Vital Records, Norwich, NY, April & May 1832

 Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY

Marriages

Married:  In New York on the 25th ult. by the Rev'd. Henry Anthon, Mr. William Weed to Miss Sarah Ann Rogers.  [April 4, 1832]

Sly Cupid, late, in Hymen's bower, / Performed a curious deed, / For now is Beauty's sweetest flower, / Engrafted on a Weed.

Another:  Is Love a gardener? Why, he's blind, / His task he never heeds, / And all the fruits that we shall find, / Will be some little Weeds.

Elopement:  Left my bed and board, my wife, Freelove, and two children, without any cause or provocation; this is to forbid all persons harboring or trusting them on my account, as I shall pay no debts of their contracting after this date.  Varnum Ballou.  Norwich, April 2, 1832 [April 4, 1832]

Married:  On Sunday evening, the 8th inst. by Elder Swan, Mr. Harry Pellet to Miss Lucinda Sexton, all of this place [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY]. [April 11, 1832]

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday evening last, by Elder Adams, Mr. Benjamin Hartwell of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Fleury Talcott, of the former place. [Apr. 18, 1832]

Married:  At Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst. by Elder Birdsall, Mr. Ozias Yale, 2d, to Miss Roxey Jones, daughter of Gen. Benjamin Jones. [Apr. 25, 1832]

Married:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday evening the 5th inst. by the Rev. Luther Clark, Mr. Dudley Williams to Miss Sally Munroe, all of that place [May 16, 1832]

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] on the 23d ult. by Elder Mansfield, Mr. Justus M. Drake to Miss Eleanor Lindsey. [May 16, 1832]

Married:  At the same place, by the same, on the 3d instant, Mr. John Evans to Miss Julia Burlison [May 16, 1832]

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Dr. Kendrick, of Hamilton, Mr. Simeon A. Benton to Miss marilla McMaster, both of the former place [May 23, 1832]

Deaths

Died:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Friday evening, the 6th inst. Peter Augustus [Guernsey], eldest son of Mr. Peter B. Guernsey, Jr., deceased, aged 5 years and 3 months. [Apr. 11, 1832

Died:  Also, on Saturday, the 7th inst. Franklin Randall [York], son of Mr. Charles York, aged 8 years and 6 months. [Apr. 11, 1832]

Died:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday, the 5th inst. Miss Atheusa Bissell, aged 41 years. [Apr. 11, 1832]

Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday, the 10th inst. after a long and painful illness, occasioned by a cancer, Mr. Elisha Smith, aged 57 years. [Apr. 18, 1832]

Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on Saturday last, Mr. James Anderson, an old and respectable citizen of that town. [Apr. 18, 1832]

Died:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday, the 19th inst. Miss Martha Augusta [Breed] daughter of Mr. Elias Breed, aged 15 years.  Seldom, if ever, to our knowledge, has any family among us been so often called upon by the dispensations of Providence, to follow to the grave the remains of their nearest and dearest members, as the family of Mr. Breed. Theirs, indeed, has been, for two years past, "a house of mourning," for during that brief period, five or six of their family connexions have been cut down by the hande of Death and deposited in the grave.  Mr. and Mrs. B., we believe, within the time mentioned, have mourned the loss of a parent, a brother, two daughters, one son and a daughter-in-law.  [Apr. 25, 1832]

Died:  On Wednesday evening, the 18th inst. in this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Mrs. Aurora Pellet, wife of Mr. David Pellett, aged 41 years. [Apr. 25, 1832]

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th instant, Mrs. Bridget Pendleton, wife of Mr. Isaac Pendleton, aged 44 years. [Apr. 25, 1832]

Died:  In oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Sarah [Farnham], infant daughter of Mr. John P. Farnham. [Apr. 25, 1832]

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday, the 15th inst. Miss Rebecca Miner, daughter of Deacon Philo Miner, in the 27th year of her age.  The deceased was a highly respectable and exemplary member of the Presbyterian church in this place, and at the approach of death gave satisfactory evidence that for her "to live was Christ, and to die was gain." [Apr. 25, 1832]

Died:  In Brighton, Monroe County [NY], on the 17th ult. Mr. Henry C. Thorp, son of the late Rev. Charles Thorp, of the same place, aged 23 years. [May 2, 1832]

Died:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday morning last, John [DeForest] infant son of Gen. H. DeForest, aged 18 months. [May 23, 1832]