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A log jail was erected at Cayuga near the shore of the lake and against the bluff bank, which at that point arose to the full height of the building. It was built of hewn logs and located at the east end of the Cayuga bridge, the toll- house of which was erected directly over it, the top of the jail being the floor of the toll-house. Prisoners were let down by ladders through a trap door.
Among the attorneys that were then prominent in the practice before the courts, were Elijah Miller, Daniel Shepard, Thaddeus M. Wood, Walter Wood, Thomas Mumford, Vincent Math- ews, Glen Cuyler, Silas Marsh and Eleazer Burnham.
Morgan Lewis, afterwards Governor of the State, held a Circuit Court at Cayuga Ferry, on the 3d day of June, 1800, at which the following were the grand jurors :
Jabez . Bradley, Amos Rathbun, Israel Smith, David Avery, Augustus Chidsey, Wilhemus
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Mynders, Grove Smith, Adonijah Tillottson, Elijah Price, Samuel Crossett, Jonas Ward, Ben- jamin Hutchins, Salmon Buck, Jacob T. C. De- Witt, Ansell McCall, Noah Olmstead, Jr.
At a court of Common Pleas, held by Seth Phelps, at Cayuga Ferry, on the third Tuesday in January, 1802, Amaziah Hutchinson was licensed to keep a ferry across Cayuga Lake, on lot No. 75, in the township of Milton, at the fol- lowing rates of toll :
Double team and loaded carriage, $1.25
Single 1.00
Man and horse, .50
Single team, .75
Single horse, or cutter, .25
A sheep, .06 A hog, .04
In 1801 the Court licensed James Kidder to keep a ferry across Cayuga Lake in the County of Cayuga, at the following rates of toll :
Double team and loaded carriage, $1.25
Single 1.00
Single without a load, .75
Man and horse, .50
Single horse, or cutter, .25
A sheep, .06
A hog .09
Jonas C. Baldwin was also licensed to keep a ferry at the Jonathan Brownell landing, at the last preceding rates of toll.
Joseph L. Richardson was admitted to prac- tice in 1802.
In 1807 the court licensed David Follett to keep a ferry across Seneca River, opposite his dwelling house, at the following rates of toll :
One span of horses, or yoke of oxen, $ .25
Man and horse,
.12
One man, .06
Cows, steers, bullocks two years old, each,- .123 Yearlings, .06
Hogs or sheep, .03
JAIL CHANGED TO AURORA .- At a court held at the school house at Cayuga, in January 1804, the "gaol liberties" at Cayuga were vacated and they were removed to Aurora in the town- ship of Scipio.
Ambrose Spencer held a court of Oyer and Terminer, at the Aurora Academy in 1804, at which the Indian "Delaware John," was arraigned for the murder of Ezekiel Crane. The prisoner plead guilty to the indictment, and thereupon the court ordered " that the said John, a Delaware Indian, otherwise called Delaware John, for the felony aforesaid, be hung by the neck until he be
dead, by the sheriff of this County, on Friday the 17th day of August next, between the hours of one and three in the afternoon of that day ; and further, that the body of the said John be deliv- ered over by the said sheriff to Frederick Delano for dissection." The sentence was duly executed, the Indian pleading earnestly to be shot, which the law would not permit. The Indian carried with him upon the scaffold pipes and tobacco, and in answer to the question why he did it, replied that they were to smoke the "pipe of peace" with Mr. Crane in the spirit world. Why he wished to do this the sequel will show.
Ezekiel Crane, the murdered man, was killed by mistake, the Indian supposing him to be another man. Crane was one of the earlier and more prosperous settlers in the town of Tyre, now in Seneca, but then in this County. At that time the settlers were sparse and widely separated, and the Indians frequently came to their cabins in quest of food, tobacco, or " fire- water." Among them was an old Indian called Delaware John who lived in the vicinity. He was of irascible temper and a full believer in the superstition of witch-craft, so common among the natives. He was a very skillful, and, hith- erto, had been a successful hunter.
Late in the autumn of 1803, a settler of the name of George Phadoc and Delaware John agreed to go out together to lay in their winter supply of game. Phadoc was very successful, killing a large number of deer and other game ; while the Indian, from some unexplained cause, failed in nearly every shot he made. He was sulky and silent, his anger arose to an uncon- trollable degree under the belief that Phadoc had bewitched his gun, and the old superstition that it was allowable to kill witches, took posses- sion of him. He planned Phadoc's death. They returned home on the 11th of December. On the following morning Phadoc brought home a deer which he had killed the evening before, and when near his cabin, and as he was about to lay it down, the Indian fired and only slightly wounded him, the ball first passing through the game. Phadoc fled to the house of Asa Smith, a neigh- bor, and gave the alarm. Meanwhile Ezekiel Crane, followed by his man Ezra Degarmo, ap- proached Phadoc's cabin to get some venison, ignorant of what had happened. Supposing Crane to be Phadoc returned home, the Indian pierced
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him with a ball, which proved fatal a few days after. Degarmo fled and carried the news to the family of Mr. Crane. The alarm spread, and toward evening, the neighbors gathered and sur- rounded the hut of " old John," who, after consid- erable bluster, consented to a parley. He was then disarmed, bound and confined in the log jail at Cayuga until the intensely cold weather set in, when be was removed to the jail at Canandaigua, whence he was taken to Aurora for trial. This was the first homicide in Cayuga County, but not committed by a settler. It resulted from the im- pulses of a wild Indian superstition and was the only Indian murder of the settlers of the County.
The second homicide in the County was com- mitted by a man named David Williams who was finally decreed to be insane. The case was tried before Daniel D. Tompkins at a court held at the Academy in Aurora in 1805. He was at first declared sane by a jury impanelled to try the question, and convicted and sentenced to be executed, but on a review of the case on appeal, Williams was adjudged to be a lunatic, and con- fined in the Bloomingdale asylum where he died. The victim of his mania was James Lane.
Seneca county was detached from Cayuga, March 27, 1804, which so materially changed the location of the people relatively to the places where the courts had been held, as to necessitate a change to a more central position. A law was surreptitiously enacted by which the site of the Court House was fixed at Sherwood Corners in the town of Scipio and a provision was inserted, directing the raising of $1,500 for building a Court House at that point, and appointing John Tillottson, Augustus Chidsey and John Grover commissioners to build it.
This action of the Legislature was very unsat- isfactory to a large part of the people of the County and their opposition to the location was so decidedly manifested, that the commissioners above named suspended action and the obnoxious law was repealed.
On the 16th day of March, 1804, three other commissioners were appointed with power to lo- cate the county seat. They were Edward Sav- age, James Burt and James Hildreth, men resid- ing in other parts of the State and free from per- sonal bias. In June following, they designated Hardenbergh's Corners as the site of the court house, much to the gratification of its citizens
and equally to the disappointment and disgust of their many rivals, Aurora, Sherwood, Cayuga and Levanna.
The condition of the location required the gift by the locality, of an acre of land on what was then the farm of William Bostwick, which was readily acceded to, he receiving from a few citizens $200 for the plat on which are now lo- cated our county buildings.
From the location of the site for several years a controversy was maintained with the super- visors, who refused to levy the tax for erecting the necessary buildings. The citizens were, however, determined and finally began the erec- tion of a court house with their own funds, taking meanwhile the necessary steps to compel the su- pervisors to raise the tax by procuring the pas- sage of a law imposing a fine of $200 upon each supervisor refusing to levy the tax. This legis- lation was effective, the tax was raised, and the court house completed in 1809, at a cost of $ 10,000.
It was built of wood, the jail in the first, and the court room in the second story, the latter consisting of hewn logs. As yet no clerk's office had been erected. While the work of building the court house had been suspended, the courts were continued at Aurora. The records of the County were brought to Auburn in 1807, by the then county clerk, Peter Hughes, and kept in his house, now the residence of C. L. George, M. D., and they were so kept until the clerk's office was built in 1814.
The present stone court house was projected in 1835, during the wildest period of the " flush " that immediately preceded the panic of 1837. It was of course intended to be a magnificent affair, in harmony with the spirit of the times, for the city and County, in the estimation of the people, were then rich and able to gratify all their ambitious tastes. It had been intended to sur- mount the already overcumbered dome with a statue of Justice, and Liberty and Temperance were to adorn the portico, but the financial crash of 1837 changed the plan.
The building cost about $30,000 and is an architectural deformity, a continual offense to the educated eye. It was, for many years, an equal offense to the auditors, as its internal arrange- ments were such as to produce a perfect medley of sounds, impossible of comprehension ; its in-
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terior has been so changed as to obviate most of the old acoustic difficulties.
The first County Court in Auburn was held in the new and unfinished Court House in May, 1808. The preceding January term had been held at Aurora. The presiding Judge was Elijah Price ; Barnabas Smith and Charles Kellogg, were the justices.
At this court the following were the Grand- Jurors :
Moses Lyon, Edward Stevenson, John Walters, Dan. Hyde, John Patty, Noah Olmstead Jr., Shadrach Terry, Robert Dill, Ebenezer Hig- gins, Parsons Clarke, Ruben Bierg, William Branch, Amos Tyler, Nathaniel.Garrow, Epaph- roditus Strong, Calvin Cole, Edward Wheeler, Roswell Franklin, Samuel Chidsey, Jonathan Russell, Gilbert Tracy.
The first circuit court was held in Auburn by Ambrose Spencer, in July, 1808.
CAYUGA COUNTY CIVIL LIST.
Cayuga County holds a distinguished position in the civil list, having furnished a President of the United States, Millard Fillmore, who was elected Vice-President in 1848, and succeeded Zachary Taylor, as President, on the death of the latter, July 9, 1850, holding the office the re- mainder of the term ; two Governors of New York State, Enos T. Throop, elected in 1830, and Wm. H. Seward, elected in 1838, and rë- elected in 1840, the latter of whom was also ap- pointed Secretary of State in President Lincoln's cabinet, March 5, 1861, and held that office till 1869; two Canal Appraisers, Allen Warden, who was appointed April 18, 1840, and held the office three years, and Wm. Wasson, who was appointed April 5, 1855, and again April 27, 1865 ; a Diplomatic Officer, Enos T. Throop, who was appointed Charge d' Affaires to the Two Sicilies, February 6, 1838 ; an Associate Judge of Colorado, Benjamin F. Hall, who was appoint- ed March 25, 1861 ; a United States Marshal for the Northern District of New York, Nathan- iel Garrow, who was appointed February 25, 1837, and again June 27, 1841 ; a Quarter- master-General on the Staff of the Commander- in-Chief of the State of New York, John N. Knapp, who was appointed January 1, 1873 ; a Secretary of State, Christopher Morgan, who was appointed November 2, 1847; a State
Treasurer, Charles N. Ross, who was appointed November 2, 1875 ; and a State Assessor, John S. Fowler, who was appointed February 19, 1873.
JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Cayuga County has been represented in this court by three judges only-Enos T. Throop, in 1823 ; John Maynard, from January 7, 1847, till his death, March 24. 1850; and Charles C. Dwight, appointed in place of Judge Wells, de- ceased, in 1868 ; elected for full term in 1869, and reelected in 1877.
COUNTY JUDGES.
While Cayuga County formed a part of On- ondaga county, Seth Phelps, residing at Au- rora, was appointed County Judge in 1794, and on the organization of Cayuga County, was con- tinued in the same office here. His successors have been as follows :
Walter Wood, February 26, 1810.
Elijah Miller, March 13, 1817. Gershom Powers, January 31, 1823. Joseph L. Richardson, January 8, 1827.
In 1846, the county judges were made elective and their terms of office four years .. Since then the following have been the judges :
John P. Hulbert, June, 1847 ; George Hum- phreys, November, 1851 : Charles C. Dwight, November, 1859 ; William Hughitt, November, 1863 ; S. Edwin Day, November, 1877.
SPECIAL JUDGES.
The office of Special Judge is authorized by the State Constitution, and was created in this County by an act of the Legislature passed April 10th, 1849, the term being three years. It is an elective office and has been filled by the follow- ing named individuals, who were elected in No- vember, as follows : Charles J. Hulbert, 1852 ; Fayette G. Day, 1857; Amzi Wood, 1863; Wil- liam B. Mills, 1872; Reuben F. Hoff, 1874; Frank M. Parsons, 1877.
SURROGATES.
These officers, previous to 1821, were desig- nated by the Council of Appointment ; from 1821 to 1846 by the Governor and Senate ; and since the latter date have been elective by the people.
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Moses De Witt, appointed March 14, 1794, and Thomas Mumford, October 1, 1797, were the Onondaga County Surrogates.
CAYUGA SURROGATES.
Glen Cuyler, March 14, 1799; Eleazer Burn- ham, February 5, 1811 ; Glen Cuyler, February 26, 1813 ; Eleazer Burnham, February 28, 1815; Seneca Wood, June 7, 1820 ; Benjamin L. Cuy- ler, February 14, 1821 ; John Porter, March 12, 1828 ; Thomas Y. How, Jr., March 18, 1836 ; George H. Wood, April 14, 1840 ; Charles B. Perry, February 15, 1844 ; Jacob R. How, June, 1847: William B. Woodin, November, 1859; John T. M. Davie, November, 1871.
SPECIAL SURROGATES.
The office of Special Surrogate, like that of Special Judge, is authorized by the State Con- stitution, and was created at the same time, in the same manner and for a like period as the latter. It also is elective and has been held by the fol- lowing named persons, who were elected in No- vember, as follows : Solomon Giles, 1852 ; Camp- bell W. Haynes, 1855 ; John T. M. Davie, 1861; Gardiner C. Gifford, 1867 ; John T. M. Davie, 1870 ; Richard C. Steel, 1871 ; James A. Wright, 1877.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
These officers are now elected by the people for three years, one in each county. Previous to 1818 the district in charge of a single attorney was large, including several counties. The fol- lowing have been the attorneys for Cayuga County at the specified dates :
William Stuart, appointed March 2, 1802; Daniel W. Lewis, March 9, 1810 ; William Stu- art, February 12, 1811; Vincent Matthews, March 12, 1813 ; Daniel Conger, April 17, 1815 ; Joseph L. Richardson, January 11, 1818; John Porter, February 14, 1821 ; Theodore Spencer, 1828; Richard L. Smith, January 21, 1832 ; Michael S. Myers, January 25, 1838 ; Dennison Robinson, January 27, 1841 ; Luman Sherwood, June 3, 1844 ; Ebenezer W. Arms, January 1847 ; Theodore M. Pomeroy, November, 1850 ; Solo- mon Giles, November, 1856; George I. Post, November, 1859 ; Richard C. Steel, November, 1862 ; Charles C. Dwight, (appointed) March 27,
1866; Wm. B. Mills, November, 1866; Sereno E. Payne, November, 1872.
SHERIFFS.
While Cayuga formed a part of Onondaga, previous to March 8, 1799, the following were the sheriffs : John Harris, appointed March 14, 1794; Abiather Hull, February 9, 1796; Com- fort Tyler, February 27, 1798.
CAYUGA COUNTY .- Joseph Annin, appointed March 14, 1799; Peter Hughes, August 10, 1801 ; Solomon Buell, January 13, 1804 ; John S. C. Dewitt, March 13, 1806; Jonathan Rich- mond, February 24, 1808 ; Zenas Goodrich, Feb- ruary 11, 1812 ; Charles E. Morrell, March 3, 1813; Nathaniel Garrow, February 28, 1815; Archibald Green, February 13, 1819; Nathaniel Garrow, February 12, 1821. At the latter date the office was made elective, and the term three years, the incumbent being ineligible to the office for the next succeeding term.
Nathaniel Garrow, elected November, 1822 ; Archibald Green, November, 1825 ; Peleg Gal- lup. November, 1828 ; Peter Yawger, November, 1831 ; Warren Parsons, November, 1834 ; George H. Carr, March 30, 1838, to fill vacancy; Au- gustus Pettibone, November, 1844; Joseph P. Swift, November, 1847; Stephen Fancher, No- vember, 1850; John T. Knapp, December, 1852, to fill vacancy ; John T. Knapp, November, 1853 ; Edwin P. Hoskins, November, 1856; Daniel D. Buck, November, 1859; James Mead, Novem- ber, 1862 ; Sidney Mead, November, 1865 ; John E. Savery, November, 1868 ; John G. Hosmer, November, 1871; Andrew J. Sanders, Novem- ber, 1874; Thomas Reed, 1877.
CLERKS OF CAYUGA COUNTY.
County Clerks are now elected for three years and their seals are declared to be those of the Supreme Court in their respective counties.
ONONDAGA COUNTY .- Benjamin Ledyard, ap- pointed March 14, 1794.
CAYUGA COUNTY .- Benjamin Ledyard, ap- pointed March 14, 1799 ; Peter Hughes, January 13, 1804 ; Enos T. Throop, February 5, 1811 ; Elijah Miller, February 26, 1813; Enos T. Throop, February 13, 1815 ; James Glover, March 2, 1819; George B. Throop, February 14, 1821 ; George B. Throop, November, 1822 ;
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Abraham Gridley, November, 1825; Michael S. Myers, November, 1828; William Richard- son, November, 1837 ; Philip Van Arsdale, No- vember, 1843 ; Ebenezer B. Cobb, November, 1846; Edwin B. Marvin, November, 1852 ; Ben- jamin B. Snow, November, 1858; John S. Lane- hart, November, 1864; Lyman C. Comstock, November, 1870; Sidney J. Westfall, November, 1876.
STATE SENATORS.
The Counties of Cayuga and Wayne now form the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District, and Sena- tors are elected for two years. Under the sec- ond Constitution, that of 1821, Cayuga formed a part of the Seventh District, which included the Counties of Cayuga, Onondaga, Ontario, Yates, Wayne and Cortland, and senators were elected for four years. Under the first Constitution, Cayuga was in what was called the " Western District," embracing a territory which now con- tains over twenty 'counties. Under this Consti- tution the territory of Cayuga County supplied but four Senators, namely: John Richardson, Aurelius, 1797 ; Seth Phelps, Scipio, 1798 ; Jo- seph Annin, Aurelius, 1803 ; and Lyman Paine, Auburn, 1820.
In 1823 the following were the Senators from the Seventh District : Silas Bowker, Bryan Green, Jesse Clark, Jonas Earll, Jr .; in 1824, the Sena- tor elect was Jedediah Morgan ; 1825, John C. Spencer ; 1826, Truman Hart ; 1827, William M. Oliver ; 1828, George B. Throop ; 1829, Hi- ram F. Mather ; 1830, Thomas Armstrong ; 1831, William H. Seward; 1832, Jehiel H. Hal- sey ; 1833, Samuel L. Edwards ; 1834, Thomas Armstrong; 1835, Chester Loomis; 1836, John Beardsley ; 1837, Samuel L. Edwards; 1838, John Maynard ; 1839, Robert C. Nicholas ; 1840, Mark H. Sibley ; 1841, Elijah Rhoades ; 1842, Lyman Sherwood and William Bartlit ; 1843, John Porter ; 1844, Albert Lester: 1845, Henry J. Sedgwick ; 1846, Richard H. Williams; 1847, Abraham Gridley; 1848, William I. Cornwell ; 1849, William Beach; 1853, William Clarke ; 1855, Samuel C. Cuyler ; 1857, Alexander B. Williams; 1861, Chauncey M. Abbott ; 1863, Stephen K. Williams ; 1869, William B. Woodin; 1877, Theodore M. Pomeroy.
MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.
As the ratio of the population of the County to
that of the rest of the State was varied, so has her representation in the Assembly, the extremes having been one and four. She has now two members, elected annually by districts.
ONONDAGA COUNTY .- 1797, Silas Halsey, Com- fort Tyler ; 1798, same; 1799, Edward Paine, John Richardson.
CAYUGA COUNTY .- 1800, and 1801, Silas Hal- sey ; 1802, Salmon Buel ; 1803, Salmon Buel, Silas Halsey, Thomas Hewitt ; 1804, Silas Hal- sey, Thomas Hewitt, Amos Rathbun ; 1805, John Grover Jr., Amos Rathbun; 1806, the same; 1807, the same; 1808, Elijah Price, Richard Townley ; 1809, Henry Bloom, Ebene- zer Hewitt, Charles Kellogg; 1810, Henry Bloom, Charles Kellogg, Stephen Close ; 1811, Stephen Close, Ebenezer Hewitt, Elisha Dur- kee ; 1812, Stephen Close, Humphrey Howland, Thomas Ludlow ; 1813, Wm. C. Bennett, Thomas Ludlow, William Satterlee; 1814, William C. Bennett, William Satterlee, Silas Bowker ; 1815, John H. Beach, Silas Bowker, Barnabas Smith ; 1816, John H. Beach, John Brown, Jr., John Mc- Fadden, Barnabas Smith ; 1817, John H. Beach, John Brown Jr., John McFadden, Rowland Day ; 1818, William Clark 2d, Thatcher I. Ferris, Isaac Smith ; 1819, William Allen, Elijah Devoe, Henry Polhemus ; 1820, William Allen, Samuel Dill, John Haring ; 1821, John Haring, Charles Kellogg, Henry Polhemus ; 1822, Samuel Dill, Charles Kellogg, Ephraim C. Marsh ; 1823, Jo- siah Bevier, Elijah Drake, John Jackway, John O'Hara; 1824, Josiah Bevier, Silas Bowker, Asahel Fitch, Augustus F. Ferris ; 1825, Elijah Devoe, Roswell Enos, John W. Hulbert, Eph- raim C. Marsh ; 1826, Eleazer Burnham, Aaron Dennis, Thatcher I. Ferris, Camp- bell Waldo ; 1827, James Kenyon, Gardner Kortright, Andrews Preston, Peter Yawger ; 1828, Henry R. Brinckerhoff, Philo Sperry, Gardner Kortright, William H. Noble ; 1829, Henry R. Brinckerhoff, William H. Noble, . Wing Taber, Ephraim Hammond ; 1830, Eph- raim Hammond, Solomon Love, William H. No- ble, Richard L. Smith ; 1831, Solomon Love, Elias Manchester, George S. Tilford, Peter Yaw- ger ; 1832, John Beardsley, George H. Brincker- hoff, John W. Sawyer, George S. Tilford ; 1833, John Beardsley, George H. Brinckerhoff, John W. Sawyer, Simon Lathrop; 1834, Dennis Arnold, Cornelius Cuykendall, Andrew Groom, Noyes
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Palmer ; 1835, Cornelius Cuykendall, Andrew Groom, Noyes Palmer, Andrews Preston ; 1836, Dennis Arnold, Charles E. Shepard, Richard L. Smith, William Wilbur ; 1837, Curtiss C. Cady, Charles E. Shepard, William Wilbur ; 1838, Henry R. Filley, Isaac S. Miller, Nathan G. Morgan ; 1839, Nathan G. Morgan, Henry R. Filley, John McIntosh ; 1840, Artemas Cady, John W. McFadden, Andrews Preston ; 1841, Darius Adams, Osman Rhoades, John W. Mc- Fadden ; 1842, John L. Cuyler, Vincent Ken- yon, Alvarez Tupper ; 1843, Vincent Kenyon, Alfred Lyon, Darius Monroe ; 1844, Ashbel Avery, Benj. F. Hall, Robert Hume ; 1845, David Gould, Leonard Searing, William Titus ; 1846, Samuel Bell, William I. Cornwell, John T. Rathbun ; 1847, Samuel Bell, William I. Cornwell, John T. Rathbun ; 1848, Ebenezer Curtis, John I. Brinckerhoff, Hector C. Tuthill ; 1849, James D. Button, John I. Brinckerhoff, Hector C. Tuthill ; 1850, Hiram Coon, John Richardson, Ashbel Avery ; 1851, Levi Colvin, George Underwood, Delos Bradley ; 1852, Wil- liam Hayden, George Underwood, Delos Bradley ; 1853, William Hayden, Terance J. Kennedy, Mathias Hutchinson ; 1854, Justus Townsend, Moseley Hutchinson, Mathias Hutch- inson ; 1855, Moore Conger, David L. Dodge, William B. Woodin ; 1856, Sardis Dudley, Leonard Simons, Tolbert Powers ; 1857, James J. Owen, Theodore M. Pomeroy, Hiram Tifft ; 1858, David B. Baldwin, Chauncey M. Ab- bott ; 1859, William W. Payne, Chauncey M. Abbott ; 1860, William W. Payne, Allen D. Morgan ; 1861, Heman Benton, Smith An- thony ; 1862, William A. Halsey, Smith An- thony ; 1863, George I. Post, William P. Robin- son ; 1864, Benjamin M. Close, Wm. P. Robin- son ; 1865, Benjamin M. Close, John L. Parker ; 1866-'67, Homer N. Lockwood, John L. Parker ; 1868-'69, Charles H. Weed, Sanford Gifford ; 1870, Wm. H. Eaker, Stephen S. Hewitt ; 1871, Charles H. Curtis, Stephen S. Hewitt ; 1872, Ira D. Brown, Elijah E. Brown ; 1873, Leonard F. Hardy, Elijah E. Brown; 1874, Leonard F. Hardy,
. Erastus H. Hussey ; 1875, C. S. Beardsley, jr., Erastus H. Hussey ; 1876, George I. Post, John S. Brown ; 1877, George I. Post, John S. Brown ; 1878, Howell B. Converse, William L. Noyes. DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.
Silas Halsey represented Cayuga County in 17
the first Constitutional convention in 1801. In 1821, the second convention, Cayuga had three delegates, namely :
David Brinckerhoff, Rowland Day, Augustus F. Ferris. In that of 1846, the County had also three delegates : Daniel John Shaw, Elisha W. Sheldon, and Peter Yawger. A fourth Consti- tutional convention was held in 1867, and over six months devoted to the consideration of pro- posed changes in the fundamental laws, but it did not complete its work. In that convention the delegates were Charles C. Dwight and George Rathbun.
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