Minute Book, Volume 5

Tuesday 5^th day of April 1842

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 5^th day of April 1842.

Present

Frederick Smith Isaac E Beecher Ambrose Salisbury and George W. Cuyler Esquires Justices of the Peace in & for Said town & Wm. F. Aldrich Town Clerk

Voted – That three assessors and Five Constables be chosen for the ensuing year—

The following named 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:

Ambrose Salisbury – Supervisor

Augustus Elmendorf – Town Clerk

Draper Allen – Assessor

Joseph Willcox – Assessor

Samuel E. Hudson – Assessor

Isaac E. Beecher – Justice of the Peace

Shadrack Hildreth - Commissioner of Highways

Aretas Lapham – Commissioner of Highways

James R. Sanford – Commissioner of Highways

Samuel Cole – Commissioner of Common Schools

Oliver H. Palmer – Commissioner of Common Schools

James Hubbell – Commissioner of Common Schools

Almon Hopkinson – Collector

Nathaniel Corwin – Inspector of Common Schools

William Foster – Inspector of Common Schools

George Culver – Overseer of the Poor

James S. Williams – Overseer of the Poor

Edwin P. Godard – Town Sealer

Almon Hopkinson – Constable

Marlin W. Willcox – Constable

Augustus Soper - Constable

John D. McComb – Constable

William M. Howell – Constable

The following named persons were duly chosen Overseers of Highways

In the respective Road District to which they are named as follows – to wit:

District No. 1 William F. Parker No. 18 Stephen Moshier

2 Hiram Willcox 19 John H. Bilby

3 Nathaniel Johnson 20 Henry Post

4 Josiah Drake 21 William Durfee

5 Thomas Galloway 22 Bela Morgan

6 Jacob C. Pettet 23 James R. Sanford

7 Stephen D. Sherman 24 George Willcox

8 Hiram Foster 25 James Reeves

9 Dennis Clark 26 Charles Wentworth

10 Samuel H. Post 27 Daniel I. Ropman

11 Sidney S. Durfee 28 Samuel S. Barker

12 Peter Stupplebean 29 John Chapman

13 James Brownfield 30 Buckley Newton

14 Aaron Hosmer 31 George Husker

15 Oliver Durfee 32 Rupell Hunt

16 William Tripp 33 Samuel Moore

17 Caleb Avery 34 Maltby Clark

Voted – That the sum of two dollars be refunded to Horatio Johnson for error in tax in 1841.

Voted – That the sum of One Dollar and fifty cents be refunded to Josiah Hathaway for error in tax in 1841.

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 oclock A. M.

W. F. Aldrich – Town Clerk

Frederick Smith – Justice

Isaac E. Beecher – Justice

George W. Cuyler – Justice

Ambrose Salisbury – Justice

I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original on file in this office.

A. Elmendorf – Town Clerk

Wayne County

Town of Palmyra – By virtue of the power vested in us – Commissioners of Highways of said town and pursuant to the Statute in such case made

and provided, do by these presents appoint Hendee Parshals overseer of Highways for road district number Thirteen – Charles Curtis for Road District Number Fourteen – Sebecus (?) Hammond for road district number twenty-seven, and David Knowles for Road district number thirty-two – Given under our hands this 27^th day of April, 1842. A. Lapham – Commissioner of Highways

S. Hildreth – Commissioner of Highways

I certify the above to be a true copy of the original on file in this office.

A. Elmendorf – Town Clerk