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Frederick Valentine, priv., Co. F, 13th II. Art .; enl. Jan. 12, 186 4; disch. at close of war; living in Baltimore, Md.
John Van Evera, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 18, 1862.
Peter Wager, priv., Co. F, 13th II. Art .; en1. Jan. 4, 1864.
John W. Ward, priv., Co. 11, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 8, 1862.
Mauly Warren, wagoner, Co. F, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; ent. Sept. 24, 1861 ; disch. with regiment ; died in Charlton since the war.
Bornt Wemple, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf .; eul. Ang. 9, 1862; disch. with the regiment ; living in West Charlton.
George C. Wilder, musician, Co. I, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 16, 1862; died of diphtheria, at Harper's Ferry, Va., Sept. 1, 1862.
Wm. E. Wilder, priv., Co. 11, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 20, 18G1 ; died of dis- ense, in hospital near Washington, D. C., Sept. 21, 1862.
James K. Wilson, priv., Co. H, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 7, 1861 ; disch. for dis- ability, Aug. 1, 1862.
WATERFORD.
I .- GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.
THE town of Waterford is in the southeastern corner of the county, at the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers. The town is very small in territory, containing only about seven square miles. It is bounded north by Half- Moon, east, south, and west by the IIudson and Mohawk rivers, the county line. It includes 3204 acres of improved land and 315 of unimproved, and all of this last amount is woodland. The population in 1875 was 4386. This town is a portion of the Van Schaick patent.
This town is described in the revised statutes of the State, and the boundary-lines defined, as follows :
" The town of Waterford shall contain all that part of said county beginning in the bounds of the county in the Mohawk river, at the mouth of a certain creek or run of water which crosses the road lead- ing from the village of Waterford to Ballston, at the foot of the hill a little to the northwestward of the dwelling-house now or late of Claudius Stannard, and running up the said creek to where it crosses the road as aforesaid : then south seventy-three degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and sixty chains and thirty links to where a ereck called the Mudder Kill intersects the publie road leading from the village of Waterford to Stillwater ; then down the said Mudder Kill to its entrance into Hudson river ; then east to the bounds of the county ; and then along the hounds of the county southerly and westerly to the place of beginning."
II .- NATURAL FEATURES.
Its surface is mostly an upland, fifty to one hundred feet above the river. Along the Mohawk is an almost perpen- dicular range of slate bluffs, and the valley of the Hudson is bordered by a range of clay hills. The soil is described as a sandy, clayey, and alluvial loam of great fertility. A valuable water-power is furnished by the falls in the Mo- hawk river. This water-power has been utilized by the construction, in 1828 and 1829, of a hydraulic canal, upon which a large number of manufactories in Cohoes are situ- ated. The wide alluvial flats north from the village are exeellent land. In early times they were considered so val- uable, and the hills in comparison so poor, that farms were described in deeds as bounded on the river and extending westward " as far as the land runs," implying that the hills were not worth calling land at all. The fine cultivated and productive farms now to be seen upon the uplands, indieate how slight was the real knowledge of the country in those times.
III .- EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The few scattering residents of the first century of IIalf- Moon Point cannot be very easily mentioned. We are compelled to come down a whole century at once to reach names and dates that can be given with some degree of ae- euraey. From the establishment of Fort Orange, at Albany, in 1623, or from 1630, when the fort began to enlarge into a village, it is probable there was never a time when at
least a few traders and adventurers were not to be found at Half-Moon Point,-some temporarily, others more perma- nent. But through all the intervening period of one hun- dred and fifty years to the American Revolution, little is recorded for the historian to report.
In 1784 the site of the village was purchased by Colonel Jacobus Van Schoonhoven, Middlebrook, Ezra Hickok, Judge White, and several others, mostly from Connecticut. This fairly commenees the era of modern settlement. This was while llalf-Moon was yet a district, and four years be- fore its town organization began.
The survey of the village immediately followed, trade with the settlers in the country adjacent sprang up. Mer- chants, produce-buyers, and business men generally eame in, attracted by the confluence of the two rivers, certain that the place must become a great commercial point in the future. These hopes were not fully realized until after the opening of the Champlain canal and the Erie, and perhaps even then not to the extent anticipated when the War of the Revolution closed.
The records of Half-Moon for three years, given in the chapter upon that town, are relied upon mainly to show the early settlement of Waterford in 1788, '89, and '90. Town, village, and church records being so extensively lost in Waterford itself, it is fortunate that the old book of Half- Moon has survived the " wasting touch of time," and re- mains to furnish some evidence as to who the early pioneers of this town were. There is also on record the list of forty innkeepers for the year 1788 and four retailers, which must belong in part to the present town of Waterford. From these sourees, aided by the recollection of A. C. Waldron, of Waterford, Shubael Taylor, of Clifton Park, and several others, we are able to mention a few of the early names.
Jacobus Van Schoonhoven seems to have been a man of great prominence immediately after the Revolution. In 1785 his name is attached to a bill of sale as justice of the peace. He was the first supervisor of Half-Moon, holding that position in 1788, 1789, 1790, while as yet all this territory was a part of Albany county. He was one of the purchasers of the village plat in 1784, and one of the first trustees. He was also a merchant and produce-buyer. In 1788 he held an innkeeper's license and also a retailer's. This may only mean, as in many other cases, that he kept liquors for sale, as nearly all merchants did, and, by holding an innkeeper's license, could not only retail by measure but could sell to be drunk on the premises. He left two sons, both of whom went to Troy. James Van Schoonhoven was supervisor of Waterford in 1817 and 1818.
The firm of Moses and Ira Seott was an early business establishment in Waterford. They were merchants and
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grain-dealers, and did an extensive business. In 1788 the firm is recorded among those having an innkeeper's license. William, a son of Ira Scott, is still living in Waterford.
Adam Edson was an innkeeper in Waterford.
The Levisie name is very old in connection with Water- ford. It is mentioned in Albany annals as the place where the old fort stood. The name of Anthony Leversie appears in the innkeepers' list of 1788. His place was about two miles above Waterford. Just north of his house, where the track of the old Albany and Northern railroad was to cross the Hudson, was the ferry,-a very ancient one, so ancient that even the old fort of 1689 may have been there to gnard the crossing.
The Van Schaick and Peebles islands are so called from two pioneers of those names, who came over in their own ships from Ilolland, and became the owners of large estates here uuder a direct grant, it is believed, from Queen Anne. The sons of Van Schaick were Anthony, Gerard, and Henry. Captain Pratt, in command of a tug at Water- ford, is connected by marriage to the descendants of these families. Ile has the old Van Schaick cradle, one hundred and sixty years old, in which have been rocked successive generations of the various branches of the families. Cap- tain Pratt's grandfather, John G. Pratt, was with Schuy- ler's army, and helped to build the works on Peebles island.
Daniel Van Alstyne was a lawyer of Waterford in 1788. His residence was where John F. Pruyn recently lived. Ile was supposed to know something else besides law, as he was elected pathmaster in 1788.
Aaron Comstock, mentioned among the town officers of 1788, was a farmer about two miles from the village, on the present McCoy place.
The Vandenburg name is found in connection with nearly all the towns in this valley. In 1788, the Vanden- burg tavern was opposite that of Leversie, two miles up the river. It is not probable, however, that this is the " house of Cornelins Vandenburgh" at which the first town- meeting of Half-Moon is said to have been held ; that was probably in some more central place for the three towns.
William Waldron was the grandfather of A. C. Waldron, now of Waterford. The old Waldron homestead was on the river-road,-a part of the present Gabriel Traverse farm, the house of old times was just north of the present one. Mr. Waldron left three sons, Cornelius, William, and Tunis. A great-grandson is the ex-surrogate of the county, having held that office twenty-one years.
Hezekiah Ketchum, one of the first trustees, in 1794, was a grain merchant and general produce dealer. He was an early resident, as his name is in the town records in 1788. Ilis place was on the site of Higgins' drug-store. Jacobus Ostrander was also a licensed innkeeper of 1788.
James Dugan, a constable and also collector of Ilalf- Moon in 1788-90, was an early school-teacher of Water- ford. Mr. A. C. Waldron and wife both attended his school, and they recollect him as a man of ability and an excellent teacher.
John Clark was an early resident of Waterford, before 1790. He had two sons, Stephen and Daniel. Stephen was a government contractor, furnishing shoes for the army in 1812, and employed a large number of men.
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Aurie Banta, one of the pathmasters of 1788, was a resident of Waterford. He was a carpenter.
Richard Davis was a merchant. Richard Davis, Jr., supervisor of Half-Moon in 1792, was probably a son, and Richard D. Davis, so well known as an eloquent political speaker in 1840, a grandson. The Davis family owned at one time most of the original Van Schoonhoven tract of five hundred acres in the west part of Waterford, between the canal and the hills.
The name of Flores Bancker, the old surveyor of 1784, is familiar to business men as being found in so many deeds. He may have been a professional surveyor from abroad, not a resident of Waterford.
Isaac Keeler was a merchant on Second street. He was one of the first trustees.
John Pettit, another trustee of 1794, was a cabinet- maker. Ilis business was on Main street, the present resi- dence of Mrs. Holroyd.
Duncan Oliphant, still another trustee, was a tanner, and his place of business was at the north end of First street, now owned by Mrs. Powers.
John Van Dekar kept tavern just west of Waterford.
Benjamin Mix, whose name appears among the town officers of Ilalf-Moon in 1788, was probably an innkeeper on what used to be known as Quality Hill, between Mid- dletown and Waterford.
James Scott is remembered by Shubael Taylor as having kept a public-house in Waterford where the Fox tavern now stands.
Samuel J. Hazard was a merchant and general produce dealer in Waterford.
John Pettit was an early settler at or about the time of the Revolution. His son, John Pettit, Jr., born in Water- ford, only died a few years since, and his widow still sur- vives.
A few additional items are added in respect to early set- tlement. On Havre island the Indians had in old times a stronghold. It was known as the Castle Moenominis. It appears that the distinguished chieftains of the aboriginal tribes entertained the same opinion of the strength of this point that General Schuyler did in the Revolution, when he selected it for his final stand in defense of Albany. The old Van Schaick, or Half-Moon, patent was originally granted to Captain Gorson Gerritse Van Schaick and Philip Pieterson Schuyler. This inelnded Van Schaick and IIavre islands, also the present site of Waterford, and a portion of the town of Half-Moon. The first settlement of Half-Moon Point, or Waterford, seems to have been soon after the year 1630. It consisted of several families who, among others, had been induced by Mr. Van Rensselaer to come over and settle on his lands. Those going farther north crossed the Mohawk, and settled on the present site of Waterford. Captain Van Schaiek died in 1676, and his widow sold a portion of the estate, consisting of about four acres of land ou Havre island, and also the " foreland of 1Half-Moon," to Jan Jacob Noorstrant. The price was stated at sixty-sic whole beavers, to be paid, however, in wheat, oats, or other grain and labor ; showing that beavers were used as the standard of the currency, all traffie esti- mated by the beaver valne, as now all forms of currency
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are measured by their " gold value." Guert Hendricks Van Schoonhoven was a resident of Half-Moon in 1675. In 1681 he had a farm on the island. Harmon Lieversie and Roloff Gerritse Vandewerker were also at Half-Moon Point in 1680. Cohoes was settled to some extent before 1750, by families from Waterford, among them those of Clute Fonda and Ouderkirk. The first bridge across the Mohawk was built in 1795. It was a great achievement for that early time, being nine hundred feet long, twenty- four feet wide, fifteen feet above the bed of the river, sup- ported by thirteen stone piers, and its cost was $12,000. An excavation in the rock above Waterford still shows the place of the old bridge. Across this bridge went the great northern tide of travel from Albany to Ballston, and also up the valley of the Hudson to Stillwater and places north. The opening of the Union bridge over the Hudson, Decem- ber 3, 1804, was celebrated with a public procession, mili- tary, civil, and Masonic. It formed in Lansingburg, marched over the bridge, and dined in Waterford, the gov- ernor of the State and other prominent persons being present.
The following names are taken from the census of the city and county of Albany, enrolled under an order of the court, June 11, 1720, by Gerrit Van Sehaick, sheriff. Enrolled as residents of Half-Moon : Jacobus Van Schoon- hoven, Evert Van Ness, Daniel Fort, Cornelius Van Buren, Cornelius Van Ness, Isaac Ouderkirk, Lavinus Harminse, Tunis Harminse, Winant Vandenburgh, Roolif Gerritse, Hendrick Roolifse, John De Voe, Daniel Van Olinda, El- dert Ouderkirk, Cornelius Vandenburgh. This no doubt shows the heads of all the families in Waterford and the country around it in 1720,-one hundred and fifty-eight years ago.
And further, it may be proper to add that the older authorities point to the northern curve of the Mohawk at Crescent as the real " Half-Moon" of olden times, while Waterford was " Half-Moon Point," and most of the very early families may have been at the former rather than the latter place.
The residence of Jacobus Van Schoonhoven was just west of the present canal bridge, on the north side of Main street.
There are not many very old buildings now in Waterford. The house of Mr. Geer, formerly owned by the Davis family, is over a hundred years old. On the corner of First and Main streets a very early tavern stood. The same build- ing in part is still there, a private residence. The tavern kept by Mr. Fox was built before 1800. Brewster's tin- shop is a pretty old building, also the Waldron meat- market. The old Waterford Academy stood on the hill near the present Catholic church.
We add in this connection a few accounts taken from an old book of audits in the office of the clerk of the Albany board of supervisors, though many of them belong to other towns of the county than Waterford.
November, 1781.
Cornelius Waldron, C'a. £ 8. d.
By amount allowed as constable ·
1 7 0
Matthew Vischer,
One year's salary as clerk of sessions 15
0
0
11
13
1
district
10
0
0
Half-Moon district,
DR.
To amount of the county charge
64
3
4
Half-Moon district, CR.
By cash of Jacob Groot, in part of the county tax laid in 1781
3
00
0
Half-Moon district, CR.
By cash of Evert Waldron, county tax,
Nov. 10, 1781
6
10
4
June 20, 1782.
Ephraim Woodworth,
CR.
By account allowed
.
7
5
0
Half-Moon district, CR.
By cash,-excise fees of Jacobus Van
Schoonhoven, 1782 .
10
10
0
It will be noticed that James Gordon must have added to his distinguished civil and military qualifications that of " a mighty hunter," for he drew a bounty of £24 for eight wolves killed in one year.
Ephraim Woodworth was the citizen of Stillwater whose house a few years earlier bad been General Gates' head- quarters.
The following, still further showing early settlements, are of great interest :
The purchase of Jan Jacobns Van Noorstrant from the widow of Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick, already mentioned, dated June 6, 1677, was a tract " bounded south by the fourth sprout of the Mohawk, west by Roelef Gerritse Vandewerker's land, north by the little creek close by Roelef Gerritse Vandewerker's house, and east by the river, containing about seven morgens of land."
How much does this differ from the present corporate limits of the village of Waterford ? A good question for the geography class number 1 in the high school.
Roelef Gerritse Vandewerker had five sons, Johannes, Jacob, Gerrit, Ilendrick, and Albert. In the above sale the widow retained the right to have a free passage for her cattle through the land she sold " up to Half- Moon for pas- turage." This confirms the other many indications that
8.
d.
llokling an election at Saratoga
4
16
0
John McCrea and others,
For laying assessments in 1799 .
19
4
0
Cornelius Van Veghten,
Account as supervisor
0
16
0
6
14
0
James Gordon,
Account as supervisor
1
10
0
By bounty for 8 wolves .
24
00
0
Beriah Palmer, Account for laying assessments .
27
00
0
Eliphalet Kellogg and others, Laying assessments
5
5
0
John Vischer, CR.
By amount allowed for keeping assessors 89
16
0
George Palmer, CR.
12
10
0
Saratoga district,
DR.
52
10
0
district
206
17
1
Ballstown district,
DR.
To amount of the county charge
district
59
10
0
.
5
0
0
By account as supervisor
To amount of the county charge
Cornelius Van Veghten and others,
HISTORY OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
"Half- Moon" was at Crescent, and what is now Waterford was "Half- Moon Point," or " the foreland of Half-Moon."
Captain Goosen Gerritse Van Schoonhoven had permis- sion, with Philip Preterse Schuyler, to buy what is now Waterford of the Indians " to prevent those from Con- nectient from buying it." This is no doubt the first pur- chase of Waterford, and the Schoonhoven mentioned the first of a long suecession of that name north of the Mohawk extending down to the present time.
Nov. 23, 1669, Goosen Gerritse (not certain whether Van Schaick or Schoonhoven, for their first names were the same, and the old records sometimes omitted surnames ) sells land in Half-Moon to Philip Pieter Schuyler.
Captain Goosen Gerritse Van Schoonhoven's first wife was Gertie, daughter of Brandt Peelen Van Nieukerke, and his second wife was Annatie Lievens, whom he mar- ried July 2, 1657. He had three sons, Gerrit, Anthony, and Sybrant ; also three daughters, Goertruy, Gerritie, and Margaret.
IV .- ORGANIZATION.
This town is named from the ancient ford over the Mo- hawk. It crossed a little above the present railroad bridge from the mainland to Havre island. It is a very old eross- ing, famous in Indian history, and in the early exploration of French and English adventurers. The place where a ford existed in the water of either the Mohawk or the Hudson was a mooted point, because, even above the junction, both rivers were of sufficient breadth to render a fording- place eagerly sought for. A village rapidly grew up at the jnnetion of the two rivers, and though at first, and to some extent for many years, it was known as Half-Moon Point, yet it also acquired the name of Waterford. By this name the village was incorporated many years before the town was organized. When, therefore, the business interests of this extreme point rendered it desirable that there should be a new town organized, the name of the village was deemed the appropriate one for the town. There was also a ford over the Hudson just above the Union bridge. Teams have been driven over there within the memory of many now living in Waterford.
Very early the village became a place of so much im- portance that its citizens were naturally unwilling to have their town business done at such remote points as the im- mense extent of Half-Moon then required. Waterford had risen to the dignity of an incorporated village in 1801. The inconvenience of distance was, however, endured until 1816, when the town of Waterford was organized, with a territory so small that its citizens have never sinee had to travel far to share in town affairs. Town offices, town business, and town-meetings have ever since been where they could easily attend to them.
No rival villages have ever contended for the honor of having the town-meetings held with them. Unanimously for sixty-one years the annual meetings have been adjourned from Waterford to Waterford. The records of the town were rescued from the burning office by the clerk, M. C. Powell, in the great fire ; but the older books are sinee lost. The records now in possession of the town clerk only go back to 1848. The list of supervisors is obtained from
the county clerk's office ; but the catalogue of town clerks and colleetors is not full.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Supervisors. Town Clerks. Collectors.
1816. John Cramer.
1817. J.Van Schoonhoven.
1818.
1819. Daniel Van Alstine.
1820. Wm. Given.
1821.
1822. =
€ 4
1823. 16
1824.
44
1825.
1826. Joshua Mandeville.
1827.
1828.
16
Frank. Livingston. Abram C. Waldron. Tunis Vandewerker.
1832.
1833. =
1834. John Stewart.
16
=
1835. John Vernam.
M. C. Powell.
Thompson Fisher.
1836. Charles Seott.
44
Fred. W. Waterman.
1837. Joshua Bloore.
Alex. MeElwee.
1838. Robert Blake.
Ilelnus Van Orden.
1839. Jos. 11. Cudworth.
Horace Fisk.
1840. James I. Scott. =
John Smith.
1841. Geo. W. Kirtland.
llenry G. Waldron.
1842. 16
Daniel Clark.
1843. Wmn. Scott.
1844. Wm. T. Seymour.
1845. David Brewster.
Samuel Barker.
1846.
Daniel A. Stone.
1847.
1848. David T. Lamb.
Wm. A. Waldron.
Charles Ball.
1849. Abm. L. Brewster.
Stephen Underhill.
1850. David T. Lamb.
Courtland Brewster. Henry G. Waldron.
1851. Daniel G. Smith.
Isaac Bailey.
1852. 64
=
Henry B. Seott.
1853. John Fulton.
John Smith.
Daniel Clark.
1854. W. C. Vandenhurgh. Lyman U. Davis. Cor. Vandewerker.
1855. Joshua Mors.
Chas. E. Pickett. Henry G. Waldron.
1856, John Titeomb.
Millen Bedell.
Daniel Stevens.
1857.
IS58.
Geo. S. Waterman.
Roger C. Evans.
1859. David T. Lamb.
Henry B. Scott.
1860. ..
:
Chas. E. Tickett.
1861.
=
Henry B. Scott.
1862.
Daniel Stevens.
1863.
Sam'l A. Northrop. James 1. Seott.
Patrick Glavin.
1865.
..
4
.6
1866.
16
*
=
Ira G. Van Arman.
1867. Courtland Brewster.
Patrick MeAran.
1868.
Darius Barnes.
1869.
:
Patrick Gidney.
1870.
=
Chas. 11. Stewart.
1871. Thomas Breslin.
George E. Pickett.
Wm. Porter.
1872.
1873. David T. Lamb.
=
Sam'l A. Northrop.
18:4. 46
4
Wm. Dunnigan.
1875.
Matt. H. Martratt.
1876. James II. Brewster. Benj. Singleton. Dennis Curtin.
1877 H. C. Vandenburgh. Major B. Winchell.+ Wm. H. Van Norden. 1878. George E. Piekett. Matt. HI. Martratt.
* No choice for supervisor in 1875,-a tie,-and David T. Lamb held over.
f The vote in 1877 on town clerk was a tie, and Winchell was appointed.
=
66
John Cramer (2d). 16 .6
1829. Nathan Bailey.
1830. Johua Bloore.
1831. Eli M. Todd.
=
Isaac Bailey.
A. II. Vandewerker.
=
Eli Bootman.
1864.
James B. Neary.
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ELECTED BY THIE PEOPLE UNDER THE LAW TAKING EFFECT IN 1828.
1848. Joseph II. Cudworth.
1864. Joseph Il. Cudworth.
1849. Wm. T. Seymour.
1865. Chauncey Sherman.
1850. Charles Johnson.
Gall II. Lee.
1851. John Cramer (2d).
1866. Gad Il. Lee.
1852. Robert Moe.
John F. Pruyn.
Joshua M. Todd. 1867. John Cramer (2d).
1853. Joseph If. Cudworth. Cornelius A. Waldron.
1868. Pearl Spafford.
1869. John F. Pruyn.
1854. John Wood.
1870. Peter Quaekenbush.
1855. John Cramer (2d).
1871. John Cramer (2d).
1856. Lewis G. Iloffman.
1872. John A. Waldron.
1857. Chauncey Sherman.
1858. James McKaller.
1873. Ilenry Foley. Wm. Shepherd.
1859. John Cramer (2d).
1874. Chauncey Sherman.
1860. Joseph II. Cndworth.
1875. Peter Quackenbush.
1861. Chauncey Sherman.
1876. Geo. S. Waterman.
1862. Anthony J. Brease.
1877. C. W. Barringer.
1863. John Cramer (2d).
1878. llenry Foley.
Besides the local prominence of Jacobus Van Sehoonho- ven, so fully shown in the records of Half-Moon, it should be added that he was a senator twelve years, from 1794 to 1805, inclusive, a member of Assembly in 1786, and also in 1791 ; and also a judge of the court of common pleas in 1791. His son, Guert Van Schoonhoven, was a senator in 1815, and judge iu 1823, and James, judge in 1820. Other publie men were John Cramer, a representative to Congress from 1833 to 1837 : Chesselden Ellis, from 1843 to 1845; Hugh White, from 1845 to 1851. John Cra- mer was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1821, and John K. Porter, of the Convention of 1846. John Cramer was also a senator in 1823-25, and was fol- lowed in the same office by John L. Viele, during 1826-29.
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