Vital Records, Delaware County, NY (1831)

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, August 10, 1831

Deaths

In the village of Deposit [Delaware Co. NY] on Friday the 29th ult., Silas Crandall, Esq. in the 60th year of his age.  The deceased professed the religion of Christ and died in the full assurance of a blessed immortality.

Colonel Richard Varick, a distinguished officer of the Revolution, formerly Mayor of New York, President of the N.Y. State Cincinnati Society, &c., died at his residence, Prospect Point, Jersey City, on the 30th ultimo, in the 79th year of his age.

Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer, New York City Mayor. He served in the Revolutionary War as private secretary and Aide-de-Camp to General George Washington from 1781 to 1783. Prior to that, he was an aide to Major General Benedict Arnold at the time when General Arnold tried to turn over the military post at West Point, New York, to the British. Colonel Varick was falsely rumored to be involved in the scheme, and was for a time an ostracized member of the Army until Washington exonerated him and made him his aide. He served as Mayor of New York City, New York, from 1789 to 1801. Findagrave.com:  memorial #12952

Richard Varick

Death of David Williams

A correspondent of the Albany Argus, at Rensselaerville, says: "David Williams, the last of the captors of Major Andre, died on Tuesday, the 2d inst. at sundown.  His remains were interred on Thursday, with military honors, at Livingston Ville, Schoharie County [NY]."

Williams was born on the 21st August 1754. He lived therefore 76 years, 9 months and 12 days.  this man, whom history says, gold could not corrupt nor grandeur swerve from fealty to his country, now sleeps with Paulding and Van Wart, associates in the capture of Andre.

The action in which he was a participator, will associate his name among the brave and faithful of an era, in which it was his good fortune not only to live and to act, but to perform services, under the strongest adverse temptations, of incalculable value to his country.  There is no event more strikingly characteristic of our revolution, its objects and its agents, than the refusal of three obscure men, suffering all the deprivations of war and poverty, and gaining a precarious subsistence by occasional labor on the half desecrated farm, and by occasional service in the army, to accept of great wealth and affluence at the expense of the cause in which they were engaged.

Tombstone Inscription:  He with his compatriots John Paulding and Isaac VanWart on the 22nd of September 1780, arrested Major John Andre and found on his person treasonable papers in the handwriting of Gen. Benedict Arnold, who sought by treachery to surrender the military post of West Point into the hands of the enemy. In resisting the great bribes of their prisoner for his liberty, they showed their incorruptible patriotism; the American army was saved and our beloved Country became free.   Findagrave Memorial #9367655

Delaware Gazette, Delaware Co. NY, August 17, 1831

Death

In Queensborough, Warren Co. [NY] on the 9th inst., Mrs. Joanna Sheldon, wife of Mr. Job Sheldon, late a resident of this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] in the 73d year of her age.

Delaware Gazette, Delaware Co. NY, August 24, 1831

Marriage

In Hamden ["Delaware Co. NY] on Thursday the 18th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Chapin, Mr. Charles Hart of Deposit [Delaware Co. NY] formerly of New Hampshire, to Miss Charlotte Bradley of the former place.

Delaware Gazette, Delaware Co. NY, August 31, 1831

Death

At Harpersfield [Delaware Co. NY] on the 30th July last, Elisha Shelden, Esq. in the 70th year of his age.

The subject of this notice was a native of the town of Dover [Dutchess Co. NY] in this state.  He removed to the town of Harpersfield about forty years since and has always been one of its most useful and respectable inhabitants.

Twenty years a justice of the Peace, he had frequent occasion to evince his love of justice and his regard for the rights of his fellow men.  He was also frequently called upon to discharge other duties which the confidence of his fellow citizens imposed upon him, and it is believed that his upright intentions and good motives were never questioned.

For thirty years the deceased was a useful and exemplary member of the Baptist Church, in Harpersfield, a faithful and devoted follower of the blessed Saviour.  He has gone to the rest prepared for those who die in the Lord.

His affectionate regard for his brethren and the interest of the church to which he had so many years belonged, was shown by a bequest of fifteen hundred dollars.  In short, his liberality has always been experienced, and his loss is severely felt, especially by the Pastor of the church, who, himself in feeble health, has uniformly found in the deceased an affectionate brother, an amiable counsellor and a true friend.

Such was our departed friend.  May we be like him!  In life virtuous and respected; In death, peaceful and happy.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, September 7, 1831

Marriage

In Franklin [Delaware Co. NY] on Monday morning last, by the Rev. Mr. Waterbury, Mr. Henry Edgerton to Miss Sally Finney daughter of Mr. Jonathan Finney, of this place.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, September 14, 1831

Marriages

In Meredith [Delaware Co. NY] on the 13th inst. by Street Dutton, Esq., Mr. James M. Lawrence of Milfordville, Otsego County [NY] to Miss Nancy Jane Lombard of Andes [Delaware Co. NY]

At Harpersfield [Delaware Co. NY] on the 11th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Adams, Mr. Hiram Graves to Miss Ann Botsford.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, September 28, 1831

Marriages

At Roxbury [Delaware Co. NY] on the 25th inst. by Alexander Daniels, Esq. Mr. Peter Rider to Miss Sarah Partridge, all of Blenheim [Schoharie Co. NY].

At Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] on the 24th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Wescott, Mr. Robert L. Grant to Miss Abigail Whitney.