Vital Records from the 1875 State Census

Town of Williamson

Wayne County, NY



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Miscellaneous Statistics:

First Election District, Williamson, for the year ending June 1, 1875
John TINKLEPAUGH, Enumerator

Reform Church: Denomination Ref. Ch. (U.S.); value of church & lot 5000; seats 350; 350 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 218; salary of clergy 800.

Presbyterian Church: Denomination Presbyterian; value of church & lot 5500; seats 250; 150 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 65; salary of clergy 600.

First Baptist Church of Williamson: Denomination Baptist; value of church & lot 4500; seats 350; 60 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 65; salary of clergy 400.

First M.E. Church of Williamson: Denomination M.E. Ch.; value of church & lot 5000; value of other real estate 1800; seats 275; 275 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 115; salary of clergy 600.

Inns, hotels and taverns - 1; retail stores and groceries - 5

Remarks on the harvest of 1874: Hay crop was above other crops a full average.

Domestic animals in cities and villages (number of domestic animals kept by those who occupy no farming lands): 43 horses; 92 cows

Wages: Men working at common hand labor in building, etc. $1.60 by the day; farm hands hired by the season or year $1.00 by the day, $15.00 by the month; farm hands hired in haying and harvest $1.50 by the day, $30.00 by the month; women hired for common household work $2.00 by the week; carpenters & joiners $1.50 by the day; masons, stone and bricklayers $2.00 by the day; blacksmiths $1.75 by the day; dressmakers $1.00 by the day; women for hoeing mint 50 cents per day; women for hoeing corn 50 cents by the day; women common school teaching $7.00 by the week, $28.00 by the month in the village; $5.00 by the week, $20.00 by the month in the country.


Second Election District: Williamson for the year ending June 1, 1875
Russell SMITH, Enumerator

Methodist Episcopal, Pultneyville: Denomination M.E.; value of church & lot 8000; value of other real estate 950; seats 300; 150 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 32; salary of clergy 400.

Dutch Reform Church: Denomnination Reformed Church in Am.; value of church & lot 4000; seats 300; 250 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 143; salary of clergy besides use of real estate 550.

Inns, hotels and taverns - 1; retail stores & groceries - 1

Remarks on the harvest of 1874: Corn crop of 1874 only about one half on act. of dry wether.

Domestic animals in cities & villages (number of domestic animals kept by those who occupy no farming lands) 12 horses; 15 cows.

Remarks on the mortality of the year ending June 1, 1875: not any in this district.

Wages: Men working at common hand labor in building, etc. $2.00 by the day; farm hands hired by the season or year $18.00 by the month; women hired for common household work $2.50 by the week; carpenters and joiners $2.50 by the day; masons, stone and bricklayers $2.50 by the day; shoemakers (journeymen) $30.00 by the month.

General Remarks: I have labored under one serious difficulty the most of our people being Hollanders it has been hard work to ennumerate this district and get it accurate but I have done the best I could the Village of Pultneyville lies within this district the population being about two hundred and seventy five.


MARRIAGES:

First Election District: Town of Williamson: during year ending June 1, 1875
John TINKLEPAUGH, Enumerator

Hiram VAUGHN, 67, widowed and Emma VAUGHN, 28, widow
Mar. 24 in Ontario by a DR clergyman

Orin ATWATER, 26, single and Annett LEROY, 21, single
Apr. 29 in Sodus by an Epis. clergyman

Abram PETTY, 23, single and Jennett DECAN, 23, single
Dec. 5 in Marion by a RCUS clergyman

Isaac ELVE, 22, single and Jennett JOHNSON, 21, single
Dec. 6 in Ontario by a B clergyman

Warner BENNETT, 21, single and Arelia BROWN, 24, single
Mar. 20 in Ontario by a RCUS clergyman

Abram PLITER, age 21, single and Mary DERIDER, 22, single
Mar. 17 in Williamson by a ME clergyman

William TOWN, 26, single and Hariet HARDCASTLE, 28, single
Dec. 24 in Williamson by a Pres. clergyman

Cyrus GAGE, 20, single and Hattie BRITTON, 19, single
Sept. 19 in Rochester, N.Y. by a Chris. clergyman

Alanzo CRANE, 22, single and Lucy NILES, 28, single
Nov. 10 in Marion


Second Election District: Town of Williamson: during year ending June 1, 1875
Russell SMITH, Enumerator

John PETTY, 51, widow, and Cathrine LAMBRIGHT, 50, widow
Mar. 23, in Pultneyville, Wayne Co. by a Dutch Ref. clergyman

John PLASSEY, 21, single and Mariah PETTY, 19, single
Oct. 30 in Pultneyville, Wayne Co. by a Dutch Ref. clergyman

James BRUZANY, 24, single and Jenny CUNNINGHAM, 21, single
Dec. 24 in Marion, Wayne Co. by a J.P.

Lewis MAGEE, 23, single and Maryh ORABAKER, 19, single
July 3 in Williamson, Wayne by a Dutch Ref. clergyman

John YEOMANS, 33, widowed and Emma WIRES, 31, single
Mar. 13 in Williamson, Wayne Co.


DEATHS:

First Election District: town of Williamson: during year ending June 1, 1875
John TINKLEPAUGH, Enumerator

Anthony MICKLESON, 7m, male, Sept. 21, b. Wayne Co., diareah

Ira M. CADY, 54, male, married, June 12, b. Wayne Co., farmer, by a fall and a cold

Elisabeth BRUNO, 76, female, married, June 13, b. Holland, old age

James AUSTIN, 37, male, single, May 12, b. Wayne Co., dentist, liver cumption

Abner SEELEY, 36, male, single, March 18m b, Wayne Co., real estate broker, suicide by shooting with pistol

Philip H. ROBISON, 33, male, married, March 29, b. Dutches Co., dry goods merchant, chronic inflamation of the blood

Guy ROBISON, 1y 10m, male, Feb. 18, b. Wayne Co., scarlett fever

Paul B. MACY, 82, male, single, Dec. 23, b. Columbia Co., salor, Bright's disease

Anna MURSAN, 6, female, Aug. 11, b. Wayne Co., typhoid fever

Mary LENHOUSE, 10 days, female, Aug. 5, b. Wayne Co., by a cold rattels

Simeon CARL, 3, male, Dec. 3, b. Wayne Co., diareah

Sarah CARL, 6m, female, March 12, b. Wayne Co., conjestion of the lungs

Abram ALLARD, 55, male, married, April 23, b. Holland, farmer, consumption of the lungs

Jane VIRBRIGE, 40, female, married, Jan. 30, b. Holland, housekeeper, injured by lightning

Abram DEEDE, 56, male, married, July 27, b. Holland, day laborer, killed by a falling burst of erth

Martha SWIFT, 57, female, married, Sept. 3, b. England, liver consumption

Lucy WHITE, 1m, female, April 25, b. Wayne Co., cause of death unknown

Charles WHITE, 3m, male, June 13, b. Wayne Co., fitz

Thomas J. PEER, 74, male, married, Jan. 20, b. N.J., farmer, kidney and spinal desease cause by a fall

Rodney CLARK, 81, male, married, Nov. 4, b. Conn., farmer, heart disease

Second Election District: town of Williamson: during year ending June 1, 1875
Russell SMITH, Enumerator

Cathrine VERBRIDGE, 54, female, married, Sept. 17, b. Holland, housekeeper, cancer on limb

Jacob PATTIST, 32, male, single, April 11, b. Holland, boarder, cancer in stomach

Evelyn FRIES, 3, female, single, Oct. 17, b. Wayne Co., diptheria

Cathrine FRIES, 69, widow, Oct. 5, b. Columbia Co., dropsy of the heart

Josiah VANHOOF, 1, male, single, April 12, b. Wayne Co., inflamation on lungs

Nelly COON, 7, female, sisngle, June 10, b. Wayne Co., dropsy

Nathaniel LOCKWOOD, 15, male, married, FEb. 22, b. Dutchess Co., farmer, information bowells

Mary COPPYON, 88, female, widow, Jan. 21, b. Holland, infirmities of age

Haddie J. ROYS, 6m, male, single, Oct. 17, b. Wayne Co., colery infantum

Phillip COTTRELL, 10m, male, single, Aug. 6, b. Wayne Co., congestion of lungs

Sarah A. CORNWALL, 26, female, single, Aug. 15, b. N.Y., spinal fever

Hiram CREIGHTON, 3m, male, single, July 9, b. N.Y., information on bowells

Harry R. PALLISTER, 4, male, single, Jan. 15, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Serah M. CADY, 22, female, single, April 23, b. N.Y., consumption

Charles COTRELL, 8m, male, single, March 24, b. N.Y., congestion of the lungs

Mary L. STODARD, 1, female, single, Sept. 14, b. N.Y., colera infantum

Mariah SCOTT, 82, female, widow, Dec. 13, b. England, congestion of the lungs

John D. FLYER, 53, male, single, July 16, b. Holland, paralysis

Cornelius LEROY, 5m, male, single, Sept. 15, b. N.Y., colera infantum

John HOLLAND, 73, male, married, July 18, b. N.Y., cancer

Hendrick COOPER, 68, male, married, March 2, b. N.J., carpenter, inflamation of liver

Thomas FISH, 79, male, married, August, b. Mass., carpenter, paralysis




These records were taken as part of the NY State 1875 state census and cover the calendar year from June 2, 1874 to June 1, 1875. Otherwise there are no such government records for the other 1870s years ex. for the US 1880 Mortality Schedule. Not all records have survived for all towns and counties in New York State. To find out what has survived, please check with the historical society of the county you're interested in, visit the New York State Historical Society in Cooperstown, NY, or inquire of your nearest Family History Center about microfilm loan.

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