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History of Orange County
Town of Newburgh
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At a Precinct meeting at the house of Cap. Jonathan Hasbrouck, for the Precinct of Newburgh, the first Tuesday in Aprill, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, according to an act of Assembly for that purpose.
Samuel Sands, Clerk.
Capt. Jonathan Hasbrouck, Supervisor.
Richard Harker, Assessor.
Jesse Windfield, Assessor.
Samuel Wiatt, Assessor.
David Gidney, Constable.
Henry Smith, Collector.
Joseph Gidney, Poor Master.
Benjamin Woolsey, Poor Master.
John McCrary, Path Master.
John Wandal, Path Master.
Burras Holmes, Path Master.
Isaac Fowler, Path Master.
Humphrey Merritt, Path Master.
Thomas Woolsey, Path Master.
Nathan Purdy, Fence Viewers and appraisers of damages.
Isaac Fowler, Fence Viewers and appraisers of damages.
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Lenard Smith chose to collect the quit tent, the patent he now lives on. Then adjorned to the house of Capt. Jonathan Hasbrouck.
1764.--The town officers were----
Samuel Sands, Clerk.
Lewis Dubois, Supervisor.
Nehemiah Denton, Assessor.
Henry Tarbush, Assessor.
Peter Ostrander, Assessor.
Samuel Winslow, Constable and Collector.
Daniel Thustern, Poor Master.
Michael Demott, Poor Master.
Cornelius Wood, Path Master.
Martin Weygant, Path Master.
Leonard Smith, Path Master.
Henry Smith, sen., Path Master.
Gilbert Denton, Path Master.
Edward Hallock, Path Master.
Benjamin Carpenter, Path Master.
Samuel Sprague, Pounder.
Henry Smith, Pounder.
Jehiel Clark, Pounder.
David Purdy, Pounder.
Isaac Fowler, Pounder.
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1767. Silas Wood, Constable, and to take his fees from Isaac Smth’s house.
1768. It is agreed on by Stephen Case and Micajah Lewis, candidates for Constable, that whoever of them is chosen Constable for the year insuing, that they will appoint two deputies to serve under them, such as shall be agreeable to the inhabitants,—such deputies to have full fees for what they serve, and shall be obliged to give to the Constable surety, &c., and shall serve his turn in tending our general Court.
1769. Voted, at annual meeting, that the sum of £30 be raised for the support of the poor for year insuing.
That Martin Weygant be Pounder For the German patent and all adjoining.
1771. Rule first—Voted, as an encouragement to all succeeding Poor masters, the more faithfully to discharge their duty in their office, by preventing all unnecessary charges and needless costs on the inhabitants of the Precinct, and also as a reward for their good service, we freely vote them the sum of £110 each, &c.
Rule third.—That no Poor master for the time being shall for any cause whatever, relieve or cause to be relieved, or made chargeable, any person or persons whatever, that may by law be transported; or any private person can be made accountable for according to law, on pain of perjury, and making themselves liable to pay all such charges, and forfeit to the use of the poor twenty shillings and charges of prosecution, to be recovered before any of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, &c.
1772. And it is voted, that the Assessors shall have for their serving the sum of £14 each, provided they go to every man’s house and make the enquiry of their substance, and they are not excused of working on the road.
£30 voted to support the poor.