Records, 1808-1830 (bulk 1808-1820).

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Records, 1808-1830 (bulk 1808-1820).

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Appointments of auctioneers, coroners, judges and justices, clerks, inspectors, sheriffs and notaries, 1808-1821; supersedeas, 1810- 1821; oaths of allegiance to the United States and to New York State, 1808- 1820; oaths of office of county clerks, justices and commissioners, military officers, sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners and others, 1808- 1820; orders of levy by Jonathan Bailey, James Sheldon, Oziel Smith, Samuel Wilkeson and other justices, including some receipts, 1813-1830; lists of qualified and disqualified jurors from Niagara County towns, 1808- 1821; and a grand jury presentment, 1819.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7353222

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Wilkeson, Samuel, 1781-1848

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Judge Samuel Wilkeson was involved in shipping and the manufacture of stoves and engines. He was the first judge of Erie County, an early mayor of Buffalo (1836), and a representative in the State Assembly and Senate. He was instrumental in the construction of Buffalo Harbor and the choice of Buffalo as the western terminus of the Erie Canal, and he was active in the abolitionist movement as a member of the American Colonization Society. From the description of Samuel Wilkeson papers...

Smith, Oziel, 1780 or 1-1836.

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Sheldon, James, 1792-1850

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Buffalo lawyer. From the description of Papers concerning court martials of John Maybee and J.M. Stevens, 1821 Mar.-Apr. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 36087894 ...

Bailey, Jonathan

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Niagara County (N.Y.)

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Niagara County was formed in 1808 during a municipal reorganization of the Holland Purchase. The part of Genesee County north of Cattaraugus Creek and west of the line between the fourth and fifth ranges of townships became Niagara County with the town of Buffalo as county seat. These boundaries held until 1821 when the part north of the center of Tonawanda Creek became a separate county called Niagara; the remainder was renamed Erie County. Erie County retained the county seat, county records a...