Vital Records, Norwich, NY, March & April 1831

 Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 2, 1831

Marriage

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Asa Donaldson, Mr. Geo. Mills to Miss Cyntha Freer.

Deaths

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Friday evening last, Mrs. Sarah Breed, wife of Capt. E.S Breed, and eldest daughter of Roger Bissell, aged 21 years.  Seldom does it fall to the lot of a public journal to record an obituary, which is so universally lamented as the one in the present instance.  It needs no record of her virtues upon paper to retain them in the remembrance of all who ever had the pleasure of her acquaintance.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst., Seth Smith [Beckwith], son of Mr. Seth S. Beckwith, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], aged 4 years and 2 months.

Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 9, 1831

Death

A person named Jabiah Hancox was killed in Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] on Tuesday of last week.  His death was occasioned by the carelessness of some boys, who pulled him down, his head striking a chair, which broke his neck.

Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 23, 1831

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday last, Miss Almira Weller, aged 39 years.

On Thursday last, Caroline [Brooks] daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Brooks, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], aged two years and nine months.

Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 30, 1831

Marriage

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst. by Erastus Eggleston, esq., Mr. Rudolph Ostrom, to Miss Ruth Miner.

Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 6, 1831

Marriage

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Edward Andrews, Mr. Geo. Bridgman of Brattleborough, VT, to Miss Sarah Jane [Clark] eldest daughter of Mr. Merrit Clark, of the former place.

"The world was sad--the garden was a wild,

And man the hermit sighed, till woman smiled"

Death

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult. George Edgar [Breed], son of Mr. Elias Breed, in the 6th year of his age.

Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 13, 1831

Marriage

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday last, by the Rev. L.B. Swan, Mr. Orson F. Ray to Miss Melissa Orr.

Death

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], at her father's residence, on Wednesday the 30th ult. after an illness of twelve weeks, which she bore with Christian patience, Roxana [Bridgman] consort of the Rev. Peter G Bridgman, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] and eldest daughter of Benjamin Nichols, aged 26 years.

Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 20, 1831

Marriage

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday morning the 18th inst. by Elder J.B. Swan, Mr. Nelson Mygatt to Miss Aris Byington, all of this town.

Death

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday, the 10th, inst. Mr. Benjamin Aldrich, aged 77 years.

Anti-Masonic Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 27, 1831

Marriages

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday last, by the Rev. J.B. Swan, Mr. Royal Gilbert to Miss Margaret Pike.

At Athens, Bradford Co. (Penn.) on Wednesday the 20th inst. Thomas E. Paine, esq. of Troy (Penn.), editor of the Anti-masonic Democrat, to Miss Charlotte E. Birdsall, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].