Vital Records, Delaware County, NY, Oct. to Dec. 1824

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, October 13, 1824

Death

On the 24th September last, Mr. Ebenezer Silliman of Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] in the 57th year of his age.  His death was occasioned by a fall from the side of the house of Mr. John Griffin, while he was standing on a ladder at the height of about twenty-three feet from the ground.  He spoke but once or twice and died almost instantaneously.  He was employed at the time in painting, which has been long his favorite occupation, pursuing it from choice rather than from necessity.  He had lived fourteen years in Stamford, whither he emigrated from Fairfield, Ct., greatly respected by all his acquaintance and sustaining emphatically the character of an honest man.  His neighbors and numerous relatives mourn his loss.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, October 20, 1824

Marriage

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY], on the 13th inst. by Jabez Hitchcolk, Esq. Mr. Thomas J. Tiffany to Miss Louisa Church.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 3, 1824

Elopement

Whereas my wife Betsey [Whitlock] has eloped from my bed and board without any just cause or provocation.  I hereby forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I am determined to pay no debts of her contracting after this date.  Platt Whitlock.  Stamford, October 21, 1824.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 17, 1824

Marriage

In Hancock [Delaware Co. NY], on the 3d inst. by Edward Doyle, Esq. Mr. George C. Twaddell to Miss Perazinda Lanfield, daughter of M. Lanfield, Esq. all of Hancock.

Death

In Bovina, on Thursday the 28th ultimo, Mr. Robert Summers, aged 81 years.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 24, 1824

Death

At Franklin [Delaware Co. NY], on the 19th inst. with the diabetes after a lingering illness of ten months.  Eliza Miriam [Douglass] youngest daughter of Amos Douglass, Esq. aged 6 years, 3 months and 10 days.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 1, 1824

Marriages

At Harpersfield [Delaware Co. NY] on Wednesday the 24th ultimo by the Rev. Stephen Fenn, Mr. Samuel Mulford to Miss Alma Gaylord.

On the 1st ult. at Richmond, U.S. the Rev. John Byrne, Rector of that place, aged eighty-four years to Miss Ann [Eyneuf] daughter of Mr. Eyneuf, late schoolmaster of Richmond, in the 12th year of her age!!!

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 22, 1924

Marriages

At Kortright in this county [Delaware Co. NY], on Monday the 13th inst. by Elder Mayble, Mr. Edward Graves, aged eighty-five to Miss Aurenah Whitcomb aged thirteen years!!!

In the same town, by the same, Mr. Reuben McCallum to Miss Polly Smith.

In the same town, on Sunday the 12th inst. by Zachius Smith, Esq., Mr. Jehiel Gregory to Miss Cynthia Osborn.

In Stamford [Delaware Co. NY], on Tuesday the 14th inst. by the Rev. Robert Forest, Mr. Isaac Squires to Miss Susan Peters.

In the same town, by the same, on Wednesday the 15th inst. Mr. Sutton Peters to Miss Susan Squires.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 29, 1824

Marriage

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on Wednesday the 22d inst. by the Rev. E.K. Maxwell, Mr. Joshua Simmons to Miss Polly Millard daughter of Mr. Amasa Millard, all of Delhi.

Deaths

At his residence in Walton [Delaware Co. NY] on the 15th Dec. instant, Mr. Benajah McCall in the 82d year of his age.  The deceased was one of the first settlers of this County.  He passed through a long and arduous life, with the deserved reputation of strict integrity and unblemished morals and displaying a spirit and habit of industry beyond the ordinary capabilities of advanced life, he continued to the last as useful member of the society his enterprise aided in founding.

At Kingsbury, Washington County [NY] on the 12th inst. Col. Adiel Sherwood in the 75th year of his age, a soldier of the Revolution.  He commanded the post at Fort Ann which was besieged by a superior British and Indian force under Carleton to whom he, with his fellow compatriots were compelled to surrender.  They were taken prisoners to Quebec and treated with every indignity and severity.  The Sandy Hill Herald in an appropriate obituary notice observes, "That his political life has always been marked with uniformity and integrity as a citizen, his dealings have been just; as a neighbor he was kindly and charitably disposed, and the indigent have ever found him a friend and benefactor."