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BOUND VOLUMES, August 29, 2013 200 YEARS AGO To Supervisors – As it is believed that much inequality has hitherto existed in the system of Taxation in this county, owing to the disproportionate rules which have been adopted by the Assessors of the different towns in the valuation of Real and Personal Estates; and, as the time is now arriving when our taxes are likely to be so much increased as to render it more necessary that their weight should…

BOUND VOLUMES, September 25, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Alarming!! – Noah Preston, an inhabitant of Camden, in the County of Oneida, being subject to turns of mental derangement, on Saturday, the 11th inst., left his home and family, and after strolling around the fields and woods of his own town, was at last recognized by an old acquaintance, on Oneida Creek, near Oneida Castle, on the same night, and since which time he has not been seen or heard of.…

BOUND VOLUMES, October 3, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from the London Pilot of March 20, 1813: We lament, most deeply, to state that another British frigate, the Java, has been taken by the American frigate Constitution. The mourning of our hearts, which commenced on the first capture of a British ship by an American, has been rendered more melancholy, by every successive instance. Not a single American frigate has struck her flag – they insult and laugh at our…

BOUND VOLUMES, October 31, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Village Ordinance – Whereas the present law for the restraining of Swine within the Village of Cooperstown has proved ineffectual from the difficulty of discovering the owners of the Swine with which the streets are infested, for remedy whereof, Be it ordained by the Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown, That it shall and may be lawful for any of the inhabitants residing within the said village to distrain any hog, shoat…

BOUND VOLUMES, December 19, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement: Information Wanted – On Monday, the 13th inst. Luther Gains left his home near the Union Cotton Factory, in Hartwick, to transact some little business in Cooperstown, and has not since been heard of; the anxiety of his family at his absence is therefore very great. He is about 46 years of age, of a light complexion, and has a large mole on his left cheek; he wore away a black…

BOUND VOLUMES, January 23, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Report from Congress – House of Representatives, Friday, January 7, 1814: Mr. Wheaton, of Massachusetts, presented a petition of Paul Cuffee, a free colored man, who states, that from the motives of religion and humanity he has been induced to attempt the civilization of the inhabitants of the African continent, and praying permission for a vessel to depart from the United States to Sierra Leone for the purpose of carrying a number…

BOUND VOLUMES, February 20, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from a letter written by Marringui Velaverde, a woman residing at St.Sebastian, Cuba, regarding atrocities committed by British and Portuguese troops who ransacked the city: “On the 31st of August, (1813) at 4 o’clock p.m., the Anglo-Portuguese troops took possession of the city. The inhabitants who at first had appeared at their windows and upon their balcony’s to hail the arrival of those whom they considered as their deliverers, were no…

BOUND VOLUMES, February 27, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Maple Sugar – The sap begins to run – farmers, look out. It is all important that every effort should be made to obtain a national supply the present year, from our own resources. One of the principle obstacles heretofore has been the loss of sap, trouble and inconvenience, from the awkward machines for catching it, or buckets which are too expensive. To remedy both, make your troughs of white birch bark,…

BOUND VOLUMES, March 6, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Editorial Card – S.R. Brown, the late Editor of the Saratoga Patriot, an eccentric and versatile being, yet firm and persevering in his purposes, when powerful incentives stimulate to exertion, respectfully informs the American people, from St. Croix to Sabine, from the Atlantic to the wilds of Louisiana, that, life, health and contingencies permitting, he will on Monday, the 28th of February, instant, issue from the press of Mssrs.E. and F. Hosford,…

BOUND VOLUMES, March 13, 2014 200 YEARS AGO “Geographic & Military Museum” We have received the first number of a paper published in Albany, by Samuel R. Brown, under this title. We would recommend it to the attention of the public as worthy of patronage. In the meantime, we give our readers his very eccentric Dedication. “To the brave and patriotic, who are willing to expend blood or treasure in defence of the Republic; no matter in what state or…