Vital Records, Chenango (1824) & Delaware (1832) Counties, NY

 Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, April 7, 1824

Death

At his residence in the town of Greene, Chenango Co. [NY] on Thursday the 26th ult. William John Bessac in the sixty-fifth year of his age.  Mr. Bessac was a native of France and born in the year 1760 in the cidivant Providence of Quercia, now forming the Departinent of Lot.  Possessing a mind the most active and benevolent, he visited Tunis when a boy of eighteen in company with a brother, in order to effect the release of some Christian slaves then held in confinement by the Bey of Tunis.  He returned to his native country after attaining this object --visited the principal cities on the continent and at the age of nineteen, landed in America.  During our Revolutionary struggle, strongly attached to the cause of freedom, he warmly espoused our cause and as far as his means extended, became eminently useful.  In all the relations of domestic life, Mr. Bessac was most affectionate and attentive.  The education of his children formed the principal object of his life and what seemed to interest him most.  He has done all that the warmest affection, the most assiduous attention could do.  He has his reward.  As a neighbor, he stood without a parallel.  The kindness and suavity of his manners endeared him to all and none but those who knew him intimately can rightly appreciate his character in this respect.  But he is gathered to his fathers.  He has sunk into his grave, wept by all who knew him, and while his family and friends mourn his loss, they mourn not as those without hope.  He died as he lived, full of faith and hope of a blessed immortality.  Broome Republican

Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, April 14, 1824

Marriage

At Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] on the eighth instant, by L. Bigelow, Esq. Mr. Luke Hitchcock of Allegany County [NY] to Miss Melinda Nickerson of Bainbridge.

Death

In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] on the 11th inst. Mrs. Mindwell Hayes aged 72 years.

Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, April 21, 1824

Marriage

At Greene [Chenango Co. NY] on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Hoyt, Mr. George Munsell of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Mary Ketchum daughter of S. Ketchum Esq of the former place.

Death

On the 9th inst. while Mr. Horace Weaver of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY] was engaged with some of his neighbors in rolling logs, a handspike struck his breast, of which he survived but about twenty hours.  Mr. Weaver was about 26 years of age and has left a wife and two children to lament his loss.

Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, April 28, 1824

Marriage

On Sunday the 2d inst. by the Rev. Mr. Andrews, Mr. Eli Eddy of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Betsey Davis of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, October 3, 1832

Marriage

In St. john's Church in this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on Wednesday morning last by the Rev. Orange Clark, Mr. Ambrose W. Clark of Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] and one of the Editors of the Otsego Republican, to Miss Paulina S. Johnson of this village.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, October 17, 1832

Marriages

In Meredith [Delaware Co. NY] on the 10th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Fisher, Mr. John McDonald one of the Editors of the Delaware Republican to Miss Electa De Graff of this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY].

In this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the 15th inst. by the Rev. E.K. Maxwell, of Arbor Hill, Mr. Charles Marvine to Frances [Foote] daughter of the late Hon. Charles A. Foote, of this village.

Death

We regret to learn that a son of Mr. William Barlow of Hamden [Delaware Co. NY] aged about 14 years, was shot on Sunday last by the accidental discharge of a rifle.  He survived the accident about nine hours.  We are not informed of the particulars.