TOWN OF WOODHULL. 



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Supervisoi'sr 



Jeffrey Smith. 



Asa Arnold. 



S. V. Lattimer. 



A. J. C. Edwards. 

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S. V. Lattimer. 



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Nelson Perry. 



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S. V. Lattimer. 



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Halsey Swarts. 

 J. K. Strock. 

 D. H. Williams. 

 Jas. Carpenter, Jr. 

 J. S. Warner. 



Town Clerks. 

 (No record.) 



Collectors. 

 Joseph R. Peeso. 



John A. Boyd. 

 Joseph R. Peeso. 



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H. S. Williams. 

 William Carpenter. 



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Silas G. Tubbs. 



CoraJ Morgan. 



H. Kurd. 



A. S. Smith. 

 (No record.) 



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A. Smith. 

 (No record.) 



D wight R. Cowley. 



W. W. Wright. 

 J. E. McCaig. 

 E. M. Hathaway. 



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W. W.Wright. 



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Charles P. Slater. 



H. H. Van Orsdale. 

 L. D. Wiley. 



Harmon P. Matson. 



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L. D. Wiley. 

 Edwin F. Smith. 

 Austin Simons. 

 William Bartle. 



Phineas Tuttle. 



James W. Marlatt. 



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M. P. Wilson. 

 John S. Andrus. 

 Charles Calkins. 



1849. H. S. Williams. 

 1851. Joseph Fenton. 

 1853. H. S. Williams. 

 1855. Joseph Fenton. 



1859. Lewis D. Wiley. 



1860. W. H. Sly. 



1861. C. M. Griswold. 



1864. D. Williams. 



1865. S. Harrison. 



1866. A. S. Smith. 



JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 



1868. R. H. AVilliams. 



1869. J. P. Stroud. 



1871. L. V. Payne. 



1872. C. G. Herrington. 



1873. C. M. Griswold. 



1874. L. V. Payne. 



1875. R. H. Mason. 



1876. Sanford Newell. 



1877. Caleb G. Herrington. 

 ' 1878. W. W. Wright. 



CHURCHES. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



The Presbyterian Church of Woodhull was organized by 

 Rev. Isaac Flagler, of Hammondsport, at the school -house, 

 near Worcester Perry's, Oct. 15, 1831, adopting the Con- 

 fession of Faith and Covenant of the Bath Presbytery. 

 The original members were Allen Sheldon and wife, Frank- 

 lin B. Hubbard, Chauncey P. Hubbard and wife, Obed 

 Hathaway and wife, Catherine Pomeroy, Martin White- 

 man, Hannah Gulick, Dorotha Whiteman, Thomas Hedges, 

 Mary Shumway, Hannah Smith, Elizabeth Stroud, and 

 Lyman Morrell and wife. Allen Shelden and C. P. Hub- 

 bard were chosen elders and F. B. Hubbard clerk. 



Their pastors were, in 1831, Revs. Warren Day, 



Pomeroy; 1832, Rockwell White; 1833-34, Orrin John- 

 son ; 1835, John Gray ; 1838, D. B. Booth, James Cressy ; 



1846, W. B. Stowe, M. Welles; 1860, Baldwin; 



1866-72, Alexander Gulick ; 1872, James W. Ball ; 1873, 

 Albert W. Hubbard ; 1873-75, J. W. Beecher. 



The Methodist Episcopal Society united with them in 

 building a union church at Hedgesville, which was dedi- 

 cated by the Methodist Presiding Elder in 1861. The 

 present membership is about 40. 



There is also an organization in the southeast part of the 



town, holding meetings in the Baptist church on Elk Creek. 



This society was organized Sept. 1, 1865, and numbers 13 



members. Rev. Mr. Sturgis, of Addison, preached first ; 



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afterwards Revs. Kennedy, 



Brown, Joseph Long- 



ley, John Boal, Wm. A. Hubbard. Present elders : L. G. 

 Walker, H. Cilly. 



The Presbyterian Church received the Pulteney donation 

 of 100 acres of land for first church organization in the 

 town. 



THE FREE BAPTIST CHURCH 



held services at the houses of the settlers before 1832, and 

 about 1834 a society was formed, and after the Foote school- 

 house was built held meetings there. The first members of 

 the organization were Deacon Ransom Northrup and wife, 

 Aboiza Foote, Daniel Campbell. There were only 7 mem- 

 bers. Elder Crow preached to them and also Wm. Mack. 

 The deacons were A. Foote, D. Campbell. 



The second Free- Will Baptist Church was re-established, 

 after a suspension of some years, Feb. 18, 1852, at the 

 house of Heman Greenslate, who was made clerk. Rev. 

 Simon T. Aldrich and Rev. Wm. Mack were present. 

 Eleven persons were formed into a society, among whom 

 were Warren Stephen, Benedict and Laura Northrup, Levi, 

 Washington, and Polly Benedict, Bucklin Wood, Geo. 

 Mack, and Amy Harrison. Warren Northrup was the 

 first deacon. 



A church was built, at an expense of $2000, and dedi- 

 cated in August, 1875, by Rev. S. Aldrich, of Elmira. 

 Trustees : Amos S. Sprague, William Mack, Salmon Har- 

 rison. The first funeral held in the new church was that of 

 Hannah, wife of Isaac Benedict, one of the oldest members. 



The present officers are Orvill A. Hurd, Clerk ; Edward 

 Northup, Salmon Harrison, Orvill A. Hurd. Present mem- 

 bership, 47. Pastors : Revs. Wm. Mack, Levi C. Warri- 

 ner, B. F. Mack, Geo. Knapp, John W. Brown, Daniel 

 Hunt, Wm. Peck. 



WOODHULL BAPTIST CHURCH. 



On the 20th of November, 1835, 20 persons assembled 

 at the house of John Kent, half a mile above the present 

 village of Woodhull, and organized themselves into the First 

 Baptist Church of Woodhull. Their names were Seth Bax- 

 ter and wife, John Kent, wife and daughter, afterwards wife 

 of William P. Myers, Ira Smith and wife, Stephen Kent, 

 Ephraim Wood and wife, Samuel Stone, Wm. Martin and 

 wife, Maria and Emma Edwards, Philena Marce, Lucy A. 

 Dodge, Ebenezer Gardner, Samuel Cooper and wife. Ste- 

 phen Kent was appointed clerk, and John Kent deacon. 

 A council of neighboring churches was called, which met 

 with them Jan. 13, 1836, with Rev. J. B. Chase, modera- 

 tor ; and after due examination they were accepted by that 

 council. Stephen Kent, aged seventy-five years, is the only 

 one of the original members now living. 



There was no settled pastor until 1840, Deacon John 

 Kent, a licentiate, preaching when no one happened along 

 to supply their pulpit. Rev. John Goff* and Rev. Mr. Finch 

 were early preachers. Rev. Thomas W. Colby was the first 

 settled pastor. In June, 1849, 17 members withdrew, and 

 formed themselves into an organization called the Newville 

 Church. In March, 1858, through the efforts of Rev. 

 George Balcom, both churches disbanded and united in 

 the formation of a new church, under the name of the Union 

 Baptist Church of Woodhull. This church has been well 



