History of Suffolk county, New York, 1683, Part 32

Author: W.W. Munsell & Co., pub; Bayles, Richard M. (Richard Mather); Cooper, James B. (James Brown), 1825-; Pelletreau, William S. (William Smith), 1840-1918; Street, Charles R. (Charles Rufus), 1825-1894; Smith, John Lawrence, 1816-1889
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: New York : W.W. Munsell & co.
Number of Pages: 677

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PROVISION FOR THE POOR.

Public charity engaged the attention of the town au- thorities at an early period. December 26th 1701 the trustees recorded their conviction of duty "not to suffer any of God's creatures to want," and accordingly ordered that a certain child which had been left with Hugh Mo- sier should be taken care of until the next quarter ses- sions, and that Hugh Mosier should be paid 2s. 3d. a week for such service. But little record of any action of the town in the matter of charity for many years after that period remains. March 26th 1739 Obadiah Seward seems to have fallen in distressing need of a coat, and the trustees appropriated 4s. 6d. for making him one. The cost of keeping those dependent upon the town for the year for which accounts were made up April 30th 1739 was as follows:

To widow Moger for keeping widow Hirst .. 9 18 Nathaniel Farret, for keeping hia father 1

13 William Gerrard, for keeping his father 1 8 Eleazer Hawkins, for providing for John Gooding .. 4

Daniel Smith, what he paid to Obadiah Seward. 7

6 Daniel Smith, treasurer for money advanced to the poor 6 15 Widow Moger for attending widow Hirst when she was sick ... 3

Afterward the poor of the town were " farmed " out; that is, put in charge of whoever would keep them at the lowest price. Under this system the dependents of the town were disposed of on June 13th 1787 in the follow- ing manner:

Mary Seward to William Sexton for. .14

0 Elizabeth Francis and her child to Isaac Smith jr. for. 1 19 Jernaha Loomia to Gilbert Hulse, for. 13 15

Anna Hulse to Gilbert Hulse, for .. 5

Nancy Overton to Judge Strong, for CO

3 19

This practice continued many years, but a more culti- vated humanity at last sought some more satisfactory method of taking care of the public wards. April Ist 1817 it was voted that the trustees should provide a house for the town poor, in conjunction with Islip and Smith- town. Nicoll Floyd, Thomas S. Strong and William Tooker were appointed a.committee to confer with those towns on the subject. This movement resulted in the purchase during the year 1817 of a farm at Coram for $900, and the establishment of the town poor-house. An addition to the house was made by order of the trustees September 9th 1851, which order required the additional part to be strongly built for the security of lunatics.

During the years 1850 and 1851 Dr. Brown was employed by the trustees as alms-house physician.

The question of establishing a county poor-house was agitated as early as 1831, but the popular sentiment was not favorable to it. The vote taken at town meeting that year was unanimously opposed to it. The same re- sult attended a vote taken on the question in 1839, and when it was again submitted to the people in 1869 a ma- jority voted against it. But this repeated expression of the popular wish was disregarded, and the county-house was built. Before its completion the Brookhaven trust- ees recommended (July Ist 1871) that each town should be at the expense of supporting its own poor at the house, which plan has been adopted.

The inmates of the town poor-house were transferred to the county-house December 8th 1871, and the furni- ture of the vacated house was sold at auction on the 13th of the following January. The house and farm-reserv- ing the burying ground, six by eleven rods, in the north- east corner-were sold by the trustees May 7th 1872 for $600 to Lester Davis.

From the confusion of the town records we are able to glean the items of appropriations for various expenses of the town as follows: 1794, £300; 1796, £300; 1802, $1,000; 1803, $600; 1806, $1,000; 1807, $1,000; 1808, $800; 1823, $1,200; 1824, $1,000; 1825, $850; 1826, $1,000; 1827, $800; 1830, $750; 1831, $1,000; 1834, $800. Appropriations were made specifically for the support of the poor as follows: 1848, $1,400; 1849, $1,600; 1850, $1,600; 1851, $1,200; 1852, $1,600; 1853, $1,600; 1854, $1,800; 1856, $1,700; 1857, $1,800; 1858, $2,000; 1859, $2,500; 1860, $2,500; 1861, $2,600; 1862, $2,800; 1863, $3,000; 1864, $4,000; 1870, $7,000; 1871, $7,000; 1877, $5,500; 1878, $6,665.35; 1879, $5,319.59; 1880, $4,385.62.

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION.

What efforts may have been made in a private way to educate the children of the first settlers we do not know, but as early as the year 1687 the town employed Francis Williamson as a schoolmaster. This action was taken at the town meeting July 13th, and the trustees were instructed to employ Mr. Williamson at a salary of £30 a year, and to raise one-third of this amount by a tax on the people and the other two-thirds by a rate upon the children at- tending the school. How long this man was employed does not appear, but in 1704 John Gray appears as a teacher. He taught school in the meeting-house. May 2nd of that year the town meeting gave him liberty to use the meeting-house for that purpose on condition that he would have it cleaned every Saturday and make good any damage done by the scholars. This arrangement doubt- less gave some dissatisfaction, and the growing wants of the community demanded a house for this exclusive use. The trustees accordingly ordered, October 6th 1718, that a rate of £38 be raised and a school-house be built by the end of the year.

As settlement extended to other parts of the town other school-houses were built and schools established, but this

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was generally done by private contributions and enter- prise more than by public action and tax. The town generally granted land for school-house sites wherever common land was owned in the localities. Beyond that the town paid but little attention to public education dur- ing the colonial period.

The first commissioners of schools were elected in 1796. They were Jonas Hawkins, Meritt S. Woodhull, William Phillips, Caleb M. Hulse, and Daniel Roe. The board elected in 1797 was composed of Abraham Wood- hull, Goldsmith Davis, John Bayles, Meritt S. Woodhull, and General John Smith. The commissioners for 1798 were Joseph Brewster, Caleb M. Hulse, John Bayles, Meritt S. Woodhull, and Austin Roe. This office ap- pears to have been considered of so small account that at the regular town meeting of 1799 it was omitted, and a special meeting was necessary to secure the election of men to fill it, which was held on June 3d, resulting in the election of three commissioners, Joseph Brewster, Meritt S. Woodhull, and John Bayles. In 1800 four were elected-Richard Floyd, Isaac Hulse, John Havens, and Daniel Comstock. The office was then abandoned for several years.

In 1813 there were elected three commissioners and six inspectors of schools. This arrangement, with slight modifications, continued for several years, the officers being elected annually. The commissioners elected each year were:

1813, 1814, Benjamin F. Thompson, John Rose and Mordecai Homan; 1815-18, William Beale, Mordecai Homan and John R. Satterly; 1819-23, Mordecai Homan, Archibald Jayne and Nathaniel Miller; 1824, Mordecai Homan, John R. Satterly and Sineus C. Miller; 1825, Sineus C. Miller, Selah B. Strong and Mordecai Homan; 1826, Selah B. Strong, Mordecai Homan and William Beale; 1827, 1828, Mordecai Homan, Selah B. Strong and James M. Fanning; 1829, Mordecai Homan, Sereno Burnell and William S. Smith; 1830.34, Mordecai Homan, Selah B. Strong and Samuel F. Norton; 1835-37, Selah B. Strong, William Sidney Smith and Samuel F. Norton; 1838, Selah B. Strong, Nathaniel Conklin and Simeon H. Ritch; 1839-41, Selah B. Strong, Simeon H. Ritch and Brewster Woodhull; 1842, Selah B. Strong, Simeon H. Ritch and Albert A. Overton; 1843, Selah B. Strong, Benjamin T. Hutchinson and William Wickham jr.

The inspectors of common schools during this period were as follows:

1813-18, Rev. Zachariah Green, Rev. Noah Hallock, Nicoll Floyd, William Beale, Rev. Ezra King and Joseph B. Roe; 1819, 1820, John R. Satterly, Russell Green, Rev. Ezra King, Nicoll Floyd, William Beale and Joseph B. Roe; 1820-23 (the number being reduced to three). Russell Green, Rev. Ezra King and William Beale; 1824, Sereno Burnell, Rev. Ezra King and William Beale; 1825, John R. Satterly, Rev. Ezra King and Jonathan Burnell; 1826, John R. Satterly, Josiah Smith and Nathaniel Smith; 1827. 1828, John R. Satterly, William Sidney Smith and Nathaniel Smith; 1829, John R. Satterly, James M. Fanning and Nathaniel Smith; 1830, none re- corded; 1831, 1832, John R. Satterly, William Beale and Joel Robinson; 1833, John R. Satterly, Daniel G. Gillette and Lester H. Davis; 1834, John R. Satterly, James M. Fanning and Daniel G. Gillette; 1835-37, Benjamin T. Hutchinson, John R. Satterly and James M. Fanning;

1838, John R. Satterly, Benjamin T. Hutchinson and William S. Preston; 1839, 1840, John R. Swezey, James Rice and Orlando Burnell; 1841, Elias H. Luce, John R. Satterly and Orlando Burnell; 1842, John R. Swezey and Joel Robinson; 1843, John R. Swezey and Simeon H. Ritch.

Following the last date the duties of commissioners and inspectors were combined in a single office under the title of town superintendent of schools. This office continued until that of Assembly district commissioner was consti- tuted, and was held by the following persons: 1844, William Sidney Smith; 1845, William Wickham; 1846, William S. Preston; 1847, 1848, William J. Weeks; 1849 -55, Lewis R. Overton.

The pay of these early school officers was not unreason- ably liberal. A vote of town meeting in 1839 fixed the pay of inspectors at fifty cents a day. The town meeting of 1841, however, increased this to one dollar a day.

The town was first divided into school districts by action of the commissioners of schools, November 3d 1813. Twenty-three districts were then formed, and their locations were as follows: No. I, at Stony Brook; No. 2, the western part of Setauket, including " Lubber Street and Dickerson's Settlement;" No. 3, the eastern part of Setauket; No. 4, Drown Meadow; No. 5, Old . Man's; No. 6, Miller's Place and " Hopkins Settlement;" No. 7, Rocky Point; No. 8, the western part of the interior, about Ronkonkoma Pond, to the Smithtown line; No. 9, New Village, as far west as Jarvis Hawkins's, and east to Richard Norton's and Joseph Roe's; No. 10, Coram, as far west as James Norton's; No. 11, Swezey Town and the northern part of Middletown; No. 12, the lower part of Middle Island (or Middletown) as far west as Isaac Howell's, and north to James Dayton's and James Barnaby's; No. 13, "Manner as far west as George Cotits and Mosier King's, and east to Southampton line, including Halsey's Manner;" No. 14, the remainder of the manor; No. 15, the eastern part of Moriches west to Havens's Mills; No. 16, Moriches to the paper-mill; No. 17, " Mastic as far west as Fireplace;" No. 18, west of Fireplace Mills as far as Jeffrey Brewster's; No. 19, from the latter point west to Austin Roe's; No. 20, west of Austin Roe's, to Patchogue Stream; No. 21, west of Patchogue, to the Islip line; No 22, east of Thomas Aldrich's in Middletown to the Wading River line; No. 23, Coram Hills, as far east as the widow Howell's.

Other districts were afterward formed as follows:

No 24 on the north road at Manor, taking all east of the house of Caleb Smith (then deceased), formed De- cember 8th 1814; No. 25, May 9th 1815, at Westfield, from the house then occupied by Lemuel Smith eastward to include the houses of George Smith and David Ford- ham; No. 26, at Southaven, from the eastern part of 18, May 12th 1815; No. 27, May Ist 1817, at Bald Hills; No. 28, February 4th 1818, that part of No. 2 which lay south of Benjamin F. Thompson's and a road called Bailey's Hollow, at Setauket; No. 29, June 8th 1822, that part of 16 lying from the east line of John Penney west- ward to a house formerly occupied by " Ben, a colored man, not including the houses down the neck on the west

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side of the river;" No. 30, October 28th 1823, including the northeastern part of Stony Brook; No. 31, June 6th 1827, from the western part of 21 at Blue Point; No. 32, January 10th 1833, from parts of 18 and 19; No. 33, March 6th 1835, from the eastern part of It and north- ern part of 12, at Middle Island; No. 34, March 30th 1835, from the northeastern part of 3, at Setauket; No. 35, at Wading River, February 24th 1838.

The districts of the town were renumbered October 24th 1842, the changes being as follows:

Old Number.

Location.

New Number.

East Stony Brook

West Setauket

Nassakeag

East Setauket ..

Northeast Setauket

Port Jefferson.

Mt. Sinai

Miller's Place

Rocky Point.

Woodville

New Village

Westfields

I 2

27.

Bald Hills

Coram

Coram Hills

Middle Island ch.

Middle Island

Millville.

Ridgeville

North Manor

West Manor

East Manor

Blue Point.

West Patchogue.

East Patchogue

Patchogue Lane

Union Street

Bellport.

Fireplace Neck

Southaven

Mastic ..

West Moriches

Centre Moriches.

East Moriches

The parts of joint districts were numbered as follows: South Stony Brook I, Ronkonkoma 2, Wading River 3 Conungum Mills 4, Seatuck 5.

The following changes were afterward made : No. 35 was formed from the southern part of 26, at Patchogue. No. 36 was formed at Canaan, from the northern part of 26. No 37 was formed at Seatuck, from the part district No. 5, May Ist 1852. No. 38 was formed May 1st 1855, from the western part of 29. No. 39 was formed May IIth 1857, from parts of 25 and 27, at East Patchogue. No. 40 was formed from the western part of 13, May 18th 1857. It was afterward numbered as 15 of Islip. No. 36 was annulled May Ist 1860 and its territory divided between 24 and 25. No. 41 was formed of part No. 1 at Stony Brook August 7th 1865. No. 42 was formed of part No. 2 at Lakeville August 7th 1865. Setauket union school was formed by the union of Nos. 4 and 5,

February 6th 1866, and the number 36 given it August 22nd 1866. Union free school district, No. 24 was formed of 24, 25, 26 and 35, at Patchogue, March 4th 1869. No 41 was changed to 4, and 42 to 5, August 22nd 1866. No. 38 was changed to 25, 39 to 26, and 40 to 35, March 4th 1869. The numbers 31 and 37 were interchanged November 12th 1875. By these changes the numbers that have been made vacant by the consoli- dation and annulling of former districts were taken by the higher numbered districts, and thus, the consecutive numbers being filled, 37 became the highest. No. 38 was forined at Comsewaug, from No. 6, June 2nd 1874. No. 25 was annulled September 28th 1874, and its terri- tory divided between Nos. 28 (at Bellport) and 29 (at Brookhaven).

ELECTIONS AND OFFICERS.

Elections of town officers were probably at first held whenever occasion required, without any definite regu- larity. The following is a transcript of one of the earliest records of a town election that can now be discovered. Two or three words are defaced beyond recognition.

" Brookhauen the 3 day of Aprill 1676 at Towns meet- ing was chosen William Saterley Constable for this pres- ent yeare at the same tyme was chosen for Ourseers Na- thanell Norton and Thomas Smith also - -- John Tucker was chosen Recorder for the Town

- at the same tyme for this present yeare."

By the patent of 1686 the " first Tuesday of May for- ever " was fixed as the time for holding elections of town officers. This rule continued in operation a full century, being superseded by the State law of 1787 fixing the an- nual election on the first Tuesday in April. Beginning with the year last mentioned that arrangement has con- tinued till the present time.

It is probable that as the study of political maneuver- ing advanced some abuses were permitted by the fact that no definite hour had been fixed for the election of officers on town meeting day. To correct this the town meeting in 1701 voted that " forever hereafter the hour of meeting for choosing of officers shall be at one of the clock in the afternoon."

The general elections under State laws were held at first with some irregularity, most of the time in April or May, but sometimes at other seasons of the year. This general election, afterward called the "anniversary elec- tion," was during the first years of the present century fixed on the three days beginning with the last Tuesday in April. It was presided over by a board of four inspect- ors, who moved with the ballot box from point to point, holding sessions in various places in the town during the three election days.

At a special election to vote on the amended State constitution, held in January 1822, Brookhaven gave 116 votes for and 95 against the amendments. After that the general elections were held in November.

The number of electors in this town in 1801 (when a property qualification was necessary) was 554. Of this number 462 possessed "freeholds " valued at £100 or more, 31 at £20 or more, and 61 at less than £20.

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After the election arrangements had undergone some further modifications the present system of holding elec- tions in election districts was introduced in 1842. In accordance with the State law passed April 5th of that year the town was divided into five election districts on the 6th of the following September. The officers to whom fell the duty of making this division were Nathan- iel Conklin, supervisor, John R. Satterly, Davis Norton, John Davis and James Ketcham, assessors, and Mordecai Homan, town clerk. District No. I comprised the north- west part of the town as far east as Crystal Brook Hol- low. No. 2 comprised the north part of the town east of the former. No. 3 comprised that part of the town ly- ing south of No. 2 and east of the Yaphank line and Creek and Carman's River. No. 4 included all the ter- ritory lying west of No. 3 and south of the Long Island Railroad. No. 5 comprised the middle part of the town west of the Yaphank line. The southern bound of No. 2, which had been the Country road east of Corwin's road, was moved north to the "Butt line," October 6th 1845. By this change the " Butt line " (an imaginary line running east and west through the middle of the wooded plain) became the southern bound of both the north side dis- tricts and the northern bound of No. 5, which, being en- larged by the territory vacated by No. 2, now extended the entire length of the town, on the north side of the Country road. By another change, made several years later, the territory of No. 5 on the south of the Country road was extended several miles further east. A new district was formed from that part of No. 4 lying west of Overton's Brook in Union Street, and the new district was numbered 5, while old No. 5 was numbered 6. No. I was divided October 4th 1869, and a new district formed comprising Port Jefferson and the eastern part of Setauket. This was made No. 2, and the numbers of 3, 4, 5 and 6 were changed respectively to 4, 5, 6 and 7.

The earliest officers of the town were the members of a committee of three or more men to whom the people gave power to act for them in all affairs, with full power to settle differences between men except in the disposi- tion of lands. After the union with Connecticut in 1662 the town government was vested in three overseers and a constable. Soon, afterward surveyors of highways were chosen, though this office may not have been continuously maintained. The overseers were af- terward called commissioners, and the constable was also made the collector and treasurer. The patent of 1686 directed that seven trustees, a clerk, a constable and two assessors should be elected annually. The office of clerk, or " recorder," had at that time been in operation many years. In 1687 the town meeting elected three commissioners in addition to the officers named in the patent. Fence-viewers were elected as early as 1697. At that time the town had but two, which number was afterward greatly increased. In 1740 the number of constables was increased to three: one "in town," one at "Old Man's," and one at "South." The different offi- cers were increased in numbers from time to time, until in 1781 there were 5 constables, 10 commissioners and

18 fence-viewers. In 1790 there were 5 assessors, 3 com- missioners of highways, 6 constables, 12 overseers of highways and 21 fence-viewers. In 1796 the town meet- ing voted that fence-viewers should have 6s. a day for their services. In 1795 there were 22 fence-viewers, in 1798 only 14, while in 1815 there were 36, and in 1829 the office was abolished, its duties being given to the commissioners of highways and assessors. By the year 1798 the number of assessors was increased to 7, and the number of constables was the same. There were then 18 overseers of highways, which number had increased in 1815 to 31. At the latter date there were 9 constables.

The whole number of assessors and commissioners was elected annually until 1846, when the present system of electing one-third of the number every year and mak- ing the official term three years was introduced. The number of constables was increased to 8 in 1857.

The early justices of the peace were appointed by the governor. The office was regarded as one of considera- ble honor. This was so much the case that men who reached it almost dropped their first name, being ad- dressed and named by the title instead. Even after the or- ganization of the State government they were appointed, until 1827, when the office became elective, and four justices were assigned to Brookhaven. They were at first chosen at the November elections, but in 1830 they began to be elected as they now are, at the town election in the spring. In 1854 the number was increased to 8. Since the office became elective the following men have filled it during the terms indicated:

John S. Mount, 1828-35; William Beale, 1828-34; Samuel Davis, 1828-38; William Helme, 1828; Barnabas Wines, 1829-36, 1841-44; Brewster Woodhull, 1835-54; Charles Phillips, 1836-55; David Worth, 1837-40; David Overton, 1838-45; Richard Robinson, 1845-51; Brewster Terry, 1846-49; Franklin Overton, 1850-53, 1858-61; Jesse W. Pelletreau, 1851-71; Samuel F. Norton, 1854- 57; Samuel C. Hawkins, 1855-58; Joel Robinson, 1855; Z. Franklin Hawkins, 1855-64; Silas Homan, 1855-57; Richard O. Howell, 1855-58; Richard W. Smith, 1856- 59; Samuel R. Davis, 1856-59; Warren Conklin, 1859-62; David T. Hawkins, 1858-74; Walter Dickerson, 1860-67; Orin W. Rogers, 1859-81; Jeremiah G. Wilbur, 1862-68; Charles Price, 1863-70; Lester Davis, 1863-78; John S. Lee, 1865-77; Richard T. Osborn, 1869-81; Charles A. Davis, 1869-75; Charles R. Smith, 1871 to present time; William H. Clark, 1872-79; Charles E. Goldthwaite, 1875-81; Sylvester D. Tuthill, 1876; William H. Osborn, 1879; Thomas H. Saxton, 1878 to present time; George W. Hopkins, 1880 to present time; George E. Hallock, 1880 to present time; Jacob De Baum, 1880 to present time.

The office of president of trustees, constituted by the patent of 1686, has been held by the following persons:

Thomas Biggs jr., 1687-91; Richard Woodhull, 1692, 1693; Thomas Helme, 1694, 1695, 1698; Richard Floyd, 1696, 1699, 1700, part of 1704; Joseph Tooker, 1697; Captain Thomas Clark, 1701-04; William Nicoll, 1705-08; Colonel Henry Smith, 1709-13, 1715, 1716, 1718-20; Timothy Brewster, 1714, 1731; Colonel Rich- ard Floyd, 1717, 1747-62; Selah Strong, 1721; Samuel Thompson, 1722; Richard Woodhull, 1723-25, 1727, 1729, 1730, 1732-36, 1740, 1741; Samuel Davis (of Stony Brook), 1726; Jonathan Owen, 1728; Captain Robert

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Robinson, 1737-39, 1742-46; William Nicoll, 1763; Na. thaniel. Brewster, 1764-66; Nathaniel Woodhull, 1767, 1768; Jonathan Thompson, 1769-76; Joseph Brewster, 1777, 1778; Gilbert Smith, 1779; Selah Strong, 1780-97, 1803-07, 1810; Daniel Roe, 1798, 1799; Meritt S. Wood- hull, 1800, 1801; Nicoll Floyd, 1802, 1810, 1817; Wil- liam Jayne, 1808; Caleb M. Hulse, 1809; Abraham Woodhull, 1811; William H. Helme, 1812; Josiah Smith, 1813, 1818, 1823; John Rose, 1814, 1821; Isaac Satterly, 1815 ; Thomas S. Strong, 1816, 1819, 1820, 1822, 1824-26 ; Isaac Brewster, 1827-29; Daniel Overton, 1830, 1831, 1834, 1836-40; Davis Nor- ton, 1832, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1843, 1853-56; Silas Homan, 1841; William S. Williamson, 1844, 1848; Nathaniel Tuttle, 1845-47 ; Samuel Carman, 1849; William C. Booth, 1850, 1851 ; William Phillips, 1852 ; Charles Woodhull, 1857; Lester Davis, 1858, 1859; John Symms Havens, 1860-63 ; Nathaniel Tuthill, 1864, 1869, 1870; William H. Clark, 1865-68, 1871-79; Henry W. Carman, 1880, 1881.

The supervisors of this town, from the earliest period of which we find any record of that office or its functions, have been as follows:

Richard Floyd (ensign), 1692; Thomas Helme, 1694; Richard Floyd, 1695, 1697, part of 1704; Daniel Brewster, 1696, 1698; Thomas Clark, 1700.04; William Nicoll, 1705-II; Colonel Henry Smith, 1712-15; Colonel Richard Floyd, 1716-18, 1720-29; Jonathan Owen, 1719; Richard Woodhull, 1730-41; Richard Floyd, 1742-62; Richard Miller, 1763-73; Major Benjamin Floyd, 1774, 1775, 1777, 1778; Nathan Woodhull, 1776; Robert Jayne, 1779; Frederick Hudson, 1780, 1781; Selah Strong, 1782, 1784-94; Nathaniel Woodhull, 1783; William Phillips, 1795-97; General John Smith, 1798; Meritt S. Woodhull, 1799-1801, 1803, 1804; Isaac Hulse, 1802; Jolin Rose, 1805-09, 1811-20, 1822-24; Jonas Hawkins, 1810; Nicoll Floyd, 1821; Thomas S. Strong, 1825-28; William Sidney Smith, 1829-33; John M. Williamson, 1834-40, 1852, 1853; Nathaniel Conklin, 1841-43; Thomas J. Ritch, 1844-46; George P. Mills, 1847-51; John S. Havens, 1854-56, 1859-61; William H. Smith, 1857, 1858; Nathaniel Miller, 1862-65; Charles S. Havens, 1866-68, 1874-77; Effingham Tuthill, 1869-73; John S. Havens, 1878-81.

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