Minute Book, Volume 5

Tuesday  7th day of April 1840

 

 

At the annual town meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Palmyra held pursuant to adjournment at the public house occupied by Asa Lilly in the Village of Palmyra on Tuesday the 7th day of April 1840.

 

                                                Present

Frederick Smith William Willcox & Isaac E Beecher and Ambrose Salisbury Justices and WF Aldrich Town Clerk

 

Voted – That three assessors, three constables, and one pound master be chosen for the ensuing year.

 

The following persons having received the greatest number of votes are declared duly elected to the several and respective offices, viz:

 

            James Hubbell – Supervisor

 

            William F. Aldrich – Town clerk

 

            Frederick Smith – Justice of the Peace

 

            Egbert B. Grandin – Assessor

            Samuel E. Hudson – Assessor

            Joseph Willcox – Assessor

 

            Truman Heminway – Commissioner of Highways

            Hendee(?) Parshall – Commissioner of Highways

            William Beal – Commissioner of Highways

 

            Oliver H. Palmer – Commissioner of Common Schools

            Samuel Cole  - Commissioner of Common Schools

            DeWitt Parshall – Commissioner of Common Schools

 

            Jacob J. Delamaten – Inspector of Common Schools

            Nathaniel Corwin – Inspector of Common Schools

            Horace Cummings – Inspector of Common Schools

 

            George Culver – Overseer of the Poor

            Henry Gardner – Overseer of the Poor

 

            Allen W. Horton – Collector

 

            Allen W. Horton – Constable

            John D. McComb – Constable

            Almon Hopkinson – Constable

 

            William Foster – Town Sealer

 

The following persons were duly chosen Overseers of Highways in the respective Road Districts to which they are named as follows, to wit:

District No. 1  Edward Wentworth               District No. 17  Abram Brumfield

                    2  William Walker                                         18  Jacob Howell

                    3  Nathaniel Johnson                                    19  Jacob Norris

                    4  Jacob Willcox                                            20  Francis Rowley

                    5  Eason Cornwell                                         21  Yurden T. Smith

                    6  Hazard W. Rogers                                    22  James  Stoddard

                    7  Ira Parker                                                   23  James R. Sanford

                    8  Levi Warner                                               24  George Wilcox

                    9  Luther Sanford                                          25  Uriah S. McClane (McClaive?)

                  10  Newton Foster                                          26  D. S. Jackway

                  11  Edwin F. Townsend                      27  D. I. Ropman (Rosman?)

                  12  George Brown                                          28  Nathaniel Crandal

                  13  Eldred Parker                                           29  George Carpenter

                  14  Joab Drake                                               30  Buckley Newton

                  15  Oliver Durfee                                 31  Isaac Burr

16    Daniel Chapman                             

 

Voted – That the Supervisor be directed to refund one-half the tax levied for the year 1839 on the personal property belonging to the estate of the late Nathaniel Beckwith deceased

 

Voted – That the supervisor be and hereby is directed to procure a legal standard for weights and measures for this town –   

 

Voted -  That the Collector receive 5 per cent for collecting the taxes this year.

 

Voted -  That this meeting stand adjourned until the first Tuesday of April next, then to be held at the public House now occupied by W. P. Nottingham in the Village of Palmyra at 9 Oclock A. M.

            W. F. Aldrich, Town Clerk

 

I. E. Beecher, Justice

Fred Smith, Justice

 

I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original on file in this office.  Dated  Palmyra April 8, 1840

 

                                                W. F. Aldrich, Town Clerk