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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



"June 7, 1803. Paid fifty dollars by order of the Commissioners." 

 "July 15, 1803. Paid fifty-six dollars by order of the Commis- 

 sioners." 



"March 2, 1804. Paid one hundred and fifty dollars by order of 

 the Commissioners. 



Jonathan Tracy, Town Clerk. 



The following, with reference to the first hotels, will be 

 of interest : 



" Be it remembered, that we, the Commissioners of Excise for Mid- 

 dletown, in the county of Steuben, have resolved and licensed the 

 following persons to keep public inns or taverns in said Middletown 

 for the year one thousand eight hundred and three, namely : Elisha 

 Searles, Elisha Gilbert, Robert Martin, Lemuel Benham; and have 

 taken as a duty of excise, for the use of said Middletown, five dollars 

 from each and every person so licensed, as witness our hands this 

 4th day of May, 1803. 



"John Knox, 

 "Reuben Searles, 

 "Abel White." 



In 1808 the name of the town was changed to Addison. 

 This year a committee was appointed to select a convenient 

 spot for a burying-ground, and it was " voted, that the com- 

 mittee is to get the burying-ground cleared and fenced, and 

 all the expense is to be paid out of the money in the poor- 

 office." It is to be presumed that there w^ere no poor at 

 that time to need the fund that had accumulated, and there- 

 fore it was devoted to another purpose. 



In 1814 the school commissioners laid out four school 

 districts, as follows : 



" The Commissioners of Schools for the town of Addison have filed 

 in a report at the Town Clerk's ofiice for the division of the town into 

 school districts, dated the 4th of February, 1814. Division as follows, 

 to wit : First district to be composed of all that part of the town lying 

 between the town of Painted Post and the new dwelling-house of John 

 Martin, and from the Canisteo bridge, so as to include the dwelling- 

 house of Henry Tracy ,• the second district, from the dwelling-house 

 of Henry Tracy to the dwelling-house of Jesse Rowley ; the third 

 district, including the dwelling-house of John Martin, to continue up 

 the river so as to include the dwelling-house of Simeon Baker,- the 

 fourth district to continue from thence up the river to the western 

 boundary of the town. 



"Samuel Colgrove, 

 *' David Dickinson, 

 " Timothy Searles, 



" Goinmissioners.'* 



" Voted, That the school money be divided and paid over to the dif- 

 ferent school districts, according to the number of scholars in each 

 district, when proper trustees are chosen to receive it." 



" Voted, That fifty dollars be raised the ensuing year for the use of 

 schools." 



" Voted, That the bounty on wolf's scalps be the same as last year." 



The first return of a general election for members of 

 Assembly, State Senator, and member of Congress is dated 

 April 28, 1814, and signed by William B. Jones, Martin 

 Young, John Towsley, and David Dickinson, inspectors of 

 election. For Assembly, Daniel Cruger, 38 votes ; Moses 

 Van Campen, 13 votes. For Senator, Philetus Swift re- 

 ceived 14 votes; Bennett Bucknell, 14 votes; Chauncey 

 Loomis, 14 votes; John J. Pendergrast, 14 votes. For 

 member of Congress, Oliver C. Comstock received 36 votes 

 and Evens T. Throop 36 votes. 



June 26, 1818, the fifth school district, extending on 

 both sides of the river, " from a small run of water called 

 Stephen Hadley's Creek to the west line of the town," was 

 laid out by the school commissioners. 



" March 3, 1819. Voted, wolves no bounty, panthers 

 ditto." 



In November, 1819, Vincent Matthews and John D. 

 Higgins, of Bath, and Samuel Colgrove and Isaac Santee, 

 of Addison, school commissioners for their respective towns, 

 laid out school district No. 19, in Bonney's Settlement, lying 

 partly in the town of Addison and partly in Bath. In 

 1822 another bridge was built across the Canisteo at Addi- 

 son village. At the town-meeting in 1821 it was " voted 

 to take one hundred dollars of the poor money, to be put 

 with other money, for the purpose of building a bridge over 

 the Canisteo at this place." 



This year " voted, that the bounty on wolves' scalps be 

 ten dollars, and no person to be entitled to the bounty ex- 

 cept residents of the town." '' Voted, that one hundred 

 dollars be raised for the support of schools." 



LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS. 





Supervisors, 



Town Clerks. 



Collectors. 



1828. 



Edward Nichols. 



Hezekiah Dolph. 



Alfred Nichols. 



1829. 



William Womboug 



b. " " 



Eber Scofield. 



1830. 



(( a 



John Loop. 



Amos Carr. 



1831. 



John Loop. 



Archibald Manly. 



Joel Prentis. 



1832. 



a li 



Frederick R. Wagner. James Brownell. 



1833. 



James Baldwin. 



a a 



Eber Scofield. 



1834. 



a a 



a a 



James Brownell. 



1835. 



a (( 



a u 



a a 



1836. 



John H. Thompson 



I. '' " 



a ii 



1837. 



u a 



(( a 



ii ii 



1838. 



William Hamilton. 



a i( 



a a 



1839. 



John H. Thompson 



it a 



Edward Farnham. 



1840. 



a a 



a n 



a it 



1841. 



ii u 



Charles S. Sly. 



James B. Jones. 



1842. 



a a 



William A. Baldwin 



a a 



1843. 



L. A. Jones. 



a a 



ii a 



1844. 



a a 



u a 



John Bailey. 



1845. 



Fred'k R. Wagner. 



a a 



Thomas A. . 



1846. 



William Wombough. John W. Dininny. 



Henry S. Jones. 



1847. 



Rufus Baldwin. 



i( a 



ii a 



1848. 



W. W. Smith. 



(( 11 



George W. Carr. 



1849. 



James H. Miles. 



Geo. H. Wetherby. 



William S. Guile. 



1850. 



U ii 



Rulef. S. Gile. 



John N. Brown. 



1851. 



II. Ross Jones. 



Abram Dudley. 



Francis E. Young. 



1852. 



l( u 



U ii 



Llewellyn A. Jones. 



1853. 



B. D. Root. 



ii ii 



Llewel'n A. Jones, Jr 



1854. 



George W. Carr. 



John S. Hill. 



ii a 



1855. 



Abram Dudley. 



Wilson Van Dycke. 



Oliver Moore. 



1856. 



Edwin J. Horn. 



Rollin R. Smith. 



Stephen Lewis. 



1857. 



0. Seymour. 



George Graham. 



Martin Wilbur. 



1858. 



u u 



A. S. McKay. 



ii ii 



1859. 



Thomas Paxton. 



Jacob V. Graham. 



ii ii 



1860. 



Henry Baldwin. 



a it 



a ii 



1861. 



Edwin J. Horn. 



Albert G. Crane. 



Simon McCullough. 



1862. 



(( a 



a ii 



a ii 



1863. 



a i( 



ii a 



a a 



1864. 



F. C. Dininny. 



ii a 



ii ii 



1865. 



a it 



ii a 



L. M. Jones. 



1866. 



(< i( 



Jacob V. Graham. 



Charles W. Gillet. 



1867. 



i( a 



John Carr. 



a ii 



1868. 



i( u 



Henry S. Jones. 



Alfred Kinne. 



1869. 



ii a 



ii ii 



ii ii 



1870. 



a u 



ii ii 



E. Deville Root. 



1871. 



u a 



F. W. Lattimer. 



a ii 



1872. 



Henry Baldwin. 



a ii 



ii ii 



1873. 



n a 



a a 



David K. Hickey. 



1874. 



S. V. Lattimer. 



ii a 



Daniel Allen. 



1875. 



a (I 



James H. Goodhue. 



John W. Clark. 



1876. 



a i( 



F. W. Lattimer. 



J. R. Wilhelm. 



1877. 



(I (( 



a ii 



li a 



1878. 



Albert G. Crane. 



a a 



Daniel P. Hurlbut 



