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No. 7, Long Swamp. Beginning at and including Samuel Luckcy ; thence including William Winfield ; thence along the Jersey line to and including the house of Thomas DeKay (2d), near John Mc Whorter's; thence including the farm formerly of Peter Edsall ; thence including Jacobus Onderdonk and Jesse Jen- nings; thence including George H. Jackson ; thence to the place of beginning.
No. 8, the school near David Demerest. Begin- ning at Samuel McCamley's, to and including Eben- ezer MeCamley, Pierson's, Cornelius Jones, Jr .; to and including William Baird ; thence to and includ- ing Thomas and Samuel DeKay; thence to and in- cluding William Holland and Thomas Hathorn ; thence to and including Stephen Horton; thence along the Jersey line, including David McCamley, to the place of beginning.
No. 9, school near Hiram Rebelee's. Beginning at and including Justus Onderdonk, Robert Peterson, and William H. Campbell ; thence to the Jersey line, including Thomas and Joseph Sandford ; thence along said Jersey line, including Peter Ackerson ; thence in- cluding the house on Belden Burt's mountain farm ; thence to the place of beginning.
No. 10, school near Isaac Clark's. Beginning at Round Mountain, including Joseph Gannon and the Decker families, adjoining to the Jersey line; thence including Benedict's and Smith; thence including Samuel Drew, Robert Lockwood and son, Solomon Smith, John Hall, James Howell, Richard and Abram Quackenbush, Jr .; thence, including Isaac Clark, Abram Quackenbush, and Ezra Sandford, to the place of beginning.
No. 11, Mount Pleasant. Beginning at and in- cluding Nathaniel Blain and Robert Pelton ; thence to and including John Rnsston, to and including James Ackerson, Abram Cole, John Myer, John Palmer, Samuel Ketcham, John Vandevoort; thence to and including Cornelius Forshe ; thence to War- wick Creek, near Benjamin Barney's; thence, in- cluding John Pelton, to the place of beginning.
No. 12, Warwick Village School. Beginning and including Joseph Benedict and Sylvanus Fancher ; thence to and including Richard Welling; thence, including on the north side of Warwick Creek, to and including John and James Wheeler; thence to and including the Widow Mills; thence to the place of beginning.
thence to and including Cornelius Eckerson ; thence including John Ackerman ; thence including Joseph Minthorn ; thence to and including George Ramson, to the place of beginning.
No. 14, Rock Hill School, ucar Francis Armstrong's. Beginning at and including John Sayres ; thence, in- cluding Widow Jackson, to and including David Lawrence; thence to and including Daniel Tomp- kins; thence to and including Jacob Mabee, Phineas Clark, Eli Clark, Peter Dolsen; thence to and in- cluding David Hartsen, to the place of beginning.
No. 15, Washington Academy School. Beginning at and including Nathaniel Wheeler; thence to and including John M. Ridsell ; thence to and including Enoch Jackson ; thence to and including James Wood; thence to the line of Goshen at Judge Thompson's mill; tben along said town-line to the Hemp meadows, west of Phineas Tompkins ; thence to the place of beginning.
No. 16, the school-house near Nicholas Demerest's. Beginning at and including John Knap; thencc and including Jonah Feagles, John Feagles, Crinas Lareau, James Helmes, William Raynor, Winson Wood, Benjamin Sayre, Isaac Road, William Drake, Benjamin Vail, William Knap, David Miller; from thence to the place of beginning.
No. 17, the stone school-house near Crinas Ber- tholf's. Beginning at and including Colvin Bradner's ; thence up Warwick Creek, including Jedediah Sayer and Abraham Peck; thence to the Pond, including James D. Clark and Harmon D. Clark ; thence to and including Joseph Burroughs ; thence including David Bigger, Reuben Dnnn, Henry Wisner, Gilbert How- ell; thence including Springstead, Andrew Houston, and James Benedict, Jr .; thence to the place of be- ginning.
No. 18. Beginning at and including Joel Wheeler; from thence to and including Nathaniel Minthorn ; thence to and including Joseph Dowers ; thence to Peter Complin's, including Peter Depew; thence to and including John Ward and Abijah Peck ; thence to the place of beginning.
No. 19, Centre School-House. Beginning at and including Robert Littel's; thence to and including David Trickey ; thence to and including David Ste- vens; thence to the place of beginning.
No. 20, Long Pond School. Beginning at the Chester road, including John and James Fitzgerald ; thence along the road to Stephen Bertholf's; thence including the house on the rise of Stirling Mountain ; thence to and including Radner Jennings and - Teachman; thence along the Jersey line to Warwick Mountain ; thence [along] said mountain, including the valley, to the place of beginning.
No. 21, Stirling Auchory. Containing all the in- habitants of the town of Warwick southerly of Long Pond District.
No. 13, Long Ridge School near James Dolsen. Beginning at Richard Johnson's, including Jacob No. 22, the neighborhood in Sugar-Loaf village, How and William Johnson, to James Dolsen's; adjoining Goshen town. Containing the following
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families, viz. : Thomas Weeden, Isaac Wood, Jesse Wood, Jr., David Howell, to the Widow Tidd.
No. 23, the neighborhood iu Sugar-Loaf Valley near to Bull's Mills, including the following families: Stephen H. Bull, Richard Bull, Runyan Compton, Francis Compton, John King, and the widow of Peter King.
No. 24. Beginning at the Jersey line where the Pochuck Creek crosses the same; thence down the said creek to Pochuck Bridge, including the widow of Charles Knapp, deceased; thence to the Widow Randolph's; thenee to the Jersey line, including on the easterly side of Pochuck Mountain.
A trial for murder took place in Warwick in 1818, which attracted so much public attention that it can hardly be omitted in a notice of the town. Richard Jennings, of the town of Goshen, was missing from his house on the 21st of February, 1818, and on the 28th was found on his farm dead. He appeared to have been shot, and then dreadfully beaten with the musket. It seemed that he had some litigation with his neighbor, David Conkling, who formed a con- spiracy, and employed a negro, Jack Hodges, for a reward of $500, to take the life of Jennings. After Jack perpetrated the act he absconded, but was taken, and, with Conkling, Teed, and Dunning, committed to prison. They were tried, condemned, and executed, the latter event occurring at Goshen on the 16th April, 1819.
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The following were early taverns, as shown by the record of excise moneys : In 1790 two pounds each were received as excise money from Cornelius Lazear ; this was undoubtedly at what is now New Milford; Wm. Holley, probably in Sugar-Loaf neigh- borhood ; Isaac Thompson ; John Kennedy, his tav- ern was at Florida; John Smith (three pounds), he ! kept a hotel at Warwick village, the present Pierson place ; Israel Horton ; Thomas Goldsmith ; Ezra San- ford lived on the mountain, he was the father of the present Ezra Sanford; Nathan Wheeler; John Hathorn, his tavern was on the well-known Hathorn place, east of the Belden Burt farm. It will not be inferred, however, that Gen. Hathorn, the owner, pursued hotel-keeping for a livelihood.
Other names appear in 1791 : Peter Van Houten, probably at Edenville; Stephen Bertholf, kept tavern in the Greenwood Lake valley ; Morris Thompson.
In 1792 new names appear, as those of Stephen Rogers, he kept in the old Kennedy tavern at Florida ; Thomas McWhorter, this was undoubtedly near Sugar- Loaf; Daniel Burt, this was the old house now stand- ing opposite the place of John L. Servin, the present Wawayanda House ; Jacobus Post, this was at Eden- ville, formerly known as Postville; Gilbert Wheeler, this was probably near the present homestead of Ezra Sanford; William Helms, the Helms family have been in the vicinity of Sugar-Loaf for many years. This was probably on the borders of Monroe. .
In 1793, John Baird, this was the stone house now
occupied by W. E. Sayer; Joseph Houston, this was between Amity and Edenville; Abram Lazear, he was probably the successor of Cornelius Lazear at New Milford ; Timothy Dunning ; John Cassidy, this was on the ground of the present Van Duzer building.
In 1794, Abram Dolsen. He lived on the ridge where Capt. J. D. Miller now lives.
An early settler of Bellvale was Jonathan Wilki- son, Sr., from Rahway, N. J. His children were Sally, who died young; Edward, who died young; Samuel, who died at sea of yellow fever ; Mrs. Robert Osborn, of Wallkill ; Mrs. John Winfield, Wisconsin ; Mrs. Peter Redner, Peekskill; Richard; Jonathan, who died Feb. 9, 1872, aged eighty-nine (see Wall- kill) ; and Mrs. John Douglass, afterwards Mrs. Buck, of Western New York. Jonathan, Jr., settled in Wallkill. His homestead was the present James Purdy farm, near Mount Johnson. A son of Jona- than, Jr., Hiram S. Wilkison, resides at Circleville.
Early physicians were as follows : Doctor Elmer is mentioned in one of the assessment-rolls given, and his residence has been given above. He was in practice during the Revolutionary war. (See General History.) At Warwick village Dr. DuBois was a physician of prominence for twenty or thirty years in the early part of this century. He lived where the Widow Christie now lives. Contemporary with Dr. DuBois, but dying earlier than he, was Dr. Hoyt, who lived where the present parsonage of the Old-School Bap- tist Church stands. During a portion of the same period Dr. James Heron was in practice for several years at Warwick village. He was quite distinguished in his profession, aud as a member of the County Medical Society. He was a writer of medical papers, and some of his treatises are said to be of valuable authority at the present time. Dr. Seward, of Florida, was in practice for some years.
IV .- ORGANIZATION.
In its first civil organization the town was a part of the old precinet of Goshen. What now constitutes Warwick remained as a part of Goshen Precinct dowu to the Revolution, and subsequently until the passage of the general act of March 7, 1788. The old precinct of Goshen had been divided into Cornwall and Goshen in 1764, but Warwick was still included in Goshen. Under the act of 1788 it became a town, and the first town-meeting was held on the first Tuesday of April, 1789, of which the following record was made :
" At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Warwick, held in the town of Warwick this first Tuesday in April, 1789, the following parsons were elected and chosen for the ensuing year :
"John Smith, town clerk ; John Wheeler, Esq., supervisor; Capt. James Post, Western District, Maj. Petør Bartholf, Middle District, Capt. Henry Bartholf, Eastern District, assessors; Maj. Jacobus Post, Western Dis- trict, Nathaniel Minthorn, Middle District, John Wood, Eastern District, commissioners of roads; Zebulon Wheeler, James Benedict, overseers of the poor; David McCamly, Western District, James Benedict, Middle District, David Miller, Eastern District, collectors; John Blain, Jr.' David Miller, Elias Taylor, David Fulton, constables.
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"Road-Masters; John Kanaday, Timothy Clark, John Benedict, Cant. George Yance, Wm. Armstrong, Esq., Anthony Finn, Capt. Jackson, Maj. Jacobus Post, Joseph Wilson, Thomas Blain, Abraham Lazair, John Smith, Garret Post, Philip Burroughs, Calvin Bradner, Capt. Bertholf, James Hannah, John Armstrong, James Miller, David Miller, Timothy Beers, Jacob Gable, Henry Townsend, Abel Noble, Philip Ketchen, Moses Carpenter, David Lobdell, Caleb Smith, Caleb Taylor, Robert Lud- low, Jacobus Chase, David Nanuy, Ezra Sanford, Israel Owens, Abraham Dolsen, Richard Johnson, John Sutton, Nathaniel Bailey.
" Arch. Armstrong and Esq. Shepherd, West District, Maj. P. Bartholf and James Benedict, Middle District. James Miller and Philip Bur- ronghs, East District, fence-viewers.
" Each road-master to ba pound-master; the pound to be put up at tha expense of the district.
" Resolred, That thera is £100 to be raised for the benefit of the poor, and £20 for contingent expenses."
GENERAL NOTES FROM THE RECORDS.
At the second town-meeting, the first Tuesday of April, 1790, Colvil Shepard, John Kennedy, Richard Welling, and Israel Holton were appointed pound- masters, and it was voted to erect pounds " as near to The beauties of old-fashioned State currency are the houses of said pound-masters as possible for the shown by the following memorandum of the highway convenience of water."
The report of the overseers of the poor for the year 1789 shows money paid to the following persons for the care of the poor : Anthony Fisher, Wm. McClure, Elizabeth Wright, George Luckey, Elias Taylor, John Shultz, " for the funeral expenses of Josiah Wigens ;" Cornelius Jones, John Sanford, Wm. Gannon.
Overseer Wheeler's services five and one-half days, one pound thirteen shillings.
As an item of the times when slavery existed in the State of New York we find the following certifi- cate :
"This certifies that we, James Benedict and Daniel Jessup, overseers of the poor of the town of Warwick, in tha county of Orange, and Stata of Naw York, by the consent of Nathaniel Roe and John Wheeler, two of the justices of the peace of the said county and Stata aforesaid, on ap- plication to us mada by Margaret Vance, of the said town of Warwick, respecting her intention of mannmitting a certain female dlare named Hap, twanty-nine yaars of aga last July, which femala slave tha said Margaret Vance purchased of John Wheeler and James Benedict, axecu- tors of the last will and testament of Samuel Vance, lata of the town of Warwick, deceased; pursuant to the powers and anthority to us given by the law of this State in that case mada and provided; and having axamined the said slava Hap, ahe appears to be under fifty years of aga and of sufficiant ability to provide for herself. Given undar our hands this tenth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
" JAMES BENEDICT,
" DAVIN JESSUP, Overseers.
" Allowed by us, NATHANIEL ROE, JOHN WHEELER, Justices. Registered 16th October, 1794."
The "Three Districts" were of considerable and distinct importance in early times. The assessors, commissioners, and collectors were chosen with refer- ence to those local divisions. In 1797 they were ar- ranged as follows :
Assessors : Eastern District, David Miller ; Middle District, James Burt; Western District, Wm. Carr.
Commissioners : Eastern District, Garret Post; Mid- dle District, Daniel Jessup; Western District, John Blain.
Collectors : Eastern District, Gilbert McWhorter ; Middle District, Ananias Rogers; Western District, John Sutton.
The supervisors' apportionment of school moneys for 1797 is recorded in the Warwick book :
Cornwall.
£140 138. Goshen ..... 82 10
Warwick. 101 9
Minisink
76 14
At the town-meeting of 1802, Joel Wheeler, Samuel S. Seward, and Win. Townson were appointed delegates to meet with delegates from the different towns (in Goshen), in order to nominate suitable persons to rep- resent this county in the Congress of the United States.
At the town-meeting,of 1808 it was-
" Voted, For the erection of a pair of stocks and a good pound $30; that John M. Foght have a piece of land from Isaac Dolsen to build the ponnd upon, and superintend the erection of the same as soon as possible ; that Isaac Dolsen be pound-master; that the stocks ba set in the most public place in the town, under the direction of the above-named John M. Foglit."
commissioners in 1809:
" N.B .- One ten-dollar bill has bean returned to the town clerk which he received from the collector, and paid ont on our order to Daniel Burt, for building the bridge near Hathorn's mills, for which soma recompensa ought to be made by tha town."
By the subsequent action of the town the amount was refunded to the town clerk.
March 28, 1815, the highway commissioners in their report say they " have engaged to pay $150 to build a bridge across the Warwick Creek, near Francis Price, which we expect will be completed this sea- son ; and there is a bridge in Florida that will take rising of one hundred dollars, and it is our opinion that two hundred dollars ought to be raised for the support of other bridges, as many of them are very shackling."
The following have been the principal town officers from 1789 to 1880 :
Supervisors.
Town Clerka.
1789-91
John Whealer.
1792-93
1794-96
Jacobus Post, Jr.
1797 Robert Armstrong.
1798-1800. .Jacobus Post.
1801-3 .James Burt.
1804 John llathorn.
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Benjamin Barnay.
1817-18
.Jesse Wood, Jr.
66
Nathaniel Jones.
1823
Foglit Burt.
Nathaniel Jones.
1828
.James B. Post.
1829-30 Edward L. Welling.
John W. Santh.
1832
John Cranse.
1833
1834-37
11
1838
1839 David Irwin.
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1X42
.Edward L. Welling.
John Cowdrey.
1844 .James B. Wheeler.
1845 James Burt, Jr.
1846.
James B. Wheeler.
"
1812-13
Jeffrey Wisner.
16
1814-15.
Jesse Wood, Jr.
1816.
James Wheeler.
1819-20.
Jeffrey Wisner.
1821-22
1824-26
1827
Jesse Wood, Jr. ..
James Heron. =
1831
Joseph Roa. James Heron. William L. Benedict.
1843
1840-41 James B. Wheeler.
John Morria Foght .*
1805-6. John Wheeler.
1807-9 Jacobus Post.
1810. William Finn.
1811. .James Burt.
John Smith. Francia Baird. 11
* In latar years Voght.
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Supervisors.
Towu Clerks.
1847
John Cowdrey.
W'm. H. Demarest.
44
1848
William V. N. Armstrong.
1849.
1850.
Johu Cowdrey.
1851-52
Wm. II. Houston.
Charles G. Winfield.
1853
Henry C. Seeley.
Reuben F. Randolph. Jolın E. Conklin. =
1863.
William Sly.
1864-65. William H. Honstop.
1866-68
Albert D. Hynard.
1869.
John Burt.
Wm. O. Maybee.
Thomas Blood.
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1872.
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66
Iohu Sayer.
1873-74
George W. Pitts.
1875
James E. Waterbury.
John E. Conklin.
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1830, James Wood; 1831, Edward L. Welling; 1832, Jesse Wood, Jr .; 1833, Henry W. Houston ; 1834, John Curtis ; 1835, Edward L. Wel- ling; 1836, Joseph Curry; 1837, Henry W. Houston; 1838, Joseph Roe, James M. Smith : 1839, John Sly; 1840, Joseph B. Howell; 1841, Thomas S. Nanny ; 1842, Alsop V. Aspall ; 1843, Joseph Roe; 1844, Joseph B. Howell; 1845, Sammel Wileou; 1846, Alsop V. As- pell; 1847 (no choice); 1848, John R. Wilson, James Burt, Jr .; 1849, Milton Barnes; 1850, Zubulon W. Smith; 1851, William H. Hoyt; 1852, Daniel Sayer; 1853, Milton Barnes; 1854, William V. Dusinbury; 1855, William H. Hoyt, Wm. L. Vail ; 1856, Daniel Sayar; 1857, James E. Waterbury ; 1858, Wm. L. Vail; 1859, William H. lloyt; 1860, Angustus J. Burt ; 1861, James E. Waterbury ; 1862, Wm. D. Irwin; 1863, Oscar Roaecrans; 1864, Townsend Wright; 1865, Jamies E. Waterbury, James Burt; 1866, Win. D. Irwin ; 1867, Oscar Rosecrans; 1868, Jumea Hall ; 1869, James E. Waterbury ; 1870, Samuel J. Stewart; 1871, Oscar Rosecrans; 1872, James Ilall ; 1873, James E. Waterbury; 1874, Joshua C. Wilson ; 1875, Oscar Rosa- crans; 1876, James Hall; 1877, John S. Liues; 1878, John V. D. Benedict ; 1879, Oscar Rosecrans; 1880, Jamies Hall.
V .- VILLAGES, NEIGHBORHOODS. WARWICK
is the largest village in the town, and the locality was known by that name in 1719, as already shown. The Warwick Creek flows along its eastern suburbs, crossing the road just south of the village. The place is the centre of a rich agricultural region, and is about eleven miles from Goshen, the county-seat. There are many elegant residences in the village, and many farm-dwellings near by of ample dimensions. The Warwick Valley Railroad connects the place with Graycourt on the Erie main line. Connection has also been made with New Jersey railroads by extending the Warwick line sonthward, the extension being opened for business in December, 1879.
The land on which the greater portion of Warwick village is situated was bought of Benjamin Aske, abont 1746, by Col. Beardsley, who evidently laid out the village. He built a grist-mill near where the main pipe of the modern water-works crosses the stream, the site of the old mill-dam being plainly visible. The village was not settled until ahout 1764. Two dwellings erected at that time are still standing. One erected by Daniel Burt, known as the "shingle house," and the other, called during the Revolution " the stone tavern," was erected by Francis Baird, and now occupied by W. E. Sayer. During the Revoln- tion, while New York was in the possession of the British, communication between the Hudson and Delaware was kept up through this town.
INCORPORATION.
The village was incorporated by an act of the Legis- lature passed April 15, 1867. The notice for the first meeting was issned under date of April 16, signed by William D. Irwin, John Cowdrey, Grinnell Burt, William C. Eager, Seward Cox, Charles Demerest. The meeting was held at the National IIall May 7th, and the inspectors who presided were Samuel J. Van Saun, John E. Conklin, Thomas Y. Travis. For the office of president there was a tie vote. Trustees chosen for two years were William D. Irwin and Samuel C. Welling ; for one year, Samuel J. Van Saun, Robert Dill; Assessors, William O. Terry, S. Ogden, E. B. Taylor; Treasurer, G. S. Holbert ; Col- lector, William H. June; Clerk, John E. Conklin.
At the first meeting of the board Samnel J. Van Saun was chosen president pro tem., and a new elec- tion to fill the office ordered for Tuesday, June 4, 1867. John E. Conklin resigned the office of clerk, and A. D. Hynard was appointed to fill the vacancy.
At the special election John L. Welling was chosen president.
Aug. 5, 1867, a resolution was passed prescribing the names of the streets in the village.
The board of trustees from 1867 to 1880 has been as follows :
1867 .- John L. Walling, president; William D. Irwin, Samuel C. Wel- ling, Samuel J. Van Saun, Robert Dill. A. D. Hynard, clerk ; G. S. Holbert, treasurer.
1868 .- Thomas S. Vandevoort, president; Samuel S. Van Sauu, Robert Dill, Wm. D. Irwin, Samuel C. Welling. A. D. Hynard, clerk ; G. S. Holbert, treasurer.
1869 .- John Cowdrey, president ; Wm. H. Chardevoyne, Isaac Taylor, Samuel J. Van Saun, Robert Dill. John L. Servio, clerk ; Mahlon Cooper, treasurer.
1870 .- Wm. L. Ogden, president; Edward Howe, Cornelius T. Lazear, Wm. H. Chardavoyne, Isaac Taylor. John V. D. Benedict, clerk ; Mahlon Cooper, treasurer.
1871 .- John G. Knapp, president ; Nathaniel R. Bradner, Robert Dill, Edward llowa, Cornelius T. Lazear. John V. D. Benedict, clerk ; Malılon Cooper, treasurer.
1872 .- John Cowdrey, president; Edward Howe, John Ackermau, Na- thanial R. Bradner, Robert Dill. J. V. D. Benedict, clerk ; Mahlon Cooper, treasurer.
1873 .- John Cowdrey, president; Jobn L. Servin, Cornelius T. Lazesr, Edward Howe, Johu Ackarmau. J. V. D. Benedict, clark ; Mahlon Coopar, treasurer.
1874 .- Wm. L. Ogden, president ; Wm. F. Quackenbush, John Suyer, John L. Servin, Cornelius T. Lazenr. J. V. D. Benedict, clerk ; G. W. Pitta, treasurer.
1875 .- Jolin Cowdrey, president ; John L. Servin, Peter S. Post, Wm. F. Quackeubush, John Sayer. John J. Beattie, clerk ; George W. Pitts, Irensurer.
1876 .- Charles R. Cline, president; James N. Peck, Wmu. F. Quacken- bush, Jolın L. Serviu, Peter S. Post. John V. D. Benedict, clerk ; Jamies HI. Van Duzer, treasurer.
1877 .- Charles R. Cline, president; E. M. Braduer, Jacob Quackenbusb, Cornelius T. Lazear, James N. Peck. Samuel S. Van Saun, clerk ; JADIes II. Van Duzar, treasurer.
1878 .- Charles R. Cline, presideut ; Peter S. Post, Jolin A. Dator, E. M. Bradner, Jacob Quackenbush. Samuel S. Van Saun, clerk ; James HI. Van Duzer, treasurer.
1879 .- John Cowdrey, president; E. M. Bradner, John Carson, Peter S. Post, John A. Dator. Samuel S. Van Saun, clerk ; Edward Grithu, trenaurer.
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1880 .- John Cowdrey, president; Pater S. Post, John A. Dator, E. M. Bradner, John Carson. Samuel S. Van Saun, clerk ; Mahlon Cooper, treasurer.
1854-50
1857-62. John L. Welling.
Daniel Sayer.
James 1I. Van Duzer. John E. Conklin.
1870.
1871 Theodora H. Cooper.
James E. Dill.
44
1876-80. .George W. Pitte.
Henry B. Stephens. Wm 1I. Demerest.
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The other officers for 1880-81, chosen and appointed, are as follows : John E. Conklin, collector ; Benjamin F. Vail, water commissioner ; Nathaniel R. Bradner, assessor ; Peter Hoffman, police constable; Norman L. Dill, street commissioner.
A police justice was first elected at the charter election of 1872, and N. Roe Bradner was chosen to that office. Mr. Bradner was re-elected in 1874. In 1876, John Mabee was chosen police justice, but did not qualify, and John J. Beattie was appointed in his place, Sept. 4, 1876. At the election of 1877, John L. Servin was chosen, and served one term. At the election of 1879 the present officer, Joshua C. Wil- son, was elected.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Excelsior Fire Engine Company, No. 1, was organ- ized in September, 1869, with about 60 members. For various reasons it was deemed best to change the organization somewhat, as well as the name, and in 1871, November 7th, the company dissolved and im- mediately reorganized as the Warwick Hose Company. The list of officers from the first organization to the present time comprises the following :
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