Minute Book, Volume 5

Tuesday 6th day of April 1841

 

 

At the annual Town Meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Palmyra held pursuant to adjournment at the public house occupied by WP Nottingham in the Village of Palmyra on Tuesday the 6th day of April 1841.

 

                                                Present

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

 

Voted – That three assessors and four Constables 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 for which they are respectively named Viz:

 

            James Hubbell – Supervisor

 

            William F. Aldrich – Town Clerk

 

            George W. Cuyler – Justice of the Peace

 

            Egbert D. Grandin – Assessor

            Thomas Lakey – Assessor

            Jareb D. Rogers – Assessor

 

            Ambrose Salisbury – Commissioner of Highways

            Aretas Lapham – Commissioner of Highways

            Truman Heminway – Commissioner of Highways

 

            Oliver H. Palmer – Commissioner of Common Schools

            Samuel Cole – Commissioner of Common Schools

            Isaac E. Beecher – Commissioner of Common Schools

 

            William Foster – Inspector of Common Schools

            Nathaniel Corwin – Inspector of Common Schools

            Horace Cumings – Inspector of Common Schools

 

            John D. McComb – Collector

 

            Almon Hopkinson – Constable

            John D. McComb – Constable

            Allen W. Horton – Constable

            William M. Howell – Constable

 

            George Culver – Overseer of the Poor

            Chauncy Cumings – Overseer of the Poor

 

            Eldredge Havens – Town Sealer

 

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

 

District No.  1  John Hathaway                   17  Lorenzo Parker

                     2  William Walker                        18  Jacob Howell

                     3  David Johnson                      19  Nelson Sherman

                     4  Josiah Drake             20  Francis Rowley

                     5  J. D. Galloway                    21  Charles Allen

                     6  Elisha W. Cobb              22  Bela Morgan

                     7  Charles Dugan 2nd                  23  James R. Lawford

                     8  Henry Rowley             24  James Walton

                     9  Josiah Hathaway                   25  Uriah Mc Clane  (McClave?)

                   10  John D. Feller                        26  D. L.? Jackway

                   11  William Gardner                      27  Tennis Decker

                   12  Peter Harris                           28  Nathaniel Crandall

                   13  Eldred Parker                        29  John Chapman

                   14  George P. Stephens            30  Edwin Foster

                  15  Oliver Durfee             31  George Husker

                   16  Cephas Jagger                        32  David D. Knowles

 

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

 

Voted – That the Board of Supervisors of this County are hereby authorized to cause to be raised by tax on this town the ensuing year Five Hundred Dollars in addition to the sum now allowed by law to pay for constructing or repairing roads and bridges in said town.

 

Voted – That this meeting stand adjourned until the first Tuesday of April next then to be held at the public house now kept by Asa Lilly in the Village of Palmyra at 9 o’clock A. M.

 

W. F. Aldrich – T. Clerk

                                                            Isaac E. Beecher – Justice

                                                            Fred Smith – Justice

A.     Salisbury – Justice

 

I certify that the foregoing to be a true copy of the original on file in this office recorded April 7, 1841.

 

                                                            W. F. Aldrich, Town Clerk

 

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