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In 1773, Mr. Doty resigned, after a pastorate of about two years, and went to Schenectady, N. Y., his conduct in doing so calling from the Venerable So- ciety a reprimand as showing ingratitude. llis career in Schenectady was brief and troublous, and in the fall of 1777 he thought it best to obtain liberty to go to Canada. He became chaplain to His Majesty's Royal Regiment in New York, and on the conclusion of the Revolution went to England. He returned to America in 1784 and was until 1791 engaged in mis- sionary work in Canada and received the commenda- tion of the Venerable Society. After a brief incum- bency as rector of St. Anne's Church in Brooklyn, and subsequent missionary work in Canada, he final- ly, in 1803, resigned his mission, and > evered his con- nection with the society.
His successor was the Rev. Bennet (Bolton thinks it should be Bernard) Page, who left in a very short time, owing probably to the outbreak of the Revolu- tionary War. From September 18, 1775, until April 5, 1790, there were no meetings of the vestrymen, and it is probable the church was closed most of the time. General Washington is said to have worshipped there while conducting military operations in the vicinity. April 26, 1791, the church was incorporated for the first time after the Revolution as "The Corporation of St. Peter's Church, Peekskill, and St. Philip's Chapel in the Highlands." August 7, 1792, the Rev. Andrew Fowler became pastor, and from that time forward the pulpit was generally kept filled. There was a break, however, from 1798 to 1806, and another from 1829 to 1832. For a few years subsequent to 1809 the Episcopal Church at Fishkill was under the same rector as St. Peter's and St. Philip's Churches.
About 1788 it is recorded that the Presbyterians tried to obtain possession of the church and glebe by force. "They called the church by a new name, 'Union Church,' and in order to carry out their scheme they chose half of the trustees, as they said, out of the church. The truth was, they had once professed themselves Episcopalians, but most of them have since proved rank Dissenters." So wrote the Rev. Andrew Fowler in 1792. The attempt was un- successful.
In 1838 the Rev. Edward C. Bull is said to have of- ficiated at St. Philip's Church, and iu April of the same year the Rev. William C. Cooley became rector of St. Peter's. The two churches were not formally separated until April 18, 1840, when an act of the Legislature was passed for that purpose.
October 20, 1838, the glebe was sold to David McCoy for the sum of five thousand dollars, which was equally divided between the two churches. With the sum thus realized, and a donation of oue thousand dollars from Trinity Church, New York, St. Peter's Chapel, on Division Street, Peekskill, was built in the same year. The Rev. Dr. Cooley, after the opening of the chapel, conducted most of the services there. Meetings continued to be held in the old building at gradually increasing intervals, and finally were aban- doned altogether.
The successive pastors from the time of the Rev. Jolın Doty to the establishment of the chapel in Peekskill have been as follows:
Installed.
Rectors.
July 16, 1771 .Rev. Johu Doty.
September 18, 1775. . Rev. Bernard Page.
August 7, 1792. Rev. Andrew Fowler.
December 15, 179-1 Rev. Samuel Haskell.
April 7, 1806 Rev. Joseph Warren.
April 17, 1811. Rev. John Urquhart.
June 11, 1817 Rev. Petrus S. Ten Broeck.
May 29, 1826. Rev. Edward J. Ives.
December, 1832. Rev. James Sunderland.
April, 1838 Rev. William C. Cooley.
The old church, an unpainted and weather-beaten frame structure with two large doors on the southern
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side, forming the entranee, still exists in a good state of preservation. It is surrounded by a cemetery, which is full of graves, arranged in a confused man- ner, and bearing a sadly neglected appearance. The first interment seems to have been that of Mary, wife of John Ward, who died September 15, 1765, in the sixty-ninth year of her age.
On the sonthern side of the graveyard is the monu- ment of John Paulding, one of the captors of Andre. It was erected by Messrs. Francis and James Kain, in pursuanee of a resolution passed by the Common Council of the city of New York, December 4, 1826, directing a monument to be erected to the memory of John Paulding. The design of the monument is sim- ple. It consists of a plain marble eone, resting on a pedestal, the whole rising to the height of thirteen feet. The base of the monument is seven feet square, and it is surrounded by an iron railing two feet seven inches distant, and four feet high, which is inserted in a marble eoping. The whole area comprehended is a square of twelve feet two inehes.
On one side of the monument is a fae-simile of the medal voted by Congress to each of the eaptors of Andre, and on the other of its obverse. The southern side contains the following inscription :
" Here Repose the remains of John Paulding, who died on the 18th day of February, 1818, in the 60th year of his age.
On the morning of the 23d of September, 1780, Accompanied by two young Farmers of the County of Westchester, (Whose names will one day be recorded, On their own deserved monuments, ) He intercepted the British spy, Andre.
Poor Himself He disdained to acquire wealth by the sacrifice of His COUNTRY
Rejecting the temptation of great rewards He conveyed his prisoner to the American camp ; And By this act of noble self-denial, The treason of Arnold was detected, The designs of the enemy baffled ; West Point and the American army saved ; And these United States, Now, by the grace of God, Free and Independent, Rescued from most imminent peril."
On the north side is the following inseription :
" THE CORPORATION Of the City of New York, Erected this Tomb, As memorial sacred to PUBLIC GRATITUDE."
This monument, with the exception of the plaeing of the eone on the pedestal, was completed November 22, 1827, and at one o'clock in the afternoon of the same day the officers of the corporation of New York City arrived in Peekskill by the steamboat "Sandus- ky," to see it finished, and hold exercises appropri- ate to the occasion. They were received in Peekskill by a committee of arrangements consisting of Gen- eral Pierre Van Cortlandt, General Philip Van Cort- landt, Daniel W. Birdsall, St. John Constant, Ward
B. Howard, Benjamin Dyckman, Dr. Peter Goetchius, Janies Mandeville and Dr. Samuel Strang, and, to- gether with a large concourse of the people of the town, they advanced in procession to the cemetery, about two miles and a half distant. The column was lowered to its place on the pedestal, and an address was made by William Paulding, mayor of the city of New York, after which the assembly separated, " deeply impressed with the ceremony and the oeea- sion." Among those present was Paulding's com- panion in the capture, Isaae Van Wart.
Within this cemetery lie also the remains of Major- General Seth Pomeroy, but his grave was not marked" by any headstone, and its present location is unknown. He had a most dramatic history, which has been given by a recent writer as follows : 1
"Seth Pomeroy was born in 1706 in the little vil- lage of Northampton. He grew up a resolnte, God- fearing man, and very daring. Honors and public trusts were showered upon him. He exemplified all the virtues of an honest man and a Christian soldier For thirty years he warred against the Indians and the French, and always with eonspienous bravery and distingnished success. A speeimen of the original Puritan, he connted obstaeles in his way but as trials to his faith, and bravely surmounted them. At the siege of Louisburg he received a letter from his wife saying that the whole town was daily praying for him, and for his eommand. He read the letter to his men and said, 'Fight, my brave boys, for the whole town is moved with concern, and our fathers and mothers are holding prayer-meetings every night. Fight, for the Lord is on onr side. Who shall be against us?' And to him, more than to any other, is due the fall of that great fortress. At the conelusion of the French war the old soldier hung up his sword and cultivated the arts of peace; but the fires of religious patriot- ism and martial ardor burned as brightly as in the days of his youth. He, with two others, were appointed generals of the American armies at their organiza- tion prior to the breaking out of aetnal hostilities, and Washington taking command. When news came of the battle of Lexington, thongh past seventy years of age, he stopped neither on aeeount of business nor infirmities, but rode directly to the front. Worn out with labors, he returned in a few days to his farm, in Connecticut. He had barely reached his door when a courier told him that the battle of Bunker Hill was soon to be fought. Never pausing for a moment, he turned about and dashed away for the seene. As one horse gave ont he procured another and another, and reached Charlestown Neek in the midst of the fray. Handing his horse to a friend, because it was too val- uable to be shot, he runs on foot across the Neck, then swept by the guns of the enemy's shipping, and up the hill, and leaps into the trench on the heights. Putnam
1 Oration by Chauncey M. Depew, entitled "Incidents in the History of Peekskill and Vicinity," delivered in Peekskill, July 4, 1767.
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wrings his hand and says: 'Pomeroy, you here! God! I believe a eannon would wake you if you slept in the grave.' He offers him the command, but he refuses, and takes his place with the Connecticut troops. Pitcairn, who commanded at Lexington, leads the Britishi column. He points him out to two sharp- shooters, and Pitcairu falls mortally wounded. The ammunition giving out, the soldiers begin to retreat.
* Pomeroy leaps upon the rampart, waving over his head a gun made by himself and shouts, 'Don't run, boys, don't run. Club them with your muskets as I do. No enemy shall ever say he saw the back of Seth Pomeroy.' Worn out after the battle, he re- turned to luis home, but when the danger came in this vicinity he could no longer remain, and at the earnest solicitation of Washington he took the command here, and here he died on the 15th of February, 1777. A long procession of muffled drums and reversed arms marched over the road to the old graveyard at the old church, which so many similar processions have fol- lowed since, and within this sacred inclosure lie the bones of the first commander of the American army, with no stone to mark their last resting-place."
Many citizens of Peekskill and vicinity are buried in this graveyard, and headstones and monuments exist to the memory of the Peuoyers, Wards, Drakes, Ferrises and many others.
CORTLANDTVILLE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL .- The Methodist Episcopal Church in Cortlandtville was erected in 1853 and 1854, at a cost of about twenty-six hundred dollars. The principal contributors were Messrs. James Rob- ertson, Stephen Curry and James D. Sherwood. It was dedicated on the 11th day of Marel, 1854, Rev. R. S. Foster (now a bishop of the Methodist Episco- pal Church) preaching the sermon. Services were held regularly until about the year 1866. Rev. F. S. Barnum, now pastor of a church at Thompsonville, Conn., was the only pastor settled here. The pulpit was filled during other years by clergymen from Peekskill and other places. Revival meetings were held with marked success. At one time the member- ship of the church numbered about sixty.
Simultaneously with the opening of the church a Sabbath-school 1 was organized. Mr. Andrew C. Wheeler (said to have been the first superintendent of a Methodist Sunday-school in the city of New York-the Allen Street Church) was elected superin- tendent. A short time after Mr. James Robertson became superintendent, and continued as such for many years. Among the faithful ones who entered heartily into the Sunday-school work during this time, two have risen to places of great honor and usefulness in their respective denominations,-Charles Robertson, now bishop of Missouri, and Miss Amelia Robertson (now Mrs. Bishop Foss), of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Rose. In April, 1871, the present school was organized with Henry Lent as superintendent. In April, 1872, Mr. Lent having removed, Mr. C. A. Pugsley became his successor. He was followed in 1882 by Frank Hood, and he by Charles Booth, the present superintendent. The number of officers and teachers is (1884) eleven and scholars fifty-eight.
The Rev. J. D. Spriggs was pastor of this church in 1881, 1882 and 1883, aud the Rev. Herman Conns in 1883. The church was then on a circuit which in- eluded, besides, Annsville and Continental Village. At present there is no pastor.
THE CORTLANDT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION .- After the cemetery in the grounds surrounding the old Episcopal Church became filled, lots were bought and interments made in the private property adjoining. In order that Peekskill and the vicinity might have a burial-place which should be kept in a neat and orderly condition, the Cortlandt Cemetery Association was formed, their certificate of organization being dated January 16, 1884. They purchased forty acres of land adjoining St. Peter's Cemetery on the north and including those graves which had been made on private ground. The officers chosen werc as follows: President, George W. Robertsou ; Vice-President, John N. Tilden ; Secretary and Treasurer, Sanford R. Knapp; and Trustees, George W. Robertson, Stephen D. Horton, Sanford R. Knapp, Johu Halsted, Stephen Lent, Wm. D. Southard, James T. Sutton, Jolın N. Tilden and Isaae T. Montross. These officers hold the same positious at present.
THE VILLAGE OF PEEKSKILL
is situated on the expanse of the Hudson River known as Peekskill Bay, and in the midst of scenery which has been compared by Irving to that of the Lake of Como. Directly across the river rises the majestic Dunderberg, in full view to the northwest is the still loftier Bear Mountain, otherwise known as the Bread Tray, from the resemblance of its summit to an inverted vessel of that description. On the south Verplauek's Point is secn jutting out into the river. Numerous elevated points throughout the vil- lage and its vicinity afford fine views of the scenery.
Upon the ground occupied by Peekskill, or in its im- mediate vicinity, stood the Indian village of Sachoes. The name of Magrigaries Brook, which flows through the middle of the village, is of Indian derivation, but has been very generally corrupted into McGregory's, or McGregor's, Brook.
The name of the village is due to Jans Peek, an early Dutch navigator, who, in following the track of Hendrick Hudson, mistook the broad estuary at Roa Hook for the proper passage to the north. Here, it is said, he built a house and remained during the winter. To the creek was given the name of Jans Peek's Creek, or Peek's Kill, and from the name of the creek the village received its designation. In a
Between the years 1866 and 1877 a school was in operation for a short time under the direction of Rev. I deed given by the Indians to Jacobus Dekay and
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others, June 25, 1685, the ereek is referred to as being known to the Indians as John Pcake's Creck.
As appears clearly from early military maps of the town of Cortlandt, as well as from reference in a number of old writings,and from positive tradition, the village of Peekskill in early times stood about a mile north of the centre of the present village, where the road from Pemart's Doek met the New York and Albany Post road, and where the property of Calvin Frost, Boland Darm and Harrison Smith is at present loeatcd. At Pemart's Doek was the port of the village. For many years subsequent to the settling of the village further south along Magregaries Brook, this upper settlement continued to be the more important of the two.
Aeeording to Bolton's history of the county, 1
other charter was obtained April 5, 1839, and amend- ments have sinee been made.
The trustees of the village sinee 1827 have been as follows :
1827.
1828.
Samuel Strang, president,
St. John Constant,
John Halstead,
Stephen Brown,
Philip Clapp,
Zopher Jones,
James Birdsall,
Reuben R. Fincli,
Ezra Marshall, secretary,
James Hawes,
Stephen Brown, treasurer. 1829.
1830.
Samuel Marks, president,
Samuel Marks, president.
Stephen Brown,
Steplien Brown,
Niles Frost,
James Hawes,
Reuben R. Finch, secretary,
Reuben R. Finch, secretary.
Steplien Brown, treasurer.
Stephen Brown, treasurer.
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PEEKSKILL, FROM THE POINT OF LAND BELOW, ON THE HUDSON.2
the settlement of the village of Peekskill was begun in the year 1764 by Daniel Birdsall, Nathaniel Brown, Joseph Travis and Captain Isaae Conklin. The ref- erence is evidently to the lower village, where the Birdsall mansion was located. The first store was ereeted by Nathaniel Birdsall, near the middle dock.
Claude Blanchard deseribes it (meaning the pres- ent, for he speaks also of the old one) as a village of about twenty houses quite close to each other. He was there in July and August, 1781.
April, 17, 1816, an act was passed by the Legislature incorporating the village of Peekskill. No record exists, however, of any election of offieers under this charter. Another eharter was granted April 9, 1827, and the first known trustees were elected. Samuel Strang was chosen by the trustecs from their own body as the first president of the corporation. An-
1831. St. John Constant, president.
1832.
St. John Constant, president,
James Brown,
Pliiletus Raymond,
Nathaniel Bedle,
Nathaniel Brown,
John C. Roake,
John C. Roake,
Seth Hoit, secretary,
James Brown, secretary,
James Brown, treasurer.
Pliiletus Brown, treasurer.
1833.
1834.
St. John Constaut, president,
Samuel Marks, president,
Philetus Raymond,
Philetns Raymond,
James Hawes,
James Wright,
John C. Roake,
William Denike,
James B. Brown, secretary,
James Brown, secretary,
Philetus Raymond, treasurer. 1835.
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Samuel Marks, president,
Samuel Marks, president,
Philetus Raymond,
James Taylor,
James Wright,
Philip Clapp,
William Denike,
William Denike,
James Brown, secretary,
James Brown, secretary.
Philetus Raymond, treasurer.
James Brown, treasurer.
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Stephen Brown, treasurer.
Niles Frost,
James Hawes,
Philetus Raymond, treasurer.
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1837.
Samuel Marks, president, I'hilip Clapp, William Denike, James Taylor, James Brown, secretary, James Brown, treasurer.
1839.
1840.
Ezra Marshall, president, Frost Ilorton,
Daniel D. Smith,
William Denike, Benjamin Odell,
W. 11. Briggs, clerk,
Andrew Ilanford, treasurer.
1842.
Ezra Marshall, president,
Jacob Oakley,
Frost Horton,
George P. Halsted,
William Denike,
Wm. HI. Briggs, clerk,
Andrew Hanford, treasurer.
1844.
Ezrn Marshall, president,
Saumel S. Wood,
George P. Ilalsted,
Gilbert B. Ilart,
John Il. Ilyatt,
Henry W. Depew, clerk,
John Mead, treasurer.
1846.
Ezra Marshall, president,
Ward B. Howard,
George P. Halsted,
Samuel S. Wood,
Sammuel W. Hurd,
Henry W. Depew, clerk.
John Mead, treasurer.
1848.
Judson II. Gilbert, president,
Jarvis Washburn.
E. D. Faller,
D. F. Clapp, Ezra Marshall,
William II. Briggs, clerk,
Isaac Seymour, treasurer.
1850.
Ezra Marshall, president,
James L. Smithı,
Jarvis Washburn,
Ward B. Howard,
Jacob L. l'ost,
Thomas \ Whitney, clerk,
lIenry W. Depew, treasurer. 1852.
Ward B. Howard, president,
Cortlandt Baxter,
llaines Charlock,
Samnel Il. Mabie,
Andrens Elmers,
Willlam 11. Briggs, clerk,
D. F. (lapp, treasurer.
1854.
Frost llorton, president,
Ilnines Charlock,
Samuel 11. Mabie,
Lorenzo D. Curry, Daniel M. Ilyatt,
Francis l'. Clark, clerk, D. F. Clapp, trensurer.
1855.
IIaines Chnrlock, president,
Henry W. Hunt,
Samuel 11. Mabie,
David Mandeville,
Robert A. Depew, Abram X. Griffin,
William II. Briggs, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1857.
1858
Fred'k W. Requa, president, James Taylor, William Denike,
Morris Depew,
Frost IIorton, William Briggs, clerk, Andrew Hanford, treasurer.
1841.
Ezra Marshall, president, William Denike, Frost Horton, Jacob Oakley, Benjamin Odell, William H. Briggs, clerk, Andrew Hanford, treasurer.
1843.
Ezra Marshall, president,
Frost Horton, Jacob Oakley,
William Denike,
George P. Halstead, HIenry W. Depew, clerk, Andrew Hanford, treasurer.
1845.
Ezra Marshall, president, William B. Ferris, George l'. Halsted, Gilbert B. Hart, William Durrin, Henry W. Depew, clerk, Johu Mead, treasurer. 1847.
Ward B. Howard, president, Ezra Marshall,
George P. Halsted, Samnel W. IInrd,
Samuel S. Wood,
HIenry W Depew, clerk, John Mlead, treasurer.
1849.
Ward B. Howard, president, Jacob L. Post,
Tillinghast Bennett, Ezra Marshall, Jarvis Washburn, Thomas A. Whitney, clerk, Henry W. Depew, treasurer. 1851.
Tillinghast Bennett, president, Cortlandt Baxter, Lewis Jessup, James lla wes,
John II. Hyatt, William II. Briggs, clerk, D. F. Clapp, trensurer.
1853.
Frost Horton, president, Lewis Jessup, llaines C'harlock, Nehemiah S. Jacobs, Ward B. Howard, Thomas A. Whitney, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer,
1838.
Daniel D. Smith, president,
William Denike,
Ezra llopkins,
James Brown,
James Brown, secretary, James Brown, treasurer.
Lorenzo D. Curry, Francis l'. Clark, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
George W. Depew,
Isaac S. Mandeville,
Lewis Jessup,
John Ilalsted,
Iliram Xlabie,
Francis P. Clark, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1859.
Cyrus Townsend, president,
Cortlandt Baxter,
Hiram )labie, P. D. Smith,
L. D. Curry,
Francis P. Clark, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1861.
Jolin Ombony, president,
James L. Gregory,
John Ombony,
James L. Gregory,
I. S. Mandeville,
Lorenzo D. Curry,
Hachaliah B. Strang, clerk, D. F. C'lapp, treasurer.
I864.
Samnel J. Jacobus, president,
George P. Marshall,
Isaac S. Mandeville,
P. D. Smith,
I. S. Mandeville, James L. Smith, Edgar D. Bassett, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer. 1865.
Samuel J. Jacobus, president,
Geo. P. Marshall, Jolın Halsted,
Jacob R. Decatnr,
Jas. L. Smith,
Stephen Lent, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer. 1867.
Geo. P. Marshall, president,
Robert S. Armstrong, John llalsted, Ebenezer F. Bedell,
James L. l'aulding,
Stephen Lent, clerk,
D. F. Clupp, treasurer. IN69.
Geo. P. Marshall, president,
Ebenezer F. Bedell,
Robert D. Nelson,
St. John ('roft,
John Halsted, Sammel J. Jacobus, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer. 18TI.
Robert D. Nelson, president, John W. Ilnit,
St. John Croft, E. F. Bedell, W'in. S. Tompkins, Samuel J. Jacobus, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
Geo. P. Marshall, president, Robt. S. Armstrong,
John Halsted,
J. R. Decatur,
James L. Paulding,
Stephen Lent, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1868.
Geo. P. Marshall, president, John llalsted, St. John Croft,
R. S. Armstrong,
J. L. Paulding,
Thos. . \. Whitney, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1870.
John llalsted, president, James D. Sherwood, St. John Croft, Robert D. Nelson,
Ebenezer F. Bedell,
William E Borden, clerk,
D. F. C'lapp, treasurer. 1872.
W'm. S. Tompkins, president, Andrew I'kers, David Mandeville,
St. John Croft, John W. Halt, Samuel J. Jacobns, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
185G.
Thomas Southard, presldeut, Gilbert B. Hart, Isaac S. Mandeville,
C. A. G. Depew, president. Hiramı Mabie, U'rial Hill, Jr.,
James L. Gregory, I. S. Mandeville,
Francis P. Clark, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1860.
Cyrus Townsend, president, Cortlandt Baxter, P. D. Smith,
James L. Gregory,
L. D. Curry, Francis P. Clark, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1802.
Uriah Hill, Jr., president,
Daniel J. Haight,
Uriah Hill, Jr.,
Lorenzo D. Curry,
Hachaliah B. Strang, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1863.
Thos. A. Whitney, president,
John Ombony,
Saniuel J. Jacobus,
James L. Smith, Edgar D. Bassett, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer. 186G.
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1873.
1874.
Joseph II. Mason, president,
Joseph II. Mason, president,
David Mandeville,
David Mandeville,
Wm. S. Tompkins,
Fred. Sherwood,
Fred. Sherwood,
Stephen D. Horton,
Stephen D. Horton,
Jolın Tompkins,
Andrew Ukers,
Andrew Ukers,
Win. D. Southard,
Win. D. Southard,
Stephen Lent, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
Stephen Lent, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1875.
Stephen D. Horton, president,
Andrew Ukers,
Wiu. D. Southard,
Win. D. Southard,
John Tompkins, Fred. Sherwood,
Ebenezer F. Bedell,
Ebenezer F. Bedell,
James H. Robertson,
Franklin Couch, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1877.
1878.
W. D. Southard, president,
George D. Sauford,
Benj. McCabe,
W'm. H. Hunter,
James F. Martin,
John W. Mabie (died),
Wn. Mabie (to fill vacancy),
Ebenezer F. Bedell,
Stephen Lent, clerk,
D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1879.
1880.
Stephen D. Horton, president,
Cornelius C. Lent, president,
George D. Sanford,
George D. Sanford,
Benjamin McCabe, James F. Martin,
David Mandeville,
David S. Mandeville,
Henry H. Lane,
Henry H. Lane,
James H. Phyfe,
W. S. Tompkins,
Benjamin McCabe,
Franklin Couch, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
Franklin Couch, clerk, D. F. Clapp, treasurer.
1881.
1882-'3.
Jas. H. Robertson, president,
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