Minutes of the first town meeting held in the town of Windham, ULSTER County, New York.

 

"At a town meeting held at the house of Richard Peck, in the town of Windham, Ulster County, agreeable to the law of 1798."

     William Beach--moderator:

     Reuben Hosford, clerk:

 

"Voted that Alexander Boyd, John Tuttle, and Isaac Miles be a committee to conduct the business of the town as the law directs."

 

"And likewise the following persons was, by a plurality of votes, appointed to the office annexed to their several names in the said town of Windham.   N. B.---Those officers are:

William Beach, supervisor; Samuel Gunn, town clerk; Ephraim B. Hubbard, Martinus Laraway, Munson Buell, assessors; Enos Baldwin, Benjamin Johnson, Darius Briggs, commissioners of highways; Justus Squires, Alexander Boyd, Richard Peck, commissioners of schools; Zephaniah Chase, John Tuttle, overseers of the poor; Elisha Thompson, Constant A. Andrews, Harmonius Garlick, Elijah Bushnell,Richard Jersey, constables; Henry Becker, collector; John Mabin, John Tuttle, Darius Briggs, Smith Parks, Martinus Laraway, fence viewers; Samuel Gunn, Samuel Aimes, Theophilus Peck, Justus Squires, Peter Laraway, pound masters.

 

Likewise voted that the next annual meeting for the said town of Windham should be holden at the meeting-house near Samuel Ives', and the meeting dissolved.

                      Reuben Hosford, Cl'k of meeting

The foregoing is a true copy.

                       Test, Samuel Gunn, Town Cl'k

 

We, whose names are hereto subscribed, being three of the Justices of the Peace in and for Ulster county, residing near the town of Windham, have at the request of Alexander Boyd, John Tuttle, and Isaac Miles, a committee appointed by a plurality of votes to nominate their town officers in the town of Windham, we do nominate and appoint the officers whose names are here uner written to the offices annexed opposite their several names in the said town of Windham, agreeable to a law of this State, in that case made and provided. In Testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals in the town of Kingston, on this 12th of April, 1798.  N.B.--Those crossed sworn. (cross-indicated by a *).  [same list of officers as above, repeated]

 

                                                                            John Hasbrouck  [seal]

                                                                            Peter Roggen  [seal]

                                                                            John VanGaasbeck, Jr. [seal]

The foregoing is a True Coppy of the Original.

                          Certified pr.     Damuel Gunn, Town Clerk."

 

List of supervisors, town clerks, and justices of the peace for the town of Windham, 1798-1883.