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Title |
Poll list kept at the General Election held in Dist. No 1. |
Collection Name |
Richmond County Public Records |
Date |
November 5, 1844 |
Description |
This is an individual item contained within archival collection MS236. This document is a list of voters in an election held in the Town of Southfield in Richmond County (Staten Island), New York. It is handwritten on a large sheet of paper folded in half to form four pages. The first page is headed: "Poll list kept at the General Election / held in Dist. No 1. Town of Southfield on the / 5th day of Nov. 1844." The list is divided into columns; from left, there is a column of numbers, followed by columns headed "Names of Voters", "State", and "Electors". The list includes 124 voters; last names include: Hall, Crips, Miller, Dissosway, Stilwell, Mersereau, Marsh, Tysen, Clawson, Cubberly, Crop, Stephens, Housman, Auten, Marsh, Garretson, Hillyer, Guyon, Vanderbilt, Wendling, Layden, Clifford, Cole, Egbert, Betts, Burger, Perine, Vreeland, Reid, Noble, Cristopher, Corsen, Jacobson, Williams, Lewis, Foster, Ward, Barton, Seguine, Ackerly, McLean, Parkinson, Roger, Van Pelt, Bedell, Haughwout, Rowes, Taylor, Gilmore, Randolph, Van Clief, Perry, Sharrot, Johnson, Beatty, Burgher, Donnelly, Clark, Poillon, Colon, Lake, Racy, Mitchell, Barnes, Prior, Lytle, and Mundy. |
Biography and History |
This list records the names of people who voted in an election held on November 5, 1844, in the election district No. 1 in the town of Southfield, Staten Island. This district included the village of Richmond, and among the names on the list are several residents of houses that are now part of Historic Richmond Town, including Stephen Dover Stephens, Sr., of the Stephens-Black House and General Store. The columns at right indicate that each voter cast one ballot in the State election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and state legislators, and one ballot for the Electors for President of the United States. Poll lists were used to check that the total number of ballots in the ballot box was the same as the number of voters, and that no others had been added inappropriately. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |
Physical Extent |
12.625" H x 7.625" W (folded) |
Catalog Number |
X19.0255 |
Object Name |
Document |
Archival Description Level |
Item |
Parent Record |
MS236.000 |
Subjects |
Voting Political elections |
Earliest Date |
1844 |
Latest Date |
1844 |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Marsh, Lewis R. Stephens, Stephen Dover, Sr. Egbert, Cornelius Barton, Edward Perine Perine, Cornelius Lake Perine, Simon Swaime Perine, Joseph Edward Poillon, James Perine, Henry Van Pelt, Cavalier Noble, Edward Marsh, Isaac M. Mundy, Crowel Edwards, Webley J. Tysen, David Jaques, Sr. |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, August 2020. |