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Oct. 20,, 196 passengers 21, 200 do. 22,. 289 do.
On the 23d, 27 stages went over, and passengers for five or six more offered. During the first seven days 1,698 passengers were carried over by the stages. Fare 50 cents.
Sept. 25. Elizabeth Bayard Campbell died at the Manor house of Stephen Van Rensselaer.
Cornelius Van Schelluyne died, aged 23.
Edgar B. Ten Broeck died in New Orleans, aged 20.
Sept. 26. The Rev. Mr. Hodge, pastor of the Green street Baptist church, preached his farewell sermon.
Rufus Brown died, aged 59.
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Sept. 28. The South Dutch church, corner of Green and Ferry streets was burnt. The fire took in the cupola, and destroyed every thing but the walls. It was erected in 1837 at a cost of $13,000, and was insured for $5,000.
Catharine, wife of Henry Yates, died.
Sept. 30. A meeting of citizens was held at the Ex- change building to confer on a mode of affording relief to the Third Dutch church, whose edifice had recently been destroyed by fire. A committee of one from each ward was appointed to solicit subscriptions, and church col- lections were recommended.
Thomas Welch died at Windham, Conn., aged 56.
Oct. 1. Audley P. Knower died, aged 27. James Linacre died, aged 57.
Oct. 9. A line of 12 stages passed down State street from Schenectady, having 112 passengers.
Oct. 10. Edward C. Denison died, aged 51.
Oct. 12. Catherine Eliza, wife of Angus McNaughton. died, aged 22.
Mrs. Louisa Hilton died, aged 34.
Oct. 13. Edward Henry Delavan died, aged 21.
Oct. 16. George S. Lansing died, aged 21.
Oct. 21. James Brammall died, aged 29.
Oct. 23. Maria E. Benne died.
Oct. 26. Ann Catharine, wife of John Hodge, died, aged 33.
Oct. 29. Fanny Danson died, aged 36.
Oct. 30 Margaret, daughter of Israel Smith, died,. aged 27.
Nov. 2. The election resulted in favor of the Demo -- crats. John A. Dix was elected to the assembly by a majority of 535 over Azor Taber.' Erastus Corning was elected state senator by 571 majority.
Nov. 3. Mrs. Isabella Holmes died, aged 78.
Charlotta Augusta, wife of Stephen B. Hall, died, aged 23. William L. Stillman died, aged 22. [ Annals, x.] 28
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Nov. 8.
Eliza, wife of John T. Carpenter, died,
aged 26.
Henry Carey died, aged 28.
Charlotte N., wife of Dr. D. Newcomb, died, aged 27.
Snow fell and the atmosphere had the ap- pearance of winter.
Nov. 9. The corner stone of the Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Washington and Swan streets was laid with appropriate ceremonies by the Rev. Dr. Sprague, of the Second Presbyterian church. The exercises were held in the hall of the Capitol. The building is 72 feet by 44. It was under the pastoral charge of the Rev. James Rawson.
Nov. 10. Walter Clark died at Brooklyn, aged 63.
Nov. 11. Mrs. Jane Johnson, died, aged 41.
Nov. 12. Murdock McPherson died, aged 45. William Porter died, aged 24.
Nov. 14. Helen C., wife of H. H. Seaver, died.
Nov. 16. A special meeting of the common council was called to deliberate upon a proposition of the directors of the Mohawk and Hudson rail road company. They of- fered to the city their State street property and $150,000 in the bonds of the company if the city would undertake the expense of doing away with the inclined planes at both ends of the road, the bonds to be secured by a mortgage upon the whole road ; the eastern termination to be brought as near the centre of the city as possible, and to be used with locomotive power. The proposition was accepted 19 to 1; Mr. Malburn.
Nov. 16. Thos. Hastings Cushman died, aged 26. He early manifested a genius for drawing, and finally took up the art of engraving, which he prosecuted some time in this city with success and increasing reputation. In the fall of 1840, with impaired health growing out of the anxieties of managing an extensive concern, he unfor- tunately engaged in daguerreotyping, then an embryo art, which he introduced into this place, in connection with Prof. E. N. Horsford. His experiments were made
S. W. Chandler & Bro. With Boston ..
T. M CUSHMAN.
Albany NY. Aged 26.
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Mailings - Cumhuwere .
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under exposure to the unhealthful fumes of the necessary materials, and in less than a year he laid the foundation for the total ruin of his health, which sank irretrievably under the anxieties and unhealthful application which it exacted ; for he gave all his time and thoughts to the ob- ject before him, and secluded himself as completely as the ancient alchemist in search of the philosopher's stone; but the reward fell from his lifeless hand untasted, al- though he made important discoveries, and improved the instrument. He is the author of several poetic pieces, harmonious in diction, and sparkling with happy con- ceptions.
Abraham P. Staats died.
Nov. 19. Charles Fondey died at Boston, aged 21.
Nov. 22. Catalina Quakenbush died, aged 75.
Nov. 21. Jacob N. Clute, a revolutionary soldier, died, aged 82.
Nov. 25. Horace W. Buckley died in New York, aged 56.
Nov. 26. David Wood, president of the Canal Bank, died, aged 48.
Timothy Chapin, Jr. died, aged 51.
Nov. 27. Henry Knower died, aged 23.
Lemuel Pierce died, aged 65.
Nov. 30. Maria, wife of Titus Bastianelli, died, aged 28. Erastus Meacham died at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Dec. 4. The river was open to navigation, after having been closed.
Dec. 13. Mrs. McClure died, aged 63.
J. Hall and 42 others petitioned the common council for the removal of the Arbor Hill burial ground. At the same meeting Sanford Cobb was removed from the office of chamberlain for appropriating the city funds to his own use, and John Q. Wilson appointed temporarily.
Dec. 14. Mrs. Elizabeth Pollock died, aged 95.
Dec. 16. Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Brower, died, aged 33.
Dec. 17. Matilda, wife of George Patterson, died, aged 26.
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Dec. 19. The locomotives of the Western Rail Road Company came through to Greenbush, thus uniting Albany to Boston by a continuous rail road. The completion of this road opened a winter route to New York by the way of Hartford and New Haven in 32 hours without night travel.
C. W. Bender was appointed city chamberlain, and Isaac Hempstead chamberlain's clerk.
Dec. 20. The river was closed by ice.
Dec. 21. Mrs. Orpha Strickland, died, aged 53.
Dec. 22. The thermometer was 2 degrees below zero.
Dec. 23. Rev. Duncan Kennedy was installed pastor of the North Dutch church.
Dec. 24. Margaretta, wife of Wm. Parmelee, died at Langsingburgh, aged 23.
Mrs. Nancy Saunders died, aged 63.
Dec. 28. A celebration in honor of the completion of the Western rail road took place. The train brought 125 delegates from Massachusetts, who were escorted from the ferry by the military. A dinner was given at Stanwix Hall, by Mr. Landon of Congress Hall.
Dec. 31. Nathaniel Cook, died in New York, aged 43.
1842.
Jan. 1. Lyman Root, an eminent merchant, died, aged 63. He had been identified with the commercial prosperity of the city during forty years, and by well di- rected enterprise and integrity acquired property and esteem.
Peter Roggen died, aged 52.
Jan. 3. Eliza, wife of Daniel Duesler, died, aged 27.
Jan. 9. William Hendrickson, died, aged 37.
Jan. 10. Robert Orr, died, aged 80.
Jan. 13. Maria A., wife of Hiram Bromley, died, aged 32.
Jan. 14. Jerome Beals died, aged 23.
Jan. 16. Charlotte, wife of Thomas Hewson, died, aged 65.
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Jan. 17. Robert Carson died, aged 38.
Elizabeth, widow of Abraham Cuyler, died.
Jan. 18. Thermometer 50 deg. above zero.
Jan. 19. Ephraim De Witt died at Jersey City, aged 63.
Jan. 19. Sabra, wife of Nahum Rice, died at Lebanon Springs, aged 64.
Jan. 20. Robert Wilson Lawson died, aged 73.
Jan. 22. Elizabeth, wife of Charles Miller, died, aged 30.
Jan. 23. Eliza S., wife of Washington Phillips, died, aged 30. .
Jan. 24. James Maddix died, aged 43.
The choir of the First Presbyterian church gave a con- cert, at which Braham, the famed English singer, parti- cipated.
Jan. 27. Christopher Oley died, aged 69.
Wm. Vandenberg died, aged 51.
Jan. 31. Stephen Gladding died in New Orleans, aged 37.
Feb. 1. Daniel S. Kittle died.
Gideon Hawley was chosen by the legislature a regent of the university in the place of the late James King.
H. Wendell, son of the late Harmanus A. Wendell, died in Philadelphia, aged 56.
Feb. 5. Peter Westervelt died, aged 60.
Feb. 6. A great freshet which cleared the river of ice, and the steam boat Telegraph, Capt. Brainerd, ar- rived from New York.
Elizabeth, daughter of Casparus F. Pruyn, died, aged 23.
Feb. 7. Daniel McKilvey died, aged 76.
Feb. 10. A. Ten Eyck Lansing died at Manheim, Herkimer co., aged 47.
Feb. 16. George Christie died, aged 34.
Feb. 17. Mrs. Cynthia Winne died, aged 75.
Feb. 18. Eben S. Wadley died, aged 30.
Isaac Pepper died, aged 22.
Feb. 19. James D. Fisher died, aged 42. Mrs. Mary Freligh died, aged 84.
Feb. 26. Lucretia, wife of Wm. W. Frothingham, died, aged 44.
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March 1. The river was open again, and a steam boat arrived from New York.
Alida D., wife of Allen F. Peck, died, aged 21. March 3. George McPherson died at Columbiana, Ala., aged 22.
March 7. The common council, by a vote of 10 to 6, agreed to open South Pearl street 15 feet on the west side from State to Howard street.
Maria, wife of Peter C. Doyle, died, aged 40.
March 10. Charles Dillon died, aged 42.
March 11. Wm. P. Stone died, aged 33.
March 12. Catalina, wife of Chandler Foster, died, aged 30.
March 13. Mrs. Maria Strain died, aged 63.
Helena, wife of Dr. F. N. Selkirk, died.
March 14. Benjamin Gregory died, aged 68.
March 16. Sarah Anna, wife of James A. Hewson, died, aged 34.
March 18. Rebecca, wife of David Mink, died, aged 57.
March 21. Thomas Dowling died, aged 79.
March 22. Elizabeth, wife of James H. Peck, died.
March 27. John Berry died, in New York, aged 23.
Sarah, wife of Richard Sherwood, died, aged 30.
March 28. Mary, widow of Henry Turner, died at East Bloomfield, Ontario county.
March 31. Simeon De Groff died, aged 86.
Highest temperature of March 72 deg. ; lowest 12 deg.
April 2. Frances Ann, wife of Rev. John M. Van Buren, died, aged 24.
April 3. Jane Ann, daughter of Jesse Randall, died, aged 24.
April 4. Mrs. Jane Donnelly died, aged 80.
April 8. Oliver Kane died in New York, aged 75.
April 9. James Jordan died, aged 69.
April 10. Ananias Platt died, aged 80.
April 12. Emily Holland died, aged 38.
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April 12. Charter election resulted in the success of the Democrats. DEMOCRATS. WHIGS.
First Ward.
Mayor.
Barent P. Staats, ..... 104
John Townsend, ... 104
Aldermen.
Wm. Chambers, . 206
Stiles Mix, . 132
Wm. L. Osborn, .... . 205
John A. Clark, ... 82
John Simpson, .. 76
Francis Bryan, .. 39
Supervisor. Andrew Moore, ...... 252 H. G. O. Rogers 112
Second Ward.
Mayor.
B. P. Staats, ... . 322
John Townsend, 190
Aldermen. Wm. P. Malburn,. .. . . 318
Charles Conklin, .. 221
David Burhans, 295
Daniel Smith, . 187
Supervisor. Andrew Moore,. ... . 299
H. G. O. Rogers, .
206
Third Ward.
Mayor.
B. P. Staats, .. . .. 468
John Townsend, . . 319
Aldermen.
Bradford W. Hand, ... 428
G. V. S. Bleecker, . 361
Argalus W. Starks, .. 436
Seth F. Kelly, 343
Supervisor. Wm. J. Fryer, . .... 440
Miles Joy, .
342
Fourth Ward.
B. P. Staats, . 352 John Townsend, . .. . 387
Mayor. Aldermen. H. H. Martin, 318 Chauncey Whitney, .. 416
Benj. Thomas, 322 Abram Koonz,. 409
Supervisor. Henry Rector, . 318
H. Meech, .
411
Fifth Ward.
Mayor.
B. P. Staats, . 287
John Townsend, .. 282
Aldermen. Ed. Brinckerhoff,. 283
R. E. Temple, . .
281
Andrew White, . 290
Supervisor. E. R. Satterlee,. 274
E. W. Skinner, . ... , 300
Sixth Ward.
Mayor.
B. P. Staats, . 247
John Townsend, . 242
Aldermen. James Maher, 231
John Groesbeck, 241
C. Ten Broeck, . 264 Jacob L. Winne, . 251
Supervisor. A. E. Brown, . 238 Samuel Pruyn, . 252
Seventh Ward.
Mayor.
B. P. Staats, . . .
291 John Townsend, 157
Alder men. Chas. Chapman, .....
293 Parker Sargent,. 162
J. Van Volkenburgh, . 278 Horace Pierce,. 160
Supervisor. D. D. Shaw, .. ....
288 David Martin, 157
Eighth Ward.
Mayor.
B. P. Staats, ..
297 John Townsend, . 130
Aldermen. John McKnight, 295
Josiah Winants, 133
Jacob Downing, . 292
Giles K. Winne, 134
Supervisor. W. B. Stanton, 283 W. B. Scott,. 146
Visscher Ten Eyck, .. 295
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DEMOCRATS.
WHIGS.
Ninth Ward.
Mayor. B. P. Staats, .
266 John Townsend. 375
Aldermen. Jas. D. Wasson, 271 Hazael Kane, .: 366
John I. Burton, 277 Wm. R. Ford .. 358
Supervisor. T. Carson,
277 G. Traver,
365
Tenth Ward.
Mayor.
B. P. Staats,. 234 John Townsend, 246
Aldermen. Garret Hogan, . 230 Michael Artcher,. 248
R. W. Peckham, 229 Joshua I. Jones, . . . 249
Supervisor. T. Carson,
226
George Traver,. . 257
William Mayell received 43 votes as the abolition can- didate for mayor.
April 15. Gertrude, wife of Wm. H. Hazard, died, aged 42.
April 16. Jane, widow of James Parker, died, aged 31.
April 19. Charles Smith died, aged 81; a revolutionary soldier.
April 20. Mary, wife of Thomas L. Hartness, died in New York, aged 30, and was buried from the residence of her mother, Mrs. Abigail Easton, 55 Maiden lane.
April 20. Mrs. Mary Brayton died at North Adams, aged 76.
April 23. Mrs. Elizabeth Malcolm died, aged 64.
April 24. Rosanna, wife of John McClintock, died, aged 31.
April 29. Harriet Maria, wife of Evert J. Lansing, died, aged 23.
The number of brick buildings from two to five stories, erected during the past year, was estimated at 250, mostly of a more courtly style of construction than be- fore. The principal erections on State street were Douw's building, corner of State and Broadway; Blunt's Building, corner of South Pearl and State, and the five story store of Pruyn, Wilson & Vosburgh ; in Broadway the store of Henry Newman.
May 5. Sarah Walsh, wife of Richard V. De Witt, died.
May 8. Jeannette B. James, wife of Wm. H. Barker, died.
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May 9. At a meeting of the common council pro- posals were opened for supplying the Almshouse with meat, which varied from 42 cts. to 1 ct. a pound. The contract was given to J. C. F. Ladue at 17 cents per pound.
May 10. At a meeting of the new board of common council, Barent P. Staats officiated as mayor, and the fol- lowing officers were elected by a vote of 12 to 10.
James R. Rose, clerk.
John Osborn, marshal.
Andrew J. Colvin, attorney.
John Bratt, surveyor.
Aaron Hill, assistant surveyor.
S. V. R. Ableman, supt. Almshouse.
May 16. The board had before it the case of Engine Company No. 9, which, in revenge of some structures of the former board, had dragged their engine up before the City Hall and left it there. The new board having a democratic majority, they expected to be exonerated from the blame they had incurred in showing contempt of the late whig mayor; but they were ruled out by a vote of 10 to 9. This case exercised the board a good while, and resulted in the laying up of No. 9.
Capt. Samuel Schuyler died, aged 61.
May 17. Jane A., wife of Elias Colburn, died, aged 37.
May 20. Augustus Bruce died, aged 35 ; formerly of Wallingford, Vt.
May 22. The Methodist church, corner of Swan and Washington streets being completed, was dedicated.
May 23. Timothy H. Gidley died in Italy, aged 43.
May 26. Nancy, widow of Nehemiah Jenks, died, aged 72 ; formerly of Nantucket.
May 27. Dorcas, wife of Capt. David Olmsted, died, aged 71.
May 31. Le Roy D. L. Moody died, aged 46.
Capt. David Olmsted died, aged 72. He was a native of Ridgefield, Conn., and came to this city in 1798. He was engaged many years in navigating the Hudson, and was afterwards for a considerable time city super-
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intendent. He survived his wife, with whom he had lived 54 years, but four days.
May 1. The receipts into the city treasury during the past year were $197,639.16; the expenditures were $193,877.50. The city debt, exclusive of the bonds issued on account of the Albany and West Stockbridge rail road, was $435,732.43.
June 3. Garret W. Van Wie died, aged 73.
June 8. Josiah Whitney Carey died, aged 34.
June 12. Harriet N., wife of Joseph H. Howard, died at Hartford, Ct.
June 13. Catharine Maria De Witt died.
June 18. Anne, wife of Capt. Robert Wood, died.
June 22. A special meeting of the common council was called to reinstate Engine company No, 9. The recorder animadverted upon the call of a special meeting for such a purpose, and moved to adjourn. The vote upon the question of adjourning was 8 to 8, and the mayor gave his casting vote against the adjournment, when the whig members withdrew and left the board without a quorum.
June 23. Jane, wife of Robert Blackall, died, aged 43.
June 24. This day was devoted to a great temperance celebration ; the weather being fine and the arrange- ments extensive, it went off with great eclat.
June 27. Hugh Boyd died, aged 25.
John Kervin died, aged 31.
June 28. Wm. H. Gains died, aged 54.
July 4. There were four celebrations of the day. Ist, The General celebration, oration by Rev. Mr. Camp- bell ; reading declaration by Wm. N. Strong. 2d. Tem- perance celebration, oration by L. Sprague Parsons ; reading declaration by George W. Carpenter. 3d. Young men's Association, oration by Wm. H. Hill ; reading de- claration by Isaac L. Lyon. At five o'clock in the af- ternoon, the wives and children of the Washingtonians (temperance societies) formed a procession with badges, and marched to the National Garden, where they held a celebration.
Anna, wife of Charles S. Olmsted, died, aged 40.
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July 5. Jane, wife of Patrick Murphy, died, aged 36.
July 7. Cynthia, wife of Giles Sanford, died.
July 8 .. Mrs. Elsie Pratt died, aged 45.
July 9. Sarah, wife of Benjamin Wilson, died, aged 74.
July 10. Rachel, widow of Isaac Hempsted, died, aged 72.
July 11. Lucinda, wife of Isaac Dickinson, died, aged 75.
July 12. Catharine, wife of Edward Mockery, died, aged 24.
July 16. Elizabeth, wife of Isaac N. Comstock, died. July 19. Hannah H., wife of Eliphalet Steele, died at Oswego, aged 73.
July 20. Mary, daughter of James Maher, died, aged 22. July 21. Mrs. Jane Fanyou died, aged 82.
July 23. Mrs. Rachael Van Wie died, aged 66.
The century plant which had been in the possession of Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer more than half a century, and which was now being brought to maturity by arti- ficial heat, was opened to public exhibition at a small price for the benefit of the Orphan asylum.
Aug. 1. Mrs. Magdalene Shoemaker died, aged 67.
Nicholas Whalen died, aged 32.
Aug. 3. Thomas Harvey died.
Aug. 5. Polly, wife of Joseph S. Clark, died, aged 54. Benjamin Cooper died at Syracuse, aged 63. Aug. 9. Thomas Perceval died at Havana.
Aug. 10. Sarah, wife of John Milliman, died, aged 48.
Aug. 13. John Galloway, who had resided here some twelve years, died near Stirling, Scotland ..
Aug. 20. Anna, wife of John Stottler, died, aged 22.
Aug. 24. William H. Fondey died at Elizabethtown, N. J., aged 30.
Sarah, mother of Sybrant Kittle, died in Schenectady, aged 102.
Aug. 25. Mrs. Elizabeth Shell died, aged 87.
Aug. 26. Mrs. Mary Wright died, aged 71.
Sept. 4. Martha, widow of Joseph Weed, died at Syracuse, aged 65.
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Sept. 4. Albert A. Smith, died, aged 38.
Sept. 5. William Sherwood died, aged 21.
Whole number of deaths during the month past, 54 ; males 30, females 24; of which 36 were under the age of 10.
Sept. 6. The common council, on motion of the mayor, B. P. Staats, appointed a competent person to translate the city docu- ments that had been written in Dutch.
Sept. 11. Simon Cramond died, aged 38.
Sept. 13. The American aloe, or century plant, in the patroon's garden was now in bloom, and had the appearance represented in the engraving. This ancient den- izen of the Manor garden, was purchased soon after the revolu- tionary war, at the sale of a con- fiscated estate in the city of New- York. It was then a well grown plant, and had now been standing in the green house of its present owner nearly sixty years, and was supposed to be between eighty and a hundred years old. For the first time it now gave signs of put- ting forth a flower stem. When the bud appeared, it grew with aston- ishing rapidity (18 inches in 24 hours), and on this day it had
The Century Plant.
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attained 21 feet in height ; and being a novelty, for very few had ever heard that such a plant existed anywhere, the numbers which visited it were very great. many coming from a great distance-one person came from Ohio ex- pressly to see the phenomenon.
Sept. 17. A meeting of citizens opposed to altering the grade of State street, was held at the Capitol, Erastus Corning in the chair, which deprecated the extensive al- terations being made by the common council in various parts of the city, at a time of great financial distress.
The South market, which had been erected over the old Watering place, was taken down, the lot filled and a dock built for a steam boat landing. As such it was leased to Isaac Newton for three years at $1,000 a year.
Sept. 19. Oliver Teall, a soldier of the revolution,. died, aged 84:
Sept. 20. Mrs. Christina Heaxt died, aged 102.
Sept. 23. John McAlpine died, aged 78.
Sept. 24. Dr. Ten Eyck Gansevoort died at Bath, Steuben co., aged 39 ; son of Conrad Gansevoort of Albany.
Sept. 26. R. Shepherd Clapp died, aged 24.
Sept. 28. Sarah C., wife of John I. Kane, died.
Sept. 29. William Nessle was elected chamberlain.
Oct. 3. At a meeting of the common council, the re turns of the special election in the 10th ward for alder- man were received : John Bucklin, 162 ; E. Thies, 94 ; Mr. Bucklin took his seat, in place of alderman Chapman; resigned.
Compensation was allowed the jurors for opening Hamilton and Dove streets.
Laws to open Herkimer street from Eagle to Lark, and- for excavating and filling Morton street, were passed.
The board accepted the invitation of the New York common council to attend the Croton celebration.
Cicero Loveridge was removed from the office of police justice avowedly on the score of political opinions, and not for want of ability or from misconduct. Alderman Wm. L. Osborn was directed to take charge of the books and [ Annals, x.] 29
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papers in the office. The whigs had a minority of two in the board.
Oct. 5. Philip Miller died, aged 58.
Rebecca, widow of Samuel Shelley, died at Glenville, Schenectady co. She was the daughter of John Ledy, and it appears by the record in St. Peter's church that she was baptized in the year 1757.
Oct. 8. Eliza, wife of Thomas M. Wilson, died, aged 35.
Oct. 12. Ezra Amos, died, aged 27.
Oct. 17. Isaac D. Elliot died.
Samuel Norton died at Lyme, Ct., aged 73.
Oct. 18. The Washington Artillerists, Capt. Franklin Townsend, made their first target excursion.
Oct. 21. David Jackson died, aged 55.
Oct. 27. Cicero Loveridge died of scarlet fever, aged 31. As a political and general writer he distinguished himself as editor of the Troy Morning Mail ; he possessed talents of a high order, and a soul alive to the most lofty and generous impulses.
John W. Leake died, aged 62.
Nov. 1. Mrs. Elizabeth Pepoon died, aged 72.
The century plant at the Patroon's garden having come to maturity, and been witnessed by a great number of persons, was removed to New York for exhibition there. The engraving opposite is a correct representa- ยท tion of it when it began to blossom. It was about 26 feet in height.
Nov. 8. Election. Daniel D. Barnard received 6,327 votes in the county for congress ; James M. French, his opponent, 5,980. Willis Hall received 6,303 for As- sembly ; Bradford W. Hand 5,988.
Nov. 14. Alexander B. McDoual, some time a pro- fessor in the Albany Academy, died in Troy, aged 30.
Nov. 19. Andrew Miller died, aged 24.
Nov. 23. Daniel Pincott died, aged 20.
Nov. 26. Lewis Farnham died, aged 60. James R. Webster died, aged 41.
Nov. 28. Catharine, wife of Isaac D. Guyer and daughter of Jonas Wickes, died, aged 23.
The Century Plant at Maturity.
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Nov. 28. Mrs. Catharine Fitzpatrick died, aged 45.
Nov. 29. River closed.
Dec. 2. Jane, wife of Abraham Herrick, died, aged 29.
Dec. 4. Maria E. E., wife of J. Eustace Whipple, and daughter of the late John L. Viele, died at Lansing- burgh, aged 26.
Isabella, wife of Charles C. P. Chapman, died, aged 28.
Martha Jane Blakeman died, aged 20.
Dec. 10. Margaret, wife of Peter Cure, died, aged 47.
Dec. 11. Margaret, wife of Benj. Austin, died, aged 82.
Dec. 13. Freedom H., wife of R. H. Pitman, died, aged 24.
Dec. 15. Malita, wife of Joseph S. Henshaw, died, aged 21.
Dec. 20. Rev. Edward F. Allen, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church, died, aged 28. He had officiated in that church 6 years.
Gertrude, wife of Abraham Van Vechten, of Catskill, died, daughter of the late Abraham Van Vechten, of this city.
Dec. 22. Betsey Ingalls died, aged 50.
Dec. 25. The large brick building, corner of South Lansing street and the dock, which had been occupied by Howard & Ryckman as a brewery, was destroyed by fire; loss $10,000, insured for $8,000.
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