New York 1809 Assembly, New York County

Office:
Assembly (State)
Title:
Assemblyman
Jurisdiction:
State
Label:
New York 1809 Assembly, New York County
Date:
1809
State:
New York
Type:
General
Iteration:
First Ballot
Office/Role:
Assembly/Assemblyman
Candidates:
Thomas Farmer, Augustus Wright, Solomon Townsend, Samuel Latham Mitchill, Caleb Pell, Abraham D. Brouwer, Samuel Tooker, Ichabod Prall, Beekman M. Van Beuren, John P. Anthony, Adrian Hegeman, Edward Dunscomb, Nicholas Fish, Thomas Carpenter, Isaac Sebring, Samuel Stillwell, Jonas Mapes, Jacob Radcliff, Robert Morris, Jr., Thomas R. Mercein, Samuel Jones, Jr., Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Francis Coop, Ichabod Nincumpoop, Benjamin Silverheels, Thomas Carman, Archibald Davie, Diodorus Doughead, Thomas Mapes, Morris L. Martin, Tunis Milton, Thomas Morris, Jr., Matthew L. Passamaquoddy, Thomas Storm, George Suffran, Augustus Tooker, Charles Christian, Charles Clinton, Peter Curtenus, Jackass Doughead, Thomas Jefferson, Nap Judah, John D. Miller, Gurden S. Mumford, Matthias Nack, Richard Riker
Candidates: Thomas Farmer[1]Augustus Wright[2]Solomon Townsend[3]Samuel Latham Mitchill[4]Caleb Pell[5]Abraham D. Brouwer[6]Samuel Tooker[7]Ichabod Prall[8]Beekman M. Van Beuren[9]John P. Anthony[10]Adrian Hegeman[11]Edward DunscombNicholas FishThomas CarpenterIsaac SebringSamuel StillwellJonas MapesJacob RadcliffRobert Morris, Jr.Thomas R. MerceinSamuel Jones, Jr.Josiah Ogden HoffmanFrancis CoopIchabod NincumpoopBenjamin SilverheelsThomas CarmanArchibald DavieDiodorus DougheadThomas MapesMorris L. MartinTunis MiltonThomas Morris, Jr.Matthew L. PassamaquoddyThomas StormGeorge SuffranAugustus TookerCharles ChristianCharles ClintonPeter CurtenusJackass DougheadThomas JeffersonNap JudahJohn D. MillerGurden S. MumfordMatthias NackRichard Riker
Affiliation:RepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistRepublican
Final Result: [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]5026502550225009500350024995497549754973491949004894489048864875487348634857485248514839332111111111111111111111
New York County5026502550225009500350024995497549754973491949004894489048864875487348634857485248514839332111111111111111111111
City of New York----------------------------------------------
Ward One[27][28]327326327325326325332319319319317587582580582579575575570575577572------------------------
Ward Two[29]361367364366353355351356347356353600598604601594598594592592591589-2111111111111----------
Ward Three[30]413411413411407410406399412404390497495496493491488492489488490481311-----------1111111111
Ward Four[31]552555554554552550548547548546544588589587586587588586584584582584------------------------
Ward Five884881881877881880877875877875866682680679679678678675678676673676------------------------
Ward Six[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]549547546548547547546546547543546483484484484484484481483482482481------------------------
Ward Seven[39]710710709709708708708707708708685516516516516516516517516516515516------------------------
Ward Eight[40]511510510504510510508508507506504342345341342344340341342338341340------------------------
Ward Nine[41]139138138137138137138138134135138147147144146145145145146145145146------------------------
Ward Ten[42][43][44]580580580578581580581580576581576458458459457457454457457456455454------------------------

Notes:

[1]Elected.
[2]Elected.
[3]Elected.
[4]Elected.
[5]Elected.
[6]Elected.
[7]Elected.
[8]Elected.
[9]Elected.
[10]Elected.
[11]Elected.
[12]The Columbian Gazette (Utica, NY) uses the spelling Farmar for Thomas Farmer, Mitchell for Samuel L. Mitchill, and Hageman for Adrian Hegeman.
[13]The New-York Gazette and General Advertiser (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and the Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, use the spelling Stilwell for Samuel Stillwell.
[14]The Balance, and New-York State Journal (Albany, NY) reports 4886 votes for Isaac Sebring in New York County; however, the sum of totals per ward as it lists them is 4887.
[15]The Balance, and New-York State Journal (Albany, NY) reports 4811 votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman in New York County; however, the sum of totals per ward as it lists them is 4841.
[16]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), the Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, and the Columbian Gazette (Utica, NY) report 5027 votes for Thomas Farmer, 5002 votes for Caleb Pell, 4996 votes for Samuel Tooker, 4915 votes for Adrian Hegeman, 4889 votes for Thomas Carpenter, 4874 votes for Samuel Stillwell, 4872 votes for Jonas Mapes, 4853 votes for Robert Morris, Jr., 4841 votes for Samuel Jones, Jr. and 4833 votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman in New York County.
[17]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and the Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 4977 votes for John P. Anthony in New York County; however, the sum of totals per ward as they list them is 4976.
[18]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and the Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 4975 votes for Ichabod Prall in New York County; however, the sum of totals as they list them per ward is 4976.
[19]The Columbia Gazette (Utica, NY) reports 4977 votes for John P. Anthony, 4886 votes for Thomas Carpenter, and 4862 votes for Jonas Mapes in New York County.
[20]The New-York Gazette and General Advertiser (New York, NY) reports 4876 votes for Samuel Stillwell in New York County.
[21]The American Citizen (New York, NY) and Republican Watch-Tower (New York, NY) refer to the Republican ticket as the Passamaquoddy Ticket. The American Citizen (New York, NY) (of which the Republican Watch-Tower (New York, NY) was the country edition) had long been the only Republican newspaper in New York City. By the time of the 1808 presidential election, there was a new Republican newspaper, the Public Advertiser. The American Citizen (New York, NY) supported George Clinton for president, and the Public Advertiser supported James Madison. After Madison's election the American Citizen (New York, NY), and the Clintonians, became marginalized from the mainstream of the New York Republican party. Consequently, the American Citizen (New York, NY) did not consider the Republican slate of candidates in the 1809 elections to be Republicans. As explained in the May 2 edition of the American Citizen (New York, NY), they used the term Passamaquoddy as a reference to Madisonian Republican Matthew L. Davis, who was a supporter of the embargo against England, but whose business shipped goods to Passamaquoddy Bay in order to circumvent the embargo.
[22]"The American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore, MD) observes, that the republican majority in the city of New-York is not so great as was at first apprehended -- This is not owing to an increase of federalism in that city, but to dissentions in the republican ranks, the authors of which deserve the execration of every good man :-- for when united, the republicans of that city present a phalanx strong and impenetrable, against which the thousand attacks of opposition are spent in vain." Columbia Gazette (Utica, NY). May 16, 1809.
[23]"Grand Republican Sentiment. The New-York Aurora, speaking of the great falling off in the democratic ranks since the election of last year, expresses his attachment to the freedom of election in the following manner: 'Your ward committees have undoubtedly been much deceived in their calculations. Never before did they vary so widely from the actual result. Let us seek for the cause; and if it should be found to proceed from disaffection in our own ranks, let the indignant frown and vengeance of every true republican fall on the devoted head of each detected traitor!.'" The Balance, and New-York State Journal (Albany, NY). May 9, 1809.
[24]"The persons who by appointing this infamous committee, this diabolical inquisition, are guilty of an enormous outrage upon the community at large as well as upon the constitutions and laws of the union and the state, call themselves republicans! We are in such imminent danger of entirely losing sight of republican principles, that it may not be amiss very briefly to canvass the solidity of their pretensions to the character of republicans. Suffrage, or the right to vote, is the element of our republic. Next in value to this right is, the individual security with which we may exercise our judgements in discharging the duty of voting. If we are not permitted to vote, or not to vote according to our unbiassed judgements, we are not freemen; the right of suffrage, in this case, is a mockery.--If you tell me that I shall have the right to vote, and add that I shall vote, not according to my opinion but to yours, the right is of no value. In this case you cheat me with a show of freedom, while you withhold from me the substance." American Citizen (New York, NY). May 2, 1809.
[25]"A motion was made by Mr. Wortman, and carried unanimously, at the General Meeting of Friday evening last, to appoint a committee to enquire and report to the people what causes have produced the late unexpected and unexampled decline of our Republican majority. Strong, very strong suspicions are universally entertained. Our cause has been barely rescued from the devouring jaws of Federalism. Has there been treachery or not? Let strict justice prevail...Resolved, That a Committee of two persons from each Ward, be appointed to wait on the Inspectors, and procure information of the number of votes taken. The committee were accordingly appointed, who retired to make the enquiry, and soon returned with their reports; and, to the great joy of every Republican, the Chairman announced the Election of all our candidates, by an average majority of one hundred and twenty-six votes, as will appear by the following statement, the correctness of which may be relied on...The majority being smaller than usual the republicans present were of opinion that some of their pretended friends had not been true to the cause. It was therefore resolved, That John Haff, of the 1st ward; Peter Targee of the 2d ward; James Warner of the 3d Ward; John Targee, of the 4th ward; John W. Elsworth, of the 5th Ward; Clarkson Crolius, of the 6th ward; Abraham Dally, of the 7th ward; Nicholas Roome, of the 8th ward; W.A. Davis, of the 9th ward, and Tunis Wortman, of the 10th ward, be appointed a committee of investigation, who are requested to make immediate and diligent enquiry into the causes that have contributed to lessen the usual majority, and as soon as their enquiry is closed, to call a general meeting of the Republican citizens of the city and county of New York, and report to them the result, that the republicans may know WHO ARE THEIR FRIENDS AND WHO ARE THEIR ENEMIES!!" New York Aurora (New York, NY). May 2, 1809.
[26]"Nearly six hundred votes were given last year for the republican ticket more than are given this for the Passamaquoddy one. So much for Jacobinical denunciation and outrage--for disregard of republican principles, and for execrable proscriptions, and perhaps above all, for permitting the worst men of the republican parpty, (if such men can be called republicans) to govern the best. If your Humberts and your Bloodgoods, your John Haffs and your Ichabod Nincompoops, your Jemmy Townsends and your Targees, be not driven back to that obscure place which God and nature designed for them, and compelled to do neither more nor less than merely to vote for the ticket which shall be offered to them, there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us, that they will ruin the republican party. There is no depth of humiliation and disgrace to which the 'United Whig Club' may sink, (and it has a peculiar faculty that way) that can save it." American Citizen (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.
[27]The Balance, and New-York State Journal (Albany, NY) reports 583 votes for Isaac Sebring in Ward One.
[28]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 328 votes for Thomas Farmer, 328 votes for Solomon Townsend, 320 votes for John P. Anthony, 316 votes for Adrian Hegeman, 579 votes for Thomas Carpenter, 578 votes for Samuel Stilwell, and 573 votes for Samuel Jones, Jr. in Ward One.
[29]Beekman M. Van Beuren received 1 vote as Beerman M. Van Beuren.
[30]Ichabod Nincumpoop received 1 vote as Ichabod Nincompoo
[31]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 580 votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman in Ward Four.
[32]In Ward Six, 32 votes for Federalist candidate Josiah O. Hoffman were at first set aside from the votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman. They were later added to the votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman, giving him a total of 484 in the ward and 4873 votes in the city and county.
[33]The Balance, and New-York State Journal (Albany, NY) reports 452 votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman in Ward Six.
[34]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 546 votes for Caleb Pell, 547 votes for Samuel Tooker, 546 votes for John P. Anthony, 548 votes for Adrian Hegeman, and 483 votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman in Ward Six.
[35]"In this ward the Inspectors returned 32 votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman as scattering because his name was written on the tickets thus -- 'Josiah O. Hoffman;' while the same Inspectors canvassed the votes of Samuel L. Mitchell, just as well as if it had been Samuel Latham Mitchill." New-York Herald (New York, NY), May 3, 1809; and, Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY), May 1, the latter of which adds: "The total of legal votes given to Mr. Hoffman, should therefore be 4873."
[36]"In this ward the Inspectors returned 32 votes for Josiah Ogden Hoffman as scattering because his name was written on the tickets thus -- 'Josiah O. Hoffman;' while, it is alledged, but I know nothing of the fact, the same Inspectors canvassed the votes of Samuel L. Mitchell, as if it had been Samuel Latham Mitchill." American Citizen (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.
[37]"The 6th Ward can produce a republican majority of 350 votes ; the majority now given in that ward for the Passamaquoddy ticket is 65. Two hundred staunch republicans of the old school were inflexibly determined not to vote. On the last day, a few republicans nearly equally resolved, voted reluctantly and against their consciences for the flour ticket, merely to enable themselves to say that the opposite one had not succeeded. These gentlemen hold completely the balance of power, and if they do not compel their tyrannical opposers to respect them, they will deserve to be trampled under foot. But they know their rights and will maintain them." American Citizen (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.
[38]"In the 6th Ward, always patriotic, always true and steady to republian principles, the following vote was given. 'Long file to George Clinton.' Amen, say I, to that sweet prayer." American Citizen (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.
[39]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 707 votes for John P. Anthony in Ward Seven.
[40]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 340 votes for Jonas Mapes in Ward Eight.
[41]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 139 votes for Ichabod Pratt in Ward Nine.
[42]The Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY) and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 2, report 456 votes for Nicholas Fish in Ward Ten.
[43]The New York Aurora (New York, NY), The Public Advertiser (New York, NY), and Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY), May 3, report 583 votes for Solomon Townsend in Ward Ten.
[44]"It is believed, that in consequence of an illegality on the part of the inspectors of the Tenth ward, the votes of that ward will be set aside. If so the federal ticket will be elected." The New-York Gazette and General Advertiser (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.

References:

New-York Evening Post (New York, NY). April 29, 1809.
American Citizen (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.
Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.
The New-York Gazette and General Advertiser (New York, NY). May 1, 1809.
American Citizen (New York, NY). May 2, 1809.
Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY). May 2, 1809.
New-York Aurora (New York, NY). May 2, 1809.
The Public Advertiser (New York, NY). May 2, 1809.
Republican Watch-Tower (New York, NY). May 2, 1809.
Mercantile Advertiser (New York, NY). May 3, 1809.
New-York Herald (New York, NY). May 3, 1809.
The Balance, and New-York State Journal (Albany, NY). May 9, 1809.
Columbian Gazette (Utica, NY). May 16, 1809.

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