History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 37

Author: Everts & Ensign; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 648


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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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