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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF THE COUNTY OF DELAWARE

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NO. 3

DELHI, NOV. 10^th, 1832

DANIEL GOULD

SUPV. CLERK

1832

A meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the county of Delaware was held at this office in Delhi Tuesday the 13^th day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

Present

Cyrus Burr from Andes Martin Keeler, Jr. Kortright

James Cowan Bovina Samuel Baldwin Masonville

Alexander Cole Colchester Isaac Burr Meredith

Jesse Booth Davenport George H. Sands Middletown

Charles Post Delhi John T. More Roxbury

Elihu McCall Franklin James Stewart Stamford

Hiram B. Goodrich Hamden Charles S. Rogers Sidney

Stoddard Stevens Harpersfield Peter Pine Tompkins

Edward Graves Hancock Samuel Eells, Jr. Walton

Thereupon, Peter Pine of the town of Tompkins was chosen Chairman and David Gould of Delhi was duly elected Clerk of said board.

The Chairman announced to the Board the appointment of the following committees: -

On Equalizing

Ordered that John F. More, Samuel Eells, Jr., Cyrus Burr, Charles S. Rogers and Alexander Cole be a committee on the equalization of the assessment rolls.

On the Loan Office

Ordered that Edward Graves, James Cowan, Isaac Burr be a committee to settle with the Loan Officer.

On Justices & Constables

Ordered that Martin Keeler, Jr., Stoddard Stevens, George H. Sands be a committee on Justices and Constables accounts.

On the Treasury

Ordered that Isaac Burr, Samuel Baldwin, and Jesse Booth be a committee to settle with the Treasurer.

On the Supv. Of Poor House

Ordered that Elihu McCall, Charles Post & James Stewart be a committee to settle with the Superintendants of the Poor House.

On Settlement of Towns & c

Ordered that Edward Graves, Peter Pine & Samuel Baldwin be a committee on the settlement of town accounts for their respective town.

Samuel Eells, Jr., Charles S. Rogers & Elihu McCall for their respective towns.

Hiram B. Goodrich, Charles Post & Isaac Burr for their respective towns.

Martin Keeler, Jr., Jesse Booth & Stoddard Stevens for their respective towns.

James Stewart, John T. More & George H. Sands for their respective towns.

James Cowan, Cyrus Burr & Alexander Cole for their respective towns.

Superintendants of the Poor chosen

The Board then proceeded to choose by ballot three Superintendants of the Poor and the ballots having been taken and counted it appeared that Jabez Bostwick, James Cavin & Ozias Waters were duly elected.

Thereupon, Resolved that Jabez Bostwick, James Cavin & Ozias Waters be and they are hereby appointed Superintendants of the Poor House for the ensuing year.

And the Board adjourned till 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Wednesday, Nov. 14^th, 1832

The Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Present as yesterday excepting Martin Keeler, Jr.

Enos Carroll of Roxbury by his attorney Erastus Root appeared before said Board and made application for an increase of damages for the laying out of a public highway thro' the improved lands of said Carrol. Witnesses having been examined in reference thereto and debates being had thereon, Mr. Baldwin made a motion that the damages be increased twenty two dollars & the question being put whether the board would agree to the motion of Mr. Baldwin & it was determined in the affirmative.

Books for Clerk's Office

On motion of Mr.______, Resolved that the sum of ($18) eighteen dollars be appropriated for the purchase of books for the office of the Clerk of this county that the Treasurer of the county be authorized to pay said amount forthwith to the Clerk of the county & that said clerk be required to account to this board for the expenditure of the same at its next meeting.

After auditing Sundry accounts against the county the Board adj. till 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Thursday Nov. 15^th 1832

The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present the same as yesterday.

Peter Shaver of the town of Andes by his attorney, Amasa Parker, made an application for an increase of damages for the laying out of a public highway through the improved land of the said Shaver.

Witnesses were examined in reference thereto and debates being had thereon, Mr. Cole made a motion that the damages for said road be increased forty five dollars, and the question being put whether the Board would agree to the motion of Mr. Cole and it was determined in the affirmative.

Mr. More from the committee to equalize the assessment rolls Reported that the committee had gone through and examined the said rolls severally and agreed to the same without alteration excepting the Davenport roll to which they reccommend that ten percent be added. Mr. Chairman put the question whether the Board would agree to the said report and was determined in the affirmative. Thereupon

Resolved that the Clerk of this Board be and he is hereby required to increase the valuation of real & personal property as set down in the assessment rolls of that town ten percent

Jail

On motion Resolved unanimously that a sum not exceeding twenty dollars be appropriated for repairs to the jail.

Sundry town amounts & accounts against the county were audited.

And then the Board adjourned till 8 o'clock to morrow morning.

Friday Nov. 16^th 1832

The Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Present the same as yesterday.

The Board then proceeded to the consideration of an account against the county of Delaware presented by Doct. Henry E. Bartlett of Walton for services rendered as health officer appointed by the board of Health formed in the town of Walton for the prevention of the cholera. Debates were had thereon and the question being put whether the board would agree to allow the amount of the said amount and it was determined in the negative. The ayes and noes being required by John T. More.

Those who voted in the Affirmative, Cyrus Burr, Jesse Booth, Isaac Burr, John T. More, Charles S. Rogers & Samuel Eells, Jr.

Those who voted in the Negative are James Cowan, Alexander Cole, Hiram B. Goodrich, Stoddard Stevens, Edward Graves, Samuel Baldwin, George H. Sands and Peter Pine.

The Board then proceeded to the appointment of a sealer of Weights and Measurers for the county. Whereupon the following resolution was examined & adopted.

Sealer of Weights & Measurers

Resolved that James B. Howe be and he is hereby appointed Sealer of Weights and Measurers for the county of Delaware.

Mr. Cyrus Burr made a motion that the Board should reconsider the vote of yesterday increasing the damages for laying out a public highway thro' the improved lands of Peter Shaver. Mr. Chairman put the question whether the Board would agree to the motion of Mr. Burr and it was determined in the affirmative. Ordered that the further consideration of the same be upon the table.

Pay of Superintendants of the Poor

On motion of John T. More

Resolved that the Superintendants of the Poor House of the county of Delaware be allowed one dollar & twenty five cents per day when their services does not call them out of the towns of Delhi and Hamden and two dollars per day when called abroad.

Sundry town amounts & accounts against the County were audited and then the Board adjourned till 8 o'clock to morrow morning.

Saturday Nov. 17^th 1832

The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present same as yesterday.

Book-case

On Motion

Resolved that the sum of fourteen dollars be appropriated for the purchase of a Book-case for the Supervisors Office and that the same be expended under the superintendance of Crawford B. Sheldon.

The Board again proceeded to the consideration of the damages for the laying out of a public highway thro' the improved lands of Peter Shaver. Debates were again had thereon. Mr. Rogers made a motion that the damages be increased - twenty five dollars. Mr. Chairman put the question whether the Board would agree to the motion of Mr. Rogers & it was determined in the affirmative.

$2700

On Motion of John T. More, Resolved that the sum of twenty seven hundred dollars be raised by tax on the county for a Poor fund.

$3500

On Motion of Mr. Stephens, Resolved that the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars be raised by a tax on the county for defraying the contingent expenses of the county.

Sundry town amounts & accounts against the Co. were audited & the board adjourned till the 18^th day of December next at 10 o'clock a.m. Daniel Gould, Clerk

The following are the Town Accounts audited during the preceding meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Andes

William Walmsley	15.37	Robert Fletcher	13.12 ½
William Shaver	11.25	Peter Penet	17.02 ½
Cyrus Burr	6.62	James Wilson	2.00
Stephen Hull	6.50	Gersham D. Jackson	6.00
Peter Shaver	1.00	Charles Barlow	3.00
Richard Wollsey	7.00	Marcus F. Peake	5.00
Elijah Webster	3.75	Jacob P. Shaver	3.75
William C. Peake	1.00	Ebenezer B. Washburn	1.00
John Bassett	1.00	James Brown	6.45
Archibald McNaught	1.64	To Commissioners of Highways Peter Shaver	80.00
James Wilson	5.00	Joseph Woolsey	1.25
James White	1.25	Frederick Miller, Jr.	1.25
Ray Hitt	1.25	Peter V. G. White	1.25
Anthony Loyd	0.75	Samuel Hull	0.75
Daniel Hunter, Jr.	0.75	Elisha Conklin	0.75
Henry Loyd	1.50	Eben. B. Washburn & Jno. Bassett	2.57
John White	5.00	Richard Hunter	6.00
Daniel Campbell	7.50	Matthew Russell	10.00
William Donelson	10.00	Alexander Cole	9.00
Daniel Hunter, Jr.	.62 ½

Bovina

John McNaught	13.75	Walter Coulter	13.75
John Erkson	13.75	George Nesbitt	20.25
John B. Wilber	8.00	John Hume	2.50
Alexander McEachron	2.50	Duncan McNaught	3.50
James Scott	6.00	Stephen B. Adee	1.00
John T. Wilber	1.00	John M. London	1.00
Malcom McNaught	5.00	Solomon Green, Jr.	1.00
James Cowan	6.00	Stephen Reynolds	5.00

Colchester

Comm. Highways	250.00	Richard Hunter	6.00
Philip Basset	6.56	Thos. W. Fuller	21.25
David Phelps	11.00	Rens. W. Elwood	5.00
H. Elwood	2.00	John R. Radaker	5.00
John Knox	21.00	Lewis Height	1.00
Peter Brock	5.00	Benjamin Pine	18.50
Joseph Woolsey	2.00	Richard Francisco	1.00
S. G. Stevens	14.00	Abraham Sprague	10.50
Daniel Hunter, Jr.	22.50	P. H. Perry	6.50
Charles Post	5.63	Anthony M. Paine	37.75
David Johnson	3.00	Samuel Gordon	3.00

Davenport

Commissioners of Highways	225.00	Christian Couse	15.63
Andrew G. TenEick	13.75	Andrew G. TenEick (1831)	8.12 ½
Philo Andrews	13.75	Howtice Couse	12.31
Stephen Olmstead	8.00	Isaac Burr	8.00
Henry TenEick	9.50	Darius Olmstead	11.50
Gainer Wescott	3.25	Jesse Booth	17.75
Joseph Goodrich	15.63	Joseph A. Goodrich	5.25
Abraham Becker	12.50	Benjamin Parker	4.00

Delhi

Commissioners of Highways	150.00	Jabez Hitchcolk	1.00
Jonathan P. Flower	4.00	Jesse Palmer	5.00
Henry More, Jr.	7.25	David Gould	5.00
A. J. Parker	3.00	Gideon Frisbee	15.63
Benjamin Barlow	14.38	Robert Arbuckle	14.38
Ebenezer Steele	2.50	Amasa Parker	2.50

Franklin

Elihu McCall	5.00	Obadiah Sands	13.75
Elijah White, Jr.	13.12 ½	Daniel Chamberlin	15.75
Seymour Cook	13.31	David Loveland	10.50
Harvey Scott	14.50	Erastus Beach	8.00
William Waters	12.12 ½	Edward Gay	4.37 ½
Joshua Whitney	4.37 ½	Beach Jennings	8.62 ½
Lyman Tower	55.00	Daniel Smith	1.00
Matthew Wiard	.75	Martin Leet	.75
Adna Lewis	.75	Wm. Stilson	.75
John Warner	.75	James Stewart	.75
Abner Pratt	.50	Nathaniel Stewart	.50
William Jackson	.50	Adam Sanders	.50
Sylvester Rich	.50	Allis Brown & Wm Wheat	3.00
Wm. Wheat, Jr.	1.00	Abijah Bennett	2.47

Hancock

Commr. Of Highways	250.00	Nathan W. Williams	13.75
John Doyle	10.62 ½	Charles Leonard	15.25
John Hawk, Jr.	14.50	David Leonard, Jr.	4.37 ½
Leroy M. Wheeler	7.37 ½	Stephen Reed	3.20
Morris S. Williams	18.00	Jonas Lakin	1.25
Josiah Martin	3.25	John Wainright	5.50
William G. Lakin	13.00	Riley Reid	2.00
Abraham Lord	4.00	Lawrence Apley	.50
John Barriger	10.00	E. Graves	6.00

Harpersfield

Nathan Bristol	6.88	John Harper	16.25
Baruck Taylor	11.25	Wm. Buckingham	11.25
A. B. Wilcox	8.00	Samuel Harper	2.00
Elbridge B. Fenn	2.00	Harry I. Wilcox	2.00
John W. Gibbs	4.50	Abraham D. Smyth	4.00
Russell Newel (1829 & 30)	4.50	Mial O. Pierce	10.00
Eleazer Hubbard	13.00	P. R. Cooley	5.00
Stoddard Stevens (1830, 31, 32)	7.50	Stoddard Stevens	5.62 ½
Frederick A. Fenn	3.00	R. Hotchkiss	9.75
N. Bristol	8.00

Hamden

Highways	100.00	Additional for Schools	62.75
Ira Mallery	9.38	Walter Chase	3.00
White Griswold	7.41	R. M. Goodrich	6.88
George F. Howland	10.63	Hollow Borden	10.50
Abm. Covert	10.50	M. L. Bostwick	10.00
Nelson Soper	10.00	Peter Laundt	11.00
H. B. Goodrich	4.38	Jabez Bostwick	4.50

Kortright

Gaius Halsey	7.00	Lyman Lawson	2.00
Matthew McClaughry	18.00	Martin Keeler, Jr.	11.38
John McDonald	5.00	John McDonald	3.00
Martin Keeler Jr. (Lamport)	4.78	Jared Goodrich	2.00
Zachus Smith	3.53	Nathaniel McCollum	5.00
Luther Butts	18.00	Duncan McDonald	18.00
James Sloane	14.37	Robert McIlwaine	11.00
Aquissa Butts	15.63 ½	Nehemiah Hanford	14.37 ½
Thomas Smith	18.62 ½	Abraham D. Smith	18.62 ½
Nehemiah Gregory	4.75	Comm. Highways	60.00

Meredith

William Jackson	1.50	Sylvester Rich	13.13
Abner Pratt	5.75	David Mitchell	13.13
Oliver Dutton	1.50	Nathan Stilson	10.62 ½
Pearce Mitchell	6.50	Eleazar Wright, Jr.	3.75
George N. Wells	4.50	Isaac Burr	14.94
Luke Brown	2.50	William Fisher	3.75
David Siver	14.88	David Siver	.50
Ammon Bostwick	4.00	Commissioners of Highways	25.00

Masonville

Highways	150.00	Jared Scofield	13.62 ½
Abel Barns	15.12 ½	David Olmsted	13.12 ½
Daniel Olmsted	13.12 ½	John P. Cleaveland	6.00
Charles McKinnon	9.50	Elijah Whitman, Jr.	5.50
Lewis Scofield	1.50	Isaac P. Whipple	2.00
Wearam Willis	3.50	Harvey Smith	6.00
Joseph Paul	1.50	Wait Cannon	10.50
Gardner H. Olmsted	6.00	Samuel Baldwin	7.75
Wm. V. Webster	1.75	Darius Smith	2.00
Josiah D. Cleaveland	1.00	John Baxter	.75
Charles Baxter	.75	Thomas Wilcox	.75
David S. Johnson	.75	Phineas Newton	.75
Ezra Barton	.75	Edgar F. Baxter	.50
Milton Johnson	.50	Wm. S. Johnson	.50
Ezra Clark	.50	Joseph Sibley	.50
Abner Johnson	.50	Nathan Edgerton	1.00
Resolution for town clerk	5.00	S. P. Griswold	20.00

Middletown

Highways	250.00	Town vote to raise	43.90
William Conoly	2.50	Floras Searle	4.00
Nathaniel Mead	13.00	Edmund Kelley, Jr.	2.62
Caleb Stocum	4.00	Horace Ellis	12.50
Warner Dimmick	16.25	Samuel Akerly	15.00
Ehraim Isham	10.00	Matthew VanVleck	2.00
John Jaquish, Jr.	13.50	Madison Dean	3.75
David H. Burr	6.00	Edward I. Burhans	1.50
G. H. Sands	8.12 ½	Solomon Osterhoudt	16.87
Jas. Roberts	6.00

Roxbury

John T. More	4.75	John B. Gould	17.50
Thomas Keator	14.38	Alex Daniel	16.25
Dubois Burhans	15.20	Merrick Berry	6.00
William Craft	8.00	Jacob Newkirk	5.50
Samuel Pulling	8.00	Edward I. Burhans	5.00
Ezekiel Preston	7.25	Orvis Mann	3.75
J. B. Cowley	6.25	J. Frisbee	135.00
Alliben & Carrol	57.50	Stratton & Waller	148.12
Commissioners of Highways	200.00

Sidney

Commissioners of Highways	31.27	John Baxter	1.75
Daniel Todd	2.00	Milton Johnson	3.40
Elijah Scott	6.50	Simeon Bidwell	16.50
M. A. Bidwell	3.00	Reuben Lewis	14.51
Charles S. Rogers	6.25	Wm. V. Webster	15.00
Henry Bradley	4.75	Abel Bartlett	15.87 ½
Rufus P. Green	4.37 ½	Hugh C. Johnson	11.37 ½
Josiah Thatcher	1.50	George Thatcher	1.50
John M. Betts	18.50	Town Weights & Measurers	32.00
Adrian Carley	2.00

Stamford

James Stewart	9.62 ½	Amos Griffin	1.88
Isaac Bennett	.50	John Peters	11.62 ½
Aristarchus Blish	12.50	Smith Adams	13.15
George Clum	17.13 ½	Duncan Sinclair	5.50
Alexander Shaw	15.00	Grove Webster	6.50
John Gammel	7.50	Hector Sinclair	6.00
Ira Dales	5.00	John P. Grant	6.75
Roderick S. Blish	3.75	Daniel Hart	3.75
Abraham D. Smyth	7.50	Duncan McDonald	1.00
James B. Hill	10.00	Philip Sines	30.00

Tompkins

John Alverson	10.00	Wm. Alverson	10.00
Jonas P. Frazier	20.00	Benjamin Cannon	18.06
Joseph O. Pine	1.00	Nicholas Sliter	1.00
John Love	1.33	Joseph S. Babcock	3.50
Ezra Hoig	25.00	Isaac Jackson	13.85
Isaac Lockwood	11.25	Moses Axtel	10.50
Alexander Crawford	4.00	Joseph Axtel	1.00
Simon Lusk	1.00	John Magee	15.50
Isaac Gillett	.50	Stephen Stiles	.50
Wm. Hawley	.50	James Stiles	.50
Isaac Gillet, Jr.	.50	George W. Briggs	.50
Samuel P. Butler	.50	Henry Burrows	.50
Otis Briggs	.50	Alfred Webb	.50
John Thompson	.50	Peris Burrows	.50
Edgar M. Gregory	8.75	W. R. Halie	11.75
Stephen Vanscoyk	5.00	Darius Maples	5.00
Matthew Brown	20.50	Peter Pine	3.12 ½
Commissioners of Highways	250.00	Extra for Schools	92.00

Walton

Bennett Beardsley 11.25 Cyrus St. John 7.00

Benjamin Beers 4.50 Alan Mead 7.50

Joshua Pine 5.75 Walton Hanford 4.25

Abraham Ogden 5.00 Alvah Rowell 5.50

Thomas Marvine 13.12 ½ Smith St. John 2.50

Thaddeus St. John 5.50 Peter Gardner 15.00

Levi Hanford 14.37 ½ Platt Townsend 14.87 ½

John Mead 1.50 Robert North, Jr. 1.25

Wm. H. Fancher 1.00 Samuel Ells, Jr. 5.62 ½

John S. Coleman 3.00

Delhi Nov. 17^th 1832 Daniel Gould,

Clerk

Tuesday Dec. 18^th 1832

The Board met pursuant to adjournment.

All members present.

A. J. Parker in behalf of Messrs. A. & A. I. Parker, appeared & served upon the Board of Supervisors of Delaware County an alternative mandamus, granted by the Supreme Court of Judicature of this State, requiring said board to reconsider and audit an account rejected at its last preceding meeting in favor of Henry E. Bartlett of Walton for his services as health officer of said town, or show cause why they have not done so.

Ordered that the further consideration of said mandamus & account do lie upon the table till tomorrow morning. Sundry county accounts were audited.

And then the Board adjourned till 8 o'clock to morrow morning.

Wednesday, Dec. 19^th 1832

The Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Present the same as yesterday.

The Board again proceeded to the consideration of the mandamus and account which were last evening made the order of the day for this morning. A motion was made that counsel be employed in behalf of said Board & the ayes & nos being called by Mr. More. Mr. Chairman put the question whether the Board would agree to employ counsel & it was determined in the Negative. Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Goodrich, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Graves, Mr. Baldwin - 4. Those who voted in the negative are Mr. Burr of Andes, Mr. Cowan, Mr. Cole, Mr. Booth, Mr. Post, Mr. Keeler, Mr. Burr of Meredith, Mr. Sands, Mr. More, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Pine, Mr. Eells - 13.

Affirmative 4

Negative 13 Thereupon

The mandamus together with the affidavit & rule of the court accompanying the same were again read & the question being put whether the Board would agree to audit said account of H. E. Bartlett against the county and it was determined in the affirmative. The ayes and noes being called by Mr. More. Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Burr of Andes, Mr. Cole, Mr. Booth, Mr. Post, Mr. McCall, Mr. Keeler, Mr. Burr of Meredith, Mr. Sands, Mr. More, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Eells -12. Those in the negative are Mr. Cowan, Mr. Goodrich, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Graves, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Pine -6.

Affirmative 12

Negative 6

Jabez Bostwick one of the Superintendants of the Poor reported at length in relation to the same. Thereupon on motion of Mr. More Resolved that the chairman be directed to cause to be published one week in the Delaware Gazette the Report of the Superintendants of the Poor of said County of the Board of Supervisors.

The following are the County Accounts audited by the Supervisors at their first and second meeting in the year 1832.

B

Burr, Cyrus 1.06 Burr, Cyrus 20.80

Booth, Jesse 21.20 Baldwin, Samuel 27.20

Burr, Isaac 16.80 Burhans, John E. 22.00

Burhans, Edward I. 9.74 Bennett, Abijah 3.00

Bennett, Isaac 1.14 Beedle, Esq.,

Green Stephens
4.18 & 2.82=7.00

Beedle, Esq. &

Green Stephens
.62 & 1.92 = 2.54 Beedle, John 5.50

Beedle, John 1.31 Brown, Allis 1.35

Bartlett, Henry E. 27.18 Bresser, H. 2.50

Baxter, John

(Would bounty)
20.00 Bassett, John 5.42

Burrows, David 3.00 Bussy, Philip 1.18

Bridges, G.C. 2.81 Bragg, Johnson P. 2.97

Babcock, Joseph

(H. Merwin a/c)
0.87 Birdsall, Ira S. 0.79

Bradley, Henry 2.00 Beardsley, Bennett 0.85

Baxter, John 2.58 Betts, John M. 1.50

Bostwick, Jabez 9.00 Bartlett, Ichabod 1.08

Bostwick, Ammon 10.00 Bassett, Peter .75

Cole, Alexander	20.80	Cowan, James	18.00
Cowan, James	00.60	Chirchill, Jacob	6.34
Coleman, Daniel	2.14	Cavin, James	52.75
Chapman, I.	7.00

Donaldson, William (wolf bounty)	20.00	Dewey, Roger	1.00
Drake, Hiram	3.50 ½	Drake, Hiram	1.31
Dales, Wm. I.	1.25	Daniels, A.	1.09
Dixon, John, Jr.	0.99	Douglass, Amos	13.00
Doyle, Edwin	3.00	Downer, John	15.00

Edgerton, Nathan	10.00	Edgerton, Nathan	2.75
Eells, Samuel, Jr.	20.80

Fenn, Frederick A.

1.08

Forman, Henry

(to be paid out of dog funds)

6.00

Fenn, F.A., I. Wool & S. Stevens

8.62 ½

Fenn., F. A.

0.78

Frazier, Jonas P.

(wolf)

20.00

Frazier, Jonas P.

(wolf)

20.00

Gould, Daniel	80.00	Gould, Daniel	2.25
Gould, H. D. & J. H. (Jno. Downs a/c)	12.33	Gortons, Wm. A. (wolf)	20.00
Gortons, Wm. A. (wolf)	20.00	Green, Smith	2.37
Green, Stephen	2.99	Green, Stephen	3.18
Green, Stephen	2.00	Goodrich, R. M.	4.25
Gregory, I. H.	124.62	Goodrich, Hiram P.	16.80
Graves, Edward	34.00

Hanford, Walter	.56	Hawks, Ebenezer	4.56
Hamden, Town of	12.00	Howell, Jacob (to be paid out of dog funds)	18.00

Jacobs, Ferris	14.00	Johnson, David	47.61
Johnson, David	4.00	Johnson, Noadiah	306.60

Keeler, Martin, Jr.	11.60	Keeler, Martin, Jr.	.84
Keeler, David	2.44	Kirk, Robert (Alverson's wolf)	20.00

Leet, Martin	2.15	Lusk, S.	1.00
Landon, I. M.	7.73

McCall, Elihu	20.00	McCall, Elihu (to be paid out of dog funds)	19.00
More, John T.	24.80	Milland, Wm. (Hitchcolk's a/c)	19.73
Marvin, Thomas	00.90	Martin, Josiah	00.86
Meeker, Philo	4.36	Metcalf, Ira (to be paid out of dog funds)	8.25
Metcalf, Ira	2.80	Metcalf, Ira	2.53
Metcalf, Ira	4.55	Moore, John	10.02
Mason, William	1.29	More, Green	1.79
More, Green	15.91	More, Green	7.24
More, Green	1.75	More, Green	30.94 = 57.63
McDonald, & Bowne	6.60

North, Robert	10.00	Newkirk, I.	4.00
Nichols, William	7.10

Osterhoudt, Zacharias	1.23 ½	Osterhoudt, Zacharias	1.58
Osterhoudt, Zacharias	1.34	Ostrom, John J.	10.12 ½
Olmstead, S.	2.04

Post, Charles	15.20	Pine, Peter	30.00
Pine, Peter	5.75	Parker, A.	40.50
Preston, Otis	4.00	Peake, William C.	3.02
Parker, Benjamin	8.47	Pierce, James	7.55
Pierce, James	3.53	Pierce, James	4.50
Pomeroy, Seymour	4.44	Parker, Amasa I.	76.09
Parker, A. & A. I.	12.00	Paine, Anthony M.	34.48

Rogers, Charles S.	36.00	Rogers, Charles S.	3.55
Reed, Ezekiel	5.63	Russell, Matthew	20.00

Sands, George A.	1.32	Sands, George A.	22.80
Stewart, James	21.20	Stevens, Stoddard	22.00
Stevens, Samuel	00.80	Steele, Ebenezer	16.51
Sheldon, Crawford P.	2.50	Sheldon, Crawford P.	167.02
Simonson, James (to be paid out of dog funds)	7.50	Seeley, Sterling (to be paid out of dog funds)	12.00
St. John, P.	1.06	Smith, D. S.	3.81 ½
Smith, Reuben W.	4.66	Scutt, John S.	10.76
Superintendants of Poor	172.37

Thomas, James A. (to be paid out of dog funds)	60.00	Thompson, John A.	7.15
Thompson, John A.	4.11	TenEyck, George	5.50
TenEyck, George	9.51	Twaddel, Wm. R.	2.94

Vermilyea, Solomon	7.63	Vermilyea, Solomon	6.00
Vermilyea, Solomon	3.47	Vermilyea, Solomon	1.15
Vosburgh, Adam (to be paid of dog funds)	4.00

Washburn, Ebenezer P.	0.37 ½	Wood, Walter	1.75
Wood, Walter	4.35	Waters, Ozias	420.47
Waters, Ozias	33.00	Whitlock, Ezekiel	0.44

Delhi, Dec. 20^th 1832 Daniel Gould, Clerk

Mr. I. Burr from the Committee appointed to settle with the Treasurer made the following report.

Dr. William Frisbee in account with the county of Delaware

To balance in the Treasury 1831 $ 7.70

To amount of Warrants 13,940.76

To State School money 1,715.79

To Excise money 412.00

Fines & C 20.41

Dog Tax 70.25

$16,230.02

By Supervisors receipts 2,334.43

" Commissioners of Highways 1,623.08

" Commissioners of Schools 1,829.00

" Temporary relief of poor 236.44

" Superintendants orders 3,408.96

" Court & Jurors 1,164.48

" Audited accounts 2,571.49

" States School money 1,715.79

" Amt. Of Collectors fees 575.67

" Residents tax sworn off 18.74

" Postages & c 6.50

" Amt. Of Rejected taxes 584.28

" Treasurers fees 9l.03

" Balance due the county 71.02

$16,230.02

Valuation of Real & Personal Property in the County of Delaware and the Amount of Tax Thereon in 1832.

	Real Est.	Personal	Pr.Ct.	Aggregate	Schools	Highways	Supv.	Treas.	Aggregate
Andes	125.137	4.385		129.522	96.85	99.57	112.44	458.22	967.13
Bovina	117.965	16.243		134.208	70.13		104.00	292.51	466.64
Colchester	114.907	15.467		130.374	74.19	250.00	200.44	315.37	840.00
Davenport	139.061	6.040	ad 10 pr.ct	156.709	92.74	225.00	158.95	421.79	898.48
Delhi	142.840	7.770		170.630	110.14	150.00	130.52	395.43	786.09
Franklin	254.481	38.830		293.316	144.58		193.40	642.22	980.20
Hancock	112.575	6.140		118.715	30.91	250.00	132.68	347.80	770.39
Harpers.	166.335	14.370		181.605	100.87		134.50	394.42	629.99
Hamden	111.572	6.495		118.067	125.79	100.00	88.68	271.96	586.43
Kortright	201.383	12.822		214.205	149.68	60.00	179.44	472.55	861.67
Masonv'l	88.874	6.895		95.769	59.65	150.00	139.88	226.91	576.44
Meredith	171.858	27.562		199.420	86.23	25.00	100.95	434.36	646.54
Middle.	152.481	7.460		159.941	124.15	293.90	137.61	365.56	921.22
Roxbury	214.799	7.460		159.941	124.15	293.90	137.61	365.56	921.22
Sidney	139.182	5.730		144.912	73.46	31.27	164.16	322.17	591.66
Stamford	149.935	27.990		177.925	83.20		175.27	394.78	653.25
Tompkins	204.490	14.725		219.215	184.43	250.00	222.11	500.25	1156.79
Walton	168.700	32.760		200.460	87.10		128.50	436.61	652.21

Mr. Burr of Meredith from the committee appointed to settle with the Loan Officers Reported that they find out standing ninety five mortgages which together amount to $9.101

Principal paid up on first of May last 850

$9.951

Interest on $9.951 for the year ending first of May last at 6 per ct. due the state 597.25

Principal on above due the state 850.00

Interest on $580 (the amt. of the mortgages on hand sold last Sept) from the

first of May to the day of sale 15.74

$1,462.99

Paid to comptroller on 21^st June last as per S. Treasurers rec't. $809.

Do 31^st Oct " " 653.99 + 1462.99

And then the Board adjourned, Sinc dic

Delhi, Dec. 20^th 1832 Daniel Gould, Clerk

1833

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the county of Delaware held at the Supervisors office in Delhi on Tuesday the 12^th day of November in the year 1833.

Present as follows:

Cyrus Burr from Andes Nehemiah Hanford Kortright

James Cowen Bovina Silvester Smith Masonville

Hezekiah Elwood Colchester Silvester Rich Meredith

Jesse Booth Davenport Jonas More Roxbury

Elihu McCall Franklin George Sturges Stamford

Hiram B. Goodrich Hamden Henry Bradley Sidney

Nathan Bristol Harpersfield Peter Pine Tompkins

Edward Graves Hancock Samuel Eells, Jr. Walton

Thereupon Peter Pine of the town of Tompkins was chosen Chairman and Daniel Gould of Delhi unanimously elected clerk.

The Board then proceeded to choose by ballot three Superintendants of the Poor for the ensuing year and the ballots having been taken and counted it appeared that Jabez Bostwick, James Cavin and William P. Sheldon were duly chosen on the part of the Board.

On comparing the nominations of Superintendants made by the Judge of the County Courts, of said county, the same was found to agree with the nominations of the Supervisors.

Thereupon Jabez Bostwick, James Cavin & Wm. B. Sheldon were declared duly appointed.

The Chairman announced the appointment of the following committees-

Ordered that Mr. McCall, Mr. More, Mr. Cowan, Mr. Burr, & Mr. Elwood be a committee to equalize the assessment rolls.

Ordered that Mr. Rich, Mr. Graves and Mr. Eells be a committee to settle with the Loan Officer.

Ordered that Mr. Booth, Mr. Bradley & Mr. Sands be a committee on Justices and Constables accounts.

Ordered that Mr. Graves, Mr. Bristol and Mr. Hanford be a committee to settle with the Treasurer.

Ordered that Mr. Elwood, Mr. Smith, & Mr. Sturges be a committee to settle with the Superintendants of the Poor.

Ordered that Mr. Graves, Mr. Pine and Mr. Smith be a committee to settle town accounts for their respective towns.

Mr. Bradley, Mr. McCall & Mr. Eells for their respective towns.

Mr. Goodrich, Mr. Rich & Mr. Hanford Do

Mr. Sturges, Mr. More & Mr. Sands Do

Mr. Cowan, Mr. Burr & Mr. Elwood Do

Mr. Booth, Mr. Bistol & Mr. Edgerton Do

And then the Board adjourned till 8 o'clock to morrow morning.

Wednesday

Nov. 13^th 1833 the Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Insurance $3000

On the motion of Mr. Bradley

Resolved that the county Treasurer be authorized to effect an insurance upon the Court House and Jail for three thousand dollars.

Poor $3000

On the motion of Mr. McCall

Resolved that the sum of three thousand dollars be levied upon the county for the Poor fund.

Contg. Exps. $4000

On the motion of Mr. Eells,

Resolved that the sum of four thousand dollars be raised by a tax on the county for defraying the contingent expenses thereof ~ And then the Board after auditing sundry a/c adjourned till 8 oc to morning.

Thursday, Nov. 14^th 1833 Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Excise Tax Recp.

On motion of Mr. Goodrich,

Resolved that the excise money which may hereafter be rec. by the Treasurer from the several towns be placed in the fund for the support of the Poor.

To Dr. Jacobs $30

On the motion of W.------

Resolved that the Board of Supervisors recommended to the Superintendants of the Poor the sum of thirty dollars to be paid to Dr. Jacobs, as a compensation over and above his annual salary as Poor House Physician, for his services in lithotomizing Sanders Lockwood.

Mr. McCall from the committee appointed to examine & equalize the assessment rolls Reported that the committee have gone thro' the said rolls & recommended that fifteen percent be added to the aggregate of Real property in the town of Delhi. That five percent be added to the aggregate of Real property in the town of Kortright and that ten percent be deducted from the aggregate of Real property in the town of Bovina which they directed their chairman to report to the board. They read the report & delivered the same to the Board where it was again read & agreed to.

Adjourned till 8 oc in the morning.

Friday November 15^th 1833

Board met pursuant to adjournment ~ And after auditing sundry accounts against the county and the several towns the Board adjourned till the 16^th December next ~

December 16^th 1833 Board met pursuant to adjournment. All the members present; and after auditing sundry accounts board adjourned till morning.

Tuesday 8 a.m. Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Clerk's & Petit Jurors seats

On motion of Mr. Cowan

Resolved that Crawford B. Sheldon be authorized to procure such repairs to and alterations of the clerk's and Petit Jurors seats in the court room as the same may in his opinion require and present his account for the same at the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Jabez Bostwicks a/c

On motion of G. H. Edgerton

Resolved that a committee be appointed to examine and report upon an account presented to this board by Jabez Bostwick for services as Superintendent of the Poor.

Ordered that Mr. Edgerton, Mr. Elwood, Mr. Cowan constitute said committee.

2 ½ per ct. to Hancock collectors

On motion of Mr. Graves

Resolved that the collector of Taxes in the Town of Hancock be allowed two and one half per-cent on the amt of tax on non resident lands in such town.

Gurden H. Edgerton, Sheriff's Bills

On motion of Mr. Booth,

Resolved that the accounts presented to this Board by John H. Gregory & Gurden H Edgerton severally be referred to a select committee to consider and report thereon.

Ordered that Mr. Cowan, Mr. Bradley, & Mr. Elwood be the said committee.

Resolution relative to Supt. Of Poor

On motion of Mr. Bristol,

Resolved that the resolution of last year, fixing the compensation of the Superintendent of the Poor be rescinded.

Mr. Edgerton from the Select committee to which was refd' the amount of Jabez Bostwick reported that the committee have gone through the said amount & fixed his account of $28.81 ½ which he was directed to report to the Board & the same was thereupon agreed to by the Board.

And then the Board after auditing sundry accounts adjourned till 8 oc tomorrow morning.

Wednesday, December 18^th 1833

Board met pursuant to adjournment ~

Mr. Cowan from the Select committee to which was referred the account presented by John H. Gregory Sheriff of the county of Delaware, Reported that the committee have gone through the said account made amendments thereto by striking out from such account the charges for advertising Oyer & Terminor -for summoning our constables- for criminal calendars for attending to draw several Jurors. Amt of $ in the whole to $35.50. Thereupon a motion of Mr. McCall the report was agreed to by the Board & the account audited at $100.50.

Mr. Cowan from the same committee Reported that the committed have gone through the account of Gurden H. Edgerton, late Sheriff of said Co. & find that the said bill consists of items similar to those which have been rejected in the account presented by John H. Gregory & they reccommend that the same be rejected. And on motion of Mr. McCall the same was auditing rejected by the Board.

Mr. Graves from the committed appointed to settle with the Loan Officers Reported that the committee find out standing 91 mortgages which amt to $8347

Principal paid up on the first of May last 700 = $9047.

Interest on $9047 due to Comptroller on the first of May last at

6 pr.ct. $546.06 = paid in to Loan Officers at that time 633.29

Principal as above due to Comptroller 700.00

Principal paid on the 17^th Sept. 54.00

Interest paid 10.70

1397.99

Pd. Comptroller June 8^th. Princ. 700 + Int. 633.29 1333.29

Reng. In hands of Loan Officers 64.70

Of which $54 is principal $10.70 interest.

The following are the county accounts audited at the first and second meeting of the Board of Supervisors in 1833.

Beardsley, Benajah 2.92 5.12 5.82 0.86	14.72	Booth, Jesse 1.08 20.20	21.28
Baxter, John	0.81	Burrows, David	1.13
Baldwin, Saml.	2.00	Burr, Cyrus 1.02 19.80	20.82
Beedle, John 1.42 11.37	12.79	Bennett Beardsley	.97
Bristol, James	1.96	Burr, Isaac	.42
Becker, Henry T.	5.21	Bostwick, Jabez 10.00 28.81 ½	38.81 ½
Bradley, Henry	22.60	Bristol, Nathan	21.00
Cowen, James 17.00 .60 (Alex Johnson's acct) 7.28	24.88	Cavin, James	27.25
Chapman, Jonathon	3.63	Claghorn, Geo. 2.37 ½ 6.46	8.83
Chace, Walter	3.55	Clerk's office (CB Sheldon)	47.75
Drake, Hiram 1.61 1.70	3.31	Doyle, Saml.	4.50
Downer, John	11.11	Decker, Silas	7.26
Day, Andrew	15.73 ½	Ells, Saml. Jr. 1.02 19.80	20.82
Elwood, Hezekiah	23.00	Every, Jacob	9.13
Edgerton, G. H.	5.00	Frisbee, Wm.	12.50
Fairchild, Wm. (To be pd out of dog fund)	6.00	Goodrich, Hiram B.	15.80
Goodrich, Richd. M.	10.68	Goodrich, Jared (out of dog fund)	41.25
Green, Stephen 6.62 ½ 1.71	8.33 ½	Graves, Edward 3.00 33.00	36.00
Grant, James E.	6.69	Gould, Daniel	85.00
Gregory, John H.	109.50	Hansen, John	11.02
Howe, James B.	15.31	Hover, Jacob	2.27
Hughston, James	0.62	Hanford, Nehemiah	19.40
Hanford, Walter	0.62	Hanford, Saml.	4.42
Hill, James	15.00	Halsey, Gaius 25.00 25.00	50.00
Jennings, Beach & associates	12.85 ½	Johnson, Noadiah	235.11
Keeler, Martin Jr.	0.84	Keeler, Martin	20.25
Keeler, David	1.87 ½	Keator, Harvey	4.60
Lyon, Levi 14.08 3.40	17.48	Leonard, Ezra	12.92
Lusk, Simon	15.24	Lakin, Jonas	1.06
Landon, John M.	1.90	Leal, Danl. M. 2.32 13.78	16.10
McCall, Elihu 19.00 .90	19.90	Moore, John	3.11
Miller, Jas. M.	1.24	More, John T.	1.00
Miles, Ebenezer 5.61 11.12	16.73	More, Jonas	21.80
Minor, Isaac	1.46	McDonald, Duncan 7.87 ½ 1.64 0.81 0.25	10.57 ½
Moore, Green	45.48	North, Robert, Jr.	.94
Ostrom, John Jr. 4.49 ½ 6.28	10.77	Osterhoudt, Zachariah .68 5.14 1.18	7.00
Pine, Peter 29.00 .50 18.62 ½	48.12 ½	Parker, A.	3.00
Pardee, D. H. (Hitchcolk's a/c)	3.37	Paine & Clark	10.50
Paine, Anth. M.	22.71	Peters, John (out of dog fund)	10.00
Rich, Sylvester	16.20	Reed, Colba	3.44
Rogers, Charles S.	5.60	Rowland, Daniel	3.00
Sturges, Geo. 1.00 19.40	20.40	Smith, Sylvester	26.20
Stevens, Saml. 4.00 .25	4.25	Stewart, James	.96
Stewart, Leman	2.98	Sheldon, Crawford B.	144.54
Sheldon, Crawford B.	3.50	Sheldon, William B.	8.12
Sands, Geo. H. 1.32 21.80	23.12	Smith, Abm. D. 1.00 10.81	11.81
St. John, Burchan	1.04	Smith, Lyman	3.24
Scott. W. H.	6.16	Smith, Darius	0.67
Sliter, Nicholas, Jr.	12.16	Sliter, Nicholas Jr.	1.60
Vermilyea, Solomon	5.42	Waters, Ozias 7.12 1.25 8.32 0.50 357.86 12.12	387.17
White, Ira	11.06 ½	Williams, N. W.	2.88
Washburn, E. P.	1.09	Willis, Smith & Cleveland	3.05
Yeoman, F. .25 9.17	9.42	Young, R. B.	12.39 ½
Yaple, Saml.	1.83

Wolves

John Chirkins audited to Peter Pine $20.00

Do " to self 20.00

John Baxter 20.00

Do 20.00

Asa N. More 20.00

I. P. Frazier 20.00

Do 20.00

Ep. Merwin 20.00

Geo. Metcalf 20.00

The following are the Town Accounts audited during the proceeding meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Andes

Peter Penet (town clerk services, election box chest)	21.68 ½	Archibald McNaught assessor	12.50
Robert Fletcher, assessor	10.00	William Shaver, assessor	11.25
Charles Barlow, Comm. Highways	7.25	Richard Woolsey, Comm. Highways	2.00
William Walmsley, Comm. Highways	6.00	Joel Washburn, Comm. Highways	6.00
Stephen Hull, Comm. Common Schools	4.00	John O. More, Comm. Common Schools	8.87 ½
Danl. H. Burr, Comm. Common Schools & c	3.00	Marcus T. Peake, Jns. Of Schools & c	8.75
Ebenezer P. Washburn	1.00	Francis Yeoman	1.00
Wm. C. Peake	1.00	Cyrus Burr, Supervisor	6.62 1/2

Bovina

Duncan McNaught	5.50	John McNaught	12.50
John Erkson	12.50	Walter Coulter	12.50
George Nesbitt	26.75	Solomon Green	1.25
Alexander McEackron	8.25	John P. Wilber	5.75
Andrew Cowan	3.25	John T. Wilber	1.00
John M. Landon	1.00	James Cowan	5.25
Commissioners of Highways	50.00

Colchester

George W. Page	4.00	Eben Hawks	3.75
James Brainard	2.00	Isaac Miller	8.00
John Knox	5.50	David Phelps	2.00
Benjamin Pine	15.25	Rensselaer W. Elwood	3.75
Alexander Sprague	1.50	Harry Smith	1.50
Lewis Haight	15.37 ½	Jacob Fuller	2.00
Amos Fuller	2.00	Philip Bassett	5.50
William H. Moon	15.00	Joseph Woolsey	6.50
John R. Radiker	23.12 ½	H. Elwood	8.00
William Haladay	7.00	James W. Knapp	7.50
Com. Of Highways	150.00

Delhi

Jonathan P. Flower	6.00	Gideon Frisbee	15.00
H. More, Jr.	12.50	James B. Howe	3.75
Jesse Palmer	3.75	Robert Arbuckle	17.50
Benjamin Barlow	15.00	M. L. Farrington	2.00
Anthony M. Paine	31.75	Saml. Gordon	3.00
A. Parker	5.00	A. I. Parker	3.00
James B. Howe	19.80	Ferris Jacobs	4.00
Comm. Of Highways	150.00

Davenport

Philander Smith	13.62 ½	Carlton Emmons	4.50
Thompson Paine (1832	4.25	Thompson Paine	14.37 ½
Darius Olmstead	13.12	Jonathan Brewer	14.88
J. Booth	14.88	Peter Smith	5.50
Henry TenEick	6.00	Wm. Fairchild	14.88
Abraham Becker	2.00	Comm. Of Highways	10.00

Franklin

Elihu McCall	6.25	Obadiah Sands	21.87 ½
Seymour Pomeroy	20.02	Seymour Cook	20.00
Seymour Cook (1832)	5.00	William Waters	13.00
John Keeney	6.00	David Loveland (1832)	4.00
Harvey Scott (1832)	9.00	Roger Dewey (1832)	2.00
William Wheat, Jr.	1.00	Joshua Whitney	3.75
Job Mills	13.00	Levi Hale	7.00
Elijah Tupper	10.00	Beach Jennings	8.62 1/2

Harpersfield

Saml. Harper	14.25	E. B. Fenn	15.00
Daniel Baird	3.00	A. B. Wilcox	3.00
Joseph Wool	3.00	Eleazer Hubbard	3.00
John Harper	8.00	Mial C. Pierce	2.00
Stoddard Stevens	8.76	John Wool	11.50
Joseph Babcock	15.26	James Bristol	8.50
Hiram Graves	2.50	Johnson B. Bragg	3.75
Edmund Stevens	6.50	Nathan Bristol	5.00

Hancock

Josiah Martin	1.25	John Baxter	32.00
John Wainwright	3.50	John Doyle	5.00
Jonas Lakin	1.25	William A. Gorton	20.00
Charles Leonard	17.00	William G. Lakin	15.00
Rensselaer Parks	00.25	Leroy M. Wheeler	4.37 ½
David Leonard, Jr.	4.37 ½	Anson Steenrod	1.00
James M. Twaddell	10.00	Morris S. Williams	17.00
Edwin Graves	6.87 ½	Nathan W. Williams	14.62 ½
Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Hamden

M. S. Bostwick	9.00	Eli Terry	6.00
Sheldon Patterson	10.00	Ira Mallery	10.62 ½
Abrm. Covet	3.00	George Gates	9.37 ½
Chauncey St. John	12.50	Walter Chace	0.75
Rowland Robertson	8.00	Matthew Tift	3.00
H. B. Goodrich	5.01	Resolution of Town for Weights & Measures	40.00

Kortright

John McDonald	16.96	Ebenezer Keeler	11.00
Matthew McClaughry	20.75	H. K. Willard	5.00
Martin Keeler, Jr.	7.00	James Sloane	13.11
Frederick Griffin	3.75	Luther Butts	29.12
Duncan McDonald	9.50	James Montgomery	100.00
James Montgomery Jurors Fees	6.00	Henry Lyon	99.75
Henry Lyon Jurors Fees	6.00	Erastus Kiff no damages Jurors fees	6.00
N. Hanford	5.00	Gaius Halsey	7.00
Comm. Of Highways	140.00

Meredith

David Siver	16.25	Silvester Rich	5.62
Martin Leet	20.37 ½	David Mitchell	15.00
Abijah Paine	14.25	Isaac Burr	2.63
Amasa Fox	0,90	Abner Pratt	1.50
Abel Gallop	4.00	George N. Wells	9.50
Learned Cottrell	7.50	Josiah D. Wells	1.68
Luke Brown	5.00	Comm. Of Highways	32.50

Masonville

Simon Cook	1.50	Saml. Baldwin	5.00
Lot Cook	3.00	George Claghorn	1.25
Harvey Smith	2.50	Wearam Willis	3.50
Saml. Robins	1.00	Collins Brown, Jr.	2.50
Charles McKinnon	2.00	George Metcalf	10.00
Wait Cannon	16.00	Elijah Whitman	12.12 ½
Darius Smith	0.62 ½	Wm. V. Webster	8.00
Silas Kneeland	2.50	Eli Soolace	0.50
Joel Wheaton	2.50	Ira Balcom	1.00
Quartus Brown	2.00	George W. Palett	0.50
Stephen Whitman	1.50	Collins Brown	0.50
Peter Pangburn	0.50	Sylvester Smith	7.25
Gardiner H. Olmsted	6.25	Josiah D. Cleveland	11.75
Daniel Olmsted	14.37 ½	T. W. Randall	11.25
Jared Scofield	10.12 ½	Isaac P. Whipple	3.00
Simeon P. Griswold	10.00	Gilbert Scofield	30.00

Middletown

Samuel Akerly	15.00	Horace Ellis	15.00
Warren Dimmick	19.87 ½	George H. Sands	5.00
Solomon Osterhoudt	16.87 ½	Noah Dimmick	8.50
Ephraim Isham	6.50	Ezekiel Reed	2.50
Jacob T. Dixon	6.25	Stephen Lawrence	3.12 ½
Jeremiah Hull	3.75	Nathaniel Mead	8.25
Nelson P. Chamberlin	3.75	Daniel H. Burr	1.00
Hoias Searle	4.12	David Wight	7.37 ½
Overseer of Poor	56.00

Roxbury

Jonas More	4.25	Dubois Burhans	17.25
John B. Gould	17.50	Thomas Keator	15.00
Matthew Daniel	13.75	Ezra W. Stratton	7.75
Lewis Hardenburgh	4.00	William Craft	2.00
Merrick Berry	2.00	David Nichols	3.75
Talmon S. Boughton	3.75	Harvey Keator	1.50
Harvey T. Baker	1.00	Jacob Newkirk	6.09
Edward I. Burhans	6.00	D. Burhans	2.00
John T. More	1.00	Commissioners of Highways	200.00

Stamford

Alexander Shaw	9.00	Wm. Boggs	8.00
Levi Olmsted	5.00	Thomas Montgomery	8.76
Angus McDonald	3.75	Geo. Clum	14.87 ½
Wm. Squire	11.89	Ira Dales	5.00
John Gainel	6.00	Novatus Blish	2.00
Geo. Sturges	6.50	Grove Webster	9.00
James Stewart	1.50	James Smith	5.00
Burr Barlow	2.75	Ebenezer Gilbert	1.00
Levius Monson	7.00	Philip Sines	10.00
Samuel Griffin	24.90	D. McDonald	16.64

Sidney

Wm. V. Webster	15.50	Manlius Mann	9.00
Stephen Wood	9.25	William Hughston	1.12 ½
Solomon Johnston	8.75	Charles S. Rogers	1.00
Josiah Thatcher	3.75	Jeremiah Calkins	2.62
Elijah Scott	3.00	Reuben Lewis	13.00
Simeon Bidwell	3.00	Henry Bradley	9.62 ½
John M. Betts	17.25	Abel Bartlett	16.00
Curtis Cleaveland	5.50	John Baxter	1.50
Nathan Edgerton	2.62	Comm. Of Highways	170.00

Tompkins

H. Flint	3.80	John Bullick	16.80
S. Lusk	18.50	F. G. Wheeler	2.50
J. Magee	9.00	M. R. Huler	4.50
J. Turner	6.18	M. Axtell	7.00
J. Ostrom	1.00	J. P. Fraser	10.00
R. B. Young	1.00	J. O. Pine	3.75
P. Pine	16.25	J. Whitaker	2.00
A. Green	2.00	M. Brown	4.00
S. Hulce	5.50	Wm. Barbour	3.00
M. Axtell	15.00	J. Howland	5.75
D. Maples	12.00	N. Eggleston	14.00
P. Cannon	12.00

Walton

Saml. Eells, Jr.	5.96	Jeter Gardiner	15.00
Levi Hanford	14.37 ½	Thomas Marvin	16.62 ½
Platt Townsend	13.00	Alan Mead	3.50
Benjamin Beers	3.50	Cyrus St. John	3.50
Bennet Beardsley	4.50	Walter Hanford	3.75
Joshua Pine	3.75	T. S. St. John	3.00
Alva Rowell	6.50	John S. Coleman	3.00
Dennis Hitt	10.00	Harvey Hawley	10.00

Delhi Dec. 18^th 1833

Danl. Gould, Supv. Clk.

The committee appointed to settle with the Treasurer made the following report.

William Frisbee in account with the County of Delaware

To balance due Treasurer in 1832 71.02

To amount of Warrants 14,264.41

State School money 1,715.79

Excise money 457.00

Fines & c 237.00

Dog Tax 20.90

Wolf bounties 40.00

16.804.12

Balance due Treasurer 278.51

17,084.63

By Supervisors receipts 2,962.33

Commissioners of Highways 2,084.74

" of Com. Schools 1,870.54

Temporary relief of poor 252.57

Superintendants of Poor 2,729.83

Court & Jurors 1,198.77

Audited accounts 3,078.17

State School money 1,715.79

Amt. of Collectors fees 598.75

Resident tax sworn off 16.68

Amt. of Rejected taxes 483.03

Treasurers Fees 93.43

17,084.63

Valuation of Real & Personal Estate in the County of Delaware & the amt. of tax thereon in 1833.

	Real Estate	Personal	Pr.Ct Add. & Deducted	Aggregate	Schools	Highways	Supv.	Tear.	Aggregate
Andes	133.926	9.215		143.141	96.85		110.93 ½	626.32	833.10
Bovina	116.716	16.974	ded. 10	120.321	70.13	50.00	95.50	292.24	507.87
Colches.	114.486	15.675		130.161	74.19	150.00	139.24	357.97	712.40
Delhi	167.678	14.484	ad.15	209.487	110.14	150.00	143.05	515.36	917.55
Davemp.	111.097	8.975		130.072	92.74	10.00	112.38	351.08	566.20
Frank.	263.683	51.951		315.635	744.58		153.86	732.77	1031.21
Hancock	112.589	5.640		118.229	39.91	230.00	153.50	353.37	796.78
Harpers.	174.565	22.025		196.590	100.87		114.02	472.10	686.99
Hamden	85.189	17.435		122.497	63.04		117.26	297.97	478.27
Kortright	195.306	13.399	ad 15	219.140	149.68	140.00	345.94	540.60	1176.22
Masonv'l	85.031	9.560		94.591	59.65		186.00	239.01	484.66
Meredith	165.910	50.538		216.448	86.23	32.50	104.20	507.09	730.02
Middle.	157.040	7.945		164.985	124.15	Poor 56.00	126.87	402.28	709.30
Roxbury	208.783	22.965		231.748	167.44	200.00	109.39	568.25	1045.08
Sidney	146.376	6.292		152.668	73.46	170.00	122.48	377.59	743.53
Stamford	151.385	25.220		176.605	83.20	140.00	164.31	435.40	822.91
Tompk.	206.066	14.225		320.291	184.86	450.00	199.98	561.48	1396.32
Walton	164.779	38.347		203.126	87.10		119.96	492.58	699.64

December 18^th 1833 the Board adjourned sinc dic.

Danl. Gould,

Supv. Clk.

1834

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware held at the

Supervisors room in Delhi on Tuesday the eleventh day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four: present as follows:

Andes Cyrus Burr Kortright Nehemiah Hanford

Bovina James Cowan Masonville Seneca Olmsted

Colchester Hezekiah Elwood Meredith

Davenport Jesse Booth Middletown Geo. H. Sands

Delhi G. H. Edgerton Roxbury Jonas More

Franklin John Thompson Stamford James Stewart

Hamden Hiram B. Goodrich Sidney John M. Betts

Harpersfield Nathan Bristol Tompkins Darius Maples

Hancock Nathan W. Williams Walton Samuel Eells, Jr.

Thereupon John Thompson of Franklin was chosen Chairman and Danl. Gould of Delhi unanimously elected clerk.

The Board then proceeded to choose by ballot three Superintendents of the Poor for the ensuing year and the ballots having been taken and counted, it appeared that Jabez Bostwick, William B. Sheldon and James Cavin were duly chosen on the prat of said board. And on comparing the nomination of the Supervisors with the nomination of Superintendents made by the Judges of the County Courts of said County they were found to agree in the above mentioned names.

Thereupon, Jabez Bostwick, Wm. B. Sheldon and James Cavin were declared duly appointed.

And then the Board adjourned till 8 oc to morrow morning.

Wednesday, November 12^th 1834

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

The Chairman announced the appointment of the following committees ~

To equalize the assessment rolls

Mr. Betts, Mr. Elwood, Mr. Edgerton, Mr. Olmsted & Mr. Burr.

To settle with Loan Officers

Mr. Cowan, Mr. More, Mr. Williams

To settle Constables and Justices accounts

Mr. Booth, Mr. Sands, Mr. Goodrich

To settle with Treasurers

Mr. Eells, Mr. Hanford, Mr. Sands

To settle with Superintendents of Poor

Mr. Edgerton, Mr. Maples, Mr. Bristol, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Hanford

Committees to settle Town accounts

Ordered that Mr. Eells, Mr. Maples, & Mr. Olmsted be a committee to settle accounts for their respective towns.

Ordered that Mr. Elwood, Mr. Williams & Mr. Sands, " " " "

Ordered that Mr. More, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Bristol " " " "

Ordered that Mr. Booth, Mr. Edgerton for & c. the town of Meredith

Ordered that Mr. Hanford, Mr. Cowan & Mr. Burr for & c

Ordered that Mr. Betts, Mr. Thompson & Mr. Griswold "

After auditing sundry town and county accounts Board adj. till 8 oc to morrow morning.

Thursday morning Nov. 13^th.

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Superintendents Report

Mr. Edgerton from the committee appointed to settle with the Superintendents of the Poor. Reported that the committee had discharged that duty and found the county indebted to said Superintendents in the sum of $161.51 (see report on file) & the report was agreed to by the board.

Com. In Trea. Report

Mr. Eells from the committee appointed to settle with the County Treasurer reported that the committee had discharged that duty (See report on file) & the report was agreed to by the board.

Comm. On Loan Officers

Mr. Cowan from the committee appointed to settle with the Loan Officers reported as read (see report on file) & the report was agreed to by the board.

And after auditing sundry town and county accounts Board adjourned till 8 oc morning.

Friday morning Nov. 14^th.

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Report of Equalizing Committee

Mr. Betts from the committee appointed to examine and equalize the assessment rolls reported that the committee had gone through said rolls & assessments that the aggregate of real estate in the towns of Kortright, Roxbury & Middletown be increased five per-cent which was agreed to by the board.

$3500 County Tax

Resolved unanimously that the sum of $3,500 be raised by tax to defray contingent expenses of the Co.

Poor $3000

Resolved unanimously that the sum of #3000 be raised by tax for the Poor fund.

2 ½ per-cent to Hancock Col.

On motion of Mr. Williams

Resolved that the collector of the town of Hancock be allowed two and a half per-cent on the amount of tax on non resident lands in said town.

Jailer to take stove

On motion of Mr. Eells

Resolved that the Jailor be authorized to take the stove now in the Supervisors room for the use of the dungeon in the Jail & to procure a new stove with the necessary pipe of a size larger than the present for the use of said room.

And then the Board adjourned after auditing sundry accounts till the 16^th day of December next.

Tuesday, December 16, 1834

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Present as before except George H. Sands from Middletown

Ordered that Mr. Bristol, Mr. Cowan & Mr. Betts be added to the committee on Court & Justices accounts.

Insurance

On motion of Mr. Eells

Resolved that the County Treasurer be authorized to effect an Insurance upon the Court House and Jail for $3000.

Stone Steps

On motion of Mr. Bristol

Resolved that there be steps constructed of hewn stone in front of the Court house, and that G. Edgerton and H. B. Goodrich be a committee to superintend the same; and they are hereby authorized to draw upon the Treasurer of the County a sum not exceeding forty five dollars to defray the expense of the same.

Fencing Square

On motion of Mr. Goodrich

Resolved that the inhabitants of the Village of Delhi or the Trustee thereof, have leave to erect, at their own expense, a suitable fence around such part or the whole of the public square situated in said village and belonging to the county, and in such names as they either of them shall determine. Provided however that before said inhabitants or Trustees shall be authorized to enclose a part only of said Square, they shall enclose the whole of the same (not now enclosed) by a substantial fence, except that part bordering upon the public street running through said village.

County accounts audited at 1^st & 2^nd meeting of Supervisors 1834

Andrews, Saml. (dog fund)

12.00

Bradley, Henry	1.44	Booth, Jesse	1.08
Burr, Cyrus	1.06	Booth, Jesse	22.20
Burr, Cyrus	19.20	Beadle, John 36+72+36	1.44
Beardsley, Bennet	0.67	Burhans, Edward I.	4.27
Becker, Henry T.	1.37	Brown, Allis	7.00
Bemiss, Asahel	3.69	Bristol, Nathan	1.20
Betts, John M.	22.00	Do	22.36
Butts, Rufus	9.34	Bostwick, Jabez	22.25
Bostwick, Ammon	4.96	Bostwick, Jabez	18.00
Bostwick, Ammon	0.99	Beardsley, Benajah	69.71
Beardsley, Benajah	1.92

Cowan, James 60 + 16.00	16.60	Corbin, Timothy S.	3.50
Chase, Walter	8.29	Clanghorn, Geo. 85 + 11.26	12.11
Cook, Hiram	15.75	Cavin, James	16.12
Case, Thomas	2.56	Chapman, Jonathan	7.50
Chapman, Jonathan 11.27 + 4.92	16.19	Cowls, Jessie F.	4.48 ½
Clks. Office 3.78 + 25.	28.78

Drake, Hiram	1.54	Douglass Amos	16.83
Decker, Silas	4.00	Downer, John 1.48 + 6.09	7.57

Elwood, Hezekiah	1.50	Elwood, Hezekiah	22.0
Every, Jacob	12.00	Edgerton & Perry	1.91
Eells, Samuel, Jr. 1.92 + 18.80	19.82	Every, James	5.51
G. H. Edgerton 41.50 + 12.00	53.50

Fuller, Cyrus B.	15.78	Frisbee, William	11.50
Foote, Russell	6.60	Foote, Russell	8.40
Francisco, De lan see	4.89	Farrington, Morris L.	7.32

Gilchrist, Andrew	3.35	Goodrich, Hiram B.	0.84
Goodrich, Hiram B.	5.09	Goodrich, Hiram B.	14.80
Gould, Daniel	85.00	Gould, H.D. & I. H.	4.75
Graves, Ed.	3.00	Gordon, Saml. (a/c of A. Doolittle)	1.50
Grant, James E.	4.50	Gregory, John H.	164.16 1/2

Hanford, Nehemiah	18.40	Hanford, Nehemiah	.96
Haight, Lewis	1.57	Haight, Nelson	1.73
Hanford, Saml.	2.04	Hughston, James	4.88
Howard, H.	1.00

Jennings, Beach	12.29	Jacobs, Seaman	2.00
Johnson, Alex. 3.48 + 16.83	20.31

Keeler, Martin	10.00	Knapp, Charles	5.00
Knapp, Stephen	4.88 ½	Keator, Harvey	4.00
Knapp, Stephen 2^nd	1.25

Leet, Martin	2.48	Lusk, Simon	13.58
Landon, John M.	17.74	Lusk, Simon	19.93
Lewis, Reuben	1.93	Low, Renold 3.26 + 1.92 + 1.66	6.84
Leal, Danl. M. 4.82 + 20.47	25.29

Maples, Darius	24.40	McCall, Elihu	.90
Moore, Green 204.55 + 2.93 +6.00	213.48	Miller, James M.	1.96
Moore, Orrin	1.37 ½	Montgomery, Thos.	1.25
McGee, John	3.41	McDonald, Duncan	1.00
Moore, Thorne	23.19	Morse, Andrew	13.12
More, Jonas	1.44	More, Jonas	21.60

Nicholas, William

1.56

Olmsted, Seneca	24.80	Osterhoudt, Zach	1.36
Ogden, William	2.00	Ostrom, John J.	3.46

Perkins & Griswold	9.81	Pine, Peter	16.90
Perkins & Griswold	4.69	Pine, Peter	6.00
Parker, A. I.	241.27	Paine, A. M.	12.25
Paine & Clark	53.90	Pine, Joseph O.	58.33

Rich, Sylvester	0.48	Reel, Wm.	1.00
Roger, O. S.	.75	Radiker, Barna	13.44

Stewart, James	20.00	Scott, Wiley U.	8.50
Stewart, Seman	8.82	Stevens, Saml. $2.45+$10.25	12.70
Sutton, Shuman S.	1.87	Sturges, George	.96
Sutton, Shuman S.	.87	Smith, Abm. D.	1.71
Smith, Reuben W.	3.59	Smyth, Lyman	11.20
Smith, Reuben W.	7.18	Stevens. N. 1.73 + 75	2.48
Scott, Robert	1.71	Sheldon, W. B. 28.45 + 46.62	75.07
St. John, Birchard	8.19	Sheldon, C. B.	135.73
Sands, Geo. R.	1.32	Do	18.50
Do	12.49	Do	2.50
Superintendents of Poor	161.51	Do	121.25

Tuttle, Solomon	5.33	Townsend, Wm.	25.00
Tribby, Wm.	10.16	Thompson, John	17.60

V

Vermilyea, Solomon 1.53 +3.08+0.86 5.47

Waters, Ozias	17.23	Wells, I. D.	3.60
Wilber, John T.	6.10	Wilson, Freeman	1.12 ½
Wool, John	1.19	Washburn, E. B.	2.43
Whitney, Norman	2.08	Williams, N. W. $2.50 + 26.00	28.60

Y

Yeoman, Francis 30.63

Town accounts audited at the first meeting of the Supervisors 1834

Andes

Cyrus Burr	6.00	Peter Penet	15.87
Archibald McNaught	9.37	Wm. Shaver	10.62
Wm. Decker	11.26	Nathaniel E. Burtch	3.75
Edward Sands	3.75	Francis Yeoman	1.00
Ebenezer B. Washburn	1.00	Joel Washburn	5.00
Jacob A. Shaver	6.00	Gersham D. Jackson	2.00
William Walmsley	4.00	Robert Mason	5.50
Charles Barlow	8.00	Alexander A. Grant	8.50
Stephen Hull	6.50	John O. More	11.50
Daniel H. Burr	6.00	Alexander G. Beardsley	6.00
Marcus T. Peake	3.00	William C. Benedict	5.50
Robert Dowie	4.50

Bovina

Malcolm McNaught	28.25	John M. Landon	6.00
John McNaught	2.00	Isaac Atkins	2.62
James M. Hastings	11.50	Joel S. Bush	13.75
William Graham	8.00	Robert Scott	3.50
James Cowan	5.37	Walter Coulter	12.50
Anthony Wilber	3.75	John T. Wilber	1.75
John B. Wilber	13.50	Duncan McNaught	3.00
George Nesbitt	2.00	John Hume	1.00
John McNaught	12.50

Colchester

H. Elwood	7.00	Leander Hitt	2.00
Martin R. Tift	2.00	Isaac Kimball	2.00
John Hunter	2.00	George H. Phelps	2.00
Allen Knapp	12.50	William H. Moore	15.00
John R. Radiker	22.50	Charles Spooner	19.00
Eli S. Washburn	7.50	Isaac Miller	9.50
Sebee G. Stephens	5.50	Leonard Francisco	4.00
James W. Knapp	2.00	Joseph Woolsey	10.56
William H. Downs	14.25	I. Bassett	11.00
Henry Smith	5.00	R. W. Elwood	6.00
Geo. H. Phelps	2.50	R. W. Elwood	3.75
R. L. White	12.50	R. Francisco	1.00
Thos. Gregory	1.00	Benjamin Pine	1.00
Weights & Measures	70.75	Commissioners of Highways	100.00

Delhi

Henry More, Jun.	13.50	Anthony M. Paine	25.00
Jonathan P. Flower	7.00	Benjamin Barlow	15.00
Gid. Frisbee	13.75	Robt. Arbuckle	15.63
Simeon Goodman Jr.	3.75	Robt. Parker	3.75
Nathl. Hathaway	2.50	Ebenezer Steele	5.50
Crawford B. Sheldon	5.50	N.K. Wheeler	5.00
Ebenezer Steele	5.00	Ferris Jacobs	5.00
A. I. Parker	3.00	Erastus Root	5.00
Street Dutton	4.66	M. L. Farrington	4.00
G. A. Edgerton	15.66	Highways	214.50

Davenport

Stephen Olmsted	26.00	Joseph A. Goodrich	12.00
Henry Ten Eick	7.50	Peter Smith	5.50
John W. Mickel	12.50	Jesse Booth	12.00
Thompson Paine	14.24	Seth Goodrich Jr	17.25
George TenEick	16.19	Carlton Emmons	4.00
Wm. Fairchild	12.00	Highways	150.00

Franklin

Obadiah Sands	21.25	John Kinney	21.25
Seymour Pomeroy	21.25	Joshua Whitney	3.75
Joel Gillett	.50	Wm. Waters	11.75
Beach Jennings	10.25	Levi Hale	13.00
Job Mills	20.00	Elijah Tupper	10.00
John Thompson	3.75	Highways	55.00

Hancock

Wm. G. Lakin	13.00	Morris S. Williams	15.50
Jacob F. Clauson	13.12 ½	Leroy M. Wheeler	3.75
Wm. Knight	6.00	Jonas Lakin	1.00
John Doyl	10.72	Charles Leonard	10.62 ½
A. A. May	10.00	Levi Apley	10.00
Jas. M. Twaddell	18.62 ½	Rensselaer Parks	0.25
Moses Parks	2.00	John Baxter	6.00
Anson Steenrod	0.50	Saml. Doyl	1.00
Cyrus Baxter	3.00	Nathan W. Williams	7.10
Highways	250.00

Hamden

Isaac Williams	11.25	Daniel Loomis	25.00
James R. Brown	5.00	William Mason	6.00
Gersham H. Bradley	9.37	Peter Launt	8.50
R. Robinson	6.50	Hollon Bordon	7.00
Sheldon Patterson	11.25	M. L. Bostwick	2.00
Town Tax	0.78	Town Tax	0.39
R. M. Goodrich	16.75	Saml. Handford	1.12 ½
Jonathan Silliman	00.39	A. Covert	.78
Walter Chase	1.25	Jabez Bostwick	3.00
Highways	100.88

Harpersfield

Joseph Babcock	14.38	Hiram Graves	5.50
Edmund Stevens	5.00	Hiram Drake	3.00
John Wool	11.25	Joseph Wool	1.00
Daniel Baird	1.00	John Hanford	1.00
Harry Hamilton	5.50	Stoddard Stevens	1.50
A. P. Wilcox	12.25	John Harper	10.00
N. Bristol	4.38	William Campbell	4.00
Abraham Becker	2.00	I. P. Bragg	4.00

Kortright

Luther Butts	15.00	Luther Butts	15.00
Wm. McClaughry	9.00	J. Goodrich	30.25
S. H. Keeler	4.00	A. Merwin	4.00
Eber. Keeler	3.00	H. R. Willard	5.50
James Sloan	15.00	John McDonald	15.00
Gaius Halsey	5.00	M. Keeler Jr.	5.50
Duncan McDonald	2.50	A. Hanford	6.00
Matthew McClaughry	3.75	James D. Riddle	3.75
Robert McIlwain	16.50	Duncan I. Grant	6.00
D. Hallock	5.00	Thomas Smith	4.25
Highways	139.00

Meredith

Wm. Fisher	6.00	Josiah D. Wells	18.01
A. P. Mann	3.50	Philo Olmsted	8.75
Geo. N. Wells	1.50	Leonard Cottrel	6.50
Abel Gallop	1.50	Martin Leet	1.50
William Jackson	15.02	David Mitchell	15.00
Ammon Bostwick	3.50	Oliver Dutton	4.00
David Siver	7.38	Amasa Fox	19.40
Saml. Cottrell	1.25	Highways	50.00

Masonville

Gardner H. Olmsted	5.37 ½	Daniel Olmsted	13.12 ½
James K. Robbins	4.37 ½	Seneca Olmsted	5.36 ½
Wm. V. Webster	2.00	Geo. Metcalf	5.00
Horace Canfield	1.00	Elijah Whitman	13.75
M. R. Hulee	1.50	Saml. Baldwin	18.64
Thos. Randall	5.00	Lot Cook	5.00
Saml. Manning	4.00	Simeon P. Griswold	8.50
Wait Cannon	14.50	J. D. Cleaveland	5.00
Stillman Davis	2.00	Job Ailworth	11.50

Middletown

Horace Ellis	11.25	Warren Dimmick	14.38
Thos. Elliott	13.12	Saml. Akerly	11.00
John Slawson	4.00	Jacob T. Dixon	3.37
David Wight	3.37 ½	Stephen Lawrence	1.42
Floras Searle	12.00	Edmund Kelley Jr.	3.50
A.D.L. Montanyea	2.00	O. M. Alaben	7.13
M. Dean	3.75	N. Chamberlin	3.75
E. J. Burhans	2.50	D. H. Burr	4.00
John Beedle	2.00	Noah Dimmick	3.00
Solomon Osterhoudt	13.75	G. H. Sands	3.75

Roxbury

Edward J. Burhans	2.50	Edward J. Burhans	11.50
Jacob Newkirk	9.37 ½	Joseph Smith	1.00
E. A. Parker	10.12	E. Wight	7.50
Roman H. Gleason	3.75	Zalmon S. Bouton	3.75
D. Burhans	10.00	Matthew Daniels	15.00
Thomas Keator	13.75	John B. Gould	16.25
Saml. Pulling	2.00	E. Preston	15.75
Jonas More	5.37 ½	Alex. Daniel	6.00
Highways	250.00

Stamford

George Sturges	1.50	James Stewart	5.37 ½
George Clum	14.87 ½	Ebenezer Gilbert	9.37 ½
Peter P. Grant	10.62 ½	William Squires	13.12 ½
George A. Sturges	3.75	Angus McDonald	3.75
Grove Webster	15.00	Alexander Shaw	12.00
Levi Olmsted	10.00	James Smith	6.50
William Boggs	7.62 ½	Hugh Gammel	8.00
Orrin Griffin	2.50	Alexander I. Grant	8.75
Charles Griffin	7.92	Novatus Blish	2.00
A. D. Smyth	4.00	Abraham Thomas Jr.	5.37 ½
Highways	128.25	Poor	12.63

Sidney

Josiah Thatcher	3.75	Ira Carley	3.00
William Hughston	3.00	Henry Bradley	18.62
Jeremiah Calkin	2.52	James Teed	6.90
Milton Johnston	1.88	Arvine Clark	6.00
Wm. V. Webster	14.87	Wm. E. Webster	2.25
Chs. S. Rogers	11.62 ½	Curtis Cleaveland	4.00
John M. Betts	5.12 ½	Manlius Mann	3.00
Rufus P. Green	4.50	Abel Bartlett	20.00
Henry Chapman	12.00	Reuben Lewis	3.50
Jas Hughston	1.00	Eliada Todd (Wolf)	10.00
Highways	37.00

Tompkins

D. Maples	9.62 ½	P. Pine	4.50
J. S. Babcock	20.87	N. K. Wheeler	3.00
M. R. Huler	14.00	P. Cannon	29.37 ½
P. St. John	10.50	G. W. Briggs	10.00
J. Teed	8.00	H. Flynt	5.00
S. Lusk	21.37 ½	M. Brown	1.00
Step. Stiles	7.00	Isaac Lockwood	12.50
Jos. Stiles 2^nd	4.00	Jas. Grant	2.00
J. P. Frazier $2 1833 $10	12.00	J. P. Frazier D.1834 $10 D. Alverson's wolf 10	20.00
Wm. Crawford	10.00	Alex. Greeman	10.00
E. Murwin	10.00	Town tax for desk	15.00
Jos. O. Pine	5.00	J. P. Frazier wolf	10.00
Geo. Claghorn	1.00	Highways	200.00

Walton

Levi Hanford Jr.	13.75	Thomas Marvin	13.75
Jeter Gardiner	13.75	Alan Mead	4.00
Cyrus St. John	13.00	Benjamin Beers	7.50
Bennet Beardsley	6.71 ½	Joshua Pine	3.50
Walter Hanford	2.00	Alvah Rowell	9.50
John S. Coleman	2.00	Thaddius S. St. John	6.50
Robert North, Jun.	1.25	Thaddius St. John	20.00
Platt Townsend	15.00	Saml. Eells, Jr.	5.88
Weights & Measures	68.00

Mr. Cowan from the committee appointed to settle with the Loan Officers Report that the committee find out standing 89 mortgages which amount to $8.127.00

Principal paid up on the first day of May last 220.00

$8.347.00

Int. on $8347, due to Comptroller on the first day of

May last at 6 pr. ct. $500.82 paid in the Loan Officers

at that time $ 500.82

Principal as above due comptroller 220.00

Balance due from Loan Officers on last settlement 64.00

$ 785.52

Paid to Comptroller as appears by 3 rects principal $ 274.

& Interest by 3 rects from comptroller 514,07

$ 788.07

Balance due Loan Officers 3.55

Rept. Of com. To settle with Treasurer

Dr. Wm. Frisbee, Treasurer in account with the County of Delaware Cr.

To aggregate amt. of Warrants	$14,148.06	1833 by balance due Treas. On settlement	$ 278.51
State School money	1,745.79	Supervisors receipts	2,613.50
Excise Money	439.00	Highways	1,846.88
Fines	224.75	Comm. Of Schools	1,808.22
Dog Tax	12.25	Overseers of Poor (Middletown)	56.00
State Wolf Bounty	45.00	Superintendents of Poor	3,291.65
		Temporary Relief	244.56
		Courts & Jurors	935.17
		Audited accounts	2,569.11
		State School Money	1,715.79
		Collectors Fees	637.17
		Rejected Tax	260.43
		Resident Tax Sworn off	15.37
		Treasurers Fees	87.56
	$16,584.95		16,359.92
	16,359.92
Balance	225.03

Valuation of Real and Personal Estate in the County of Delaware and the tax thereon in 1834.

	Real Est.	Personal	Debts	Aggreg.	Schools	Poor	Highway	Supv.	Trea.	Aggreg.
Andes	170.270	97.43		180.015	96.85			144.62	412.25	653.72
Bovina	109.210	163.67		125.577	70.13			130.99	279.90	481.02
Colches.	112.191	137.65	11.58	127.114	74.19		100.00	253.81	311.12	739.12
Daven.	121.476	48.00	33.57	129.632	92.74		150.00	139.18	377.00	758.92
Delhi	178.453	191.50	55.92	203.195	110.14		214.50	158.20	463.03	945.87
Franklin	236.604	433.10	78.05	287.719	144.58		55.00	137.75	630.45	967.78
Hamden	177.836	60.79	22.37	126.152	63.04		100.88	116.33	297.71	577.96
Harpers.	165.165	223.90		187.555	100.87			86.26	410.76	597.89
Hancock	113.180	44.50		117.630	39.91		250.00	132.20	273.05	695.16
Kortright	189.715	146.70	3 pr.ct ad	213.870	149.68		139.00	174.00	478.93	941.61
Masonv'l	82.099	70.30		89.129	59.65			125.63	204.67	389.95
Meredith	170.387	322.62	133.13	217.962	86.23		50.00	112.81	481.33	730.37
Middlet.	144.096	67.75	5 pr.ct ad	158.075	124.15			123.04 ½	359.71	606.90
Roxbury	215.743	295.50	5 pr.ct ad	253.980	167.44		250.00	133.62	576.23	1027.29
Stamford	162.795	234.14		186.209	83.20	12.63	128.25	151.24	416.61	791.93
Sidney	153.003	90.46	10.21	163.070	73.46		37.00	137.54	367.44	615.44
Tompk.	208.955	126.60	10.00	2226.15	92.43		200.00	257.74	542.47	1092.64
Walton	167.819	425.455	24.41	212.805	87.10			205.09	490.47	782.66

December 18^th 1834, Board adj. sinc dic

Danl. Gould,

Supv. Clerk

1835

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware held at the Supervisors room in Delhi on Tuesday the tenth day of December 1835.

Present as follows:

Andes Cyrus Burr Kortright Luther Butts

Bovina James Cowan Masonville Seneca Olmsted

Colchester Chs. Knapp Meredith Wm. Jackson

Davenport Jesse Booth Middletown Matthew Halcott

Delhi Gurden H. Edgerton Roxbury Alexander Daniel

Franklin John Thompson Stamford Grove Webster

Hamden Harry. P. Chase Sidney Chs. S. Rogers

Harpersfield Wm. Buckingham Tompkins Darius Maples

Hancock Nathan W. Williams Walton Saml. Eells, Jr.

Thereupon John Thompson of Franklin was chosen chairman and Danl. Gould of Delhi, clerk.

The Board then proceeded to choose by ballot three Superintendents of Poor for the ensuing year, and the ballots having been taken & counted it appeared that Jabez Bostwick, William B. Sheldon & James Cavin were duly chosen on the part of the said Board. And on comparing the same with the nomination on the part of the Judges of the County Courts they were found to agree in names above mentioned.

Thereupon Jabez Bostwick, Wm. B. Sheldon & James Cavin were declared duly appointed.

After the appointment of Commissioners of deed according to the statute in such cases made and provided. The Chairman announced the appointment of following committees:

On Constables & Justices Accounts

Mr. Halcott, Mr. Booth & Mr. Knapp

On Equalizing of the Assessment Rolls

Mr. Edgerton, Rogers, Buckingham, Daniels, Maples

To Settle with Loan Officers

Mr. Cowan, Williams, Butts

To Settle with Treasurer

Mr. Eells, Burr, Webster

To Settle with Superintendents of Poor

Mr. Maples, Olmsted, Jackson, Chase, Edgerton

Committees to Settle Town Accounts

Ordered Mr. Daniels, Mr. Halcott, & Mr. Webster be a committee to settle accounts for their respective towns.

Mr. Booth, Buckingham, Mr. Butts " "

Mr. Thompson, Rogers & Jackson " "

Mr. Olmsted, Maples, & Eells " "

Mr. Edgerton, Chace & Cowan " "

Mr. Burr, Knapp & Williams " "

Board adjourned till 9 a.m. tomorrow.

Wednesday Nov. 11, 1835. Board met pursuant to adjm.

On Motion of Mr. Rogers.

Resolved that a committee be appointed to examine the accounts of the marital in the several towns for taking the census during the present year & also to examine all other County accounts which are not properly referable to any other Committee.

Ordered that Mr. Rogers, Eells & Mr. Cowan be the said Committee.

Board adjourned till 9 a.m. tomorrow.

Thursday Nov. 12, 1835. Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Mr. Rogers from the committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Marital pursuant to the resolution of yesterday, Reported that the committee had examined & settled the said several accounts excepting from the town of Andes which had not been presented to said committee. Thereupon the said several accounts as liquidated by the committee were accordingly audited by the board.

On motion of Mr. Williams.

Resolved that the Collectors of the Town of Hancock be allowed two and a half per cent on the amount of tax on non resident lands in said Town.

Mr. Edgerton from the Committee appointed to equalize the assessment rolls of the several towns in the County of Delaware Reported that they have compared and examined the same as to quality and quantity and have taken the rolls for the Towns of Andes, Middletown, Delhi, Harpersfield, Davenport, Hamden, & Walton for a standard and say that the following per cents be added to the aggregate of the rolls of the following Towns to wit:

5 per cent to the Town of Kortright, 5 per cent to the Town of Masonville, 5 per cent to the Town of Bovina, 4 per cent to the Town of Roxbury, & 3 per cent to the Town of Stamford in order to make the aggregate of their rolls compare in quality and quantity with those of said first above mentioned Towns.

Mr. Chace made a motion that the board should agree to reduce to one hundred dollars the damages assessed by a Jury on the 27 day of June 1835 at one hundred and fifty dollars for the laying out of a road through the lands of Donald Crawford of the Town of Hamden. Debates were had thereon & the question being put whether the board would agree to the said motion of Mr. Chace. It was decided in the affirmative.

Resolved that the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors be authorized to effect an insurance upon the Court House for $2500 on the Jail for $1000.

On motion of Mr. Maples

Resolved that a committee be appointed to direct the mode in which the Superintendents of the Poor shall keep the Poor House Accounts.

Ordered that Mr. Maples, Mr. Knapp & Mr. Rogers be said committee.

On motion of Mr. Williams.

Resolved that the sum of $3000 be levied upon the county for defraying ordinary County expenses, $3000 for the benefit of the Poor Fund.

Mr. Maples from the committee appointed to settle with the Treasurer made the following rept. (See rept. On file).

Mr. Eells from the committee appointed to settle with the Treasurer reported as follows. (See rept on file).

And then the Board adjourned till the 15^th day of December next.

Danl. Gould, Clerk

Tuesday, December 15^th

The Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Members all present.

Robert Parker of Delhi was chosen Clerk, pro tem, in the absence of Daniel Gould, Clerk.

On motion of Mr. Knapp.

Resolved that the report of the committee appointed to settle with the Superintendents of the Poor and the report of the committee to settle with the Treasurer be referred back to those committees for further explanation.

After auditing sundry county accounts the Board adjourned till to morrow morning at 9 oclock.

Tuesday, the Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Present as yesterday.

On motion of Mr. Cowan.

Resolved that the sum of $38 be appropriated for the purpose one blank book for Deeds, one for mortgages, & one for docketing transcripts of Justices judgments & that the Clerk of the County procure the said books.

Mr. Maples from the committee appointed to settle with the Superintendants of the Poor, made the following report. (See report on file).

Mr. Eells from the committee appointed to settle with the Treasurer made the following report. (See report on file).

Mr. Maples from the committee appointed to direct the mode in which the accounts of the Superintendents of the Poor shall be kept reported. (See report on file).

R. Parker, Clerk pro tem

List of County accounts for the year 1835 audited the first & second meetings of that year.

Arnold, Francis H.	19.07 ½	Brown, James	1.27
Burr, Cyrus 1.08 & 19.20	20.28	Betts, John M.	1.50
Bostwick, Jabez S.Stevens a/c 17.50 + 16.00	35.50	Beardsley, Benajah	29.79 ½
Booth, Jesse	4.78	Booth, Jesse	19.20
Buckingham, William	20.40	Butts, Luter	17.50
Bradley, Henry	.59	Butts, Rufus	18.50
Butts, Rufus	16.43	Beadle, John	3.90
Beach, Harry G.	3.98	Beach, Harry G.	20.00
Baxter, Geo. H.	1.82	Brasee, Hawkins	24.80
Bristol, Nathan	9.46	Baxter, Geo. H.	.93
Beardsley, Bennett	1.06	Becket, Henry T.	5.02
Burhans, Edward I.	4.37 ½	Betts, William Jr.	5.94
Butts, Oliver G.	13.75
Chace, Harry P.	14.80	Carfford, John	6.11
Crawford, John	5.96	Combs, Joseph S.	1.00
Clauson, William	1.05	Chapman, Jonathan	3.50
Chapman, Jonathan	3.28	Cook, Hiram	14.92
Churchill, Jacob	2.74	Cowles, Jesse F.	1.19
Cease, David	1.61	Copley, Joseph	3.00
Claghorn, George	4.10	Claghorn, George	20.84
Cavin, James	28.75	Cowen, James	0.60
Cowen, James	16.00
Downer, John	2.27	Douglass, Amos	8.00
Dickinson, Isaac	2.06	Decker, William	21.25
Daniels, Alexander	22.80
Edgerton & Perry	5.63	Elwood, H.	1.50
Edgerton, Nathan	8.49	Edick, Stephen H.	1.31
Every, James	1.12 ½	Every, James	17.60
Eells, Samuel Jun.	22.68	Eells, Samuel Jun.	1.02
Eells, Samuel Jun	18.80	Edgerton, Gurdon H.	12.00
Eells, Benjamin B.	21.25
Frisbee, William (J. Downers)	8.28	Fuller, Abel A.	21.64
Foote, Russell L.	10.25	Foote, Russell L.	3.25
Fuller, C. B.	2.47
Gould, Daniel	85.00	Goodrich, Richd. M.	17.89
Green, Stephen	1.00	Gould, H. D. & J. H.	5.69
Grant, Nathaniel L.	1.78	Gilchrist, Andrew	3.30
Goodman, Simeon, Jun.	0.62 ½	Gregory, John H.	19.18
Gilbert, William	9.90	Gilbert, William	15.00
Grant, Duncan I.	94.50	Goodrich, John B.	20.00
Hathaway, Benjamin	1.00	Hawley, J. W.	7.80
Halcott, Matthew	1.69	Halcott, Matthew	22.00
Hanford, Nehemiah	0.96
Johnston, Alexander	3.29	Jennings, Beach	5.13
Jackson, William	15.60
Knapp, Stephen 2^nd	6.11	Knapp, James W.	2.18
Knapp, Charles	2.94	Knapp, Charles	21.20
Law, Rinold	4.46	Leet, Martin	0.93
Lusk, Simon	5.00	Lusk, Simon	0.68
Leal, Daniel M.	26.63	Landon, John M.	1.36
Landon, John M.	17.50	Loveland, Erastus	2.06
Locke, C. F. T.	0.78	Lewis, Reuben	0.99
Lakin, William G.	11.25
McDonald, Duncan	1.56	McDonald, Duncan	4.70
McDonald, Duncan	4.44	Metcalf, Ira	3.22
Mason, Charles	4.75	Mason, William, Esq.	6.75
Moore, Orrin	8.88	Megee, John	8.54
Megee, John	1.08	Moore, Thorne	24.74
Moore, Thorne	20.00	Mallory, Samuel	1.17
Moore, Green	351.13	Morse, Richard	35.43
Maples, Darius	1.86	Maples, Darius	26.40
McClaughry, William	21.25
Nichols, William	10.49
Ostram, John Junr.	6.95	Ostram, John Junr.	25.28
Ousterhoudt, Zachariah	3.05	Ousterhoudt, Zazhariah	5.28
Olmstead, Seneca	1.92	Olmstead, Seneca	24.80
Ousteroudt, Solomon	25.00
Paine, Anthony M.	21.13	Paine, Anthony M.	10.00
Pine, Peter	6.00	Pine, Peter	20.00
Pine, Peter	5.00	Pierce, Daniel	8.44
Paine & Clark	178.80	Penny, James	8.73
Parker, A. I.	18.00	Parker, A. I.	283.92
Palmer, Jesse	10.00	Peake, Roswell	17.50
Preston, Ezekiel	25.00
Rich, Sylvester	0.42	Rosekrans, H. W.	9.11
Rosekrans, H. W.	5.02 ½	Rosekrans, H. W.	2.19
Rogers, Thomas S.	6.00	Rogers, Thomas S.	8.00
Rogers, Chs. S.	26.00
Squire, Daniel W.	2.64	Sheldon, Crawford	159.01
Sheldon, Crawford	38.00	Smith, Caleb	6.00
Sheldon, William B.	7.50	Sheldon, William B.	43.50
Smith, Abraham D.	3.86	Smith, Abraham D.	1.64
Stewart, Leman	17.50	Stewart, Leman	0.61
Smith, Lyman	17.50	Smith, Lyman	20.14
Schutts, John S.	7.91	Seacord, John	1.38
Stott, George	2.00	Scofield, Jared E.	4.71
Sands, Edward	3.09	Stewart, James	1.20
Smith, Henry	17.50	Smith, Lyman	17.50
Smith, Caleb	25.00
Treadwell, Orrin K.	2.89	Thompson, James E.	2.34
Tuttle, Solomon	7.98	Thompson, John	0.84
Thompson, John	17.60	Thatcher, Josiah	17.50
Vermilyea, Solomon	0.75
Webster, Samuel	18.75	Wickham, Hiram B.	13.19
Whitney, H.	5.58	Wheeler, N. K.	6.00
Wright, Edwin	6.08	Waring, Elias	5.73
Washburn, E. B.	2.47	Wright, P. P.	5.40
Wilber, I. T.	10.31	Wilcox, Thomas	8.75
Wheat, William Jr.	2.47	Williams, N. W.	1.14
Williams, N. W.	0.73	Williams, N. W.	2.10
Williams, N. W.	26.00	Webster, Grove	18.40

Valuation of Real & Personal Estate in the County of Delaware in 1835. Amt. money raised and to whom paid.

	Real	Personal	Debts	Aggregat	Schools	Poor	Highway	Supv.	Trea.	Aggreg.
Andes	147.262	98.83		157.147	96.85			90.25	342.60	529.69
Bovina	106.923	178.71		124.794	70.13			161.53	273.74	405.40
Colchester	109.615	158.60	8.85	126.360	74.19		250.00	125.70	279.68	729.57
Davenport	118.727	33.50	71.64	129.241	92.74		200.00	157.26	336.95	694.21
Delhi	182.577	178.50	47.76	205.203	110.14		220.00	124.76	475.53	770.29
Franklin	257.429	462.25	77.19	311.271	144.58		42.50	99.87	623.97	766.34
Hamden	122.575	80.55	15.05	132.085	63.04		162.00	103.85	278.11	543.96
Harpersfield	168.405	168.50		185.255	100.87			107.16	376.61	483.77
Hancock	111.285	42.65		115.550	39.91		250.00	125.12	254.02	629.14
Kortright	202.492	129.93		215.485	149.68		25.50	142.28	446.53	614.31
Masonville	90.667	86.05		99.272	59.65		37.00	136.93	208.66	372.59
Middletown	151.231	65.30		157.761	124.15		345.00	189.37	352.37	886.64
Roxbury	221.207	29.825		251.034	167.44		500.00	146.05	532.59	1178.64
Stamford	168.430	179.415		185.845	83.20		11.00	108.86	376.76	496.62
Sidney	154.324	93.00	14.54	165.083	73.46		20.00	216.03	341.47	577.50
Tompkins	202.098	120.10		214.108	184.86		271.56	161.02	453.64	896.22
Walton	169.799	413.00	22.95	213.394	87.10			132.52	430.54	562.06

Town amounts audited first meeting Supervisors 1835.

Andes

John P. Shaver, Clk Elections	3.75	Robert Alason, Com. Highways	3.00
Archibald McNaught, Assessor	11.62 ½	George Thompson, Assessor. Com. Schools	12.12 ½
Peter Penet, Town Clerk	15.87 ½	Wm. C. Benedict, I. Schools	2.00
Wm. Walmsley, Comm. Highways	8.50	Marcus T. Peake, I. Schools	2.00
Cyrus Burr, Supervisor	6.00	Wm. Shaver, Assessor	10.62
Stephen Hull, Comm. Schools	2.00	Anson Clinton, Clk. Elec.	3.75
Daniel Hawk, I. Schools	1.00	Daniel H. Burr, Com. Schools	6.50
E. R. Washburn	1.00	Wm. Nicols	1.00

Bovina

James M. Hastings, & Wm. Graham	15.00	James M. Hastings	2.00
Malcolm McNaught	4.00	William Graham	3.00
John McNaught	12.50	George Stott	13.75
John Erkson	7.25	Walter Coulter	18.82
Joel S. Brush	13.75	John B. Wilber	8.25
John Ormiston	8.33	James R. Graham	1.88
Hugh Gammels	3.00	John Seacord	4.00
John Hume	4.00	Alexander McEachron	2.00
John T. Wilber	1.00	Duncan McNaught	5.00
James Cowan	4.00	Wm. Glendening	25.00
John McNaught	3.00	John Hume	4.00
James Rutherford	2.00

Colchester

H. Elwood	1.00	Freeman Wilson	1.50
Henry Smith	1.00	Henry B. Howell	10.50
Richard S. White	.25	Lewis Hait	2.00
Robert M. Hennuone	3.75	Eben Hawks	3.75
Charles Knapp	7.00	James Elwood	1.09
Rensalare W. Elwood	3.00	James W. Knapp	2.50
Joseph Woolsey	5.20	Eli S. Washburn	2.00
John R. Radiker	5.00	James White	5.00
David Horton	12.00	Phillip Basset	13.75
Wm. H. Downy	11.87	Charles Spooner	17.75
Wm. Holloday Jr.	9.37	Chas. Knapp (Wild Cat)	2.00
Peter Horton (Wild Cat)	2.00	R. Elwood W.	.50
Joseph Woolsey	.50	Freeman Wilson	.50
Commissioners Highways	250.00

Davenport

John Banner	15.62	Jonathan Brewer	15.00
Richard Everett	13.37	Jacob Soule	6.00
William Fairchild	19.00	John B. Goodrich	6.00
Thompson Paine	4.00	Stephen Olmsted	6.50
Garret Burtis	11.00	Cornelius Davis	9.00
John W. Mickell	5.50	Peter Smith	5.00
Henry Teneck	5.00	Matthew McClaughry	2.00
Jesse Booth	12.76	Andrew Parish	13.50
John Sherman	8.00	Commissioners Highways	200.00

Delhi

G. H. Edgerton	6.88	Anthony W. Paine	17.26
Gideon Frisbie	14.38	Charles Post	15.63
George McIntosh	13.13	Jonathan P. Flower	--
Asa C. Howland	--	David B. Case	4.00
Amasa J. Parker	6.00	Chs. E. Perry	7.00
N. R. Wheeler	--	Samuel Gordon	3.00
W. S. Farrington	1.00	Jas. B. Howe	3.75
Robert Parker	3.75	Chs. Hathaway	6.98
Ferris Jacobs	6.50	Peter P. Wright	2.50
Jonathan P. Flower	13.00	Commissioners Highs.	220.00

Franklin

B. Jennings	11.50	Roger Case	19.37
Abeal Drake	14.37	Ichabod Bartlett	15.62
Wm. Wheat	4.75	Joshua Whitney	3.75
John Thompson	5.37	Benah Bower	6.00
Fitch Ford	6.00	Jacob Howell	.75
William S. Noble	12.37	Commissioners Highways	42.50

Hancock

Sallows S. Lakin	3.00	Josiah Martin	7.00
Tenas Lewis	3.00	John Doyle	2.00
William Clanson	1.75	N. W. Williams	7.25
James W. Twaddle	11.37	Edwin Graves	6.25
Sery Wheeler	2.00	Ebenezer Wheeler	3.75
Clark Sandfield	3.75	John Wainright	8.00
William Lewis	6.00	James Wheeler	17.00
George H. Baxter	.50	Jonas Lakin	1.00
William G. Lakin	14.75	Morris S. Williams	15.50
John Knight (Wild Cat)	2.00	Rensaler Parks (Crows)	.50
Howland & Co.	8.75	Comm. Highways	250.00

Harpersfield

Alonzo B. Wilcox	13.27	John Harper	10.00
Charles Packard	9.99	Stoddard Stevens	4.50
John Hanford	3.00	Beardsly Disbrow	2.50
Edmund Stevens	2.50	Thomas Hanford	1.50
Hiram Graves	10.03	Joseph Wool	7.00
Nathan Bristol	2.00	Hiram Drake	1.50
Johnson b. Bragg	15.87 ½	Meil C. Pierce	5.50
Meil C. Pierce Juror Fees	12.00	Phineas S. Bennet	2.00
Wm. Buckingham	4.00

Hamden

Harry P. Chase	6.25	Richard M. Goodrich	16.88
Sheldon Patterson	10.63	Hollen Benton	9.38
Wm. R. Chase	11.25	Peter Laundt	8.50
Osbin Barbour	7.50	Rowland Robinson	8.50
Marcus S. Bostwick	4.00	Daniel Gould H.B.G.	6.25
Wm. Cure	2.48	Highways	50.00
Walter Chase	.50	Comms. Of Highways of 12 Jurors from Delhi to assess damages on Crawford Rd.	12.00
Thos. Moon, Surv. Jury	3.00	Wm. Mason 1834	2.00
Jonthan Chapman	6.73	Highway Crawford road	100.00

Masonville

John McKinnon	12.50	Horace Kentfield	13.18
Wm. Bigsby Jr.	13.75	Wait Cannon	16.37
Senneca Olmsted	6.25	Geo. Metcalf	5.00
J. D. Cleaveland	7.50	S. Davis	2.00
Saml. C. Pattengill	10.75	Lot Cook	4.50
Andrew Humphry	5.00	Phineas W. Smith	2.50
E. Parker	7.00	T. W. Randall	2.00
J. Aylesworth	1.50	Jas. K. Robbins	7.75
Jno. M. Parker	2.00	W. V. Webster	6.00
Linus Wheaton	2.00	Saml. Manning	5.50
S. Smith	2.00	Geo. Cloghron	1.25
Darius Smith	.42 ½	Highways	37.00

Meredith

Matthew Wiard	10.00	Perez Mitchell	15.62 ½
Able Gallop	15.02	Charles Burr	4.38
Oliver Dutton	5.00	A. R. Dutton	6.00
Learner Cotterall	9.00	Isaac Burr	9.50
Thompson Paine	1.00	A. P. Mann	4.50
Josiah D. Wells	16.64	Milton Bostwick	6.00
Wm. Jackson	5.64	Highways	195.00

Middletown

Walter S. Barber	12.50	John G. Osterhoudt	14.00
Geo. McFarland	12.50	Wilson S. Allibin	3.00
Solomon Osterhout	17.50	William Monson	11.25
Daniel H. Burr	6.50	Robert Stone	30.00
Nathaniel Mead	9.87	George Lawrence	1.50
Abm. D. S. Montonyea	3.75	Edmund Kelley Jr.	7.00
John Slawson	3.00	Warren Dimmick	3.75
Orron M. Allibin	19.75	Flras Searles	4.50
David Wight	3.00	Samuel Akerly	7.00
John Beadle	2.50	Edawrd I. Burhans	6.00
Matthew Halcott	10.00	Comms. Of Highways for damages to H. Kelley for laying road thro. His land as assessed by Jury	70.00
Wm. Dean	10.00	Expenses attending the same	15.00
Application of Commiss.	250.00

Kortright

Matthew McClarughy 19.75 Wm. McClaughry 4.00

John McDonald 14.13 David Hallock 7.00

Elisha Wetmore 7.75 Martin Keeler Jr. 11.00

Ezra T. Gibbs 6.00 Jared Goodrich 15.38

Jas. Sloan 13.13 Frederick Griffin 3.75

H. K. Willan 3.50 David Keeler 7.00

Henry Gregory 13.13 Luther Butts 5.75

Highways 25.50 Stephen H. Keeler 6.50

Asher Merwin 4.50

Roxbury

Daniel Rowland	15.00	Hosea Mead	13.75
John Ferris	16.25	Levi Mead	5.75
Edward I. Burhans	1.00	David Lynch	10.50
Evert A. Parker	3.80	Erastus Follet	4.50
William Follet	2.50	Samuel More	7.00
Amazi Slauson	7.00	Edward More & Slauson Highways	12.00
Ezekiel Preston	14.75	Ezra W. Stratton	2.00
Lewis Stratton	3.75	Orvis Mann	3.75
Alexander Daniel	8.25	Edward More	14.50
Highways	500.00

Stamford

Ebenezer Gilbert	4.50	Levi Olmsted	7.50
Bradley Lyon	7.00	Samuel H. Webster	2.00
Orrin Griffin	4.50	James Smith	16.87
James Stewart	1.00	Nathaniel Stevenson	15.12
Alexander Shaw	4.00	George Clum	1.25
Baruck Taylor	10.00	Benjamin Gilbert	8.12
Angus McDonald	3.75	Charley Griffin	3.25
William Boggs	4.00	Hugh Gammel Jr.	4.00
Abram D. Smyth	2.00	Grove Webster	10.00
Highways	11.00

Sidney

Wm. V. Webster	4.50	Wm. V. Webster	16.50
Jas. Hughston	1.00	Levi Evens	13.75
John M. Betts	16.00	James Teed	2.00
R. P. Greene	13.75	Jeremiah Calkins	3.37
Eligah Scott	10.00	Josiah Tharker	3.75
Abel Bartlett	2.00	A.W. Whirtow	3.75
Solomon Johnston	3.75	Stephen Wool	3.75
Thomas Wilcox	1.87 ½	Henry Bradley	5.87 ½
Widow Todd	7.19	Manlius Mann	25.50
Abner Mark	10.00	Charles S. Rogers	4.00
Samuel Clark	1.00	Reuben Barto, Jr.	40.00
Nathan Hanford	20.00	Robert Houston	2.66

Tompkins

George W. Briggs	12.50	John Bullock	8.62 ½
Nathaniel Cook	8.00	Moses S. Ogden	12.37 ½
Joseph S. Babcock	16.75	Peter Pine	14.87
Darius Maples	9.12	John S. Ames	4.52
Henry Flynt	4.37	Stephen VanSchoyck	14.37 ½
Marshal R. Hulse	11.50	Francis W. Frasier	2.00
Jonas P. Frasier	2.00	Eli Loveland	2.00
Evans & Peters	2.00	Jonas P. Frasier	10.00
Henry Axtell	2.00	Benjamin Whitaker	2.00
Eben G. Orsen	2.00	Jonas P. Frasier	10.00
Shubler Merrills	48.00	11 Jurors Sworn on a road thru Shuble Merril Lands	16.50
John Megan & Caleb Smith Justices	43.00	Orrin More, Const.	3.00
Highways	200.00

Walton

Platt Townsend	15.00	Bennet Beardsley	5.50
T. S. St. John	5.75	Cyrus St. John	3.50
Joshua Pine	1.00	Thomas J. Ogden	2.00
Benjamin B. Eells	6.42	Walter Hanford	5.50
Thomas Marvin	15.62 ½	Levi Hanford Jr.	16.25
Everitt Guild	16.25	Alvah Rowell	3.75
Allen Mead	6.98	Thomas Noble	10.00
Matthew Davis	10.00	Abram Beebe	2.00
Samuel Eells, Jr.	6.25	Samuel Hanford	.75

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware held at their room in the Village of Delhi on Tuesday the 15^th day of November in the year One thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six, Present as follows:

Andes Marcust T. Peake Kortright Luther Butts

Bovina James Cowan Masonville Darius Smith

Colchester Charles Knapp Meredith William Jackson

Davenport Abijah Paine Middletown George H. Sands

Delhi William Millard Roxbury Daniel Rowland

Franklin John Edgerton Sidney John M. Betts

Hancock Thomas J. Hubble Stamford Grove Webster

Harpersfield Stoddard Stevens Tompkins Darius Maples

Hamden Harry P. Chase Walton Jeter Gardiner

Thereupon Darius Maples of Tompkins was duly chosen Chairman and Ezekiel Preston of Roxbury, Clerk.

The Board then proceeded to choose by ballot three Superintendents of the Poor for the ensuing year and the ballots having been taken and counted it appeared that Jabez Bostwick, James Cavin and Guerdon H. Edgerton were duly chosen on the part of said Board, and on comparing the nomination of Supervisors with the nomination of Superintendent made by the Judges of the County Courts of the said County they were found to agree in the above mentioned names. ~ ~ ~ Thereupon, Jabez Bostwick, James Cavin and Guerdon H. Edgerton were declared duly appointed.

The Chairman announced the appointment of the following Committees:

On Constables & Justices

Mr. Hubble, Knapp & Rowland

Equalizing assessment rolls

Mr. Knapp, Williams, Sands, Edgerton & Cowan

To Settle with Loan Officer

Mr. Williams, Stevens & Jackson

To Settle with Treasurer

Mr. Gardiner, Hubble & Peake

Mr. Maples, Gardiner, Hubble Settle with resp. Towns

Mr. Jackson, Chase & Millard " "

Mr. Knapp, Peake & Sands " "

Mr. Paine, Stevens & Butts " "

Mr. Smith, Betts & Edgerton " "

Mr. Rowland, Webster & Cowan " "

Motion to Adjourn until Tomorrow Morning ½ past 8 o'clock and was carried.

Mr. Paine took leave of (?) during the time of the first meeting.

Wednesday, November 16^th.

Board met pursuant to adjournment and after auditing Sundry accounts against the County the Mo. made to adjrn. and did adjourn until 2 p.m. Met according to the above.

Mr. Stevens from the Committee appointed to settle with the Loan Officers reported as read (see report on file) and the report was agreed to by the Board.

On Mo. of Mr. Knapp that a Committee be appointed to examine the Jail as respects repairs and likewise concerning a prisoner who needs clothing and is unable to clothe himself. Said Coms. Smith, Jackson & Stevens . Said Comms. Report verbally Ten Dollars for the aforesaid repairs $12.30 for clothing the above prisoner and the Jailor have $2.50 per week for Board. Passed.

Same Committee be appointed to examine the State and situation of the poor House. Said Commrs. Smith, Gardiner, Webster, Jackson & Chase.

Stevens. Committee to Settle with the County Treasurer report as read (see report on file) and was agreed to by the Board.

$5,000

Friday morning November 18^th, 1836 met pursuant to adjt.

On Mo. of Mr. Edgerton, Resolved that Five thousand dollars be levied for the poor fund and that the excise money be for the benefit of the poor fund.

$4,300

Resolved that Four thousand Five Hundred dollars be raised for defraying ordinary County Expenses.

Resolved that the Collector of the Town of Hancock receive 2 ½ per ct. on non resident lands.

On Mo. of Mr. Hubbell that the returns of the Overseers of Highways on Nonresident Lands be attached to the same No. of Lot on the Assr. Rolls of Hancock, Walton & Middletown.

Gardner from Commr. To Settle with Superintendents of the poor House "See Report on File" ~ ~

Knapp from the Commr. To Equalize Asses. Rolls of the said towns in the County of Delaware. "See report on file" ~ ~

Webster from Comm. To Examine repairs to be made in the County Clerks Office. Report $12.00 under direction of the Clerk. Passed.

On Mr. Edgerton Resolved that the Superintendents of the Poor house be instructed to bring back to their County all such insane persons that are now in the Asylum in the City of New York as soon as the ensuing Spring and prepare a suitable place for their safe keeping.

Resolved that William Milland of Delhi be authorized to effect an Insurance upon the Court House for Twenty five Hundred dollars and the Jail for one thousand dollars.

Adjourned until the 20^th day of December next at 10 a.m. E. Preston, Clk.

December 20^th, 1836

Met pursuant to adjournment. All members except James Cowan of Bovina. After auditing a few sundry accounts adjourned until tomorrow morning.

Wednesday December 21^st 1836 met pursuant to adjt.

List of County Accounts for 1836

Audited First and Second Meeting.

Allibin, Orson W.	5.00	Ames, John S.	13.97
Arnold, Francis H.	6.37	Akerly, Simeon Wolf	20.00
Butts, Luther 10.40 13.00	23.60	Betts, John W. 13.00 11.00	24.00
Burr, Cyrus	1.08	Baxter, George	4.00
Becker, Henry T.	1.62	Bristol, Nathan	3.32
Butts, Rufus T.	1.19	Boothe, Jesse	2.40
Burham, Edward I.	6.29	Beardsley, Bennett	5.25
Beadle, John 2.86 1.33 10.97 11.87	27.03	Bradley, Henry	1.00
Burham, Edward D.	2.16	Bostwick, Jabez 29.72 20.00	49.72
Cowan, James 10.00 .60	10.60	Chase, Harry P. 9.54 7.54	17.08
Cooke, Silas	2.00	Clauson, William	1.00
Clinton, Anson	4.97	Cole, James W. & Co.	43.37 ½
Case, David	6.69	Cavin, James	20.50
Cooke, Silas	2.25
Daniel, Alexander	1.68	Drake, Hiram	1.32 ½
Douglass, Amos	14.91	Donaldson, James	1.31
Drake, Hiram	.63	Day, William H. & Co.	2.00
Dean, Nathaniel	2.53	Downer, John	16.44
Edgerton, John 11.40 9.40	20.80	Eells, Saml. Jr.	1.02
Elwood, R. W.	3.37	Edick, S. H.	6.13
Edgerton & Perry	22.12	Edgerton, Gurdon H.	11.75
Edgerton, Nathan	29.47
Fuller, Cyrus B. 4.87 2.71 3.72	11.30	Ferrells, William	14.17
Gardiner, Jetur 11.40 9.40	20.80	Goodrich, Jared ( ? )	12.00
Gregory, John H.	6.00	Gilchrist, Andrew 1.00 1.60	2.60
Goodman, Simeon, Jr.	2.02	Goodrich, Richard W.	8.90
Greene, Stephen	7.82	Grant, Duncan J.	122.39
Goodman, Simeon, Jr.	1.62	Goodrich, R. W.	1.09
Gilbert, William	8.87	Greene, Stephen	2.52
Grant, Nathaniel S.	9.45
Hubble, Thomas J. 18.00 15.72 14.00	47.72	Higgins, Samuel D.	8.00
Heath, Thomas	3.00	Howel, Jacob	4.18
Halcott, Matthew	1.87	Hughston, James	5.80
Hughston, James	4.42	Hall, Asahel	10.51
Jackson, William 9.80 .54 7.80	18.14	Jennings, Beach	6.08
Knapp, Charles 11.60 7.67 9.60	28.87	Keeler, Martin	10.00
Lusk, Simon	16.27	Leonard, Charles	1.00
Lanson, Lyman	2.00	Lewis, Reuben	.99
Leal, D. M.	8.50	McDonald, Duncan	8.53
Maples, Darius 14.20 1.86 12.20	28.26	Millard, William 8.20 6.20	14.40
Mills, Benona	3.12	Mason, William	4.64
Maynard, Isaac	8.53	Meriam, Charles I.	1.62 ½
Maison, Charles 2.31 3.32 2.38	8.01	Maison, William 0.97 1.39 .60	2.96
Moses, Thorn 76.10 2.43	78.53	More, Orrin	2.00
More, Greene	580.87
Ostram, John, Jr.	29.82	Osterhout, Zachariah	6.39
Peake, Marcus T. 10.60 8.60	19.20	Paine, Abijah 5.00 9.00	14.00
Paine, Anthony M.	1882	Paine & Clark	75.00
Preston, Ezekiel	85.00	Parker, Amasa J. D. Atty	203.72
Pine, Peter	8.00
Rowland, Daniel 12.80 10.80 4.76	28.36	Rosekram, Henry W.	1.11
Smith, Darius 14.80 10.80	25.60	Sands, George H. 12.40 Wolf 20.00 1.32 10.40	44.12
Stevesn, Stoddard 12.40 10.40	22.80	St. John, William W.C.	20.00
Seacord, John	4.65	Sands, Edward	6.79
Steele, A. W.	8.13	Stewart, Seman	7.51
Steele, Osmand N.	1.24	Smith, Phineas W.	.94
Sheldon, Crawford B. 167.16 Clerks Offfice Books 15.00	182.16	Stoddard & Olmsted	8.25
Sheldon, Wm. B. to assessor his appt. last year	15.92	Sliter, Nicholas	9.87
Steele, Ebenezer & Jacobs	6.07
Thompson, John	0.84	Thomas, Nelson	5.00
Tuttle, Solomon	16.50	Trotter, William	11.45
Turner, John	4.75	Treasurer of the New York Deaf & Dumb institution for the Support of Emeline Banks	35.42
Webster, Grove	11.60	Webster, Grove	1.08
Webster, Grove	9.60	Wheats, William	1.27
Walmsley, William	0.86	Wheeler, James	1.00
William, Nathan W.	3.75	Wright, Ebenezer	0.86
Wright, Henry	12.18	Wright, Edwin	16.38
Yeoman, John I.	14.00

Resolved that Mr. William Millard of Delhi came the necessary repairs to be made on the Court House and make his charges accordingly.

That Ezekiel Preston have Eighty dollars for his services as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. And Five dollars for recording old papers of last year.

Town accounts audited at the first meeting of Supervisors 1836.

Andes

Archibald McNaught	13.12	George Thompson	16.25
Milton P. Hawley	7.50	Marcus T. Peake	5.00
Robert Mason	13.00	Francis O'Connor	15.00
Jacob A. Shaver	20.00	Wm. C. Benedict	4.00
James Brezee	8.50	John Dixon	1.50
M. T. Peake	2.50	Peter Drummond	4.00
Daniel Hawks	5.50	Cyrus Burr	1.00
E. R. Washburn	1.00	E. R. Washburn & E.Sands	1.19
Daniel H. Burr	2.00	Peter Penet	16.84
Nicholas Sliter	4.50	Robert Dowie	4.50
Wm. Smythe	3.75	John M. London	3.75
Bounty on Wolf to G. H. Sands	10.00	Henry Worden	1.32
Comms. Of Highways	250.00

Bovina

James Renwick	13.75	William Seacord	13.75
Robert McFarland	13.75	John M. Landen	6.00
John R. Wilber	6.00	John Seacord	9.00
Samuel Storie	3.75	John T. Wilber	5.50
Daniel H. Burr	1.00	Walter Coulter	4.50
Isaac Aikin	7.00	James Scott 1835	3.00
John Hume	1.00	Thomas McFarland	5.75
Joel S. Brush	13.75	James Cowan	9.02
Andrew Cowan	1.50	Malcolm McNaught	1.00

Colchester

Henry Shaver	5.00	Barna Radiker	9.19
Orsanny Lakin	7.00	Henry R. Howell	3.00
Isaac Miller	2.00	Richard L. White	13.12
Joseph Woolsey	15.25	John R. Radiker	24.37
Rennsalaer W. Elwood	6.00	James W. Knapp	1.50
James Elwood	7.25	Isaac W. Horton	3.75
Charles Knapp	6.37	Phillip Bassett	13.37
Charles Knapp 2 W. Cats	4.00	Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Davenport

Abijah Paine 5.00 Jesse Booth 11.75

Abram Becker 11.50 Andrew Parish 3.00

Jabez Hitchcock 5.50 J. Soule 10.25

Wm. Fairchild 2.50 John Barce 15.00

Johathan Brewer 15.00 Jeremiah T. Maning 3.75

Stephen Olmsted 18.88 Henry T.Enieck 13.00

Peter Smith 15.00 Garet Burtis 2.50

John W. Michael 8.75 Road Assessment 14.50

Comm. Of Highways 250.00

Delhi

William Milland	5.62	Anthony M. Paine	18.13
George W. McIntosh	15.63	Erastus Frisbie	16.26
Charles Post	15.63	Amasa J. Parker	5.00
Simeon Goodman, Jr.	1.00	Asa C. Howland	6.50
Ferris Jacobs	5.50	David B. Cure	7.00
Rodney Durham	7.00	Samuel Gordon	3.00
E. F. Wheeler	3.75	Robert Parker	3.75
Nathaniel Hathaway	2.50	Nelson R. Wheeler	13.00
Jesse Palmer	5.00	Erastus Root	1.50
Ebr. Steele	3.00	Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Franklin

John Edgerton 4.37 Charles A. Hine 3.75

John Thompson 1.00 Erastus Edgerton 13.12

Roger Case 16.38 Fitch Ford 6.50

William Wheat, Jr. 1.00 Abiel Drake 12.50

William S. Noble 15.38 Elijah Tupper 2.00

Levi Hale 2.00 Job Mills 5.00

Bertiah Bower 7.00 Silas Cooke 7.50

Bearh Jennings 5.00 Jacob Hoel 0.75

Comm. Of Highways 10.00

Hamden

Harry P. Chase	8.12	Witter Wood	11.25
James Renwick, Jr.	11.25	M. S. Bostwick	14.00
Walter Chase	3.25	Rowlan Robinson	47.00
Tinnie Bellows	0.78	R. M. Goodrich	14.00
B. Hawley	5.50	Peter Laundt	14.00
John Renwick	4.00	William Marow	5.75
Orbin Barber	6.00	Hiram P. Goodrich	5.25
Comm. Of Highways	50.09

Hancock

George H. Baxter	1.00	N. W. Williams	4.00
John Doyle, John Hawks Jr $10.00	2.00	Wm. G. Lakin	14.25
Josiah Martin	18.75	Edwin Groves	11.00
John Knight	10.62	Jacob F. Clauson	2.00
Charles Leonard	3.00	Tenar Lewis	14.35
John Doyle	11.00	Jonas Lakin	2.00
James Wheeler	6.37	Nelson Thomas - Panther	5.00
Thos J. Hubble	5.00	William Clauson	3.75
Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Harpersfield

Thomas Hanford	1.50	John Hanford	2.50
Mial C. Pierce	2.00	Nathan Bristol	4.00
I. B. Bragg	15.18	I. Birdsall	4.93
John Flamsburgh, Jr.	11.88	Hiram Graves 5.75 3.00 4.38	13.13
Ramond Copley	6.50	James Bristol	13.13
James Brcet	1.28	John Wool 1.00 11.25	12.25
H. R. Hamilton	5.00	Stoddard Stevens	10.63
Alonzo B. Wilcox	1.50	Comm. Of Highways	18.50

Kortright

H. K. Willard	5.50	S. H. Keeler	5.50
Asher Merwin	6.50	Duncan McDonald	3.75
Luther Butts	5.63	Ezra T. Gibbs	6.00
Matthew McClaughry	10.75	Henry Gregory	15.00
James Sloan	15.62	John McDonald	12.25
Elisha Whetmore	25.00	M. Keeler, Jr.	9.00
James Donaldson	14.75	David Keeler	18.00
Wilson Butts	4.05	Wm. McClaughry	14.75
Comm. Of Highways	170.00

Middletown

Horace Elliss	13.75	Samuel Akerly	15.00
Milow W. Hubble	11.00	Gritman Elwood	2.00
Daniel H. Burr	3.00	Timothy Corbin	18.06
Solomon Osterhout	11.50	Charles Terry	4.75
Madrion Dean	3.75	John E. Osterhout	4.00
Edmund Kelley, Jr.	6.00	A.D. S. Montanya	2.00
E. Sloat	5.00	David Osterhout	2.00
Samuel Vermilyia	11.25	John Beadle	1.00
Matthew Halcott	2.50	Geo. H. Sands 8.25 13.10	21.35
Warren Dimmick	11.00	Nelson P. Chamberlin	16.00
Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Masonville

Henry P. Ensighn	14.92	Wait Cannon	4.32
Erasmus Parker	3.50	Andrew W. Humphrey	7.00
Collins Brown	5.00	James K. Robbins	6.50
M. R. Hulce	3.00	Phineas W. Smith	8.50
Elihu S. Hurlburt	11.87	Charles McKinnon	2.00
Quartus Brown	16.25	Leonard Bunday	3.00
Samuel C. Pettingill	7.50	Nathan Parker	13.87
Horace Kentfield	2.50	Lott Cook	4.50
Josiah D. Chambers	1.00	Comm. Of Highways	8.00

Meredith

Philo Olmsted	3.00	Henry Cady	3.00
Isaac Burr	8.25	I. D. Wells	18.13
Amasa Fox	18.12	Thompson Paine	2.00
Martin Leet	1.72	David Siver	10.00
William Jackson	8.63	Nathaniel Stewart	18.62
Samuel A. Law	5.00	Learned Cottrill	19.87
Baldwin	4.98	Milton Bostwick	6.50
Amasa P. Mann	8.50	Comm. Of Highways	38.00

Roxbury

John Ferris 13.75 Hosea Mead 13.75

Edward I. Burhans 19.50 Ezekiel Preston 26.25

Philetus Scudder 6.00 Robert B. More 3.75

David Lynch 4.50 Erastus Follet 9.00

Samuel M. Howel 3.75 Matthew Daniel 3.50

David T. Beers 4.00 Alexander Daniel 2.50

Daniel Rowland 4.38 Alexander Daniel 2.50

Matthew Daniel 2.00

Stamford

Nathaniel Stevenson	17.00	James Smith	11.87
Barriuk Taylor	11.25	Benjamin Gilbert	11.25
Ebenezer Gilbert	16.50	George Sturges	17.00
Bradley Lyon	30.00	Duncan McDonald	6.00
Hugh Gemmel	2.00	Abram D. Smyth	2.00
Levi Olmsted	4.00	Angus McDonald	3.75
Bishop Freeman	2.00	Grove Webster	5.75
Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Sidney

Elijah Scott	19.50	Rufus P. Greene	15.00
Henry P. Bradley	18.25	William V. Weber	18.00
John Blowers & Caleb Wood	10.00	Abner Mack	40.66
Thomas Wilcox	3.38	Josiah Thatcher	8.00
William E. Webster	1.88	Charles S. Roger	2.00
William S. Johnson	11.00	Wm. N. Seymour	5.00
Jeremiah Calkins	15.50	Caleb C. Wells	16.50
Robert W. Hughston	3.75	George Thatcher	2.75
Abner Johnson	5.25	John M. Betts	6.25
Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Tompkins

Simon Lusk 14.37 Moses S. Ogden 12.50

Moses Axtell 13.12 John Bullock 2.00

Henry Flynt 5.00 Charles Townsend 7.00

Geo. W. Briggs 10.00 Benjamin Cannon 16.00

Nathaniel Cook 3.00 M. R. Hulce 2.50

Darius Maples 7.87 Stephen VanSchaick 13.50

Peter Pine 14.50 I. S. Babcock 18.33

Benjamin Whitaker 2.00 Charles Greenman 4.00

Francis Greenman 1.00 Job Greenman 2.00

James Grant 2.00 Jacob Walley 2.00

Jesse Palmer 1.00 William R. Owen 6.00

John Teed 6.00 Comm. Of Highways 150.00

Walton

T. S. St. John	4.75	Robert North, Jr.	13.75
Platt Townsend	15.37	Walter Hanford	2.00
Benjmain Beers	4.00	William Gay	7.50
Cyrus St. John	12.25	Joshua Pine	19.37
A. Rowell	8.00	Thomas J. Ogden	2.00
Everett Guild	14.37	Bennet Beardsley	9.25
John Taylor	2.00	Samuel Eells, Jr.	10.00
Jeter Gardiner	4.37	William St. John Wolf	10.00
Comm. Of Highways	200.00

Valuation of the Real & Personal Estate in the County of Delaware and the Tax thereon in 1836.

Towns	Real	Personal	Debts	Agte.	Schools	Poor	Highway	Superv.	Treas.	Aggreg.
Andes	161.746	111.40		172.886	96.85		250.00	165.72	515.26	930.98
Bovina	123.483	167.06		140.189	70.13			119.02	382.82	501.84
Colchester	125.509	180.39	337	143.548	74.19		250.00	123.18	414.22	787.40
Davenport	127.671	51.80	77.02	140.453	92.74		250.00	163.88	462.96	876.84
Delhi	201.037	157.20	53.63	222.120	110.14		250.00	138.77	676.94	1075.71
Franklin	310.937	461.20	54.73	562.530	144.58		10.00	133.25	946.25	1089.50
Hamden	129.982	88.75	10.69	139.924	63.04		50.00	163.12	411.33	624.45
Harpersfield	181.159	116.09	Ad 5%	194.768	100.87		18.50	95.57	591.72	705.79
Hancock	117.528	35.30	5 prct	121.058	39.91		250.00	124.10
Kortright	207.150	112.32	10 prct	219.182	149.68		170.00	172.05	711.57	1963.62
Masonville	962.82	59.80	10 prct	102.260	59.65			130.74	329.21	459.95
Meredith	212.461	366.63	117.32	260.856	86.23		38.00	137.32	715.98	891.30
Middletown	162.474	95.90	5 prct	172.064	124.15		250.00	150.91	515.26	916.17
Roxbury	270.363	308.50		301.213	167.44			167.44	834.02	1001.46
Stamford	177.060	171.40	8 prct	194.200	83.20		250.00	147.37	596.30	993.67
Sidney	160.603	65.73	14.23	168.599	73.46		250.00	222.67	517.57	990.34
Tompkins	217.240	210.50		238.290	92.43		150.00	273.13	682.96	1107.09
Walton	205.970	355.84	16.66	243.220	87.10		200.00	149.00	649.01	978.01

Motion made and adjourned. Sine Die. E. Preston,

Clerk

1837

At a Meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware held at their room in the Court House in the Village of Delhi on Tuesday the fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty Seven.

Present as follows:

Andes Marcus T. Peake Kortright Andrew Gilchrist

Bovina James Cowan Meredith Sylvester Rich

Colchester John H. Gregory Masonville Quartus Brown

Davenport Thompson Paine Middletown Gritman Elwood

Delhi William Millard Roxbury Thomas Keator

Franklin John Edgerton Stamford Orrin Griffin

Harpersfield Stoddard Stevens Sidney Wm. V. Webster

Hamden Donald Shaw Tompkins Darius Maples

Hancock Edwin Graves Walton Jeter Gardiner

Thereupon, Darius Maples of Tompkins was duly chosen Chairman & Freeman Wheeler of Delhi, Clerk.

The Chairman then announced the following Committees:

Equalizing Assessment Rolls

Messrs. Stevens, Gardiner, Gregory, Cowan & Edgerton

To Settle with Superintendants

Millard, Stevens & Shaw

To Settle with the Treasurer

Peake, Webster & Rich

To Audit Justices & Constables Accounts

Edgerton, Griffin & Ellwood

To Settle with Loan Officers

Cowan, Graves & Keator

To Settle with Resptive Towns

Messrs. Maples, Gardiner & Graves

" Paine, Gilchrist & Stevens

" Shaw, Rich & Millard

" Brown, Webster & Edgerton

" Keator, Griffin & Cowan

" Gregory, Peake & Ellwood

The Board then proceeded to choose by ballot three Superintendants of the Poor for the ensuing year. And the ballots having been counted it appeared that Jabez Bostwick Gurden H. Edgerton and Simeon Goodman.Jr. were duly nominated. And on comparing the nomination of the Supervisors with the nomination of Superintendants made by the Judges of County Courts of the County of Delaware, they were found to agree in the above mentioned names:

Thereupon, Jabez Bostwick, Gurden H. Edgerton & Simeon Goodman, Jr. were declared duly appointed.

The Board then proceeded to the appointment of Commissioners of Deeds according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.

On Motion the Board adjourned to 8 o'clock Wednesday morning.

Wednesday Morning 8 o'clock. Board met pursuant to adjournment, and proceeded to audit Town accounts.

The Chairman appointed the following Committees:

To Examine the Jail and Report

William Millard, Donald Shaw & Andrew Gilchrist

To Visit the Poor House and Report

Messrs. Shaw, Gilchrist, Brown, Webster & Keator

The Committee to examine the jail by W. Millard reported that the Jail needed some repairs. The report was accepted and it was Resolved that the jailer be authorized to repair the same before the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Board adjourned to 8 o'clock Thursday morning.

Thursday Morning. Board met pursuant to adjournment.

The Committee for Equalizing Assessment Rolls reported by Stoddard Stevens that the assessment of the Town of Delhi be increased ten percent, Davenport ten per cent, Kortright eight percent & Stamford five percent. The report was accepted and agreed to.

The Chairman then appointed a Committee consisting of John H. Gregory, Stoddard Stevens and Orrin Griffin to examine generally into the affairs of the Commissioners for Loaning certain monies of the United States of the County of Delaware.

Adjourned till 8 o'clock Friday morning.

Friday Morning. Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Committee to settle with Loan Officers reported by James Cowan. Report accepted as on file.

The Committee to examine the affairs of the Commissioners for Loaning certain monies of the United States of the County of Delaware report by John H. Gregory. Report accepted as on file.

The Committee to Settle with the Treasurer report by Marcus T. Peake. Report accepted as on file.

On Motion of Edwin Graves.

Resolved that the collector of the Town of Hancock be allowed two and a half percent on the value of the non resident lands of said Town.

On Motion of John Edgerton.

Resolved that Five Thousand Dollars be raised for the Poor fund and that the excise money be added.

On Mo. Resolved that John Griffin be recommended as a candidate for Superintendent of the Poor.

On Motion of Mr. Millard.

Resolved that the Court House be insured for $2000 and the Jail for $1000 by the Saratoga Mutual Insurance Company and that the Clerk of the Board procure such insurance.

On Motion of Mr. Gilchrist.

Resolved that the assessment of the Town of Kortright be increased only six percent.

On Motion of O. Griffin, seconded by T. Keator.

Resolved that the people of the several Towns of this County be requested at their annual Towns meetings to take into consideration the propriety of Petitioning the Legislature of this State to abolish the Poor House system of this County.

On Motion of Gilchrist.

Resolved that the above resolution be published in the Delaware Gazette.

On Motion of S. Stevens.

Resolved that the Town Clerks have $8 compensation for their services as Clerks.

On Motion. Adjourned till 12^th December at 10 o'clock a.m.

T. W. Wheeler, Clerk

Tuesday December 12, 1837

Board met pursuant to adjournment all members present except Edwin Graves of Hancock. After auditing sundry accounts against the County. Adjourn till Wednesday morning.

Wednesday morning. Met pursuant to adjournment and after auditing the county accounts passes the following Resolutions:

Resolved that the Report of the Superintendants of the Poor be published one week in the Delaware Gazette.

Resolved that Truman H. Wheeler have Eighty five Dollars for his services as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

A List of County Accounts Audited at the 2 Meetings of the Supervisors in 1837.

Akerly, William W.	20.00
Barnhart, John 2^nd (2 Wolf Bounties)	40.00	Bartow, Reuben, Jr. (Wolf)	20.00
Banks, Justus (2 Wolf)	40.00	Betts, William Jr.	20.10
Beardslee, Bennett	.87	Bradley, Henry	2.13
Betts, John M.	1.50	Brant, Nelvil H.	4.00
Booth, Jesse	.81	Baxter, George H.	15.33
Bostwick, Thad	2.00	Butts, Luther	.87 ½
Brown, Quartus	26.80
Cavin, James	7.00	Chase, Harry P.	.87 ½
Case & Salisbury	14.00	Cowan, James	19.60
Dales, A.	6.38	Donaldson, James	2.29
Decker, William	6.87	Dickinson, Isaac W.	7.25
Downer, John	11.97	Douglas, Amos	19.50
Eells, Samuel	3.00	Edgerton, John	19.82
Edgerton, Nathan	7.44	Edgerton, Gurden H.	99.26
Edgerton & Perry	5.72	Ellwood, Getman	23.20
Frisbie, William	7.75	Foot, Russell	1.86
Gordon, Samuel	201.28	Gilbert, Humphrey	5.00
Gilbert, William	1.22	Graves, Edwin Wolf	2000
Goodman, Simeon, Jr.	16.04	Grant, Duncan, Jr.	124.50
Graves, Edwin	18.00	Gregory, John H.	23.00
Griffn, Orrin	27.04	Gilchrist, Andrew	22.20
Gardiner, Jeter	19.86
Heath, Thomas	3.46	Howe & Jarvis	2.00
Hodge, Ferris	6.33	Hawley, I. M.	3.87
Hubbell, Thomas J.	4.00	Hulce, Marshall R.	2.12
Harpur, Samuel	.91
Judson, Charles	6.00	Jackson, Elias	8.25
Jennings, Beach	11.10
Knapp, Charles	2.41	Knapp, I. W.	1.25
Keator, Thomas	21.60
Leonard, Charles	5.60	Leet, Martin	3.21
Martin, Thomas	0.00	Martin, Josiah	4.88
McDonald, D.	1.13	Mills, Benoni	5.54
Mason, William	8.17	Morse, Richard	8.08
Mason, Charles	9.57	Morenus, Jermiah T.	6.15
Metcalf, Ira	4.72	Moore, Orrin	1.25
Morse, Richard	.75	Marvin, Case H.	5.13
Maynard, Isaac	12.36	Moore, Thorn	135.86
Moore, Green	467.84	Maples, Darius	58.31
Millard, William	54.32
Nash, Daniel D.	32.00
Leal, Daniel M.	27.97	Lusk, Simon	9.57
Peake, Warren L.	2.16	Peet, H. P. or N. Y. Deaf & Dumb Asylum	38.97
Peake, Marcus T.	18.01	Paine & Clarke	37.88
Paine, Anthony M.	24.82	Pine, Peter	10.00
Osterhout, Zacharius	2.00	Ostrom, John, Jr.	1.00
Paine, Thompson	17.60
Rowland, Daniel	4.67	Rich, Sylvester	15.20
Sheldon, Crawford B.	144.89	Seacord, John	3.66
Scutt, Horace	1.84	Smith, P. White	.54
Steel, Andrew M.	20.00	Stewart, Lyman	2.83
Sands, Samuel G.	11.54	Stevens, Stoddard	23.56
Shaw, Donald	16.00
Turner, John	2.75	Thomas, Moses 2^nd	4.82
Trotter, William	4.61	Tuttle, Solomon	2.24
Whitney, Henry	14.76	Wright, Edwin	8.16
Washburn, E. B.	.25	Wilcox, Thomas	4.26
Waters, William	1.42	Webster, Grove	1.08
Wood, William B.	3.80	Willcox, Alonzo B.	1.25
Wright, Edwin	.86	Webster, William V.	22.00

1837

Town Accounts Audtited at the First Meeting of the Supervisors.

Andes

Peter Penet	17.75	Jacob A. Shaver	12.00
Robert Mason	21.50	William Smyth	3.50
Peter Dumond	6.00	M. T. Peake	4.50
Wm. C. Benedict	2.00	Daniel Hawks	1.00
E. Sands	1.00	William Shaver	11.25
George Thompson	13.12 ½	E. B. Washburn	1.00
John Murdock	11.25	Jas. Byers	13.00
A. Clinton	3.75	M. T. Peake, Supv.	6.00
R. Morse	3.75	Wm. W. Akerly (Wolf)	10.00
Simeon Akerly (Wolf)	10.00	Chas. Knapp	2.00
Comm. Of Highways	100.00	James Smith	5.50
John S. Davis	2.00

Bovina

Samuel Gordon	14.15	Duncan McNaught	14.87
Walter Coulter	11.87	Thomas Brown	11.87
John Seacord	2.00	Thomas Dennis	4.50
Andrew Cowan	2.00	Thomas McFarland Jun.	1.50
Peleg Hilton	2.25	William Graham	2.00
John B. Wilbur	6.75	Malcom McNaught	3.75
John T. Wilbur	5.00	James M. Hastings	5.50
Benjamin Tuller	3.00	John Scott	5.50
James Cowan	5.12	Com. Of Highways	143.62

Colchester

B. Pine, Clerk 12.25 Charles Spooner 3.25

Orsamus Lakin 2.00 Richard L. White 13.75

David Horton 2.00 William H. Moore 14.37 ½

Daniel Huntley 3.75 Eben Hawks 3.75

Phillip Basset 6.00 Rensalaer W. Ellwood 6.50

Francis Yeomans 2.50 George H. Phelps 4.00

Allan Knapp 2.50 Charles Knapp 11.00

Barna Radeker 14.00 John R. Radeker 14.00

John H. Gregory 8.00 Comm. Of Highways 300.00

Davenport

Thompson Paine 4.38 Jonathan Brewer 15.00

John Banner 13.75 Richard Everett 13.75

Henry TenEick 4.50 Peter Smith 7.50

David Morrell 10.50 David Goodrich 13.00

Wm. Hoyt 4.50 Jacob Soule 1.00

Nathan Olmsted 9.76 Ira Brewer 2.63

John W. Mikael 6.00 Jesse Booth 3.00

Abijah Paine .62 Comm. Of Highways 210.00

Delhi

William Millard	5.37	Anthony M. Paine	20.63
Charles Post	12.50	Erastus Frisbie	13.13
Parrack Beardslee	12.50	James G. Redfield	7.50
Thomas Arbuckle	10.00	Peter P. Wright	4.00
E. F. Wheeler	3.75	Albert Edgerton	3.75
Simeon Goodman Jun.	3.00	James A. Hughston	5.00
Freeman H. Wheeler	5.00	Mayhew McDonald	5.00
Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Franklin

Morgan C. Merritt	2.00	Joshua Whitney	3.75
Albert Hine	3.75	Ralph Daniels	10.50
Ichabod C. Foote	15.62	Fitch Ford	3.00
Harvey Adam	16.00	Wm. L. Noble	13.25
Allis Brown	23.13	John Edgerton	4.37
Beriah Bowers	2.00	Beach Jennings	14.50

Harpersfield

Stoddard Stevens	16.17	J. B. Bragg	14.87
Charles Packard	8.75	Hiram Graves	12.00
Phineas L. Bennett	8.00	I. Flamsburgh	8.13
Jeffrey C. Champlin	8.13	Orlando Mack	3.50
Alonzo B. Willcox	1.00	Joshua Bassett	6.75
Comm. Of Highways	23.88

Hancock

Asher Leonard	10.00	Charles Leonard	17.00
John Doyle	15.87	John Hawk, Jun.	12.50
Zenas Lewis	4.00	James M. Twaddle	2.00
Josiah Martin	1.25	Nathan W. Williams	12.87
William G. Lakin	2.00	James Wheeler	1.00
John Knight	11.25	Jacob F. Clawson	4.00
George Knight	2.00	James Lord 2^nd	2.00
George H. Fuller	7.00	Lallous S. Lakin	4.37
Edwin Graves	5.00	Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Hamden

Comm. Of Highways	50.00	Donald Shaw	3.75
Cyrenus Noble	12.63	James Renwick Jun.	9.37
William R. Chase	10.62	Hollam Borden	9.37
Abraham Covert	4.00	Benajah Hawley	5.50
Augustus S. Peake	4.50	Peter Laundt	30.00
John Renwick	2.00	Marcus L. Bostwick	2.00
Peter Laundt	3.00	William Mason	4.75
Nelvin H. Brant	.25	Walter Chase	1.00

Kortright

Andrew Gilchrist	5.37	Henry Gregory	11.25
James Sloan	13.12	John McDonald	14.00
Mathew McClaughry	3.75	Duncan McDonald	7.25
James Donaldson	9.00	David Keeler	10.00
Asher Merwin	12.00	Ezra F. Gibbs	7.00
Stephen H. Keeler	10.50	Marti Keeler, Jun.	9.75
William McLaughry	16.50	Comm. Of Com. Schools	8.00
Lewis Mills	4.95	Comm. Of Highways	20.00

Masonville

Thomas W. Randall	4.50	George Ketchum	3.75
George Claghorn	1.50	P. White Smith	8.00
Abram Mills	9.00	William Bixby, Jun.	11.25
Horace D. Bailey	3.25	Horace Kentfield	3.00
Harlow Bundy	6.00	Thomas B. Palmer	1.00
Nathan Parker	13.75	A. W. Humphrey	3.50
Charles McKinnon	4.50	Quartus Brown	4.37
S.C. Pettingale	8.00	Reuben Barnes	10.00
Lewis Kentfield	4.50	R. A. Thompson	7.50
Ebenezer Mills, Jun.	2.00	Wait Cannon	14.40
William V. Webster	10.00	Josiah D. Cleaveland	2.00
William Gilbert	1.65

Meredith

Sylvester Rich	5.00	Josiah D. Wells	15.50
Learned Cottrell	15.00	Nathaniel Stewart	13.75
Amasa Fox	16.25	Charles Dibble	3.50
William Sanders, Jun.	7.00	Henry Salsbury	6.50
Oliver Dutton	3.50	Milton Bostwick	4.50
Martin Leet	2.00	Amasa P. Mann	6.50
Isaac Burr	10.75	Oliver G. Butts	2.00
William C. Brownell	2.78

Middletown

Reuben Wilder	2.00	Linus W. More	2.00
G. Ellwood	10.00	Ezekiel Preston	4.00
Noah Dimmick	6.00	David C. Sliter	14.00
O. A. Alaben	1.00	Solomon Osterhout	6.50
William Morrison	9.0	Warren Dimmick	8.00
William Wight	8.00	C. B. Delemater	5.50
Florence Searles	7.00	Charles Terry	2.00
A. D. L. Montonga	3.50	Madison Dean	3.75
Horace Ellis	12.00	Thomas Elliot	12.00
Hiram Kelley	13.00	N. P. Chamberlin	18.75
Richard Morse	3.00	William Akerly	5.23
Daniel Hawks	2.00	H. D. Vanderwort	16.00
Jesse Searles	8.80	Milo W. Hubbell	21.00
John Beadle	1.00	Com. Report	250.00
David C. Sliter	14.00	Edmund Kelley	5.75

Roxbury

Thomas Keator	3.75	Edward Moses	21.90
John H. Stratton	3.75	Aruzi Slawson	8.00
Edward I. Burhans	7.25	Levi Mead	5.00
John E. Burhans	2.50	Harvey H. Cator	3.75
John L. More	13.25	Erastus Follett	5.75
John B. Gould	17.10	Ezekiel Preston	14.75
Thos M. Montgomery	2.00	Mathew Daniels	22.14
Jacob Newkirk	4.35	Henry Keator	13.12
Comm. Of Highways	134.27

Stamford

James Smith	6.00	John R. Baldwin	2.58
Hugh Gamel Jun.	8.00	Burr Silliman	4.00
Abel Squires	11.87	George Sturgess, Esq.	3.00
James Stewart	4.75	Seth L. S. Sturgess	5.00
Hugh Gamell Jun	3.00	Baruck Taylor	10.00
Bradley Lyon	4.00	Nathaniel Stevenson	1.00
Orrin Griffin	4.50	R. S. Marshall	5.25
Duncan McDonald	12.25	A. D. Smyth	3.75
Justus W. Taylor	3.75	Orrin Griffin	4.38
R. S. Marshall	0.00	Selah M. Stevens	4.00
Chas. W. Booth	20.12

Sidney

William V. Webster	6.00	Josiah Thatcher	15.25
Abner Mack	23.25	Nathan Edgerton	3.75
William S. Johnston	7.00	James Hughston	1.12 ½
Henry Bradley	2.12	Oren B. Crane	3.50
Sherman P. Johnston	6.76	Rufus P. Green	13.75
Caleb C. Wells	18.00	John B. Laurence	19.00
George Thatcher	6.40	William E. Webster	2.62 ½
Thomas Willcox	1.50	Robert J. Hughston	5.00
John M. Betts	16.25	Reuben Barto	10.00
Comm. Of Highways	284.00

Tompkins

Townsend & Thompson	2.00	Job Greenman	2.00
William K. Owen	5.00	James I. Galley	9.50
Charles Townsend	1.50	James E. Thompson	5.51
Stephen Vanschaigk	16.25	Peter Pine	14.50
William Hawley	1.50	Henry Flynt	4.37 ½
Ezekiel Wiest	10.00	George W. Briggs	4.00
John Ostrom Jun.	9.50	M. R. Hulse	16.00
Joseph L. Babcock	15.87	Darius Maples	11.50
Town Sealer	63.21	Comm. Of Highways	250.00

Walton

Platt Townsend	13.63	Bennet Beardslee	7.87
Jeter Gardner	5.38	T. L. St. John	6.50
Thomas I. Ogden	3.25	Alvah Rowell	8.25
Isaac Ogden	3.50	Benjamin White	13.75
Cyrus St. John	12.50	G. L. Mead	6.50
Robert North	14.37	Everett Guild	13.12
Allan Mead	2.00	James Berray	7.87
Thomas Marvin	2.00	Comm. Of Highways	200.00

Valuation of the Real & Personal Estate in the Tax thereon in 1837. Amount of money raised & to whom paid.

	Real	Personal	Aggt	Schools	Highways	Superv.	Treasurer	Aggt.
Andes	152.578	112.30	163.08	106.73	119.23	161.87	476.69	864.52
Bovina	105.321	168.33	12.154	71.46	143.62	101.63	354.54	671.25
Colchester	106.610	141.20	120.730	76.72	343.66	126.62	364.77	911.78
Davenport	18.978	43.00	135.613	103.85	210.00	109.88	408.97	832.70
Delhi	183.683	132.50	216.66	119.59	250.00	111.14	622.65	1103.38
Franklin	268.017	328.25	300.842	149.35	"	80.87	822.54	1052.76
Harpersfield	175.425	148.00	190.225	88.11	23.88	87.31	535.75	735.05
Hancock	116.330	38.50	120.180	45.30	395.94	114.11	365.11	920.46
Hamden	117.914	60.75	123.989	68.27	50.00	154.75	356.91	629.93
Kortright	198.808	104.88	221.852	128.09	20.00	142.44	627.03	917.56
Meredith	179.320	376.40	216.960	81.13		120.53	610.12	811.75
Masonville	100.067	53.70	105.437	64.68		137.42	302.04	504.14
Middletown	149.693	119.95	161.687	125.87	333.46	210.78	487.49	1157.60
Roxbury	237.648	317.00	269.348	144.54	134.27	148.36	767.12	1194.29
Stamford	1631.20	128.80	184.800	88.41	100.04	121.21	536.64	746.26
Sidney	159.740	67.00	166.170	80.82	284.28	161.28	510.25	1036.63
Tompkins	192.728	177.80	210.508	197.48	250.00	192.22	615.54	1255.24
Walton	179.010	360.37	215.047	88.77	273.84	120.50	617.61	1000.72

1838

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware held in their room at the Court House in the Village of Delhi on Tuesday the 13^th day of November 1838.

Present as follows:

Andes Cyrus Burr Kortright Andrew Gilchrist

Bovina James Cowan Middletown Orson M. Allabin

Colchester Jno. H. Gregory Masonville Quartus Brown

Davenport Thompson Paine Meredith Sylvester Rich

Delhi William Millard Roxbury John T. More

Franklin Jno. Edgerton Stamford Orrin Griffin

Hamden Donald Shaw Sidney Wm. V. Webster

Hancock Nathan W. Williams Tompkins Darius Maples

Harpersfield Lyman Haykes Walton Jeter Gardiner

Thereupon, Darius Maples of Tompkins was chosen Chairman and Albert Edgerton of Delhi elected Clerk.

The Chairman then announced the following Committees.

Equalizing Committee

Messrs. Griffin, Edgerton, Gardiner, Gregory and Gilchrist

To Settle with Superintendents of Poor

Messrs. Millard, More & Williams

To Settle With Loan Commissioners

Messrs. Allabin, Shaw & Haykes

To Visit Court House & Jail & Report

Messrs. Edgerton, Millard & Williams

Town Committees

Messrs. More, Allabin & Cowan

Messrs. Gilchrist, Rich & Millard

Messrs. Gardiner, Williams & Maples

Messrs. Griffin, Haykes & Paine

Messrs. Gregory, Shaw & Burr

Messrs. Edgerton, Webster & Brown

To Audit Justices and Constables Accounts

Messrs. Paine, Burr & Rich

To Settle with County Treasurer

Messrs. Cowan, Webster and Brown

To Visit Poor House & Report

Messrs. More, Brown, Haykes, Allabin and Cowan

The Board then proceeded to nominate Commissioners of Deeds and Superintendents of the Poor.

Messrs. Gurden H. Edgerton, Gideon Frisbee & Street Dutton were nominated for Superintendents. Board adjourned to eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

Wednesday Morning

Board met pursuant to adjournment. The Judges met with them to compare their nominations. Mr. Frisbee having declined being a Superintendent. Mr. J. G. Redfield had been nominated in his place by the Judges and upon a joint ballot. Whereupon it was declared that Gurden H. Edgerton, Street Dutton and James G. Redfield were duly elected Superintendents of the Poor for the ensuing year.

Commissioners of Deeds were appointed for the various Towns where there were vacancies and their names are recorded in the Book of Appointments.

The several committees then proceeded to business. A number of Town and County accounts were audited and passed the Board. The Superintendents of the Poor presented their report which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

The Board then adjourned to 8 o'clock Thursday morning.

Thursday Morning Nov. 15.

Board met pursuant to adjournment and proceeded to auditing Town and County accounts.

On Motion of N. W. Williams.

Resolved the collector of the Town of Hancock received two & a half percent on the amount of taxes on the non resident lands of that Town.

Resolutions were passed to lay a highway tax on such non resident lands as were returned by the Commissioners of Highways according to the rates of those Towns.

On Motion of Orrin Griffin.

Resolved that the pay of Coroners for holding inquests be fixed at ten dollars.

The Committee appointed to Settle with the Treasurer made a report which was accepted and is on file.

The Committee to settle with the Superintendents of the Poor made a report which was accepted and is on file.

On Motion of Andrew Gilchrist it was ordered that the Treasurer deliver to the Committee appointed to settle with him the checks of the Superintendents of the Poor now in his possession together with the clerks certificates and that the committee cancel the same upon settlement of the Books.

The Committee to examine the courthouse and jail report that they have examined the same and recommend that Green More be authorized to repair the steps at the west end of the courthouse, the stove pipe in jail and the steps at the front door in courthouse & repair the necessary back of the courthouse and to keep the courthouse locked except for publick use which report was adopted.

On Motion.

Resolved that clerk be directed to get the policy of insurance on courthouse and jail renewed.

The Board then adjourned to 8 o'clock Friday morning.

Friday Morning Nov. 16^th.

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Gen. O. Griffin from the Committee to Equalize the Assessment Rolls made the following report -

After a full examination of the several assessment rolls and a minute comparison one with another your committee recommend that 5 per cent be added to the Town of Roxbury, 5 per cent to the Town of Harpersfield, 3 per cent to the Town of Kortright and 5 per cent to the Town of Davenport, which report was adopted.

The Committee to settle with the Commissioners of U.S.D. Fund made a report which was signed and a copy of which is on file.

On Motion of John Edgerton.

Resolved that $5000 be raised for the Poor house $3500 for the contingent expenses of the County.

On Motion it was ordered that the Report of the Superintendents of the Poor be rejected.

The following Resolutions offered by Gen. Griffin were adopted.

Resolved that the board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware recommend to the Superintendents of the Poor of said County, a general and thorough reform in the whole system. That a rigid system of economy be required of the keeper, that an improvement in their diet is much needed that an introduction of barley & rice soup, would be as palatable, and more conducive to the health of the inmates than the enormous quantity of pork which is now consumed.

Resolved that the Superintendents of the Poor give notice in the Delaware Gazette of the number of children of each sex which are in the Poor House and which are in condition to be bound out and that they use their exertious to procure suitable and respectable places for the same.

Resolved that the above Resolutions be published two weeks in the Delaware Gazette.

Resolved that the Superintendents of the Poor in this County report to the Board of Supervisors at their next meeting a full and detailed account of all the expenses of the Poor in said County. Also the amount of produce raised on the Poor House farm. Also the number of neat cattle & hogs on said far. Also the amount of debts due against the same. And to whom due and present to the Board a bill of particulars of the whole expenses.

The following resolution offered by Gen. Griffin was postponed till the next meeting.

Resolved that we the Board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware recommend to the People of the several Towns of said County to petition the Legislature of this State to abolish the present poor house system in this County.

On Motion of Jno. Edgerton.

Resolved that the Board adjourn to Tuesday the 11^th of December next at 10 o'clock a.m.

Tuesday December 11^th

Board met pursuant to adjournment. All the members present.

They examined their Tax Rolls and proceeded to audit County accounts and adjourned to 8 oclock Wednesday morning.

Wednesday morning Dec. 12.

Board met and proceeded to business.

On Motion of John Edgerton.

Resolved that the Resolution passed last meeting directing the Superintendents to publish in the Delaware Gazette a list of the names of the children in the Poorhouse, be rescinded.

Resolved that the Superintendents Report be received.

The following resolution was offered by John Edgerton.

Resolved that the County Treasurer be & he is hereby authorized if it shall become necessary to pay the expenses of the County to borrow a sum of money not to exceed the amount of debts which shall be due from the County.

The ayes & noes being called for by I. T. More were ordered.

Those who voted in the affirmative are Messrs. Burr, Cowan Paine, Millard, Edgerton, Shaw, Williams, Gilchrist, Allabin, Rich, Brown, Griffin, Webster & Gardiner. 14. Those who voted in the negative are Messrs. More & Haykes. 2. Affirmatives 14, Negatives 2. So the resolution passed.

Resolved that the accounts of the Superintendents of the Poor be paid out of the poor fund.

The Committee to settle with the Treasurer brought in the checks certificates and orders which were accepted and are on file.

The Resolution submitted by Gen. Griffin at the last meeting recommending to the people of the several Towns to petition the Legislature to abolish the present Poor House system in this County was called up & the ayes & nays being called for they were taken as follows. Those who voted in the affirmative are Messrs. Cowan, Gregory, Shaw, Haykes, Gilchrist, More & Griffin. 7. Negative Messrs. Burr, Paine, Millard, Edgerton, Williams, Allabin, Brown, Webster, Gardnier & Rich. 10. So the resolution was lost.

John T. More offered a Resolution that the Board of Supervisors petition the Legislature to authorize them to sell at their discretion the Poor House farm or exchange it for some more suitable and eligible spot. They ayes & nays being called for they were ordered viz as follows.

Affirmative Messrs. Burr, Cowan, Paine, Edgerton, Shaw, Haykes, Gilchrist, Allabin, More & Gardnier. 10. Negatives Messrs. Gregory, Millard, Williams, Brown, Griffin, Webster & Rich. 7. So the resolution passed and the petition was signed by the Chairman & Clerk and sent to the Legislature.

On Mo of O. Griffin.

Resolved that the blank received from the Secretary of State to be filled with the amount & items of Town & County expenses according to a Resolution of the assembly passed in April 1838 be laid on the table.

On Mo Resolved that Albert Edgerton received Eight five Dollars for his services as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

Resolved that we adjourn sinc die.

Albert Edgerton, Clerk

A List of County Accounts Audited at the 1^st & 2^nd Meetings of Board of Supervisors in the Year 1838.

Allabin, Orson M. as Supv.	22.80	Andrews, Harry	34.38
Adams, William 2^nd Wolf Cert.	10.00
Brown, Quartus	2.22	Brown, Quartus as Supervisor	26.80
Burr, Cyrus as Supv.	19.20	Booth, Jesse	1.21
Beadle, John	3.80	Brant, Nelvin H.	1.68
Benedict, William C.	3.76	Bradley, Henry	3.34
Betts, William	7.55	Barlow, Charles	.72
Beardslee, Bennet	.74	Baxter, George H.	4.00
Bissell, Lawton M.	5.39	Betts, John M.	118.50
Bostwick, Jabez as Supervisors	23.75	Bostwick, Jabez as Judge	12.00
Copley, Heman 2^nd	46.85	Cowan, James	.60
Cowan, James as Supervisor	16.00	Chase, Wlater	.50
Cease, David	7.05	Clark, Alexander	13.39
Clark, Jacob D.	10.00
Drake, Hathaway & Elwood	7.74	Dimmick, Warren	2.07
Daniel, Alexander	1.28	Douglas, Amos	12.25
Denend, Ezra 2^nd	.97	Downer, John	9.67
Downer, John	2.04	Duton, Street, Supervisor	38.00
Ellwood, Gritman	1.56	Ellwood, R. W.	2.00
Edgerton, John	1.02	Edgerton, John as Supervisor	18.80
Edgerton, Gurden H. as Judge	7.00	Edgerton, Gurden as Supervisor	42.54
Edgerton, Nathan	3.47	Edgerton, Algert	85.00
Francisco, Richard	1.50	Frasier, Francis wolf cert.	20.00
Frasier, Jonas P. 3 wolf cert.	60.00
Goodman, Simeon	9.88	Gilchrist, Andrew	6.64
Gilchrist, Andrew as Supervisor	18.00	Gould, Griswold H.	7.51
Gardiner, Jeter	1.06	Gardiner, Jeter as Supervisor	18.80
Gregory, John A.	1.69	Gregory, John A. as Supervisor	22.80
Green, Stephen	9.24	Gordon, Saml. D. Atty.	266.54
Griffin, Frederick	1.63	Griffin, Orrin	13.14
Griffin, Orrin as Supervisor	18.40
Halsted, John	41.53	Halsted, John	6.80
Hacket, William	14.08	Huntington, Oliver	13.00
Hitt, Isaac	2.56	Hughston, James	1.00
Hitchcock, John	20.18	Howe & Jarvis	3.00
Hubbell, Chester	3.36	Haykes, Lyman as Supervisor	20.40
Jennings, Beach	9.01	Johnson, Alexander	34.65
Knight, John 1 wolf	20.00
Lusk, Simon	12.48 ½	Lewis, Reuben	1.73
Leal, Daniel M.	20.54
McFarland, David	3.63	Millard, William as Supervisor	23.20
Marshall, Robert J.	10.00	Moore, Thorn	84.54
Moore, Orrin	18.61	Mason, Charles	1.11
Mills, B.	2.62	Moore, Greene	221.56
Morse, Richard	24.07	Mason, William	5.39
Maples, Darius	1.86	Maples, Darius as Supervisor	24.40
Metcalf, Ira	4.37
Ostrom, John, Jun.	.81
Peake, Marcus T.	.81	Parker, Amasa	8.00
Paine, Clark	47.28	Paine, Thompson	.84
Paine, Thompson as Supervisor	17.60	Peake, Warren J.	.68
Paine, Ahtnony M.	32.40	Pierce, Daniel	8.45
Peet, H. P. Principal of NY Deaf & Dumb Assylum	26.42
Rogers, Charles S.	1.86	Rich, Sylvester	.48
Rich, Sylvester as Supervisor	15.20	Rowland, Daniel	4.00
Redfield, James G. as Supervisor	10.50
Stevens, Stoddard	1.20	Shaw, Donald	.59
Shaw, Donald as Supervisor	16.00	St. John, T. L. Wolf ct.	20.00
Stoores, Isaac C. 4 Wolf ct.	80.00	Stoores, J. C. & J. P. Frankin 1 wolf	20.00
Smith, P. White	6.77	Sturges, David W.	5.00
Sines, John	1.88	Seacord, John, Esq.	13.62
Steele & Cavin	8.45	Stewart, Leman	7.61
Sheldon, Crawford B.	30.00	Sheldon, Crawford B.	132.54
Treadwell, Herman	2.06	Thompson, Clinton	4.42
Trotter, William	16.59
VanDyke, Wilson	2.88
Webster, William N.	1.50	Webster, William N. as Supv.	22.00
Williams, Nathan W.	4.21	Williams, Nathan W. as Supv.	26.00
Williams, Nathan W. account	3.68	Wright, Sanford	3.50
Williams, Henry A.	10.49	Woolsey, Joseph	4.27
Wilbur, John T.	1.00	Wheeler, Nelson K.	18.00
Wilcox, Thomas	1.69

A List of Town Accounts Auditied at the First Meeting Of the Board of Supervisors in 1838.

Andes

William Smyth 8.00 Peter Drummond 8.00

Daniel Hawks 4.00 William Pearce 6.50

Ebenezer B. Washburn 1.00 Peter Penet 15.88

George Thompson 12.12 Francis O'Connor 2.00

Andrew McGibbon 5.50 Adam Wilson 8.00

John Mallock 12.50 John S. Davis 4.50

James Byers 11.00 James Smith 3.00

Jacob A. Shaver 6.50 Marcus T. Peake 2.50

Dan D. Shaver & Wm. H. More 7.50 Noah Dimmick, Jr. 2.00

John Dickson 12.50 Cyrus Burr 5.00

Robert Mason 7.00 Comm. Highways 160.00

Bovina

Isaac Atkin, Jun.	14.00	John Armstrong	5.50
Duncan McNaught	12.50	Walter Stott, Jun.	12.50
Thomas Brown	12.50	John Scott	2.00
Benj. Fuller	2.00	Walter Coulter	3.00
John I. Wilbur	3.00	Malcom McNaught	3.75
John B. Wilbur	4.00	Archd. C. Erkson	6.25
Andrew Cowan	2.25	Samuel Gordon	2.00
John Burns	6.00	John Seacord	2.00
James Cowan	5.38	Joel S. Brush	15.00

Colchester

J. W. Knapp	5.50	R. W. Ellwood	7.00
Philip Bassett	19.75	John R. Radeker	4.50
Isaac W. Horton	9.00	Harvey Dan	15.42
Barney Radeker	6.00	Enoch Horton	4.00
Richard Francisco	16.37 ½	Alfred Hunter	17.50
Robert Hormer	3.75	Daniel Huntley	3.75
Charles Spooner	2.00	Henry B. Howell	15.00
Freeman Wilson	8.00	JosiahGregory	10.50
Perry Radeker	4.50	Lewis M. Williams	5.50
Jno. H. Gregory	5.00	Comm. Highways	500.00

Davenport

Thompson Paine	5.00	Jonathan Brewer	15.00
John Banner	16.25	Jesse Booth	16.50
Ira Brewer	4.38	George C. Paine	16.37
David Morrell	8.00	Henry Ten Eick	8.00
Peter Smith	9.00	Jon W. Michael	5.00
William Hoyt	2.50	James Slade	3.00
John Sherman	9.00	Zebulon E. Goodrich	10.00
George Ford	2.50	Ira Brewer	1.50
Andrew Parish	2.00	Ira Metcalf	2.50
Charles Burr	6.00	Comm. Highways	36.00

Delhi

William Millard	5.38	Ferris Jacobs	4.50
Anth. M. Paine	21.38	Greene Moore	13.75
Parreck Beardslee	15.00	Hiram C. Conklin	19.50
Truman H. Wheeler	5.00	David McFarland	6.00
Albert Edgerton	3.75	Robert Parker	3.75
Thomas Arbuckle	16.63	James G. Redfield	1.00
Simeon Goodnough	2.00	Ebenezer Steele	6.00

Franklin

Charles T. Sands 8.00 Joel Gillet 16.87

Ichabod C. Foot 10.82 Ralph Daniels 6.00

Beach Jennings 17.50 William S. Noble 13.25

Harvey Mann 7.50 Joshua Whitney 3.75

Charles Hine 1.25 Isaac Seely 3.00

Erastus S. Edgerton 2.50 Allis Brown 11.87

Morgan C. Merritt 3.00 John Edgerton 6.25

Herman Treadwell 1.25 Comm. Highways 56.50

Hamden

Cyrenus Noble	13.37 ½	William Mason	3.75
Walter Wood	11.87	John McNee	10.62
William R. Chase	11.87	A. I. Peake	5.00
Benajah Hawley	5.00	Abram Covert	6.00
Marcus L. Bostwick	2.00	Donald Shaw	4.37
Comm. Highways	50.00

Hancock

Zenas Lewis	2.00	Samuel Doyle	8.75
John Doyle	16.00	John Knight, Jun.	3.75
Ebenezer F. Wheeler	3.75	George H. Fuller	10.00
Charles Leonard	13.12	J. M. Twaddle	13.74
Josiah Martin	6.00	Wm. G. Lakin	12.12 ½
Hiram Fish	17.75	Nathan W. Williams	13.37 ½
John Knight	10.00	John Baxter	2.00
Comm. Highways	250.00

Harpersfield

Nathan Bristol	3.75	Joseph Wool	4.00
Abijah Odell	8.75	Mathew McLaury	4.50
Michael Dayton	1.75	Smith Penfield	11.25
Joshua Bassett	1.00	Cornelius Becker	3.50
Orlando Mack	2.25	Stoddard Stevens	2.25
Jeffrey C. Champlin	1.00	Elijah Churchill	8.50
Abram Vandusen	6.00	Richard B. Gibbs	3.00
Clement Nicholas	13.50	Samuel Harpur	3.00
Phineas L. Benedict	9.38	Orris Osborne	4.00
Davis Hubbard	12.01	John W. Gibbs	3.00
John Flamsburg	2.00	Alonzo B. Wilcox	1.00
Lyman Haykes	4.38	Michael Dayton	1.00

Kortright

Andrew Gilchrist	5.00	William McLaughry	11.00
Martin Keeler, Jr.	7.00	John Hitchcock	5.00
Asher Merwin	14.38	Horace K. Millard	4.00
Stephen H. Keeler	5.50	John McDonald	12.25
Henry Gregory	13.13	James Sloane	10.00
Ezra F. Gibbs	7.00	David Keeler	8.00
Duncan McDonald	5.00	Lyman Lawson	7.00
Matthew McLaury	8.88	Comm. Highways	47.00

Masonville

William V. Webster	9.50	Thomas W. Randall	2.50
Daniel Orcutt	3.75	Hiram Mills	10.00
Charles McKinnon	2.50	Lewis Kentfield	4.50
A. H. Dean	3.75	Rufus A. Thompson	4.00
Ira Balcom	5.50	Wearam Willes	10.00
John B. Rockwell	10.00	Nathan Parker	12.50
P. White Smith	5.00	Wait Cannon	8.00
Nathaniel Dickerman	3.00	Collins Brown, Jr.	1.50
Quartus Brown	6.00

Meredith

Sylvester Rich	5.00	Josiah D. Wells	14.63
Learned Cottrell	14.75	William Jackson	13.13
David Mitchell	8.75	Amasa P. Mann	3.00
David Sivers	5.88	Charles Dibble	4.50
Charles Burr	2.00	Oliver Dutton	1.50
Isaac Burr	4.00	Silliman Harmeston	1.25

Middletown

Matthew G. Russell	13.12	Milo W. Hubbell	2.00
Cornelius B. Delameter	5.50	Zebulon Ashby, Jun.	10.50
Gritman Elwood	1.00	Cornelius Reynolds	10.00
Charles Terry	6.00	David C. Sliter	2.00
Madison Dean	3.75	Florus Searle	5.00
Anthony D. Freer	3.75	Horace Ellis	11.87
Wilson M. Allabin	6.00	Warren Dimmick	5.00
John Redmond	7.00	Peter Terry	9.00
Timothy Corbin, Jun.	14.50	Jacob Mead	6.00
Orson M. Allabin	9.30	John Bedell	1.00
Sanford Wright	.38	Luther Jackson	1.63
Comm. Highways	250.00

Roxbury

Matthew Daniel	18.78	William Gleason, Jun.	3.75
S. M. Howell	5.50	William Follet	8.00
Erastus Follet	17.74	John F. Baker	6.00
Peter Cator	3.75	Erastus Mead	2.00
Horace Ganoung	8.00	Harvey H. Keator	6.00
Jacob C. Keator	6.00	Amasa Slawson	4.00
Samuel Scudder	17.76	Roman H. Gleason	5.50
John T. More	5.00	Comm. Highways	300.00
Alexander Daniel	7.00	Levi Mead	13.75
Edward I. Burhans	4.00

Stamford

Duncan McDonald	13.50	Duncan McDonald	1.00
George Sturges	16.50	Angus McDonald	3.75
William Trotter	1.00	J. W. Taylor	3.75
Chs. W. Booth	18.13	Jas. Stewart	5.00
Donald W. Grant	8.00	R. L. Marshall	1.75
James Smyth	6.00	Baruck Taylor	10.62
Hugh Gamel	2.00	Burr Silliman	3.00
Seth J. Sturges	4.00	E. Gilbert	3.00
Orrin Griffin	8.00	Paine & Clack	1.50

Sidney

William V. Webster	6.00	Josiah Thatcher	13.87 ½
Rufus P. Green	15.00	Abner Mack	`13.75
Stephen Wood	13.75	Henry Wolcott	3.00
J. B. Laurence	12.00	Reuben Lewis	16.50
C. C. Wells	6.00	Wm. S. Johnston	6.50
W. Vandyke	4.38	R. S. Hughston	4.38
Abner Johnston	4.00	Henry Bradley	5.75
Wm. Hughston	5.00	Evander Odell	1.50
Sluman Wattles	4.50	W. E. Webster	4.50
Richard Bruce	2.63	Comm. Highways	43.00

Tompkins

Jesse Palmer	6.00	Simon Lusk	13.12 ½
Benjamin Hathaway	2.50	James J. Galley	2.00
John Ostrom, Jun.	2.00	Erastus Edick	5.00
Moses Axtell	6.00	Marshall R. Hulse	13.38
Stephen H. Edick	13.20	Oliver Huntington	18.33
John Teed	13.12 ½	Stephen H. Edick	14.00
Henry Flint	5.00	S. D. Higgins	5.50
E. St. John	3.50	Jacob Hathaway	7.00
Ezekiel Wiest	2.00	Jonas P. Frasier	30.00
Francis W. Frasier	12.00	H. Stoors & Frasier	10.00
Isaac C. Stoors	42.00	Job Greenman	2.00
Jospeh S. Babcock	5.00	Darius Maples	6.50
Comm. Highways	200.00

Walton

Bennet Beardslee	5.25	Everett Guild	13.12 ½
Platt Townsend	12.37 ½	Thos. J. Ogden	3.75
James Berray	14.25	Alvah Rowell	18.50
T. S. St. John	7.50	G. S. Mead	16.25
Cyrus St. John	14.00	Benjamin White	14.37
Robert North	13.12	Jeter Gardiner	16.00
Isaac Ogden	3.50	Comm. Highways	200.00

Valuation of the Real and Personal Esate in the County of Delaware in the Year 1838.

Amt. Of money raised & to whom paid.

	Real	Personal	Aggregate	School	Highways	Superv.	Treasr.	Amt.of Tax
Andes	159.036	116.00	170.636	266.83	160.00	145.30	514.23	1073.45
Bovina	106.244	14.72	123.716	178.65		113.63	353.44	644.42
Colchester	105.805	124.55	118.260	191.81	500.00	15.54	384.98	1229.20
Davenport	122.564	84.50	137.564	259.02	36.00	142.50	409.86	838.90
Delhi	210.942	248.60	235.802	298.97		123.64	666.35	1086.72
Franklin	265.736	339.65	299.701	373.37	56.50	112.61	816.49	1358.97
Hamden	120.217	68.00	127.017	170.67	50.00	78.87	397.47	683.64
Hancock	113.351	31.00	116.451	113.28	250.00	132.36	346.93	842.54
Harpersfield	175.165	157.50	200.460	220.27		114.77	563.72	898.76
Kortright	203.618	94.84	219.495	320.23	47.00	123.14	623.29	1113.66
Masonville	994.72	49.80	104.452	161.70		102.00	304.26	567.96
Meredith	181.900	334.80	215.380	202.82		78.39	602.28	883.49
Middletown	156.385	188.78	175.263	314.67	250.00	134.30	529.34	1227.31
Roxbury	232.713	283.00	2740.63	361.35	300.00	153.28	786.19	1600.82
Stamford	164.630	191.70	183.800	220.93		109.33	518.33	847.96
Sidney	161.645	43.00	165.945	202.06	43.05	143.01	484.20	872.32
Tompkins	193.843	154.10	209.253	493.90	200.00	239.16	621.64	1551.73
Walton	1797.56	298.05	209.561	221.92	200.00	135.00	600.09	1157.01

1839

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Delaware held in their room at

Courthouse in Delhi on Tuesday the 12^th day of November 1839.

Present as follows~

Andes	*George Thompson*	Kortright	*Martin Keeler, Jun.*
Bovina	*James Cowan*	Masonville	*Quartus Brown*
Colchester	*James W. Knapp*	Middletown	*Orson M. Allaben*
Davenport	*Benjamin Parker*	Meredith	*Isaac Burr*
Delhi	*William Millard*	Roxbury	*Edward I. Burhans*
Franklin	*Harvey Mann*	Sidney	*Stephen Wood*
Hamden	*Donald Shaw*	Stamford	*Orrin Foot*
Hancock	*James M. Twaddell*	Tompkins	*Darius Maples*
Harpersfield	*Lyman Hakes*	Walton	*John Townsend*

On Motion Darius Maples of Tompkins was chosen Chairman and Albert Edgerton of Delhi unanimously elected Clerk.

The Chairman then appointed the following Committees:

To Equalize the Assessment Rolls

Messrs. Knapp, Cowan, Mann, Keeler, Townsend, Burhans and Burr

To Settle with Treasurer

Messrs. D. Shaw, Parker and Hakes

To Settle with Superintendents

Messrs. Allaben, Foot and Wood

To Setle with Loan Commissioners

Messrs. Foote, Hakes and Knapp

To Settle with U.S.D. F. Commissioners

Messrs. Millard, Thompson, Twaddell, Townsend & Burr

On the State of the County

Messrs. Allaben, Burhans, Burr, Twaddell, Parker & Wood

On the Justices and Constables Accounts

Messrs. Burhans, Burr & Brown

The Following Committees were appointed to audit the accounts of their respective Towns ~

Messrs. Burhans, Allaben & Thompson

Messrs. Cowan, Millard & Shaw

Messrs. Twaddell, Knapp & Townsend

Messrs. Wood, Brown & Maples

Messrs. Keeler, Mann & Burr

Messrs. Foot, Hakes & Parker

The Board then proceeded to nominate Superintendents of the Poor and Commissioners of Deeds.

When Gurden H. Edgerton, Street Dutton & James G. Redfield were duly nominated by the Supervisors & on comparing their nominations with those of the Judges, they were found to agree.

They then appointed Commissioners of Deeds according to the statute in such case made and provided.

Mr. Hakes laid before the Board an account of damages by the laying out of a public highway through lands of Henry Sawyer in Harpersfield. And Judge Bostwick was called as a witness after hearing his testimony. On Motion of Dr. Allaben Resolved that the matter lie on the table until Mr. Hakes inform Mr. Sawyer with regard to it.

After passing sundry accounts the Board adjourned to ½ past 8 oclock tomorrow morning.

Wednesday Nov. 13^th

Board met pursuant to adjournment and audited a number of Town & County accounts.

On Motion of Mr. Brown ordered that the Clerk inform the Comptroller that there were certain taxes rejected by him as being assessed in Masonville which were not in Masonville & that the same lie over until information be received from him.

On Motion of Mr. Thompson the like order as above with regard to certain rejected taxes in Andes.

Board adjourned to ½ past 8 oclock tomorrow a.m.

Thursday morning Nov. 14, 1839

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

The time for holding the annual Town Meeting to be fixed by the Board of Supervisors and to be held on the same day in every Town in the County according to the Law of 1839 came up for consideration and

On Motion of Mr. Brown it was

Resolved that the third Tuesday in February shall be the day on which the Town Meetings shall be held in Delaware County in each of the respective Towns.

A Town account against the Town of Delhi in favour of General Root was presented by Mr. Millard for services as School Inspector in which he had charged 50 cents for each teachers examination.

On Motion of Mr. Foot

Resolved that 25 cents be allowed to him for each examination of teacher.

The matter in favour of Mr. Sawyer for damages against the Town of Harpersfield came up for consideration. After hearing statements from Mr. Sawyer & Mr. Hakes

On Motion it was ordered that the damages assessed by the jury be allowed to Mr. Sawyer.

Mr. Charles Hathaway in behalf of Wm. Doig of Bovina and asked the Board to increase the damages assessed by the jury which Mr. Doig had sustained in consequence of the laying out of a public highway through his lands.

On Motion of Mr. Cowan Supervisor from Bovina

Resolved that the account audited to Mr. Doig be rescinded and that this application lie over till the next annual meeting of the Board.

Mr. Knapp from the Equalizing Committed that they had carefully examined the Assessment Rolls and that they recommended that 5 per cent be added to Davenport & Walton. Which report was adopted & the percentage added.

Mr. Millard from the committee to examine the Courthouse & Jail made a report & recommended that Green More be authorized to fix the stone work in front of the court house & that C. B. Sheldon be authorized to dispose of the courthouse bell and procure a new one of sufficient weight to answer the purpose. Report adopted.

On Motion of E. J. Burhans

Resolved that a sum of money be raised in each Town in the County equal to that received from the State for the support of Schools.

On Motion of Harvey Mann

Resolved that the sum of Two thousand seven hundred Dollars be raised for the expenses of the Poor House the ensuing year.

Board adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow morning.

Friday morning Nov. 15

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Dr. Jacobs presented an account of Steele & Jacobs for amputating the leg of William McLean in 1833.

On Motion of Mr. Cowan ordered that the bill be rejected.

Dr. Allaben from Middletown in behalf of that Town asked the Board to grant to the Commissioners of Highways of said Town to assist them in building bridges the sum of one hundred dollars to be levied upon the County.

On Motion of E. I. Burhans the board granted the request.

On Motion of Jas. M. Twaddell

Resolved that the collector of the Town of Hancock receive 2 ½ per cent on the taxes on non resident lands in said Town.

The Chairman then appointed Messrs. Keeler, Cowan and Mann a committee to confer with the printers and make arrangements for publishing the accounts in conformity with the law passed in 1839.

On Motion of Mr. Wood, N. K. Wheeler, Esq. was appointed to tax the District Atty. Bill on the 11^th day of December next.

On Motion of Mr. Burhans

Resolved that the Highways tax be raised on such non resident lands as have been returned by overseers in the several Towns in which they have been returned.

Resolved that $3800 be raised for the contingent expenses of the County the ensuing year.

The Board adjourned to the 11^th day of December next at 10 a.m.

Wednesday December 11^th, 1839

Board met pursuant to adjournment. Members all present except Mr. James Cowan of Bovina.

After signing the Tax Rolls and passing several County accounts the District Attorneys bill came up for consideration. Mr. Wheeler the taxing officer appeared and put Mr. Gordon upon his oath as to the contents of the Bill and taxed it at $320.77.

Board adjourned to tomorrow morning at ½ past 7 oclock.

Thursday morning Dec. 12^th

Board met pursuant to adjournment. Members all present.

The Committee appointed to settle with Loan made a report which is on file.

The Committee to settle with N.S.D.F. Commissioners by Mr. Millard Chairman made a report to the comptroller a copy of which is on file in this office.

The Superintendents of the Poor made a report which was accepted and ordered to be printed in both papers.

Mr. Foote of Stamford in pursuance of instructions from his Town offered a resolution "That the Board of Supervisors petition the Legislature at its next session to pass a law to abolish our present Poor House system and to return to the old way of each Town supporting their own poor." The ayes and noes being called for they were ordered and taken as follows ~

Ayes - Messrs. Foote & Hakes

Noes - Messrs. Allaben, Burhans, Burr, Brown, Cowan, Knapp, Keeler, Mann, Maples, Millard, Parker, Shaw, Twaddle, Thompson, Townsend & Wood.

On Motion of E. I. Burhans

Resolved that the County Clerk be authorized to procure the insurance of the Courthouse and Jail and to give premium notes if he shall insure in a mutual insurance Company.

On Motion of Mr. Twaddell of Hancock.

Resolved that petit jurors receive seventy five cents per day instead of fifty cents as heretofore and that this resolution take effect immediately. The ayes & nays being called for they were ordered and taken as follows ~

Ayes Messrs. Allaben, Burr, Brown, Knapp, Millard, Mann, Maples, Parker, Twaddell, Townsend, Wood & Hakes. 12

Nays Messrs. Burhans, Cowan, Keeler, Shaw, Foot & Thompson. 6

Doctor Allaben from the Committee on the State of the County made a report which was accepted and ordered to be printed.

On Motion of Mr. Burhans

Resolved that the Clerk receive $15 for extra service of last year and eighty five dollars for ordinary services of the present year.

On Motion of Mr. Burr ordered the Clerk receive $30 for extra services this year.

Mr. Burhans of Roxbury offered the following resolution which was unanimously passed..

Resolved that the Superintendents of the Poor and the Overseer of the Poor House have faithfully discharged their duties in the opinion of the Supervisors and that they have made highly beneficial improvements in the management of the same and that the same is now managed to the entire satisfaction of the Board.

Mr. Keeler from the Committee to confer with the Printers reported that Mr. Brown and Mr. Paine had offered to publish the accounts and reports for one half the legal fees each which report was adopted & the accounts ordered to be published in both papers.

On Motion of Mr. Townsend

Resolved that the Clerk be authorized to alter the Tax Roll and collectors warrant for the Town of Walton so as to cover the expenses of said Town.

And then the Board adjourned sinc die.

Albert Edgerton, Clerk

A List of the County Accounts audited at the first and second meetings of the Board of Supervisors in the yar 1839.

Allaben, Orson M.	22.80 1.62	Appley, Laurence	2.75 3.06
Andrews, Harry	2.47
Brown, Quartus	2.52 26.80	Burr, Isaac	14.80
Booth, Jesse	4.83	Burr, Cyrus	1.08
Bostwick, Jabez	24.70	Bates, James	30.00
Baxter, George H.	2.75	Brown, Matthew	9.13
Beardsley, Bennet	12.34	Bowne, Norwood	11.40
Betts, John M.	143.00	Burhans, Edward I.	20.80
Coulter, Walter	2.77	Cowan, James	.60 14.00
Carpenter, David D.	.80 18.38 6.42	Case, Salisbury	3.13
Claghorn, George	9.37	Cook, Squire D.	4.29
Cease, David	6.21	Cavin, Samuel B.	2.00
Drake, Hathaway & Elwood	16.44	Douglas, Amos	20.50
Dimmick, Warren	2.90 .65	Dutton, Steel	23.38
Downer, John	37.88	Drake, Hathaway & Elwood	6.75 9.23
Daniel, Alexander	.58
Edick, S. H.	10.82	Elwood, R W.	4.08
Edgerton, John	1.02	Edgerton, Gurden H.	36.90
Egelston, Nathaniel	8.61 13.25 2.88	Edgerton, Nathan	3.21
Edgerton, Gurden H.	22.41	Eels, Samuel 3^rd	15.24
Edgerton, Albert	130.00
Foote, Orrin	18.80	Francisco, Richard	.88
Franklin, Nathan	4.99	Frisbee, William	3.50
Griswold, Case & Co.	2.06	Graham, James G.	5.34
Gardinier, Jeter	1.06	Griffin, Orrin	.96
Gilbert, George	1.16	Green, Stephen	7.78
Gordon, Saml. (2)	334.53	Gilbert, George	4.00
Gilchrist, Andrew (2)	4.87
Hyde, Robert	5.25	Hakes, Lyman (2)	21.66
Humphry, James	1.64	Hulse, M. R.	15.54
Hitchcock, J.	.37	Hitt, Leander	9.80
Hitt, Isaac	4.90	Heath, Thomas	1.87 1.12
Huntington, Oliver (2)	18.38	Hunt, William	7.66
Jennings, Beach	1.35	Johnson, Henry	.94
Jackson, James H.	4.59	Johnson, Alexander	12.13 8.10
Keeler, Martin, Jun.	17.60	Keiz, Arthur	4.16
Keator, Harvey	1.70	Keator, Thomas	1.38
Knapp, James W.	21.20
Lewis, Reuben	.25	Leonard, Asher	20.00
Leal, Daniel M. (3)	16.83
Metcalf, Ira	12.62	Maples, Darius (2)	26.26
Millard, William	12.00	Mann, Harvey	18.80
Murdock, William H.	3.26	Moore, Orrin (4)	8.41
Moore, Green	140.89	Millard, Harvey	2.42
Moore, William A.	2.00	Moore, Thorn	113.21
Morse, Richard	1.42 4.85	Mason, William (2)	16.84
Maynard, Isaac (2)	14.18
Olmstead, Philo	9.88
Parker, Benjamin	20.00	Peet, H. B. Principal Dead & Dumb Asylum N. Y.	10.76
Peak, Warren S.	1.38	Paine, Anth. M. (2)	38.25 22.46
Perry, Charles E.	7.56	Palmer, Fletcher	28.85
Person, James	4.00	Pike, Cornelius	1.12
Redfield, James G.	21.75	Rich, Sylvester	.48
Rowland, Daniel	4.00
Shaw, Donald	16.60	Steele & Cavin	20.88
Stott, John E.	3.18	Sherman, John	6.31
Schutt, John S.	13.53	St. John, Thaddeus S.	20.00
Smith, Caleb	1.12	Sternberg, Abraham	10.32
Seely, Levi	6.05	Stewart, Leman	15.03
Smith, Ebenezer	4.27	Sines, John B.	1.24
Stewart, Leman	7.91	Sheldon, Crawford B.	167.78
Sheldon, Crawford for book at Clerks Office	36.00
Trotter, William	17.93	Taylor, Luther	11.75
Thompson, Clinton	3.63	Townsend, John	18.80
Twaddell, James M.	27.20	Thompson, George	16.80
Vanhusen, John L.	1.62	Vanduzen, Stephen	3.82
Vanschoyk, Stephen	2.00
Wood, Stephen	22.40	Wheeler, Nelson K. (2)	20.12
Williams, Nathan W.	2.78	Wood, William B. (3)	10.64
Woolsey, Joseph	5.68 3.64	Webster, William V.	1.50
Wight, Eli	5.31	Williams, N. W.	3.95
Williams, Henry A	9.30 1.88	Commissioners of Highways for the Town of Middletown to aid in building Bridges	100.00

Town Accounts

Andes

James Byers	15.62	Samuel McCabe	30.00
William Pearce	18.00	Charles Barlow	1.00
Edward Sands (2)	3.50	William C. Benedict	6.50
Andrew McGibbon	17.00	William Shaver	12.50
James A. Bassett	3.75	Adam L. Cowan	14.38
Noah Dimmick, Jr.	4.00	Charles Knapp	2.00
Marcus T. Peak	5.00	Daniel Hawks	4.00
William Smyth	1.50	John M. Landon	4.50
Daniel B. Shaver	3.75	George P. Wilson	2.00
Peter Penet	17.75	Cyrus Burr	1.00
George Thompson	6.25	Comm. Highways	157.00

Bovina

Thomas Brown	12.50	Duncan McNaught	12.50
Walter Scott, Jun.	12.50	Joel S. Brush	15.00
William D. Thompson	8.00	John Scott	8.00
James Coulter, Jun.	5.00	John J. Wilbur	4.00
Andrew Cowan	1.75	Malcom McNaught	3.75
Robert Elliot	8.00	John Burns	2.00
Walter Coulter (2)	7.50	Archibald & Erkson	7.62
S. B. Hanford	3.00	Isaac Maynard	6.00
James Cowan	6.00	Comm. Highways	120.00

Colchester

John R. Radeker	19.50	Harvey Dann	4.50
Barna Radeker	13.00	Thomas Gregory	15.00
Lewis M. Williams	3.00	Eli S. Washburn	13.75
Enoch Horton	12.50	Philip Basset	15.75
Josiah Gregory	4.00	Perry Radeker	4.75
John H. Elwood	7.50	Peter Brock	5.00
Daniel Huntley	4.75	Charles Knapp	5.50
Edget Early	6.00	George W. Downs	7.50
Jacob Fuller	2.00	Amos Roff	2.00
J. W. Knapp	6.25	R. W. Elwood	4.00
Comm. Highways	250.00

Davenport

Jesse Booth	8.50	John W. Mickael	6.50
James Slade	6.50	Ezra Denend 2^nd	4.15
C. F. Vandenburg	4.13	George Ford	6.50
John Ferguson, Jr.	9.50	E. B. Fenn	6.00
Zebulon E. Goodrich	11.00	Thompson Paine	4.44
Peter Smith	13.75	Henry Teneick	8.50
Elisha G. Barns	4.50	Jacob J. Mutten	2.50
Abraham Becker	5.00	David Morrell	13.13
David Goodrich	13.13	John S. Munson	12.50
George C. Paine	13.00	Frederick Banner	4.37
Charles Burr	2.00	B. Parker	5.64
Comm. Highways	100.00

Delhi

William Millard	5.00	Dubois Burhans	6.67
John H. Gould	15.00	Jared Webster	15.00
John B. Yendes	16.25	Benjamin Barlow	7.50
Alexander Mable	6.50	Charles Marvine	3.50
David G. Yeoman	6.00	Erastus Root	16.00
Jonas A. Hughston	5.25	Peter P. Wright	25.75
Alexander C. Erkson	5.50	George McIntosh	2.00
James Stoote	6.50	Fitz James Fitch	3.75
Ferris Jacobs	6.00	J. Penfield Flower	23.89
Truman H. Wheeler	1.50	Ebenezer Steele	1.50
Comm. Highways	200.00

Franklin

Levi Miles	10.00	Morgan C. Merrit	5.00
Elijah White, Jun.	2.00	Fitch Ford	2.00
Charles A. Hine	3.75	Joshua Whitney	3.75
Amos Douglas, Jun.	13.25	Daniel Chamberlin	13.12
Charles T. Sands	14.00	Benah Powers	12.50
Joel Gillet	18.75	William Beach	9.50
Herman Treadwell	.50	Harvey Mann	5.00

Hancock

James M. Miller	7.37	John Knight, Jr.	7.00
George H. Fuller	12.00	Clark Landfield	2.10
Zenas Lewis	1.00	Hiram Fish	18.00
Jacob T. Clawson	4.75	William G. Lakin	14.37
Nathan W. Williams	12.87	Silas Thomas	8.12
James M. Twaddell	9.62	Josiah Martin	12.25
Ebenezer F. Wheeler	1.50	Sallows S. Lakin	4.37
H. D. Gilbert	2.50	William Knight	3.00
Samuel Doyle	8.12	Samuel C. Pettingill	1.50
David G. Leonard	2.00	Asher Leonard	10.00
Charles Leonard	2.50	Comm. Highways	250.00

Hamden

Walter Wood	14.37 ½	Philip Bresack	12.82 ½
John McNee	10.62 ½	White Griswold	14.50
Abram Covert	3.00	A. J. Peck	3.50
Benajah Hawley	4.00	Ira Mallory	2.00
William Mason	3.75	Rowland Robinson	4.00
Marcus L. Bostwick	8.00	Walter Chase	2.25
Donald Shaw	5.00	William Stewart	6.25
Alexander Neash	5.00	John A. Homes	16.00
Comm. Highways	60.00

Harpersfield

Nelson L. Thorp	9.39	Clement Nichols	6.50
Davis Hubbard	12.66	John W. Gibbs	4.50
Orris Osborne	9.00	Cornelius Becker	4.00
Richard B. Gibbs	5.50	Alonzo B. Wilcox	1.00
Gideon Beardslee	4.00	Elijah Chruchill	3.00
James Treadwell	2.50	Phineas L. Bennett	10.65
Myron Tremain	16.38	Beardslee Disbrow	4.00
Lyman Hakes	5.64	Comm. Highways	61.50

Kortright

William McClaughry	18.50	Horace K. Willard	8.00
Stephen H. Keeler	9.00	David Keeler	2.00
John D. Blakely	7.00	Lyman Lawson	13.00
Asher Merwin	17.87	John McDoandl	13.50
Henry Gregory	13.50	Duncan McDonald	2.00
Ezra T. Gibbs	7.00	Henry Kerr	14.00
John Hitchcock	8.00	James Donaldson	14.14
Martin Keeler, Jr.	19.50	Matthew McClaughry	4.38
Comms. Highways	80.00

Middletown

Orson M. Allaben	9.25	Peter Terry	6.50
Luman Searles	16.50	Cornelius Reynolds	21.63
John Redmond	2.00	William O Connor	13.00
John Beadle	19.00	Jacob Mead	4.25
C. Terry	6.63	Madison Dean	6.00
Jesse Searles	6.03	A.D.L. Montanye	2.63
C. B. Delamater	7.81	Noah Dimmick, Jr.	10.00
William Morrison	11.25	George Stroup	21.00
E. Preston	2.00	Warren Dimmick	5.25
Z. Ashby	16.62 ½	John Lawrence	2.00
Comms. Highways	250.00

Meredith

Josiah D. Wells	12.88	Oliver Dutton	13.75
David Mitchell	13.75	Medad Jackson	12.50
Charles Dibble	6.00	Amasa P. Mann	8.50
Henry Jackson	4.37	Milton Bostwick	5.00
Isaac Burr	11.50	Oliver G. Butts	4.50
Homer Bostweick	1.50	Amasa Fox	2.50
Elijah Mabee	8.38	Milton Frisbee	4.50

Masonville

Lewis Kentfield	5.50	Nathaniel Dickerman	.50
Nathan Parker	11.25	Jeremiah Scott	11.25
Sluman Bartlett	1.00	Christy McKinnon	1.50
Daniel Orcutt, Jr.	3.75	Ebenezer Smith	1.50
Noah M. Hamlet	7.00	George W. Willis	1.00
Rufus A. Thompson	5.00	Erastus S. Stebbins	3.00
Ira Balcom	11.50	Quartus Brown	7.00
George Claghorn	1.00	Abraham Mills	14.50
A. W. Humphry	12.60	Collins Brown, Jr.	6.50
Lott Cook	7.00	P. White Smith	8.00
William V. Webster	4.00	Harlow Bundy	3.00
Wait Cannon	14.18	Paine & Clark	3.70
Comms. Highway	129.00

Roxbury

John L. More	13.75	Levi Mead	14.37 ½
Eli Wight	15.75	William Follett	4.00
Matthew Daniel	4.00	James Kilpatrick	3.00
Horace Genoung	6.00	Jacob C. Keator	3.50
Erastus Mead	5.75	Peter Keator	3.75
Ezekiel Preston	2.00	Erastus Follett	25.25
John H. Stratton	3.75	Eli Wight	3.19
E. I. Burhans	6.62	Alex Daniel	9.00
Samuel Howell	5.00	John T. More	1.00
Comm. Highways	71.00

Stamford

Orrin Foote	5.00	Horace Hanford	16.75
Grove Webster	11.87 ½	Ebenezer Gilbert	11.00
Seth L. L. Sturges	10.00	Selah M. Stevens	11.00
Orrin Griffin	6.00	Newton Perkins	5.25
Robert S. Marshal	4.50	Benjamin Puffer	2.00
Charles S. Stewrt	3.75	John Cowan	6.00
Duncan McDonald	15.00	John McDonald	3.75
George Sturges	2.09	Comm Highways	31.13

Sidney

Stephen Wood	6.24	Rufus P. Green	16.25
Abner Mack	14.37	Abel Bartlett	13.75
John Baxter	5.00	Charles W. Scott	5.00
John B. Lawrence	14.00	Robert S. Hughston	4.38
William E. Webster	6.38	Evander Odell	2.00
S. L. Wattles	8.00	Seth Bartlett	4.50
William C. Shannon	6.50	Reuben Lewis	3.00
H. Bradley	1.00	William N. Webster	4.05
William Flint	2.00	Josiah Thatcher	15.87
James Hughston	2.00	W. J. Hughston	2.50
Comm Highways	25.00

Tompkins

Peter Pine	15.00	S. D. Higgins	4.50
Isaac Miner	2.00	William K. Owen	7.00
Epenetus Webb	3.00	Joseph S. Babcock	3.00
Stephen Vanschaigk	14.37 ½	M. L. Ogden	12.75
C. E. Wright	5.00	Simon Lusk	1.50
E. Wiest	6.00	Isaac Jackson	8.00
M. R. Hulse	2.25	S. H. Edick	10.00
Henry Flint	5.00	Darius Maples	13.87 ½
Jesse Palmer	5.00

Walton

Levi Hanford	3.50	Bennet Beardslee	4.62 ½
Walter Hanford	14.37 ½	Cyrus St. John	14.50
Alvah Rowell	21.50	Benjamin White	9.50
Samuel Eells Jun	14.37 ½	Smith St. John	15.62
Thaddeus S. St. John	17.87	Isaac Ogden	3.66
Platt Townsend	15.25	Thomas J. Ogden	6.25
James Berray	12.00	Gabriel S. Mead	2.00
John Townsend	4.37 ½	Jesse Bennet	2.00
Thaddeus St. John	16.66	Comms Highways	262.00

Valuation of the Real and Personal Property in the County of Delaware in the Year 1839.

Amount of money raised & to whom paid.

	Real	Personal	Aggregate	Schools	Highways	Supervisors	Treasurers	Amt. Of Tax
Andes	155.889	115.00	167.389	266.83	157.00	174.00	376.82	974.15
Bovina	115.998	135.71	119.569	178.65	120.00	123.12	269.94	691.71
Colchester	108.124	96.35	117.759	191.81	250.00	156.25	280.77	878.83
Davenport	134.998	84.55	150.626	259.62	100.00	165.24	338.89	863.75
Delhi	217.088	303.00	247.388	298.97	200.00	179.06	557.80	1235.83
Franklin	275.811	436.25	319.436	373.37		132.62	666.02	1172.01
Hamden	123.577	66.00	130.177	170.67	60.00	116.47	309.22	650.36
Harpersfield	178.432	169.50	195.382	220.27	61.50	98.72	424.72	805.21
Hancock	115.571	46.50	120.221	113.25	250.00	144.84	274.77	782.86
Meredith	183.727	305.49	214.276	202.82		109.63	458.53	770.98
Masonville	101.838	46.55	106.493	161.70	129.00	145.23	245.94	681.87
Middletown	168.576 1/8	115.92	180.168 1/8	314.67	250.00	163.47 ½	415.07	1143.21
Roxbury	20.348	243.75	264.723	361.35	71.00	140.18	575.60	1148.13
Stamford	163.080	185.20	181.600	220.93	31.13	114.96	383.64	750.66
Sidney	158.740	78.85	166.625	202.06	25.00	136.80	371.60	735.47
Tompkins	193.980	145.00	208.480	246.95		118.25	450.13	815.33
Walton	172.290	303.20	212.740	221.92 5 prct added	262.00	166.24	462.39	1112.55

1840

At a meeting of the Supervisors of the County of Delaware held at their room in the Court House in Delhi on Tuesday the 10^th day of November 1840

Present as follows

*Andes*	*George Thompson*	*Kortright*	*Martin Keeler, Jun.*
*Bovina*	*Walter Coulter*	*Masonville*	*Wearam Willes*
*Colchester*	*James W. Knapp*	*Meredith*	*Isaac Burr*
*Davenport*	*Thompson Paine*	*Middletown*	*Warren Dimmick*
*Delhi*	*Cornelius R. Fitch*	*Roxbury*	*Harvey Keator*
*Franklin*	*Harvey Mann*	*Sidney*	*Stephen Wood*
*Hamden*	*Benajah Hawley*	*Stamford*	*Orrin Foote*
*Hancock*	*James M. Twaddell*	*Tompkins*	*Darius Maples*
*Harpersfield*	*Lyman Hakes*	*Walton*	*John Townsend*

On Motion Darius Maples of Tompkins was appointed Chairman.

On Motion the Board proceeded to Ballot for a clerk. After four successive ballots no choice was made. Mr. Gordon served upon the Clerk his bill for services rendered as District Atty. M. Keeler, Jun was appointed clerk pro tem.

On Motion Judge Hathaway was appointed to tax Mr. Gordon's bill & it was taxed and audited.

The following Resolution was then offered.

Resolved as the sense of this Board that the old clerk by Law holds his Office till removed by the Board or a new one be appointed in his place. Mr. Hakes moved the following amendment. "That the work "not" be inserted before the work holds in the resolution." The question being taken on the amendment the ayes & nays were demanded & taken as follows

Ayes Messrs. Thompson, Hakes, Foote, Hawley, Keator, Burr, Willes & Fitch. 8

Nays Messrs. Paine, Mann, Keeler, Dimmick, Knapp, Twaddell, Townsend, Wood & Pales. 9

The question was then taken on the resolution as follows

Ayes Messrs. Paine, Mann, Keeler, Dimmick, Knapp, Twaddell, Townsend, Wood & Maples. 9

Nays Messrs. Thompson, Fitch, Hakes, Burr, Hawley, Foote, Keator & Willes. 8.

So the resolution passed.

On motion the Board adjourned to meet at 8 oclock tomorrow morning.

1840 Wednesday morning Nov. 11^th

Board met pursuant to adjournment and again on motion proceeded to ballot for Clerk when Albert Edgerton was duly elected.

The Chairman then appointed the Committees as follows ~

To Foot the Assessment Rolls Messrs. Burr, Foote, Keeler, Paine & Keator

To Settle with U.S.D. F. Comm. Messrs. Hakes, Mann & Dimmick

To Settle with Loan Comm. Messrs. Hawley, Burr & Twaddell

To Examine Courthouse & Jail Messrs. Foote, Keator & Hakes

To Settle with Superintendents Messrs. Knapp, Thompson & Coulter

To Audit Justices & Constables Accounts Messrs. Keeler, Paine & Willes

On Motion of Mr. Hawley ordered that Lots No. 20, 21, 10, 23,24, 25, 32.33 in Great Lot No. 37 in the Hardenburgh Patent be stricken from the Hamden Assessment Roll.

On Motion of Mr. Keator

Resolved that this Board advise the Superintendents of the Poor to grant $10 to Henry Turk who has petitioned temporary relief.

The Committee to settle with Loan Commissioners and also the Committee to settle with Superintendents made their reports which were accepted & are on file.

On Motion of Mr. Keeler

Resolved that an amount of money be raised in each Town for the support of Common Schools equal to the sum received from the State for the same purpose.

The Board adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow morning.

Thursday Nov. 12

Board met.

On Motion of Mr. Keeler ordered that the Committee to foot the Rolls be required to report which Towns ought to be raised & which reduced from the assessment.

The Board were then engaged in auditing accounts and in Committees till afternoon when they went to visit the Poor House.

Thursday Evening

Mr. Maples the Chairman having broken his arm and being unable to serve as Chairman

On Motion of Mr. Keeler, Wearam Willes was appointed to Chairman pro tem.

Timothy Corbin Jun. came before the Board and applied to have the damages which were assessed by a jury in consequence of the laying out of a highway through his farm in Middletown raised by the Supervisors.

On Motion of Warren Dimmick the vote allowing the $25 assessed to Mr. Corbin by the jury was rescinded & on Motion of Mr. Dimmick the application of Mr. Corbin was postponed till next year.

Resolved that the Clerk be authorized to levy the highway taxes upon such non resident lands as are returned in the different Towns upon which the highway tax has not been paid.

The Committee to settle with the Treasurer made a report which was accepted & filed.

Adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow.

Friday Nov. 13

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Warren Dimmick, Esq. Supervisor from Middletown presented a petition from the Commissioners of Highways from that Town asking an appropriation of $250 to assist them in building bridges, the application was rejected.

The Equalizing Committee made a report recommending material alterations in most of the Assessment Rolls.

On Motion of Mr. Knapp the report was rejected as follows ~

Ayes Messrs. Thompson, Knapp, Fitch, Twaddell, Dimmick, Wood, Townsend & Willes. 8

Nays Messrs. Coulter, Hawley, Hakes, Keeler, Keator, Foot & Burr. 7

So the report was rejected (it is filed in the office).

On Motion of Mr. Knapp

Resolved that we adopt the Assessment Rolls as they were returned by Assessors.

Ayes Messrs. Thompson, Knapp, Paine, Twaddell, Dimmick, Willes & More 7.

Nays Messrs. Fitch, Mann, Hakes, Hawley, Burr & Keator 6.

On the recommendations of the Superintendents of the Poor

Resolved that the sum of $1600 be raised for the support of the Poor for the ensuing year.

Mr. Burch of Masonville made application for reimbursement for expenses incurred in a law suit as overseer of the Poor of the Town of Andes.

On Motion of Mr. Dimmick ordered that the application be postponed till next meeting.

The Committee to Examine Court House & Jail made a report verbally that no repairs were necessary.

On Motion of Mr. Burr

Resolved that we raise $3900 for contingent expenses of the County.

On Motion of Mr. Thompson ordered that the rejected taxes against the Town of Andes lie over till next year.

On Motion of Mr. Burr the Board adjourned to meet on the 16^th of December at 10 a.m.

Wednesday December 16, 1840

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Warren Dimmick, Esq. served upon the Chairman a notice of an appeal of the Commissioners of Highways of the Town of Middletown to the Court of Common Pleas from the decision of the Supervisors upon an application of the Commissioners for an appropriation of $250 to aid that Town in building roads & bridges.

On Motion of the chair appointed Messrs. Burr, Willes & Knapp a committee to employ counsel.

The Committee to settle with U.S.D. F. Commissioners made a report which was accepted & filed.

Dr. Fitch in behalf of the Town of Delhi asked permission of the Supervisors to occupy the Supervisors room for Town Meetings. Permission was unanimously refused.

Board adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow.

Thursday morning Board met

On Motion Messrs. Knapp, Burr & Keator were appointed to confer with printers respecting printing accounts.

On Motion of Mr. Burr

Resolved that the Treasurer be & he is hereby authorized to borrow if necessary a sum of money sufficient for defraying the expenses of the County the ensuing year.

On Motion of Mr. Hawley

Resolved that we now ballot for a Treasurer.

On Motion of Mr. Burr

Resolved that a plurality of votes shall elect.

On counting the ballots A. M. Paine had received eight votes & Alonzo F. Salisbury had received nine. Mr. Salisbury was declared elected.

On Motion of Isaac Burr

Resolved that a committee be appointed to inform Mr. Salisbury of his election. The Chairman appointed Messrs. Hakes, Mann & Willes.

It was resolved that Mr. Salisbury should execute a bond with sufficient sureties to the Supervisors for $20,000.00. Mr. Salisbury named for his sureties H. D. Gould, David B. Case, Nathaniel Hathaway & Charles E. Marvine.

On Motion of Mr. Burr it was resolved that the Board approve of the above mentioned bail.

On Motion of Mr. Mann

Resolved that the vote at the last meeting advising the Superintendents to give Mr. H. Turk $10 be rescinded.

On Motion of Mr. Keeler ordered that the Clerk have $110 for his services.

The question of allowing Mr. Burch a compensation or recommendation for expenses incurred as Overseer of the Poor came up for consideration. Mr. Willes offered a resolution to allow Mr. Burch $110. The ayes and nays being demanded they were as follows ~

Ayes Messrs. Thompson, Coulter, Mann, Hawley, Willes, Wood & Maples 7.

Nays Messrs. Knaps, Paine, Fitch, Hakes, Twaddell, Burr & Foot. 7.

So the resolution was lost.

On Motion of Dr. Fitch

Resolved unanimously that Gurden H. Edgerton, James G. Redfield & Street Dutton be Superintendents of the Poor for the ensuing year.

On Motion

Resolved that the Board adjourn sinc die.

A. Edgerton, Clerk

A List of County Accounts audited by the board of Supervisors at their fist & second meeting in 1840.

Allaben, Orson M.	1.62
Brett, John F.	1.37	Burr, Isaac (2)	15.22
Burtch, James D.	1.58	Benedict, William C.	2.64
Brown, Quartus	2.16	Burhans, Edward I. (2)	10.71
Barlow, Charles	1.63	Barlow, Charles & E. Sands	1.51
Booth, Jesse	11.37	Betts, John M.	155.25
Bowne, Norwood	28.25	Brown, Matthew	5.87
Bostwick, Jabez	2.00
Cowan, James	360	Cobb, Anson S.	.75
Croft, Jacob	2.00	Cavin, Samuel B. (2)	5.75
Carpenter David D. (2)	38.84	Cease, David	3.30
Copley, Heman	14.08	Coulter, Walter	17.20
Dayton, Michael	1.43	Drake & Gould	23.76
Dutton, Street	29.75	Doolittle, George N.	5.13
Downer, John	5.94	Dimmick, Warren	20.40
Edgerton, Erastus S.	4.87	Elwood, Renssalaer W.	3.53
Erkson & Millard	5.50 3.74	Edgerton, Gurden H. (2)	67.12
Edgerton, Albert	110.00
Foote, Orrin (2)	20.30	Franklin, Nathan	3.36
Fancher, William H.	3.72	Field, Christopher (4)	41.66
Frisbie, William	3.50	Fox, Amasa	8.60
Fitch, Cornelius R.	13.20
Gregory, John H.	1.68	Gordon, Samuel (2)	60.86
Gilbert, Eleazer	23.85	Gilbert, George	3.25
Green, Stephen	7.61	Goodenough, Lyman	14.81
Gilbert, George	4.00	Goodman, Thomas H.	7.18
Graves, Thomas	1.56
Hakes, Lyman (2)	21.66	Hulse, Martial R.	1.85
Hawley, Benajah	16.00	Hughston, James	3.56
Huntington, Oliver	31.00	Hitt, Isaac	1.11
Hunt, William (2)	3.62 11.68	Hathaway, Nathaniel	24.46
Humphrey, James	38.45	Huntley, Daniel (2)	24.30
Hathaway, Charles	2.00	Howe, James B.	6.75
Hitchcock, John	5.39	Johnson, Henry J. (4)	24.48
Knapp, James W. (2)	22.97	Kelley, Edmund, Jr.	1.15
Keator, Harvey	22.40	Keeler, Martin, Jr. (2)	18.44
Key, Arthur	7.85	King, Paul	8.15
Lewis, Reuben	16.55	Landfield, Majah D.	6.99
Lewis, Isaac	2.81
More, William A.	1.60	Maples, Darius (2)	25.46
Mann, Harvey (2)	19.86	Marshall, Robert L.	10.00
McDonald, Duncan	1.34	Mallory, Ira	.75
Morse, Richard	16.62	McCollum, Reuben	6.47
McFarland, David	12.21	Munson, Gurnsey H.	3.94
Metcalf, Ira	6.12	Mason, William	3.69
Martin, Josiah	.50	McNee, Peter	6.32 1.48
Moore, Thorn	6.88	Moore, Green (2)	337.41
Olmsted, David G.	2.00	Ostrom, John, Jr.	16.14
Parker, Amasa	6.25	Porter, Linus	4.03
Patton, Jon	8.09	Parker, Benjamin	1.26
Paine, Thompson (2)	18.44	Perry, Charles E.	10.69
Parker, Mason (2)	4.98 23.63	Patton, John	7.11
Pierce, David	13.23	Paine, Anth. M. (2)	292.01
Paine, Thompson	5.54
Radeker, John R.	4.76	Redfield, James G.	23.75
Robinson, Dinghee A.	4.50	Redfield, Jesse	4.97
Rowland, Daniel	6.00
Shaw, Donald	.57	Stewart, Leman	6.73
Smith, P. White	1.66	Smith, Ebenezer	4.78
Steele, Ebenezer	5.00	Schutt, John L. (2)	32.24
Shaw, Samuel	2.96	Scott,Silas P.	25.98
Seacord, John	2.19	Salisbury, Alonzo F.	5.06
Scott, Jeremiah	1.00	Sherman, John	12.94
Sheldon, Crawford B.	183.71	Sheldon, Crawford B. for books for Clks O.	50.75
Thompson, George (2)	17.15	Twaddell, James M.	30.40
Townsend, John	19.82	Trotter, William	1.64
Wilcox, Alonzo B.	2.35	Washburn, E. B.	.43
Wood, Stephen (2)	25.52	Willes, Wearam	26.00
Williams, Henry A. (3)	3.11	Wheeler, Nelson K.	260.21

Town Accounts

Andes

George Thompson	7.00	Peter Penet	17.00
Colin Campbell	13.12	Robert Mason	11.50
William Shaver	11.25	Charles Barlow	6.25
Cyrus Burr	3.50	Daniel B. Shaver	7.75
Mason T. Peake	6.75	George P. Wilson	1.00
Daniel Hawks	3.25	John Dickson	.50
Charles Barlow	4.00	Ebenezer B. Washburn	1.00
Daniel B. Shaver	3.75	James A. Bassett	3.75
Anson S. Cable	1.00	Noah Dimmick, Jr.	2.00
Samuel McCabe	4.00	Peter Drummond	2.75
William Pierce	5.00	Andrew McGibbon	5.00

Bovina

Isaac Maynard	7.25	John T. Wilbur	8.00
Alexander Storie	11.75	William Lull	19.13
John B. Wilbur	9.50	Isaac Atkins	15.25
Thomas Brown	13.75	Walter Stott	13.75
Duncna McNaught	12.50	James Coulter	1.00
Stephen B. Hanford	1.25	John Armstrong	1.00
John Scott	4.00	William D. Thompson	2.00
Walter Coutler (2)	9.50	Noah Dimmick	10.75
John Seacord	3.50	Alphonzo Lee	5.25
Archibald C.Erkson	2.37	Andrew Cowen	1.50
Comm. Highways	19.50

Colchester

Daniel Huntley	3.50	Eben Hawks	5.00
Robert Hanmer	5.00	John R. Radeker	6.50
James W. Knapp	6.62	John H. Elwood	7.50
George W. Downs	18.13	Isaac W. Horton	19.50
Renssalaer W. Elwood	19.75	Perry Radeker	6.00
Barna Radeker	7.00	David Horton	14.37
Harvey Dean	6.00	Richard L. White	9.25
P. Bassett	21.00	Jonah Gregory	9.25
James M. Buckly	5.25	John H. Gregory	12.25
Richard Francisco	2.00	Charles Knapp	2.00
William H. More	4.75	Comm. Highways	250.00

Davenport

Thompson Paine	5.62	George C. Paine	9.50
John Banner	13.74	Morton Emmons	13.12
David Goodrich	13.74	Jesse Booth	13.74
Zebulon E. Goodrich	6.00	Elbridge B. Fenn	6.50
Ezra Dennend 2^nd	3.75	Thompson Paine (2)	3.25
Clarence V. Vandeburgh	3.38	Squire Moon	4.12
Rufus Butts	4.12	Russell W. Morgan	4.12
Philander Smith	5.00	George Ten Eick	5.00
Ezra Dennend 2^nd	5.00	Henry Teneick	18.25
Peter Smith	14.50	Warren Barns	13.75
Heman Copley	1.00	Jesse Booth	1.00
Comm. Highways	231.00

Delhi

Cornelius R. Fitch 7.50 Peter P. Wright 22.88

George Smith 13.75 John B. Yendes 15.63

Walter Hutson 14.37 Daniel Grant 3.75

John L. Weismer 3.75 Daniel Blair 3.75

A. G. Boomhour 3.50 A. G. Thurbur 5.00

A. F. Salisbury 2.75 J. A. Hughston 5.00

Robert Parker 3.25 Nathl. Hathaway 2.00

James G. Redfield 1.25 Fitz J. Fitch 5.00

J. B. Fry 8.00 Dubois Burhans 9.00

Henry Leal 10.00 Comm. Highways 125.00

Franklin

Warren Green	17.00	Reuben S. Smith	15.00
Elijah White, Jun.	9.50	Charles T. Sands	9.00
Beriah Bowers	13.13	Seymour Cook	12.50
Levi Miles, Jr.	4.50	Amos Douglas, Jr.	14.38
Linus Porter	2.50	Fitch Ford	3.50
Charles A. Hine	4.37	Joshua Whitney	4.37
Harvey Mann	5.87	Beach Jennings	34.50
Daniel Chamberlin	16.87	Hiram Hawley	11.00
Herman Treadwell	3.40	Comm. Highways	25.00

Hamden

Aaron L. Atkinson	2.18	Marcus L. Bostwick	3.00
Walter Wood	3.75	William Stewart	10.00
Sheldon Patterson	6.00	Rowland Robinson	7.50
Walter Chase	3.25	John McNee	11.88
Abraham Covert	11.25	Ira Peak	10.62
Ira Mallory	1.25	Benajah Hawley	4.87
White Griswold	10.25	Richard M. Goodrich	3.75
Comm. Highways	91.00	Road & Bridges	78.00

Hancock

James M. Twaddell	14.00	Josiah Martin	20.00
William G. Lakin	17.00	John Knight	4.00
Hiram Fish	2.00	George H. Fuller	15.00
Jacob F. Clauson	7.50	Stephen Reed	17.00
N. W. Williams	16.50	Charles Baxter	3.75
John Doyle	3.75	Samuel Doyle	4.00
Asher Leonard	2.00	John Baxter	2.00
Silas Thomas	8.75	James McMiller	7.50
James Wheeler	14.38	Samuel Sands	5.00
Samuel C. Pettingill	2.00	John H. Radeker	2.00
John T. Hitt	2.00	Daniel H. Gregory	2.00
John Brainard	2.00	Amos Gregory	2.00
Eben Dann	2.00	Silas P. Smith	1.50
Henry J. Radeker	1.50	Barna Radeker	1.50
George W. Downs	1.50	Isaac Teed	1.50
Alexander Elwood	1.50	Majah D. Lanfield	3.00
John Lakin	10.00	Commrs. Highways	250.00

Harpersfield

Hiram Graves	2.00	J. B. Gaylord	10.00
Myron Tremaine	16.75	Orris Osborne	9.50
John Wickham	9.39	Lyman Hakes	6.88
Cyrenus Gibbs	3.75	Richard B. Gibbs	3.00
Robert English	4.50	Russell B. Hotchkiss	3.50
Abel Dayton	9.38	Ephraim G. Beardslee	6.00
John W. Gibbs	1.25	Jacob Foote	6.00
Nathan Pierce	4.00	Alfred Wicks	4.00
Apollos B. Wilcox	4.00	Nelson L. Thorp	16.36
Gideon B. Beardslee	2.50	James T. Treadwell	2.50
Levi Seely	1.25	Alonzo B. Wilcox	1.25

Kortright

Martin Keeler Jr.	12.00	William McClaughry	20.50
John McDonald	14.25	Henry Gregory	13.12
James Sloan	14.37	Henry Kerr	11.00
John Hanford	6.50	Adam Jaquish	8.50
Asher Merwin	17.38	Stephen H. Keeler	10.00
Lewis Mills	9.00	Ezra T. Gibbs	3.00
Horace K. Willard	8.00	John D. Blakely	1.00
Andrew Gilchrist	2.00	John Hitchcock	2.00
Matthew McClaughry	4.38	David Halleck	1.00
Comms. Of Highways	120.00

Masonville

Ira Balcom	7.75	Chester Beach	6.25
Harlo Bundy	5.25	Ira Balcom	12.62
Nathan Parker	10.62	Edward L. Broadstreet	10.62
Abraham Mills	1.50	Lewis Kentfield	7.00
Augustine H. Stebbins	6.38	Pliny Smith	2.50
Erastus Stebbins	3.00	William Scott	3.50
Sluman Bartlett	6.00	Wait Cannon	2.55
Collins Brown	4.00	Rufus A. Thompson	5.50
Phineas W. Smith	10.00	Horace D. Bailey	2.25
Ebenezer Smith	1.00	George W. Willis	1.50
Wearam Willes	5.50	Daniel Orcutt, Jr.	15.20

Meredith

Demas Hine	3.50	Amasa Fox	4.25
Isaac Burr	12.25	Lansing Stilson	1.50
Martin Leet	5.40	George N. Wells	8.00
Nathan Stilson	4.50	James Bartley	1.00
Philander Jones	5.50	Alexander F. Leal	9.00
Salmon M. Smith	12.50	George O'Brien	4.38
Elijah Mabie	17.75	James H. Graham	2.50
Oliver Dutton	14.38	Charles Dibble	15.12
William Stilson	13.75	George Wright	4.38
Henry R. Graham	7.25	Ebenezer Davis	.36
Amasa P. Mann	2.50	Commrs. Highways	77.50

Middletown

Zebulon Ashby	8.25	Judah Kelly	13.75
John Kelly	14.37	Cornelius Reynolds	15.63
Milo Hubbard	12.52	Ransom Woolcott	11.00
Ephraim Isham	16.75	John Beadle	6.00
Jacob Mead	6.50	Madison Dean	9.50
Asa Griffin	7.50	Solomon Osterhout	3.75
Edward Kelly, Jr.	3.75	Madison Dean	3.75
Jesse Searles	12.00	Orrin Slocum	5.00
Richard David	4.00	Chauncey P. Wolcott	2.25
Noah Dimmick, Jr.	10.00	Edmund Kelly, Jr.	3.00
Warren Dimmick	7.38	Z. Ashby	8.00
Timothy Corbin, Jr.	11.00	Sylvanus Kelly	1.43
Commr. Highways	292.25

Roxbury

Alexander Daniel	2.00	Samuel Scudder	17.50
John L. More	13.75	Levi Mead	12.50
Eli Allaben	3.50	A.D. L. Montanya	3.50
Horace Ganoung	13.00	James Kirkpatrick	9.00
Jacob C. Keator	10.00	Daniel D. Keator	4.24
Jonas Smith	5.25	Benjamin T. Underwood	3.75
Peter Cator	3.00	Ezekiel Preston	2.00
Erastus Follet	24.88	Harvey Keator (2)	7.00

Sidney

Stephen Wood	6.62	Josiah Thatcher	15.87
Daniel Birdsall	14.36	John B. Lawrence	18.62
Rufus P. Green	15.75	Henry Bradley	10.00
Robert S. Hughston	5.50	James Teed	4.00
William C. Shannon	1.50	Seth Bartlett	3.50
Reuben Lewis	7.00	Sluman Bartlett	2.00
Sluman L. Wattles	6.50	James Hughston	2.00
William V. Webster	4.00	Charles L. Rogers	1.00
John Baxter	5.00	Edward Hughesw	4.50
Jonathan Burdick	3.50	Gordon Beach	1.00
William Wilmot	.75

Stamford

Orrin Foote	5.00	Horace Hanford	13.75
Abel Squires	10.63	Hugh Leal	10.63
Jesse F. Cowles	9.37	Seth S. S. Sturges	4.00
Selah M. Stevens	4.00	John Cowan	6.50
Orrin Griffin	3.75	Charles W. Booth	7.37
Calvin Howard	1.75	Robert S. Marshall	1.75
Newton Perkins	1.75	Ebenezer Gilbert	1.00
William Trotter	2.50	Alexander C. Leal	3.75
Anthony Y. Marvine	3.75	John H. Grant, Jr.	7.00
Celick Gould	6.50	Comms. Highways	118.50

Tompkins

A. G. Miller	15.62	Stephen Vanschoyk	14.37
Ezekiel Wiest	6.50	William K. Owen	15.25
Joseph L. Babcock	5.00	John Day	4.00
Elias Greenman	2.00	Epenetus Webb	4.75
C. E. Wright	5.00	Jesse Palmer	5.00
S. D. Higgins	5.50	M. R. Hulce	7.75
Simon Lusk	16.00	Darius Maples	6.87
Joshua Smith	12.50	Gould & Nickerson	2.00
William Gould	2.00	Silas Wheeler	2.00
Peter P. Wright	15.00	Oliver Huntington	1.00

Walton

Cyrus St. John	17.00	Abraham Ogden	8.12
John Mead	4.50	Benjamin White	2.00
James Berray	2.00	Smith St. John	11.25
Samuel Eells, Jr.	16.25	John L. Coleman	10.62
Thomas J. Ogden	5.75	Samuel North	3.25
David H. Gay	4.75	Thaddeus S. St. John	2.25
Alvah Rowell	10.00	Platt Townsend	15.00
William Gay	1.62	Henry Fancher	.50
John Townsend	6.25	Levi Hanford, Jr.	4.50
Comm. Highways	100.00

Valuation of the Property of the County of Delaware in the Year 1840 together with the amount of money raised & to whom paid.

Towns	Real	Personal	Aggregate	Schools	Highways	Supervisors	Treasurers	Aggt. Tax
Andes	160.941	123.25	173.266	276.53	8.73	121.12	318.22	715.87
Bovina	106.852	148.65	121.717	185.15	19.50	150.25	228.25	583.15
Colchester	110.837	92.91	120.128	198.78	250.00	192.62	242.98	884.37
Delhi	217.641	1131.00	330.741	309.84	125.0	140.13	600.58	1175.55
Davenport	124.759	115.50	136.309	269.06	231.00	160.94	274.07	955.07
Franklin	278.042	460.25	324.067	386.95	25.0	181.41	563.40	1156.96
Hamden	119.129	78.00	126.929	176.87	91.00	167.55	250.40	686.82
Hancock	120.996	86.00	129.596	117.37	250.00	210.13	261.74	839.24
Harpersfield	176.712	161.50	192.862	228.28	000.00	122.76	349.30	700.34
Masonville	991.85	44.35	103.620	167.58		130.49	193.80	491.87
Meredith	197.168	279.28	225.096	210.10	77.50	150.77	410.67	849.14
Middletown	159.805	117.70	171.575	326.11	292.25	197.18	372.86	1188.40
Roxbury	239.318	205.0	259.818	374.49		135.65	474.87	985.01
Sidney	163.127	60.70	169.197	209.41		132.98	333.26	675.65
Stamford	163.127	155.80	179.027	228.96	118.50	104.75	331.97	784.18
Tompkins	193.952	141.00	208.052	511.86		148.12	391.71	1051.69
Walton	175.300	323.80	207.680	229.99	100.00	119.62	383.59	833.20

1841

At a meeting of the Supervisors of the County of Delaware held at their room in the Court House in Delhi on Tuesday the 9^th day of November 1841.

Present as follows:

*Andes*	*George Thompson*	*Kortright*	*John McDonald*
*Bovina*	*James Coulter*	*Masonville*	*Pliny W. Smith*
*Colcheser*	*Rensslaer W. Elwood*	*Meredith*	*Isaac Burr*
*Davenport*	*Thompson Paine*	*Middletown*	*Timothy Coring Jr.*
*Franklin*	*Levi Hale*	*Sidney*	*Reuben Lewis*
*Hamden*	*Benajah Hawley*	*Stamford*	*Orrin Foote*
*Hancock*	*Samuel Doyl*	*Tompkins*	*Darius Maples*
*Harpersfield*	*Phineas L. Bennett*	*Walton*	*John Townsend*

Thereupon Darius Maples of Tompkins was chosen Chairman and Albert Edgerton of Delhi, Clerk.

The Chair announced the standing Committees. Viz.

To Equalize the Assessment Rolls

Messrs. Gould, Townsend, Lewis, Doyl, Burr, Foote & Corbin

To Settle with the Loan Commissionrs and U. S. D. F. Commissioners

Messrs. Bennett, McDonald & Hawley

To Audit Justices and Constables accts.

Messrs. Paine, Burr & Elwood

To Settle with Superintendents of Poor

Messrs. Coulter, Keator & Smith

To Settle with County Treasurer

Messrs. Hale, Thompson & McDonald

To Examine Court House & Jail

Messrs. Gould, Smith & Lewis

After auditing several Town & County accounts the Board adjourned to 8 o'clock tomorrow a.m.

Wednesday Nov. 10^th, 1841

Board met pursuant to adjournment and went to visit the Poorhouse and the work recently made by the Superintendents for protecting the Poorhouse farm from the inundations of the water. After which they returned and proceeded to business.

Mr. Thompson of Andes appealed from the decision of Jury which had assessed damages to John M. Gregory, William A. More & Andrew McNaught on account of the laying out of a highway through their lands and asked that the subject might lay over till next year. The Board granted his request and matter was ordered to lie over.

On Motion of Mr. Keator

Resolved that a sum of money be raised in each Town equal to the amount appropriated by the State for the support of Common Schools.

Mr. Maples introduced a resolution of the Town of Tompkins to raise certain School monies for said Town which was of so ambiguous a meaning that on motion of Mr. Smith it was rejected.

Board adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow am.

Thursday Nov. 11

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

On Motion

Resolved that the Clerk be directed to levy the Highway Taxes upon such nonresident lands of the various Towns as are returned unpaid.

The appeal of Timothy Corbin, Jr. of Middletown from the verdict of a Jury which awarded him $25 damages on account of the altering of a public highways, which was last year postponed, was taken up for adjudication. After some discussion it was resolved that the damages be raised from $25 to $100.00.

On Motion

Resolved that Horace Griswold be authorized to make such repairs on the Courthouse & Jail as they shall require.

Mr. Corbin made an application to have $100 audited as a county charge to be paid to the Commissioners of Highways of the Town of Middletown to aid them in building bridges. The application was rejected and Mr. Corbin gave notice of his intentions to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas.

Board adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow a.m.

Friday Nov. 12^th

Board met, present as yesterday.

An application was made by Jesse Burch for consideration for expenses incurred in a lawsuit while Overseer of the Town of Andes.

After some discussion the Board came to the conclusion that they ought not to grant the application and the petition was rejected.

The Committee to Settle with the Treasurer made a report which was accepted.

On Motion

Resolved that the person selected to repair the Court House & Jail be directed to remove the same building attached to the N. E. side of the jail to the N. W. side of said jail.

On Motion

Resolved that $1400 be raised to be placed with the excise money for the support of the Poor and that $5900 be raised for the contingent expenses of the county.

The Committee to Settle with Superintendent of Poor made a report which was accepted.

The Committee to Equalize the Assessment Rolls made a report which after some alterations in committee of the whole was adopted & the clerk direted to raise the Towns as follows viz:

The real estate of the Towns of Meredith, Andes, Davenport & Sidney be raised 5 per cent. Delhi, Colchester & Hamden 15 percent. Franklin, Middletown & Walton 10 per cent. Masonville 12 per cent from the assessment rolls & that the remaining Towns stand as the assessors returned them.

The Superintendents of the Poor presented to the Board the accounts of A. B. Dutton & Charles Post for labour performed on the Poorhouse dam & also asked an appropriation to pay for some land which had been purchased by the.

After considerable discussion on motion of Timothy Corbin, Jr. the matter was ordered held over till next year.

The Board then proceeded to ballott for 2 Deputy Superintendents of Common Schools & Resolved that the compensation of allowed them should not exceed $250 per year for each.

After several ballotings David McFarland of Delhi & Robert S. Hughston of Sidney were declared duly elected.

Jacob Churchill appeared before the Board and asked the Supervisors to direct the removal of a certain fence bordering upon the public square to enable him to have more easy access to his lot.

A Committee consisting of Messrs. Corbin, Coulter & McDonald was appointed and after investigating the matter the Board resolved that it is inexpedient to grant any authority or to give any direction in the premises.

Board adjourned to Dec. 14^th. 1841.

Board met pursuant to adjournment on Tuesday the 14^th of December

The Committee to Settle with Loan Officers made a report which was accepted.

On Motion of Mr. McDonald

Resolved that the vote adopting the report of Committee to Settle with Treasurer be rescinded.

On Mo of Mr. Gould ordered that the report be recommitted to the committee with instructions to correct the same.

Mr. McDonald asked to be excused from further service on the committee To Settle with U.S.D. F. Commissioners. The Board excused him & Mr. Foote was appointed in his place.

Board adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow a.m.

Wednesday Dec. 15^th

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

The Superintendents of the Poor made a report which was accepted & is on file & was ordered for publication.

The Committee to Settle with the Treasurer reported and the report was accepted.

The Committee to settle with U. S. D. F. Commissioners made a report which was signed by the Supervisors (except T. Corbin, Jr. who was not present at the second meeting) & is sent to the Comptroller.

On Motion of Thompson Paine, Esq. Of Davenport

Resolved that the Board now proceed to ballot for a County Treasurer. On counting the ballots it was ascertained that Anthony M. Paine had received ten votes, Charles E. Perry received 2 votes & James Elwood three votes. Mr. Paine was declared duly elected.

On Motion that

Resolved that Mr. Paine be required to give bond in the sum of $20000, for the faithful discharge of his duties as Treasurer. Mr. Paine came forward with a bond in the required amount signed by himself & by Gurdeon H. Edgerton, John Edgerton, Jas. G. Redfield and James Elwood as sureties, the Bond was approved & ordered to be filed in the Clerks Office.

Resolved that the Clerk receive $120 for his services.

On Motion

Resolved the vote which was taken at the last meeting postponing the consideration of the Poor House dam & the land purchased by the Superintendents be rescinded.

The ayes and nays being called for were taken as follows:

Ayes, Messrs. Coulter, Elwood, Paine, Gould, Hale, Doyl, McDonald, Burr, Lewis & Townsend 10.

Nays, Messrs Thompson, Hawley, Bennet, Smith, Keator and Foote.

So the resolution passed.

Resolved that a committee be appointed to investigate the accounts for building the Poor House dam. The chair appointed Messrs. Gould, Burr & Coulter.

The Committee to examine the accounts for the building of the Poor House dam made a report which was accepted and certain monies were audited to Charles Post & Asahel R. Dutton for the labour & also an amount to the Superintendents for to pay for the land which they had purchased.

Resolved that the Treasurer be authorized to borrow money if necessary to meet the debts due from the County.

Resolved that Albert Edgerton be directed to spend a few days if necessary should he be in Albany during the year, in the Comptrollers office to examine & get such information as will enable the Supervisors to correctly dispose of certain rejected taxes returned from the Town of Andes. And then the Board adjourned sine dic.

A. Edgerton, Clerk

A Statement of the Town and County Accounts, audited by the Board of Supervisors of Delaware County, at their Annual Meeting in November and December, in the year 1841, with the amount claimed and the amount allowed to each individual.

COUNTY ACCOUNTS CLAIMED ALLOWED COUNTY ACCOUNTS CLAIMED ALLOWED

Aldrich, Curtiss J.	1.68	1.25	Burr, Isaac	.42	.42
Burr, Isaac		14.80	Barlow, Charles	2.00	2.00
Barlow, Charles		8.67	Bissell, Lawton M.		10.68
Booth, Jesse		13.69	Banner, John		1.97
Brett, John F.	10.47	8.02	Bowne, Norwood		19.30
Bennet, Phineas L.		21.20	Coulter, James		15.60
Corbin, Timothy, Jr.		13.20	Cottrell, Learned		22.64
Ceas, David		4.99	Copley, Heman		6.69
Cavin, Samuel B.		4.88	Cannon, Benjamin T.		20.83
Carpenter, David D.	19.69	18.49	Coulter, Walter		.78
Coulter, Walter		1.20	Cobb, Anson S.	1.13	1.10
Crane, Elijha E.		1.00	Dimmick, Warren		1.50
Dimmick, Warren		1.72	Edgerton, Erastus S.		226.79
Elwood & Edgerton		11.34	Edgerton, John		133.25
Edwards, Hiram		6.69	Edgerton, Gurden H.		19.50
Edgerton, Gurden H.		39.75	Elwood, Rensselaer W.		20.00
Foote, Orrin		1.02	Foote, Orrin		18.80
Fox, Samuel Y.	2.25	1.96	Ford, Fitch		2.01
Field, Christopher		20.14	Fitzgerald, Robert	7.70	7.57
Fancher, William H.		1.37	Fancher, William H.		2.54
Fenn, Elbridge B.		16.77	Foote, H. W.	6.21	5.98
Foote, H. W.	4.33	4.17	Gould, Herman D.		12.00
Goodrich, Richard M.		4.40	Goodrich, Richard M.	4.67	2.92
Goodman, Thomas A. (assigned to A. Edgerton)		4.95	Griffin, Matthew	10.95	9.15
Geer, John		20.00	Griffin, David	9.75	4.60
Green, Stephen	3.25	2.78	Green, Stephen	2.63	2.55
Green, Stephen	7.84	7.43	George, Gilbert R.	1.73	1.42
Hale, Levi		18.80	Hawley, Benajah		.60
Hawley, Benajah		16.00	Huntley, Daniel		1.00
Hughston, Robert S.	1.63	1.60	Hathaway, Nathaniel		22.66
Hitchcock, John		.92	Hakes, Lyman		1.26
Hulce, Martial R.		2.84	Howe, James B.		138.60
Howe, James B.		3.86	Hilton, Silas D.	.94	.96
Hilton, Silas D.	2.63	2.02	Halcott, Matthew	10.40	10.21
Johnson, Elias		2.00	Jennings, Beach		2.80
Knapp, James W.		1.68	Keeler, Martin, Jr.		.84
Keator, Harvey		1.56	Keator, Harvey		22.40
Keator, Harvey	21.44	20.50	Landfield, Majah D.	1.75	.80
Lewis, Reuben		1.00	Lewis, Reuben		24.20
McDonald, John		16.80	McFarland, David		8.73
Maples, Darius		1.86	Maples, Darius		24.40
Maples, Darius		6.34	Martin, Josiah		1.75
Mallory, Ira	4.00	3.44	Mills, James A.	5.38	4.00
Morse, Richard		1.61	Morse, Richard		6.31
McCollum, Reuben		2.00	Marvin, Anthony Y.	14.44	7.03
Moore, Greene		35.83	Moore, Thorn		7.05
Metcalf, Ira	14.73	12.48	Millard, Harvey R.		1.25
Mills, Benoni	1.50	1.36	Newkirk, Jacob		20.00
Ostrom, John, Jr.		5.42	Ostrom, John, Jr.		22.49
Peet, H. P., Principal of N.Y. Institution for the Deaf & Dumb		36.79	Patton, John	2.33	1.46
Pratt, Edward	12.59	10.00	Post, Charles		239.74
Post, Charles	11.16	10.00	Potts, George	1.93	1.30
Paine, Thompson		.84	Paine, Thompson		17.60
Porter, Linus		1.71	Parker, Mason		2.25
Pine, Peter		10.00	Pine, Peter		10.00
Purdy, Horace		20.00	Pettingill, Samuel C.	10.00	7.00
Parker, Mason	4.61	4.00	Paine, Anth. M.		73.96
Perry, Charles E.		25.40	Preston, Ezekiel		3.92
Rogers, Charles S.	1.59	1.40	Robinson, Dinghee A.	22.95	18.95
Redmond, John	8.16	5.60	Redfield, James G.		27.00
Rowland, Daniel		7.98	Rowe, William		1.65
Superintendents of the Poor, for the purchase of land		316.25	Seely, Levi	2.15	1.40
Stott, John E.	7.18	5.18	Sheldon, Crawford B.		7.50
Sheldon, Crawford B.		142.49	Seacord, John		6.61
Scott, Jeremiah	1.49	.36	Smith, Ebenezer		8.42
Smith, Pliny W.		1.22	Scott, Silas P.	11.61	9.49
Stewart, Leman		4.95	Smith, Asaph K.	5.06	4.39
Simson, William	21.75	11.04	Smith, Pliny W.		26.40
Twaddell, James M.		1.75	Thompson, George		.75
Thompson, George		18.00	Townsend, John		1.02
Townsend, John		18.80	Taylor, James	9.43	7.94
Trotter, William	12.82	10.58	Tompkins, Silas		2.55
Tompkins, Silas		3.12	Tompkins, Silas	17.47	12.97
Willis, Wearam		2.10	Wood, Stephen		1.56
Williams, Nathan W.	1.11	.84	Williams, Henry A.	3.38	3.32
Williams, Henry A.	272	2.36	Wilcox, Alonzo B.	6.60	4.41
Wilcox, Milo R.		5.50	Wheeler, Nelson K.		392.96
Woodworth, William W.		4.21	Woodworth, William W.		28.74
Woodworth, William W.		1.12	Woodworth, William		1.25

Town Accounts

Andes

George Thompson	7.00	Peter Pennett	18.00
Colin Campbell	12.19	Peter Shaver	13.13
Adam L. Coan	11.88	Cyrus Burr	9.75
James A. Bassett	5.50	William Shaver	4.50
William A. More	2.00	Daniel B. Shaver	7.50
Daniel Hawks	2.50	Marcus T. Peake	4.50
John P. Benjamin	2.75	Charles Barlow	8.00
Anson S. Cobb	3.00	Samuel McCobe	12.50
George Raitt	6.00	Edward Sands	6.00
Peter McNee	.87	Horace Purdy	10.00
Commissioners of Schools	246.36

Bovina

John Ladd	6.00	John Furguson	6.25
Alphonso Lee	7.25	John Seacord	3.00
Seymour C. Wilcox	4.50	John Erkson, Jr.	3.75
John Erkson, Jr.	12.75	William Orr	25.00
James M. Hasting	11.25	Anthony Wilber	12.50
John A. Johnston	3.75	Walter Coulter	12.50
Walter Stotts	25.00	Walter Stott	5.75
John Scott	1.00	John Burns	4.00
John McNaught	4.00	John T. Wilber	3.00
Isaac Maynard	3.00	Walter Coulter	3.00
James Coulter	8.50	Commissioners of Schools	158.85

Colchester

Levi Rainor	2.00	John H. Radiker	3.75
Wm. H. More	1.50	Alfred Hunter	13.75
Joseph Woolsey	6.50	Philip Bassett	7.00
Charles Spooner	13.75	Daniel Huntley	7.50
Geo. W. Downs	14.50	Harvey Dan	6.00
R. W. Elwood	12.25	Ebineazar Dan	1.00
John H. Gregory	21.00	Perry Radiker	3.25
Henry I. Radiker	4.00	Richard L. White	20.50
Samuel C. Lindsley	14.00	James M. Buckley	1.50
Sebra G. Stevans	1.50	John D. Fuller	.50
Isaac Teed	.50	Geo. Huntley	1.50
Commissioners of Highways	278.00	Commissioners of Schools	177.41

Davenport

Thompson Paine	7.62	George C. Paine	3.00
David Goodrich	12.51	Ezra Dennend	12.51
Morton Emmons	11.89	Philander Smith	16.75
Warren Barnes	12.00	Daniel Furguson	16.40
Jesse Booth	6.13	Edward Pratt	6.00
Elbridge B. Fenn	7.00	Mitchell Covit	5.50
Rufus Butts	9.00	John W. Michael	4.50
Zebulon E. Goodrich	1.00	John Furguson, Jr.	2.50
Squire Moon	4.00	Jesse Booth	4.00
Zachariah Briant	2.00	Commissioners of Highways	250.00
Commissioners of Schools	232.33

Delhi

H. D. Gould	3.75	P. P. Wright	21.75
David G. Yeoman	14.37	Jared Webster	7.00
Daniel Blair	11.25	John L. Wiesmer	5.50
Gurdon P. Maxwell	8.50	Daniel Grant	4.75
Charles E. Chamberlin	3.75	Daniel McMullin	3.75
Hiram Olmstead	2.50	Hiram Olmstead	2.50
Joseph C. Wyckoff	2.50	Ferris Jacobs	2.50
Oliver Peake, Jr.	4.00	Abner G. Thurber	1.25
J. A. Hughston	9.12	A. F. Salisbury	12.25
E. M. Leal	4.50	A. C. Erkson	3.75
A. G. Boomhour	7.50	Charles Marvine	2.00
James G. Redfield	1.25	Nathaniel Hathaway	1.25
Gregor Mc Gregor	8.50	Walter Hutson	13.75
M. L. Farrington	4.50	George Smith	12.50
Robert Parker	10.50	Commissioners of Highways	250.00
Commissioners of Schools	289.16

Franklin

Chas. A. Hine	3.75	Asahel B. Chamberlin	3.75
Elias Jackson	11.88	Thos. A. Follett	11.88
Augustus J. Chamberlin	14.37	Levi Hale	4.88
A. Douglas, Jr.	14.45	Hiram Hawley	15.50
Warran Green	19.00	Chas. Noble	2.75
Albert E. Sullard	3.00	Wm. Mudge	2.50
Fitch Ford	3.50	Linus Porter	1.25
Francis W. Hine	3.88	John Hazen	5.25
Beach Jennings	26.13	Reuben S. Smith	12.50
Commissioners of Highways	70.00	Commissioners of Schools	342.49

Hamden

Benajah Hawley 7.37 ½ Ira Peake 11.88

Samuel W. Andrus 10.00 Cameleus Becker 2.00

M. L. Bostwick 2.00 Ira Mallory 2.00

Walter Chase 2.50 Richard M. Goodrich 3.00

William Mason 4.00 William Stewart 1.75

White Griswold 13.88 Thomas Lawrance 3.39

Peter Launt 7.60 Marcus L. Bostwick 5.00

John Howard 4.39 Nathaniel Straens 7.00

William Stewart 16.38 Commissioners of Highways 65.00

Commissioners of Schools 166.33

Hancock

John Geer	10.00	John Knight, Jr.	3.75
Wm. B. Williams	5.00	Ebenezer F. Wheeler	3.00
Charles Leonard	2.50	William Twaddle	2.00
Halloway Lewis	3.50	Joseph Gee	1.75
Samuel C. Pettingill	4.00	James M. Miller	14.00
Nathan W. Williams	19.87 ½	Josiah Martin	16.00
Samuel Doyle	6.37 ½	Silas Thomas	11.37 ½
Stephen Reed	7.00	Charles Baxter	3.00
James M. Twaddell	3.00	Commissioners of Highways	250.00
Commissioners of Schools	116.16

Harpersfield

Phineas L. Bennett	6.00	James McMin	16.75
Heman Copley	11.25	Abel Dayton	11.25
Marshall Cowley	10.00	Orris Osborn	4.50
Almon D. Lindsley	3.50	Alford Wickes	5.00
Apollos B. Wilcox	3.00	Ezra W. Spafford	1.50
Richard B. Gibbs	2.00	Beardsley B. Disbrow	2.00
Russell B. Hotchkiss	2.00	John Flansburgh	1.00
Orrin Tradwell	3.50	Robert English, Jr.	5.00
Davis Hubbard	3.50	Jacob Foote	1.00
Levi Seley	2.90	Alonzo B. Wilcox	2.90
Commissioners of Schools	193.37

Kortright

John McDonald	6.75	James Sloan	13.12
Luther Butts	11.88	Edmund Keeler	12.25
Adams Jaque	18.00	William McLaughry	15.75
Matthew McLaughry	3.75	Horace K. Willard	7.00
John Hanford	1.00	Thos. Harkness, 3d	4.00
Henry Kerr	14.00	Martin Keeler, Jr.	9.50
Ezra T. Gibbs	4.00	John Hitchcolk	5.50
S. H. Keeler	7.50	Andrew Gilchrist	2.00
Leman Stewat	3.00	Lewis Mills	4.00
Asher Merwin	14.25	Commissioners of Highways	120.00
Commissioners of Schools	276.37

Masonville

Wait Cannon	3.75	Israel C. Bourn	2.00
Simeon E. Gilbert	3.00	P. White Smith	7.50
Rufus A. Thompson	2.50	Collins Brown	5.00
Erastus S. Stebbins	3.00	Daniel McKinnon	12.50
George W. Beach	11.26	Edward L. Bradstreet
Pliny Smith	5.38	Jeremiah Scott	1.00
Sluman Bartlett	3.00	Lewis Kentfield	8.25
Ira Balcom	8.25	Harlo Bundy	3.50
Chester Beach	2.00	Wearam Willis	.50
George W. Willis	1.00	Daniel Orcutt, Jr.	19.14
Commissioners of Schools	305.62

Meredith

Isaac Burr	8.63	Elijah Mabie	14.50
Amasa Fox	.63	Lansing Stilson	5.00
Alexander T. Leal	3.00	William Strong	13.13
Philander Jones	13.13	Eleazer Wright, Jr.	15.38
John Fulford	5.00	Solomon P. Yeoman	3.00
George W. O'Brien	2.50	John G. Graham	3.00
Salmon M. Smith	2.50	Simeon Crane	3.00
Milton Frisbee	7.50	Commissioners of Highways	36.50
Commissioners of Schools	185.68

Middletown

Noah Dimmick, Jr.	16.00	Millow W. Hubbell	4.50
Madison Dean	4.00	Orrin Stocum	12.00
Luman Searle	8.50	Jesse Searle	10.50
Timothy Corbin, Jr.	5.00	Matthew Halcott	7.50
Zebulon Ashby, Jr.	2.50	C. B. Delamater	10.75
Warren Dimmick	3.50	B. W. Baker	16.25
Edmund Kelly, Jr.	13.75	Edmund Kelly, Jr.	7.00
Jonathan O. Allaben	6.50	C. Reynolds	14.69
Jacob Mead	15.00	Stephen Green	.99
Asa Griffin	8.00	Orson M. Allaben	15.00
Orson M. Allaben	13.38	C. B. Delamater	1.00
Commissioners of Highways	462.33	Commissioners of Schools	295.27

Roxbury

John P. Burhans	9.50	Alfred Wicks	3.75
Chas. D. Wicks	3.75	John F. Ris	13.75
Jonas M. Smith	12.25	Jacob C. Keator	4.00
Daniel D. Keator	4.00	Levi Mead	12.50
Samuel Scudder	13.75	Ab. I. Keator	3.50
Erastus Follet	10.50	John L. More	4.00
Joseph Wyckoff	12.00	Jas. Kilpatrick, Jr.	2.00
Noah Dimmick	2.00	Martin Kelly	11.00
Hervy Keator	7.00	Thomas Keator	16.75
Andrew More	2.50	E. I. Burhans	1.00
Commissioners of Highways	213.00	Commissioners of Schools	341.13

Sidney

Ruben Lewis	6.50	Stephen Wood	1.00
Rufus P. Green	13.76	Joshua G. Houghtaling	11.87 ½
Daniel Birdsall	14.37 ½	Evander Odell	6.50
James Teed	7.00	Sluman L. Wattles	11.00
William Flint	4.00	Seth Bartlett	6.00
William E. Webster	4.50	Robert W. Courtney	4.12
Henry Furman	14.50	John Baxter	9.50
John M. Betts	9.50	HenryWoolcott	2.00
Jonathan Burdick	3.00	William V. Webster	14.37
Contingent for Clerk's Office	1.50	Charles S. Rogers	2.00
Robert S. Hughston	3.00	Commissioners Highways	132.00
Commissioners of Schools	196.09	Commissioners Schools for 1839	5.00

Stamford

Orrin Foote	6.25	Horace Hanford	21.35
James A. Thomas	13.75	Hector Sinclair	15.00
Samuel B. Maynard	10.62	Duncan Mc Donald	1.50
Wm. Trotter	1.00	Anthony Y. Marvine	1.50
John Gemmel	8.00	Alex. McDonald	6.00
John A. Grant, Jr.	8.00	John B. Thomas	11.25
Cillick Gould	4.00	Levinus Munson	5.50
Calvin Howard	6.25	Hector L. Stewart	2.50
Dewitt C. Thomas	7.75	Jonathan B. Cowles	3.25
Orrin Griffin	4.25	Nicholas N. Champlin
Charles W. Booth	1.25	Commissioners Highways	28.25
Commissioners of Schools	190.32

Tompkins

Darius Maples	8.37 ½	Isaac Cleaver	7.50
Simon Lusk	13.75	John Rose	2.00
Thomas W. Ostron	9.00	S.D. Higgins	7.00
George W. Briggs	10.50	Elias Greenman	1.00
John Day	9.50	Abram G. Miller	13.50
Stephen Vanscoyk	13.94	Ezekiel Weast	2.00
John Bulock	1.37 ½	Mason Parker	1.50
Jasiah D. Cleveland	1.00	Samuel G. Cleveland	1.00
George W. Beach	1.00	Chester Beach	1.00
P.White Smith	1.00	Jesse Teed	1.00
Thomas Clark	1.00	Elias Vail	1.00
Jeremiah Scott	1.00	Asa Gould	1.00
Ziba Brunson	1.00	George W. Willis	1.00
Elijah Warren	35.00	Moses L. Ogden	5.00
Joshua Smith	3.50	Henry Flint	4.37 ½
John Bullock	2.50	Samuel Bartlett	2.00
Samuel A. Cotterell	6.50	Joseph S. Babcock	2.50
Commissioners of Schools	230.40

Walton

Samuel North	6.25	David H. Gay	6.75
Thomas J. Ogden	6.25	Alvah Rowell	3.50
Levi Hanford, Jr.	5.75	Amasa Hoyt	13.12 ½
Smith St. John	13.12 ½	Samuel eells	13.12 ½
Wm. B. Hanford	8.50	Cyrus St. John	13.00
Benj. J. Bassett	10.00	Benj. White	3.60
Abraham Ogden	8.12	John Townsend	4.37
Wm. Gay	2.75	Platt Townsend	21.12 ½
Commissioners Highways	150.00	Commissioners Schools	209.00

Valuation of the Property of the County of Delaware in the Year 1841 and the amount of money raised and to whom paid.

	Real	Personal	Aggregate	Schools	Highways	Supervisors	Treasurers	Aggt. Tax
Andes	169.841	128.75	182716	243.46	72.39	155.07	451.38	925.20
Bovina	106.718	150.40	121.758	158.85		165375	290.97	615.57
Colchester	112.634	100.25	122.659 add 15 percent to real	177.41	349.18	157.75	345.48	1029.82
Davenport	128.461	156.25	144.086 add 5 p/ct	232.33	250.00	158.71	383.00	1024.04
Delhi	220.107	101.880	321.987 ad 15 p/ct	289.16	250.00	188.49	834.84	1563.94
Franklin	280.662	367.00	317.362 ad 10 p/ct	342.49	70.00	160.22	776.23	1348.94
Hamden	117.305	85.00	125.805 ad 15 p/ct	166.33	65.00	104.14	343.00	678.47
Harpersfield	163.659	143.70	178.029	193.37	98.55	98.55	418.52	712.05
Hancock	134.986	69.50	141.936	116.16	250.00	116.12	344.00	826.78
Kortright	203.650	96.00	213.250	276.37	120.00	157.25	497.17	1052.67
Masonville	100.486	32.75	103.761 ad 12 p/ct	160.78		102.53	283.05	691.71
Meredith	163.270	326.52	195.922 ad 5 p/ct	185.68	36.50	99.90	474.16	796.77
Middletown	153.253	86.70	161.923	295.27	462.33	196.31	454.31	1409.15
Roxbury	241.318	195.00	260.818	341.13	413.00	149.50	632.39	1538.72
Stamford	162.069	155.80	177.649	190.32	28.25	167.22	420.35	807.30
Sidney	163.592	65.90	170.182 ad 5 p/ct	196.09	132.00	158.00	425.51	912.23
Tompkins	194.655	183.30	212.985	230.00	64.52	174.44	501.23	907.32
Walton	177.200	310.90	208.290 ad 10 pr ct	209.00	211.65	139.32	540.00	1099.87

1842

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County ofDelaware held at thier room in the Court House in the Village of Delhi on the 15^th day of November 1842.

Present as follows:

*Andes*	*George Thompson*	*Kortright*	*John McDonald*
*Bovina*	*Walter Coulter*	*Meredith*	*Charles Post*
*Colchester*	*Barney Radeker*	*Masonville*	*Phiny Smith*
*Delhi*	*David McFarland*	*Middletown*	*Edmund Kelly*
*Davenport*	*Jesse Booth*	*Roxbury*	*Jonas More*
*Franklin*	*Levi Hale*	*Stamford*	*Orrin Foote*
*Hamden*	*Donald Shaw*	*Sidney*	*Reuben Lewis*
*Hancock*	*Samuel Doyle*	*Tompkins*	*Darius Maples*
*Harpersfield*	*Phineas L. Bennett*	*Walton*	*John Townsend*

On Motion of Darius Maples of Tompkins was appointed Chairman and E. G. Waters of Delhi appointed Clerk.

The Chair then appointed the following Committees

To Equalize the Assessment Rolls

Messrs. Booth, Post, Foote, Doyle, Lewis, Thompson & Townsend

To Settle with Treasurer

Messrs. Smith, More and Shaw

To Settle with U. S. D. F. Commissioners

Messrs. More, Bennett and McDonald

To Settle Justices & Constables Accounts

Messrs. McFarland, Coulter and Booth

To Settle with Superintendants

Messrs. Hale, Kelly and McDonald

To Examine Court House and Jail

Messrs. Bennett, McFarland & Radeker

To Settle With Loan Commissioners

Messrs. Kelly, Radeker and Smith

Board adjourned until 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Wednesday November 16^th.

Board met pursuant to adjournment.

Present as Yesterday.

The Board proceeded to audit Town and County accounts.

Darius Maples presented a resolution passes at their annual town meeting to raise the same amount of money in Tompkins for the benefit of schools that the law requires shall be raised in each town in order to draw public money.

Board adjourned one hour.

Wednesday afternoon

Board met.

The Committee appointed to examine Court House and Jail reported in favor of repairing fire proof floor in the Clerk's Office and also in favor of purchasing a Book Case. The committee also recommended the purchase of a new seal for the county.

On Motion

Resolved that $2 be audited to repair safe in Clerk's office and $35 for the purpose of procuring a seal for the County and $20 to purchase a book case.

On Motion Mr. Bennett.

Resolved that the Court House be used for no other purpose than those for which it was intended when built.

On Motion Mr. McFarland

Resolved that the Supervisors room be open for the convenience of witnesses during the session of Grand Jury.

On Motion

Resolved that the Del. Co. Bible Society have the privilege of holding their annual meetings in the Court House.

Charles Post and Asahel R. Dutton presented an account for building the Poor House dam on the Little Delaware.

On Motion the consideration of the question was postponed until said dam could be examined.

Matthew McClarughy	19.75	Wm. McClaughry	4.00
John McDonald	14.13	David Hallock	7.00
Elisha Wetmore	7.75	Martin Keeler Jr.	11.00
Ezra T. Gibbs	6.00	Jared Goodrich	15.38
Jas. Sloan	13.13	Frederick Griffin	3.75
H. K. Willan	3.50	David Keeler	7.00
Henry Gregory	13.13	Luther Butts	5.75
Highways	25.50	Stephen H. Keeler	6.50
Asher Merwin	4.50

B. Pine, Clerk	12.25	Charles Spooner	3.25
Orsamus Lakin	2.00	Richard L. White	13.75
David Horton	2.00	William H. Moore	14.37 ½
Daniel Huntley	3.75	Eben Hawks	3.75
Phillip Basset	6.00	Rensalaer W. Ellwood	6.50
Francis Yeomans	2.50	George H. Phelps	4.00
Allan Knapp	2.50	Charles Knapp	11.00
Barna Radeker	14.00	John R. Radeker	14.00
John H. Gregory	8.00	Comm. Of Highways	300.00

Cornelius R. Fitch	7.50	Peter P. Wright	22.88
George Smith	13.75	John B. Yendes	15.63
Walter Hutson	14.37	Daniel Grant	3.75
John L. Weismer	3.75	Daniel Blair	3.75
A. G. Boomhour	3.50	A. G. Thurbur	5.00
A. F. Salisbury	2.75	J. A. Hughston	5.00
Robert Parker	3.25	Nathl. Hathaway	2.00
James G. Redfield	1.25	Fitz J. Fitch	5.00
J. B. Fry	8.00	Dubois Burhans	9.00
Henry Leal	10.00	Comm. Highways	125.00

Benajah Hawley	7.37 ½	Ira Peake	11.88
Samuel W. Andrus	10.00	Cameleus Becker	2.00
M. L. Bostwick	2.00	Ira Mallory	2.00
Walter Chase	2.50	Richard M. Goodrich	3.00
William Mason	4.00	William Stewart	1.75
White Griswold	13.88	Thomas Lawrance	3.39
Peter Launt	7.60	Marcus L. Bostwick	5.00
John Howard	4.39	Nathaniel Straens	7.00
William Stewart	16.38	Commissioners of Highways	65.00
Commissioners of Schools	166.33