Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 14, 1827
Death
In Andes [Delaware Co. NY] on the 27th ult. Mrs. Sally Vaughn wife of Mr. John Vaughn, in the 28th year of her age. The death of Mrs. Vaughn is one of the many instances of mortality which should be considered not only as a private but a public loss. In her the engaging qualities of a wife, a companion, a mother, and a neighbor, were blended with the utmost harmony. But the most distinguishing trait in her character was her firm and unvaried attachment to the cause of her Divine Master. She bore her long and painful illness with a calmness and submission which the Christian only knows. She ever manifested the most cheerful willingness to depart and be with Christ, and with the most perfect composure resigned her spirit into the hands of her Redeemer.
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 28, 1827
Death
In Meredith [Delaware Co. NY] on the 19th inst. Mrs. Sarah Stewart consort of Mr. Nathaniel Stewart, Sen. in the 35th year of her age.
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 5, 1827
Marriage
In New York on the 28th ultimo by the Rev. Mr. Hart, Mr. M.M. Noah to Miss Rebecca Jackson all of that city.
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 12, 1827
Elopement
Whereas my wife Orilla [Lowden] has left my bed and board without my content and without any cause or provocation on my part. I therefore forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account as I shall not pay any debts of her contract after this date. James S. Lowden, Davenport [Delaware Co. NY] Dec. 6, 1827
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 19, 1827
Death
In this village [Catskill, Greene Co. NY] on Sunday the 9th inst. Mr. Richard Field joint editor of this paper, aged 26 years. An industrious citizen, a good citizen, and an honest man, he was universally respected while in the more private walks of life he discharged the offices of an affectionate relative and a faithful friend. His character was of that unobtrusive kind which makes no very bold impression upon the casual observer, but which endears itself to the hearts of those more intimately acquainted with its excellencies He died with full confidence in that Redeemer whose blood washes away the sins of those who trust in him, and in the hope of a brighter resurrection he has gone to that land where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. Catskill Recorder.
Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 26, 1827
Marriage
At Tompkins [Delaware Co. NY] on Sunday the 30th by Darius Smith Esq of Masonville, Master Peter Smith aged 17 to Miss. Be... Evelsion both of the former place.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, March 11, 1839
Marriages
On the 31st ult by the Rev. Solon Stocking, Mr. Jeremiah Wilber to Miss Joanna Wilder.
On the 9th inst. by the same, Mr. Anson Pope to Miss Saphronia Brown all of this town [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY].
Death
At Wilmington, Delaware on the 2d instant, Hezekiah Niles, Esq. Late of Baltimore and well known as editor and proprietor for many years of "Nile's Register."
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, March 14, 1839
Marriage
At Owego, Tioga County [NY] on the 28th ult. by the Rev. Mr. White, J.K. Rugg Esq., of this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY] to Miss Stella A. [Platt] daughter of Wm. Platt, Esq. of the former place.
Death
In the town of Union [Broome Co. NY] on the 27th ult. Mrs. Sibyl Niles aged 64 years.
News Item
Election Day Murder
On Tuesday evening last, in the village of Greene, Chenango Co. [NY] after the result of the election was known, the successful party celebrated their victory in a chamber of the public house where the election was held, by drinking and carousing in the most boisterous manner. Some three or four of the opposite party, it seems, from curiosity or some other motive also went into the room. As soon as they were noticed, the order was given "out with the Whigs," when the rioters seized a man by the name of Arnold Horton, who in obedience to the order, was in the act of retiring, and threw him head foremost over the bannisters. His back, and several of the vertebra of the neck were broken by the fall. He was taken up for dead, but afterwards recovered his senses and survived the injuries received three days. Strange as it may seem, the actors in this tragedy continued their rioting, even after they supposed Horton was dead; marched through the streets, shouting and huzzaing, until a late hour. As the coroner's jury have not yet rendered their verdict and as the matter ill undoubtedly be investigated by the proper authorities, we refrain for the present, from further remark. The deceased we learn was a respectable, industrious, hard-working citizen and has left a wife and eight small children to mourn his untimely death.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, April 18, 1839: The Courier says, "the murder (as the Whig papers are determined to call it) at Greene, turns out to be a fatal accident and nothing more, with strict adherence to facts, can be made of it."
Now what are the facts? The verdict of the coroner's jury, which we annex, and the testimony of the witnesses, furnish a reply:
The jurors "do say upon their oaths, that a certain person or certain persons to them unknown, on the fifth day of March inst. at the hour of about seven o'clock in the evening of the same day, with force and arms at the house of Philo Calender in the village of Greene in and upon the body of the aforesaid Arnold Horton, then and there feloniously and violently made an assault, and forced him from the ball room of said house so as to cause him to fall over the stair railing upon the stairs into the hall below. which fall occasioned such wounds, injuries and fractures as to cause his death."
Ebenezer McCormick, a witness testified, "that he was in the room during the evening; that someone moved to put all the Whigs out of the room. Someone clinched Horton who was standing on the east side of the room saying, "you are a damned Whig and must go out of here." He was forced to the door by a number of persons, rapidly. Witness heard someone say that "they have thrown him downstairs; he is a damned Whig and hope he is dead." Witness heard him fall. The crowd came back and commenced their huzzes."
Several other witnesses made oath to the same facts, and they were corroborated by the dying words of the victim of the outrage. No wonder then that the Courier wishes to change the responsibility and impute to accident the result of a deliberate design.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, March 21, 1839
Marriage
In Conklin on the 10th inst. by Henry B. Smith, Esq. Mr. George S. Shannon to Miss Electa C. Chamberlain all of Conklin [Broome Co. NY].
Death
Recently in Windsor, Broome Co. N.Y. Capt. James Knox in the 87th year of his age.
Capt. Knox was a soldier during the whole of the Revolution and was for some years attached to the Lifeguard of the Commander in Chief, of which he was a Sergeant. On retiring from the army, he received the warm testimonials of Gen. Washington for his fidelity and courage. Capt. Knox was one of the first settlers in the now town of Windsor, whither he came soon after the close of the war. He was the first Captain of the militia in this section of Broome Co. Capt. Knox was probably the last survivor of that memorable band who stood around the Commander in Chief in the perilous times which "tried men's souls." He was a pure republican, a warm patriot, and an honest man.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, March 28, 1839
Death
At Grovesville, Illinois, on the 22d ult. Mr. Alonzo C. Bacon formerly of this village [Binghamton Broome Co. NY] aged about 30 years.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, April 4, 1839
Marriage
In the town of Conklin [Broome Co. NY] on the 27th ult by Josiah West, Jr. Esq. Mr. Perry Heath of Windsor [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Sarah Jane Conklin of the former place.
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