Listing ofUnusual Happenings page 2

1819 Thief breaks into a shop and wash house at 2d Family and steals articles amounting to $40.
May Caught/ tried, sentenced to 5 years/ put on boat tobe taken to prison/ but at night he and
and another convicted criminal jump overboard/ both drown and their bodies come to shore.

1819 BadFire in Schenectady. New Lebanon and Watervliet send 8 wagonlogds of provisions.
Dec

4 April Legislature removes $4 fine.

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1820 Fire In Troy. New Lebanon and Watervliet send 4 wagonloads; Canterbury and New
July Enfield send $500; Hancock/ Enfield and Tyringham send 4 wagonloads.

1798 Believers at New Lebanon, Watervliet/ Hancock and Tyringham sent 27 wagonloads of
Nov provisions and $300 in cash for relief of poor/ widowed and fatherless in New York City
because of yellow fever epidemic.

1815 "Stephen Wells is summoned to appear abefore three justicesin Albany to answer to a com-
26 Aug. plaint In a case of two little childrenwhp^Hcass stated by their mother/ were shamefully
abused. The case is decided in favor of the mother of the children. Stephen app^eals to
the County Court in October,
In October/ Stephen's appeal is brought forward and the first judgment confirmed by a
majority of the judges altho opposed by the rest, By virtue of a writ ofcertiorari itis
carried into the Supreme Coust and there decided in favor of Stephen Wells/ the respondent."

1810 "Hannah McDole/ the mother of John and Hugh/ being taken sick/ the boys were sent for
Dec. to goto Albany and see her; but she is deceased before they arrive. Their father and uncle
secrete them in Albany a few days and then privately convey them to the westward/ in direct
opposition to their own feelings. After a short time/ two of the brethren with the assistance
of two constables from Albany/ go in search after then/ and in a short time find and bring
them home. Soon after this/ a lawsuit is commenced/ under pretence of their being held in
bondage by their guardians. This suit was finally decided in the Supreme Court/ which re-
leased the boys from their father and uncle and to remain peaceably with their guardians
whom they themselves chose. This so enraged the McDoles that they/ in company with a
number of Irishmen/ assembled twice in the streets of Al banyin a moblike manner to take
the boys by force. However/ in thisattempt they were defeated by assistance of the sheriff
and the boys peaceably returned home where they remain to this day."