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27. Mary E. Pruyn died, aged 20.
28. A fire in Church street destoyed the stock of a cabinet maker.
29. Anna Maria Saltus, wife of Lansing Pruyn, died.
30. Margaret Dermody died, aged 40 ...... Philip Henry died, aged 78 ...... Henry W. Sackett died at Northampton, Mass., aged 24; late of Albany.
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31. At a meeting of the common council L. R. Brock way was appointed keeper of the Alms House, in place of Mr. Halliday, resigned ...... James Barisford, died. .. Elizabeth C. Mckown died, aged 16. . . Christ- ian Pfau died, aged 43.
FEBRUARY.
1. A new penny evening daily paper called Evening Transcript, was first published by CUYLER & HENLY, being the seventh daily paper printed at this time in the city .... . George Vance died, aged 76 ...... Mary, wife of James New, died, aged 25 ... . Mary D., wife of Benjamin Reed, died.
3. The survivors of the campaign of 1812 residing in New York, reached this city by the rail road, and marched through the streets under Col. Haight, escorted by the Republican Artillery. They numbered about a hundred. Nabby Frisby died, aged 81.
4. The surviving soldiers of the war of 1812 were joined by thirty-eight of their companions belonging to Albany, and escorted by the Republican Artillery marched to the Capitol, where they were addressed by the gov- ernor. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon they returned to New York ....... Philander Waters died, aged 43 Capt. N. Page died, aged 75.
6. The river rose to the top of the pier, and carried away the ice in front of the city .. . Pairpont Page died, aged 49.
7. The water higher in the river than at any time since the great freshet of 1843 ..... Mrs. Lydia Watson died, aged 80.
8. The Green Street Theatre sold for $6,975, under the sheriff's hammer ..... John Sayles died, aged 42. . John McCrean died, aged 58.
9. The ice blocked up in the current of the river below the city, and the stores on the pier and dock still filled with water.
10. The river filled with floating ice, but the water had subsided so that the merchants began to take possession [ Annals, v.] 28
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of their stores again, and commence the process of cleans- ing.
12. A fire partially destroyed the leather manufactory of H. Newman in Water street.
13. Mary Mather, a teacher in the Albany Female Academy, died in the city of New York.
14. Catharine Dee died, aged 30 ...... Michael Mc- Cormick died, aged 33. ..... Reuben Bunn died, aged 56.
. . Eliza Ann, wife of Col. J. L. Shew, died, aged 36.
15. Abraham H. Mckown died, aged 32.
16. Four petitions were presented to the Legislature for the division of Albany county . ... .. Ferry boats still run- ning; ice stationary at Troy, but floating here. ..... The publishing room of Virtue & Co. was forcibly entered at night and robbed. . . Lillia R., wife of Andrew White, died, aged 45. ..... William S. Willey died, aged 22.
17. Harriet Kirk died, aged 49.
18. (?) Petitions presented to the Legislature by Mr. Forsyth for the establishment at Albany of a House of Refuge.
20. Alexander K. Dunbar died, aged 42.
21. Joseph Neely, Jr., died, aged 21. .John R. Taylor died, aged 32.
22. The birthday of Washington celebrated with more than usual enthusiasm. The military joined in the pro- ceedings. The procession marched through the streets to the Capitol, where the exercises consisted of a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Jeffrey, an address by the Hon. John C. Mather, and the reading of the farewell address byJ. C. Cuyler. In the evening the Albany Burgesses Corps gave a · splendid ball ...... Mrs. Harriet Sheppard, wife of William Smith, died. . Mary Ann, wife of David H. Thomas, died, aged 18. . .. .. Rensselaer Wilbur, died, aged 43.
23. Amy, wife of Philo A. Hackley, died, aged 57. . . . Mehitabel, wife of Abijah Hall, died.
24. John A. Tate died, aged 45.
28. Stephen B. Joice died, aged 28 ...... Patrick Car- ney died, aged 28. ..... George Dummer died at Jersey City, aged 71; formerly a merchant of this city, of the firm of Webb & Dummer.
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MARCH.
1. A young man named Clark arrested for counterfeit- ing bank notes ...... Philetus A. Cummings, died, aged 28 ...... Thomas S. McEntee died ...... Lydia, wife of Christopher Adams. died, aged 40.
4. John Collins died, aged 25
5. Julius Henley died. aged 33.
6. Robert Shepherd died, aged 73. He was the senior partner of the firm of Shepherd & Boyd, jewelers, sub- sequently Boyd & Mulford, and now Mulfo: d & Wendell. He was one of the original directors of the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank, which office he held at the time of his death.
7. James Dempsey died, aged 35 .. ... Jos. McCardel died, aged 22.
8. Lydia A. Stockton died, aged 58 .... .. Eunice E. Tallmadge died ...... Deriah Coonbeeck died, aged 22. ... George W. Meech, late of Albany, died at Buffalo, aged 20.
9. The ice moved off in the evening and left the river clear again in front of the city . . Mary H., wife of John S. Nafew, died, aged 36 David Sharp died, aged 51.
10. Mary Ann Finnegan died, aged 25.
11. An alarm of fire caused by the accidental burning of an unfinished house on Arbor Hill; damage slight.
12. The school commissioners having caused the annual census to be taken, it was found that there were about 17,000 between four and twenty-one years of age. The public schools were capable of accommodating 3000, but perhaps twice that number attended schools during some portion of the year. The amount annually expended for public instruction varied from $12,000 to $17,000.
13. William Booth died, aged 25.
14. A fire early in the morning damaged a grocery, - corner of Church and John streets. Another fire at night destroyed the building No. 78 State street, formerly known as Lewis's Tavern, but modernized and occupied
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by a Chinese as a tea store, in which the fire took. Not- · withstanding the heat of the fire, the weather was so cold that large banks of ice formed from the spray of the water thrown from the hose of the fire companies.
15. Isaac Fondey died, aged 67.
16. Andrew McElroy died, aged 25.
17. The Catholics and friends of Ireland celebrated the anniversary of St. Patrick-the former by services and concert at the Cathedral, and the latter by a supper, in the evening, at the Mansion House. We were formerly apprised of St. Patrick's anniversary by seeing his effigy suspended upon a tree. but how great the change; the . highest honor is paid to his memory by his countrymen in America ...... Samuel Deyermand died, aged 19.
18. Abram J. Lagrange died, aged 33. ..... Mrs. Mary A. Sinclair died, aged 22. .. . Chas. Welch, died, aged 51.
21. The obstructions in the river a few miles below the city having given way to the current, a steam tug ar- rived with its convoy, and in the evening the Oregon came . into her berth at the landing. The river had been closed since the 4th January, 76 days. . Mrs. Margaret McEntee, died, aged 70.
22. A fire in Broadway destroyed the stock of a lamp store ...... Ellen Wall died, aged 22 ...... Daniel Duff died, aged 26.
23. The bill for consolidating the various lines of rail roads between Albany and Buffalo passed by the house of assembly .. : Mrs. Miranda Gill died, aged 46. . Mrs. Alida Ewing died, aged 28. ..... Robert F. Slack, formerly of Albany, died at Weston, Mass.
24. The dry goods store No. 58 State street was entered by burglars and robbed of silk goods to the amount of about $2000. .. . . The last rail of the Northern Rail Road, connecting this city with Cohoes, was laid. The comple- tion of the bridge over the Mohawk was the only thing preventing the commencement of business ...... The Se- nate passed the bill for the construction of a ship canal from Albany to New Baltimore. .Jacob Smith died, aged 60.
25. Henry Todd died, aged 44.
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26. The premises of James Kelley in James street were entered by burglars at night, and robbed.
28. The Green Street Theatre, which had been closed several months, was opened by Mr. Edmund S. Connor, the new lessee, considerably improved in its internal ar- rangements, its finances, and its management.
29. G. F. H. Lincoln died, aged 36. .. Mrs. Eliza A. Jackson died, aged 31.
30. The prices of country produce were at this time as follows: Maple sugar, 12gc .; Ham, 14c .; Pork in quar- ters, 9a 10c. per lb. ; Beef, 5a7c. per lb. per 100 do .; Mutton and Lamb, 7a9c. do .; Veal, 4a9c. do .; Turkeys and Chickens were scarce, and taken quickly at 14a 16c. per lb. Potatoes are plenty, at 25a44c. per bu. Apples, $1.50a 2.25 per bbl. Butter selling at 14a 18c. per lb., but the latter figure only obtained for choice lots. Inferior and ordinary parcels dull and drooping. Eggs commanded 16a 17c. per doz. Buckwheat Flour, $1.37a1.50 per 100 lbs. Peas, 87c.a$1 per bu. Beans, 75c.a$1.63 do. Oats, 46a47¿c. Rye, 89a90c. Corn, 66c., and dull. Barley, 62a65c., and dull. Flax Seed, $1.12a1.25 ...... Robert Cameron died, aged 33. ..... Mary Pohlman died.
31. The house corner of Hudson and High streets was robbed, and a store in Washington street ...... Mrs. Dency F. Rice died, aged 29.
APRIL.
1. The Bank of the Capitol went into operation. L. B. Tarbox, assistant librarian of the house of assembly, convicted of an attempt to bribe a member, was sen- tenced to dismissal from office and confinement in the county jail during the session. .. Samuel Boyd died, aged 86.
2. Lawrence L. Van Kleeck died in New York of apo- plexy. He was a native of Albany, and was county clerk here for several years.
5. Charles W. Gill died, aged 47.
6. Aletta Groesbeck died, aged 76.
7. The Merchants' Bank commenced business at their
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banking house, 59 State street ...... Mrs. Ann Dunn died, aged 60. . .. Andrew Davison died, aged 53.
8. Mrs. Mary Groat died, aged 63. . ... Daniel Barrett died, aged 68.
9. An experimental trip was made on the Albany Northern Rail Road as far as Cohoes Daniel Riley, aged 45. fell dead in the street.
10. Several burglaries were committed on Saturday night and Sunday morning, in all which the booty was very small.
11. The trains on the Albany Northern Rail Road com- menced their regular trips to Cohoes. Mrs. Catharine Walsh died, aged 54.
12. Michael Kerwin died, aged 30. . Frederick Porter fell dead in the street, aged 56 .. ... Mrs. Eliza- beth Van Deusen died. . . John McHench died.
13. Legislature adjourned sine die at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, to avoid action in the impeachment of canal commissioner Mather. The governor immediately issued a proclamation convening both houses to meet next day at 10 in the morning.
14. An alarm of fire in the morning proceeded from a bonnet bleachery in James street ; damage about $300. A meeting was held at the State Agricultural Rooms for the purpose of organizing the Albany County Agricultural Society. A constitution was adopted, and the following officers elected : President-Jas. W. Jolley, Coeymans. Vice Presidents-Dr. Herman Wendell, Al- bany; A. J. Deitz, Berne; James Blodgett, Coeymans; Elias Milbanks, Bethlehem; Christopher Batterman, Guilderland; Prentice Williams, Knox; David Calanan, New Scotland; Levi Shaw, Rensselaerville; D. D. T. Moore, Watervliet; Isaac D. Verplank. Westerlo. Sec- retary-Joseph Warren, Albany. Treasurer-E. E. Platt, Albany ...... Legislature reasssmbled and adopted a resolution to take a recess till the 18th May, in which the senate concurred on the following day .. . Henry Simmons died, aged 32.
16. The grand jury found indictments against John Hendrickson, Jr., for poisoning his wife, and Barney
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Leddy, for beating his wife to death. . . . The Cohoes fac- tories were closed in order to afford the female operatives an opportunity to visit Albany by the new rail road, which they availed themselves of in great numbers ..... The Legislature adjourned to the 24th May ...... Samuel Brownlee, late of this city, died in New York, aged 49. . Mrs. Jane Strong died, aged 72.
17. R. H. Pitman's Exchange office was broken into by burglars, and robbed of money and lottery tickets. . . Mrs. Catharine Egan died, aged 23.
18. Two junk shop dealers were sentenced to the peni- tentiary for receiving stolen property. They were both old men who had. sustained good characters ..... . Thos. McMullen died, aged 43; a respectable merchant, who filled several public offices with credit to himself and ad- vantage to his constituents ..... Harriet. wife of Stephen L. Wilson, late of Albany, died at Hornellsville, Steuben county.
19. Mrs. Mary Boughton, wife of Daniel Boughton, died, aged 28 ...... Mrs. Julia Delahanty died.
20. Dr. Lewis C. Beck, died, aged 55; professor of chemistry and natural history in Rutgers College, and of chemistry in the Albany Medical College. He was en- gaged in several scientific enterprises of this state and city, among which were the preparation of a portion of the Natural History of the State, and the foundation of the Albany Institute.
21. Samuel Trowbridge died, aged 75.
22. The Erie Canal opened, and, as usual. attended with a greai rush of business ...... Jacob I. Weaver died, aged 37 ...... Mrs. Elizabeth McAneeny died ....... Jas. M. Wemple, formerly of Albany, died at Troy, aged 53.
24. A fire about 12 o'clock at night destroyed a lumber office at the north part of the city .. .... Mrs. Catharine Cuyler, wife of Teunis Van Vechten, aied, aged 64. . .... Mrs. Sarah Ann Corrigan died, aged 47 .. . . John C. Sherwood drowned, aged 34.
25. A fire about two o'clock in the morning destroyed several wooden tenements in the lower part of Green st. 26. Patrick Kieley died, aged 44.
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27. Two stables in different streets were fired by in- cendiaries before ten o'clock in the evening.
28. Two dwellings in Beaver street were burned early in the morning. ..... Archibald Smith died, aged 73. . Mrs. Cornelia Decker died, aged 27.
29. A cabinetmaker's shop in the Hudson street hollow was burnt early in the morning ; probably fired by an in- cendiary ...... Mrs. Sarah Ann Sickles, wife of Israel Mosher, died .. .. George Carr died, aged 52.
MAY.
1. An alarm of fire occasioned by a dense smoke pass- ing over the city driven by a strong wind. It was found to proceed from a quantity of brush several miles out of town, which had been fired by two boys, and which ex- tended more than six miles before it was arrested ; having burnt a house and barn, and several hundred cords of chopped wood in its progress. . . . . Rev. W. H. Halloway preached his farewell sermon at the Ferry Street R. P. Dutch Church; being about to remove to Williamsburgh. . . Abram J. Griffin died in New York, aged 27. . . Andrew Hill died, aged 50.
2. The body of William Schuyler, who disappeared mysteriously on the 23d December last, in New York, was found in the East River, where he had a steam boat office; his remains were brought to Albany for interment. Angeline Bell, died, aged 62.
4. Thomas Clark died, aged 43. ..... Mrs. Wm. Bur- nett, of Cincinnati, died; formerly Miss Anna Van Valk- enburgh, of Albany.
5. Mrs. Ann Moss died, aged 53 ...... Mrs. Alvina Stanford died.
6. Christopher Hallenbeck died, aged 27.
7. Albany Northern Rail Road opened to Waterford.
8. John Marvin died. aged 81.
9. Mary McLoughlin died, aged 21.
11. Mrs. Kirby died, aged 77.
13. Mary H. Chestney, wife of John H. Ingmire, died, aged 27.
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14. The grand jury indicted the Columbia street bridge as a nuisance. The indictments were found against the common council, the Canal commissioners and the Pier company. There being a dispute about the ownership of the bridge, this method was taken to ascertain its pro- per owner .... . . Mrs. Bridget Murray died, aged 95.
15. Henry Nichols died, aged 42.
17. The body of a female about 40 years of age was found drowned in the creek behind the island below the city .... . The anniversary of the American and Foreign Bible Society commenced at the Pearl Street Baptist Church.
18. Mrs. Cynthia, wife of Philip A. Mayer, died, aged 35 ..... Robert Clamson died, aged 24.
21. Dr. David Martin, late of Albany, died at Argyle, Wash. co., aged 53.
22. Charlotte, wife of James Cain, died, aged 31. . . Capt. John Bogart died, aged 92.
This venerable citizen has been identified with the commerce of this city, and of the river, at a period so early, as to make him, at his decrase, the oldest mariner of the Hudson. He was in command of a vessel in the year 1776, and while in charge, was sent as a flag of truce to convey the lady of one of the promi- nent general officers of the Hessians to the city of New York, which was in the occupancy of the British forces. He conti- nued in service on the river for a great number of years, and in every department of his business, indicated capacity and energy.
Born in 1761, he was of an age during the incidents of the Revolution to be identified with them; and he was one of the crowd who gathered around Mr. Visscher, the city clerk, at the memorable occasion when, for the first time, the Declaration of Independence was read to the citizens of Albany by that officer. This took place in what is now Broadway, about forty feet north of Hudson street.
Mr. Bogart was the chosen and intimate friend of General Schuyler, and of the leading men of this region, during the period of and immediately succeeding the Revolution ; and he shared the respect and warm friendship of the Old Patroon, during their mutual life.
At an age beyond that which most inen attain, while superin- tending, as one of the elders of the North Dutch church, its repairs, the gallery between the steeples falling, he suffered a fracture of the limb, which prevented him from the constant and
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vigorous exercise to which he had been accustomed, and the want of which, he often pleasantly remarked, was the chief reason why he could not live to he an old man!
Against all these hindrances, the strength of his constitution prevailed, and he lived to attain the great age of ninety-two.
The only surviver of our aged citizens, he passes away, in the pleasant memories of a kind old age-of years far prolonged, but not dimming the sound good sense-the distinct principle, and the refined courtesies, which he possessed to the last-mak- ing him to all, an object of honor and veneration.
The city of his birth had grown from the limited numbers and position of a small frontier colonial garrison, to the wealth and magnitude of a great Capital. He saw its progress, and enjoyed each development. More than any other man of his times had he seen the great changes in the transit to and from the metropolis. Its slowest and its swiftest had passed before him; and he possessed, what is most rare in old men, the ap- preciation of the superiority of the present over the past.
Enjoying at a very early age, by the society in which he min- gled, the acquaintance of the prominent men of the last century, his knowledge of true history was agrecable, and covered a series of years seldom touched by personal memory and associa- tion.
In the North Dutch church of this city, his loss is that of their most aged male member. He knew and felt, in intelligent sym- pathy, the value of the holy faith his almost century of life che- rished as its richest possession.
The loss of a citizen, who has thus accompanied the city in all its changes, for the years of a cycle, is a public one; and the general kindness of recollection on the part of all our people toward the venerable deceased, is a worthy and a fitting memo- rial of him .- Albany Evening Journal.
23. James Anderson died, aged 55 .. .. Daniel C. Johnson died, aged 48.
24. An alarm of fire occasioned by the burning of a barn on the Shaker road, in which thirty-five cows were consumed ...... Legislature assembled in extra session. . John Murray died, aged 30 ...... Margaret C. Miller, wife of William Annesly, died, aged 37.
25. Peter Mulligan died, aged 50. . .. . Alfred Marshall died, aged 42 ...... Margaret Bulkley died, aged 53.
26 George L. Yout died, aged 23.
27. As a party of lads were landing from a yawl boat, one of them, Thomas M. Myron, aged 14, fell into the
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river and was drowned. . . ... Sophia Ann Waugh, wife of Christopher Pearl, died, aged 31.
28. John O. Merrifield died, aged 32.
29. A German named George Maeder was drowned in the creek behind the island at the south end of the city, while bathing ...... James Albert Russell died at Lowell, aged 25.
30. About sixty sail vessels arrived during the day from the south.
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JUNE.
1. What was termed the West plan for the enlargement of the canals, was adopted by the house of assembly, 79 to 40: but it was defeated in the senate.
2. The prisoners in the Jail, corner of Eagle and Howard streets, were removed to the new lockup in Maiden lane ...... Anna Maria Gorer, wife of Jacob Kury, died, aged 25 ..... Mrs. Mary, wifeof George R. Vanderlip, died, aged 45.
3. John Milwain died, aged 66. . .... Israel Smith died, aged 77.
4. Seven lumber offices were broken open and robbed on Saturday night ...... The members of the legislature accepted the invitation of the Consolidated Rail Road Company to take a jaunt to Niagara Falls. . .... Mary M. Douglass, wife of Alexander Sinclair, died, aged 29. .... Thaddeus Joy died at Buffalo, aged 63; formerly a mer- chant in Albany.
Mr. Joy was an early settler in Western New York, having located in Le Roy, Genesee county, in 1815, where from his energy and enterprise, he soon occupied a prominent position. He removed to this city in 1823. He was an early and stead- fast friend of De Witt Clinton during the preliminary efforts which were put forth to secure the construction of the Erie canal.
He saw the great advantages that would accrue to the west- ern part of the state by opening this channel of communication with the tide water, and was active and influential in furthering the measure in its incipiency, and "until the waters of Lake Erie were mingled with those of the Atlantic." With his fellow citizens of Buffalo, then numbering some twenty-five hundred,
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he celebrated, with becoming enthusiasm, an event so important in the history of our then village, as well as of the state and nation. He has lived to see his most sanguine hopes more than realized by the stupendous results which have followed the con- struction of the Erie canal-the calling into being the innume- rable villages and cities which now line its banks, and its effect in peopling the great west.
Mr. Joy early engaged in the mercantile business here, in company with the late Manly Colton, in which he continued for several years. He built the canal boat on which Clinton made his first trip, and erected the first warehouse here, so that he in- deed may be regarded as one of the commercial pioneers of the west. After the completion of the canal, he embarked in the forwarding business. with extensive connections, and during the greater portion of the time he was so engaged, he resided in Albany. His characteristics were sound common sense, sound judgment, great, yet unpretending energy; and he possessed a mind which, while it was not unmindful of the complicated de- tails of an extensive and ramified business, was of sufficient grasp to comprehend great undertakings and far-reaching en- terprises. He has ever retained the respect of his fellow citi- zens by his probity and uprightness, his public spirit and en- lightened devotion to the general good .- Buffalo Daily Courier.
5. The body of James Conley, who had been missing since the 2d inst., was discovered in the basin, by persons making search for it there. He was supposed to have been murdered ...... Charles H. Andrews died, aged 37.
. . Sarah F., wife of Francis Demol, died, aged 41.
6. The body of Patrick Burns, who disappeared last fall, was found in the basin ...... The train bearing the members of the legislature returned from Niagara Falls in 7h. 44m. In the evening the members of the press who accompanied the expedition were invited to a supper at the City Hotel ..... Charles Bryan died, aged 53.
8. Shoe store of G. A. Wolverton & Co. entered by burglars, who fled leaving their tools and goods behind.
9. The grand jury condemned the new jail as being in- adequate to the safe custody of expert rogues.
10. The store of S. F. Shephard entered by burglars and robbed of clothing and money.
11. One of the bridges of the Albany Northern Rail Road, in progress of construction, fell, carrying with it
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about forty persons, some of whom were killed, and others badly injured.
13. The trial of John Hendrickson, Jr., for the murder of his wife, was commenced at the City Hall.
14. A plan for amending the constitution so as to re- move a feature of it which it was desirous to overcome, was adopted by the house 119 to 0, and the senate 29 to 1.
15. Elizabeth Millard, widow of William Scoby, died, aged 81 ...... Thomas J. Willard died, aged 51.
16. Nehemiah Osborn died, aged 83.
17. Great thunder storm; sloop loaded with hay upset ; houses struck by lightning; cellars filled with water.
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