History of Jefferson County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 23

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 862


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2,339


2,111


2,090


Watertown


119


1,841


2,458


2,766


3,425


4,768


4.279


5,027


Wilna


26]


648


1,126


1,602


2,053


2,591


Total


262


15,140


18,564


32,952


41,650


48,493 53,088


60,984


-


-


-


1845.


1850.


1855.


1860.


1865.


1870.


1875.


Adams.


3,055


3,106


3,105


3,496


3,418


3,348


3,334


Alexandria ...


3.711


3,178


3,353


3,808


3,614


3,087


3,476


Antwerp


3,380


3.665


3,763


3,313


3,132


3,310


3,363


Brownville ...


4,380


4,282


3,589


3,966


3,495


3,219


2,876


Cape Vincent


3,044


3,375


3,5$5


3.479


3.342


3,118


Champion


2,146


2,085


1,946


2,132


2,062


2,156


2,246


Clayton


4,682


4,191


4,232


4,696


4,446


4,082


4,215


Ellisburg .


5,531


5.524


5,339


5,614


5.286


4.822


-4,819


Henderson


2.345


2.239


2,139


2,419


1,96%


1,926


1.815


Hounsfield


3,917


4,136


3,221


3.339


2,754


2,636


2,552


Le Ray


3,853


3,654


3,203


3,159


2.986


2 862


2,733


Lorraine.


1,640


1,511


1,470


1,687


1,580


1,377


1,377


Lyme ..


6,018


2,919


2,563


2,702


2,377


2.465


2,244


Orleans.


3,047


3,265


2,806


2,934


2,791


2.445


2,307


Pamelia


2.254


2,528


2,511


2,789


2.492


1,292


1.055


Philadelphia.


1,942


1,915


1,743


1,790


1.715


1,679


1,709


Rodman


1,694


1,781


1,752


1,808


1,654


1,604


1.468


Rutland


2,148


2,265


1,977


2,097


1,964


1,903


1,849


Theresa ...


2.109


2,342


2,278


2,629


2,515


2.364


2.361


Watertown.


5,433


7,201


7,557


7,567


8,194


1,373


1,279


(City).


Wilna


2,714


2,993


3,024.


3,662.


3,921


4,060


4,265


Worth.


727


767


Total


64,999


68,153


65,420 69,825


66,448


65,415


65,362


THE POLITICAL SENTIMENTS


of the people of Jefferson County will be best shown by a tabulation of the votes given at the Presidential elections since 1828, and showing those given at gubernatorial elec- tions for the years previous. For the vote previous to the year 1828, at which date the people first voted for Presi- dential electors direct,-they having been chosen by the Legislature previously,-the names of the candidates voted for are given, the people being divided into the Federalist and Republican parties in the earlier years, and Whig and Democratic later on.


1801. For Governor, George Clinton, 56 ; Stephen Van Rensselaer, 56 : total, 112.


1804. Morgan Lewis, in Oneida county, 2165; Aaron Burr, 1782.


The following are the votes given in Jefferson County :


1807. Daniel D. Tompkins, 765; Morgan Lewis, 615: total, 1380.


1810. Daniel D. Tompkins, 1076: John Broome, 1077; total, 2153.


1813. Daniel D. Tompkins, 733; Stephen Van Rensselaer, 795 ; total, 1528.


1816. Daniel D. Tompkins, 908 ; Rnfns King, 858; total, 1766.


1817. De Witt Clinton, $51 ; Peter B. Porter, -.


1820. De Witt Clinton, 762; Daniel D. Tompkins, 795; total, 1557.


1822. De Wilt Clinton, nearly unanimous; Solomon Southwick (the returns of this year could not be found).


1824. De Witt Clinton, 2779 : Samuel Young, 2619; total, 5398.


1826. De Witt Clinton, 3328; Smith Thompson, 1763 ; S. Southwick. 2204: total, 7295.


1,727


1,615


1,699


Lyme ....


1,724


3,544


3,091


2,1 44


3,001


1,342


1,988


2,273


2,322


2,104


Orleans.


143


3,344


3,990


Ellisburg.


1,543


1,522


2,701


3.475


326


474


634


611


9,336' 10,041


86


HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK.


For President :


Whig. 3853


3391


......


......


7,244


1832


4419


4381


......


......


8,800


1836


3761


4595


...


...


......


1840


6257


5630


59


...


11,946


1844


5576


6291


712


12,579


1848


4841


2445


...


4341


11,627


1852


5656


6279


757


12,692


Republican.


1856


8249


3496


1058


12,804


1860.


8794


5531


14,325


1864


8588


5842


14,430


1868


8420


5882


..


1872


8463


5769


14,232


1876


9227


7094


16,321


The vote of 1876 by towns was as follows :


Republican.


Democratic. Total.


Adams


568


305


874


Alexandria


335


455


790


Antwerp ..


529


276


805


Brownville.


499


265


764


Cape Vincent


303


412


715


Champion.


349


224


573


Clayton.


421


492


913


Ellisburg.


816


513


1329


Henderson


323


160


483


Hounsfield


352


253


605


Le Ray


423


320


743


Lorrainc.


188


160


348


Lyme.


318


254


Orleans


328


283


611


Pamelia.


178


124


302


Philadelphia


233


229


462


Rodman


347


91


438


Rutland


318


164


482


Theresa


335


281


616


Watertown


223


107


330


Wilna


509


529


1038


Worth.


98


117


215


City of Watertown :


First Ward 329


237


566


Second Ward.


319


208


527


Third Ward


240


269


509


Fourth Ward


346


372


718


Total, City 1234


1086 2320


The several questions submitted to the popular vote in the county have resulted as follows :


For the convention of 1821 3432


For no convention 119


For the adoption of the constitution of 1821. 1953


1144 Against


1825. On the manner of electing Presidential electors. By


2603


General tieket plurality. majority 35


4702


Against


1


1846. For the amended constitution 6603 Against 1712


For equal suffrage to colored persons. 2791


Against " 4536


4012


1849. For the free-school law 5997


3312


1850. For the repeal of the free-school law. 6064


Against


3959


1854. For the amendment in relation to eanals 3520


2029


1858. For convention to revise constitution 3224


Against «


1859. For the revised constitution. 4579


Against 4285


6073


1860. On the suffrage amendment-For. Against .. 6470


1864. On the amendment for voting of soldiers-For 6355 66 66 Against 818


1865. For aet to create State debt for bonnties to volunteers 9341


322


Against same aet.


1866. For convention to revise constitution 7929


Against " 5156


4894


1869, For amended constitution. Against " 4786


For amended judiciary article 7763


Against " 1783 For amended assessment and taxation artiele. 4974 Against " 4369


For property qualifications for suffrage. 4609


Against " 5421


1870. For act to provide for State debt for canal and general fund indebtedness. 4292


Against said aet. 7665


1872. For constitutional amendment relative to Court of Ap- pcals 2966


Against such amendment .. 220


1873. The question of the appointment of judges of the courts stood-For 191


The question of the appointment of judges of the courts -Against 8621


1876. On proposed amendment to Sec. 3, Art. v., of the con- stitution-For 8411


On proposed amendment to See. 3, Art. v., of the con- stitution-Against 2380


On similar amendment to See. 4, Art. v., the vote was- For 8173


On similar amendment to Sec. 4, Art. v., the vote was- Against ... 2029


In May, 1846, Champion, Pamelia, and Theresa voted for license, and the remainder of the county against license. The majorities for lieense in the towns in which it was voted amounted to 78; while the majorities in those towns which voted against lieense amounted to 1700. In 1847 Henderson and Lorraine gave small majorities for no license, in Pamelia no vote was taken, and in all the other towns license was voted with aggregate majorities of 1512 er 81.


THE STATE LOAN.


On the 18th of April, 1786, bills of eredit to the amount of 200,000 pounds (New York curreney) were emitted by the State for the relief of the people, in the way of a cireu- 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 eent. per annum, the loan to run fourteen years and limited to 300 pounds to any one person. These bills of eredit were counterfeited, and in February, 1788, new bills were printed for those in circulation and the old ones retired, and death pronounced on all counterfeiters 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 ereation of a debt by the State, bonds being issued therefor and sold, and the funds arising therefrom distributed pro rata among the counties on the basis of population, and eommissioners appointed as before to handle the funds in each county. The amount received by Jefferson County was $10,399.26, which was kept at interest as a separate fund, when it was consolidated with the


UNITED STATES DEPOSIT FUND,


the principal of which was deposited in the county in 1837, and amounted to $130,799.06, and separate and distinct commissioners appointed to loan the same. This deposit fund was the portion awarded to Jefferson County from the surplus moneys in the United States treasury deposited with the several States by aet 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 individual, except in New York, where the limits are $500 and $5000. The interest is charged at seven per cent., and the same paid into the State treasury, less fees and ex- penses of collection, and by the comptroller distributed among the counties for the support of schools and acade.


May-For license. For no license. 5644


Against


Against


4078


districts


2000


1826. For the election of justiees of the peace


572


Democratic. Abolition. . Free-Soil. Total.


1828


8,356


14,302


87


HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK.


mies. The loan and deposit funds have been diminished until at the date of the last report of the commissioners- November 1, 1876-the amount charged against Jefferson County stood thus :


Loaned on bond and mortgage.


$76,067.84


Jefferson County volunteer bonds.


25,700.00


State stoeks


5,879.36


Mortgage No. 599 bid in for State


450.00


Cash on hand


3,401.28


Total


$111,498.48


VALUATIONS AND TAXATION.


Publie moneys were first raised in the Colony of New York, June 1, 1665, by warrant issued by the Governor, Colonel Nicholls, to the sheriff and collectors .* It would appear antecedent to this time the towns and counties raised nioneys for their own use, but the preeise mode is not


known. A tax ealled 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 taxation by law was adopted. The wars of England with European nations, especially with the French, plunged the colony into an enormous debt, most burdeusome to the inhabitants. Froru 1691 to 1709, the sum of sixty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one pounds 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 one million pounds sterling. In 1788 the first regular system of taxation was adopted by the State.


The valuations and taxation of Jefferson by periods of five years, sinee its organization, are here given, as follows :


Year.


Acres of Land.


Assessed value of Real Estate.


Assessed value of Per- sonal Prop- erty.


Aggregate Valnation.


State Taxes.


County Taxes.


Town Taxes.


School Taxes.#


Aggregate of Taxes.


Rate of Tax- ation on $1 of valuation in cents.


1805


$805,992


$805.98


$2,034.89


$2,840.87


00.3.5


1810


1,138,204


$8,651.78


5,623.60


6,510.28


$1,251.27


22,036.93


00.5.1


1820


$2,425,352


$65,731


2,491,083


2.491.08


11,789.44


8,005.08


1,525.16


23,811.16


00.9.55


1825


2,472,682


97,994


2,570,676


1,285.33


18,347.43


10,444.31


2,647.62


32,784.64


01.2.71


1830


2,468,033


181,233


2,649,266


12,309.42


7,302.16


2,842.13


22,452.71


00.8.475


1835


720,574


1840


725,969


7,178,296


694,718


7,873,013


18,702.41


12,196.24


8,750.29


39.648.94


00.5.03


1845


733,574


5,728,149


798,502


6,536,651


24,014.39


11,416.79


7,782.09


43,213.27


00.6.6


1850


733,089


6,724,503


1,227,117


7,951,660


48,207.79


13,380.20


7,138.08


68.726.07


00.8.64


1855


733,089


14,429,039


3,356,010


17,785.049


22,231.31


46,938.27


16,976.80


86,146.38


00.4.84


1860


733,126


12,864,492


2,971,045


15,935,769


49,135.30


33,967.37


24,317.83


11,951.82


119,372.32


00.7.5


1865


733,121


12,187,176


2,560,226


63,298.21


170,637.81


117,641.20


12,133.84


363,711.06


02.4.6


1870


733,121


12,198,050


2,744,500


14,747,407 14,994,550


72,050.74


243,794.25


81,999.84 99,454.21


21,898.05


380,053.79


01.1.19


The apportionment of taxes for 1876 is as follows, by towns :


TOWNS AND WARDS.


No. of Acres


Assessed Valuation of Valuation of


Equalized


Assessed Valuation of l'ersonal Estate.


Total Valuation.


Amount of County Taxes.


Amount of Town Taxes.


Amount of State Tax for Schools.


Amount of State Tax exclusive of Schools.


Aggregate of Taxes.


Adams


27,198


$1,868,841


$1,645,444


$650,675


$2,296,119


$10,732.46


$3,287.54


$1,452.98


$2,567.66


$18,040.64


Alexandria


37,963


1.092,430


974,786


46,200


1,020,986


4,772.28


6.307.14


646.08


1,142.46


12,867.96


Antwerp.


61,160


1,382,144


1,769,091


125,285


1,894,376


8,854.63


1,641.72


1,198.76


2,117.92


13,813.03


Brownville.


33,994


1,656,010


1,351,949


175,430


1,527,379


7,139.22


1,559.87


966.53


1,707.61


11,373.23


Cape Vincent


33,978


1,751,970


1,401,906


69,950


1,471,856


6,879.74


1,470.92


931.39


1,645.53


10,927.58


Champion


25,683


939,240


1,102,166


77,850


1,180,016


5,515.60


2,857.30


746.71


1,319.26


10,438.87


Clayton


48,678


1,797,750


1,376,927


74,075


1,451,002


6,782.22


8,931.53


918.19


1,622.22


18,254.16


Ellisburg.


44,876


2,614,286


2,700,777


212,850


2,913,627


13,618.79


3,788.12


1,843.74


3,257.43


22,508.08


Henderson


24,115


1,064,160


952,297


106,650


1,058,947


4,949.69


1,472.43


670.10


1,183.90


8,276.12


Hounsfield


22,800


1,187,440


1,156,490


120,100,


1,276,590


5,967.00


6,329.42


807.83


4,427.23


14,531.48


Le Ray


42,647


1,394,010


1,433,129


81,910


1,515,039


7,081.04


5,735.04


958.72


1,693.81


15,469.11


Lorraine.


22,359


614,820


643,190


32,950


676,140


3,160.39


1,239.97


427.86


755.93


5,584.15


Lyme ..


33,541


1,388,490


1,092,800


69,610


1,162,410


5,433.32


1.730.53


735.57


1,299.58


9,199.00


Orleans,


40,347


1,147,870


1,439,373


44,470


1,483,843


6,935.73


1,293.88


938.98


1,658.94


10,827.53


Pamelia


20,967


800,990


874,240


31,210


905,450


4,232.23


461.41


572.97


1,012.30


6,278.91


Philadelphia ..


24,135


919,090


878.184


62,350


940,834


4,397.62


5,716.40


595.36


1,051.85


11.761.23


Rodman


25,504


930,415


974,153


191,030


1,165,183


5.446.26


1.674.86


737.33


1,302.68


9.161.13


Rutland


24,200


912,740


1,089,677


82,430


1,172,107


5,478.62


3,238.70


741.71


1,310.42


10.769.54


Theresa.


40,912


851,760


991,009


63,880


1,054,889


4,930.73


6,661.29


667.52


1,179,37


13,438.91


Watertown


22,251


929,950


1,121,022


95,700


1,216,722


5,687.15


3,447.88


769.94


1,360.30


11,265.27


Watert'n City, 1st ward


66


2d


1,013,450


4,883,254


1,603,497


3,071,600


14.356.65


10,018.87


1,944.50


3.434.22


29,754.24


66


4th


1,342,574


408,170


1,821,123


8,512.80


5,219.43


1,152.87


2,036.00


16,921.10


Wilna


44,753


1,154,512


1,152,123


80,300


1,232,423


5.760.55


11,517.46


779.87


1,377.85


19.435.73


Worth


26,743


234,330


218,570


5,020


223,590


1,045.10


835.00


141.49


249.97


2,271.56


733,585 $31,222,857 831,222,857 $5,473,929 836,696,786 $171,527.08 8105,083.50 $23,223.75 841,028.64 $340,862.97


# Smith's History of New York, p. 31.


+ Ibid., p. 34.


# These amounts do not include the amount raised for schools in the Districts.


02.7.8


1875


733,126


28,137,835


5,804,581


33,942,416


83,212.56


175,488.97


5.694.22


2,805.01


730.53


1,290.20


10,219,96


1,810,558


8,462.54


5,841.69


1.146.22


2,024.00


17.474.45


4,781


3d


1,349,405


"


874,180


235,200 727,137


1.153,977


12,315.02


8,864.28


3,910.27


25,089.57


00.5.07


4,279,100


533,964


4,941,437


3,983.71


3,407.29


7,391.00


00.6.5


1815


4,325,890


of Land. Real Estate.


Real Estate.


19,509.68


417,354.51


88


HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK.


The above table does not inelude the school taxes raised by distriets, which amounted to $80,677.


The county taxes for 1876 were divided as follows :


Payment of bonds. Interest and principal $89,285.79 Charities, Poor-House, Asylums, and State Institutions ... 31,221.50


Court expenses, including sheriff, constables, jurors' fees, and salaries of judges, etc ... 32,882.84


Indices to deed and mortgage records


6,534.73


Court-house and jail repairs ..


3,498.08


Printing ..:


2,724.60


Military expenses.


1,486.53


Supervisors.


2,800.00


Selool commissioners' salarics. 600.00


Miscellaneous accounts.


492.99


Total. .$171,527.08


The State board of equalization equalized the assessment of Jefferson for State taxation for the year 1876 at the sum of $18,579,006, and assigned to Jefferson, as its quota of the State taxes, $64,252.39.


The following valuations were placed on corporate prop- erty for taxation in 1876, viz. :


Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh railroad $1,144,937


Utica and Black River railroad 229,125


Carthage, Watertown and Sacket's Harbor railroad 278,220


Black River and Morristown railroad.


78,705


Total railroad valuation ... $1,730,987


Mining companies ..


$120,900


Manufacturing companies


362,000


Insurance companies.


824,437


Park association .....


4,000


Total. .$3,042,324


By the report of the county treasurer, for the year end- ing November 25, 1876, it appears that the gross receipts of revenue for the year were as follows :


Nov. 23, 1875. Balance on hand from old account ...... $4,047.41


Nov. 25, 1876. Received from collectors .... 291,736.19


taxes collected by himself ..


1,283.56 .


fines


1,078.34


lieenses.


2,783.00


School money


Sundry items


507.21


Total. .$351.454.87


Leaving a balance on hand, after payments according to vouchers presented, of $940.90.


In 1866 the committee of the board of supervisors ap- pointed to equalize the real estate of the several towns for eounty taxation, made a report, which was adopted by the board, fixing the assessment of real estate of Watertown at $2,326,239. The people of Watertown, feeling aggrieved at this equalization, instructed their supervisor to appeal from the action of the board to the comptroller, which he did, and that official decided that $1,358,461 ought to be deducted from the amount of the cqualized assessment, and the exeess of taxes, in consequence of sueh excessive valua- tion, to wit, $21,192, ought to be paid back to Watertown. The board of supervisors were not content with this finding of the comptroller, and therefore brought the ease by cer- tiorari before the supreme court, which, in 1869, modified the comptroller's decision, placing the true excess of equal- ized value at $864,808, and the true exeess of tax at $13,491, and ordered the board to levy that excess of tax on the towns of the county, except Watertown, and pay the amount over to the latter town. The board refused to obey the deeree of the court, and a mandamus was issued November 25, 1869, from the supreme court to compel the


board to levy the tax, whereupon the ease was taken to the court of appeals, which affirmed the decision of the supreme court, and sent the ease baek to the lower tribunal for final judgment and eolleetion. In November, 1870, the board voted to levy the tax, but disagreed as to the interest and eosts which had aeeumulated, whereupon another writ of mandamus was issued, eommanding the board to levy a sum sufficient, on the other towns of the county, to pay Water- town the judgment interest and eost, then amounting to $14,257.70, which the board proceeded to do.


Bonds to the amount of $1,597,700 were issued by the authorities of Jefferson County, in aid of volunteer enlist- ments, in the War of the Rebellion. There was received from the State in 1865, on account of bounties paid, $612,100, and the amount was used to reduce taxation and in buying up the outstanding and unmatured bonds of the eounty. The total taxes paid in the county in 1864 amounted to $457,257.77, of which $258,631.07 were county taxes. The heaviest eounty tax was paid in 1869, the same amounting to $290,881.18, and the aggregate of taxes being $444,730.08. In 1866, the town taxes amounted to $115,086.34. From 1860 to 1876, both years inelusive, the people of Jefferson County have paid in taxes the sum of $5,683,246.10,* to the State, county, and town authorities, aside from their exeise and internal l'evenue taxes. The amount of outstanding bonded in- debtedness of the county at the present writing is $332,000. The bonded indebtedness of the towns on November 1, 1876, and which was ineurred by aid voted to railroads in 1869-1872, was as follows :


Original Subscription. Amount Outstanding.


Alexandria ..


$60,000


$60,000


Champion


35,000


34,100


Clayton


100,000


100,000


Hounsfield ..


75,000


75,000


Philadelphia


30,000


29,000


Rutlandt


3,000


3,000


Theresa


60,000


60,000


Watertown (old town).


300,000


296,000


Watertown City}


148,000


138,000


Wilna ..


100,000


87,500


Add county indebtedness.


332,000


Total indebtedness of county and towns. $1,214,600


CENSUS STATISTICS.


The eensus of 1800 and 1807 gave the number of legal voters with property qualifieations only. The eensus of 1810 gave the following returns of manufacturers in this eounty :


Cotton goods made in families, yards (av. 32 cts.) ..


1,392


Flaxen goods made in families, yards (av. 3712 cts.). 106,623


Blended and unnamed cloths, yards (av. 35 cts.) ..


1,475


Woolen goods made in families, yards (av. 8712 cts.) ...


51,013


Looms.


Carding-machines 5, pounds carded (av. 50 cts. per lb.).


35,000


Falling-mills 8, yards fulled (av. $1.25 per yard)


40,000


Hatteries 2, hats made (av. $2.50).


1,000


Furnaces 2, tons of iron (av. $100 to $120 per ton).


50


Trip-hammers.


16


Hides tanned (av. $4 25)


750


Calf-skins tanned (av. $1.12) ...


1000


Oil-mills 3, gallons made (av. $1.25)


9,650


Distilleries 16, gallons made (av. 80 cts.).


32,000


Breweries 2, gallons made (av. 17 cts.) ..


25,600


Paper-mills 1, reams made (av. $3) 900


The census of 1814, taken in pursuance of an act passed April 15 of that year, gave the following results :


# Does not include distriet school taxes. + Not for R. R. 1876.


# Water bonds, $115,000.


660


Tanneries.


$882,600


comptroller Į


50,019.16


89


HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK.


Total population in the thirteen towns.


18,564


1830.


1840


Males.


Females.


Males.


Females.


Whites 40 to 50


1,872


1,641


2,606


2,184


50 4


60.


1,030


830


1,567


1,406


60 .


70


474


417


838


727


70 €


80


195


176


351


299


80 4


90


47


4


79


96


90 4


100.


2


4


11


7


over 100


2


65


74


70


From the census of 1840 we derive the following :


Iron .- Cast-iron furnaces, 6; tons, 1166; forges-mill, 1; tons, 80; tons of fuel eousumed, 1869; men employed, 256; capital in- vested, $59,000.


bead .- Smelting-house, 1; pounds, 300,000; eapital invested, $10,000.


Forest .- Value of lumber, $247,448; tons pot and pearlash, 1006; valuo of fnrs and skins, $25; other products of the forest, $15,854; men employed, 131.


Manufactures .- Machinery made, $35,000; men employed, 48; manufactures of metal, $22,000; men employed, 18; marble, value, $30; brieks and lime, $11,732; men employed, 32.


Wool .- Fulling-mills, 22; woolen manufactories, 11 : value man- ufaetured, $205,300; persons employed, 292; capital invested, $273,800.


Cotton .- Factories, 1 ; spindles, 1000 ; value manufactured, $16,000 ; persons employed, 40; eapital invested, $10,000.


Tobacco .- Manufactured, $1000 ; persons employed, 3.


Huts, etc .- Value manufactured, $13,350; value straw bonnets, $1000; persons employed, 32; capital invested, $7000.


Leather .- Tanneries, 31; sides sole leather tanned, 10,448; sides upper leather tanned, 22,340; men employed, 143; eapital invested, $88,200; other manufactures of leather, $98,800; eapital invested, $19,400.


Soap and Candles .- Pounds of soap, 19,700; tallow' candles, pounds, 34,640 ; men employed, 5; capital invested, $3000.


Distilled and Fermented Liquors .- Distilleries, 9 ; gallons prodneed, 313,344; breweries, 8; gallons produced, 64,000; men employed, 31; capital invested, $37,500.


- Medicinal Drugs, Paints, etc., $1500.


Paper .- Manufactory, I; value made, $10,000.


Printing, etc .- Offices, 4; binderies, 1; weekly papers, 5; men employed, 28; capital invested, $15,300.


Cordage .- Rope-walk, 1; value made, $8000; men employed, 5.


Carriages, etc .- Value merchandise, $44,400; men employed, 76; capital iuvested, $20,150.


Mills .- Flouring-mills, 8; barrels of flour made, 11,900; grist- mills, 34; saw-mills, 109; oil-mills, 4; value of manufactures, $299,514; men employed, 177; capital invested, $194,200.


Furniture .- Value made, $24,250; men employed, 42; eapital invested, $9340.


Houses .- Built of wood year previous, 147 ; briek and stone houses, 23; men employed, 318; value of buildings, $223,790.


All other manufactures not enumerated, $74,493; capital invested, $22,358; total manufacturing eapital, $721,249.


The census of 1845 gave many details, for which the former ones afford no means of comparison, viz. :


Nativity .- New York, 50,582; New England, 7528; other States, 557; Groat Britain and Provinees, 4200; France, 424; Germany, 425; other European countries, 99.


Children .- Between 5 and 16, 18,619; attending common schools, 15,659; attending private schools, 623; attending academies, 73; attending colleges, 14.


Churches .-- Baptist, 19; Episcopal, 6; Presbyterian, 16; Congre- gational, 9; Methodist, 24; Catholic, 5; Dutch Reformed, 3; Uni- tarian, 2; Jewish, 1; Quakers, 2. Number of clergyuien, 106: salary, $28,040.30.


Schools .- Academies, 1; common schools, 357; cost of schools, $74,927.70 ; cost ofimprovements, $3,011.10 ; pupils, 15,761 ; average attendance, 9386; private schools, 26 ; pupils, 620.


Professions .- Attorneys, 48; physicians, 102; merchants. 200; manufacturers, 253; mechauies, 2369; farmers, 11,002; inns, 118; wholesale stores, 3; retail stores, 161 ; groceries, 57.


Crops .- Wheat 32,949 aeres, 421,819 bushels: corn 17,432 aeres,


30 4 7


5


10


3,901


3,698


4,615


4,217


10 “


15.


3,211


3,053


3,907


3,623


15 €


20


2,599


2,716




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