Catskill
- Town Clerks, Supervisors, Justices of the Peace and Road
Supervisors 1789-1883
From Beers, History of Greene County. Retyped by Annette
Campbell
Hezekiah VanOrden was supervisor of the "Great Inbogt
District" in 1786 and in 1787, and probably in 1788, as well as the first
supervisor of the town. Since the organization of the town the following
persons have held the office of supervisor:
TOWN SUPERVISORS 1789-1883:
Hezekiah VanOrden 1789, 1791, 1792
Henry Oothoudt 1790
Samuel VanVechten 1793
Garret Abeel 1794, 1795, 1798, 1800, 1801
George Hale 1796
Martin G. Schuneman 1797, 1799, 1802
Samuel Haight 1803-1811
Jonathan Kyes 1812
Thomas Hale 1813-1822
William Seaman 1823-1828
Aaron C. Hall 1829-1831
Jacob Haight 1832-1838
Robert Dorlan 1839-1844
Ira Dubois 1845
Malbone Watson 1846
Joseph M. Boies 1847
Jacob VanOrden 1848-1849
Rufus H. Hing 1850-1851, 1853
Wilson Page 1852
J. Atwater Cooke 1854
Henry G. Johnson 1855
Addison P. Jones 1856, 1860-1861
Alexander Wiltse 1857-1859
John H. Bagley, Jr. 1862-1864
Hiram VanSteenburgh 1865-1866
S. Sherwood Day 1867-1868
Samuel Dewey 1869
Robert E. Austin 1870
John A. Griswold 1871
William Smith 1872-1873
John Breasted 1874-1877
William Donahue 1878-1879, 1882
Henry C. Bulkley 1880-1881
James B. Olney 1883
TOWN CLERKS 1789-1883:
William VanOrden, Jr. 1789
Wilhelmus Schuneman 1790-1791
Garret Abeel 1792-1793
Mackay Croswell 1794
William VanOrden 1795-1800
James Bennett 1801-1808
Robert Dorlan 1809-1810, 1812-1824
Isaac Dubois 1811
Charles C. Abeel 1825-1836
David Ely 1837-1849
George Peck 1850-1854
John R. Sylvester 1855, 1857
Charles Cornwall 1856
William H. Russ 1858-1861, 1864-1868
Henry G. Johnson 1862-1863, 1869-1870
Charles C.W. Cleveland 1871
B. Frank Conklin 1872-1873
Wheeler Howard 1874, 1882-1883
Jacob W. Kelley 1875
Albert Cornwall 1876-1877
Charles E. Bassett 1878-1879
Samuel W. Greene 1880
George T. Williams 1881
COMMON SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS:
The first appearing in 1796
Stephen Day, John Moore, Martin G. Schuneman, William Brandow, and Deluana
Backus.
Subsequently there were three elected annually.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE 1792-1883:
Justices of the Peace were at first appointed. They were first
elected in 1831. From the imperfect records we have been able
to make the following list of justices acting in this town. It is incomplete,
but it contains the names of nearly all who held office here, though we have
not in every case been able to learn the full extent of their terms of
service.
Abraham Salisbury 1792-1793
Martin G. Schuneman 1792
Shadrack Sill 1792
John B. Dumond 1792
Joel Bellamy 1803-1810, 1813, 1816,1828-1831
Merchant Lawrence 1807-1809, 1811, 1813, 1816-1818
John Blanchard 1802-1806, 1808-1811, 1813-1816
James F. Wright 1814-1815
Moses Morse 1802-1803
Deluana Backus 1802
Thomas Thomson 1802
Patrick Hamilton 1803, 1806, 1808
D. Bancroft 1804-1806
John J. Dewitt 1807
Henry Ritter 1813
Francis Sayre 1818-1822
Stephen Root 1814-1819
Jacob H. Tremper 1817-1819
James Pinckney 1817-1821, 1823
Ephraim Baker 1809-1810
William Schuneman 1810
Seth Hamilton 1811, 1813
Waldron Dumond 1811
Samuel Hamilton 1813-1814
Cornelius DuBois 1813-1814, 1816-1818
Cornelius Myers 1814
Henry Ashley 1817
Timothy Lawrence 1815, 1822-1823
Luke Kiersted 1821, 1823, 1827-1831
Luther Carter 1815
Isaac Northrop 1814
Robert Sorlan 1821
Isaac J. Dubois 1828, 1831
William G. VanVliet 1828
Since the office became elective the following have held it during the
terms indicated.
Joel Bellamy 1832-1838
Barent VanVleck 1839-1844
Alexander H. Bailey 1845-1848
Lindsey Beach 1849-1852
Henry F. Olmstead 1853-1856
Addison C. Griswold 1861-1864
William Salisbury 1865-1876
John Horton 1877-1883
John Dewey 1834-1837
Ira Dubois 1838-1845
Robert Dorlan 1846-1855
Edgar Russell 1856, 1877
William Salisbury 1878-1881
Henry F. Olmstead 1882-1883
Isaac J. DuBois 1835-1850
William Doud 1851-1854
James Johnson 1855-1862
Jeremiah Overbaugh, Jr. 1863-1883
John VanVechten 1836-1855, 1859
Michael Plank 1856-1858
Lloyd Howard 1860-1876
Benjamin T. White 1877-1879
George R. Olney 1880-1883
James H. VanGelder elected 1883 (current year of writing Beers
History)
Supervisors of Hiways and Roads in Town of Catskill 1848-1883:
John S. Ives 1848, 1858
Daniel B. Strong 1849
Joshua Draper 1850
Sylvester Hitchcock 1851
William S. Bouton 1852
Lyman Robinson 1853, 1854, 1856
Isaac W. VanSchaack 1855
William H. Myers 1857
Austin Smith 1859
Peter I. Stanley 1860
Nathaniel Ormsbee 1861, 1862
Albert Tuttle 1863, 1864, 1869
Jonas M. Smith 1865, 1866, 1875, 1880
Albert Steele 1867
Egbert B. Dodge 1868
Edgar Smith 1870
Joseph Sax 1871, 1872, 1876
Archibald Tompkins 1873, 1874
Hiram B. Clarke 1877
Wilbur F. Lee 1878, 1881, 1883
Giles S. Sutton 1879
Darius B. Prout 1883