The first election for town officers took place on the 5th of April, 1791, when the following individuals were chosen for the year ensuing : Isaac Smith, supervisor; Abraham Hyatt, town clerk; Sutton Craft, constable ; Benjamin Carpenter, collector ; and Caleb Carpenter, security ; Caleb Haight, Nathaniel Smith, Henry Slason, assessors ; Caleb Carpenter, Abraham Hyatt, overseers of the poor ; Caleb Haight, Nathaniel Smith, Henry Slason, commissioners of roads ; James Underhill, pounder ; and Nathaniel Concklin, Jesse Brady, Isaac Powell, damage prizers and fence viewers,

'• Isaac Smith, Caleb Carpenter and Isaiah Green, were deputed to meet a committee from the town of North Castle for to settle all disputes which may exist between the town of New Castle and the aforesaid town of any nature or kind whatsoever, also to settle the line between the two towns."

New Castle corners'* is pleasantly situated in the north-east angle of the town, on the west side of Kirby's pond. It contains several stores, a post-office, a grist mill, optical works, and several dwelling houses. The neighborhood of this beautiful spot abounds with most romantic scenery. It is now about one hundred and twenty-eight years since the first families settled in this place. They appear to have met with great discouragements, and to have endured severe trials ; for they were in the midst of a wilderness, and constantly exposed to Indian depreciations. The Rev. Robert Jenney, minister of Rye, writing to the Propagation Society in 1722, thus alludes to the place : "I have lately been to a settlement in the woods, where I had good success, having baptized a whole family, parents and children."6 This evidently refers to the present village, for in 1728 the Rev. T. Wetmore, his successor informs the same society, that " at North Castle, a new settlement in the u'oods^ there are more than forty families -- most of which are unbaptized, and that he preaches there every fifth Sunday."0