Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . nondaga, the Reservation and Otisco, and on the south by Otisco, Tully,and Fabius. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Marie Jean PaulRoch Yves Gilbert Motier La Fayette, the distinguished general, andfriend of Washington during the Revolutionary war, who visited theOnondaga coimtry in June, 1825. The first town meeting was held at the house of Johnson Hall in LaFa3^ette village, on March 14, 1826, thirteen months after the passageof the foregoing act, and Charles Jackson acted as chairman. The first officers elected were: Charles Jackson, supe
Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . nondaga, the Reservation and Otisco, and on the south by Otisco, Tully,and Fabius. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Marie Jean PaulRoch Yves Gilbert Motier La Fayette, the distinguished general, andfriend of Washington during the Revolutionary war, who visited theOnondaga coimtry in June, 1825. The first town meeting was held at the house of Johnson Hall in LaFa3^ette village, on March 14, 1826, thirteen months after the passageof the foregoing act, and Charles Jackson acted as chairman. The first officers elected were: Charles Jackson, supervi-sor; Johnson Hall, town clerk; Epenetvis Hoyt, GeorgeNorthway, and Thomas Newell, assessors; David Campbell, Freeman Northway,and Nathaniel Sterling, commissioners of highways; Willard Farrington and Eben-ezer Coleman, overseers of the poor; Noah Hoyt, jr., Asa Farrington, and FreemanNorthway, constables; Asa Farrington, collector; Ezra Dyer, Chauncey Williams,and John Spencer, commissioners of common schools; Pitt Dyer, Rial Wright, and. S. H. CLARK. THE TOWN OF LA FAYETTE. 971 George Nol•th\va3^ inspectors of common schools; Cornelius Vandeuburg, John , Edmund Morse, James Gould, Erastus Baker, Ebenezer Coleman, Joseph , John P. King, Charles Jackson, 2d, Charles Johnson, Hiram Gilbert, GeorgeNorthway, Harry Avery, Charles I. Davis, John Talbot, William Westcott, AnsonW. Jackson, Ichabod Smith, Grandus Cuddeback, Harry Reed, Joseph Ackles, Sam-uel Hoyt, Ira Dodge, Simeon Larkin, William Dean, John Sniffen, John Whitney,Levi Mayhew, and Thomas C. SatYord, overseers of highways. These names sug^^est many prominent early spttlers, not hithertomentioned, while the subseqtient list of supervisors contains others ofecpial worth and enterprise. At this meeting the town voted $300 forthe support of the poor and $200 for the support of common schools,and designated Ebenezer Coleman as poundkeeper. At the next townmeeting, and for several years thereafter but $150 wer
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