Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names
Resolutions were adopted, the chief of whidi was that " in the opinion of t^is meeting it is proper, practicable and necessary to form a temperance society in this place ; and that the great and leading object of this society is wholly to abstain from ardent spirits." A committee, of which Dr. Clark was chairman, was appointed to prepare the Bylaws for the organization, and twenty-three persons enrolled themselves as members. The following is the list of the signers : Isaac B. Pa}Ti, Ichabod Hawley, David Parsons, James Mott, Alvaro Hawley, Thomas Cotton, David Tillotson, Billy J. Clark, Charles Kellogg, jr., Elnathan
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Spencer, Asaph Putnam, Hawley St. John, Nicholas W. Angle, Dan Kellogg, Ephraim Ross, John M. Berry, John T. Sealy, Cyrus Wood, James Rogers, Tlenry Martin, Sidney Berry, Joseph Sill, Solomon St. John. The meeting having adjourned one^week, to April 20, at the Mawney house, a long and comprehensive system of By-laws was then adopted. Article I stated that " This society shall be known by the appellation of Union Temperance Society of Moreau and Northumberland." Like Dr. Rush's essay, the Constitution of the society took grounds only against spirituous liquors, making exceptions regarding the use of them in circumstances of religious ordinances, sickness and public dinners. It was not until 1843 that the society " after a long season of declension," on a motion put by Dr. Clark, adopted a resolution of total abstinence. Col. Sidney Berry, ex- judge of Saratoga county, was chosen president and Dr. Clark secretary of the new society. As there exists an apparent contradiction as to the particular roof under which this historic meeting was held, one account stating that it occurred at the Mawney house and another at the neighboring school house, it is proper to say here" that this discrepancy is removed by the statement made in Judge Hay's book, page 22, that the session opened in the Mawney house, but that " the society completed its organization " in the school house.