MAY.

1. The steam boat New World brought up from New York 500 tons of freight, the charges on which, with the passage money, &c., was over $2,200. This is believed to have been the largest freight ever brought up at one trip....James Baker died, aged 33....Erastus Perry died, aged 72.

2. James Dey Ermand died, aged 55.

3. Elizabeth Capron died, aged 50....Elizabeth, wife of William Wareing died, aged 56....The old vegetable market, an unsightly range of sheds, was pulled down, attracting a good deal of observation. (See next page.)

4. Mrs. Catharine McHarg died, aged 78.... Peter Murphy died, aged 33.

5. Archibald McIntyre died, aged 56. He came to this city at an early age from Scotland, and from 1798 to 1802 was a member of Assembly from Montgomery county. In 1806 he was appointed comptroller of the state, an office which he filled with ability and integrity until 1821, when he was removed in consequence of his refusal to pay claims rendered by Gov. Tompkins for services and disbursements during the war, without the proper vouchers. He was soon after elected to the senate for six years. He then became associated with John B. Yates in the management of the state lotteries, in which he continued till the lotteries were abolished. This firm was also largely interested in the Welland canal. At a later period Mr. McIntyre purchased a large tract of land in the northern part of the state, and gave much attention to its improvement.... Harriet G., wife of J. C. Robinson, died at Springfield, Mass., aged 53.

6. Eliza A., wife of Caleb Weaver, died, aged 33.... James Turner died, aged 42.

7. William White died, aged 45.

8. William Lyman died, aged 52....Samuel F. Follett was drowned, aged 28.

9. Elizabeth, wife of Alex. Reid, died, aged 23.

11. William J. Hardy died, aged 54....Isaac Lansing died, aged 71.

13. Martha, widow of John Meacham, died, aged 67. 15. Anthony Gould died, aged 56. Mr. Gould came to this city in 1821, and after several years of clerkship in the law bookstore of his uncle William Gould, he became a partner in the business. He had retired from active pursuits but a short time, with an ample fortune, when he was overtaken by death suddenly. He was one of the founders of the Congregational church, to which he contributed with great liberality.

16. Sarah, widow of Nicholas Efner and daughter of Sybrant Kittle, died, aged 50.

19. Mrs. Catharine Landers died, aged 62.

20. Joel White died, aged 46....Matthew A. Russell died, aged 28.... Morris Labascheiner was drowned at the ferry.

21. The Cathedral was robbed of the money in the poor boxes and of several costly prayer books....A circus made a procession through the streets preceded by a car drawn by six elephants, and containing a steam organ, termed a calliope.

22. Derike, wife of Dier Newton, died, aged 72.

25. Mary, wife of Robert Hutchison, died, aged 49. Thomas McElroy, formerly of Albany, died at New Scotland, aged 56.

26. Granville Slack died, aged 59.

27. Washington G. Gibson, confined in the station house for abuse of his wife, committed suicide, aged 48. 28. Sarah Ann, wife of Henry Mattice, died.

31. Titus Norton died, aged 64.... William A. Duer, formerly of Albany, died in New York. Mr. Duer was a grandson of Lord Stirling, and claimed the title. He was for several years a distinguished member of the legislature of New York, representing Dutchess county, and was a leader in the old federal party. In 1818 he removed to Albany, where he was again elected to represent this county in the state legislature. He joined the democratic party in 1818, and took ground against Governor Clinton. In 1823, he was appointed circuit judge for the circuit embracing Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, [Annals, x.]

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and some other counties. After filling this office for several years, he removed to the city of New York, and was appointed president of Columbia college. He was the author of a life of his ancestor, Lord Stirling, and of a work on constitutional jurisprudence. It was Judge Duer who presided at the trial of Jesse Strang, indicted for the murder of Whipple at Cherry Hill, in the spring of 1827....Benjamin C. Brainard died, aged 50.... Philo C. Hackley died, aged 76.

JUNE.

1. John Woodworth died, aged 89. He was a native of Columbia county, and received an education in Albany. under John Lovett. In 1791, immediately after his admission to the bar of the supreme court, he settled in Troy in the practice of the law. In that year the county of Rensselaer was taken from Albany and erected into a new county, and the little village of Troy, which had received its name only the year before, began to make some pretensions to rivalry with Lansingburgh, and contended with her for the courthouse, successfully, which was built in 1794. He was the first postmaster in Troy, and held the office about five years, until 1798 or 1799. In 1802 he was elected a member of the legislature, and in 1806 removed to Albany. In 1800 he was an elector of president and vice president, and was associated with William P. Van Ness in a revision of the laws of the state. In March, 1819, he was appointed by Gov. Clinton a judge of the supreme court, and remained on the bench until 1828, when it was assumed that he had reached the period in life at which the constitution interposed a disqualification; in reality he was but 57 instead of 60. He resisted this assumption, and a suit was pending at the time of his death to recover three years' salary. He had recently prepared an argument in an important case at law which had elicited the admiration of the whole bar. His active habits and temperate mode of life contributed to his good health, cheerfulness and longevity. Until a few weeks before his death his erect form and agile step

indicated a person but little past the middle age rather than one who had lived almost through a whole century.

Mrs. Susan Peterson died, aged 86. She was an aged colored woman, who for the past twenty-seven years had lived in the family of Mr. Rufus H. King of this city. Aunt Susan, as she was called by her many friends, was born in 1772. Her mother was a slave in the family of General Ten Broeck of this city, where the subject of this notice was born. As a little girl she remembered waiting upon General Washington at the house of General Ten Broeck, and retained a vivid recollection of the father of his country. At the age of 17, Aunt Susan became a member of the North Dutch church, then under the pastoral charge of Domine Westerlo. Of this church she remained a consistent and exemplary member during her long life. It was supposed that, at the time of her death, she was the oldest member of that congregation. Aunt Susan was once married. She raised a large family of children, but one of whom, however, a daughter, survived her. She was a woman possessing many virtues, and her memory will long live with those who visited the house of Mr. King..........A fire in First street, Arbor hill, destroyed a cabinet shop and the dwelling of Mrs. Griesman, who with her children narrowly escaped with their lives. Loss $1500; no insurance.

2. Jane C., wife of Nelson Bailey, died, aged 47. 3. Mrs. Mary Youds died, aged 47.

9. Benjamin Gibson died, aged 67....Mrs. Hannah Slingerland died, aged 47.

10. Azor Taber, a distinguished counselor at law, died, aged 60. He came to this city in 1824, and was some time a law partner of Jabez D. Hammond. In 1827 he took an active part in the reelection of John Quincy Adams to the office of president, and wrote for the Albany Morning Chronicle. He was senator in 1852 and 1853, which were the only civil offices he filled; but was noted for his industry and ability as a legal practitioner, during a residence of nearly a quarter of a century. In 1854 he retired from business and resided in Knox, the town of