At the annual Town meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Palmyra held pursuant to adjournment at the Public House occupied by Butler Newton in the Village of Palmyra on tuesday the sixth day of April 1847.

 

Present and Presiding

Frederick Smith, Isaac E Beecher, and James Hubbell justices of the peace in and for said town and Charles A Hart Town clerk it vas

 

Voted – that three constables be chosen for the ensuing year

 

Voted – that there be chosen one overseer of the pooor for the ensuing year

 

Voted – that there be one ? Master for the ensuing year

 

Voted – Thomas Rogers be chosen ? Master for the ensuing year

 

Voted – that  the supervisors pay to John W Gilbert the amount of Tax overpaid by said Gilbert for the year 1846 when being satisfied by /? Or otherwise that a mistake occurred.

 

Voted – that the supervisor pay to Edward A Allen the amount of tax overpaid by said Allen for the year 1846 upon being satisfied by ? or otherwise that a mistake occurred.

 

Voted – the the supervisor pay to Butler Muton the ? of five dollars for the use of his house in holding the election this day and at previous times.

 

The report of William Beal supervisor having been read was accepted.

 

The report of the Commissioners of Highways for said town having been read upon a recommendation of said Commissioners it vas

 

Voted – that the supervisor be authorized and directed to raise by tax on said town the ? of one hundred dollars for repairing roads and bridges and paying the debt of said town.

 

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 to wit:

 

          Augustus Elmendorf - Supervisor

         

          Edwin M Anderson – Town Clerk

 

          James R Sanford - Assessor

         

          James P Horton – Commissioner of Highways

Dist No 1       En? C Cosart?

                    Hazard W Rogers – Ins. Of election

 

Dist. No 2      Jas Reeves

                    George Harrison – Ins. Of election

 

Thomas W Gurney – Town Sealer

 

William Foster – Superintendent of Common Schools

 

Ambrose Salisbury – Justice full term

William H Southwick – Justice vacancy

 

William H Bowman – Overseer of the Poor

 

John Williamson – Collector

 

John Williamson

Elisha Flower

Durfee A Sherman – Constables

 

Dist. No 1 James S Seeley – Ins. Of election

 

Dist. No 2 Jacob Norris – Ins. Of election

         

          The following named persons were duly chosen overseers of highways in and for the respective road districts to which they are named as follows, to wit:

 

District No. 1 – William Foster

District No. 2 – William Beal

District No. 3 – David Johnson

District No. 4 – Samuel J Horton

District No. 5 – Thomas Galloway

District No. 6 – Joseph Rogers

District No. 7 – William Pullman

District No. 8 – Hiram Foster

District No. 9 – Dennis Clark

District No. 10 – George Harrison

District No. 11 – Zebulon Reeves

District No. 12 – J P Stupplebeen

District No. 13 – Hender Parshall

District No. 14 – William Palmer

District No. 15 –Oliver Durfee

District No. 16 – Cephas Jagger

District No. 17 – James Hick?

District No. 18 –Stephen Mosher

District No. 19 – Israel ? Howell

District No. 20 – John Jagger

District No. 21 – William Durfee

District No. 22 – Ira Greenwood

District No. 23 – James R Sanford

District No. 24 – James Walton

District No. 25 – James Reeves

District No. 26 –William VanHusen

District No. 27 – Daniel J Rossman

District No. 28 – John ONeil

District No. 29 – Abram Carl

District No. 30 – Asa K White

District No. 31 –Thomas Rainer

District No. 32 – D D ?

District No. 33 – James Hubbell

District No. 34 – Maltby Clark

District No. 35 – William Tripp

District No. 36 –Andrew Feller

District No. 37 – George Evans

District No. 38 – Joseph Aldrich

District No. 39 – Joseph Wilcox

District No. 40 –Jacob Pettitte

 

That this meeting do stand adjourned until the first Tuesday in April 1848 there to be held at the Bunker Hill House kept by Butler Newton in the village of Palmyra at Ten O’Clock A M

 

Charles A Hart – Town Clerk

 

Isaac E Beecher

Fred K Smith – Justices of the Peace

 

 

We the board of town officers of the town of Palmyra at the annual town meeting held therein on the 6^th day of April 1847 do certify that we have and we do hereby appoint the following named persons to be Inspectors of Election respectively in the two election districts to wit: James Seeley one of the inspectors of election for the election district number one in the said town of Palmyra and Jacob Norris one of the inspectors of election for district number two in Palmyra aforesaid. The aforesaid James Seeley and Jacob Norris having received the greatest number of votes for Inspectors for inspectors of electionfor the respective district for which they are named next to the inspectors duly elected by the people.

 

Given under our hands at Palmyra in town meeting aforesaid this 6^th day of April 1847

 

Isaac E Beecher

Fred K Smith  - Justices of the Peace

 

Charles A Hart – Town Clerk

 

1847 Excise Notice

 

Whereas by the 4^th section of the act entitled an act relating to excise and the licensing ? of intoxicating liquors passed May 14^th 1845 it is made the duty of the Justice of the Peace of any town whenever a petition shall be presented to them signed by one fourth of so many of the legal voters of such town as shall haved voted at the last preceeding election requesting them the said Justices to present the question of License or No License again to the electors to give notice that such question will be presented to them such petition or request as the law in such cases require have been presented to us. We do therefore hereby give notice to the electors of the town of Palmyra that the question of License of No License will be presented to them for their consideration and decision on Tuesday next being the 27^th day of April 1847 at the ? of Butler Newton in the village of Palmyra at 10 o’clock am

 

Fred K Smith

James Hubbell

J E Beecher – Justices of the Peace

 

Whereas at a meeting of the gratified voters of the town of Palmyra held April 27^th 1847 at the house of B Newton for the purpose of again testing the question of License or No License persuant to the act entitled an act relating to excise and to licensing ? of intoxicating liquors passed may 14^th 1845.

 

Then were three hundred and eighty two votes polled upon which were written on printed the words No License and then were one hundred and eighty eight votes polled in which written on printed the words License showing a majority of ninety seven votes against
? of License for the sale of intoxicating liquors passed May 14^th 1845.

 

Fred K Smith

Isaac E Beecher – Inspector of town meeting

 

A copy of the original on file inthis office May 3^rd 1847

E M Anderson – Town Clerk

 

At a meeting of the board of town officers of the town of Palmyra held at the town clerk office in said town persuant to law on Monday the 4^th day of October 1847 ? Agustus Elmendorf Supervisor L L seaman James R Snaford and ? L Rodgers Assessors and Edwin M Anderson Town Clerk

It was unanimously voted that this board deem it inespedient? And unnecessary will not at thistime make any alteration in the existing election district of said town and that the election during the year be held at the house of William P Nottingham in Election District Number one and at the stone school house ? the methodist and Presbytarian Churches in election district number two

A Elmendorf – Supervisor

 

J S Rodgers

L L Seaman

J R Sanford – Assessors

 

I certify that the above is a true copy of the original on file in my office E M Adnerson – Town Clerk

 

E M Anderson – Town Clerk

 

1848

 

at the annual town meeting in the town of Palmyra held pursuant to adjournment at the house occupied by Butler Newton in the village of Palmyra on Tuesday the 4^th day of April 1848

 

Persuant Presiding Ambrose Salisbury, Isaac E Beecher, W H Southwick Esq, Justice of the peace in and for said town Edwin M Anderson Town Clerk it vas

 

Voted – that four constables be chosen for the ensuing year

 

Voted – that the supervisor pay John Chapman the amount of tax overpaid by said Chapman for the year 1847

Voted – that the supervisors pay to Rev E A Plath? The amount of tax overpaid by said E A Platt? For year 1847

 

The report of the commissioners of highways having been read upon recommendation of said commissioners it vas

 

Voted – the supervisor be authorized and directed to raise by tax on said town the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars in addition to the sum allowed by law to pay for constructing and repairing roads and bridges

 

Voted – resolved that the supervisor be requested to institute an immediate and thorough search for the recent ? of this town and that there be an ? to ? any necessary ? for that object at the cost of the town

 

The following persons having received the highest number of votes are declared duly elected to the several and respective offices for which they are respectively named to wit:

 

Agustus Elmendorf – Supervisor

 

Amos C Sanford – Town Clerk

 

William H Southwick – Justice of the Peace

 

William Foster – Town Superintendent

 

Hendee Parshall – Assessor

 

Hazard W Rodgers

John H Gilbert – Inspectors of election district no 1

 

Charles Hudson

George Harrison – Inspectors of election district no 2

 

Shadrach Hildreth – Commissioner of Highways

 

Elisha Flower – Overseer of the Poor

 

William Walton – Town Sealer

 

William Drake – Collector

 

John Williamson

Walter Stephens

John S Brown

Durfee A Sherman – Constables

 

The following persons were duly chosen path master on overseer of highways in and for the respective district in which they are named

 

1 – William Parh

2 – James Galloway

3 – David Johnson

4 – Josiah Drake

5 – Thomas Galloway

6 – Rosman G Gordon?

7 – Willard Pulman?

8 – A Salisbury

9 – Tripp Ellisson

10 – George Harrison

11 – George Brown

12 – Peter Stupplebeen

13 – James J Bromfield

14 – Joab Drake

15 – James A Shaw

16 – Paul Jangger?

17 – Seymen I Monroe

18 – Stephen Mosien?

19 – William Snee?

20 – William Post

21 – Gurdon G Smith

22 – Ira Greenwood

23 – James R Sanford

24 – George Wilcox

25 – Rufus Sweezey

26 – William VanHusen

27 – Jacob M Hammond

28 – Natheniel Crandall

29 – A F Suchey?

30 – Luther R Benton

31 – Silus Taber?

32 - ? Smith ?

33 – Jacob Sherman

34 – Edwin Stacey

35 – William Tripp

36 – John Beal

37 – George Evans

38 – Charles M Addams

39 – Silvester Westfall

40 – Robert Hunt

 

We the board of town officers of the town of Palmyra at the annual town meeting held therein on the 4^th day of April 1848 do certify that we have and do hereby appoint the following named persons to be inspectors of elections repsectively in two election districts to wit Samuel Palmer one of the inspectors of election for the election district number one in said town of Palmyra and Jacob Norris one of the Inspectors of election for district number 2 in Palmyra aforesaid the said Samuel Palmer and Jacob Norris having received the greatest number of votes for inspectors of election for the inspection district for which they are named ? so the inspector next ot the inspection duly elected by the people.

 

Given under our hands at Palmyra in town meeting aforesaid this 4^th day of April 1848.