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April. The Committee which had been appointed by the common council to put a soup house in operation during the inclement season, reported that they began to deliver soup on the 28th January, and continued it till the 26th of March, in all 56 days; that during that time, they supplied 306 families, averaging five persons each, in all 1,530 persons supplied daily with a pint of soup to each person, with a piece of bread and meat to each family. The total expenses were $1,473.46 ; received from private donations and concert of Sacred Music As- sociation, $923.10, leaving $550.36 to be paid by the chamberlain, which was a fraction of one-third of a cent per day for each person.
May 5. Richard S. Treat died, aged 37.
May 6. Garret L. Dox was appointed justice of the Justices court.
Dr. John F. Townsend, aid to Gov. Seward, was unanimously elected .Brig. General of the 1st Brigade of Horse Artillery.
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May 8. Charter Election ; result as follows :
WHIGS. First Ward. DEMOCRATS.
Aldermen. G. V. S. Bleecker, .. 600
Erastus Corning, .... 454
Ralph Pratt, 591
Barent P. Staats, . 472
Assistants. Jas. McClure, 603 Benj. Thomas, 465
T. F. Bancroft, 595 Adam Todd, 461
Supervisor. C. W. Bender, .. 593
Isaac Denniston, . 459
Second Ward.
Aldermen. Ichabod L. Judson, .. 474
Hiram Perry, . 390
George Merrifield, ... 475
Daniel S. Kittle, 391
Assistants. Jesse Buel Jr., . ..... 476 James M. French, . 393
Visscher Ten Eyck,. 470
Henry Cassidy,. 391
Supercisor. Wm. Newton, . 470
John I. Burton, 393
Third Ward.
Aldermen. E. W. Skinner,. 314
C. A. Ten Eyck, . 222
John Groesbeck,. 305
Seth Hastings, ... 213
Assistants. Arnold Nelson, 301
N. N. Quakenbush, . 213
Henry Russell, 306 Corns. Ten Broeck, .. 214
Supervisor. George Dexter, . ..
311
E. R. Satterlee, .
215
Fourth Ward.
Aldermen. Steph-n T. Thorn, .. 513
George Handford, 478
J. R. Dickerman, . . .
504 Peter P. Staats, 484
Assistants. Thos. McMullen, ...
502 Peter Cagger, . 475
Wa'do Corbit,
501 C. Livingston, 492
Supervisor. Henry Greene, .
511 Russell Forsyth,. 469
Fifth Ward.
Aldermen.
Thos. McElroy, ... 370 Adolphus Colburn,. .. 371
Gerrit L. Dox,. . .
370 Timothy Spears,. 372
Assistants. Zebina Belknap, .
360 Richard T. Ferris, .... 376
Wm. Winne, . 364 George S. Gibbons .. 372
Supervicor. Giles Sanford,. 365 J. Van Valkenburgh, .. 349
May 8. Gertrude, widow of John Gates, died, aged 85. Legislature adjourned.
May 13. Milo Shaw died, aged 71.
The North Dutch church relinquished their right to dockage at the old Watering place, in payment of a claim of the corporation.
May 19 Sylvester Lyman died, aged 63.
There were two infant schools in operation at this time ; one in Orchard street, and one in Spring street. One in the lower part of the city had been closed re- cently, and there was a lack of funds to carry on the others. During the ten years since they were organized,
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it was estimated that about 6,000 children had been benefitted by them. The funds were mostly derived from church collections.
May 20. An election was held to decide whether the common council should be authorized to borrow $400,000 to aid the construction of the Albany and West Stock- bridge rail road. The result was 3,245 votes for the loan, and 625 against it. This was claimed by the news- papers to be the " first strong demonstration in favor of internal improvement."
May 23. Gen. H. V. Du Coudray Holstein, a distin- guished officer and diplomat of Bonaparte, died, aged 76. He was a native of Germany, but entered the French ser- vice, and acquired the confidence of Napoleon. On the restoration of the Bourbons, he went to South America, where he found scope for his military skill. On leaving that service he went to New York, and delivered lectures on military tactics, which were attended by the first men of that city. He was soon after appointed to fill the chair of professor of modern languages, at Geneva college, whence he removed to Albany, and taught French in the Female Academy, and during his residence here, won the esteem of all who knew him. He had resided here six years.
May 27. The common council appointed its city offi- cers : George W. Weed, clerk ; Hazael Kane, police justice ; Robert H. Pruyn, attorney.
Thomas M. Gillespie died, aged 40.
May 28. Welcome Esleeck died, aged 45.
May 30. Levi Steele died, aged 63.
Catharine, wife of Matthew Logan, died, aged 58. Col. John B. Manning, died.
June 5. Susan S., wife of Wm. McCammon, died,
aged 25.
June 10. William Gill died, aged 63.
A bell was directed to be palced in the cupola
of the Jail, to be rung in cases of fire.
At a meeting of the common council, a communication
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was received from Messrs. Thomas W. Olcott, Marcus T. Reynolds, and Lewis Benedict, stating that they had been appointed a committee by the directors of the Al- bany and West Stockbridge Rail Road Company, and asked the appointment of a similar committee on the part of the board ; whereupon, the mayor appointed Messrs. Pratt, Ten Eyck, Skinner and McMullen.
June 11. Catharine Eliza Todd died, aged 25.
June 12. Francis Bloodgood was reelected president of the New York State Bank, and Rufus H. King, vice- president.
June 17. James Boughton died, aged 21.
Getty Ten Eyck died, aged 64, at Cazenovia. June 25. Mary, wife of Henry H. Buckbee, died, aged 34. June 26. Anna, wife of Isaac P. Garrison, died, aged 37. July 1. The common council resolved to borrow $650,000, with which to purchase $300,000 of the stock of the Albany and West Stockbridge rail road, and to loan the remainder to subscribers to the stock, to enable them to make payments.
July 4. Thomas Rector, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, for killing young Shepherd, was sentenced by Judge Nelson, to seven years of imprison- ment.
July 4. John Bonner died, aged 75.
The customary oration of the day was de- livered by Solomon Southwick, and published by order of the common council.
July 8. Mrs. Martha Bacon, mother of John F. Bacon, died, aged 72.
Thomas Shallow died, aged 53. Jacob Brinckerhoff, died.
July 10. Smith Weed died, aged 85. He was a native of Stamford, Conn., and a commissary in the army, during most of the revolutionary war. At the battle of Danbury, he was badly wounded, and brought off the field with difficulty. On the close of the war he became an active and energetic merchant.
July 13. Fanny, wife of Wm. W. Wildman, died, aged 40.
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July 13. Ann Jane, wife of Samuel Waddell, died, aged 38.
July 13. Mrs. Chrystie McGlashan died, aged 71.
July 15. William Vosburgh died, aged 66.
July 17. Rev. Nathaniel Paul, pastor of the Hamilton street Baptist church, died, aged 46.
Elizabeth, wife of James D. Fisher, died, aged 40.
July 24. Martin Van Buren, president of the United States, arrived in the city, and was addressed by Gov. Marcy, in front of the City Hall.
July 25. Joseph H. Gladding died at New Orleans, aged 38.
July 29. Henry Merchant died, aged 35.
Aug. 6. Sarah, wife of Wm. Chatfield, died, aged 62.
Aug. 8. Wm. D. McLaughlin died in New York, aged 23.
Aug. 10. Catalina Gibbons, daughter of Sanford Cobb, died, aged 20.
Aug. 15. Nathaniel Carpenter died, aged 37.
Gloriana, wife of James Wood, died, aged 45.
Aug. 16. A. D. Campbell, died, aged 37.
Aug. 17. Jane, widow of John Newton, died, aged 78.
Henry Clay, the American statesman, arrived in the city, and remained at the Eagle Tavern, until the morn- ing of the 19th, when he took the steam boat to New York. He was accompanied from Troy, by Messrs. John Townsend, D. D. Barnard, John Bay, in a barouche. On entering the city, a very long processsion had joined the escort, Gen. Townsend acting as marshal, with Messrs. Wm. Bloodgood, R. H. Pruyn, Samuel Van Vechten and B. . F Townsend, as assistants.
Aug. 23. Benjamin Knower died, aged 64. He was a resident of the city nearly forty years; and although he began life as a mechanic, soon entered upon extensive commercial transactions. His career was distinguished for enterprise and public spirit, and he passed through it with a reputation for integrity unsullied, and for business capacity unsurpassed. He was for a long time connected
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with, and took an active part in the management of the Mechanics and Farmers' bank, of which he was president. In 1821, he was solicited to take the office of state treasurer, which he held until the fall of 1824, when he resigned. Mr. Knower was a hatter by occupation, and having many apprentices, most of them, as a matter of course, were without pecuniary means, or friends able to assist them. He seemed to regard it not only as a duty, but a source of personal gratification, to extend to them a helping hand at this critical moment in their lives. His place of business was a few doors below the corner of Hudson street, in Broadway, on the west side.
The steamboat Albany, Capt. Jenkins, left New York at 7h. 13m., and having made 15 landings arrived, at her deck at 4h. 20m., performing the trip in 9h. 7m.
Aug. 28. Eliza, wife of Frederick S. Barnard, died.
Sept. 1. Covel L'Amoreaux died at Mobile, aged 32.
Sept. 2. Frederick King died, aged 39.
The steamboat Rochester, arrived from New York, at 1h. 35m. in the morning, having come through, without landing, in 8h. 35m.
It was announced in Southwick's Family Newspaper, that Dr. O'Callaghan, one of the exiled patriots of Canada, having the reputation of a man of sound learning and science, had taken up his residence in Albany, with a view of retiring from politics and devoting himself en- tirely to his profession, that of a physician.
Sept. 4. Trinity church was organized. Services were held in Westerlo street, between Church and Dallius. A week subsequently, the Rev. Isaac Swart was chosen rector, and accepted the office. This formed the third Episcopal church in Albany.
Sept. 14. Thomas Robinson died, aged 42.
Sept. 18. Matthew M. Cole died in Washington.
Passengers who left New York in the Albany boats, arrived at Buffalo in fifty hours, which the Buffalo Com- mercial Advertiser thought was as quick travelling as any reasonable man could wish.
Sept. 25. John Van Valkenburgh died in New York, aged 29.
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Sept. 25. The steam boat Albany arrived from New York in 8h. 49m. Deducting one hour for making ten landings, her running time was 7h. 49m., which had not been equaled.
Sept. 28. Wm. Gough died at Natchitoches, aged 27.
Oct. 2. Jennet, widow of Henry B. Cook, died, aged 47.
Oct. 6. Jesse Buel died at Danbury, Conn., aged 63. He was a native of Coventry Ct., and was bred a printer, He removed to Albany in 1813 from Ulster county, and established the Albany Argus, and was state printer from 1814 to 1821, when he retired to a farm in the neighborhood of the city, known as the Albany Nursery. He represented the city for a number of years in the legis- lature, and was a regent of the University. He was a candidate for governor in 1836. But it was as an agriculturist that he was preeminent, and had a world- wide reputation.
Jellis D. Winne died at Savannah, aged 29.
Oct. 8. Asahel North died, aged 53.
Oct. 15. Margaret, widow of John S. Pruyn, died, aged 68.
Oct. 19. John Meacham died, aged 86.
Charles W. Hills died, aged 23,
Rensselaer Van Rensselaer, tried at the United States circuit court, on a charge of setting on foot a military expedition within the United States against a foreign power, was found guilty, and sentenced to six months imprisonment, and to pay a fine of $250.
Dr. Rensselaer Gansevoort died in Louisiana, aged 39.
Nov. 3. Harriet E., wife of James D. Wasson, died.
Nov. 6. The election closed. Friend Humphrey was chosen member of the senate, and H. G. Wheaton mem- ber of assembly, and the whig ticket succeeded.
Nov. 11. At a meeting of the board of common council: the following sums of money were voted to be raised by tax :
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For lamps and city watch, $15,000
contingencies, 20,000
" interst on city debt, 5,000
" City Hall, 5,000
building school houses, 2,500
interest on loan for do, 3,000
$50,500
Nov. 12. Phoebe, wife of John McKnight, died, aged 25. Nov. 15. Allen Plum died, aged 62.
Nov. 18. Solomon Southwick died, aged 66. For a biographical sketch and portrait of him, see vol. v., p. 104.
Margaret McDonald died, aged 45.
Nov. 19. John F. Dunlop died, late of Boston.
Nov 24. Mrs. Mary Linacre died, aged 28.
Nov. 25. Zachariah Booth died, aged 34.
Nov. 26. Elizabeth, widow of Jeremiah Osborn, died, aged 58.
Nov. 28. Robert Martin, dyer, died, aged 40.
Nov. 29. Wm. Bridgeford died, aged 50.
Nov. 30. The sheriff of the county, Michael Artcher, having been resisted by the anti-renters in some of the towns, called, out the posse comitatus. Nearly a thousand citizens were called upon to accompany him into the fastnesses of the Helderberg.
Dec. 2. Wm. Lathrop died, aged 42.
Sarah W., wife of Horace Meacham, died, aged 51.
Dec. 2. The sheriff's posse set out for Reedsville about 600 strong. They met with no opposition until they arrived at a place about four miles beyond Clarkesville, when several hundred men on horses opposed their pro- gress, and they were forced to turn back. They reached their homes about 9 o'clock at night, wearied and worn with the fatigue of a march to which they were wholly unaccustomed. This was the beginning of what was termed the anti-rent war.
Dec. 7. Harriet Gansevoort died, aged 59.
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Dec. 9. The sheriff proceeded into the anti-rent dis- trict, accompanied by several military companies ; they halted at Clarke's tavern, in Clarkesville, and established military jurisdiction. On the following day, the Gov- ernor issued a proclamation declaring his determination to maintain the supremacy of the laws.
Dec. 10. Robert Stewart died, aged 72.
Dec. 11. Gen. Averill of Montgomery county, arrived in town with 500 troops from Montgomery county des- tined for the invasion of the Helderberg. The belli- gerents finding that formidable arrangements were being made for their overthrow, came in and surrendered. The sheriff thereupon, proceeded to serve the processes without meeting any opposition, and the Montgomery county army had permission to return home.
Dec. 15. The sheriff with the military companies from Albany and Troy, under the command of Maj. Blood- good, which had been on duty during the week past, at the Helderberg, returned to the city, having marched over a heavy road, and through deep snow, 12 miles, amid a storm of great severity. They left the city one week before in a heavy rain storm, had been on active duty during the week, and subjected to many privations necessarily incident to so sudden and ill-provided an ex- pedition. The military force employed by the sheriff consisted of
Albany Burgesses Corps, Capt. Bayeux.
Albany Union Guards, Capt. Brown.
Albany Republican Artillery, Capt. Strain.
Ist Company Van Rensselaer Guards, Capt. Kearney.
2d Company Van Rensselaer Guards, Capt. Berry.
Troy Artillery, Capt. Howe.
Troy Citizens Corps, Capt. Pierce.
Troy City Guards, Capt. Wickes.
These companies consisted of the flower of the Cities of Albany and Troy, and acquitted themselves with great credit under circumstances of great delicacy and responsibility .
Dec. 15. Wm. Crandall died, aged 71.
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Dec. 19. Wm. Giles Dunlop died, aged 28.
Dec. 20. Thomas N. Barker died, aged 24.
The river was closed ; the boats being merely able to reach Rhinebeck.
Dec. 22. William Chadwick died, aged 48.
Dec. 25. Mrs. Isabella Hunter died, aged 80.
Dec. 28. Elizabeth, wife of Asahel Hall, died, aged 58.
Dec. 29. Francis Horth died, aged 41.
Dec. 30. Jared L. Rathbone was reelected mayor of the city.
The chamberlain's report of the receipts and expenses of the Greenbush ferry showed a profit of $828.42, for the year 1839.
1840.
Jan. 3. Mrs, Sophia Willard died, aged 67.
Jan. 6. Mrs. Susannah Miller died, aged 73.
George Combe, of Edinburg, delivered a course of lec- tures on Phrenology at the Female Academy. The fine collection of busts in that institution was purchased of him.
Jan. 11. Janet, widow of Donald Frazer, died, aged 66.
Jan. 13. Mrs. Hannah Dillingham died, aged 75.
Jan. 19. James Millbank died, aged 48.
.Jan. 25. Hugh Johnson died, aged 48.
Jan. 30. Clarissa, wife of Robert Thompson, died.
Jan. 31. Mrs. Caroline Vanderhoof died, aged 38.
A meeting was held in the vestry of St. Peter's church, to organize a society for the purpose of providing a con- venient place of worship for boatmen and others. Thaddeus Joy was appointed chairman, and James Taylor secretary. A committee was appointed to make preliminary arrangements, consisting of E. P. Prentice, Israel Williams, Thomas McElroy, Daniel Peck, Wm. E. Bleecker, and the chairman and secretary.
Feb. 3. Arriet, wife of Solomon Van Rensselaer, died, aged 65.
Feb. 4. At the annual election of the Young Men's
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Association for Mutual Improvement in the City of Al- bany, the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year :
. Wm. E. Bleecker, president. Charles T. Smyth, Robert S. Cushman, Arthur C. Southwick, vice presidents. Cornelius Ten Broeck, cor. secretary.
Stephen D. Van Schaick, rec. secretary. Charles L. Garfield, treasurer.
Feb. 8. The carpenter shop of John Boardman, 27 Beaver street, was burnt; loss $1,200, insured $500.
Feb. 10. Mrs. Harriet Lansing died, aged 56.
Feb. 11. Maria, wife of E. M. Courtright, died, aged 32. Polly, wife of Rev. Nathaniel Smith, died, aged 79.
Feb. 12. Richard Watson died, aged 43.
Dr. Benj. Shelton died at Mishawaka, Ind., aged 27.
Feb. 17. Mary, wife of Dr. John Fisher, died.
Feb. 20. Henry Diblee died, aged 62.
Elizabeth, widow of H. G. Spafford, died.
Feb. 21. The stables corner of Eagle and Hudson st. belonging to Mr. St. John, were burnt. Mrs. Susannah Lansing died.
Feb. 22. St. Paul's church in South Pearl street, was consecrated by Rt. Rev. Bishop Onderdonk.
Feb. 23. Mrs. Cornelia Hallenbake died, aged 92.
The post office was removed in the Exchange building.
Feb. 26. The river was open and the Kosciusko ar- rived from New York.
March 1. Mrs. Margaret Russell died, aged 80.
March 2. The river was open and the steam boat Utica arrived.
The grade of Lodge street between Howard and Beaver, was established.
March 4. Moses B. Ward died, aged 22.
March 5. Francis Bloodgood died, aged 72. He had been during forty years a useful and respectable citizen.
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He was a graduate of Yale College, pursued the profes- sion of the law, and was many years clerk of the supreme court; several years mayor of the city ; at the time of his death he was president of the State Bank, of which he was one of the founders, and the last of the original board of directors of that bank. He was distinguished for the excellence of his disposition and the integrity of his character.
March 15. Ann Elizabeth, wife of Wm. Todd, died, aged 29.
John F. Bacon for many years clerk of the senate, was appointed consul for the port of Nassau.
March 16. Teunis Van Vechten was elected president of the Albany Insurance Company to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Francis Bloodgood. Rufus H. King was also elected president of the New York State Bank, to succeed Mr. Bloodgood.
March 24. Dr. Ashbel Steele Webster died, aged 44.
William Blackall died, aged 73.
March 25. George Webb died, aged 27.
March 30. Wm. W. Coughtry died.
April 3. Alda, widow of Robert Dunbar, Jr., died, aged 67.
April 4. Dr. Stephen Arnold, died, aged 47.
April 10. Gertrude, wife of Jeremiah Smith, died, aged 77.
April 13. The common council appropriated $50 to- wards purchasing a bell for the Third Dutch Reformed Church in Ferry street.
April 16. Mary, wife of James Sickles, died, aged 66.
April 18. A meeting of citizens was held at the Ca- pitol, to deliberate on the construction of the Albany and West Stockbridge rail road ; Jared L. Rathbone chair- man, Thomas W. Olcott and Erastus Corning vice-chair- men ; H. G. Wheaton and J. Q. Wilson secretaries. A series of resolutions was introduced by S. De Witt Bloodgood, for the active prosecution of the enterprise.
April 21. An ostensorium, partly silver, was stolen
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out of St. John's church in this city; a reward of $100 was offered for the thief.
The chamberlain reported the city debt to be $388,187.29. The receipts for the past year were $254,832.39 ; expenditures $246,055-47.
April 23. Andrew Kerker died, aged 23.
April 24. William Boyd died, aged 65. April 26. Israel Williams died, aged 55. Alexander Cameron died, aged 39. Mary, wife of Henry Smith, died, aged 29. Wm. W. Staats, formerly of Albany, died at Penn Yan.
April 27. Jared L. Rathbone resigned the office of mayor of the city.
April 29. Mary, wife of Robert Morrow, died.
April 30. Orren Lincoln died, aged 47.
May 5. Charter election ; polls open one day from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. The whigs carried the city. WHIGS. DEMOCRATS.
First Ward.
Mayor, Aldermen,
Jared L. Rathbone ... 651
Erastus Corning,. 501
G. V. S. Bleecker, ... 666
Barent P. Staats, ..
.. 488
John D. Hewson, ... 660
A. C. Southwick, . .... 473
Assistants, James McClure, .... 670
Isaiah Townsend,. ... . 474
Wm. Broadman, .... 669 Second Ward.
Stephen G. Mink,. 474
Mayor,
Jared L. Rathbone, .. 512
Erastus Corning, 389
Aldermen,
George Merrifield, ... 507
Daniel S. Kittle,. 386
Visscher Ten Eyck,. 484
Eli Perry, ... 412
Assistants, Thos. Kirkpatrick, .. 504
Nathaniel Gallup,. 390
Spencer S. Benedict, . 504 Third Ward.
John McKnight, 390
Mayor, Aldermen,
Jared L. Rathbone, .. 361
Erastus Corning,. 267
John Groesbeck, .... 372
Seth Hastings, .. 248
Arnold Nelson, . . . .. 349
Beriah Douglas,. 237
Assistants, Henry Russell, . .
354
N. N. Quakenbush,. ... 249
S. Van Vecthen, .... 365 Fourth Ward.
C. Ten Broeck, . 261
Mayor, Aldermen,
Jared L. Rathbone, .. 537
Erastus Corning, 528
James Robinson, .... 551
G. Hanford, 508
Joel R. Dickerman, .. 556
C. Vosburgh, 504
Assistants, Thos. McMullen, ... 540
P. Cagger, . 513
H. C. Whelpley, .... 540
J. Osborn,. 516
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WHIG. DEMOCRAT.
Fifth Ward.
Mayor,
Jared L. Rathbone, .. 410
Erastus Corning, 414
Aldermen, Thos. McElroy, ..... 435 R. I. Ferris, 385
Zebina Belknap, .... 413
C. Chapman,* 413
Assistants, J. M. D. McIntyre, . 423 H. Q. Hawley, . 400
N. G. King, ..... . .. 427
A. Carroll, .... 398
May 5. Gerrit R. Van Zandt died, aged 72.
May 9. Edmund B. Child died ; several years printer of the American Masonic Record, and of the Albany Directory.
May 14. The legislature adjourned, having passed 318 laws.
A person of infinite leisure took the following account of vehicles and persons that passed the Montgomery Hall in South Market street, below Hudson, between the hours of 4 o'clock in the morning and 8 in the evening, after which hour he ceased to keep count, although more were then passing than at any previous hour.
Foot, . 9,762
Wagons, 407
Stages,. 146
Carts, .. 193
Horse and man, 41
The expenditures of the Fire Department for six years ending May Ist, were as follows :
1835 $3,477.16 1838 $ 3,834.60
1836 5,679.69 1839 4,107.98
1837 6,847.94 1840 10,950.30
May 15. Catharine, widow of Capt. Hugh Boyd, died, aged 67.
Stephen Lush Bradford died.
June 1. Barent Bleecker, died, aged 80. He was some time president of the Bank of Albany.
June 7. John D. Barry, pilot, died, aged 40. Judith, widow of Capt. Elihu S. Bunker, died, aged 59.
* There were two ballots for C. Chapman which were counted and gave him a seat in the board.
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June 14. Wm. J. Staats died, aged 29.
June 16. Judah Colt died, aged 33.
Edward Livingston died, a public man of distinction and talents; had been clerk of the assembly, district at- torney, city representative, and speaker of the assembly. John Selkirk died.
June 26. Ann Elizabeth, wife of Azor Taber, died, aged 25.
Mrs. Mary Milway died, aged 60. Frederick P. James died, aged 42.
June 27. The friends of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," raised a log cabin on the corner of Maiden lane and Dean street, as a part of the election machinery of what was termed the hard cider campaign. Persons from every town in the county assisted with enthusiasm in the construction, and it was finished in one day. At 12 o'clock the workmen were called to dinner by the blowing of a horn, in the loft of Grenville Slack's store, on the opposite corner; it consisted of corn bread baked by Stephen Paddock, pork and beans, cold ham, &c., and cider.
Ben. Atkins died, aged 44.
June 29. Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Benjamin V. Clench, died.
June 30. James Merrifield died, aged 52.
July 4. The oration on the occasion of this anniver- sary was delivered by Uriah Marvin, Jr .; reading the Declaration by George Vance, Jr.
At the celebration by the Young Men's Association, the oration was delivered by Robert H. Pruyn ; the De- claration was read by B. R. Spelman ; poem by Thomas H. Cushman.
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