Stephentown (N.Y.) Commissioner of Highways account book, 1864-1901 (majority within 1864-1895)

Summary

Creator:

Stephentown (N.Y.). Commissioner of Highways

Abstract:

This account book contains the financial records for the Stephentown, New York, Commissioners of Highways, from 1864 to 1895. These include costs for receiving and making road warrants, viewing sheep killed by dogs, building, repairing, and examining sluices, bridges, and roads, removing obstructions, using livestock and equipment, wages for day work, purchasing and drawing planks and timber, purchasing spikes, receiving various taxes, viewing fences, drilling, blasting, and drawing stone, and other associated tasks related to creating and sustaining transportation infrastructure. Signed certifications of expenses and payments by the Board of Town Auditors appear on several accounts. Named Commissioners of Highways include Pelig B. Daniels, Joel E. Adams, and Jeremiah O. Greenman.

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Jayne Ptolemy, April 2023

Background

Scope and Content:

This account book contains the financial records for the Stephentown, New York, Commissioners of Highways, from 1864 to 1895. These include costs for receiving and making road warrants, viewing sheep killed by dogs, building, repairing, and examining sluices, bridges, and roads, removing obstructions, using livestock and equipment, wages for day work, purchasing and drawing planks and timber, purchasing spikes, receiving various taxes, viewing fences, drilling, blasting, and drawing stone, and other associated tasks related to creating and sustaining transportation infrastructure.

Signed certifications of expenses and payments by the Board of Town Auditors appear on several accounts. Named Commissioners of Highways include Pelig B. Daniels, Joel E. Adams, and Jeremiah O. Greenman. One certificate of the Stephentown Fence Viewers, dated November 7, 1896, is laid into the volume, attesting to the death of a sheep by dogs and the damages thereby sustained, payment received in 1901.

Biographical / Historical:

No biographical or historical note is available for this finding aid.

Acquisition Information:

2023. M-7779.3 .

Arrangement:

The collection is a single bound volume.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

Bridges--New York (State)--Maintenance and repair.
Roads--New York (State)--Maintenance and repair.
Sluices--New York (State)--Maintenance and repair.
Transportation--United States--History--19th century.

Formats:

Account books.
Municipal government records.

Places:

Stephentown (N.Y.)--Municipal government.