Hunter
- Supervisors, Town Clerks and Justices of the Peace 1813-1883
From Beers, History of Greene County. Retyped by Annette
Campbell.
Town Meetings: Annual and special town meetings in this
town have been held at the residences of its citizens. The places of meeting
were generally chosen for their central location, or in early times, because
of their being on one of the few and imperfectly built roads. Old Medford and
Jamaica were no strangers to the jugs usually to be seen in prominent
positions, and were as much of a factor in electing the proper candidate as
any other side issue. Three days election was the old custom, and a general
good and neighborly occasion was had. Party lines were not adhered to at first
in electing town officers, but responsible and capable men were selected from
both parties for township committees, officers, and other positions. In
the earlier days the ladies often congregated in the house, and there being
usually but one or two rooms, they participated more or less in the
affair---certainly in the preparation of the meals.
Since the organization of the town, in 1813, town meetings have
been held in the following places: in 1813 in the small house of Daniel
Bloomer: 1814 and 1815 at William Shaw's; 1816, 1818, 1825-1827 at Sumner
Palmenter's; 1817 at George Walton's; 1819, 1822 at William Haines'; 1820-1823
at Edwards' New York Tannery; 1824 at John Beach's; 1828-1833 at Harlow
Perkins'; 1833-1839, 1841-1843 at Ezra B. Gay's; 1840, 1843, 1845-1850 at
Robert R. Kerr's; 1844 at Egbert Vosburgh's; 1850 at William Anthony's.
SUPERVISORS 1813-1883:
Daniel Bloomer 1813, 1816
Abijah Griffin 1814-1815, 1817
Seth Green 1818, 1819
William W. Edwards 1820-1823, 1845, 1851
William Edwards 1825
Alvin Bushnell 1824
Benjamin P. Bushnell 1826-1827
Harmon I. Quackenboss 1828-1832
Daniel Stowe 1833-1834
John Beach, Jr. 1835-1836
Daniel Quackenboss 1837-1839
Hiram Hatch 1840-1841
Robert Kerr 1842-1843
Alexander H. Palmer 1844
William H. Diel 1846-1847
Alexander Kiersted 1848
Fisk Beach 1849
Thomas Gibson 1850
Robert R. Kerr 1852
William Green 1853
Norman H. Gray 1854-1855, 1863, 1865
Horatio S. Lockwood 1856
James Douglas 1857-1859, 1866
Daniel S. Perkins 1860-1862
Frederick Beach 1864
Benjamin W. Gay 1867-1869
Samuel S. Mulford 1870-1871, 1877-1883
J. L. Schutt 1872, 1874
A. R. VanBuren 1873
Gilbert Haines 1875-1876
TOWN CLERKS 1813-1883:
Sumner Palmenter 1813-1819
Alvin Bushnell 1819-1820
Ezra B. Gay 1829-1830, 1838-1840
Daniel Stowe 1821-1829
David Ingersol 1831-1834
John Orr 1840
John B. Lindsley 1842-1845
Alexander Kiersted 1845-1848
William E. Anthony 1848-1851
Robert R. Kerr 1851
Michael Lackey 1852-1853
Robert Elliot 1854-1859, 1863
William F. Green 1859, 1871, 1874, 1879
Charles Shevlin, Jr. 1860-1861
James R. Douglass 1862
George N. Eggleston 1864
James Shevlin 1865, 1868
Edgar H. Layman 1866
Owen Glennon 1867
H.E. Biddell 1869
Thomas Ford, Jr. 1870
R.W. Burtis 1872
F. R. Martin 1873
Hugh L. Burns 1875-1876, 1881-1882
George C. McKelvie 1877-1878, 1880
John F. Gara 1883
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE 1813-1883:
Daniel Bloomer 1813-1825, 1828-1830, 1834
Wooster Perkins 1813-1815
Charles Chase 1815-1822
Sumner Palmenter 1816-1820
Seth Green 1816-1822, 1824
John Beach, Jr. 1820, 1822, 1824, 1826-1827
H. Goslee 1821
J. Pinckney 1821
Alvin Bushnell 1823-1824, 1829
Milton A. Purdy 1830
Oliver T. Fuller 1829
Herman I. Quackenboss 1829
Fisk Beach 1831, 1835, 1839, 1849
Edwin Goodwin 1832
Charles H. Sedgwick 1833, 1840
Abram Brewer 1833
Ezra B. Gray 1835, 1837-1838
Oliver T. Fuller 1837
John H. Kiersted 1838
William S. Bushnell 1840
Samuel Patch 1849-1850
Norman H. Gray 1849
Justin P. Fordham 1849-1850
Harvey S. Burgess 1851
Jonas Hyser 1853
James Haines 1852, 1855, 1859
Harmon B. Dibble 1856
Henry Osborn 1857
Abram D. Miller 1858
Michael Farrell 1860
John Burtis 1861, 1865, 1869
James Rusk 1862
Daniel S. Perkins 1863
John A. Miller 1864
Ralph S. Hadden 1866, 1870, 1872
Owen Glennon 1867, 1871, 1875, 1878
William F. Green 1873
Michael Farrell, elected to fill vacancy 1873, 1880
S. A. Jones 1874
Michael Farrell 1876
Calvin Harrington and James Rusk, elected to fill vacancy
1876
Calvin Harrington 1877, 1881
Charles D. Wiltze 1878, 1882
Owen Glennon, appointed to vacancy 1878
Jacob Fromer 1879