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Jehial Parks was probably in Malta about the time of the Revolutionary struggle. His sons were John and Patrick. His homestead was a little east of Maltaville.
The list of town officers chosen at the first meeting, 1802, affords information as to the pioneers about that time.
Samuel Clark, the first supervisor, lived at East Line,
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south of the present Corners, on the farm now owned by Ilenry Van Ilyning. He was a man of great prominenee, a presidential elector in 1792, voting for George Washing- ton at the second election under the new constitution. Ilis homestead is a venerable relie of the past, opposite the old Smith place, and is noted, as elsewhere shown, for having been the place of the first court for Saratoga County.
Luther Landon was an early settler north of Malta, on the farm now owned by Charles Sickler.
Dean Chase lived at Malta Ridge.
Ebenezer Valentine, south of Malta, on the present Van Arnam place.
Ebenezer Dibble, on the farm now owned by George Rogers, Esq.
Ebenezer Millard lived northwest of Malta, on the Eighmy farm.
Obadiah Tompkins settled on Malta Ridge.
Reuben Doolittle was an early pioneer on the farm still in the family, owned by a son, Harvey Doolittle.
Cornelius Abeel lived a little east of Round lake, on the farm now occupied by a daughter, Mrs. Parks.
Stephen Ireland settled near Saratoga lake, on the place now owned by Joseph Smith.
Robert HIemple, father of A. H. Ilemple, of Malta, came to the town about 1804. Ile bought a part of the Dunning tract, including the Dunning tavern, on the site of Seddon's store. Mr. Hemple kept a public-house fifteen years. A noted circuinstance of this family is stated, that Robert Hemple was the eldest of eighteen children ; that there was no death in the family until the youngest child was fifteen years of age. The name is frequently spelled Ilemphill.
We add the following, obtained of James II. Clark, East Line: llis grandfather, Samuel Clark, came from New- burg, on the Hudson, about 1776 or 1777. He had been the owner of property now covered largely by Newburg itself, and if retained, would have been an immense fortune for his descendants. Selling that, he came to East Line, and settled first on the Ballston side of the road. Soon afterwards, however, he bought a tract of six hundred acres, and built the well-known dwelling-house which is now standing on the Malta side of the line. The house is therefore nearly or quite one hundred years old. The sons of Samuel Clark were Jehial, who settled in Sullivan county ; Samuel, in Saratoga County; James (father of James H.), also in Saratoga County. The daughters were Charlotte, who became Mrs. Miller, of Ballston ; Eliz- abeth, the wife of Rev. Win. Anson, who finally settled on her father's old homestead ; Lydia, Mrs. Cooper, of Cayuga county, and Patty, who became Mrs. Valentine, and settled in Michigan.
Samuel Smith kept a tavern on the Ballston side of the line, opposite the Clark place.
Noah Olmstead was an early settler iu Malta, near East Line ; also Mr. Rockwell.
Mr. Benediet lived in Ballston, near East Line.
Wm. Marvin was an early settler in Malta, His deed, dated in 1761, would indicate him to be the first settler, provided he came at the time of the purchase. Judge Marvin, of Saratoga Springs, is a grandson.
While the courts were held at Samuel Clark's, there was a building near the road and just opposite the Smith Hotel, that was used and was called the court-house,-though it is the opinion of James Il. Clark that the legal business was mostly done in the dwelling-house. One room in the latter was used to keep the prisoners brought from Albany county jail for trial.
The country near Round lake had a touch of the oil excitement, which broke out so violently in almost every town in the land about the time the great discoveries in Pennsylvania were astonishing the world. There was thought to be an oil spring northeast of the lake, near the place of J. Deyoe, and a well was sunk in the search for oil south from the lake, but no decisive results were achieved that could satisfy any one that there was oil worth working for.
The carly mills in this town were on the various small streams that have become of little importance in later years, since the elearing up of the country has so much diminished their volume. There was a grist-mill on the site of the present one at Maltaville. It was run by the water-power of one of the Round lake streams. There was also a saw- mill near the present place of Mr. Lent ; another on one of the Saratoga lake streams. At the Stillwater line, and near the upper end of the lake, was both a grist-mill and a saw- mill. It is somewhat uncertain just what year milling operations began at these points, but in several cases it was no doubt before 1800.
REMINISCENCES OF LEWIS SMITHI, NOW OF MECHANIC-
VILLE.
Hle was born Jan. 15, 1786, at East Line, being now (1878) in his ninety-third year. He states that his father, Samuel Smith, came from Norwalk, Conn., to Ballston somewhat earlier than the Burgoyne campaign. He is not certain of the exact date. The family came by water to New York, and up the Hudson to Albany.
From there the pioneer with his wife and one child went on foot to Schenectady, and then made their way to Balls- ton. When they reached their destination they had twenty-five eents left, and no tools for work or housekeep- ing furniture. Samuel Smith was a blacksmith, and he told his neighbors, among whom was Noah Olmstead, that if they would go to Stillwater and procure blacksmith tools from Burgoyne's surrendered eamp he would do their black- smithing until they were satisfied. They went and pro- cured an English bellows, a vise, two hammers, and two pair of tongs. Brought them on a pole slung across their shouklers to East Line; and thus Mr. Smith was established in blacksmithing.
Ile also procured considerable of his chopping and clear- ing done by men for whom he did blacksmith work. The vise and the anvil were sold many years ago, but at his father's request the old bellows was saved, slung up in the upper part of the shop on the old Smith place at East Line. It is there now, and it was Samuel Smith's desire to have it remain as a family relic, -- the foundation of the pio- neer s fortune. Mr. Smith's children were Samuel (born before removing to Boston), who settled north of East Line, and whose grandson, James Il. Smith, now lives on
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the pioneer homestead south of East Line; Esther, who became Mrs. Alexander Weed, and settled east of Ballston Spa, in Malta ; Hannah, who became Mrs. Moses Landon, and settled in Malta; Lewis, from whom this account is derived, row of Mechanieville; Silas, who succeeded to the old homestead, and died at the age of eighty-four.
Lewis Smith remembers something of the courts, being a boy of seven or eight years before they were removed from Mr. Clark's, opposite his father's place. He remembers Dirck Swart, the first county elerk, who always stopped at his father's house, and who gave the little boy many shil- lings for waiting upon him from time to time. He also re- members Major Buel. He relates an anecdote showing that penmanship in the old times was not much better than it now is. A lawyer in Charlton had written a letter to one of his clients, then attending court at East Line. The client could not read it ; neither could the judge, nor the lawyers, nor anybody else at East Line. So the " little shaver," Lewis Smith, was mounted on a horse and sent to Charlton to carry the letter to the lawyer who wrote it, and see if he could read the document himself. The boy was instructed not to tell him anything, who wrote it or where it came from. The lawyer took the letter, looked it over, turned it upside-down, studied it diagonally and perpendicu- larly, and then broke out with, " Who in h-I wrote that ? The devil couldn't read it !" Lewis did as he was directed, and kept still for awhile, but was finally obliged to tell all about it. The lawyer picked it up again. "Oh," said he, " that is plain enough ; anybody could read that."
Mr. Smith says that in his boyhood days the children had to work ; there was no time to go off on expensive sprees with niee carriages. If a boy was able to pull up a weed or to burn brush, he must keep busy. He could go fishing - sometimes in the outlet of Ballston lake. The men used to go to Saratoga lake with nets, and catch a wagon-load in a few hours, divide them, and pack them away for family use. He used to go to general training, and expected to have three cents pocket-money to buy a card of gingerbread with. He had one pair of shoes a year, and usually one suit of home-made winter clothes. Ilis summer wear was made at home, of brown tow-cloth. Mr. Smith remembers going to Saratoga Springs and seeing the water bubble out of the top of the High Rock.
In the War of 1812, Lewis Smith was eaptain of an ar- tillery company of which Lansing was a lieutenant. The colonel procured permission to draft by companies, and Cap- tain Smith's company drew clear. Mr. Smith was married in 1809 to a daughter of Isaac Garnsey, of Clifton Park. She died Nov. 14, 1877,-their married life having ex- tended for sixty-eight years. They had six children ; one died young. Of the others, Lewis E. settled in Mechanieville ; Esther became Mrs. Sears, of Meehan- ieville ; Silas, three miles west; Daniel, in Waterford ; Isaac N., a lumber dealer, died some years since. Lewis Smith, soon after his marriage, settled at Crow Hill, where he in time acquired a farm of nearly six hundred aeres. He lived there forty-three years. In his earlier farming he raised and sold wheat. After that failed, went in to rais- ing hogs rather largely, fattening from twenty to thirty, and sometimes forty and fifty, a year. He also kept at times
from six hundred to one thousand sheep. In 1853 he moved into Mechanieville. His neighbors said he would not live long if he moved off his farm; but he has passed a quarter of a century sinee in his pleasant village home. He is one of the few links left that connect this generation to the past,-three years older than the constitution ; five years older than Saratoga County.
IV .- ORGANIZATION.
The designation of this town, like that of some others, seems to have been a merely arbitrary selection. Any tradition with reference to its origin is vague and uncer- tain. The name of Dunning is intimately connected with the place in the conversation of elderly people, reaching back to the commencement of the present century. The · centre of the town-Malta P. O .- is still much better known by the name of Dunning Street, and is still con- stantly referred to under that name rather than that of Malta. Whoever suggested the name certainly chose a brief and convenient one, which probably no citizen has ever regretted. Three of the post-offices or villages take their names from the town itself: Malta Ridge in the north, Maltaville in the south, and Malta, as before stated, at the centre. If a name for the town was chosen at the present time, from the reputation the beautiful sheet of water in the south is acquiring among pleasure-seekers and religious associations, it would probably be Round lake. Thousands have heard of Round lake without knowing anything of Malta, unless they knew of the European name or had been initiated into the mystic rites of the "Sons of Malta."
Courtenay Neilson, of Stillwater, suggests the following rather unpoetical origin of the name : In early times a malt-brewery was erected within what is now the territory of this town. The cluster of buildings around it gradually became known as Malt-ville, and hence Malta. With this final effort to account for the uame, we pass the question on to the next historian.
The town of Malta was formed from Stillwater, March 3, 1802. A portion of Saratoga was added March 28, 1805. The first town-meeting was held at the house of Michael Dunning, Jr., April 6, 1802. The following offi- eers were chosen : Supervisor, Samuel Clark ; Town Clerk, Ashbel Andrews, Jr. ; Assessors, Joseph Rockwell, Luther Landon, Dean Chase ; Commissioners of Highways, Abra- ham Valentine, Ebenezer Dibble, Uriah Hawkins; Over- seers of the Poor, William Dunning, Samuel Gates ; Con- stables, Pontius Hooper, Eleazer Millard, Jr. ; Collector, Pontius Hooper ; Overseers of Highways, No. 1, Obadiah Tompkins ; No. 2, Elisha Wood ; No. 3, Samuel Gregory ; No. 4, David Keeler; No. 5, Reuben Doolittle; No. 6, Jesse low ; No. 7, Cornelius Abeel ; No. 8, Stephen Ire- land ; No. 9, Timothy Shipman ; Fenee-viewers, Obadiah Mather, Robert Hunter; Pound-keeper, William Dun- ning. The supervisor was authorized, conjointly with the supervisor of Stillwater, to prosecute the town of Easton for moneys alleged to be due.
The same year it was decided that seven twenty-fifths of the State tax apportioned to the old town of Stillwater be paid by the town of Malta, and eighteeu twenty-fifths by
HISTORY OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
the town of Stillwater. This, with thirteen other items of settlement between the two towns, was arranged and signed by Samuel Clark, Samuel Gates, and William Dunning on the part of Malta, and John Hunter, William Strang, and Thomas Morey on the part of Stillwater.
The assessment roll of 1813 shows two hundred and eleven property-holders. Those assessed for $2000 or over were Cornelius Abeel, $3732; Isaac Andrews, $2280; John Burr, $3000; Eddy Baker, $3797 ; Eddy Baker, Jr., $2382; Jasper Burch, 82867; Samuel Clark, $6758; Orrin and William Culver, $2220; James Clark, $2532; Deau Chase, $3600; Thomas Collamer, $2400; Marvin Collamer, $2400; Barker Collamer, $2780 (the Schuyler lot), $2000; Palmer Cady, $2800; William Dunning, 84115; Richard Dunning, $2001; Moses Dunning, $2129; John Fish, $3390 ; George W. Fish, 82448 ; Joshua Fish, $4374; George Gorham, $2660; Samuel and Coleman Gates, $2128; John B. Gould, 85991; Adam Gould, $2242; Preserved Gardner, $2265; Lawrence Hooper, $3200; Thomas Hall, $3460; Robert Hemphill, $3500; Isaac Kellogg, $2340; Aaron Kellogg, $3028; Melaliah Lathrop, $2388; James Merritt, $8000; Ephraim Miller, $4048; Dennis, Samnel, and David Marvin, $3155; David Newton, 82261; James Ostrander, $3900; Joseph Rock- well, 82221 ; John Swartwout, $2710; Simeon Simmons, $2060; John Southard, $2220; John Seidmore, $2204; Timothy Shipman, $2476; Ezra Talmage, $3875; Lovett Tripp, $2593; Abraham Valentine, $7592; Stephen Val- entine, $2000; Jacob and Michael Van Wagoner, $2054; George Wiggins, $2629; Alexander Weed, $6120; John Wilde, $2730; James Weeks, $2785; Daniel Weeks, $2660; John Weeks, $2299.
At the election for members of Assembly, commencing April 27, 1802, and continuing for three days, the follow- ing result is recorded : Samuel Hunter, 87 votes; Adam Comstock, 83; Gideon Goodrich, 73; Othniel Looker, 76; Asahel Porter, 25; John Taylor, 1; John Hunter, 34; Samuel Lewis, 15 ; Henry Davis, 31 ; Ahner Carpenter, 2; John McCrea, 2. The inspectors of the election were Samuel Clark, Ashbel Andrews, Jr., Luther Landon, Dean Chase, and Joseph Rockwell.
In 1833 there are recorded innkeepers' licenses to the following: William Marvin, whose tavern was at East Line; Richard Chase, at Malta Ridge ; Abner Carpenter, at Dun- ning Street, in the old building now bearing the name of Northern Hotel ; George Badgley, then at the south end of Saratoga lake; and Joseph Soules, at the present Rogers house, Dunning Street. In 1833 there are others named : Henry Van Ilyning, in the old stone building south of Round lake; George Rogers, at Dunning Street ; Samnel Irish, south end of Saratoga lake; and Isaac Van Ilyning, south of Round lake, where the railroad now crosses the common road. Jerry Payne, a grocery license.
The list of three town officers following is complete from 1802 to 1877, inelusive,-three-quarters of a century.
It will be noticed by the faets recorded in another place that several of these town officers attained great prominence in the wider fields of county, State, and national history. In the humble spheres of town business they developed such qualities as made them appropriate candidates for
the honors and responsibilities of more exalted public service.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Supervisors.
Town Clerks. Collectors.
1802. Samuel Clark.
Ashbel Andrews, Jr. Pontius Ileoper.
1803. Samuel Clark, Jr.
Eleazer Millard, Jr.
1804. Ashbel Andrews, Jr. Nathan Bennett.
1805.
66
1806.
Samuel Knight.
1807.
=
John Dunning.
I808.
Lewis Dunning.
1809.
Samuel Knight.
1810.
66
1811.
1812.
Luther Ilulhert.
1813. John Dunning.
Epipbraz Fish.
1814.
Philo T. Beebe.
Doty Seaman.
I816.
1817.
Luther Landon.
1818.
Philo T. Beebe.
1819. Palmer Cady.
1820.
=
66
1821.
I822.
John Wilde.
1823. Dennis Marvin.
Gould Morehouse.
1824.
I825.
66
James Hunter.
1826.
64
Philo T. Beebe.
1827. Samuel Hunter.
1828. Palmer Cady.
I829.
1830.
1831. Gould Morehouse.
Ira Payne.
1832.
1833. Timothy Tripp.
1834.
George Rogers.
66 Benjamin Harris. Richard Chase.
I835.
Nathan C. Sweet.
Ilenry Van Ilyning.
1837. Timothy Tripp.
1838. George Rogers.
Wm. B. Noxon.
1839. Robert Hunter.
1840. Timothy Tripp.
Lewis J. Fish.
Ira Ogden.
1842. George Burr.
1843. G. Burr (no choice).
1844. Oliver P. Raymond.
1845. Samuel A. Doughty.
1846. Lewis J. Fish.
George W. Vail.
Daniel Baker.
1847. Wm. A. Collamer. Jesse Denton.
Alex. II. Badgley.
1848. David Rowley.
1849. James Van Hyning.
George Regers. Reuben S. Shipman.
1850. George Rogers.
1851. John M. Ohnstead. Courtland Rogers.
George W. Vail.
1852. George Rogers.
Jesse Denton.
George N. Riley.
1853. Peters Siekler.
Wm. Il. Thompson.
1854. Robert K. Landon. George W. Vail.
Frederick Cole.
1855. Wm. D. Marvin. W. W. Stillwell.
Morgan L. Barnard. George W. Vail.
1856. David Rowley.
Jesse Denton.
1857. James Tripp.
1858. Ilenry Van Ilyning. Charles Rogers.
1859.
1860. James Tripp.
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1861. Harmess Bentley.
1862.
Peter R. Corp.
1863. Peters Siekler.
John B. Hall.
1864. James Tripp.
Charles Newton.
1865.
1866. Charles Rogers.
George W. Vail.
1867. Robert K. Landon.
Geo. T. Van Ilyning.
Jobn W. Rogers.
John R. Lockwood.
1870.
Charles Corp.
1871.
= George W. Vail. " Platt Vineent.
66
66
John Wiggins. 66 = David Rowley. ¥
1836. Gould Morehouse.
George Rogers.
John Riley. Henry Van Ilyning. Walton Hlaight.
1841. David Coggeshall.
46
46
Jeremiah Barrett. James Hunter.
18I5.
66
Lewis Dunning. Samuel Knight. " Wmn. Baker.
John Dunning, Jr. " Alva D. Marvin. Samuel Knight. Ziba Dyekerman.
=
1869.
John W. Rogers.
Thomas Eldridge. Platt Vineent.
1868. Henry Van Hyning. "
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George D. Storey. Thad. Goodfellow. Dennis M. Davis. John C. Ramsdell. George Tripp.
John W. Purington. " Joseph Simpson. Walton Haight.
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Supervisors. Town Clerks. Collectors. Dennis M. Davis.
1872. Henry Van Hyning. George W. Vail. 1873. Wm. A. Collamer, Jr. John W. Rogers. 1874. 66 66
Orville J. Wing.
Thomas Mohan.
1875. Thomas Sweet.
66
John II. Traver.
1876. Wm. A. Collamer, Jr. =
Wm. W. Stillwell.
1877.
1878. 66
George W. Vail. John W. Rogers.
Hlenry J. Harris.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1831. Samuel Hunter.
1854. Wm. A. Collamer.
1832. Ira Payne.
1855. Henry C. Swift.
1832. Alvah D. Marvin.
1856. Wm. D. Marvin.
1833. Obadiah S. Haight.
1857. Stephen Badgley.
1833. Ira Payne.
1858. Lewis J. Fish.
1833. Eli Foster.
1859. Walton Haight.
1834. David Rowley.
1860. Ilenry C. Swift.
1834. Zadoe Dunning.
1861. Henry Van Ilyning.
1835. James Vao Ilyning.
1862. Lewis J. Fish.
1835. Timothy Riggs.
1863. Win. D. Marvin.
1836. George Rogers.
1864. George Rowley.
1837. Zadoc Dunning.
1865. llenry Van Ilyning.
1838. David Rowley.
1865. Henry C. Swift.
1839. James Van Hyning.
1866. Lewis J. Fish.
1840. Wm. B. Noxon.
1867. Seymour Rowley.
1841. Benjamin Harris.
1868. Henry C. Swift.
1842. David Rowley.
1869. Wm. D. Marvin.
1843. Stimpson Ostrander.
1870. Lewis J. Fish.
1844. Robert A. Ogden.
1870. Robert A. Ogden.
1845. Henry Van Ilyning.
1871. Seymour Rowley.
1846. David Rowley.
1872. Ilenry C. Swift.
1847. Stimson Ostrander.
1872. Stephen Badgley.
1848. Robert A. Ogden.
1873. Robert A. Ogden.
1849. Henry Van Ilyning. 1850. Lewis J. Fish.
1875. Walton llaight.
1851. Henry Van Olinda.
1876. Calvin J. Peck.
1852. Win. D. Marvin.
1877. Henry C. Swift.
1852. Stimpson Ostrander.
1878. Le Grand D. Barton.
1853. Henry Van Ilyning.
V .- VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
EAST LINE, as already mentioned, takes its name from its situation. It is an old point in Saratoga County, well known on the route from the south and cast to the county- seat, when the public buildings were at Court-House Hill as well as afterwards.
DUNNING STREET CORNERS .- This takes its name from the large pioneer family that settled here. It has one fea- ture that scarcely any other village in the county has,-its wide-open public square. This was due to the liberal views of the Dunning proprietors.
The opening of the system of railroads in this county cannot be said to have isolated this town, and yet it has materially changed lines of travel and centres of trade and business. Dunning Street, or Malta, was once a competi- tor for the count y-seat, and General Dunning made a hand- some offer of land for that purpose.
The fine public square was the place of the old militia- Trainings, still remembered by many of the citizens. The regiment was considered one of the best drilled and best equipped in the State.
Dunning Street was the birthplace of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth. His father was a tailor, and worked at his trade over the store opposite the present Rogers Hotel. He was married to Miss Denton in this village. Mr. Ells- worth and wife boarded at the Rogers tavern, and there Elmer was born.
As the birthplace of the heroes of old was eagerly sought, and became the shrine of a people's patriotic love, so let this place grow historic in future years, as the native village of one whose record of high chivalrous daring was written in blood upon the most enduring page of our coun- try's history.
MALTAVILLE was an old business place that grew up around the grist-mill there. It is not far from Round Lake station.
MALTA RIDGE .- This is in the north part of the town, its name indicating the nature of the country iu and around it.
VI .- SCHOOLS.
From 1812 to 1843, inclusive, the following sehool com- missioners served one or more years each : Thomas Ilall, Richard Dunning, John B. Hall, Elliot Green, Zadock Dunning, Reuben Doolittle, David Everts, William Baker, Dennis Marvin, Stephen Valentine, Peter Fort, Robert Hunter, Palmer Cady, Gould Morehouse, David Morehouse, Zalmon Olmstead, Moses Dunning, Thomas Collamer, Dan- iel A. Collamer, Alford Scribner, John Valentine, Luther Landon, Jr., Samuel Hunter, Philo T. Beebe, John Staats, Levi Hemphill, Oliver P. Raymond, Joseph Raymond, Abraham Wigg, Daniel Phillips, David Newton, Phineas Thompson, Renben Rogers, William A. Collamer, Moses Langdon, John Chase, Abiram Fellows, Simeon Arnold, Thomas Staats, Jr., Elisha Miller, John Shurter, Abram Green, Win. G. Hermance, Stephen Reno, Silas G. Smith, James Foster, John M. Olmstead, Henry Van Ilyning, Win. D. Marvin, Phineas Thompson, Richard Hermance.
During the same period the following inspectors were iu office one or more years each :
Philo T. Beebe, Mataliah Lathrop, Jr., Luther Hulbert, Samuel Ilunter, John B. Hall, Wm. Baker, Gould More- house, Jared Seymour, Thomas Hall, Isaac Andrews, David Powers, Henry Doolittle, Lewis Waterbury, Thomas Colla- mer, Dennis Marvin, Bockes Barrett, Peter Fort, Stephen Thorn, Abner Carpenter, Danforth Shumway, Moses Lan- don, Barzillai Millard, Jacob Hulm, Daniel A. Collamer, Win. Marvin, Roswell Day, Benjamin Armington, Moses Dunning, Simon Calkins, John Staats, Win. Baker, Mar- ville Shumway, Oliver P. Raymond, Abner Carpenter, Jr., Phineas Thompson, Win. C. Grassie, Robert Simpson, Wmn. Betts, Jr., Abraham Wigg, Nicholas Green, Stephen Becker, Ozias Kellogg, Abiram Fellows, Wm. D. Marvin, Reuben Rogers, Lewis I. Fish, George W. Marvin, John M. Olm- stead, Walter S. Landon, Nathaniel Brockway, and Arthur W. Hunter.
The town superintendents following the system of com- missioners and inspectors were: 1844, Wm. D. Marvin, annual election ; 1845, John M. Olmstead, annual election ; 1846, Arthur W. Hunter, annual election ; 1847, John B. Emigh, annual election ; 1848, Andrew Day, biennial elec- tion ; 1850, Levi L. Weeks, biennial election ; 1852, David N. Collamer, biennial election ; 1854, Gilbert P. Rowley, biennial election.
The records do not give the election of 1856. In June of that year town supervisors ccased, and Assembly district commissioners were appointed.
Wm. J. Simpson.
1874. Le Grand D. Marvin.
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The report of the school commissioners, March 18, 1828, is as follows :
Districts.
Children from 5 to 15 years.
Public Money.
No. 1
66
$83.50
2
50.68
67
57.46
"
1
99
125.23
6
49
61.98
4.
26
32.89
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