Jan 1
Total state canal debt reaches $7,706,013, which
includes construction costs on the Cayuga, Oswego and Seneca canals. ** Lodi farmer Philip S. Lott
begins keeping an account book; he will make entries for more than fifty years.
Feb 3
Cohocton's Congregational Church, built on land
donated by deacon Thomas Crosby, is dedicated.
Feb 13
Livingston County judge and congressional delegate
Moses Hayden dies in Albany in his mid-forties.
Feb 14
Canandaigua lawyer and politician Edwin Hicks is born
in Bristol, New York.
Mar 24
The Buffalo Journal and General Advertiser announces that businessman Nathaniel Rathbun will
build the local headquarters of the Bank of the United States branch, at Main
and South Division streets
Mar 25
The Oswego County town of Amboy is formed from the
Town of Williamstown.
Mar 26
Joseph Smith begins selling The Book of Mormon in Palmyra’s Grandin Building bookstore, where
the translation was printed.
Apr 6
The Mormon church (Church of Latter Day Saints) is
organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. in Fayette, near Cayuga Lake. Hyrum Smith,
schoolteacher Oliver Cowdery, David and Peter Whitmer, and Samuel H. Smith
comprise the founding committee. **
The electors of Canadice convene for the first time and elect town officers.
Apr 7
The Livingston County Bank opens in Geneseo,
capitalized at $100,000.
Apr 11
Refinery operator Hiram Bond Everest is born in
Pike.
Apr 16
Lawyer Sherman Skinner Rogers is born in Buffalo
to Gustavas Adolphus Rogers and Susan Ann Campbell Rogers.
May 9
The Rochester-built steam-powered canal boat Novelty, recently towed on the Erie Canal to Utica to be
fitted out with its engines, passes through to Lake Ontario on the Oswego
Canal.
May 16
Stock subscriptions for the Bank of Buffalo are
opened to the public at the Eagle Tavern. Capitalized at $200,000, within two
weeks $1,654,250 is subscribed.
Jul 12
Very heavy rain begins falling in western New
York, continues through the next morning.
Jul 13
The heavy rains cause a break in the Erie Canal in
Bushnell's Basin near Pittsford's Grand Embankment . A culvert gives way a
mile-and-a-half west of Pittsford and damage is done at Fairport.
Jul 25
Rochester optics manufacturer John Jacob Bausch is
born in Gross Suessin, Germany.
Aug 24
Englsih traveler John Fowler tours Auburn Prison,
goes on the visit the village, after having breakfast back at the hotel. He
boards the stage and travels on to Cayuga, where they pass over the northern
end of Cayuga Lake on the rickety wooden bridge, and continue on to the
villages of Seneca Falls, Waterloo and Geneva. After looking around he contnues
on to Canandaigua, arriving between eight and nine in the evening. He stays at
Blossoms Hotel.
Aug 25
Fowler tours the village before breakfast. He goes
on by stage, wagon, and on foot through Victor, Minden, Pittsford and
Henrietta, arriving in Rochester late in the day.
Aug 26
Fowler tours the city, sees the spot where Sam
Patch jumped, visits the market, then takes the stage to Geneseo, arriving
around five PM. That evening he walks around down on the flats of the Genesee
River.
Aug 27
After an unusually cold night Fowler awakes to
dense fog. He leaves by carriage for Avon, arriving to find all that day’s
coaches to the west have left. He spends some time hunting with the landlord’s
son. The also visit a recently discovered mineral spring.
Aug 28
Fowler encounters a dumb-waiter for the first time
at his inn. He travels through Caledonia, Le Roy, Stafford, Batavia, Alexander,
Pembroke, Alden and Clarence, arriving in Buffalo, and putting up for the night
at E. Powell’s Buffalo House.
Aug 29
Fowler encounters occasional rain. He explores the
Erie Canal within the city.
Aug 30
Fowler goes swimming in Lake Erie at five AM,
later visits the nearby Seneca village. He takes a stage to Table Rock at the
Falls. He takes the trip behind them, is given a certificate by his guide. He
then travels to Queenstown, Ontario, crossesd the Niagara River to Lewistown
(Lewiston). ** The play Is He Jealous? is performed in Buffalo.
Aug 31
Fowler takes a stage back to Rochester, passing
through and commenting on, Lockport.
Oct 24
Attorney Belva Ann Bennett (Lockwood) is born in Royalton.
Ira Carpenter builds a wooden bridge at the Cox
Ferry site on the Genesee River near Rush. ** Batavia editor Frederick Follett merges his Spirit
of the Times with Daniel P.
Adams' People's Press. ** The Republican Aegis and
Allegany Democrat is published at
Angelica. ** British actor Tyrone Power visits
America, tours upstate.
** A
tavern is built at Gainesville, near Warsaw. ** Hamilton businessman Lathrop S. Bacon
moves to Le Roy with his father, soon opens a general merchandise store. ** Vincent, a hamlet in the
town of Bristol, becomes the largest processor of mutton in the country for the
next twenty years, gaining the nickname Muttonville. ** The population of the Ontario County Town
of Canadice peaks at 1,386. By 1890 it is down to 730 people. Orleans County's
population has risen to 17,632, over twice as many people as in 1820. ** A total of $1,066,922 in
tolls is collected on the state's canals. ** This year state ports clear 280,918 tons of
domestic goods and 33,797 tons of foreign goods. ** The town of Mendon's population climbs to
1,922. * State courts convictions
for the year total 1,058.
** A state loan
of $500,000 from 1786, distributed back then among a dozen counties, is
retired. ** The registration of steam
vessels for foreign trade is begun. ** The first church in the Allegany County town of
Allen is founded, by the Presbyterians. ** Seneca chief Sa-go-ye-wath-a (Red Jacket) dies,
in his early seventies.
** The last
wolf is killed in Monroe County. ** The Cohocton school district votes to spend
$2.00 to repair the schoolhouse. Firewood is put out to bid at 81¢ a cord. ** A 35-foot-high, natural
gas-powered lighthouse, the first to be so operated, is built On Lake Erie at
Barcelona Harbor south of Fredonia. ** Young Mendon farmer Brigham Young sees a copy of
the Book of Mormon for the first time. ** The approximate date the nearby Methodist Church
in the Log Meeting House moves closer to Gorham. ** The First Methodist Episcopal Church in
Wellsville is organized.
** The
approximate date William Bradley opens a blacksmith shop in Elba. ** The approximate date
Orleans area farmer Ezra Jones adds a kitchen to his farmhouse. ** Jonas Baldwin and John
McHarrie complete their Seneca River gristmill. ** Overland travel time to Chicago is about
three weeks. ** 188,610 men are currently
enrolled in the state militia. ** The approximate date Fortunatus Gleason and his
son Charles open a pottery and tile factory in Stafford. ** Beach’s four-story,
stone mill is built in Port Byron on the mill race paralleling the Owasco Lake
Outlet creek. ** The approximate date future
diarist Mary Thorn’s family moves from the Saratoga region to the town of
Chili. ** Civil War nurse Sarah Graham Palmer (Young)
is born in Ithaca.
** Over the
past decade Albany’s population has gained 96%, Buffalo’s 314%, Utica’s 183%,
Rochester’s 512% and Syracuse’s
282%. ** Newfane’s eight school
districts teach 370 children – cost $427.10.
Buffalo
A population of 8,653 climbs to 15,661 by year's
end. ** The approximate date
Augustus Porter, brother of General Peter B. Porter, builds a house at the intersection of Amherst and East
streets. ** Lawyer Joseph Clary marries
Maria Theresa Rathbun, daughter of New York City businessman Samuel Rathbun.
The bride is a first cousin of Buffalo businessmen Benjamin and Lyman Rathbun. ** Lyman Rathbun and two
other men are taken to court, accused of abducting and assaulting a local
grocer. ** Millard Fillmore returns
from his term as state assemblyman to resume his law practice with Clary. He
moves to Buffalo.
** Over the
past five years the Federal government has spent $71,000 on harbor improvements,
including replacing wood in the works with stone. ** The approximate date the Pioneer Line, a
passenger and mail stage service between Buffalo and Albany not running on
Sundays, goes out of business. ** The Bank of Buffalo is founded. Israel T. Hatch,
half-brother of governor Enos Troop, is named commissioner to the bank, along
with David E. Evans, Pierre A. Barker, Guy E. Goodrich, and Stephen G. Austin.
Canandaigua
The approximate date a house built by Augustus
Porter at North Main Street and Scotland Road is moved to 91 Gibson
Street. ** Pomeroy and Bull’s
steam-powered flour mill is destroyed by fire.
Erie Canal
Clearances through the Buffalo harbor double over
those of 1826.
Pittsford
Population: 1,831, up from 1,582 in 1820. ** A home is built on the
future Monroe Avenue for general store owner Ira Buck. ** A house is built on the west side of the first block of South
Main Street for the Newcomb family, owners of a mortuary.
Rochester
The population reaches 10,863, making it the 21st
largest city in the country. In New England only four cities are larger; five
in the southern U.S. are bigger. **
Businessman Edwin Scrantom and his wife join Brick Presbyterian Church.
He writes about a number of travelers who have come to see the aqueduct. ** John Chattin purchases 55 acres of former
Iroquois land south of the city for $660 from a speculator. ** The evangelist Charles
Grandison Finney brings revivalism to the city. Thousands come to hear him; 635
join the city's three Presbyterian churches; 203 join the First Baptist Church;
the Methodists build a church with seating capacity of 2,000. ** William A. Reynolds and
Michael Bateham start the city's first seed business at the corner of Sophia
and Buffalo Streets.
** The Tinker
family builds a home on their Henrietta farm property. ** William Alling begins
working for Quaker stationer and bookseller Elihu Marshall as an office
boy. ** The city has 188 churches.
Well over 50% of the population attend services. ** Newspaper editor Thurlow Weed move to Albany.
Skaneateles
Skaneateles breaks away from Marcellus. Its
population reaches 1,000.
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