Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.

I told them it was altogether impossible for me to comply with their desires, it being wholly repugnant to the laws of England to compel the subject to pay for the maintenance of any minister who was not of the National Church, and that it lay not in any Governor's power to help them, but since they were so zealous for having religion and good order settled amongst 'em, I …

Bondett, which I immediately did, hoping by that means to bring them over to the church ; but Mather, apprehending what I aimed at, persuaded the vestry to alter their resolutions, and when he came they refused to call him, so that jjrojection failing me, and finding that it was impossible to make any progress toward settling the church so long as Mather continued among us, I …

It is not explained by what means Heathcote drove the Puritan clergymen out of the country, but it is not doubtful that he turned many of the Presbyterians over to the Anglican faith and prepared the way for the work of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, an organization of the Church of England, which sent John Bartow out as a missionary. He was placed in …

Morgan, had begun service in the meeting-house, to which I went straitway and continued the whole time of service without interruption, and in the afternoon I was permitted to perform the Church of England services, Mr. Morgan being present, and neither he or the people seemed to be dissatisfied, and after some time of preaching there afterwards they desired me to come …

Tennent and his adherents were excluded from the Synod of Philadelphia in 1741, in the absence of the entire Presbytery of New York. The excluded Methodists rallied around the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and in 1745 it combined with the Presbytery of New York in erecting the Synod of New York, all of whose churches were in sympathy with the Methodists. In 1 7r)2 the Rye …

Morgan was of tougher fibre than Vesey. He resisted all the influence brought to bear upon him and remained faithful. He labored for many years as a Presbyterian mini.ster and died in New Jersey in connection with the ."Synod of Philadelphia. Rye was taken possession of Iiy Thomas Pritcliard and afterwards by Mr. Muirson. and John Jones, pastor of Bedford, was forced to retire …

All the members of the Assembly but one were Dissenters, and in considering a bill for settling a ministry they obstinately refused to incori>orate an amendment submitted by the Governor, providing that the bill should be presented to him, " to be apjtrovod and collated." His object was to construct it to the advantage of the Church of England, and as the Assemblymen could not …

Two were ordered for Westchester County -- " one to have the care of Westchester, East Chester, Yonkers and the Manor of Pelham ; the other to have the care of Rye, Mamaroneck and Bedford." Each was to be paid fifty pounds per annum by a levy laid upon the people, which they might pay " in country jiroducc at money price." Iron-clad enactments jjrotected the pastor against the …

Francis Doughty, who had been expelled by the Congregationalists from Taunton, Mass., is said to have been the first Puritan or Presbyterian minister in New York. He officiated from 1643 to 1648, and was supported by voluntary contributions from the Puritans and Dutch of the city. Puritans were certainly among the early settlers of Westchester. In volume iii. page 557, of the …

In 1()75 Peter Prudden i)reached at Rye, and Thomas Denham settled there in 1677. Thus within twelve years there were five Presbyterian clergymen exercising their functions in Westchester County. Thej' and their flocks shared in the struggle which all Dissenters had to make with Governor Sloughter's efforts to establish the Church of England as the State Church, but still …

In fact, it was arbitrarily and illegally wrested from its true bearing and niiule to answer the purpose of the Englisli Church party, which was a very small minority of the people affected by the operation of the law. The act itself is a conclusive argument against the alleged establishment of the Church of England in the province of New York. Itwjiii not established of any …

I told them it was altogether impossible for me to comply with their desires, it being wholly repugnant to the laws of England to compel the subject to pay for the maintenance of any minister who was not of the National Church, and that it lay not in any Governor's power to help them, but since they were so zealous for having religion and good order settled amongst 'em, I …

Bondett, which I immediately did, hoping by that means to bring them over to the church ; but Mather, apprehending what I aimed at, persuaded the vestry to alter their resolutions, and when he came they refused to call him, so that projection failing me, and finding that it was impossible to make any progress toward settling the church so long as Mather continued among us, I …

It is not explained by what means Heathcote drove the Puritan clergymen out of the country, but it is not doubtful that he turned many of the Presbyterians over to the Anglican faith and jirepared the way for the work of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, an organization of the Church of England, which sent John Bartow out as a missionary. He was placed in …

Morgan, had begun service in the meeting-house, to which I went straitway and continued the whole time of service without interruption, and in the afternoon I was permitted to perform the Church of England services, Mr. Morgan being present, and neither he or the peoj)le seemed to be dissatisfied, and after some time of preaching there afterwards they desired me to come …

Tennent and his adherents were excluded from the Synod of Philadelphia in 1741, in the absence of the entire Presbytery of New York. The excluded Methodists rallied around the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and in 1745 it combined with the Presbytery of New York in erecting the Synod of New York, all of whose churches were in sympathy with the Jlethodists. In 1 752 the Rye …

Jlorgan was of tougher tibre than Vesey. He resisterl all the influence brought to bear upon him and remained faithful. He labored for many years as a Presbyterian minister and died in New Jersey in connection with the .Synod of Philadelphia. Rye was taken possession of by Tliom:4s Pritchard and afterwards by Mr. Muirson. and John Jones, pastor of Bedford, was forced to retire …

The Dutch pioneers on Manhattan found it convenient to adopt the currency of the Indians, who took the common periwinkle, called by them "Meteanhock," found in great quantities along the shores, and having broken it so as to secure the thick portion at the stem, they made of this beads about the size of a straw and a third of an inch in length.^ This was the white sewan of …

But counterfeits sprung up, and the currency in course of time became debased. The Indian money was even imported from Europe, where imitations were made of porcelain, but this base article could not impose on the natives, and the counterfeit failed as a speculation. The " good splendid sewant of Manhattans " was the genuine article and passed in all the Indian country …

What little of the Dutch currency was in circulation was known as " Hollands. ' In contracts for sale and purchase of real estate and personal property, the distinctive sorts of payment were usually expressed ; and if not stated, it was understood that sewant was the consideration. There were certain sorts of contracts, however, such as ocean freights, in which, by the customs …

Many people refused to accept the base sewant until, in the following September, the Council enacted " that the base strung sewant should be received by every one without distinction, in payment for small daily and necessary commodities in housekeeping, and that it should be current as follows: For twelve guilders or under, all may be paid in base strung sewant ; from twelve …

Shop-keepers, tapsters, brewers, bakers, grocers and workingmen charged a difierence of eighty, ninety or a hundred per cent, between sewant and beaver in taking pay for their goods or their labor. The Council struggled bravely to enhance the value of the sewant by resorting to the fiction that values can be controlled by arbitrary enactment. Its next law (November 11, 1658) …

The cost of the malt liquor was made little enough in this ordinance of l<i58, and it was equally accommodating in providing that French wine should cost no more than eighteen stuyvers (nine cents) the pint in silver money ; Spanish wine no more than twenty-four stuyvers, and brandywine only five stuyvers for a gill. Yet these prices, which were ofticial, so to ' Their English …

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To yi hornpipes 2 0 0 To Robin the tidier 0 ]2 I) To y' other 3 each 0 1 7 n Til the Prum d 12 (» To tunis Teahut for a spad stolen 1) 7 o To Mr Alexander for Chease, to John Wright .... 2 id 10 To Zenger A Golett 2 5 0 To .\ngeneta Adolph 5 0 I) To W" Langford 1 4 4 To Mr. Ale.xander 1 <) 73^ £72 o 1^, £ ». </. .Vlexander 36 o 7 Van Horne .^g 0 7 £72 5 2 " speak, were subject …

Five hundred guilders was the fine fixed for the first offense, and the forfeiture of the " banjue, yacht, boat or canoe " the owner whereof attempted to evade the custom officers, for the second. Still the rewards of the jirohibited trade were so tempting, that the many seamen engaged in it continued to run the gauntlet. They brought their cargoes to the numerous secure nooks …

No bakers were permitted " to sell any bread made of sifted bran, whether at wholesale or retail, to Christians or Indians; but the bakers of coarse bread may make their coarse bread of the ground grain as it comes from the mill." It was further enacted that in consequence of " the many frauds in baking and tapping," " no person shall follow the business of baking and tapping …

vertebrte of the convict, the old-time gibbet was merely two ui)rights with a cross beam, from which depended the rope and uoose. He was driven under it in a cart, the noose fastened about his neck and the cart driven ofi', leaving him to perish slowly of strangulation. Such malefactors were always hanged in chains and their bodies left swinging in the irons for months, a …

Punishment by the pillory was much the more severe, the victim being in a standing position ; but even that by the stocks was exceedingly i)ainful, and it was not uncommon for men to swoon under the agony of either the pillory or the stocks. But while the colonists followed European precedent in the infliction of rigorous penalties, and their laws embraced many THE STOCKS …

When, in 1777 General Lincoln made the place his headquarters, he j)iled four barrels of gunpowder in a little shed in the rear of the house, answering the proprietor's remonstrances with the remark that " it was a good dry place for it." After the army marched away the Dutchman found that the barrels contained nothing but sand, and had been placed there as a ruse to deceive …

A lively fancy may be I)ermitted to call up his emotions when, in September, 1776, as commander-in-chief of the American army, he made the residence of the woman who had rejected him his headquarters, or when, in July, 1790, as President of the LTnited States, he revisited it, she and her husband being attainted fugitives from the home which the new governnu^nt had …

A letter from Judge Samuel Youngs, of Mount Pleasant, printed in the " Historical Magazine" for June, 1S71, says: "No man went to bed but under the apprehension of having his house plundered or burnt, orhimself or family massacred before morning. Some, under the character of Whigs, plundered the Tories ; while others of the latter description, pluudcred the Whigs. Parties of …

Near by are yet seen the remains of the old fort which crowned this elevated position at the mouth of the Highland Gorge.' It appeal's from some Revolutionary papers that there were localiti("s in Westchester County which are now unknown. Washington, in his order-book, under date of October 24, 1782, directs : "The tents being too cold for the accommodation of the sick, the …

Prior to their departure, on a Sunday, they always collected the young children ami left them in the care of their friends, while they set off early in the morning and walked to the city barefooted, carrying their shoes and stockings in their hands, .\bout twelve miles from New York, at a place niiice culled the Bliif J>V(i, there «as a large rock by the roadside coveriil with …

The same number mentions that on his entrance to New York, in November, 1783, he stopped at Day's Tavern, opposite the Point of Rocks, at the junction of the Harlem and Kingsl>ridge roads. > Ilitlo. .V.iy., vol. vi. No. 1, January, 1881. 1820. To support his statement against those writers who urged that it was on the west side of that highway, he quotes at length (vol. iv. p …

He quotes Cadwallader Colden, who, in October, 1753, wrote to his wife of having rested at it on a journey to New York, when it was " very well kept by a Dutchman named Vanderventer, and our food and lodgings were very comfortable." Tradition says that General Heath occupied it for his headquarters in October, 1776, and that Washington and Lee met there on the morning when …

In 1848 John Macdonald made the note that "the olrl stone house in the field west of the road at Fort Washington was the ' Blue Bell ' tavern of the Revolutionary war, kept by Jacob Moore."' * Applclmi'$ Joimiitl, December 13, 1873. 472/ HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. room by his chaplain the night before his departure 1 from the " BUie Bell." The young husband was made | …

The October, 1881, issue of the Hhtorieal Magazine has these additional notices of old houses on the King's Bridge road, -- THE BLUE BELL TAVERN. The Cross Kkvs, the very old stonchouee on this road, at alvout One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Street, is probably the only survivor of the outward Revolutionary inns. It was, traditionally, one of Washington's Rti)i>ping-places, and …

Kifty-five years ago it is remembered as kept by James I Devoe. (ieneral Heath, in his "Memoirs," speaks of it as Hyatt's tavern. This was in 1777. Devoe subsequently hired it to one Jacob Hyatt. Doubtless it whs sometimes called Djckman's tavern, from the Dyckman ownei-ship. The McComb Hoi se, at King s Bridge, long the property of Joseph Godwin, Esq., is said to have been …

The carrying of the sign to the city probably disposes of the Revolutionary Blue Bell, as Colles, in bis road map of 1789, marks the old house as Wuldron's Tavern. guests one of the upper rooms as once the lodging-room of General Washington. The venerable Dr. Bibby, of Cortlaodt House, states that this property was purchased, shortly after the War of Independence, of the heirs …

Neither the inn nor the land on which it stands has had many owners. In 1740 John Schuyler, Jr., Philip Schuyler, Stephen Bayard, Jr., and James Stephenson had it by letters patent from the King ; from them it passed to John Livingston, who sold it, with all its rights and titles, " except to gold and silver mines," to Johannis Seckeles; he to Henry Norman ; he to a Dyckman …

Straight down in an unbroken line from them we trace the march of progress that leads to the imperial New York of the present day and the noble environment of Westchester County. Their sons and daughters have been worthy of them, and in the people of the county to-day we see preserved those traits of moral worth, of maternal enterprise, and of lofty patriotism which are the …

The many missed faces, the traces of care and anxiety on those one did meet, the decayed and vacant houses and dilapidated barns, the marked change in the circumstances of the well-to-do families, the alteration in the moral tone, not only of the young, but of many past the years of early life who in them had been most exemplary, the number of diseased and wounded men, many of …

•MtOor Samuel Pell, who before the war had become engaged to his cousin, Mary Pell, seems, from letters of expostulation with him of his brother, Philip I'ell. to have been very anxious, as the contest was closing, to abruptly leave the service. He had so distinguished himself, •specially at the Battle of Saratoga, as to have received the highest encuminnis, and his family was …

The very man who had informed them of Captain L.'s arrival home, how must he have been maddened in his turn when he remembered that he had been lashed, again and again, to force from him his money, and had sjKjnt night after night away from his homo and family to avoid the violence and robbery of hostile neighbors? few with great hopes. Patriotic expressions, declarations of …

The prices which the farmer obtained were almost fabulous, and all the other industries, of course, flourished under the good fortune. In connection with this, it must also be stated that the freedom of the seas was now open, unrivaled, to the new nation, whose fine harbors so distinctively seemed to point out the commercial consequence to which, under a wise policy, she might …

On the east side of the county, by act of the Legislature of 1800, under a company of which Philij) Pell, John P. Delancy, Cornelius Rosevelt, Peter J. Munroe and Gabriel Furman are the members mentioned in the bill, a turnpike road was constructed from East Chester to Byram River, over which soon passed the eastward stage to Greenwich, Stamford, Danbury, New Haven and on to …

Wright, in which it was provided that " letters patent issue for Charity Wright, his widow, and for his heirs for five hundred acres in the tract set apart for the use of the line of this State in the Army of the United States, which said John Wright was a Surgeon's mate in the General Hospital in the Northern Department." The machinery of the higher courts was set in motion …

Clerk of East Chester, in which is certified the amount of school money allotted to that town. This was the first apportionment under the act. Just as readily, in 1812, when an equal sum to that appropriated by the State was in a new Act asked of each town, the vote was readily given, and the proper officers named. During this period, throughout the county, school-houses were …

The names of Westchester County settlers appear in large numbers in the City Directory of the early years of this century, and in the Record Books of Deeds, Mortgages and Wills, at the county seats of Northern, Central and Western New York. In many cases the farmer soldiers of the Revolution, or those to whom they had sold out their " rights," were eventually settling on the …

felt throughout the laud in the depreciation of values, particularly of the agricultural products, the Embargo Act, which prohibited any exportation of goods whatever, brought the people into the still more subdued position, strongly stated at the time as "one in which they shall sell nothing but what they sell to each other" and "all our surplus produce shall rot on our …

Time had been allowed, since the aggressive act of 1806, to the most partial to realize the narrow and contemptuous feeling of the enemy, and new evidence was continually turning up, in the acts of impressment and uncalled-for interference with our marine, that self-preservation was the necessity of the hour. The numbers of foremost citizens of our towns, who are remembered as …

The prices were encouriiging to labor, and a number of the citizens of those times laid then the foundations of their future wealth. The crops seem to have been abundant. So, when peace was restored, there was a broad basis laid upon which a substantial prosperity might steadily be realized. As in the colonial period, so for many years after it, the population was made up of …

Duties imposed by the Laws OK THE United States (except those on Furniture, Watches and Stamps) Paid nv EACH Person in the Third Collection District Of New York durinu the year 1815. $25.88 $17.50 Archer, .John (of G. B.) . 24.98 Bareinore, Nathan'I & Son 1.87 19.50 1.25 4.00 22,50 Anderson, .Jeremiah . . . 2.00 22.50 4.00 22.50 Archer, John (of E. C.) . 38.54 14.69 15.00 2.00 …

Brown, Gilbert (W. P.) . . 5.00 Constant, Silas 2 00 2.00 Cooper, Elias 3,00 Brundage, Edward, Jr . . . 1.00 Coggshall, Gideon, . . . . 4.00 Bates, Neamiah S . . . . . 23.88 Crooker, Benjamin . . . . 19..")(l 2.00 Carvill, George, Jr . . . . 2.00 1.00 1.00 Burling, Thomas H , . . . 4.00 1.00 4.00 . 2.00 4.00 Clark, John G 2.00 4.00 2.00 1.0(1 1.00 Bailey, Gilbert .... 2.00 …

Baldwin, Kbeuezer. . . . . 17..>0 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Diicher, William i . , , . 12.00 SI .00 1.00 Guion, John (of Yonkers) . 21.80 Dusenbferry, Charles (G. B.); 1.00 21.88 4.00 Green & Carpenter . . * . 21.8.3 24.50 21.88 Davenport, Lawreuce . . 2.00 21.88 20-50 21,88 1.00 1.88 2.00 21.88 Dusenberry, Charles (C. t.) 25.88 14.50 Baggetj Herman . . 1.00 17.50 …

17.50 1.00 2.00 Halsted, Philemon . . . 1.00 6.16 2.00 771.20 Haight, .Tohn 2.00 2.00 Hevland, Benjamin . . . 3.00 Foster, Marmaduke .... 2;07 1.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Fowler, Benjamin (of Yon 2.00 24.41 1.00 1.00 2.00 Franklin, Ulorianna ; . . . 2.00 Hopkins, James ... 2. IX) 13.27 1.00 2.0O 1.00 1.00 4.00 2.00 2.00 Fiehl, Uobert 1.00 Hadley, Charles 2.0U 1.00 2.ro 2.00 …

Haight, Oileb . 2.00 Frost, Joseph and Jacob . . 15.00 Havland, Gilbert .... 1.00 22.50 lIofTniau, Stephen B. . . . 1.00 Griffin, John 3.00 Hnstace, Joshua .... . l.OII 1.00 17.15 Griffin, Henry 4.00 21.88 Hubbard, John 21.88 Gilbert, Jacob 2.00 2.00 Halsted, Hyatt . 22..5n 4.00 Hcister & Smith . 22.50 4.00 2.88 1.00 Hoiig, Isaac & Co . . . . . 22..50 2.00 llyati, .l. seph R …

Horton Wright . 11.42 Morgan, Benjamin 4.00 Jay Mary 12 00 Marsh John F 2 00 Jasard . . .... Morris James 9 00 1 n gei"8el Job n ... 1.00 M orris Lew is 23 (X) Jones, William . 4.00 Morris Ricliard V 5 00 14.00 Morris Governor 14 00 Jones, Zopber. . . . . ■ 26.83 Miller James 1 00 Jarvis Jesso 2 00 Merritt, Jotham I 00 Jackson Thomas 1 O'l Merritt, Phebe 2 00 Johnston …

1 ou Kirby Tliouias '1 88 McKeel, Jacob 2 00 Ivipp Gilbert * • 25.27 Mead Benjamin 1 (.K) Kent Jeremiah* 1 5'' Mesier, Peter A 214 8'* Ijockwood Kichard H 11.65 Miller, John 11 G9 Leonard Abrahani 3 98 Miller James 43 00 I.>awrence^ TbomaSf Jr. 22.47 Mandeville Cornelius 11.31 Lawrence, Isttiic & Joseph 23.87 Slarshall Joseph 3 92 Lent Abstilom 21 88 Marshall, Ezra 12.9') …

Lynch Oominick 9 00 Newman Noah 4 82 2.00 Odell Jonathan D o ^)Q Lee Elijah 2 00 Odel 1 Jonathan 1 00 Lockwood Ezra ..... 1.00 Odel) Jackson 4 00 Lyon Holley 1 00 Odell, Isaac. 2 00 Lei^get Thomas 9 00 Odell, Jacob . 9 00 Lawrence Thomas P. . 4.00 Oppie, John 4 00 LamontAgnOi Jacob De . 4.00 Owen, John . . 23 88 Lawrence Joel 2 00 Oakley, Isaac . 4 ()0 Lockwood Ebenezer Jr …

Miller, Richard . 1.00 Pngsley, I. and Jeremiah . 337.90 2.00 Purdy, Thomas ... . 4.00 1.00 Piigsley, S. and Jeremiah . 3NI.21 GENERAL HISTORY FROM 1783 TO 1860. Piiriy, Roger ?2.(K) I'lirily, Natliaiiiel l.()0 ProvcKist, Will. S 2.00 Pino, Samuel 2.00 Park, Jee»e 1.00 Park, Jesse, Jr 1.00 Puitly, Ann 1.00 Punly,AVilliam 2.00 Purdy, fJeaniiah 1.00 Puriner, Joliu l.iK) Purdy …

Riymond, Medad 1.00 Bundel, Samuel 2.00 Bundle, John 4.iiO Reed, Archer 2.00 Roger, David, Jr 2.00 Raymond, Henry (of Bedford) 25.88 Raymond, Heury (W. C.) . 1.00 Reed, Mary 1.00 Roraer, John 14. .59 Re<|ua.& Dean 21.88 Bequea, Daniel 17. .50 Bundle, Solomon 21.88 Bundle, William .... 14..59 Baymond, Seth 24 (lit Bich, Elijah 18.00 Roliertsoii, Zabud 21.88 Rider, Fowler F …

Smith, David 17.50 Shavanali, Patrick 21.88 Scofield, Ebenezer 14.59 Smith, Abel 22.50 See, Peter 21.88 Smith, Benjamin 22.50 Smith & Fish 22.50 Smith, Reuben 50.74 Schofield, Richard 2.78 Sherwood, Gilbert 5.80 Strang, Peter 2.61 Smith, Stephen 2.33 Thornton, Thomas 4.00 Titus, Rebecca 2.O0 Theal, Thomas 2.00 Theal, Billey 2,00 Tompkins, .Mexander . . . I.IKJ Tompkins, W. G 4 …

Underhill, Peter 4.00 Underhill, Ijiincastcr. . . . 22.88 Underhill, Gilbert 16.59 Underbill, Thomas .... 2. On Underhill, Joshua 2.00 Underhill, Caleb 2.(X) Underbill, .Vbraham I . . . I.OO Underhill, James (X. C). . 2.(K) Underhill, Jaiue3(of Soincrs) 17.25 Underhill, Roliert 2.tHi Unaernill, ■John B. x, Oo . . if 21 .88 15.00 l.(X) Unuerniil & \VeeKS . . . . 14.57 Ward …

The emancipation of the slave in Westchester County was iiiidoubtedly less a blessing to him than to his owner. Whatever may be the experience now in the more genial climate of the South, as to the elevation. happine.ss and increase of the colored race, after the recovery of its freedom, the result here was most disastrous. It was not, however, to the disadvantage of the …

There were hours of the day when the roads, it is said, were fairly blocked by the heavy traffic upon them, and eye witnesses declare that at night even the floors of the bar and sitting-rooms of the taverns were spread over with the sleepers tarrying to rest themselves and their teams for a few hours on the way. The activity thus apparent was accompanied with such …

The farm contains one hundred and seventy-three acres, and the institution several buildings of stone. At about the same period the State Prison at Sing Sing, in this county, was erected. It was built from 1825 to 1829, by the convicts themselves. The prison was built here because of the marble quarries upon which the labor of the convicts might be employed. It covers one …

On the 17th of April, 1832, the Legislature by act incorporated the New York and Albany Railroad, with a charter authorizing the construction of a road, commencing on the island of New York, where the Fourth Avenue terminates and extending to the city of Albany. This Company not being able to avail itself of its privileges, " after six years of vicissitude and vain effort " …

«!60.980 from freight or a total of $108,768, which it was said would fully meet all expenditures and yield a profit of at least 25 per cent, on the capital invested. Another engineer calculates upon an immediate income of $60,000, $950 of which is to come from the Catholic School at Fordham and Powell's School at Westchester. The following is another statement ventured by the …

Says one long an employee of the road, "the first running of the trains through the county was a matter of great curiosity, and crowds of people surveyed it from the adjoining hills.'' From the report of the company in 1846, we learn that the cost of construction of six miles of road from the south side of Harlem River Bridge to William's Bridge was $38,475 per mile, while the …

Allan Campbell, the engineer, thus details the route chosen : " It pursues the valley of the Bronx for three miles, when it passes to the valley of the Saw Mill by Davis's Brook and Fly Brook . . . The Saw Mill is then followed to its head-waters, where the ridge (of high broken ground running from east to west about eight or ten miles above White Plains, the principal obsta …

The line now descends by the Kisco, a branch of the Croton and Muddy Brook, to Cross River; thence over broken ground between this strcann and the Croton to the valley which is occupied through the remainder of Westchester, -- a very direct line has been obtained at an expense which must be regarded as moderate, only four structures of any considerable magnitude being …

Wetmorc, Edward Haight, Peter Lorillard, William H. Leonard, John E. Burrill, Nathaniel P. Bailey, Augustus A. Cammann and others, of whom Gouverneur Morris was for a while Vice-President, and Mr. Wetmore and Mr. Edmonds for short periods Presidents of the road. The following engineers are remembered in connection with its construction and improvement: James J. Shipman, Mr …

When the line was completed to Chatham Four Corners, in 1852, it had cost $7,948,118, and its liabilities were over $11,000,000. In 1872 the company leased the New York and Mahopac Railroad from Golden's Bridge to Lake Mahopac, and on April 1st of that year was itself leased for four hundred and one years 'Tlic fullowing toast waa Rivuu at a celebration of ouo of the early …

Jervis, a gentleman of large experience, and who proved throughout admirably fitted for the arduous duties that fell on him. The company at this time, it seems, complained that they were not met in a fair and equitable spirit by the owners of the land through which the road would pass, " who would derive," it was said, " far greater benefit than the company itself could …

But obstacles unavoidable occurred, which, in a large measure were owing to the proximity of the road to the river, adverse winds and tides often hindering the workmen. From the same cause in the cuttings which were found at points very hard, much trouble was occasioned by the flow of the water into the crevices in the rock. The board, however, at the instigation of the …

The average number of passengers per day for the first month (October) was eight hundred and thirty, and the total number twenty-one thousand five hundred and ninety-three ; and for the next month (November) the average number was ten hundred and fifty-five, and the total number twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-one. At this time it was calculated that the land …

But the five o'clock express train (Morgan's) which followed, having switched off" to the west track, on coming abreast of the wrecked train halted to render assistance, and while so doing was run into by the five and a-half Peekskill train (Nichols), which had also taken the west track, but was driving ahead heedless of danger at the usual speed. Here again others were hurt …

The work of constructing this part of the road was carried on during the years 1847 and 1848. On Christmas day, 1848, a party of gentlemen made an excursion over it from New York to New Haven, returning the next day. The road was opened for business on the following day. The character of the ground of the road in this county is described as "heavy with rough heavy cuttings." …

In 1873 the company leased the Harlem River and the Port Chester Railroad, between the Harlem and New Rochelle, and opened it for use. It runs from its depot at the Harlem River through the t iwns of Morrisania, Westchester, Pelham and New Rochelle, where it joins the New Haven road. It is sometimes denominated, the Harlem River Branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford …

The rock cutat Hunt's Point bridge caused a great deal of trouble on account of the wet, spongy nature of the soil, -- one would have expected the softest nearest the water. The Bronx River was bridged by a strong Jackknife Draw. Filling for embankment across Pelham Salt Marsh was a tedious job, as firm bottom was hard to find. East Chester Bay reached a fine piece of work was …

The contractors were, Sections one and two, Peter Sanford & Co. ; sections two, three and foun Dunn & Lowther ; sections six and seven, Beattie & Edwards; sections eight, nine and ten, Richard Dooley. Under Mr. Reid's care the whole line has been since improved in every way and ranks first class. The stations along this road are Port Morris, Casanova, Hunt's Point, West Farms …

Brown was president, large loans were negotiated in Europe, the principal creditor being the Franco- Egyptian Bank of Paris, and Bishop Scheim and T. Gold Schulz of London, who advanced several millions of dollars; but the foreclosure of prior mortgages, and the sale of the road rendered these advances a complete loss, and a suit has long been pending in the United States …

At the time of the organization of the present company, a contract was made with Louis Roberts, to finish the building, and to equip the road. This task was performed by Mr. Roberts in a most active and energetic manner. The right of way was repurchased, the grading finished, and the track laid and the completed road opened for business in the spring of 1881. The length of …

Gannon became connected with the Northern Railroad in April, 1881, construction trains being the only ones then running. The bridge over Harlem River was finished May 1, and passenger trains began running to Brewsters on that day, and in the Fall of that year the road was finished and in good condition. The road was laid through a sparsely settled district and during the first …

As one item we may mention that three hundred tons of ore are daily brought from the Tilly Foster mine and other mines along the road, and coal is brought direct from the mines of Pennsylvania to the central portions of Westchester County without change of cars. Under Mr. Gannon's careful management the direction of trains has been so perfect that no accident from collision …

Taking the average of crops of the whole county the yield is found to be about two-fifths less than that of forty years ago -- before this immigration. The following table will present to the eye the steady decrease which has taken place in this direction since the opening out of this region as a place of residence for business men : 1839. 1»54. 1874. 1879. Wheat . . . 35,267 …

The total equalized estate value of the State in 1840 was $639,171,000, in 1860 $1419,- 297,520 and in 1884 $3,014,591,372, the proportion being to that of the county in 1840 as 60 to 1, in 1860 as 34 to 1 and in 1884 as 41 to 1. This it is believed could be even more strongly presented. But while thus noticing the great increase in wealth, it is more of a satisfaction to …

The first known newspapers of this County were started in the same year, 1810, -- the Somers J/uaeMm, published by Milton F. Gushing, and the Westchester Gazette, by Robert Crombie. It would appear that the Sing Sing Republican is the legitimate successor of this Westchester Gazette. The Eastern State Journal and the Highland Democrat, (formerly Westchester and Putnam …

Thomas Thomas, of Rye, was in the Lower House, having as his colleagues Philip Pell, Jr., of Pelham, Abijah Gilbert, of Salem, Ebenezer Purdy, of North Salem, Zebediah Mills, and Samuel Haight, sterling men in the trying times just past. The next year's election substituted Ebenezer Burling, of East Chester, and Ebenezer Lockwood, of Poundridge, in place of Messrs. Mills and …

In the list of supervisors of the county from 1783 to 1789 occur at least half a dozen of the names of the county officials just given, and to these may be added the following conspicuous members of the Board: Benjamin Stevenson, of New Rochelle, also one of the Judges of the County; Gilbert Budd, of Rye ; Abel Smith, of North Castle; Hachaliah Browne and Thaddeus Crane, both …

In speaking of John Hancock and Samuel Adams, one of the Loyalist newspapers says : " When the lunacies of the former are separated from the villanies of the latter, the deluge of destruction that is certainly, though slowly, rolling after them will rapidly come on and .overwhelm them and their infatuated votaries in prodigious ruin." Here in this County, where the" …

for the continuance of the then Federal compact, and for its usefulness, and that the General Government should inspire respect at home and abroad, Governor Clinton resisted with ardor and firmness the making of any concessions which should weaken the State authority or further abridge its powers. The influence of his position and arguments on the public mind can readily be …

Not only were its features faulted, but the conduct of the Convention in transcending, as asserted, its powers, was fiercely assailed. " Instead of amending the Constitution," said Mr. Jones, " it had framed one." In Albany the new Constitution was publicly burned. In the choice of delegates to a convention which was now ordered to meet at Poughkeepsie, to pass upon its …

At the election for members of Assembly the strong party feeling is manifested by a complete change in the representation, the following persons, strong Federalists, being returned : Thaddeus Crane, of North Salem ; Jonathan Horton and Philip Livings^ ton, of Westchester; Judge Nathan Rockwell, of Lewisboro ; Walter Seaman and General Philip Van Cortlandt. At the assembling of …

At the election in 1798 there were plain indications of a falling away of the strength of the administration party throughout the State, which, although not borne out by the result the next year, were more than realized at the Presidential contest of 1800. Among the electors chosen by the Legislature was Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., of this county, who had married a …

In 1803, as chairman of the caucuses of the Republican members of the State Senate, he exercised a commanding influence in securing the nomination of General Morgan Lewis and preventing that of Aaron Burr as the standard bearer of the Republican party in the State in the election for Governor. There is no doubt that the movement which forced his re.nignation of his seat in …

Tompkins, had represented the county in the legislative body, which adopted the first State Constitution in 1777, and also in the convention which framed the second in 1801. He was a member of the Assembly during the Revolution, and several years after the close of the war. He was also for along period a Judge of the county, and at the time of his son Daniel's election as …

Madison, was to make it " the interest of all nations to change the system which has driven our commerce from the sea." " Great Britain will feel it (this embargo) in her manufactures, in the loss of naval stores, and ... in the supplies essential to her colonies." " France will feel it in the loss of all which she has hitherto received through our neutral commerce, and her …

It is certain also that the Vice-President, George Clinton, did not apitrove of the "Act." But notwithstanding their dissatisfaction, these gentlemen still adhered to their party affinities, and by their course, no doubt, greatly counteracted the tendency of these measures to produce political changes among their followers in New York. So their columns seem not to have …

This change, in connection with fresh evidences of English animosity, seems to have had the effect to intensify the national feeling, and the consequence was, in 1810, an overwhelming defeat of the Federalists in all portions of the State. But the divisions in the Republican party that succeeded this victory gave their opponents the opportunity in the Presidential contest two …

The consequence was that the difference soon shaped itself in the State as between these two favorite citizens, and it needed but little time to prove that the largest sympathies were with the farmer's boy, as the Governor was styled. Mr. Tompkins is described as a man of much more than ordinary intellectual strength and culture, but is better remembered for a cordiality and …

But the truce in party dispute, so welcome, was but the precursor of a contest in the State, and in the County of Westchester, of uncommon bitterness. It might be right hereto state that the championship by Mr. Clinton of the measures for the construction of the Erie Canal, the importance of which was the more evident as the work progressed, gave him an increased hold upon the …

To the Tammany Society, a secret political organization of New York City, this gentleman was particularly odious, and, as one of the insignia of this " order " was the tail of the deer worn in their hats, the other party soon ap]>lied the term to all who sympathized with them in their feelings and action. The bucktail, an emblem of success in the chase, was gladly appropriated …

Accordingly, having singled out one who appeared to be the deceutest man among them, he led him into a long argument, by which to convince him that Tompkins was a defaulter, and consequently unfit to be entrusted with the highly responsible office of chief magistrate of this great State. That the Bucktail, in his attempt to prove the immaculate purity of the man of his party …

replied my companion, ' and a warm Clintonian.' 'And you, doctor, I am glad to see you, too; how goes the election?' Here a dialogue commenced on the topic next to the heart of these two men, who^ alike forgetful of the rain, which now began to fall, . . . these two mad politicians kept up their jabber a full half-hour, cold, wind and rain notwithstanding." Another extract …

The address at this election of a body of Federalists, which, it is asserted, had very little influence with the main force, is here recalled, because on the list of signatures to it the first is that of a greatly respected citizen of Mamaroneck, Peter Jay Munro, a lawyer of much eminence in this county, and because the list includes also that of James A. Hamilton, son of …

Caleb Tompkins, of White Plains, and that for three years, from 1820 to'1823, the position of County Judge was held by William Jay, son of the Chief Justice. The great political event which now falls under notice is the assembling of the convention ordered for the revision of the State Constitution, and the presence in it of three distinguished citizens of the county, all …

Munro, although assisted by Mr. Van Buren, struggled unsuccessfully to prevent the sweeping change. At the session of the Legislature following the convention. Senator John Townsend, of East Chester, was made a member of the Council of Appointment, the sessions of which were the last held in the State, its powers passing by the new Constitution to the Governor and the Senate …

Joel Frost, of Putnam (bounty, the member from the Fourth Congressional District, giving his vote to William H. Crawford, of Georgia, then Secretary of the Treasury. The following detailed statement of the Electoral vote of Westchester County, beginning with the year 1828, will give a fair idea of the political opinions of the citizens of Westchester County from that date to …

General Ward was an officer of the War of 1812, and for some years Brigadier General of the Fifteenth Brigade and Fourth Division of the Militia of the State. In the convention in 1846, for amending the constitution. General Ward represented the county and was made chairman of the committee on the militia and military officers. Mr. John Hunter of Hunter's Island, Pelham, in …

William Nelson, of Peekskill, who commenced his political career by two terms in the Assembly, in 1819 and 1820, had already in 1815 been district attorney of the Eleventh District and was again in 1822 of the county. From 1824 to 1828, Mr. Nelson was State Senator and from 1847 to 1851 the member of Congress from this District. In all these positions Mr. Nelson merits the …

The impulsive trifling of President Jackson with the finances of the country, which at that time was supposed to throw a halo around his inflexible will and courage, brought upon his successor, through the troubles which in his administration the people were made to suffer, an obloquy and blame which Mr. Van Buren did not individually deserve. The fact that the Democratic …

The advent, too, of a secret political organization, styled Native American, which had in the several towns a large following, was very unsettling as to the county and town nominations and elections. To be added to all this was the dissensions which sprang up as the question of the extension of slavery was discussed. As a consequence, the majority of Mr. Polk in the county …

The Herkimer convention demanded tlial the principle of non-extension, called also the Wilmot Proviso, be introduced into the party platform. The Whigs in the canvass of 1847 were signally victorious, but the seat of Mr. James E. Beers in the Assembly was contested by Colonel J. R. Hayward, who had held it the previous year. Mr Hayward was unsuccessful. In 1848 the breach …

In the election which followed the Whig candidate General Zachary Taylor, who was elected, received in this county a majority over the entire opposing vote. General Cass fell behind Mr. Van Buren six thousand votes in the State but largely exceeded him in Westchester County. Some of the most ardent leaders of the Democracy of earlier days had by this time become the stanchest …

The number of votes cast had increased, it would seem, over sixteen hundred. Little is remembered of an exciting or important nature during this national administration, so far as this neighborhood is concerned, save the hardly-suppressed indignation (first) at the quite unnecessary strain which the abettors of the Fugitive Slave Law were putting upon the feeling of loyalty …

Buchanan in his Lecompton policy, which was believed to be in direct contradiction to the principle of popular sovereignty, upon which he was elected, brought out the indignant opposition of a portion of his northern and western supporters, and their representatives in Congress, prominent among whom was Mr. John B. Haskin,the member from the Ninth District of New York, in …

Haskin be defeated, and an administration candidate be elected, every post-office and every office of the Government would be illuminated." An incident in Congress, of a startling nature, in the early part of 1860, brings to notice the continued, determined and ardent part taken, after his re-election, by the representative of Westchester County in the fulfilment of his …

Lyon and Abraham Hyatt represented this county, the Hon. Edwin Crosswell, of Greenburgli, was named as one of the two delegates from the Ninth District to the National Convention of the Democratic party, to be held at Charleston in the next April, to nominate its candidate for President. At a convention of Democrats of the Ninth District, dissatisfied with the action of the …

Robertson, then County Judge; and on the other ticket, whose motto was said to be " Union for the sake of the Union," wa* placed the name of the Hon. Abraham B. Conger, of Rockland, formerly State Senator. Amid the heated discussions in the county, at the public gatherings preparatory to the election, peace and order were everywhere preserved ; and when the result was reached …

Mills and the Hon. E. G. Sutherland, both of White Plains, from the Second District ; Judge Robert S. Hart, Uriah Hill, s William S. Tompkins and James M. Baird (afterward ! Register of the county), from the Third District. I The following gentlemen had been selected as al- ! ternates: William Radford, James Parker, P. L. Mc- Clellan, Abraham Hatfield, William L. Bard, Henry …

A resolution offered by Judge Hart, of this couaty, and passed by this convention, looking to the possible necessity for further deliberation and action by this body, makes the more clear how, by the precipitancy of the South, these wellmeaning and persistent efforts for conciliation were rendered ineffectual. We present now, from the several censuses of the State and General …

Y. Col. MSS., vol. v. p. 702. « X. Y. Col. MSS., Till. v. p. 929. Doct. Hist. N. Y., vol. i. p. 694. ' N. Y. Col. MSS., vol. vi. p. !:«. Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. I. p. 694. ! N Y. Ool. JISS., vol. vi. p. 392. N. Y. Census, 1885, lutrod. p. vi. >■ X. Y. Col. .M.SS., vol. vi. p. 5.'>0. ' Doc. Hist. X. Y., vol. i. p. 6Jt;. ) N. Y. Col. MSS., vol. viii. p. 457. X. Y. Doc. Hi»t …

From Lincoln's Election to the Takingof Sumter-- The Two Y'ears' Volununteers-- The Three Years' Volunteers-- Home Affairs to the Election of Governor Seymour -- The Draft Kiots-- From the Riots to the Close of the War -- The .\id Societies-- The Bounty Bonds-- The Return of the Volunteers-- The Roll of the Dead-- The Drafted Men-- The Grand Army Posts. From Lincoln's Election …

The items concerning the men enlisted come from the reports of the State .\djutant-General, in the form of the original muster-rolls of all the regiments that left the State. Of recruits that joined, after first muster, it was impossible to obtain a full and authentic list ; therefore I have not attempted a partial one. The information as to bounty bonds is obtained from the …

come ; but its adversaries steadily jjredicted its occurrence, or confined themselves to the expression of a hope, against probability, that "the evil might be spared the nation." Westchester County, from its position, close to the metropolis of American commerce, might be expected to take a commercial view of the question, and did so. The distribution of parties within its …

All three were well established, marked by vigorous writing, well able to support their editors, and all exist to-day, under the same names, except the Herald, which was changed to the Gazette in May, 1864. The attitude of parties in the county is best exhibited by the way in which these papers treated the question on the eve of election and immediately thereafter. The …

Permit no imolent, paid and drilled Wide .\ wakes to dictate the law or your duty. . . . Stand firm and defiant-- and get in every vote possible for tlie Union Ticket. Further on, and scattered through the paper, are statements that the ' Black Republicans are panicstruck;' adjurations to 'bring every man to the polls;' ' to vote against the Negro and Black Republican ticket …

"The result is deeply to be regretted, not so much on party grounds, as for the continued peace and prosperity of the country. . . . The election of a sectional President-- against which WASHINGTON warned his countrymen in his farewell address-has now been tried, and we are to witness the result. We hope for the best, yet we are not without serious apprehensions. . . . The …

That he was of opinion that secession was " unconstitutional," but also of opinion, " after much serious reflection "' that the United States " had no power to coerce a seceding State," closing this part of the argument with the remark : " The fact is, the Union rests on public oi)inion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war." A week after …

South Carolina leads offin seceding. . . . Those who organized the Republican party are responsible for the present condition of affairs." January 18th, the statement was made that " Yancey, Toombs and Rhett are no more disunionists than Horace Greeley." In this morbid strain the opinion of the majority of the county appears to have run till February 1st, when a "State …

Down with the Black Republicans," though, among the news items, appears the drilling of a company in White Plains, raised by Captain (afterwards Colonel) Janies J. Chambers, in which complimentary notice is given the men. The news of the attack on Fort Sumter, and especially that of its surrender, as is well known, produced a great change of public opinion in the city of New …

The Herald, in the same issue in which the surrender of the fort and the " dissolution of the Union " was announced, stated that a " preliminary meeting " had been held on Saturday evening, at which steps were taken to call a great mass-meeting, to " force " the administration to surrender, and desist fi-om Mr. Lincoln's expressed intention to " coerce the seceding States." …

Men who had been waiting, sick at heart, in view of the quiet way in which the government was apparently submitting to destruction, realized that the end of submission had come at last, and that public opinion might be invoked to repel the snicide of a nation. Then came HISTOK^ OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. the sudden outburst, in the city, of a popular anger, which filled the …

State engineer iind surveyor, and State treasurer, or a majority of them,' to " accept the services, and to cause to be mustered into the service of the State," the volunteers named, " in addition to the present military organization of the State, and as a part of the militia thereof" It further provided for pay and allowances, the same as then prevailed in the United States …

Bartram ; First Lieutenant, John Vickers ; Second Lieutenant, Charles Hilbert ; First Sergeant, James Fox ; Sergeants, Tliomas Beal, Louis Neetliing and August Dittnian ; Corporals, William Crothere, John Beal, Joseph Beal and Robert Magee ; Drummers, Stephen Floots and William Fairbanks ; Privates, Aug. Adams, Charles H. Burns, John Burns, William Baker, Ardemus Barnes …

liemurke. -- Captain Bartram was promoted to major November 2, 1861, and to lieutenant-colonel June 20, 18G2, being mustered out with the regiment June 2, 1863, from the expiration of the term of service, which was two yeai-s. Lieutenants Vickers and Hilbert were both promoted to be captains, and mustered out at the expiration of term. i Sergeant James Fox was promoted to …

He appears to have begun his work, almost the day the law was promulgated-- April 18th -- in the form of a general order from the adjutant-general of the State, -- and had his men ready to leave Port Chester before the end of the month. Even then, however, they might never have been mustered in as a company, had it not been for the energy and patriotism of a few men in Port …

Titus, a well-known citizen of the place, set the ball rolling by subscribing a hundred dollars towards a fund for this purpose, with twenty-nine dollars additional, to pay the fares of the men to the camp of the Seventeenth Regiment in New York. He was closely followed. May 3d, by Mr. W. P. Abendroth, with a hundred dollars, and, by the 9th of May, the subscriptions amounted …

The names are as follows: Chairman, James H. Titus ; Secretary, George P. j Titus ; Treasurer, John E. Marshall. Military Committee : Messrs. S. K. Satterlee, August AViggen, August Van Ammeringe, William L. Bush, George P. Titus and Augustus M. Halsted. Relief Committee : Messrs. William P. Abendroth, Noah Tompkins, John W. Lounsberry, George L. • Cornell, James H. Titus and …

For the want of the money that kept the Port Chester company together, this fine body of young men became lost in the great city of Xcsv York, and drifted into different regiments, 80 that not a man of the sixty was ever credited to the county, and not a few of them returned home. Another party of sixteen went ofl'to AVhite Plains, under the command of Mr. William M. Bleakley …

Yorktown also lost a great number of men in the same way, no mention of them being found in the official records of the two years' volunteers ; and of other towns there is still less trace, in any documents by which official proof can be furnished of the facts. The whole history of the two years' volunteers, in Westchester County, is one of men pressing their services on the …

The first order of the adjutant-general, April 18th, called for "seventeen regiments of infantry or rifles." A second order appeared, on the 25th of the same month, calling for twenty-one regiments more; so that the complete quota of two years' volunteers, in the State of New York, included all regiments, up to the Thirtyeighth. Within a week from the time the Port Chester …

The first identification of Westchester County with the three years' volunteers comes on the rolls of the J^ourth New York Cavalry, which was mustered by companies, beginning August 10 and ending November 15, 1861. The muster-rolls of the regiment disclose the following names : The non-coiiimissioned stafT has (from Yoiikers) : Sergcimt-Major, lieinliard Kuehl ; Hospital …

Tarleton, Charles Kirk, Martin Rabin, Merritt Livingston, Dennis Costollo, John McAdams. Private soldiers : Michael Barry, .\lbert Rurbank, William Bren, Peter Burns, Peter Brown, Thomas Brady, Owen Creally, John Cunningham, Patrick Coffey, William Crozier, Thomas Conroy, William Cas.«, Fred. Delinger, Hudolph Dcimar, Jacob Da Costa, Edward Durier, William Davis, John Freeman …

Dodge, Gilbert B. Edwards, Monroe Estes, A\"illiam Forrest, George Giles, Michael Gornily, James Gray, Gilbert Hummel, James Hitchcock, Jas. H. Howell, Jeremiah G. Huckey, Daniel Lewis, Peter Mallon, George H. Miner, Charles Miller, John Henry May, Michael McGinniss, Thoiiias Mullen, Arthur Murdoch, Andrew Overbaugh, Pliilander Payne, Dennis Ryan, Sam'l Smith, David Shaw …

The First Regiment Mounted Rifles, which was mustered into the service in squadrons and companies, all the way from August 31, 1861, to September 9, 1862, can be noticed here, although a little out of its order, to make room for the only regiment in which Westchester County could be said to be fully represented during the war. The rolls of the First Mounted Rifles contain, in …

Wright, C. P. Crueger, W. N. Lent, D. R. Goethius, W. T. Travis, J. C. Halstead, John Smith, W. H. Dutcher, C. E. Snedicor, T. Garrison, D. A. Lent, W. M. Austin, Aug. Acker, Lewis Blakely, J. Bartlett, Val. BeninghoB, Daniel Couklin, John Cook, G. A. Cruger, T. A. Conklin, Harvey Conklin, Patrick Curtis, Patrick Conly, Emmanuel Dadson, Willett Deuike, Howard Diveu, D. H. and …