LeRay, Jefferson, NY, Town Supervisors

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ERECTION OF THE TOWN--SUCCEEDING OFFICERS

The town of Le Ray was erected Feb. 17, 1806, embracing all that part of Brownville lying east of the east line of Penet Square, prolonged to the Black river. Its limits then included the present towns of Antwerp and Philadelphia, and a part of Wilna and Alexandria. A further accession of territory was received from the town of Leyden, by an act dated April 4, 1806. Its area was diminished by the erection of Antwerp, April 5, 1810, of Wilna, April 2, 1813, and of Alexandria and Philadelphia, April 3, 1821, which reduced it to the present limits.

The first town-meeting (March 3, 1807), was held at the house of Abiel Shurtliff, and the following officers were elected:
James Shurtlif	supervisor
Thomas Ward	town clerk
Ruel Kimball, B. Bossuet, and Richardson Avery	assessors
Daniel Child, Daniel Sterling, and Lyman Holbrook	commissioners of highways
Thomas Thurston	constable and collector
From that time until the present the office of supervisor has been filled by the following persons, viz :
James Shurtliff	1807 to 1815, inclusive
Ruel Kimball	1816
Ethni Evans	1817
Alvin Herrick	1818
Dr. Horatio Orvis	1819 to 1825, inclusive
William Palmer	1826
John Macomber	1827-28-29; and 1831
Stephen D. Sloan	1830, 1832 and 1837
Lybeus Hastings	1833-34, and 1835, and again in 1843
Ira A. Smith	1836
Daniel D. Sloan	1838
Joel Haworth	1839-40
Elisha Potter	1841-42
Hezekiah L. Granger	1844-45
Alfred Vebber	1846-47
Joseph Boyer	1848-49, and 1851
Wm. G. Comstock	1850
Alonzo M. Van Ostrand	1852-53
Joseph Wagner	1854-55
William S. Phelps	1856-57-58
Octave Blanc	1859
(here three years of the record is destroyed)
Samuel G. Slocum	1862
Cleanthus P. Granger	1863-64
Emmor K. Gardner	1865 to 1868
Frederic Waddingham	1869 to and including 1876; inclusive
F. E. Croissant	1877
Other town officers for the present year are:
W. S. Cooper	clerk
C. P. Granger, G. C. Hazleton, E. Snell	Justices
F. D. Planck	collector
Elbert Hungerford	assessor
Jeremiah Walrath Curtis Cory	commissioner of highways

*Jefferson County History, by L. H. Everts, 1878

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Transcribed by Holice B. Young

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December 26, 1999

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