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MILFORD VILLAGE
Milford village is pleasantly situated in a broad valley, near the
confluence of the Susquehanna river and Cherry Valley creek, and
contained two churches.—Presbyterian and Methodist,--and the following
business interests: general merchandise, Hawver & Liddel, James M.
Parshall; hardware, Cronkite & Smith; tin and stoves, Sullivan
Smith; drugs and groceries, O. D. Westcott; butter and cheese dealers,
S. T. Pratt, B. L. Bates; hotels, C. Kinskerns, F. Pratt; tannery, W. E.
Stickney.
The first town-meeting in "Suffrage," now Milford, was held
at the house of Isaac collier, on Tuesday, the 5th day of
April, 1796, when the following persons were elected:
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Supervisor |
James Moore |
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Town Clerk |
Henry Scott |
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Commissioners of Highways |
John Moore, Joel Stoddard, and Aaron Brink |
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Assessors |
John Bivins, Joseph Culver, Samuel Whitmarsh |
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Commissioners of Schools |
David Cully, Samuel Doolittle, and Samuel Whitmarsh. |
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Overseers of the Poor |
James Westcott and David Hamlin |
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Constables and Collectors |
John Felton, Jr., and James Westcott |
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Poor Committee |
David Cully, Henry Scott, and James Moore |
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Pound Master |
Samuel Bidwell |
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Fence Viewers |
Lemuel Sergeants, Samuel Doolittle, Aaron Brink, and Daniel
French. |
  
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At this town-meeting the following "road wards" were
designated, viz.: |
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First Ward |
John Moore, pathmaster. "Beginning at the south line of
Otsego town, from there to Moses Ford’s north line, and from the
school-house to David Cully’s grist-mill." |
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Second Ward |
Nehemiah Noyes, pathmaster. "From Moses Ford’s north
line to Mathew Cully’s south line.," |
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Third Ward. |
James Westcott, pathmaster. "From Matthew Cully’s south
line to the Hemlock bridge, between James Westcott’s and Isaac
Collier’s." |
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Fourth Ward. |
Isaac Collier, pathmaster. "From the aforesaid Hemlock
bridge to Abraham Houghtailing’s creek." |
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Fifth Ward. |
Aaron Brink, pathmaster.—"From the aforesaid Creek to
the south line of the town." |
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Sixth Ward. |
Reuben Jennings, pathmaster. "Beginning at DavidCollier’s
grist-mill, from thence to John Blivins’ south line." |
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Seventh Ward |
Philip Ellsworth, pathmaster. "From John Blivins’ South
line to the main road at Samuel Doolittle’s." |
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Eighth Ward |
Edmund Pattee, pathmaster. "Beginning at the Town line of
Otego, and ending at the house of Reuben Jennings." |
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Ninth Ward. |
Noah Ford, pathmaster. "Beginning at the Susquehanna River
near the conjunction of Cherry Valley Creek with said River, and
ending at the intersection of the road from David Cully’s mills
to John Blivins’." |
At this meeting it was also "Resolved, that where a creek
or bridge is in the bounds of a ward, that each ward shall extend to the
middle of such creek or bridge."
The following records appear on the town-books for the year 1797:
"June 19. License granted to David Hess, and a note taken for
the sum of five
dollars.
"March the 1st, 1798, permits to Mathew Cully, Isaac
Collier, Isaac Edson, Daniel Hess, Aaron Brink, and James Westcott, and
notes taken from each of them for the sum of five dollars.
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