1834 INHABITANTS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO
IN REFERENCE TO THE RECHARTERING OF THE BANK
OF THE UNITED STATES.
The below document contains 861 signatures of
Washington County, Ohio citizens.
NAMES ARE TRANSCRIBED AS THEY APPEAR ON THE
DOCUMENT
In order to understand the document below,
read what I was able to find about the history of the BANK OF THE UNITED STATES
during the years, Andrew Jackson was president:
....Although President Andrew Jackson did not
make the Second BANK OF THE UNITED STATES an issue in the 1828 election, not
too long after, he announced that he believed the bank, a private corporation
established in 1816 and was operating under a federal bank, and had failed to
provide a stable currency. He believed
that it had favored the privileged few at the expense of the common person in
it's operations, and was in violation of the United States Constitution. The charter was not due to expire until 1836
but in July of 1832, the president of the bank, Nicholas BIDDLE was persuaded
by some of Andrew Jackson's enemies, mainly Henry CLAY and Daniel WEBSTER to
push a bill through Congress granting a re-charter, but President Jackson,
quickly vetoed it. This was a major
issue in the 1832 presidential campaign, that helped Andrew Jackson, and Martin
Van Buren (running mate for Vice President) defeat Henry CLAY and win the
election.
This war against the bank lasted through out Andrew Jackson's 2nd term
as president. In 1833, Jackson ordered
federal deposits withdrawn from the bank because of BIDDLE's use of bank funds
was to support anti-Jackson candidates.
After two secretaries of the Department of the Treasury refused to
comply with his orders, Jackson had them both removed from office. Because of that, it earned him the sensure of
the Senate and with his use of the presidential veto, prompted his enemies to
charge him with abuse of power.
Although Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States by
withdrawing government money, his administration failed to develop a coherent
national banking policy. In many states,
especially in the South and West, state-chartered banks engaged in
irresponsible and speculative issuance of paper currency--a policy that Jackson
and other hard-money advocates opposed. (The federal government issued no paper
legal tender prior to the Civil War.) Thus during the mid-1830s the United
States was swept by a land boom. Sales
of federal lands soared, helping to wipe out the national debt and creating a
large federal surplus. By 1836, however,
the boom was becoming increasingly speculative.
Alarmed and determined to curb extensive use of paper currency issued by
private state-chartered banks, Jackson, in the Specie Circular of 1836, forbade
further purchases of federal land or payment of federal debts in any currency
except federally issued coins. His
actions, which created a demand for specie that led to many bank failures, were
opposed by conservatives in the business community; they charged him with responsibility for
disrupting the economy and blamed him for the ensuing Panic of 1837........
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23d Congress [Doc. Vol. 487] Ho. of Reps.
1st Session
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MEMORIAL OF INHABITANTS OF
WASHINGTON COUNTY,
On the state of the Currency.
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May 26, 1834
Read, and laid upon the
table.
At
a meeting of the citizens of Washington county, in the State of Ohio, convened
at the court-house in Marietta, March 29, 1834, to consider as to the course to
be adopted in regard to the late measures of the Executive in assuming the
control of the national finances, the meeting, was called to order by Colonel Ichabod
NYE. Whereupon, William R. PUTNAM, Esq.
was elected Chairman, and John DELAFIELD, jr. and Levi H. GODDARD, Esquires,
Secretaries. A committee appointed to
report a preamble and resolutions in relation to the subject before the
meeting,
returned, and made report of the following
preamble, resolutions, and memorial to Congress;
Whereas the recent measures of the Executive Department of the
Government of the United States, in respect to the Bank of the United States,
and the money affairs of the country, and their effects upon it’s businesses
and concerns, render an expression of public sentiment proper at this
time; therefore, as the since of the
citizens here assembled,
RESOLVED,
That the removal by the Executive of the public deposits from the Bank of the
United States, was a measure not warranted by law, unwise in policy, and
ruinous in its tendency to the business and prosperity of the country.
RESOLVED,
That the character of our country and the condition of the people, especially in
the West, render credit an essential instrument to the business and prosperity
of the country; and that its employment
in the form of a sound bank paper circulation, based upon coin, is best
calculated to sustain the industry, and develop the resources of the country.
RESOLVED, That the
Bank of the United States, while it has essentially contributed to preserve and
maintain a sound and healthy circulation of the State banks, has realized, in
an eminent degree, the advantages of such a system, and has afforded the most
safe, cheap, and desirable facilities for the exchanges of business of the
country; and that as means and
instrument to sustain and advance these great objects, and to save
[Gales & Seaton, print.) [This is a footnote]
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the country from impending distress and ruin,
in its peculiarly affairs, the best interest of the country require that it
should be continued, (at least for a limited time,) under such modifications
and restrictions as Congress in its wisdom shall deem necessary and expedient.
RESOLVED,
That in the opinion of this meeting, the late resolutions of the Legislature of
this State did not express the real sentiments and opinions of a majority of
the people of this county in all parts thereof;
and that committees be appointed by the Chair, in the several townships,
for that purpose; and also a central
committee of five citizens for the superintendence of that object, and
forwarding the memorial to Congress.
The following memorial was then read, and unanimously adopted:
TO
THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN
CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:
The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of Washington county, in the
State of Ohio
RESPECTIFULLY REPRESENTS:
That, as a part of the American people deeply interested with their
fellow-citizens in the political and social condition of their common country,
they beg leave thus respectfully to submit to the representatives of that
people, the immediate guardians of their rights and their interests, a brief
statement of present, and, as they believe, impending evils.
Your memorialists have viewed with surprise and painful apprehension the
recent measures of the Executive Department of the Government, by which the
control of the national finances, and the regulation of the national currency,
of the whole monetary system of the country, upon which all our prosperity
depaned, have been unlawfully, as they think, assumed by the President, and
attempted to b withdrawn from those hands --the hands of Congress-- in which
the constitution and the laws had placed them.
A change in the administration of that branch of national affairs, the
influence and the ramification of which extend directly to all parts of the
community, so momentous in its character and tendency, and so memorialist
think, for a decided expression of public sentiment, and most urgently, upon
the patriotism and the action
of Congress for its correction.
To
Congress, your memorialists believe, belongs, of right, and according to the
will of the people constitutionally expressed, the control and disposition of
the national treasure. Its union, so
sudden, so unexpected, and so alarming, with the Executive power, presents, in
the apprehension of the undersigned, an aspect, a crisis of public affairs,
pregnant with imminent peril to the rights and security of the
people.
To that body the undersigned citizens appeal, to guard these rights, and
restore that security.
Your memorialist further respectfully represent, that, although distant
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from the principal seats of commerce and
capital, the effect which have flown from the removal of the public deposites
from the Bank of the United States, and the hostile attitude assumed and
maintained by the Executive to that institution, have reached them, in a sudden
and rapid reduction of the circulation medium, and a consequent pressure and
embarrassment in money transactions and trade;
an almost total derangement of the facilities for sales, remittances,
and exchanges which previously existed;
in a depression of the prices of agricultural productions, the stapels
of the county; in a depression of
enterprise, and a general distrust and loss of confidence, which have given a
serious blow to private credit. And if
these evils have not yet overwhelmed them with the degree of distress with
which the commercial cities and more populous districts have been assailed, the
occasion of this short and partial respite is found in the difference of
position and population; whilst the same
primary causes, certain in their operation, must visit them with the like
ruinous consequences. This change in
their condition has followed the recent measures of the Executive already
mentioned. Prior thereto the business of
this district of country was prosperous, and its money circulation healthy and
adequate to the demands of that business.
The reasons assigned
for the rash measure which has reversed the
former prosperous condition of things, are at war with the experience of your
memorialists, of the benefits derived by them from the Bank of the United
States; in the soundness of remittance,
whilst its operations in this region of the country contributed to sustain the
credit, usefullness, and efficiency of the local banks. The change thus wright, instead of benefiting
these institutions, has constrained them rapidly and greatly to reduce their
circulation, and curtail their accommodations to the business of the country; a business consisting, mainly, in the export
and marketing of the products of the soil.
Your memorialists, therefore can see no adequate means of relief from
the evils which have thus been brought upon them, and which threaten them in
future, but in a restoration of the former reactions between the Government and
the Bank of the United States, and the rechartering of that institution on such
terms, and with such modifications as Congress in its wisdom shall deem
expedient. Your memorialists, looking to
the experience of the past, regard such an institution as essential to the
maintenance of a sound circulation and
monetary system, uniting the tried and
eminent advantages of specic and bank paper, whilst they believe that a
reduction of the business of the people of this country to a mere coin
circulation is as impracticable, and would be as little desirable as an entire
change in the social habits of the people.
Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully and earnestly pray that
Congress, moved by that paramount consideration, the well being and prosperity
of the people, will devise such means of relief as the present alarming and
oppression condition of the country most urgently
demands.
[The Chairman nominated the following gentlemen as the Central
Committee, viz. EPHRAIM CUTLER, ARIUS NYE,
CLAEB EMERSON, JOSEPH BARKER,
JR., and JAMES M. BOOTH
The township committees where then appointed by the Chair; when,
On
motion of Arius NYE, Esq., the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
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RESOLVED,
That this meeting highly approve the noble stand taken by the late Secretary of
the Treasury, Mr. DUANE, against the measure of the Executive, of removing the
public deposites from the Bank of the United States; and we would commend to all public men the
just sentiment expressed by him in his reasons against that act, viz. “that he does not think that the end
justifies the means, or that there is any distinction between moral and
political integrity.”
On
motion of J. DELAFIELD, jr. Esq., the following resolutions was unanimously
adopted:
RESOLVED, That, in
the opinion of this meeting, our Representative, by his vote on the party
questions in the last session of the Ohio Legislature, relative to the
rechartering of the United States Bank, and the removal of the deposites,
misrepresented the views of a majority of the citizens of Washington county.]
On
motion, the meeting adjourned.
WM. R.
PUTNAM, Chairman
JOHN DELAFIELD, jr.
L.
H. GODDARD,
Secretaries.
Enoch Rector Asa Culver Simon Morgaridge
James Hatch Justus Hall Levi Willey
John Davis David Gilbert John S. Corp
Henry Vantassle Daniel McGlauthlinn David Delong
Rowland Parry Bryant Fall Isaac Lund
J. C. Parry Henry Fairlee Wm. Morgaridge
Abraham Enocks Elijah Short J. H. Seely
Wm. Glidden George Fleck Hugh S. Flanagain
Samuel Longfellow Samuel Parker Alfred Regnier
Cornelius Driskell Joseph C. Wells John Perkins
Edward Simons James Owen Jonathan Root
James L. Baldwin Wm. E. Offner Rensselaer Johnson
Randal Wells Justus Merwin Abel Dufur
Israel Morison Wm. Brown Eli Gilbert, jr.
Harris Wells James Murray Sidney Place
Marvil Davis
Jonathan Sprague,
jr. Levi Root
Amos Wilson Stephen Frost, jr. Stephen Gilbert
Merril Ladd Morgan Wood Ebenezer Batchelder
Wm. Davis David A. Wheeler Alexander Johnson
Jesse Davis Daniel Owen Eli Gilbert
Stephen Frost Charles Davis, jr. Hiram Fairchild
Isaiah Price F. C. Davis John Giddings
George W. Longfellow P. B. Buel Erastus Fairchild
Alberus Judd, jr. Wm. Davis James Giddings
Daniel Davis Reuben Simons David Dufur
Alberus Judd Eli Fox Henry Johnson
Thomas Broom Davis Chapman Freeman Batchelder
J. M. Chamberlain George Munson Wm. Johnson
Calvin Crawford Benjamin Corp, jr. John Root
Alanson Crawford Benjamin Corp Wm. Root
Wm. Brooker Frederick Chapman Ira Gilbert
Levi Culver Wm. W. McIntosh Elias Wolcott
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Manson Wolcott Joel Stacy Absalom Misner
Judah Ford Samuel Stacy John Stone
Simeon Deming C. C. Smith Brooks Blizard
Joseph Arnold Cogswell Olney Wm. Borroughs
Julius Deming Horace Wright C. M. Loring
Alpheus Baker Elisha Wilhum Andrew Ballard
Rufus Hyates Nathan Rice Barker Rance
Benj’n Hart Joseph Stacy, jr. Joseph O. Neale
Asa Beach Joseph Stacy Jesse Loring
Matthew Henry Andrew Lake Josiah Henderson
Elisha Humphrey Walter Curtis Perley Howe
Wm. R. Wolcott Jesse M. Ames W. M. Miles
John McDonald Jeremiah Vangelder Joseph Newbury
Wm. Cailahan Gregory Holand Charles D. Cook
Daniel Deming E. Winan, jr. James A. Scott
Henry Arnold Ben. Robbins Benjamin F. Stone
Nathan Procter John Noland Charles R. Ames
Harris Srringer Ira Bellows Harry McClure
Jacob Procter Bial Stedman Elan E. Durfee
Daniel Proctor Elias Bellows Nathan Sparhawk
Isaac Munckton, jr. Edwin. Guthrie Stephen Rouse
Ira Emerson Wm. Smithers Daniel Ellinwood
Ansel B. Ford Job Coggeshall Moses Thorp
Wm. Berwick Wm. Bellows Strawder Grade
Jesse Beach George Dana Eben. Benedict
John H. Gelmor Nicholas Schoonover Francis Stone
Dennis Adams James Nelson Wm. B. Druce
Robert Henry,3d Henry Schoonover John B. Dey
Horace Waterman Rufus W. Howe Wm. Cornwell
Bernard Beach Cyrus Ames Joseph Potter
John Waterman, jr. Cummings Porter Homer L. Wedge
Anson Waterman A. H. Durpee Abijah Wedge
Sherman Waterman Z. B. Ballard Edwin Finch
John D. Chamberling C. L. Guthrie C. Harris
W. Bartlett Truman Guthrie, jr. Jacob Burrough
Jacob Vaudine Perry Rathbun Amos Gardner
James Hagerman,2d. Nahum Bent Frederick Lewis
Pinney Adams Lewis Bent Jacob Cross
John Johnson Erastus Guthrie Wm. R. Browing
Simeon Deming B. G. Gorham Sherabiah Fletcher
Benjamin Rutter Edward Bent Wm. Putnam
Columbus Hart Wm. Leebody James Bellows
Joseph S. Humphrey F. H. Johnson James Bellows, jr.
Cromwell B. Culver Solomon Wire Daniel Goss
David Beach Wm. Bartlett John Clark
Seth Woodford Peter Appleman John Birkinsha
Giles H. Ford John Wise Miller Clark
Jacob Procter, jr. Anthony (X) Robinson H. Curtis
Alfred Procter H. Rice Strawder Skeen
Sherman Waterman A. A. Schooneover Silvanus N. Dennis
Wm. Stacy Charles Noland Ira Bellows
Simeon Simpson W. E. Maxon Henry Thompson
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Wm. Bellows Francis Devol John H. Twombley
Isaac Q. Barstow John W. Durfee Thomas Steed, jr.
J. H. Vangilder Wing Devol Thomas Steed, sen.
Amos Knowles George Olston Silas L. Brown
R. C. Knowles John D. Byard Helem Devol
A. Vangilder James J. S. Ward Charles Russell
Wm. Knowles John Millard Thomas Hill
J. Tharp Stephen Otis Seth Bailey, jr.
John Bartlett Freeman Prixley John Bickford
James Brice Daniel McDaniel Sidney Haight
Albert C. Wedge James S. Stow Benjamin Bickford
D. B. Curtis
Benjamin M. Brown, farmer Jacob Rarden, farmer
Joseph Leonard, do Wm. Rarden
David Gard, do Wm. Ferrall, farmer
G. C.. Fusby, do Ulyssis Baker, do
Joel Adams, do David Williams, do
John Coler, do Wm. Groves, do
Volney Adams, do Isaac Smith, house carpenter
Thomas Rogers, do
Promise Mosher,
farmer
S. M. Nott, do Hiram Gard, merchant
Isaac Farnham, stonemason Samuel Brown, miller
Robert Green, farmer Adam Sheets, wheelwright
John Johnson Edward Camp, tanner
James Rogers, farmer Thaddeus Nott, clockvender
Henry Clark, do T. Mosher, farmer
Warren Dow,
do
Wm.
Woodward, do
Hiram Pugh, laborer Benjamin Pugh, do
John Danley, farmer John Burshatt, do
Robert Danley, do Thomas J. Ellis do
H. Dunsmoor
David Sells do
Elias Pewthers
Timothy Hiett
George Hildebran
John Breakenridge,
farmer
Henry Corns, 2d, farmer L. Card do
Isaac Perry, do Lewis Adams, do
Evan Jenkins
George C.
Hurbut, do
Jonathan Miller
Samuel C. Baker, do
Vandevier Nott, farmer Nathaniel Hinkley,
Elisha Witham, cooper Ezra Pugh
Nathaniel C. Gates, farmer M. Adams, do
Joseph Johnson, cooper Owen Dewees, do
George Corner, farmer Jacob Sheets, laborer
Asa Cheedle, do Simeon Evens, do
Wm. Martin, millwright Henry Conner do
Wm. M. Dodge Henry Vincent E. T. Hayward
John Dodge R. Hayward Joseph Hayward
Josiah Hart Wm. Wilson Walter Athey
Elmore Drury Silas Devol Frederick Preston
Tillinghast Devol Benjamin Soule John Sharp
Joseph Chambers Ambrose Drury Wm. Glines
Thaddeus Goodnow James W. Brady James Rickey
John Stephenson Reuben Cortright Timothy P. Alvord
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Thomas Scott Dennis McKinley Asahel Stanton
E. S. McIntosh Presbery Devol Philip Biddison
S. F. Seel Ebenezer Allen Dennis Hartshorn
Wm. McIntosh Levi Allen Wm. Dustin
Jonathan Lott Cook Devol James Rhodes
Joseph Sherley John P. Madison James Biddison
Reuben R. Waterman Daniel Gage Richard Cronkright
Isaac Hedges,2d Wm. True Robert P. Bobcock
Wm. Rodgers Harry Hill Isaac Miller
Wm. Preston Benjamin Gould James Fraser
Tartus Lindley Ephraim Gould Joseph Stanton
Silas Brown Francis R. Stanley Owens Patton
Abraham Drury Simeon Porter Whitington Hudson
John W. Dana Lewis Armstong Jacob Bridges
Samuel Brooks Ira Hill Washing Mayhew
Henry Stull George Miller Thomas Biggins
Asa Soule Guy Hill Cyrus Norton
Joseph Devol Dan. Hill John Low
Charles S. Cody David Baldwin David Ayles
Samson K. White Michael Story Morris Morrison
Jeremiah Wilson Allen Devol James Morris
Jesse Tison Samuel Stevens Charles G. Culver
Guy Benjamin James S. Palmer Samuel Brown
Wm. Buris S. S. Brown Duty Green
Wm. H. Powers Edward Dawes Joseph D. Clark
Henry White Joseph B. Allison James Lawton, jr.
B. Harwood Perry Burch Isaac Woodruff
Rufus Powers Alphey Devol Henry E. Vincent
Thomas Vaughn Philip Devol Wm. Payne
Benjamin Dana Daniel Biship John Brown
John Tyson Austin Devol Pobert Brown
Benjamin McAtee Hiram Burch Daniel Tilton
James Bowen George R. Palmer John Moore
B. Bowen Benjamin Shaw Wm. Mare
Thomas White David Wilson James Lawton
T. H. Bowers Printis B. Read Thomas Johnson
Hanford Gray M. Battel John Henry
B. Shaw Joseph McCurdy John Hougland
Richard Ward Randloph Fearmy Alpheus Baker
Stephen Devol C. Mason David Moore
Benjamin T. Hayward [Illegible] John A. Purler
Isaac N. Bishop Abner Woodruff, jr. S. L. Gould
Charles McClure Abner Woodruff, sen. Eli Greene
Obadiah S. Breston S. B. Pond John Vincent
Israel Ross S. G. Williams Smith Greene
Asa Lang Wm. Vincent Robert Miller, jr.
Archibald Newbanks Silas Hartshorn Don. Q. Jonhson
Charles Story Benjamin Baker, jr. Caleb Green
Clemens Lang Levi Fairchild Amon Ford
John Burrows Bejamin Baker Salmon Parke
F. Marsh Jesse Lawton Wm. Gard
Samuel Clogston Wm. Stanton [Illegible]
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Wm. Kidwell D. C. Cutler Gideon Kidder
Burres Crensen Jacob Tibbler John R. Tucker
John Kremyon Rufus Payne Daniel G. Stanley
George Hutchinson Isaac Chapman Harvey c. Hovey
Frederick Pople George Oayne P. S. Scamon
John Atkinson Samuel Flanders Richard Tailor
Avery Hill Simeon Chapman John W. Pye [sic]
J. Procter James H. Steed Lyman Doan
David Heddleston William Miller, jr. John Leedham
Thomas Cochran Samuel Witlock John D. Amlin
James Flack Wm. Wharff Isaac Hill, 2d
Wm. McIntire F. A. Truepis Samuel Patton
Peter Fulmer Stephen [X] Samford Nathan [X] Brittain
John Whitney John Mason Thomas Patton
Nathan Whitney C. Quinly E. R. Robinson
Jeremiah Marick Levi Chapman E. Hutchinson
Samuel Hensel James Palmer William Otis
Wm. Crouse Moses Flanders Palmer Cherry
H. Judge David Chapman Lewis Gilpen
Esau Dailey Christopher Warner Carl Peter
Lewis Oliver Jacob Stackhouse Enos S. Chapman
Elias Edmonds David H. Stevens Josiah Morgan
Matthias Shutz John Whitlock Hezekiah Cozens
Henry Ellis John Collins William Hervey
Lamis Linn, jr. Selden Chapman John Richards
O. Franks William Payne Jacob Scherber
Charles Talbott ____ Payne Christian Scherber, sen.
Eliza Ridgaway Selden N. Merrian Christian Scherber, jr.
Leonard Coff John Mattheny John Schaender [sic]
James Little Wm. Porter Henry Best
Wm. Little Almer Porter Jacob Sanden
George Sellers Amos Porter Ondon Sander
Samuel Parr Hervy Sheperd [Illegible]
Bernard Hubbard I. Waterman Jacob Flanders
Silas Ellis [Illegible] [Illegible]
Buttler Wells Thomas J. Close Thomas Flanders
Francis Linn James Cary J. M. Amlin
John Edmonds John Magee Thomas Ward
M. Cole Thomas Porter Joel Tuttle
Hezekiah Lewis Lot Hull Jewett Palmer
Wm. Mankin John Brown Augustus C. Tuttle
Martian Brumback Ephraim Tuell James Amlin
Underhill Lynch William Miller,2d John Collins
John Johnson Daniel Gould Jesse Hill
Stephen Newton Wm. Hill John Kincaade
J. Sheldon Matthew Gilpin Thomas Hall
A. Cole E. Spears Jacob Kinzer
W. Johnson Hiram E. True Isaac Kidd
Joseph Hutchinson Asahel Doan Luke Dewitt
Ephraim Cutler John True Jonathan M. Amlin
Oren Newton Chester Tolman William Miller
Wm. Cutler David F. Kid Nathaniel Kidd
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John McMullen Job S. Cooke Philip Noland
Francis Palmer Samuel Prentis William Noland
Robert Ward Gordon Battelle Charles Noland,2d
John P. Palmer Ezekiel Slagle Alexander Noland
Isaac Hill Wm. Hays John Sprotes
Nathaniel Hill Thomas Hays Ephraim Wire
D. H. Seevers John Giger Lewis Barnes
John Nesbit
John Giger, jr. Barnabas Noland
John Rowland Alfred Dana Rueben Berkley
Joseph Martin Charles Little Joseph Place
George Reese John West George Wire
Edward Thersher Benjamin Hartwell Rodum Wire
Philip Mates Edwin West Henry Ball
Robert B. Chambers John Greene Joseph Ellis
Andrew Farley David Reece James N. Morris
Martin Baker Carlton Parmer Stephen Allison
Michael Cronin, jr. Henry James David Wells
John Hinds Richard Greene Claudius C. Wells
D. C. Hinds Ira Bosworth William Clark
John Chambers William Bosworth David Reed
James Chambers John Brown Joseph Wilson
Joseph Barker, jr. Evander West Allen Devol, jr.
Isaac Baker Lucius West R. H. Dodge
Stephen Rees Ebenezer Bartwell Ephraim Davis
Robert Rowland George Greenwood, jr. Adolphus Mason
Sereno Hollister William Dana Elijah Mason
George Salor Edward Beck Isaac Devol
Ira Hill, jr. Jesse Prunty Richmond Devol
Oliver Woodward,2d David Murdock Jonas Mason
M. H. Luckey William Rea Abner Devol
Joseph Maxwell Wm. A. Bosworth John Flaharty
John Shepard James Nichols Wm. Kemple
Colmore Hildren William Edgell John Bailey
William Pepper John Reynolds Alfred Mayhew
Stephen Smith Jacob Middleswort Martin Bailey
Samuel R. Smith Stephen Dana Seth Bailey
Isaac Delong Noah L Wilson Bennett Bailey
John McKibben Daniel F. Fairchild William Fleming
James Hoyt Sylvester Haynes James Harvie, sen.
John Gibson John G. Haynes James Harvie, jr.
David Ward Gideon Ellis Elisha Rose
Clark Middleswort Asa Ellis Daniel Gardner
John Campbell John Ellis Joseph Ruggles
S. A. Richardson Nathaniel Place William C. Mason
Horance Barstow Peter Brewer James Hopp
Charles Wright Erastus Johnson Nicholas Cisler
John Broughton Joseph Lobdell Peter Snyder, jr.
Zachariah Richardson Moses Johnson Thomas Dye
Oliver Woodward, jr. Paul Flors William Chambers, jr.
William Rowland Lewis Lobdell Daniel H. Dye
Ebenezer Battelle Oliver Root Samuel Dye, 2d
Jacob Cook Isaac Place John G. W. Dye
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William Chambers John Thorniley Samuel P. Durham
Hamilton Chambers D. Woodbridge Abraham Daniels
James Noble Wm. R. Putnam C. Carpenter
Henry Jennings Ichabod Nye Ephraim Arnold
William Griggs E. P. Swearingen J. Valentine
David McKibben James N. Booth Philip Abbot
Thomas Moron Arius Nye Robert Johnson
John Hoff John Delafield, jr. George W. Tyler
Thomas Athey A. Pixley Francis A. Meklefresh
Thomas Chambers Joseph Halden Otis Wheeler
Elisha Allen A. T. Nye B. F. Wheeler
Wm. Schofield Augustus Stone Hans Beudohl
J. H. Hallet Caleb Emerson F. Buck
Joseph Magee Eli Jians Josiah Miller
O. Hallet Harry Cogswell Milton Foster
William Coon John Mills Person Wheeler
P. Beardsly Robert Crawford Nathaniel Holden
{Illegible] J. W. Bosworth Samuel H. Fuller
[Illegible} I. Colton D. T. Morgan
Milton Paxley Truman Post Septimus Bartney
W. Allen Edward W. Nye Elijah Mory
Joseph E. Hall Rothcus Hayward, jr. Roland Perny
D. B. Anderson Ichabod H. Nye L. G. Conouise
Samuel Green S. P. Hildreth A. M. Shanklin
Wm. A. Whittlesey Weston Thomas Rufus Mazon
Levi H. Goddard Daniel Greene Henry Smith
Jenks Dexter Samuel Shipman D. Soyer
Benjamin S. Geren Wm. Alcock J. R. Curtis
A. Bromer Maneblus J. Morse Silas Slocomb
Samuel De Wheat Cornelius Tinkham John M. Slocomb
John Test D. S. Young Israel Archbold
Thomas Baker E. W. T. Clark Merit Judd
Samuel Flagg Samuel Hall E. L. Johnson
Wm. Hart David Dean J. T. Johnson
Royal Prentiss B. W. Baker Billy Todd
Frederic Shipman Wm. Warren George Bartinels
Henry Jayne Argalus Pizley, jr. John Brazier
James W. Cloyston David S. Dempsy Richard Greene
Abram Sinclair, jr. Stephen Druse James Dunn
John Marshall Elisha Pratt David C. Racer
Stephen Montross Joseph Skinner Peter Burns
Thomas Sinnamon Zebulon Jennings Silas Buck
David Montross Joshua Taylor Norman Payne
Wm. Greene Otis Rechard Wyllys Hall
M. Gibson Samuel Fuller David Hendricks
D. Protmen John Cunningham James Hannan
Benjamin F. Pixley Shubel Fuller Bayies Millir
Wm. Slocomb John Hill Heindrig Hartwig
W. Holden S. L. Record Luther Temple
Wm. H. Bay Geo. C. Babcock Madison Elliot
John Van Camp Alexander Hill William Arnold
Grear Chambers Andrew Livermore Robert Lowrey
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Benjamin C. Beach Gordon Swift B. F. Guthrie
Samuel Griggs John Clark Benjamin F. Stone
Martin Sinclair Thomas Vinton Lyman Stacy
A. Warren L. D. Eichelberger R. D. Hollister
A. A. Woodford Francis Vinton Samuel Tilden
T. Scott Wm. H. Ainsworth Jarvis Edelston
Abel Vinton Silas Fearing L. Chamberlin
Amos Dye C. T. Judd Aaron Lyon
Arthur Kelly John C. Baker Elias S. Morton
William D. Colby Albert E. Drain James M. Smith
J. B. Miller Timothy Cone A. Stanly
William Cook John Peterson R. H. Gray
John Athey L. C. Shaw R. Toothaker
Arthur Martin Nathaniel Clark Heman Fuller
Isaac Thistletwaite John Bedell Wm. Blount
O. Nielson Henry Skinner Hamilton Chambers
James D. Wilson James Riley Robert Williams
George M. Woodbridge Ephraim Bangor Moses Fuller
Daniel Nicall Elias Woodruff Charles Fuller
Samuel Reigney James Campbell Stephen Daniels
Abram
Blakely William
Lamb Z. Bosworth
Heaton Hill John R. Gilmore Wm. West
Peter McDonald Jacob Deterly Joseph C. Cole
S. Waldron Wm. E. Andrews Thomas Alcock
Thomas Hughes L. Boorner Alexander Posey
J. M. Frazer William Frazer Wm. Thorniley
Wm. S. Lewis Joseph T. Millard T. Thorniley
Samuel Maxwell Silas Hobby Samuel Byard
Richard Cadwell G. M. Martian William Pitchers
John Cadwell Griffin Greene Jesse Posey
Jno. J. Preston D. P. Bosworth Granville Harness
John Davis Henry Fearing Solomon Fuller
Salmon Pierce Douglass Putnam Henry P. Miner
Clark Pratt Charles Bosworth J. C. Cole, jr.
Jno. T. Clogston Joseph Thompson Flavel C. Cole
Stephen Valentine Oliver Dodge Samuel C. Fields
M. A. Chappell Geo. Smith James Cadwell
Abram Sinclair John Crawford Austin D. Henie
Robert Gibson Larkin Mackelfresh Aaron Howe
George Moore Russel Fearing Cornelius Hoff
John Platt Joseph B. Babcock George Corner
Joseph Morris Richard Parker Stephen Alcock
Thomas B. Longcone Miles Woodford Russel Harris
Henry Armstrong David Barber R. Alcock
Gilbert Bishop, jr. Joseph Andert Gershom T. Flagg
Thomas Jones Amos Dunham Asa Harris
John Green Isaiah Scott Thomas P. Flagg
David Putnam, jr. L. J. Hollister Wm. C. Flagg
John C. McCoy Philip Stanly Wm. Corner
T. Armstrong Samuel M. Cost Ambrose Harris
Cyrus Andrews Christain Beek H. Daniels
Reuben Merriam Christian Burlinggame David Rood
Elijah Rood John Perry
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1834 MEMORIAL OF SUNDRY CITIZENS OF
WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO,
Against the removal of the Deposites, and in
favor of the recharter of
The Bank of the United States. ---1,156 Names
PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTUNING..
NOTES: ALL WORDS & NAMES ARE TYPED AS
THEY APPEAR ON THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT.
It is very important to read the other letter
with 861 names, titled
"INHABINATES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY,
OHIO." This letter was dated the day
before this document. (May 26th, 1834). The
words printed in capital letters were written in italic format on the original
document.
PLEASE SEE THE END OF THIS DATABASE FOR MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT THE
TRANSCRIPTION & PROOF READERS.
23d Congress
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1st Session
MEMORIAL
OF
SUNDRY CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON
COUNTY, OHIO,
Against the removal of the Deposites, and in
favor of the recharter of
The Bank of the United
States
~~~~~~
MAY 27, 1834
Referred to the Committee on Finance, and
ordered to be printed.
~~~~~~
The undersigned members of the committee,
appointed at the meeting of
citizens of the county of Washington, in the
State of Ohio, held at Marietta on the 29th March, 1834, to circulate and
transmit to Congress the memorial &c, adopted by said meeting, do hereby
certify that the following is a correct copy of resolutions and of the memorial
adopted at the said meeting; and that the NAMES thereto annexed are TRUELY
COPIED from the ORIGINIAL SIGNATURES of citizens of the said county
of Washington, Ohio, subscribed to printed copies of the said memorial, which
copies of the said memorial were circulated by committees in the several
townships appointed by the chairman, pursuant to a resolution of the meeting
for that purpose. We further certify that ELEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX
(1,156) ORIGINAL SIGNATURES of citizens and inhabitants of this county are
subscribed to the (printed copies of) said memorial transmitted by us to
Congress concurrently herewith.
EPHRAIM CUTLER.
ARUIS NYE.
JAS. M. BOOTH.
MARIETTA, May 3, 1834
~~~~~~
March 29th, 1834
At a meeting of the citizens of Washington
county, convened (in pursuance of a call signed by one hundred and fifty-three
citizens) at the courthouse at Marietta, to consider as to the course to be
adopted in regard to the late measures of the Executive in assuming the control
of the national finances, the following resolutions were adopted, which, with
the following memorial, were presented by a committee selected for that purpose.
"Whereas the recent measures of the
Executive department of the
Government of the United States in respect to
the Bank of the United States, and the money affairs of the country, and their
effects upon its business and concerns, render an expression of public
sentiment proper at this time.
Therefore, as the sense of the citizens here
assembled,
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RESOLVED,
That the removal, BY THE EXECUTIVE, of the public deposites from the
Bank of the United States was a measure not warranted by law, unwise in policy,
and ruinous in its tendency to the business and prosperity of the country.
RESOLVED,
That the character of our country, and the condition of the people,
especially in the WEST, render CREDIT an essential instrument to
the business and prosperity of the country; and that its employment in the form
of a sound bank paper circulation, BASED upon COIN, is best
calculated to sustain the industry, and develope the resources of the country.
RESOLVED, That the
Bank of the United States, while it has essentially contributed to preserve and
maintain a sound and healthy circulation of the State banks, has realized, in a
pre-eminent degree, the advantages of such a system, and has afforded the most
safe, cheap, and desirable facilities for the exchanges and business of the
country; and that, as a means and instrument to sustain and advance these great
objects, and to save the country from impending distress and ruin in its
pecuniary affairs, the best interests of the country require that it should be
continued, at least for a limited time, under such modifications and
restrictions as Congress, in its wisdom, shall deem necessary and expedient.
RESOLVED,
That in the opinion of this meeting, the late resolutions of the Legislature of
this State did not express the real sentiments and
opinions of a majority of the people of this
State on these subjects.
RESOLVED, That a
memorial to Congress expressive of the foregoing
sentiments, and of the EFFECTS upon
our business and concerns of the late Executive measures, be circulated for the
signatures of citizens of this county, in all parts thereof; and that
committees be appointed by the chair in the several townships for that purpose;
and, also, a central committee of five citizens for the superintendence of that
object, and forwarding the memorial to Congress.
The following memorial was presented, and unanimously adopted. The
chair appointed the following gentlemen the
central committee: Ephraim
Cutler, Arius Nye, C. Emerson, J. Barker,
jr., Jas. M. Booth.
TO
THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITES STATES OF
AMERICA IN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED:
The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of
the county of Washington in
The state of Ohio,
RESPECTFULLY REPRESENT:
That, as a part of the American PEOPLE, deeply interested with
their fellow-citizens, in the political and social condition of their common
country, beg leave thus respectfully to submit to the Representatives of that
people, the immediate guardians of their rights and their interest, a brief
statement of PRESENT, and, as they believe, IMPENDING EVILS. Your
memorialists have viewed with surprise and painful apprehension the recent
measures of the Executive department of the Government, by which the control of
the national finances, and regulation of the national currency-of the whole
monetary system of the country, upon which all our prosperity depends-have
been, unlawfully, as they think, assumed by the President, and attempted to be withdrawn
from those hand-hand of Congress-in which the constitution and the laws had
placed the. A change in the
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administration of that branch of national
affairs, the influence and the
ramifications of which extend, directly, to
all parts of the Community --so momentous in its character and tendency, and so
mischievous in
its immediate EFFECTS and its
necessary RESULTS, calls, your memorialalists think, for a decided expression
of public sentiment, and most urgently upon the patriotism and the action of
Congress for its correction. To CONGRESS, you memorialists believe, belongs of
right, and according to the will of the people constitutionally expressed, the
control and disposition of the NATIONAL TREASURE. Its union-so sudden,
so unexpected, and so alarming-with the EXECUTIVE power, presents, in
the apprehension of the undersigned, an aspect, a crisis of public affairs,
pregnant with imminent peril to the rights and security of the people. To that
body, the undersigned citizens appeal to guard these rights and restore that
security. Your memorialists further respectfully represent that, although
distant from the principal seats of commerce and capital, the EFFECTS
which have flown from the removal of the public deposits from the Bank of the
United States, and the hostile attitude assumed and maintained by the Executive
to that institution, have
reached THEM in a sudden and rapid
reduction of the circulating medium; a consequent pressure and embarrassment in
money transactions and trade; an almost total derangement of the facilities for
sales, remittances, and exchanges which PREVIOUSLY existed; in a
depression of the prices of
agricultural productions-the staples of the
country; in a repression of
enterprise, and general distrust and loss of
confidence which have given a serious blow to private credit. And if these
evils have not yet overwhelmed them with the degree of distress with which the
commercial cities and more populous districts have been assailed, the occasion
of this short and partial respite is found in the difference of position and
populations, whilst the same primary causes, certain in their operation, must
visit them with the like ruinous consequences.
This change in their condition has followed the measures of the
Executive, already mentions. Prior thereto, the business of this district of
country was prosperous, and its money circulation healthy and adequate to the
demands of that business. The reasons assigned for the rash measure which has
reversed the former prosperous condition of things,
are at war with the EXPERIENCE of your
memorialists, of the benefits derived to them from the Bank of the United
States; in the soundness of its paper circulation, and its unprecedented
facilities for exchange and remittance, whilst its operations in this region of
country contributed to sustain the credit, usefulness, and efficiency of the
local banks. The change thus wrought, instead of benefiting these institutions,
has constrained them rapidly and greatly to reduce their circulation, and
curtail their accommodations to the business of the country; a business
consisting mainly in the export and marketing the products of the soil. Your
memorialists, therefore, can see no adequate means of relief from the evils
which have thus been brought upon them, and which threaten them in future, but
in a restoration of the former relations between the Government and the Bank of
the United States, and the rechartering of that institution, on such terms, and
with such modifications, as Congress, in its wisdom, shall deem expedient. Your
memorialists, looking to the experience of the past, regard such an institution
as essential to the maintenance of a sound circulation and monetary system, UNITING
the tried and eminent advantages of specie and bank paper; whilst they believe
that a reduction of the business and people of THIS country to a MERE COIN
CIRCULATION, is as impracticable,
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and would be as little desirable, as would be
an entire change in the social habits of the people.
Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully
and earnestly pray that Congress ---moved by the paramount consideration, the
well-being and prosperity of the people-will devise such means of relief as the
present alarming and oppressed condition of the country most urgently demand.
WM.
R. PUTNAM, Chairman.
JOHN DELAFIELD, Jr., }
LEVI H. GODDARD, } Secretaries.
The various committees have presented the
following signatures to the above memorial.
William R. Putnam Douglas Putnam
John Delafield, jr. John Crawford
Caleb Emerson Ichabod Nye
J. W. Bosworth Argalus Pixley
J. H. Nye Eli Jiams
W. Alcock J. Cotton
S. Hall S. P. Hildreth
D. L. Dempsey M. J. Morse
Jasher Taylor D. Dunn
John Hill S. Druse
Samuel P. Dunham O. Reckord
Philip Abbot S. L. Record
William Cook Abraham Daniels
James D. Wilson Robert Johnson
Heaton Hill John Athey
William S. Lewis George M. Woodbridge
John Davis P. McDonald
J. Armstrong Samuel Maxwell
T. Vinton Salmon Pierce
T. J. Alvord Cyrus Andrews
John Green J. D. Eichelberger
J. Morris Jacob Minturn
M. A. Chappell Thomas Jones
A. A. Woodford John Platt
R. Lowrey A. Kelley
B. Phillips A. Warren
Silas Buck William Arnold
John Brazier James Hannan
Merit Judd Peter Burns
L. Soyez George Bartimus
Roland Perry Israel Archbold
N. Holden H. Smith
H. Bredahl E. Mory
J. Thorniley P. Wheeler
William Slocomb B. F. Wheeler
D. Montross G. Chambers
J. W. Clogston B. F. Pixley
James Flagg T. Sinnamon
B. S. Geren H. Jayne
D. B. Anderson Thomas Baker
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J. Dexter William Warren
J. Hall J. Kinner
C. Bosworth John Cunningham
Larkin Mackelfresh Alexander Hill
E. B. Swearingen Ephraim Arnold
Joseph Holden William D. Colby
Harry Cogswell J. Thistlethwaite
T. Post S. Reigney
W. Thomas Thomas Hughes
C. Tinkham John Cadwell
B. W. Baker J. T. Clogston
E. Pratt Gordon Swift
Samuel Fuller J. Stephenson
George C. Babcock J. C. McCoy
Christopher Carpenter Henry Armstrong
George W. Tyler R. Gibson
Arthur Martin Abel Vinton
Daniel Nicoll S. Griggs
S. Waldron L. Temple
R. Cadwell Wyllys Hall
C. Pratt Jas. Dunn
R. Merriam J. T. Johnson
F. Vinton Silas Slocomb
Chas. P. Bailey Alexander M. Shanklin
G. Bishop, jr. D. T. Morgan
George Moore Josiah Miller
Amos Dye F. A. Maclefresh
M. Sinclair William H. Bay
Madison Elliot M. M. Gibson
David Hendricks J. Marshall
D. C. Racer R. Prentiss
B. Todd S. De Wheat
J. M. Slocomb William A. Whittlesey
Rufus Maxon David Putnam
Sept. Bartimus Oliver Dodge
M. Foster Jos. B. Babcock
Otis Wheeler Arinis Nye
John Van Camp Augustus Stone
D. Protsman Robert Crawford
S. Montross R. Hayward, jr.
F. Shipman S. Shipman
John Test E. W. T. Clark
L. H. Goddard A. Pixley, jr.
D. P. Bosworth Z. Jennings
Jos. Thomson Shubel Fuller
Russel Fearing Andrew Livermore
Jas. M. Booth J. Valentine
A. T. Mye J. B. Miller
John Mills O. Neillsen
Edward W. Nye A. Blakely
D. Green J. M. Frazer
D. S. Young J. J. Preston
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S. Valentine Reuben Simons
J. Clark Daniel Owen
R. Cartwright Jesse Davis
D. Putnam, jr. Harris Wells
T. Longcope Stephen Allison
A. Sinclair Jos. Wilson
Theodore Scott Elijah Mason
B. C. Meach John Flaherty
H. Hartwig A. Woodruff, sen.
Norman Payne Benj. Bakee, jr.
R. Greene Asahel Stanton
E. L. Johnson James Biddison
J. R. Curtis Jos. Stanton
L. G. Converse Thomas Biggins
S. H. Fuller John Threunson
F. Buck David Barber
D. Woodbridge Philip Stanley
W. Holden B. F. Stone
William Greene L. Chamberlin
A. Sinclair, jr. R. H. Gray
W. Hart A. E. Drain
A. Boomer J. Bedell
S. Greene Jas. Campbell
H. Fearing Daniel Boomer
George Smith William Benett
R. Parker A. Harris
Miles Woodford G. T. Flagg
L. S. Hollister C. Hoff
B. F. Guthrie F. C. Cole
J. Eddleston Jesse Posey
A. Stanley Alexander Posey
J. C. Baker R. Toothaker
Nathan Clarke Moses Fuller
E. Woodruff John Davis
William E. Andrews William Glidden
G. M. Martin G. W. Longfellow
Horace Daniels J. M. Chamberlain
Asa Harris Asa Culver
George Corner Hen. Fairlee
Samuel C. Fields Jas. Owen
Granville Harness Jona. Sprague, jr.
William Thorniley William Davis
Zeph. Bosworth D. A. Wheeler
Robert Williams William Davis
Jas. Hatch Israel Morien
A. Enochs David Wells
Isaiah Price
A. Devol, jr.
Thos. Broom Isaac Devol
Levi Culver William Kemple
Bryant Fall S. B. Pond
Jos. C. Wells Levi Fainchild
Jas Murray P. Biddison
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R. Conkright John R. Gilmore
Owens Paton Jos. T. Millard
Cyrus Norton Elijah Rood
Burres Crenson William C. Flagg
Joseph Anders R. Harris
Samuel McCourt Austin D. Howe
Lyman Stacy H. P. Miner
Aaron Lyon Samuel Byard
W. H. Answorth Jas C. Cole
Timothy Cone William Blount
Henry Skinner Stephen Daniels
William Laud Rowland Parry
William Frazer Corns. Driskill
John Perry Daniel Davis
William Corner Alanson Crawford
R. Alcock David Gilbert
Aaron Howe George Fleck
Jos. C. Cole. Jr. Justis Merwin
William Ritchey Davis Chapman
Thomas Alcock F. C. Davis
Heman Fuller S. Frost, jr.
Chas. Fuller Amos Wilson
H. Vanta_le Jas. L. Baldwin
S. Longfellow William Clarke
Albimus Jedd, jr. E. Davis
C. Crawford Jonas Mason
Justus Hall Jno. D. Wilson
Elijah Short William Vincent
William E. Offner Jesse Lawton
George Munson William Dustin
P. B. Buell Isaac Miller
Morgen Wood Jacob Bridges
Merret Ladd Fred. Pope
Randal Wells L. P. Reynold
C. C. Wells Isaiah Scott
R. H. Dodge C. Burlingame
Richmond Devol S. Tillett
Carlo Mason Jas. M. Smith
S. G. Williams C. T. Judd
Benjamin Baker L. C. Shaw
Darius Hartshome E. Ranger
R. P. Babcock J. Deterly
W. Hudson S. Hobby
J. Atkinson D. Rood
William Kidwell T. P. Flagg
Amos Dunham Stephen Alcock
Christian Beek Jas. Cadwell
R. D. Hollister Solomon Fuller
Elias S. Morton T. Thorniley
Silas Fearing William West
J. Petersen Hamilton Chambers
Jas. Riley Enoch Rector
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J. C. Parry R. Berkely
Edmond Simons George Wise
Alberus Judd Isaac Place
William Brooker Jonathan Root
D. McGlauthlin Levi Root
Samuel Parker Hiram Fairchild
William Brown F. Bachelder
Eli Fox John Giddings
Chas. Davis, jr. Simeon Chapman
Stephen Frost F. A. Truepis
Marvil Davis Amon Ford
Jas. N. Morris John Vincent
David Reed Alpheus Baker
Adolphus Mason William Mare
Abner Devol John Brown
A. Woodruff, jr. Joseph D. Clark
Silas Hartshorne James Bellows, jr.
William Staunton H. Curtis
Jas. Rhodes William Bellows
Jas. Fraser H. Vangilder
Washington Mayhew James Brice
George Hutcheson Wm. Burroughs
William Gard Jesse Loring
Salmon Parke Charles D. Cook
Smith Green E. C. Durfee
David Moore S. Grade
James Lawton William Cornwell
R. Pugh C. Harris
James Lawton, jr. W. R. Browning
James Bellows Gregory Noland
Miller Clark Bial Stedman
Henry Thompson William Bellows
R. C. Knowles Rufus W. Howe
J. Bartlett C. L. Guthrie
Brooks Blizzard Erastus Guthrie
Joseph O’Neale Solomon Wise
Joseph Newbury O. Rice
H. McClure D. S. Fairchilds
Moses Thorp John Ellis
J. B. Day John Storts
Calvin Finch Joseph Place
Sherebiah Fletcher Alexander Noland
Jeremiah Vangeldee Oliver Root
Ira Bellows Renssalaer Johnson
Job Coggeshall Stephen Gilbert
Henry Schoonover Ira Gilbert
Z. B. Ballard Henry Johnson
Lewis Bent Rufus Payne
F. H. Johnson Jas. H. Steed
Anthony Robinson Stephen Lanford
Absalom Misner Caleb Green
Asa Ellis Eli Greene
Joseph Lobdell [no name listed]
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J. Hougland Stephen Rouse
J. Moore Francis Stone
Wm. Payne
Homer L. Wedge
D Green Amos Gardner
D. Goss Walter Curtis
S. Skeen Benjamin Robbins
J. Q. Barstow Edwin Guthrie
A. Vangilder Nichis Schoonover
A. C. Wedge Cummings Porter
C. R. Loring Leroy Rathbun
Josiah Themlinson Edw. Bent
Jas. Ascott P. Appleman
N. Sparhawk C. Noland
Eben. Benedict John G. Haynes
Jos. Potter Peter Brewer
Jacob Burrough Lewis Barns
Isaac Cross Henry Ball
E. M. Winas, jr. William Noland
Elias Bellows P. H. Hon
George Dance E. Gilbert, jr.
Cyrus Ames
Alexander Johnson
T. Guthrie, jr. John Root
B. G. Gorham Jas. Giddings
Wm. Bartlett George Payne
A. A. Schoonover Samuel Whitlock
S. Haynes Simeon Payne
N. Place
R. Miller, jr.
E. Wise John A. Purser
Joseph Ellis T. Johnson
C. Noland, 2d T. Rogers
Levi Lobdell J. Woodruff
Abel Dufur Wm. Pitt Putnam
E. Batchelder J. Birkinsher
Wm. Root Ira Bellows
D. Dufur Amos Knowles
J. Chapman J. Thorp
William Miller, jr. John Stone
William Payne Barker Rowse
Don Q Johnson William Miles
S. L. Gould C. R. Ames
J. Henry Daniel Ellinwood
D. Tilton W. B. Durse
H. E. Vincent Abijah Wedge
Samuel Brown Frederic Lewis
John Clark Jesse M. Ames
Sylvanus N. Dennis John Noland
J. H. Vangilder William Smithers
William Knowles James Nelson
D. B. Curtis A. H. Durfee
Andrew Ballard Nahum Bent
Presley Howe William Leebody
B. F. Stone John Wise
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William E. Maxon Saml. Brown
Gideon Ellis Wm. Woodward
Erastus Johnson Timothy Hiatt
B. Noland Samuel C. Baker
R. Wise Jacob Sheets
P. Noland Wm. Porter
Moses Johnson Andrew Tuness
Sidney Place Lot Hull
Eli Gilbert Wm. Hill
William Johnson John True
Erastus Fairchilds Thomas Flanders
Samuel Flanders Jacob Sander
William Wharff Jacob Sherber
S. N. Merriam Enos S. Chapman
John Mathews Eben. Hutchinson
Ign. Waterman Isaac Hill, 2d
Thomas Porter Richard Taylor
Daniel Gould John Collins
Asahel Doan David Chapman
John R. Tucker John Mason
Oudon Sander Aug. C. Tuttle
C. Scherber, senr. Thomas Hall
Josiah Morgan Isaac Hill
Wm. Otis N. Kidd
Samuel Patton J. Proctor
John W Dye Peter Fulmer
Selden Chapman William Crouse
Christopher Warner Mathia Sheetz
Ephraim Quinby Elza Ridgeway
Jewett Palmer Francis Linn
John Kincade George Sellers
Nath. Hill James Hoff, 2d
Jno. McMullen D H. Dye
Avery Hill James Noble
Wm. McIntire John Hoff
Saml. Hensel Joseph Leonard
Elias Edmonds Thomas Rogers
Chas. Talbot James Rogers
John Edmonds Robert Danley
Saml. Parr Isaac Perry
Wm. C. Moxon N. C. Gates
Wm. Chamers, jr. Jacob Rardon
Ham. Chambers William Groves
Thos. Moxon Adam Sheets
B. M. Brown Benjamin Pugh
Volney Adams Jno. Breakenridge
Jas. Johnson N. Hinkley
John Danley S. Evans
Henry Corns, 2d. Almer Porter
Elisha Witham Thomas J. Close
Wm. Martin John Brown
David Williams Matthew Gilpin
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Chester Tolamn James Palmer
Wilhelm Drinnicker Thomas Ward
Henry Best John Collins
John Richards Isaac Kidd
Carl Peter R. Ward
E. R. Robinson James M. Amlin
Jno D. Amlin Thomas Cochran
Preserved S. Seaman Nathan Whitney
John Whitlock Esau Dailey
M. Fanders Lewis Linn, jr.
J. M. Amlin James Little
James Amlin Silas Ellis
Jacob Kingler Daniel Gardner
John P. Palmer P. Snyder, jr.
William Miller J. G. W. Dye
D. Heddleston Wm. Griggs
John Whitney Thomas Chambers
Hiram Judge G. C. Frisby
Henry Ellis Isaac Farnham
Leonard Eoff Warren Dow
Butler Wells Elias Pewthers
Elisha Rose Jonathan Miller
Nich. Cisler George Corner
Samuel Dye, 2d Wm. Ferrall
H. Jennings P. Mosher
Thomas Athey Thadeus Nott
David Gard Thomas J. Ellis
S. M. Nott Lewis Adams
Harry Clark Major Adams
Hiel Dunsmoor Wm. True
Evan Jenkins Henry Schofield
Joseph Johnson John Magee
Wm. Rardon Wm. Miller, 2d
Isaac Smith Hiram E. True
Edw. Camp Gideon Kidder
John Burshatt Frederig Dunnicker
L. Gard Christian Scheiber, jr.
E. Pugh Hezekiah Cozens
H. Corns Palmer Cherry
Amos Porter Nathan Britian
James Cosey Simon Doan
Ephraim True D. G. Stanley
Eben. Spears Jacob Stackhouse
David F. Kidder Levi Chapman
Jacob Flanders Joel Tuttle
John Schreuder Jesse Hill
William Havey John Nesbit
Lewis Gilpin Francis Palmer
Thomas Patton Luke Dewitt
John Leedham James Flack
Harvey C. Hovey Jeremiah Marick
David J. Seevers Lewis Oliver
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Owens Francks Richard Ward
Wm. Little Ob. Preston
Bemont Hubbard Clemens Long
Joseph Ruggles Cook Devol
Thomas Dye Samuel Clogston
Wm. Chambers W. H. Powers
D. McKibben D. Baldwin
Joel Adams S. S. Brown
John Coler Philip Devol
Robert Green Ephraim Gould
Hiram Pugh George Miller
Geo. Hilderbrand J. H. Hallett
Vandeever Nott Christian Haal
Asa Cheedle L. J. P. Putnam
Ulysses Baker James S. Stow
Hiram Gard Helem Devol
Trip Mosher William Stacy
David Sells Cogswell Olney
G. C. Hurbert Joseph Stacy
Owen Dewees James Hagerman, 2d.
Harry Hill Columbus Hart
Benjamin Gould Giles H. Ford
Ira Hill Daniel Deming
William Schofield Judah Ford
Phineas Brandey A. Waterman
Francis Devol Daniel Procter
James Ward B. Hart
D. McDaniel J Beach
S. L. Brown J. McDonald
S. Bailey, jr. Josiah Hart
C. C. Smith H. Vincent
J. Stacy, jr. Thomas Scott
J. Vandine Joseph Sherley
B. Rutter J. Hedges, 2d
S. Woodford J. W. Brady
E. Walcott Tartus Lindley
B. Beach Henry Stull
H. Springer Benjamin Dana
J. Deming Thomas White
J Emerson Stephen Devol
Wm. Henry Israel Ross
D. Adams J. Burrows
John Dodge Levi Allen
T. Goodnow Thomas Vaughn
James Rickey
William Burres
Jonathan Lott M. Story
William Rodgers Edward Dawes
E. T. Hayward Daniel Bishop
Wm. Wilson F. R. Stanley
Samuel Brooks Guy Hill
S. K. White Joseph Magee
G. Bowen Orionzo Fence
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Wing Devol J. Proctor
John Millard J. Monckton, jr.
J. H. Twombly A. Beach
Hiram Russell J. H. Gilmore
Simeon Simpson William Cala??n [unreadable]
Horace Wright Tillinghast Devol
Andrew Lake John Sharp
Pinney Adams S. F. Seely
Joseph S. Humphrey W. B. Cogswell
Jacob Proctor, jr. W. Athey
H. Waterman B. Soule
N. Proctor A. Drury
J. Arnold Joseph Devol
Alpheus Baker C. McAtee
A. B. Ford Hanford Gray
E. Humphrey J. N. Bishop
R. Henry, 3d A. Newlambs
Elmore Drury Daniel Gage
R. Hayward Presley Devol
E. S. McIntosh B. Harwood
R. R. Waterman J. Wilson
Frederick Preston S. Stevens
A. Drury G. Burch
Silas Brown H. Burch
Asa Soule Lewis Armstrong
John Tyson Elisha Allen
T. H. Bowers William Coon
Benjamin T. Hayward William Allen
Asa Long J. D. Byard
E. Marsh F. Pixley
Ebenezer Allen T. Steed, sen.
Rufus Powers T. Hill
Guy Benjamin S. Stacy
Allen Devol N. Rice
J. B. Allison W. Bartlett
Austin Devol S. Deming, jr.
S. Porter D. Beach
D. Hill S. Waterman
O. Hallet H. Arnold
M. Pixley S. Deming
G. Elston Sherman Waterman
S. Otis
R. H. Gates
T. Steed, jr. W Berwich
C. Russell W. R. Wolcott
Joel Stacy William M. Dodge
E. Wilham Joseph Chambers
J. D. Chamberlain William Glines
J. Johnson William McIntosh
C. B. Culver William Preston
Alfred Proctor Joseph Hayward
Alanson Wolcott S. Devol
J. Waterman, jr. J. W. Dana
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C. S. Corey Joseph Maxwell
James Bowen Gordon Battelle
B. Shaw Alfred Dana
C. McClure John Green
Charles Story Ira Bosworth
J. P. Madison Ebenezer Hartwell
Dennis McKinley David Murdock
H. White John Reynolds
J. Essetison Sidney Haight
J. S. Palmer Seth Bailey
Alpheus Devol W. Cole
George R. Palmer Stephen Newton
Benjamin Shaw E. Cutler
R. Fearing N. L Wilson
James Morris Prentis B. Read
S. Morgaridge John Low
William Morgaridge Benjamin Corp
John Rowland J. S. Corp
R. B. Chambers H S. Flanagan
D. C. Hinds George Reese
S. Rees M. Baker
O. Woodward, 3d James Chambers
J. Broughton Sereno Hollister
C. Middlewart William Rowland
Isaac Delong Horace Barstow
John Shepard John Gibson
Samuel Prentis Stephen Smith
John Giger, jr. Ebenezer Battelle
Edwin West Ezekiel Slagle
Richard Greene Charles Little
Lucius West David Reece
Jesse Prunty William Bosworth
William Edgell George Greenwood, jr.
John Bickford William Rea
Martin Bailey John Reynolds
James Harvie, jr. Benjamin Bickford
John Johnson Bennett Bailey
Joseph Hutchinson Hezekiah Lewis
Jacob Gibbers J. Sheldon
David Wilson O. Newton
Charles G. Culver Griffin Greene
Benjamin Corp, jr. Wm. Battee
Levi Willy David Ayles
J. H. Seely Frederick Chapman
Joseph Martin David Delong
Andrew Farley A. Regnier
John Chambers Edward Thersher
Robert Rowland W. Cronier
W. H. Luckey J. Barker, jr.
Charles Wright George Salor
David Ward O. Woodward, jr.
Samuel R. Smith S. A. Richardson
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James Hoyt John Hinns
Wm. Pepper Isaac Baker
Jacob Cook Ira Hill, jr.
William Hays Z. Richardson
John Hoyt John J. Campbell
Carlton Parmer John McKibben
John Brown C. Holdren
William Dana Job T Cooke
Wm. A. Bosworth John Giger
Jacob Middleswart Benjamin Hartwell
John Bailey Henry James
William Fleming Evander West
William Mankins Edward Buck
A. Cole James Nichols
William P. Cutter Stephen Dana
J. McKendry Alfred Mayhew
M. Morrison James Harvie, sen.
William W. McIntosh Martin Brumback
Isaac Lime W. Johnson
John Perkins D. C. Cutler
Phil. Mather [no name listed]
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Debbie Noland Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net
March 2007
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