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CONDENSED SUMMARY OF THE PRO- CEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF SUPER- VISORS, IN REFERENCE TO BOUNTIES AND THE DRAFT IN THE LATE WAR.
At the annual meeting of the Board, November 19, 1863, it was
Resolved, That the sum of $100.00 be paid to each and every volunteer, who may hereafter enlist into the service of the United States, under the State au- thority, for the present quota, and that the said $100.00 be paid on the certificate of a proper officer, certifying that the said volunteer has been regularly mus- tered into the service of the United States, and credited on the quota ap- portioned to the county of Lewis.
* Littaye.
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Resolved, That the Treasurer be, and is hereby authorized and directed to loan upon the credit of the county, such sum or sums of money as may be neces- sary to comply with the foregoing reso- lution.
At an extra session of the Board of Supervisors, held February 3, 1864, the following resolution was passed :-
Resolved, That each member of this Board be appointed a committee, for the town he represents, to furnish a list of the names of all volunteers from his town, who have been mustered into the service of the United States, since the draft, in August last, and whose town is entitled to be credited with such volun- teers, and that he report to this Board, at its adjourned session, for the purpose of enabling this Board to certify to the Supervisors of such towns respectively, the names of the volunteers properly belonging to them.
At a special meeting, held February 12, 1864, the following resolution was passed :-
Resolved, That a committee of one be appointed by the chairman, to go to Albany, or elsewhere, for the purpose of procuring the credits for the county of Lewis and for each town of said county respectively, and that the county shall pay the expense of said committee, and that each supervisor is hereby requested to furnish said committee with the name of each man enlisted from his town and the name of his regiment and company in which they enlisted, and that said committee be directed to procure the proper evidence to enable the several credits they are entitled to.
It was ordered that Mr. Pease,* be said committee. It was also resolved that the bounty of $100.00 offered No- vember 19th, last, be paid upon the order of the volunteer, accompanied by the certificate of Peter Kirley or John M. Paris, recruiting agents of the county, or of the supervisor of the town, show- ing that the volunteer had been mustered in and credited, and that such certificate improperly given, should subject the
person giving it, to personal loss of the sum paid. The sum of $3,111.79 was assessed upon Watson, to pay bounty money. It was also
Resolved, That the county treasurer of this county be authorized to pay the bounty of $300.00, as directed in the resolutions of this day, upon the pre- sentation of the order of the volunteers, accompanied with the certificate of Peter Kirley or John M. Paris, recruit- ing agents for this county, or the super- visor of the town to which such volun- teer is credited, that such volunteer has been regularly mustered into the service of the United States, and credited to the quota of the county.
The treasurer was also directed to pay out of funds provided for that purpose to each volunteer who might thereafter enlist, to the number of thirteen men from Croghan, twenty from Denmark, fifteen from Diana, fifteen from Greig, twelve from Harrisburgh, eight from High Market, fourteen from Lewis, twenty from Leyden, twenty-two from Lowville, twenty-one from Martins- burgh, five from Montague, fourteen from New Bremen, five from Osceola, twelve from Pinckney, fifteen from Turin, eleven from Watson, and twenty from West Turin. If any town had paid $300 towards filling their quotas, they were to be re-imbursed upon proper certificate. The sum of $75,000 was to be borrowed, and collected by tax with- in ninety days for repayment.
At a special meeting of the Board in March, 1864, a committee was appointed consisting of Chickering of Denmark, Pease of Lewis, and Johnson of Den- mark, to audit claims presented for county bounties, with power to meet on its own adjournment, as the business might require.
Another committee was appointed, consisting of Pitcher of Martinsburgh, Leonard of Lowville, and Birdsey of Leyden, to report in what manner the funds could be obtained for paying vol-
* J. A. Pease, Supervisor from the town of Lewis.
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unteers, and if borrowed, in what form the obligation should be given, the length of time, and manner of repay- ment. They decided that it would be proper to borrow upon notes signed by the Treasurer and the Chairman of the Board, payable on the Ist of March fol- lowing. A tax was imposed to meet this obligation.
In April, 1864, an adjourned meeting was held. It was reported that . 258 claims of $100 each had been presented for bounties, and four claims for $300.
On the 2d of August, 1864, the towns were authorized to pay a bounty of not over $600, including the county bounty already offered for volunteers, and on the following day the names of Peter Kirley of Watson, A. Y. Stewart of New Bremen, Jay A. Pease of Lewis, C. M. Goff of West Turin, H. E. Turner of Lowville, and Charles J. Pitcher of Martinsburgh, were agreed upon for nomination to the Governor as recruit- ing agents for the county, to proceed to the States in rebellion, to pro- cure volunteers upon the quotas for 500,- 000 men. Mr. James L. Leonard was appointed to act with the Treasurer and the Chairman of the Board, in negotia- ting the sale of county bonds.
Another meeting of the Board was held August 26, 1864, and the town bounties were allowed to be increased to $1,000. A resolution was passed, providing for the payment of the bonds on the 10th of February annually, in not more than six years from 1865, and in sums of not more than $75,000 a year. The amount of bonds or money each town was entitled to receive, was fixed as follows :-
Croghan ...
$ 13,500
Denmark.
10,000
Diana.
12,500
Greig
17,000
Harrisburgh.
10,500
High Market
8,000
Leyden
18,000
Lewis
$ 9,500
Lowville.
15,000
Martinsburgh
21,500
Montague.
5,000
New Bremen
12,500
Osceola.
5,000
Pinckney
15,500
Turin.
12,500
Watson.
6,500
West Turin.
19,000
Total. $211,500
It was resolved that in case the draft was postponed, or if from any other cause, the Commissioners appointed at the last special session should deem it for the interest of the county to go south to the rebellious States to obtain re- cruits, they might pay a bounty of not over $500 per man to serve one, two, or three years.
A uniform county bounty of $500 was offered to all volunteers and persons who might furnish substitutes, whether for one, two, or three years.
At the annual session of the Board, in November, 1864, the Committee on Bounty Claims reported that the follow- ing sums had been allowed in the sev- eral towns :-
Towns.
$100 claims.
$300 claims.
$500 claims.
Croghan. .
$ 1,900
$ 3,000
$ 13,500
Denmark.
1,100
2,100
10,000
Diana
3,000
5,700
12,500
Greig.
500
2,400
15,000
Harrisburgh ..
800
10,500
High Market.
1,800
2,700
8,000
Leyden
3,000
5,400
18,000
Lewis.
2,000
3,900
9,500
Lowville. . . .
2,700
6,300
15,000
Martinsburgh.
3,200
2,100
21,000
Montague ... . .
300
1,200
5,500
New Bremen.
1,900
3,600
12,500
Osceola.
700
5,000
Pinckney.
..
1,900
1,800
15,500
Turin .
1,500
1,800
11,500
Watson
1,600
2,700
6,500
West Turin.
2,900
4,200
20,000
Total .... $30,800 $48,900 $209,500 And to Osceola by special resolution of $300 claims, $1,200.
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In the tax levy of November, 1864, the sum of $115,214.15 was included for the payment of the principal of bonds coming due in February and March, 1865, and $14,306.31 for interest upon the bonds thus coming due. The total sum raised by tax for all purposes on that occasion, was $178,419.
In case of needing support from the public, the wives and families of soldiers absent were to be provided for at their homes, at the expense of the towns where such soldiers were credited, and at a rate not exceeding that paid at the county house.
At an adjourned meeting, held Janu- ary 6, 1865, it was resolved to offer a county bounty of $400.00 for one year's, $700.00 for two years', and $1,000.00 for three years' men to fill the quota of 300,- 000, under the call of December 19, 1864. The sum of $200,000.00, or so much thereof as might be necessary, was voted to be raised to meet these expenses, to be redeemed in sums of $75,000.00, or one-third of the whole amount, until paid. The bounties under this resolu- tion were not to be paid to any persons who had formerly received a county bounty. With respect to the final ad- justment of these expenses, the views of the Board were expressed in the follow- ing preamble and resolution :-
Whereas, Heavy burdens have been borne by citizens of this State, growing out of the competition existing between towns and counties, in offering local bounties to volunteers into the ser. vice of the United States. Therefore, for the purpose of removing such com- petition,
Resolved, That bounties to volunteers to operate equally upon all classes, should be borne by the State, and ulti- mately assured by the United States as the most practicable mode by which the burdens of the war can be fairly equal- ized and local oppression avoided, and that the member from this county in the Assembly, be requested to favor the
proposition, to make all bounties to vol- unteers in this State, State bounties.
The Supervisor of each town was au- thorized to appoint an agent, or agents, for the town, for the purpose of enlist- ing men to fill its quota, and that the ex- penses of such agent, or agents, be paid by the respective towns.
It was further provided, that in case any person liable to draft, should have put in a substitute prior to the 7th of January, 1865, to apply on the quota of any town in the county, he should re- ceive the pay provided in the resolution adopted on that day.
A committee of three wasappointed to procure the apportionment of the quota of the county and they were authorized and required to certify to the county treasurer, the quota of the several towns under the late call for 300,000 men ; and the treasurer was authorized to receive said certificate as evidence of the amount of said quotas, upon which to issue the county bonds to the supervisors, as pro- vided in resolutions adopted on that day. Mr. Gardner, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Pease, were appointed such com- mittee.
A special meeting was held February 8, 1865, at which a committee was ap- pointed to enquire and report what further action, if any, was necessary on the part of the Board, to fill the quotas under the recent call for 300,000 men. It was resolved to issue not exceeding $50,- 000, payable within three years. The bonds thus issued, and those under the resolutions of January 6, 1865, were to be distributed to the several towns as follows :--
Croghan
$19,500
Denmark.
26,000
Diana.
19,000
Greig
15,000
Harrisburgh.
9,000
High Market
6,000
Lewis 16,000
Leyden
26,000
.
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Lowville
$11,000
Martinsburgh
19,000
Montague
8,000
New Bremen
12,000
Osceola
7,000
Pinckney
18,000
Turin.
7,000
Watson
7,000
West Turin
22,000
Total.
$247,500
Or so much as might be necessary to fill the quotas of each of said towns, un- der the call of the President, of Decem- ber 19, 1864, for 300,000 men.
Mr. Kirley, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. House, were appointed a committee to audit all claims that might be presented for county bounties to volunteers, and persons hiring substitutes, with full power to determine the validity and amount of such claims, and to whom they should be paid, and certify the same to the clerk of the Board, who was authorized to act as clerk of said com- mittee, and to draw orders upon the county treasurer for the accounts so certified.
At a special meeting held March 20, 1865, Mr. Gardner was appointed on the above committee, in place of Mr. House who declined to serve. Provis- ion was made for the payment of inter_ est upon bonds. The Bounty Committee was vested with like powers and duties as those conferred upon a like commit- tee under resolutions of March 18, 1864. They were also to ascertain the amount of money to which the county was enti- tled under the new bounty act passed February 10, 1865, (Chapter 29,) and were instructed to take whatever steps might be necessary in the name of the county, to obtain the credit and pay for the same from the State, in accordance with said act.
At an extra session held June 15, 1865, the county treasurer was instructed to use any money that might come into his
hands from the State, as re-imbursement of county bounties, in paying any county bonds and accrued interest which he might be able to obtain ; and further, that if State bonds were re- ceived by him as a part or the whole of said re-imbursement, he was authorized to exchange the same for county bonds as far as practicable.
The Bounty Committee was empow- ered and instructed to investigate all claims by the several towns of the coun- ty for reimbursement for town bounties paid, and to collect and receive such sums from the State authorities as might be found due to the said towns, and pay the same into the county treasury, to the credit of the towns entitled to the same.
The treasurer's accounts rendered November 15, 1865, show the following disbursements on account of bounties and the debts incurred on account of the war :-
Bounty Ordere, 112, 113, 129, 130, 131, 132 $ 21,000.00
County Bonde, exclusive of interest, 128,914.05
Interest on County Bonds, 12,755.99
Bounty Orders-call of Dec. 19, 1864, 64,019.19
Bonds in hande of Supervisors, under resolution of January 5, 1565, 157,600.00 Certificates of State Stocks, carried to new account, 198,000.00 The latter being on hand.
The following sums were mentioned as necessary to be raised, for the pur- poses mentioned :-
County Bonds, firet series, due Feb. 10, 1866, $ 71,000.00
Interest on the same, 2,485.00
Bonds of second series, 72,750.00 Interest due Feb. 10, on all Bonds of second series, 15,261.22 Interest due in Feb. and Aug. on all unpaid bonde of firet eeries, 5,130.78
$166,627.00
Mr. James L. Leonard, on the 21st of November, 1865, informed the Board that he had bought the New York State Bounty Bonds, held by the county treasurer at 99 per cent. to the amount of $198,000, and that he would pay for the same before the funds were needed for county and town purposes. It was understood that he had the privilege of taking any portion of the same at any time at the above rates. This proposal was accepted on the 23d.
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HISTORY OF LEWIS COUNTY.
Mr. Miller and Mr. Chickering were added to the Bounty Committee, and the committee was directed to apportion to the county and to each town, the amount to which they were entitled for excess of years' service under the call of July 18, 1864, in proportion to the amount of bounty paid by them respect- ively ; and each Supervisor was request- ed to certify the amount that had been paid, to fill the quotas under that call.
On the 29th of November, 1865, the following resolution was passed :-
" Resolved, That in any town where an excess of men was in good faith en- listed by the Supervisors under the call of December 19, 1864, and where the amount actually paid, or to be paid to the said enlisted men is less than the amount of the quota of said towns at $1,000 per man, this Board authorize the payment of the said bounty to the said excess men, and authorize the Bounty Committee and the County Treasurer to allow the same in settling with the Supervisor of such town in the same man- ner as with Supervisors of other towns, provided that no recruit or substitute receive a greater amount than $400 for one year's service, $700 for two years' ser- vice, and $1,000 for three years' service.
On the 30th of November the Bounty Committee reported that they had allow- ed claims for bounty as follows :-
Men.
Bounty.
Croghan.
21
$19,800.00
Denmark.
IO
9,400.00
Diana
20
19,600.00
Greig
14
9,200.00
Harrisburgh
IO
7,750.00
High Market
6
5,400.00
Lewis.
1 3
12,800.00
To Town.
To County
Croghan
$ 600.00 $ 600.00
Denmark
4,266.00
5,334.00
Diana
343.00
857.00
Greig.
1,995.00
2,805.00
New Bremen
14
11,600.00
Osceola .
7
7,000.00
High Market
1,213.00
2,787.00
Pinckney
20
17,700.00
Lewis
800.00
600.00
Leyden
1,060.31
2,939.69
Lowville
1,533.33
10,266.67
West Turin
22
18,444.19
4,626.50
Total
257
$210,494.19
The committee also reported that they had presented claims to the Paymaster- General of the State, for re-imbursement of payment of bounties for 250 volun- teers and substitutes for the period of service as follows : For three years, 194; for two years, 3 ; and for one year, 53 ; total, 250; making a total payment of $133,500, which amount was paid in cer- tificate of New York State Stocks, $120,- 000 ; cash, $13,500; total, $133,500. Also the claims for excess of years' service was allowed at $78,800, which amount was paid in certificates of New York State Stocks, $78,000, cash, $800 ; total, $78,800; making a total received from the State in certificates of State stock of $ 198,000, cash, $14,300; total amount of stocks and cash, $212,300, which amount had been deposited with the County Treas- urer.
The following resolution was adop- ted :-
Resolved, That the evidence before the Bounty Committee to enable the towns to draw the portion of excess money belonging to them, shall be the affidavit of the Supervisor or other disbursing agent, of the amount paid, or liability incurred by bonds by said towns for the recruits or substitutes from whom such excess accrued.
The committee to whom was assigned the duty of apportioning the amount re- ceived by the County Treasurer for excess of years' service to the several towns of the county, reported as fol- lows :-
Leyden
26
25,725.00
Lowville.
2I
9,600.00
Martinsburgh
28
19,000.00
Montague.
8
6,700.00
Harrisburgh. 2,200.00
2,800.00
Turin
7
5,775.00
Watson
IO
5,000.00
Martinsburgh. .. 3,373.50
Montague.
New Bremen
1,700.00
2,100.00
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Osceola. $
$
Pinckney
1,200.00
1,400.00
Turin . 3,542.00
7,458.00
Watson
1,200.00
1,200.00
West Turin
400.00
7,600.00
The treasurer was directed to place to the credit of the several towns the amounts reported as due by the com- mittee on excess of years respectively, as set forth in the above report, and the said moneys were made subject to the order of the Supervisors of the several towns.
The money and bonds received from the State and belonging to the county, were applied so far as they went to the payment of the county bonds falling due in February, 1866.
The balance of the funds arising from the excess of years', service not appro- priated by the report of the committee on apportionment of excess years was applied to the credit of the several towns, in proportion to the quotas of said towns respectively, under the call of July 18, 1864, subject to the order of the Super- visor of each town respectively, for the use of his town.
The Bounty Committee upon appor- tionment of the balance of the fund arising from the excess of years' service among the several towns, in proportion to the quotas, under the call of July 18, 1864, reported the following as the re- sults of their labors, which was agreed to, viz :-
Quota.
Amount.
Croghan
27,
$ 3,008.34
Denmark
41,
5,125.32
Diana .
Greig
34,
25, 2,785.50 3,788.28
Harrisburgh. 21,
2,339.82
High Market. 16,
1,782.72
Lewis
21,
2,339.82
Leyden
38,
4,233.96
Lowville.
46, 5,125.32
Martinsburgh
43, 4,791.06
Montague.
II,
1,225.62
New Bremen
26,
2,896.92
Osceola
IO,
1, 114.20
Pinckney
31, $3,454.02
Turin. . 28, 3,119.76
Watson. 15,
1,671.30
West Turin 41, 4,568.22
Total,. . 474, $53,370.38
The treasurer, in reporting to the Board, inNovem- ber, 1866, credited the county with certificates of State stocks, $198,000.00
He had disbursed to super- visors, as excess money, 77,409.22
Paid Bounty orders, call of Dec. 19, 1864 156,509.41
Paid principal on county bonds, .. 142,225.00
Paid interest on county
bonds, 23,527.37
There was to be provided for :-
For the payment of principal of county bonds coming due February 10, 1867, .. $148,371.85 For interest on the same, ... 12,426.64
In November, 1867, the treasurer re- ported the disbursement of $1,587.10 ex- cess money, and informed that the fol- lowing sums must be provided for :-
To pay principal of county bonds, due February 10, 1 868,. $65,800.00 To pay interest on county bonds, due February 10, 1868, 4,606.00
To pay interest on bonds due in 1871,. 140.00
In 1868, there was reported the need of $140 to pay the interest on outstand- ing bonds, but after this the burdens of the war debt may be said to have been wholly closed up, excepting in so far as the State was still for a few years to bear its proportion of the State Bonded War Debt.
At the time of writing, measures are under discussion for the erection of a soldiers' monument, at the county seat in memory of those who fell in the late war.
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CHAPTER XX.
HISTORY OF THE TOWNS.
CROGHAN.
T HE county of Lewis upon its organ- ization embraced five towns, viz :- Leyden, Turin, Martinsburgh, Lowville, and Harrisburgh. The present number is eighteen. Their names, dates of erec- tion and origin, are as follows :-
Croghan, April 5, 1841, from Watson and Diana.
Denmark, April 3, 1807, from Harris- burgh.
Diana, April 16, 1830, from Watson.
Greig, April 5, 1828, from Watson.
Harrisburgh, February 22, 1803, from Lowville, Champion and Mexico. High Market, November 11, 1852, from West Turin.
Lewis, November 11, 1852, from West Turin and Leyden.
Leyden, March 10, 1797, from Steuben.
Lowville, March 14, 1800, from Mexico. Lyonsdale, November 26, 1873, from Greig.
Martinsburgh, February 22, 1803, from Turin.
Montague, November 14, 1850, from West Turin.
New Bremen, March 31, 1848, from Wat- son.
Osceola, February 28, 1844, from West Turin.
Pinckney, February 12, 1808, from Har- rison* and Harrisburgh.
Turin, March 14, 1800, from Mexico. Watson, March 30, 1821, from Leyden. West. Turin, March 25, 1830, from Turin.
Croghan was formed from Watson and Diana, April 5, 1841, and named in honor of George Croghan, whose mili- tary services had then been recently brought to public notice in the Presiden- tial campaign resulting in Harrison's
election .* The name of Tippecanoe had been proposed, and that of New France had been applied to the bill as passed in the Senate, but on the third reading in the lower House, the present name was substituted. New Bremen was taken off in part, in 1848. An unsuccessful effort was made in 1859, to procure a division of this town into two. The first town meeting was ordered to be held at the house of John C. Fox, be- fore Willard Barrett, Lodowick Snyder, and Joseph Hamen, but was held in his grist-mill at Belfort, and the following were elected as first town officers :- Benjamin R. Ellis, Supervisor ; Abra- ham Fox, Town Clerk; Joseph Ham- mond, Frederick Ford, and Ira Wilcox, Assessors ; Silas Wilder, Joshua Sny- der, and Simon Putnam, Commissioners of Highways; Robert A. Dekin and Willard Barrett, Justices of the Peace ; Benjamin R. Ellis, Joseph Virkler, and Robert Smith, Inspectors of Schools ; Jacob House, Isaac Shaver, and Charles Holmes, School Commissioners ; Joseph Virkler, Collector; and Jacob House, John C. Cook, Jehu Farr, and James Rophinot, Constables.
Supervisors .- 1841, Benjamin R. Ellis ; 1842-'44, Bornt Nellis ; 1845-'50, Darius G. Bent ; 1851-'60, Patrick Sweetman ;+ 1861, William H. Peer ; 1862-'65, Nich- olas Gandel; 1866-'69, William Wirt Rice ; 1870-'71, Joseph P. Brownell ;
* Croghan was a native of Locust Grove, near the falls of the Ohio, where he was born November 15. 1791. His father was Major William Croghan, an Irishman who had rendered efficient service in the Revolution, and his mother was sister of William Clark, who with Captain Lewis explored the Missouri country in 1805-'07. In 1810, Croghan graduated at William and Mary's College in Virginia, and began the study of law : but the war soon opened a more inviting field of enterprise, and in the battle of Tippecanoe, and the sieges of Fort Meigs and Fort Stephenson, he won the applause of the Union. He rose from the rank of Captain to that of Inspector-General ; and in 1825, he received from Con- gress a gold medal for his brilliant military services. He died at New Orleans, January 8, 1849. His name was pronounced Craw-an, although that of the town is uni- formly spoken Cro-gan.
t Died, Oct. 1874.
* The former name of Rodman.
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1872, James H. Morrow ; 1873, N. Gan- del ; 1874-'75, Theodore B. Basselin ; 1876-'77, Augustus Valin ; 1878-'80, Peter Shinbourn ; 1881, William Wirt Rice ; 1882, James P. Lewis.
Clerks .- 1841-'43, Abraham Fox ; 1844 -'46, Joseph Hamen ; 1847-'48, Joseph Virkler ; 1849, Foster L. Cunningham ; 1850, Hartwell F. Bent ; 1851-'54, Joseph Rofinot ; 1855, Joseph Catillaz ; 1856, Joseph Rofinot ; 1857-'59, Augustus Va- lin ; 1860-'64 ;* 1865, Joseph Rofinot ; 1866-'70, Augustus Valin; 1871-'72, Da- rius G. Bent ; 1873, William Wirt Rice ; 1874, Augustine Gandel ; 1875, Nicholas Gandel ; 1876-'80, J. Sigel; George W. Whitaker, to fill vacancy ; 1881-'82, Au- gustine Simonet.
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