Vital Records, Delaware County, NY 1825

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, August 31, 1825

Deaths

At New York on Sunday the 14th inst. whither he had gone for the benefit of his health.  Arthur Bresee Esq. of Utica [Oneida Co. NY], Clerk of the Supreme Court aged 53.

At Albany [Albany Co. NY] on Friday the 19th inst. in the 53d year of his age, the Hon. Roger Skinner District Judge of the United States for the Northern District of New York.

Died of the consumption at Walton [Delaware Co. NY] on the 23d instant, Mr. Cyrus North in the 32d year of his age.  Mr. North was well known to a very extensive circle of acquaintance as a young man of talents, of literary attainments, and of amiable and interesting deportment.  In his infancy he became blind, and he continued so ever since that period.  Notwithstanding this disability, through the aid of his friends, and more especially of his sisters, who served him in the capacity of reader and amanuensis, he made himself liberally acquainted with English literature, principally in the departments of belle's letters, history and political science.  Endowed with the faculty of a most ready perception, he acquired knowledge with surprising facility, the absolute possession of which was at all times secured to him by an exceedingly retentive memory.  The interest which his mental accomplishments and the loss of his sight created in his behalf, aided by his ambition and capabilities introduced him into an enlarged and elevated sphere of social intercourse that embraced a great number of persons of worth and distinction in the State.  He possessed a commanding influence of character.  In all matters that elicited opinion, he formed and advanced his conclusions with readiness and force, and under the control of pure motives and a sound judgment, which he retained to the last moment of his life. During the last three years of his life, he engaged in the mercantile business.  The want of sight was almost remedied by the enlarged capacity of his other senses and he transacted with surprising dispatch and accuracy most of the details of business.  During his last illness he was visited by the consultations of the gospel.  He died a Christian.  It is needless to add that the death of such a man is an afflicting bereavement.  But the grief of relatives and friends however poignant is assuaged by the reflection that his life was spent in usefulness and honor and its last moments crowned with the faith and blissful hopes of the Christian salvation.  

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, September 7, 1825

Death

Died on the 1st inst. Charles Ruggles Sherwood, aged three years and four months, son of Samuel Sherwood, Esq. of this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY].

At Kingston, Ulster Co. [NY] on the 31st ult. of the typhus fever, Joseph A. Bostwick Esq. aged 43.  Mr. B. was employed as a surveyor and engineer by the Commissioners of the State Road and the origin of his disease is attributed to exposure to the sudden change of the weather on the 20th.  Mr. B. has been an inhabitant of this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] for the last seven years, and by the civility of his deportment, moral propriety, and rigid integrity of his conduct had secured universal respect and esteem.  He has left an interesting family and an extensive circle of friends to lament the severity of his loss.

At Middleburgh, Schoharie Co. [NY] on the 21st ult. Mr. Sally Spencer, aged 29, wife of John B. Spencer, Esq. late of this county [Delaware Co. NY].

A Ballston [Saratoga Co. NY], on the 22d ult. Mrs. Mary Ann Young wife of the Hon. Samuel Young.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, September 21, 1825

Marriages

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on Thursday the 15th inst. by Elder Cumming, Mr. Roderick E. Blish of Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Florilla Farrington.

In Walton [Delaware Co. NY], on the same day, by the Rev. E.K. Maxwell, Doct. David S. Denio of this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Sally Andrews of the former place.

In Colchester [Delaware Co. NY], by Elder Woolsey, Mr. John Ogden, merchant, to Miss Maria Doll, all of Colchester.

Death

Died at Harpersfield [Delaware Co. NY] on Tuesday the 13th inst. Mr. James Brown, aged 72.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, October 12, 1825

Marriage

At Roxbury on the 2d inst. by the Rev. Mr. Mead, Mr. Joseph Powell to Miss Melinda Older.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, October 19, 1825

Marriages

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on Tuesday morning the 18th inst. by the Rev. E.K. Maxwell, Major Herman D. Gould, merchant of this village to Miss Ann Eliza Sherwood, daughter of Samuel Sherwood, Esq.

At Walton [Delaware Co. NY], on Monday the 10th inst. by the Rev. Isaac Hadley, Charles Butler Esq. Attorney at Law of Geneva, Ontario County [NY], to Miss Eliza A. Ogden, daughter of the late Abraham Ogden, Esq. of the former place.

In Meredith [Delaware Co. NY], on Thursday morning, the 13th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Fisher, Dr. Horace K. Thurber to Miss Millicent Penfield, both of Harpersfield [Delaware Co. NY].