A BRIEF

TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL

MANUAL

OF THE

STATE OF NEW-YORK:

EXHIBITING

The Situation and Boundaries of the several Counties-the Cities, Towns, Mountfins,
Lakes, Rivers, Creeks, &c. in each-the Villages, and other places within the
limits of each Town-distances from the Seat of Government, &c.

AND DESIGNATING

The paincipal Places and the seat of the Courts, &c. in each County-the places in which
Post-Offices are kept the Incorporated Villages, &c.

SECOND EDITION-ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

CONTAINING, also,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND CANALS;

THE

Population of each Town and County-the situation of the FINANCES,
PROPERTY, and other Publick Concerns of the State-with
much other Statistical matter.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY E. BLISS AND E. WHITE,
No. 128 Broadway.

PRINTED BY D. FANSHAW,

No. 20 Slote-Lane.

1822.

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HARVARD COLLEGE

NOV 4 1916

LIBRARY Bright fund

EXPLANATION.

1. The column under the word "Towns" contains all the towns legally constituted and incorporated in the county.

2. The column under the words "VILLAGES, &c." contains the villages and other places (if any) in the county, placed against the town, within the limits of which they are situated.

3. The figures next on the right hand of the towns show the number of inhabitants in such towns.

4. The figure 1 at the left hand of a town, village, or other place, in either column, shows that to be the most considerable place in the county-figure 2 the next and figure 3 the next, in like order :-taking into consideration, as well the situation and publick business, as the wealth, populousness, buildings, accommodations, and trade of such place.

5. This mark "[inc.]" placed at the right hand of a village, shows it to be incorporated, and declared such by law.

6. The other names in the column headed “VILLAGES and other places,” which are printed in Italick letters, are the names of considerable compact settlements, considered and known by common consent and custom as Villages, though not declared such by law.

7. COURTS. The places where the Courts are held in each county are designated by an asterisk, thus “*,” placed immediately on the right hand of such places.

8. CLERKS' OFFICES of the several counties are usually kept at one or the other of the shire or court towns:** But where it is known they are not, the place where they are kept is designated by the letters "(C. C. O.)” placed next on the right hand of such place.

9. POST-OFFICES are kept at those places which have a dagger, thus "," placed also on their right hand,

10. The figures of the last column, on the right hand of the whole page, express the number of miles the place against which they are set is distant from ALBANY, the SEAT of GOVERNMENT-reckoning on the shortest practicable travelling route.

[See INDEX at the end.]

District of New-York, ss.

BE

E IT REMEMBERED, That on the 28th day of February, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, STERLING GOODENOW, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "A brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of New-York: exhibiting the Situation and Boundaries of the several Counties-The Cities, Towns, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks, &c. in each-The Villages and other places within the limits of each town-Distances from the Seat of Government, &c.-And designating the principal places, and the seat of the Courts, &c. in each county-The places in which Post-Offices are kept-The incorporated Villages, &c. Second Edition, enlarged and improved--Containing, also, an account of the grand Canals: the population of each town and county: the situation of the Finances, Property, and other publick concerns of the State; with much other Statistical matter."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned;" And also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints."

JAMES DILL, Clerk of the District of New-York.