George Tract


Warren ....


Lewis (Sonth) Tract.


KASCx


Lewiston Village.


Niagara


House, out, and water lots.


Long Sault Island


St. Lawrence.


Luzerne Tract ..


Warren ...


Massena Township


Small tracts upon Military Class rights.


Manl's Patent.


St. Lawrence. Kasex ....


...... 5


Military Tract


Cayuga. Cortland, Onondaga. Oswego. Schuyler. Seneca, Tompkins and Wayne.


1


[ Twenty eight townships-1,080.000 acres to soldiers of the Revolution.


Military Tract (Old).


Clinton and Franklin.


Moose River Tract.


Hamilton and Herkimer


Niagara River Tract.


Eric and Niagara ...


North River Head Tract.


EASCx


North West Bay Tract.


Essex ..


Oswego Falls Village.


Oswego.


Oswego Village.


Oswego


Ox Bow Tract


Hamilton.


304


Palmer's Purchase Paradox Tract.


Essex


428


l'erun Bay Tract


Essex


130


Refugee Tract.


Clinton


Reservations. Indian :


Cayuga ..


Cayuga and Seneca.


256


Oneida


Oncida and Madison.


West, East, and Residence Tracts, Canoga Reservation. Fish Creek. Oneida, Castleton. Oneida Creek. Otseqnet. I'agan Purchase, and Wood Creek Tracts of the pur- clases of 1798, 1802, 1815, 1824, 1826, 1829, 1530, 1834. 1 1840. 1842.


Onondaga


Onondaga


Various, including plats of Salina, Geddes, Liverpool. Lodi. &c.


St. Regis ..


Franklin


Various, including lands at Fort Covington and Ho- gunsburgh Village. Various purchases, including E. Hill Tract of fifty, . and W. Hill Tract of forty-two mots.


Sold at anction in quarter and mile squares .. but lod in by a small number. Cambray, De Kalb. and Hague, each 92.720 acres; Lisbon. Louisville, and Stockhohn, each a little less. were conveyed to Alex. Macomb, Dec. 17, 1787.


Schroon Tract


F.ASCx


111


Sidney Township.


Brouine ..


Split Rock Tract.


Essex


Stedman Farm


Niagara.


Tremblean Tract.


Tongue Manntain Tra.t.


Warren.


Warrensburgh Tract


Warren.


Warren Town-hip


Bromine


Watkins and Flint's Purchase


Chemung and Schuyler.


Westfield Trait ..


Washington


West of Road Patent


Essex


174


White Face Mountain Tract 1_


Essex and Clinton.


86


Roaring Brook Tract Saddle Mountain Tract


ERsex


Washington.


St. Lawrence Ten Towns.


St. Lawrence.


10 mi. sq. cach


f Ten townships, 640,000 acres set apart to soldiers. not conveyed. Nine townships, mostly of modern grant. Reserved in Massachusetts cession.


107 140 133 52


Reserved by State in previous grants.


Warren


State, Middle, Rear, and River Lots. Named from Paradox Lake.


131,420 acres to Canada and Nova Scotia refugees.


160 9.3 33 421 38 173


Iron Ore Tract ...


Essex


144 25 79 19 248 100 33 Mile Square Reservation. Unappropriated lands remaining after Revolution.


Given to schools and literature. Town of Windsor. Unappropriated lands remaining after Revolution.


48 117


Given to Canal Fund. To Walter Livingston, M. West, and W. Morris. In quarters.


Tables of many small grants. tracts, atal purchases will be found in the descriptions of the counties in which such lasial- ap located.


West of Perou Bay. Escheat of John G. Lcake. Named from Egbert Benson.


13 233


Part of Niagara Mile Strip. Surveyed hy Geo. Webster, 1803.


Laid out in 1788 by Jas. Clintou, J. Hathorn, and J. Cantine.


Patented separately. Sre table preceding this. Given to the Vermont sufferers.


Stockbridge


162 33


17 52


61.440 acres to Robert Harper and others.


CANALS.


MENT


AUD


RS SEAL


THE PUBLIC CANALS of the State arc made, by the Constitution, inalienable. They were first constructed for the purpose of facili- tating settlement and of opening an easy means of communication between the Atlantic and the great lakes. The canals arc under the eare of several State officers, the powers and duties of whom are as follows :-


The Canal Commissioners, threc in number, are clceted one each year and hold offiec for three years. They have the imme- diate supervision and management of the construction and repairs N YORK of canals, and are ex officio members of the Canal and Contracting Boards. They have their offiec in the State Hall, and report annually to the Legislature. The eanals have three general divisions, each of which is under the special charge of a commissioner.1


The State Engineer and Surveyor has general charge of the engineering department of the canals, and is a member of the Canal and Contraeting Boards. He has an office in the State Hall, and reports annually to the Legislature.2


The Canal Board consists of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund, the State Engineer, and the Canal Commissioners. It meets, during the session of the Legislature, at the office of the Canal Department, fixcs the rates of toll, appoints collectors of tolls, their assistants and weigli- masters, directs extraordinary repairs; hears appeals from the Canal Appraisers, remits penalties, and regulates the police of the eanals.3


The Auditor of the Canal Department draws warrants on the Treasurer for all eanal payments, audits accounts, instruets collecting and disbursing officers, and keeps aecount of eanal receipts and expenditures. He is ex officio Secretary of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund and of the Canal Board, and a incmber of the Contracting Board. His office, known as the "Canal Department," is in the State Hall at Albany.


The Canal Appraisers, three in number, arc appointed one caeh ycar, and hold office for three years. They appraisc all damages arising from the canals, whether temporary or permanent in their nature. They have an office in the State Hall.


The Contracting Board consists of the State Engineer, the Auditor of the Canal Depart- ment, and the Canal Commissioners. It appoints all division, resident, and first assistant engineers.4 The Commissioners of the Canal Fund consist of the Lieutenant Governor, Secre- tary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, and Attorney General. The Auditor of the Canal Department is ex officio Secretary of the Board. They have the general management of the funds and debts of the canal.5


1 The Eastern Division embraces the Erie Canal as far w. as Onebla Lake Canal. 136 miles; Champlain Canal and Glens Falls Feeder. 78 miles: Pond above Troy Dam, 3 miles: Black River Canal and limprovement, 95 miles; making a total of 315 miles. The Middle Division embraces the Erie Canal from the E. bank of Oncida Lake Canal to the E, line of Wayne co .. includ- ing ferders and reservoirs, 76 miles: Chenango Canal. 97 miles; Curida Lake Canal, 7 miles; Oswego Canal. 38 mites: Baldwins- ville Side Cut. 1 mile: Oneida River Improvement. 20 miles: Srheca River towing path, 52 miles; Cayuga & Seneca Canal. 23 miles: Crooked Lake Canal, 8 miles: Chemung Canal and Feedrr. 39 iniles: Oneida Creek Feeder. 2 miles: Seneca Hiver Improvement, 12} miles ; making a total of 331 miles.


The Western Division embraces the remainder of the Erie Caual. 155 miles, and the Genesee Valley Canal and Dansville Sble Cnt. 118 miles, making a total of 273 miles.


2 lfe prescribes the duties of engineers and assigns to them divisions, visits and inspects all the canals at least once in each year. mul prepares plans, surveys, maps, and estimates for con- struction or improvement. He has other duties relating to rail- reads, lands belonging to the State; and other subjects are also assigned to him from time to time.


In the Engineering Department are the following subordinate officers :-


Division Engineers, one to each division. are appointed by the Contracting Board with the consent of the State Enginrer. They have special supervision of the sections of canals in their respetivo divisjons, and are obliged to frequently pass over the rantal : miel they prepare all maps. plans, and specifications for work to be ant nuber contract. They make full reports annually to the state ungincer The office of the Resident Engineer of the Eastern Division is at Albany, of the Middle Division at Syracnec, and of the Western Division at Rochester.


Resident Engineers. 12 in number, have imurdiate charge of certain sections under the supervision of resident engineers. They are areisted by :


First Assistant Engineers, appointed by the Contracting Board, and


Second Assistant Engineers, appointed by Resident Engineers. The number of these assistants is regulated by the amount of labor in progress. Levelers. surveyors. draftsmen. clerks. &c. are employed as the Department may require, and are ap- pointed in the same manner as Second Assistant Enginvers. No engineer or other puldie officer appointed upon the canals. or a clerk. foreman. or overseer of laborers. is allowed to have an interest in the boarding of laborers. or in furnishing trams. materials, or any other thing belonging to himself, for the nse of the public.


$ There are 20 collectors of tolls on the Erie. 3 on the Cham- plain. 3 on the Oswego. 3 on the Seneca & Cayuga. 3 on the Chemung. 1 on the Crooked Lake. 3 on the Chenango. 5 on the Genesce Valley, 1 on the Black River. and 1 on the Oneida Lake Canal. There are also 41 assistant collectors. Collector's may be removed by the Canal Commissioners or the Auditor.


4 This Board was created April 16, 1854, and its power- were enlarged and defined May 14, 1857. Until May 1. 1859. it appointed superintendents of repairs; but since that time all repairs are made by contract. Repairs were formerly made by laborers, hired by the day or month. under the direction of sujetin- tendents: It in 1857 the Contracting Board was authorized to let the ordinary repairs npon contract for a term of yeir's.


6 The canal firmel was derived from the following sources :-


1815-35. Anetion duties, (in part.) amounting in all to . $3.592.039.05 2.035.455.00 Salt Antics amcomting iu all to .... In 1835, these revenues were restored to the general fund, by a popular vote of 68,126 to 8,675. 1817-23. Steamboat passenger tax. amounting in ull to 73.509.99


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55


CANALS.


Reports are annually made to the Legislature by the heads of the various Canal Departments concerning every thing pertaining to the Canal interests. These reports, embodying voluminous details and summaries, are printed, and are easily accessible to all.1


The total premiums upon loans amounted to ...... $2,295,744.12 The total discount upon loans amounted to 290.508.04 Special loans were ruade for most of the lateral canals. A tract of land from the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation was sold for the benefit of the Oswego Canal Fnud. and amounted to $160,000. Stock in the Western Inland Lock Navigation Co., amounting to $32.000, was canceled for the benefit of the canals, and the interests of individuals in that work were canceled by purchase. The muount appraised was $152.718.52.


The Constitution provides ( Art. VI]) that, after paying the expenses of collection, superintendence, aml repairs, the sum of $1.300.000, and after 1855. $1,700,000, shall be applied annu- ally, from the revenues of the canals, to a sinking fund. to pay the caual debt. In 1857, the surplus receipts of tolls failed. for the first time since 1848, to meet this, and it became necessary to raise by direct tax the money required to pay interest on the stock. The clause in the Constitution prohibiting the creation of a debt for any public work, without imposing a direct tax for its payment and a submission to the popular vote, was sus- pended by an amendment adopted Feb. 14. 1854. to allow of the raising of $9.000,000, by the issue of State stock, for the more speedy enlargement and completion of the canals. A measure was introduced in the Legislature of 1859, for the loan of a fur- ther sum for this object. and the submission of the question to the decision of a popular vote.


1 SUMMARIES OF THE PRINCIPAL REPORTS.


Amount and value of property moved, and miles run, on all the State Canals, since 1835.


ESTIMATED VALUE OF PRO-


PERTY TO AND FROM OTHER STATES, VIA BUFFALO,


BLACK ROCK, TONA-


WANDA, AND OSWEGO.


Total value of property moved on all the ca- nals.


Geared at New York, Albany. and West Troy.


Cleared at Buffalo, Black Rock, and Tina- wanda.


Q' Cleared all other offi- ces.


all the ca- nuls.


Packets.


Freight boats.


Products coming from.


Merchandise going to.


1836


$5.493,816


$9,723.250


$67,634.343


$25.784 147


$3,286.198


$18,650.604


1.310,807 1.171.290


405.050


5,556,950


1838


6.369.645


8.657.250


65.746,559


33,062,55%


4.854.927


19.200 858


1.333,011


400.250


5,126,800


1839


7.258.968


10.259,100


73.399.764


40,094 302


5.222.756


18,854.427


1.445.713


290.900


5.785,850


1840


7.877.358


7,057,600


66.493.892


30.398.039


6.200,829


15.204.936


1.417,046


258.850


5.952.300


1841


11.889.273


11.174.400


92 202.929


56.798,447


9.607.924


16.376,505


1,521,661


322.810


7.103.550


1842


9.215,808


7.218,900


60.016.608


32.314.998


7.541.793


12.466,736


1.256.931


354.200


6.173.200|


1843


11.937.943


13,067.250


76.276.909


42.258.488


9.732.016


13.288.470


1.513.439


381.820


6.586,700;


1844


15.875,558


14.845.250


90.921.152


53.142.403


9.561.146


15.822.504


1.816.586 !


427.740


7.841.750


1845


14.162.239


17,366,300


100.629.859


55,453.998


10.351.749


19.248.224


2.977,565


420.540


7.924,250|


1846


20.471.939


20,415.500


115.612,109


64.628.474


15.819.314


18.815.639


2.2018,662


414,340


9,065.450,


1847


32.666,324


27,298.800 30,553,920


140.086.157


77.477.781


19.621.700


11.544 421


2.796.250 .


542,300


9.633.850


1849


26.713.796


31.793.400


144.732.285


78.481.941


20.647.562


22.238.010


2.891.732


305.760


10,153.350


1850


25.539.605


41.272.491 63,659.440 79.127.640


196,603,517


121.087.312!


25.674.776


22.219.056


3.863.441


71.725


12.306,950!


1853


42.367.564


94,230,720


207.179 570


116.155.431


98.866.951


27.020.827 30.613.200


4.247.852


46.650


12.327.050;


1854


39.346.283 |


83.476.440


210.984.312


116.772.966


29.745.555


4.105.862


24.675


11.244.200


1855


43.555.243


79.879,680


204.390.147


113.443.863


31.403,640


24.906,992


4.02.2017


28.875


9.671.450


1856


38.043.813


66.064,680


218.327.062


134.181.707


22.873.500


21.749.502


4.116.082


21.175


9.656,700;


1857


26.466.121


42,525,360


130.997.018


71.016.241


17.567.181


15.470.217


3.314.061


16.950


7,374.8501


1858:


36.182.405


27,680.400


138,568,844


57.983.123 |


25.039.001


20.570.577


3,665,192


18,725


7.886,100


Tot.


$513.541.202


$793.670,521


$2,929.665.482


$1.559.962.083 : $377.659.507 | $451.519.063 | 59.647.996


6.746,220


191.739.630|


Total amount per cent., and arerages of different classes.


1


AVERAGES FOR PERIODS OF SEVEN YEARS.


TOTAL POR TWENTY-THREE YEARS.


PERCENTAGE OF EACH.


From 1836 to 1842.


From 1843 to 1$+9.


From 1850 to 1856.


CLASSES.


Tons.


Value.


Tms.


Ions.


Falne.


Tons.


Value


Tons.


Virtue.


Products of forest


24.516.913


$207.472.053


41.11


7.0%| 654 922!


37 133.875 18.400.404


945.120|


$5.200,900 1,549,578:


$120119.591


Agriculture ....


17,238.941


321.768.110


25.0


25,0%


:00,004|


765.948


26.826.16\ 1.095.289)


51.083.488


t Manthetures


4.0$6.804


167.560,214


5.7 .:


141.610


5.750.494


163.912


+420#1 240.500


0.724.900


Merch :mplist


5.233.033


1.594.988.501


S.T.


54.41. 119.los


111,562.064


Other articles


8,571.265!


137.726.204


14.37


4.79 184.0002


2.772.007


237.1.59


4.576,578


505.775


9.007.95


Total


Loans for construction, at sundry times, secured by State stocks. The avails for Erie and Cham-


plain Canals, up to Sept. 30, 1858, amounted to $8.271.831.00 Loans for enlargement, &c.


Loans for deficiencies.


11,828,000.00 10,203,844.10


Loans for enlargement and completion


10,500,000.00


Caual revenue certificates.


1,512,390.75


Temporary loans.


1,700,000.00


Tolls


Tax (1844, '45, '46, '47, 1854, '55, '56, '57, '58) ..


2,936,623,21


Sale of lands for benefit of canals, viz .: 102,635 acres in Cattarangus co .. given by the Ilolland Laud Co .; 3,000 acres, by John Ilornby; 1,000 acres, by Gideon Granger: Grand Island,


(17,381 1-5 acres,)and S small islands, (502} acres,) given by the State for benefit of canals; and a tract of land on Wood Creek, bought with the rights of the Western Inland Lock N. Co ..


107,430.18 3.157,860.60


Interest on investment and deposits


Surplus tolls, from lateral canals


1.010.731.43


Miscellaneous ...


1,101.123.43


Total receipts Erie and Champlain Canals


123,043,734.84


Receipts upon all the State canals .. 143,607,002.91 Total payments upon the Erie and Champlain


Canala


Total payments upon all the State canals.


.141,627,845.85


I MILES RUN IN EACH YEAR BY ALL THE BOATS.


Ycar.


1837


4.813.626


6,322,750


55.809.288


80.739.500


24 543.286


31,754.847


3.592.733


206,150


11.926,950


IS52


37.041.380


156.397.929 159,881,801


74,826.900


20.991.462


31.335.526


8.076.017 :


343.475


10.718.100!


1851


27.007.142


151.563.428


77.878.766


25.503.745


23.51%.927


2.869.810 |


443.050


11,733.250


1848


23.245,353


Total num- ber of tous


59.647.046 82020.765.492 : 30000 10,00 1 346,038 868 744.700 2.305.200 $115.117 411 3.507.888 8808204.905


2-0,654


64,429.475.41


56


NEW YORK STATE GAZETTEER.


Tolls collected at each office on the New York State Canals, from 1825 to 1858, both inclusivc.


OFFICES.


1825.


1830.


1835.


1840.


1845.


1650.


1855.


1856.


1858.


New York.




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