1827
Jan 17
The Commissioners for building a
New Prison at Sing Sing submit a report to the state legislative committee,
detailing expenditures for 1825 of $24,889.21.
February
Harvard student James Wadsworth,
of Geneseo, is threatened with expulsion, for illegal dress, for the second
time.
Mar 15
Rochesterville High School opens,
the city's first.
Apr 4
Owego, the county seat of Tioga
County, is incorporated.
Apr 7
The village of Pittsford is
incorporated.
Apr 16
The Onondaga County Town of Clay
is taken off the Town of Cicero. ** The Cassadaga Navigation Company is organized,
capitalized at $20,000, to improve Cassadaga Creek. It’s never done.
Apr 22
Lawyer, soldier, businessman
Augustus Sacket, 59, dies suddenly at Albany, en route from his home in
Newburgh to his former property at Sackets Harbor.
May
Alvah Plumb builds the Chautauqua, the first steamboat on the lake
of the same name.
** State
representative David E. Evans resigns to become local agent for the Holland Land
Company.
May 2
Jacob S. Otto, resident agent of
the Holland Land Company, dies. He will be succeeded by David S. Evans, nephew
of Joseph Ellicott and former accounting clerk at the land office.
May 17
Rochesterville banker John T.
Talman, marries Maria Antoinette Livingston, daughter of New York City
architect Henry Gilbert Livingston, in Rochesterville's St. Luke's Church.
Jun 30
The Chautauqua undergoes trials.
Jul 4
New York State officially
abolishes slavery. 10,000 slaves are freed. Resistance is strong in agricultural New
Utrecht (Brooklyn) and other towns where a large part of the farm laborers are
black slaves. ** The Chautauqua goes into service, with John T.
Wills as captain.
Aug 5
Onondaga County pioneer,
saltmaker and politician Comfort Tyler dies at his home in Montezuma.
Aug 9
Nevada congressman William M.
Stewart is born in Galen.
Sep 8
The Michigan, with live animals aboard, is
sent over Niagara Falls as a stunt.
Sep 19
James Wadsworth returns to
Harvard.
Sep 22
The date that Joseph Smith says
he unearthed the Book of Mormon, at Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra.
Oct 1
Riga’s schoolhouse opens.
Oct 2
Harvard president John Thornton
Kirkland writes to James Wadsworth's father James advising him that the son is
wasting his time at Harvard and should be removed.
Oct 17
James Wadsworth's father writes
to him, urging to either apologize to Kirkland and reform or return home in
disgrace.
Oct 22
The elder Wadsworth once again
admonishes his son, in a letter, to knuckle down.
Nov 1
The contract on Riga’s
schoolhouse is paid off - $157.50.
December
The weekly Brockport Free
Press - founded
by Abiathar M. Harris and Thomas H. Hyatt - begins publication.
State
A tavern is built in
Caledonia. ** The Angelica Republican is revived as the Allegany Republican, with Samuel P. Hull as its
publisher. ** W. W. Phelps begins
publishing the Anti-masonic Canandaigua Phoenix. R. Royce soon buys it and
changes the name to the Freeman.
** Marine and
missionary Jonathan Goble is born in Wayne. ** The steamboat comes to Canandaigua Lake with the
launching of the Lady of the Lake.
** The town of
Sennett is taken off of the Cayuga County town of Brutus. ** Nehemiah Houghton purchases
the American Hotel boarding house at Avon's sulphur springs. ** The Ithaca Journal adds Literary Gazette, and
General Advertiser
to its title. ** Over the past 30 years
3,879 people have been incarcerated in state prisons. 1,262 have served their
sentences, 3,160 have been pardoned and 25 have escaped. 348 have been moved to
other facilities and 765 have died. ** The Owego Academy is founded. ** Mehitable Kellogg
Fairbank of Williamstown, Massachusetts, travels by Erie Canal to Lyons, and by
stage to Sodus, to visit her parents Nathaniel and Mehitable Kellogg. She
decides to stay; her husband Stephen and daughter Cordelia arrive soon
afterwards. ** A house is built at 81
Genesee Street in Skaneateles, supposedly by lawyer Freeborn Garrison Jewett. ** Geneseo's Temple Hill
Academy is incorporated under the name Livingston County High School., the
county's first.
** Land
speculators begin attempts to wrest more land west of Batavia from the
Iroquois. ** Over 50,000 acres of reservation
land owned by the Seneca Indians until last year goes on the market. ** John Nutt buys 160 acres
one mile west of Branchport, part of the Beddoe Tract. He hires Simon Cole to
build a road past his property into Pulteney. ** More steamboats, dubbed the Great White
Fleet, begin servicing Chautauqua Lake. ** Farmer-soldier Hiram Allen is born in Burns. ** Seventeen-year-old Orson
Fowler leaves Cohocton, walks the 400 miles to Heath, Massachusetts, to study
under the Reverend Moses Miller of the First Congregational Church. ** The approximate date
Stephen Baldwin builds a mill on the Erie Canal at Baldwinsville. ** A state law is passed
to promote the training of teachers. ** Combined revenue from the Erie and Champlain
canals totals $859,058.
** The office
of Adjutant General is created; military commissions are no longer issued by
the Secretary of State.
** Elija T.
Miller takes over the Scottsville public house owned by James Brown – later the
Oatka Inn - adds a rear section to the building. ** Pittsford pioneer, mill owner and school
commisioner Jared Barker dies. ** George Washington Millener and others purchase
David Johnson’s dry dock in Port Byron. ** Cattaraugus County is surveyed. The future
Town of Lyndon is divided into
four equal parts – Over North; Down on the Flats; West of the Center; Over South – the intersection being
called Lyndon Center. A general store opens in the Center.
Batavia
Bissell Humphrey, landlord of the
Genesee House, buys the site and erects a new tavern. ** The approximate date Libbeus Fish builds a
malt house-brewery.
Buffalo
Businessman Benjamin Rathbun is
elected a village trustee.
** The late
Seth Chapin, a member of the Masons, is accused of being implicated in the
murder of William Morgan. Nothing is ever proven. ** Use of the harbor doubles. ** Peter B. Porter, Reuben
Heacock, and other investors organize the Buffalo Hydraulic Association to
create power from the three-mile canal between Buffalo Creek and Little Buffalo
Creek. ** Sylvanus Marvin, owner of
the local franchise for the failing Old Line mail service to Albany, sells to
Auburn inn owner Chauncey H. Coe, who hires Edward L. Stevenson as his local
agent, then returns home.
** Chauncey's
brother Bela makes a down payment on the Mansion House. ** The Buffalo High School
Association, organized during a meeting at the Eagle Tavern, begins a campaign
to raise funds.
Connewango
Tavernkeeper James Blanchard builds a hotel in Rutledge, the
first frame public-house in the settlement. ** While their parents are away from their cabin,
the children of settler John Towers feed two “black dogs” through the
homestead’s fence. The dogs out to be bear cubs. The cubs and their mother are
later killed by Towers.
**
Connecticut-born Genesee County resident Nathan Snow arrives. He clears
timber, cuts logs and builds a house in a week’s time. ** Settler Job Gardner arrives
from Coxsackie, New York.
** Settlers
Freeborn Fairbanks and Alden Childs arrive.
Le Roy
Pioneer Charles Wilbor moves to
Milan, Ohio.
Rochesterville
The population nears 10,000. .
There are no adult natives. The oldest person born in the village is 16 years
old. ** A platform is built over the Genesee River to provide
space for a farmer's market.
** The house of
hardware merchant Ebenezer Watts is completed. ** The city has eight boat basins on the Erie Canal
- Warehouse, Washington, Fisher's Screw Dock, Fitzhugh's, Ely's, Child's,
Hill's (Johnson's) and Gilbert's. ** An African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church is
built at Ford and Spring streets. ** The village's first directory is published. ** Miller, banker and
speculator James Livingston builds a home in the city's soon-to-be-fashionable
Third Ward. ** Abolitionist bookseller
Samuel B. Porter moves here.
** Alexander
Street and Pennsylvania Street (now South Union) are completed from the Erie
Canal north to East Avenue. Wadsworth Street (later Howell Street) is laid out
on Wadsworth lands.
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