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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



Election. Exitus. 



1859, July.— W. D. Taylor, A.B July, 1860. 



1860, " Sherril B. Smith, A.B March, 1866. 



1866, March.— N. W. Ayer, A.M July, 1867. 



1867.— J. C. Whiting 1868. 



1868.— G. E. McMaster 1869. 



1869, August.— J. Wesley Eddy December, 1869. 



1869, December.— S. F. Bagg 1871. 



1871, July. — E. Wilmot Cummings November, 1871. 



1871, December. — Paul C. Howe March, 1872. 



1872, March.— H. A. Smith July, 1872. 



1872, August— A. J. Osborn 1874. 



1874.— James A. Christie 1877. 



1877.— W. F. Gelston 1878. 



1878.— Frank E. Wells* 



ORGANIZATION. 



Prattsburgh was formed from Pulteney, iVpril 12, 1813, 

 and contained at that time half of the town of Wheeler. 

 Subsequently half of the township adjoining on the west 

 was added to it. The half-township taken from this to 

 form Wheeler was detached in 1820, and since then the 

 boundaries of the town have remained unchanged. The 

 first town-meeting was held on the 1st day of March, 1814, 

 at which Joel Pratt, Jr., was elected supervisor. 



CIVIL LIST. 



The town records having been destroyed by fire and those 

 in Bath being deficient, we have been unable to get a com- 

 plete list of the town ofiicers from its organization. We 

 give below all that we have been able with the utmost dili- 

 gence to find. The early rolls of those who took oaths of 

 office at Bath are for the most part lists of names and 

 dates, with no mention of the town attached to them. 



We find that Stephen Prentiss was supervisor, and Isaac 

 Ainsworth collector, in 1824. Mr. Ainsworth was also 

 collector in 1823. Then there is a blank, so far as Pratts- 

 burgh is concerned, till 1827, after which the list is as 

 follows : 





Supervisors. 



Justices. 



Collectors. 



1827. 



Hobert Porter. 



(No record.) 



Sylvester Alderman. 



1828. 



Burrage Rice. 



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a ii 



1829. 



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i( (( 



Jacob Wilson. 



1830. 



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a a 



1831. 



ii (I 



i( a 



a n 



1832. 



({ (( 



i( (( 



a ii 



1833. 



(< ({ 



S. A. Johnson. 



Aaron Pinney. 



1834. 



li a 



Harry Clark. 



a a 



1835. 



Daniel Burroughs. 



(No record.) 



a a 



1836. 



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S. A. Johnson. 



E. B.Woodworth,Jr. 



1837. 



Aaron Pinney. 



(No record.) 



Marcus T. C. Higby. 



1838. 



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W.VanValkenburgh. " " 



1839. 



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Thomas W. Bailey. 



a a 



1840. 



J. H. Hotchkin, Jr. 



(No record.) 



Asa Hopkins. 



1841. 



John L. Higby. 



(I a 



Wm. E. S. Noble. 



1842. 



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ii ii 



Orris Briggs. 



1843. 



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Ezra Chapin. 



a a 



1844. 



li (( 



Seth Miner. 



ii a 



1845. 



John F. Williams. 



John Smith. 



Jerry Allis. 



1846. 



John C. Higby. 



Abner P. Lyon. 



a a 



1847. 



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Isaac Vermilya. 



ii a 



1848. 



a i( 



J. F. Williams. 



a a 



1849. 



Aaron Pinney. 



(No record.) 



a ii 



1850. 



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it a 



a a 



1851. 



Joseph Lewis. 



a ii 



a a 



1852. 



John Anderson. 



a a 



Josiah Allis. 



1853. 



John F. AVilliams. 



II. B. Eddy. 



Jerry Allis. 



1854. 



Joseph Lewis. 



J. F. Williams. 



a a 



* All the above, with three exceptions, are college graduates ; but we 

 are not able to give the proper titles of the last eleven. 



1855. 

 1856. 

 1857. 

 1858. 

 1859. 

 1860. 

 1861. 

 1862. 

 1863. 

 1864. 

 1865. 

 1866. 

 1867. 

 1868. 

 1869. 

 1870. 

 1871. 

 1872. 

 1873. 

 1874. 

 1875. 

 1876. 

 1877. 

 1878. 



Supervisors. 

 Gr. Denniston. 



a ii 



ii it 



John F. Williams. 



ii ii 



William B. Pratt. 



H. B. Williams. 

 D. W. Baldwin. 

 Martin Pinney. 



Henry A. Hopkins. 



a a 



Martin Pinney. 



Collectors. 

 Henry NelF. 



a ii 



David Smith. 



a ii 



Hiram Wygant. 

 J. W. Williams. 

 Erastus B. Miller. 



a ii 



i( li 



John W. Williams. 



a a 



ii li 



E. C. Eddy. 

 John W. Williams. 

 Benj. B. Austin. 

 Edwin Wilson. 

 Charles F. Grenell. 



William Cook. 



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Jas. A. Middleton. 

 John A. Bonney. 

 A. E. Green. 

 Charles H. Briglin. 

 Garrett Winnie. 



Justices. 

 John Smith. 

 J. K. Fenton. 



C. J. Clark. 

 H. B. Eddy. 



D. N. Aldrich. 

 J. C. Clark. 

 Harvey Weld. 

 H. B. Eddy. 

 Jasper Partridge. 

 George McLean. 

 Daniel D. Waldo. 

 George McLean. 

 Ephraim Kidder. 

 Daniel D. Waldo. 

 George McLean. 

 (No record.) 

 Ephraim Kidder. 

 (No record.) 

 Daniel D. Waldo. 

 (No record.) 

 James Bennett. 

 Charles Shults. 

 Elijah Allis. 

 Daniel D. Waldo. 

 C. J. Clark. 



CHURCHES. 



THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF PRATTSBURGH. 



The first religious service ever held in the town was by 

 Rev. John Niles, at the house of Jared Pratt, in the year 

 1803. Mr. Niles became a resident of the town in the 

 autumn of that year, and held his first religious service on 

 the Sunday following his arrival. From that day to the 

 present the people have never been without the preaching 

 of the gospel. The barn erected by Jared Pratt in 1804, 

 and which was the first frame building in the town, was 

 used as a place of public worship until the erection of the 

 first meeting-house. 



The following is the record of the organization of the 



first church : 



" Bath, June 26, 1804. 

 " On this day and year of our Lord I, Timothy Field, Pastor of the 

 First Congregational Church in Canandaigua, organized a Church of 

 Christ in the district of Bath, at the house of Mr. John Niles. 



" Timothy Field." 



The conclusion of the articles of organization of the 

 church reads : 



" In testimony of our assent to the above Confession of Faith and 

 Covenant, we have hereunto subscribed our names, at Bath, this 

 twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 

 hundred and four. 



" Joel Pratt, Martha Tuttle, 



John Niles, Dorcas Niles, 



Samuel Tuttle, Mary Hull, 



PoMEROY Hull, Hannah Niles, 



Salisbury Burton, Sarah Curtiss, 



William P. Curtiss. 

 " The following persons not being able to attend when the church 

 was constituted, subscribed the Confession of Faith and Covenant a 

 few days afterward ; 



"Lydia Beach, Olive Burton, 



Mary Pratt, Almira Tuttle.** 



John Niles and Capt. Joel Pratt were chosen to attend 

 the Association of Churches of Ontario at Middlesex, June 

 10, 1806, and unite with that association. In the years 

 1806 and 1807 a large number of settlers came, most of the 



