Vital Records, Delaware County, NY, 1820

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, January 13, 1820

Marriages

In Harpersfield [Delaware Co. NY] on the 19th Dec. last by the Rev. Mr. Fenn, Mr. Isaac Wilcox to Miss Harriet Dayton.

On the 3d inst. by the Rev. O. Mack, Mr. James Treadwell to Mrs. Catharine Ellarson widow of the late Wm. Ellarson, of Broome, Schoharie County [NY].

On the 4th inst. by the Rev. Seth Williston of Durham, Green Co. [NY], Mr. Abraham C. Bogardus of Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Fanny M. Pendell of the former place.

On the 5th inst. by H.R. Phelps, Esq., Mr. John Maxwell to Miss Malinda Chase daughter of W. Chase, Esq. both of Delhi [Delaware Co. NY].

Death

At Ithaca, Tompkins Co. [NY] on the 21st of Dec. last, Mr. David B Beers formerly and for many years a respectable merchant of this County [Delaware Co. NY].

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, January 27, 1820

Marriages

In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY], on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Scoville, Mr. William Baker aged 67 years to the widow Elizabeth Braughton, aged 61.

On the same evening, by H.R. Phelps, Esq. Mr. Anson Tiffany to Miss Polly Rich of Walton [Delaware Co. NY].

In Walton [Delaware Co. NY], on the 20th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Scoville, Mr. John W. Denniston of Cairo, Green Co. [NY] to Miss Phoebe Heath.

In Stamford [Delaware Co. NY], Mr. William Bakeley to Miss Polly Cooley.

In Roxbury [Albany Co. NY], Mr. Liberty Preston to Miss Betsey More.

Also, Mr. Jacob Keator to Miss Betsey Smith.

Also, Mr. Henry Leonard to Miss Huldah Hull.

Death

It is our melancholy task to record an accident the most afflicting and heart-rending by which a young man in the vigor of life, who had, by his affectionate disposition, amiable deportment, and virtuous conduct, endeared himself to numerous connections and friends was suddenly taken from time into eternity.  In the forenoon of Tuesday the 11th instant, William Augustus Morris aged twenty-three years, son of General Jacob Morris, of Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY], was engaged in cutting and thawing the ice from a water wheel in the bark mill owned by him and his brother, Jacob, and after having effected his object, it is supposed he hoisted the gate and stepped upon one of the buckets to aid in starting the wheel, when it moved with more ease than was expected, by which he lost his balance and was precipitated into the wheel and instantly killed, a bucket having struck him near the shoulders and literally smashed him against the bulk head.  From the time he procured the hot water at his boarding house, till he was found by his brother, could not have exceeded thirty minutes, and it is probably he had not been within the wheel half that time, yet the vital spark was wholly extinguished.  There can be no doubt but his death was instantaneous, as it is said the distance between the bucket and bulkhead does not exceed two inches.  Notwithstanding the confinement of his breast and shoulders within so short a compass, yet apparently there was not a bone broken and the only bruises upon his body were found upon his breast and back.  On Thursday at 3 o'clock, he was committed to his mother earth, in the family burying ground attended by a vast concourse of relatives, friends and acquaintances, who had assembled at the mansion of his father, to perform the last sad offices to the body of him who but lately was full of life and vigor, animated, social, friendly.  

This is indeed an awful calamity.  A young man, surrounded by prospects the most flattering, on whom parental love had showered its blessings and brotherly and sisterly affection concentered, so suddenly cut off as a "encumberer of the ground". is an affliction too cutting and heart riving to admit of consolation. Still it is from our Heavenly father, whose "ways are past finding out," and submission to the dispensations of his providence is enjoined as a duty.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, February 10, 1820

Marriages

In Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] on the 27th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Forrest, Captain Daniel Bush of Kortright [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Eliza Silliman of the former place.

At the same place by the Rev. Mr. Adams, Mr. Richard Peters, jun. to Miss Polly Wilcox.

In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] on the 16th Sept. last Mr. John Russell to Miss Catharine Tholborn, daughter of Mr. Aaron Tholborn.

At Kortright [Delaware Co. NY], on the 27th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Scofield, Isaac Higley to Miss Phoebe M. Johnson daughter of William Johnson, Esq., of the former place.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, February 24, 1820

Marriages

In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] on Sunday evening last, Mr. Daniel Blair to Miss Sally M. Maxwell.

In Roxbury [Albany Co. NY] by the Rev O Mack, Mr. Garret H. Tenbrook to Mrs. Lois Sears.