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The presidents and secretaries of the society since 1859 have been as follows :
Presidents .- Peter F. Mesick, John T. Hogeboom, Na- than S. Ashley, Peter S. Pulver, Staats D. Tompkins, J. Wesley Jones, Lewis F. Payne, Stephen G. Bushnell, George L. Morris, Isaac M. Pitts, John D. Shnfeldt, Sil- vester Van Deusen, J. N. Garner.
Secretaries .- Hiram D. Ford, Abraham Ashley, E. Backus, Charles A. Belden, Nathan H. Thomas, A. Ash- ley, Jr., Joseph P. Hogeboom, H. M. Ford, J. Wesley Jones, Charles H. Beale, James Smith, Charles E. Clark, W. H. Ten Broeck.
Officers for 1878 .- S. Van Deusen, president ; P. F. Mesick, vice-president ; J. W. Boright, secretary ; W. II. Ten Broeck, treasurer ; Directors : John Harmon, Ezra Lasher, term expires 1879 ; H. C. Pinson, G. L. Morris, term expires 1880; James Bain, M. L. Hanor, term expires 1881.
THE COLUMBIA AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
was incorporated March 4, 1861, and has its grounds just outside the limits of Hudson City, where it holds its exhi- bitions. The incorporators were J. Van Ness Philip, Henry S. Van De Carr, Peter Bogardus, George H. Power, P. S. Wynkoop, Samuel T. Du Bois, P. P. Rossman, R. B. Shepard, F. A. Gifford. The capital stock was $12,000, at $10 per share. The first officers were as follows : Henry S. Van De Carr, president; Silas W. Tobey, Samuel A. Miller, David Crapser, Hiram P. Hoysradt, David Miller, vice-presidents ; Robert B. Shepard, treasurer ; Frederick A. Gifford, secretary ; Directors, George H. Power and Samuel T. Du Bois, 1860-64; Peter S. Wynkoop, Peter
five acres of Indian corn.
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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Bogardus, 1860-65 ; Peter P. Rossman, William A. Car- penter, 1860-66.
On June 11, 1860, the directors voted to purchase grounds, and appointed committees for purchase, and sur- vey and grading, and on buildings. The Mellen lot was purchased, and buildings were erected on the plan of those of the Troy Agricultural Society. In 1860 the first fair was held, and was reported by the press as " a splendid suc- cess," with a " larger and finer display of stock than ever exhibited before in the county," and also a " very fine ex- hibition of agricultural implements." The attendance was very large. The second fair was held Sept. 25-27, 1861, the receipts of which were $2200.62. Annual fairs and annual horse shows have been held every year since the first year, 1860. In 1866 the receipts were 85587.57, and the premiums paid were 1263. In 1867 the capital stock Was increased $15,000, and in 1868 additional grounds were bought. In 1869 a new building, 16 by 16 feet, two stories, was built. In 1870 the Hood property was bought at $5000, and the covered amphitheatre built at a cost of $1186.50. In 1873 a portion of the Hood property, some 4 acres and over, was sold for $2500. In 1876 Floral Ilall was burned, and a new one erected at a cost of $5000. The new hall is 50 by 150 feet, 45 feet high in the elear, and surmounted with a cupola, from which a charming view of the surrounding country is obtained. The grand stand has a capacity of 2500 covered seats. A fine half-mile track is inclosed within the grounds, and well-built stalls for cattle and horses, sheds for sheep aud swine, coops for fowls, and rooms for agricultural implements, attest the successful management of the association and its popularity. The grounds, some 25 acres in area, are kept in fine condition, as are all of the buildings. The latter are not excelled by any county society, and equaled by few.
The receipts of the last fair-1877-were $3850, and premiums paid amounted to $1700.
The presidents and secretaries have been as follows since the organization of the society :
Presidents .- Ilenry S. Van De Carr, 1860-61, and 1863-68; Jacob W. Hoysradt, 1869-78.
Secretaries .- Fredk. A. Gifford, 1860-64; John C. Hoge- boom, 1864-65 ; Chas. W. Macy, 1866-75 ; W. H. Traver, 1876-78.
The present officers are :
Jacob W. Hoysradt, president ; H. S. Van De Carr, S. T. Du Bois, H. W. Rogers, I. W. Tobey, Lemuel Holmes, vice-presidents; B. S. Johnson, treasurer; W. II. Traver, secretary ; Cyrus Macy, John E. Gillette, D. M. Haviland, T. H. Gantley, Richard Kidney, Cyrus Groat, directors.
THE FARMERS' UNION ASSOCIATION,
which has its headquarters at East Chatham, was organized March 20, 1874, with Ira A. Smith as president; H. W. Ellsworth, vice-president ; A. C. Bradley, secretary ; Jay N. Preston, treasurer ; George S. Harger, salesman ; C. C. Campbell, superintendent ; and now has forty-five members, mostly farmers. The principal object of the association was to enable its members to secure, at the least expense, an advantageous market for their products, more especially hay and straw. For that purpose they erected in the
village of East Chatham, during the summer of 1874, a building forty by one hundred feet in size, in which to press and store hay and straw, using the " P. K. Dederick Per- petual Baling Press," run by a six-horse steam-engine, and able to press from ten to fifteen tons per day.
The association presses and markets about two thousand tons of hay and straw yearly, and has made East Chatham one of the best hay-markets in the county. It also enables its members to purchase eoal, seed, flour, and other articles at wholesale, and to save largely on commissions by so doing. It is not organized under the State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, but is an independent organization, in which its members are general partners. The cost of its building and fixtures was $4500, and the Boston and Albany Rail- road company has laid tracks to it, so that the labor of load- ing upon cars is reduced to a minimum.
The present officers of the association are Ira C. Smith, president ; H. W. Ellsworth, vice-president ; A. C. Bradley, secretary ; Jay N. Preston, treasurer and superintendent ; George S. Harger, salesman.
The economical pressing, baling, and shipment of hay and straw are items to be considered by the farmers of this county, as hay and rye form two of the chief agricultural products. Vast quantities of unpressed straw are sold to the numerous paper-manufactories of the county, but large quantities are likewise required to be baled ; and nearly all the hay produet is sold in that condition. Besides these two, the other principal crops produced by the farmers of the county are oats, potatoes, and Indian corn. The slaty soils are thought the best for the production of rye, but the limestone lands are preferred for most other erops. " Granite and granular limestone give the constituents of the soils on and among the Taghkanics, whilst graywacke and blue limestone, much of which is shelly, and much metalliferous, superimposed on slate, form the very various soils of the remainder." Nearly the whole of the county belongs to the transition formation ; the prevailing rocks are the Hudson river shales. Nature has furnished abundant store of lime- stone as a means of tempering such soils as are cold and clayey, and in many places the lime in the form of marl requires no burning to form a stimulant.
Professor W. W. Mather, in his report on the geology of New York, remarked as follows concerning the useful- ness of marl as a fertilizer :
"Shell or lake marl, so very useful on some soils as a manure, is continually forming. It is abundant in some parts of the district, more partienlarly in that which forms the valley of the Hudson. . . The value of fresh-water shell-marl is well known among our intelligent farmers ; but few know it when they see it, and still fewer know in what situations to seek it." Ile mentions, however, only seven different points where he discovered it in Columbia county, viz. : in a pond four miles north of Kinderhook (sixty acres) ; at a point (which he had not visited) one or two miles west of Malden; Crysler's pond, Copake, seven acres ; Rhoda pond, Copake, ten acres ; Woodward's pond, Copake, eight acres ; Hillsdale, in pond on Mrs. Burton's farm ; and on lands of Mr. Mitchell and Judge Loop. To identify the two last-named points it will be necessary to re- member that the professor's report was made in the year 1843.
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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
CHAPTER XVI.
VALUATIONS AND TAXATION.
State Loans and United States Deposit Funds.
PUBLIC moneys were first raised in the colony of New York, June 1, 1665, by warrant issued by the governor, Colonel Nicolls, to the sheriff and collectors .* It would appear that antecedent to this time the towns and counties raised moneys for their own nse, but the precise mode is not known. A tax called a " benevolence" was raised on the inhabitants, as appears from a letter from Governor Andross, and Smith observes "this proceeding was a badge of bad times." In 1683, the first regular system of taxa- tion by law was adopted. The wars of England with European nations, especially with the French, plunged the colony into an enormous debt, most burdensome to the inhabitants. From 1691 to 1709 the sum of £61,861 was
raised by the colonists for building forts, raising and paying troops, and for other war purposes, besides the excise tax of a penny in the pound for the ordinary and incidental charges of the colony. Before 1776 the colonists were obliged to pay nearly £1,000,000 sterling .. In 1788 the first regular system of taxation was adopted by the State.
The first tax levied in Columbia county was in 1786, and was apportioned as follows :
County Tax.
District Tax.
Total,
Kinderhook
269
15
0
116
18
9 386
13
Hillsdale.
140
0
0
67
15
0
207
15
Kings
200
10
0
120
5
7
5
Manor Livingston
609
0
0
17
16
626
0
2
German Camp ..
53
15
0
6
14
0
5
O
Total ..
1635
10
0 360
6
3 1995
16
3
The last assessment and valuation was that of 1877, which was as follows :
ASSESSORS' VALUATION.
EQUALIZED VALUATION.
TOWNS AND CITY.
Value of Real Estate,
Personal Estate.
Tetat Valua- tion.
No. of Acres.
Price per Acre.
Valuation of Real Estate.
Personal Estate.
Total Equal- ized Valne.
Ancram.
$537,865
$42,170
$580,035
25,865
$24.00
$620,760
$42,170
$662.930
Austerlitz ..
324,910
18,050
342,960
28,676
8.87₺
254,500
18,050
272.550
Canaan ..
580,920
33,840
614,760
20,770
20.00
415,400
33,840
449,240
Chatham
1,616,325
229,740
1,846,065
31,703
39.00
1,236,417
229.740
1,466,157
Claverack
1,776,695
139,400
1,916,095
30,224
32.00
967,168
139,400
1,106,568
Clermont
482,730
174,100
656,830
11,213
24.00
269,112
174,100
443,212
Copake.
1,412,780
116,260
1,529,040
24,026
21.00
504,546
116,260
620,806
Gallatin
435,156
14,738
449,894
23,690
11.50
272,435
14,738
287,173
Germantown
449,565
43,930
493,495
7,499
31.50
236,218
43,930
280,148
Ghent
1,224,325
117,316
1,341,641
27,649
33.00
912,384
117,316
1,029,700
Greenport.
680,350
204.700
885,050
11,402
22.50
370,565
204,700
575,265
llillsdale
509,950
96,350
606,300
30,013
15.00
450,195
96,350
546,545
IIndson, 1st Ward
955.425
706,796
611,412
1,000
1350.00
1,350,000
1,668,546
3,018,546
Kinderhook.
1,395,305
755,675
2,150,980
20,389
40.00
815,560
755,675
1,571,235
Livingston
800,840
73,497
874,337
23,100
25.00
577,500
73,497
650,997
New Lebanon
374,870
57,650
432,520
20,955
15.75
330,041
57,650
387,691
Stockport.
488,440
66,600
555,040
6,194
31,50
195,111
66,600
261,711
Stuyvesant
916,726
191,960
1,108,686
14,396
34,50
496,662
191,960
088,622
Taghkanie ..
669,820
103,463
773,283
23,892
11.50
274,758
103,463
378,221
$17,983,359
$4,147,985
$22,131,344
382,656
$10,549,332
$4,147,985
$14,697,317
TOWNS AND CITY.
County and State Tax.
Unpaid Tax.
Payable to Connty Treasurer.
Payable to Supervisor.
Payable to Commissioner of Highways.
Payable to Towo R. R. Com.
Aggregate Amonut Taxation.
Ancram ..
$8,206.56
$17.23
$26.14
$26.49
$8,276.42
$2,761.49
$100.00 500.00
4,495.63
Canaan .
5,561.25
19.51
13.18
13.46
5,607.40
515.22
Chatham.
18,149.88
115.77
43.82
43,94
18,347.14
1,976.09
$6,061.25
26,384.48
Claverack
13.698.44
34.48
43.76
44.22
13,820,90
1,451.49
250.00
15,522.39
Clermont
5,486.62
7.18
18.65
17.71
5,530.16
607.28
250.00
6,387.44
Copake ...
7,685.10
39.64
24.95
24.81
7,774.50
1,177.22
900.00
9,901.72
Gallatin
3,554.99
103.04
11.34
11.47
3,680.84
2,683.68
200.00
6,564.52
Germantown
3,468.02
16.11
10.86
11.19
3,506.18
950.42
250.00
4,706.60
Ghent
12.746.90
126.06
30.98
30,80
12,934.80
1,241.99
250.00
14,426.79
Greenport.
7,121.34
23.46
22.99
7,167.79
871.16
8,238.95
Hillsdale
6,765.81
76.63
16.26
16.38
6,875.08
567.87
400.00
7,835.91
Hudson, 1st Ward.
¥
2d Ward
37,367.23
509.14
37,876.37
+5,049.58
42,925,95
Kinderhook.
19,450.66
59.44
47.44
47.09
19,604.63
3,413.64
23,018.27
Livingston
8,058.83
141.11
25.69
26.01
8,251.64
670.53
1,000.00
9,922.17
New Lebanon.
4,799.32
4.85
11.38
11,62
4,827.17
1,701.49
543.05
7,182.44
14,254.15
Stockport ...
3,239.78
101.37
8.68
7.84
3,339.14
2,781.39
250.00
6,370.53
Stuyvesant.
8,524.61
15,84
20.23
20,64
8,581.32
1,030.75
250.00
9,862.07
Taghkanie
4,682.09
95.12
15.15
15.11
4,807.47
641.11
250.00
5,676.43
$181,941.40
$1,502.21
$400.00
$400.00
$184,218.81
$25,628.59
$5,393.05
$13,243,69
$233,744.94
-
£
S.
d.
£
8.
d.
£
8.
d.
0
Claverack
181
5
0
30
17
212
1
-
# Smith's History of New York, p. 31.
+ Payable to city treasurer.
=
4th Ward.
916,750
399,200
1,315,950 )
1,662,221
2d Ward
454,412
157,000
979,200
405,550
1,384,750
3d Ward.
Payable to School Commissioners.
1876.
1877.
Austerlitz ..
3,373.97
19,69
8.03
8.17
3,409.86
585.77
$II,136.16
6,114.78
3d Ward
4th Ward.
320
0
1
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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Over $450,000 has been paid in taxes for highway and bridge purposes since the organization of the county. The total taxes paid by the people of Columbia county since the organization of the county, exclusive of the city and school taxes of Hudson, and the taxes raised for school purposes in the school districts, are as follows, by decades :
From 1786 to 1800
$101,570.26
1801 to 1810
89,294.48
1811 to 1820
281,156.43
1821 to 1830
289,264.97
1831 to 18440.
316,968.66
1841 to 1850
391,594.18
1851 to 1860
738,324.82
1861 to 1870
2,714,734.99
1871 to 1877
2,098,706.32
Total
$7,021,615.11
The heaviest tax paid in a single year was in 1864, when the taxes amounted to $414,584.36; the next heaviest was in 1873, $347,708.32. The appropriations made by the board of supervisors against the tax of 1877 were as follows :
For State tax.
$97,239.60
interest on county honds .....
8,932.76
supervisors, elerk, and doorkeeper ..... 3,300.00
court expenses ..
8,600,00
=
salaries
7,500.00
county buildings, insurance, water, gas, ete.
1,500.00
charities, including poor-house
19,020.00
44
trust fund interest
2,000,00
contingent fuad.
5,000.00
Total.
$153,092.36
The gross receipts by the county treasury for the year ending Nov. 27, 1877, were $250,198.89, including a bal- ance of 89,837.33 on hand from 1876. $161,380.95 was for taxes collected ; $26,695 from the sale of county bonds; and $31,361.60 from the State school fund for distribution. 887,601.56 was paid to the State treasurer ; $4800 for the insane asylum on the county farm; $12,985.81 for the support of the poor; $8498.90 to State charities; $12,465 .- 22 for expenses growing out of the courts ; $8500 for sala- ries. A balance was left on hand of $2016.86, and about $1500 was due from the towns for the year's unpaid taxes.
Railroad corporations were taxed for the year 1878 as follows :
Valnation in Connty.
Tax.
New York Central and Hudson River.
$1,340,784
$13,912.23
New York and Harlem.
567,200
5,030.75
Boston and Albany
970,250
12,021.05
Hudson Branch, Boston and Albany ..
629,850
6,822.20
llarlem Extension
26,750
469.66
Rhinebeck and Congeetieut.
178,145
2,344.58
Poughkeepsie, Hartford and Boston.
52,720
1,012.18
Total, .$3,765,699 $42,612.65
The present bonded indebtedness of the county is as fol- lows:
War bonds (extended), due March 1, 1883 and 1884 $40,000
Canal debt, due Mareb 1, 1879, 1880, and 1881. 74,753
Bonds issued on settlement of elaims of State 15,000
Total. .$129,753
Town indebtedness :
Aneram Railroad bonds.
$30,875
Chatbam $53,500, other purposes, $6000. 59,500
Gallatia
27,000
lludsoa war bonds, $39,500; water-supply, sewers, etc., $245,000 ; cemeteries, $4500; other purposes, $67,250.
356,250
Kinderhook
9,000 Livingston
2,200
New Lebanon Railroad bonds. 100,000
Chatham Village town hall 2,000
Kinderhook Village town hall 5,000
Total
$721,578
The following is the statement of the amount of tax levied and assessed upon the incorporated companies in the county of Columbia for the year 1877 :
NAME AND LOCATION.
Real.
Personal.
Total.
Tax.
State Baok, Chatham
Aqueduct Company, Hudson
$900
$17,000 12,500
13,400
332.93
Iludson Paper Car Wheel Com- pany, Hudson ...
12,000
14,325
26,325
653.10
Albany and Rensselaer Iron Works, Hudson ..
75,000
75,000
1,858.78
Catskill and Albany Steamboat
Company, Hudsoo ..
7,000
40,000
47,000
1,165.21
Clapp & Jones Manufacturing Com- pany, Hudson.
8.500
50,000
58,500
1,450.07
Farmers' National Bank, Hudson ...
40,000
300,000
340,000
8,422.97
First National Bank, Hndson.
2,000
200,000
202,000
5,004.56
Hudson City Savings Institution, Hudson
8,000
8,000
199.17
National Hudson River Baok, Hud- son.
12,000
250,000
262,000
6,894.43
N. Y. & Hudson Steam Transp. Com- pany, Iludsoo ...
23,000
30,000
53,000
1,313.83
The Hudson Gas Company, Hudson.
10,000
40,000
50,000
1,239.53
The Hudson Iron Company, Hudson.
150,000
145,071
295,071
7,309.05
The National Bank, Kinderhook .....
3,000
200,000
203,000
2,172.36
The National Union Bank, Kinder- hook
4,000
188,000
192,000
2,056,65
Total.
$355,400 $1,486,896
$1,842,296 840,315.61
During the existence of the office of county excise com- missioner there was received into the county treasury from the excise tax or license the sum of $23,367.
THE STATE LOAN.
On the 18th of April, 1786, bills of credit to the amount of £200,000 (New York currency) were emitted by the State for the relief of the people, in the way of a circu- lating medium, and loaned to the different counties according to their population, and loan commissioners appointed in each county to manage and loan the same on real estate security at five per cent. per annum, the loan to run four- teen years and limited to £300 to any one person. These bills of credit were counterfeited, and in February, 1788, new bills were printed for those in circulation and the old ones retired, and a deatlı penalty declared against all coun- terfeiters of the new issue. In 1796 another loan was made to the new counties, and in 1807-8 still another loan was made by the creation of a debt by the State, bonds being issued therefor and sold, and the funds arising there- from distributed pro rata among the counties on the basis of population, and commissioners appointed as before to handle the funds in each county. The amount received by Columbia county in 1792 was $40,325, and in 1808, $18,580, and was kept at interest as a separate fund until 1850, when it was consolidated with the
UNITED STATES DEPOSIT FUND,
the principal of which was deposited in the county in 1837, and amounted to $100,298.54, and separate and distinct com- missioners appointed to loan the same. This deposit fund was the portion awarded to Columbia county from the sur- plus moneys in the United States treasury deposited with the several States by act of Congress of June 23, 1836, and the amount deposited with New York was, by act of the Legislature of April 4, 1837, distributed among the several counties according to their population. The loans from this fund are limited between $200 and $2000 to a single indi- vidual, except in New York, where the limits are $500 and
$17,000
$242.97
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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
$5000. The interest is charged at seven per cent., and the same paid into the State treasury, less fees and expenses of collection, and by the comptroller distributed among the counties for the support of schools and academies.
The State loans were guaranteed by the board of super- visors, and after paying several losses, au order was passed to pay the principal back to the State as fast as the loans were paid in by the parties who contraeted the same, and in 1850, the amount remaining of the loans of 1792 and 1808 was but $5510. Some portion of this fund is still running at interest on the original loans made in 1795. The amount reported on loan by the loan commissioners in November, 1877, was 869,013.70. Under the aet of 1786, £22,000 was apportioned to Albany county, a portion of which was Joaned to citizens in the territory now included in Columbia county.
CHAPTER XVII.
MILITARY.
Columbia County in the War of 1812-15, and the Great Rebellion.
WAR OF 1812 TO 1815.
IN the last war against Great Britain, in 1812 to 1815, Columbia county furnished a large number of troops (both volunteers and drafted men), though few of them saw ac- tual service under hostile fire.
Of the military organizations existing in the county prior to that war we obtain some idea from an old brigade order, signed by Joseph Lord as brigade-major, and issued by command of Brig .- Gen. Samuel Ten Broeck, Aug. 10, 1806, directing that a review and inspection of his brigade be held near the tavern of Jacob Moul, in Claverack, on the 2d of September in that year. The different commands mentioned in the order as composing the brigade were as follows :
1. The regiment of infantry commanded by Maj. Robert T. Livingston, having attached to it the troop of cavalry commanded by Capt. Walter T. Livingston.
2. The regiment of infantry under command of Lieut .- Col. Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer ; attached to which was the troop of horse commanded by Capt. Killian Hogeboom, and a company of artillery under Capt. Gilbert Jenkins.
3. The infantry regiment of Lieut .- Col. Cornwell ; with Capt. John Whiting's troop of cavalry attached.
The brigade was still under command of Gen. Ten Broeck at the opening of the war, and as to the commands composing it, we find reference to the 15th, 44th, 56th, and 165th Regiments of infantry. In the 15th Regiment the following commissions were issued in April, 1814, viz. :
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, John Shaver.
Majors : First, Cyrus Capron ; Second, Ira Gale.
Captains : Robert Elting, Joseph Hoot, John I. Ross- man, Elias Fingar, Hugh Knickerbacker.
Lieutenants : Anson Gale, Jonas Lasher, John Kline, Frederick F. Stickle, John Mckinstry, Jr., Charles Robin- son, Cornelius Washburn.
Ensigns : Benjamin I. Miller, Jeremiah Best, Jacob P.
Rockefeller, Jacob H. Teal, George Ellsworth, Ilenry H. Teal, Elisha Miner, Philip W. Rockefeller.
Surgeon's-Mate : John T. Brodhead.
And at the same time the following were issued for the 44th :
Second Major, John Tibbits.
Quartermaster, John Lockwood.
Captains : IIenry P. Mesick, Isaac Ford, John Knox, Zadoc Knapp.
Lieutenants : Ralph Tanner, Luther Chase, David Cham- berlain, Flavel Tiffany, Jakah Lawrence.
Ensigns : Daniel Morehouse, Samuel Wise, William Stuart, Peter Downing, Amos M. Knapp.
A list of commissions, issued about the same time, for the 165th Regiment, was as follows :
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, Augustus N. Holly.
First Major, Nicholas Robinson.
Second Major, John Finch.
Quartermaster, Philologus Holley.
Adjutant, Isaac B. Williams.
Surgeon, Charles Suydam.
Paymaster, Elisha Wilcox.
Captains : Gideon P. Wolcott, John Stall, Teunis Race, Conrad I. Wilsey, Henry M. Hoffman, George I. Rossman, John A. Decker, Daniel Baker, Jr.
Lieutenants : John C. Drum, Christian C. Shultz, David Langdon, Abraham Bain, Daniel Loughren, John B. Van Dusen, John T. Bresee, Cornelius S. Williams.
Ensigns : Richard Townsend, Peter Silvernail, Ebenezer Finch, Robert Kline, Cornelius Washman, Alvin Covey, James Conklin, John Kingman.
For the 5th Regiment of cavalry we find commissions issued in 1813 and 1814 to residents of Columbia county, as follows :
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, Walter T. Livingston. First Major, Henry Brown.
Second Major, Reuben Ranney.
Captains : Robert H. Van Rensselaer, John P. Mesick, Esq.
First Lieutenants : Daniel B. Stranahan, Jeremiah Hoff- man.
Second Lieutenants : Seth Mix, Adam Sagendorph, Wil- liam I. Johnson.
Cornets : Aaron Beardsley, Amasa K. Center.
The following is a copy of the " muster-roll of a company of volunteer cavalry under command of Captain Lodowick S. Babcock. Mustered into the service of the United States Aug. 25, 1812, for the term of one year, actual service, or for the term specified in an aet of Congress passed Feb. 6, 1812:
Lodowick S. Babcock, captain.
John Ranney, first lieutenant.
Royal Torrey, second lieutenant.
G. R. Fitch, cornet.
William Moore, sword-master (Nov. 20, 1812).
Oliver W. Brewster, first sergeant.
Abram P. Douglass, second sergeant.
Henry Warner, third sergeant.
Henry Budlong, fourth sergeant.
Ovid Pinney, first corporal.
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Elijah Rich, second corporal. Hiram Frisbie, third corporal. Sylvanus Mott, fourth corporal. Wm. W. Watkins, saddler. Hampton C. Babcock, farrier. William P. Dexter, blacksmith. George Bristol, trumpeter.
Privates .- Orrin Tickner, Bartholomew F. Pratt, James Peasły, Elial Benjamins, Benjamin Hutchinson, Lemuel Kilburn, Abram Ely, Philip Pitts, Ananias Hocomb, John C. Wilkinson, Palmer Watterman, Renben B. Babcock, Mat- thew A. Lord, Isaac V. Marcelius, Thomas Wright, Daniel Davis, John Parks, George G. Simmons, Burton Munroe (Oct. 22, 1812), Jacob Hait, John Darling, George Bab- cock (waiter), John T. Baker, Peleg Kittle (died at Buf- falo, Dec. 5, 1812), Wheeler Lamphin.
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