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Towns of Bloominggrove, Cornwall and Monroe

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John Satterly,

Jacob Kune,

Thos. Linch,

Henry Weasner,

Oliver Davenport,

Ann H. Hay, Esq.,

Benjamin Prindle,

George Duryea,

Reuben Youngs,

Coleman Curtis,

Jacob's Galloway,

John Miller, jr.,

L. Dobbin,

Daniel Wood,

Isaac Howell,

Hons Smith,

Samuel Slaughter,

Thomas Hurley,

Isaac Garrison,

Arthur Yeomans,

Jonathan Brooks,

Nathan Coley,

James Jordan,

Philip Roblin,

John Price,

John Smith,

Henry Dyer,

Sutherland Hulet,

Thos. Coleman, jr.,

Amos Mills,

Stephen Wood,

Samuel Earl,

Wm. Ayrs,

Isaac Cooley,

Tho. Chatfield,

Julius Smith,

Matthew Ayres,

Brier Palmer,

Chas. McKinney,

John Arles,

Z. Burchard,

Isaiah Howel,

Henry Halle,

Sylvanus Hally,

Henry Wisner, jr.,

Daniel Chambers,

Noah Carpenter,

Smith Clark,

Israel Osmon,

C. Van Duzer,

Patrick O'Duddle,

Garret Duryea,

Hugh Gregg,

Caleb Coleman,

John Griffith, Esq.

Joseph Smith,

Elijah Green,

Wm. Howard,

Samuel Rockwel,

Seth Marven,

David Sutherland

Wm. Herd,

Nathan Marvin,

Samuel Tuthill,

Zeph. Howell,

D. Lankester,

Elemuel Sheden,

Stephen Peet,

Ebenezer Bull,

Joshua Corey,

Stephen Sleet,

Vincent Helmes,

Sander Galloway,

P. McGlocklin,

Zopher Teed,

Benj. Goldsmith,

Henry Attwood,

Obadiah Smith,

Thomas Helms,

Justus Hulse,

John W. Clark,

Capt. Austin Smith,

William Hunter,

Paul Howell,

John Beltcher,

Joseph Chandler,

Abner Thorp,

Sam'l Ketcham, jr.,

Isaac Brown,

James Wiggins,

Samuel Moffatt,

Samuel Smith,

Robert Armstrong,

John Smith,

A. Townsend,

Capt. J. Tuthill,

Lewis Donovan,

A. Sutherland,

John Lomarex,

John Wooley,

The Justices of the Peace during this period of 10 years, were-Selah Strong, Nathaniel Jayne, David Smith, Amos Mills, Archibald Little, William Thorn, Henry Wisner, Silvanus White, John Griffith.

In 1777 the Precinct meetings were conducted under the direction of four committee men, in place of the justices. In that year the committee were-Elihu Marvin, Thomas Maffat, Daniel Coleman and Samuel Strong.

Thus far it does not appear that the Precinct had adopted a set of laws for its government, such as we find in other Precincts. Though the Precinct appointed overseers of the poor, yet the records do not show that any poor money was raised for their support during these ten years. The Precinct brand in 1774 was the letter C. In 1785, £60 was raised for support of the poor. In 1787, £25. In 1788, £30. In 1789, £30.

It does not appear how the poor were supported, or that the poor masters ever accounted to the Precinct or its officers, for the expenditure of the money.

In 1791 the wolf bounty was £10. In 1793, £8. In 1794, £5.

1793 began to adopt regulations to govern the town, and among them, that a pound be built near John Brewster's, Bloominggrove, one near John Barton's, Murderers' creek, one at John Waggon's, Smith's Clove, and a pair of stocks at each pound. This was a rigid beginning. The fences to be built four feet four inches high, thick and strong. In 1797, every ram found running at large was to be sold for the use of the poor.

In 1769 Selah Strong, William Thorn, Henry Wisner, Jr. and Silvanus White, four of His Majesty's Justices, declared the indenture of the apprentice, James Simmons, void, by the ill-treatment of his master, John Tuthill, and discharged the apprentice.

1788, Capt. Tuthill and Richard Goldsmith appointed a committee to go to Capt. Sloat's to consult with a county committee. (This we suppose was in relation to the erection of the new county of Orange.)

The records appear to have been very regularly kept froth the beginning, but principally confined to the election of town officers, districting roads, recording them and appointing overseers. There is very little variety and less legislation found on them. During the first ten years of organization, the inhabitants must have been a law to themselves, for the records furnish no evidence that they were governed by a town law. We know of no better compliment to pay to these early settlers, than the statement of this fact. They must have been an orderly and moral people. The records show them to have been a sensible one, and disposed to improve the surface of the land by roads and bridges, &c. and make it as pleasant to the residents as inviting to emigrants. As far as we know, they have not forfeited any of these early traits of character.

Names of Places mentioned previous to 1790.-Water-side, Bloominggrove, Smith's Clove, New Meeting House, Oxford, Nathaniel Satterly's Mill, Blagg's Clove, Otterkill; Teed's Bridge, Sterlin, Round Hill, Woodherry Clove, New Cornwall, Mill, Bloominggrove Meeting House, Ternity Bridge, Munger's House, Limerock, Butter Hill, (1767) Furnace Road, Lawyer Smith's Mill, Sterling Iron works, Night's Mills, Long Pond, Carpenter's Mills, Murderer's Creek, Natural Bridge, John McAdus' Cabbin, Popelops Kill, the Furnace, Samuel Sheldon's Saw Mill, the Furnace at the mouth of Capt. Bull's lane, Earl's Burying Place, Forest of Dean, Bridge, Old Warwick Road, Coleman's Bridge, Stony Brook, Stephen Hulse's Bridge, Indian Fields in Smith's Clove, Creek. Absalom Townson's Mill, Stony Brook Bridge, West Point, Bethlehem, Paul Howell's Grist Mill, Chester, Mountain Road, worked by the army, Jordans Bridge, Ketcham's Mills, Shelahtown on the mountain, Stone Spring near Forest of Dean, on the road to Fort Montgomery, Laugford Thorn's Bridge, Sugarloaf, Troutbrook, Bull's Pond, on a hill, Elias Ring's Mill, Greycort, Bear Hill, Torn Mountain, Queensburgh Furnace, Peartree Grove, Canterbury, Thorn's Tan Vat, Thorn's Saw Mill, Green Pond, Queensburgh's Minehole District, Sugarloaf Valley, Poverty Hollow.