Taken from a clipping in the Folklife Center at Crandall Library, Glens Falls, NY.


PATRIOT FUND

1861

"From Glens Falls Paper 1861" is hand-written at the top of the document.



Subscriptions pledged for the support of the families of Volunteers who go to "maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union and the perpetuity our Government":


A. Sherman

$500.00

 

Bro’t up

6130.00

Jerome Lapham

500.00

 

W.H. Gayger

50.00

John Alden

500.00

 

J.C. Finch

500.00

James Morgan

500.00

 

Zenas Van Dusen

300.00

N.E. Sheldon

200.00

 

Noble Peck

100.00

J.E. Caldwell

100.00

 

Andrew Lenox

10.00

John Clendon

100.00

 

G. Benedict

15.00

J.B. Cool & Bro’s

150.00

 

M. Coffin

100.00

Orange Ferriss

100.00

 

Wm. Peat

25.00

A.W. Morgan

100.00

 

A.F. Smith

100.00

A. Robertson

100.00

 

W.A. Wait

25.00

W.D. Loveless

100.00

 

D.W. Sherman

25.00

Eugene Bannin

10.00

 

F.A. Johnson, Jr.

50.00

M.D. Richards

50.00

 

Dan’l Peck

50.00

J.H. Austin

20.00

 

C.M. Gilchrist

50.00

D.H. Cowles

100.00

 

Z.I. DeLong

25.00

F.M. Wright

100.00

 

Isaac Mott

50.00

J.L. Kenworthy

100.00

 

M.L. Wilmarth

25.00

M.B. Little

100.00

 

Albert Hall

50.00

L.W. Swan

100.00

 

M.S. Littlefield

50.00

L.L. Arms

100.00

 

Thomas Potter

25.00

J.W. Schenck & Son

150.00

 

H.F. Fickett (a sewing machine)

40.00

E.H. Rosekrans

100.00

 

G.W. Sisson

50.00

W.S. Carpenter

100.00

 

Chas. Rice

50.00

W.A. Fonda

100.00

 

M.A. Cushing

50.00

S. Pruyn

100.00

 

Geo. Rice

25.00

A.C. Tearse

50.00

 

S. Brown

50.00

Geo. Conery

50.00

 

Hiram Krum

50.00

Walton S. Wing

25.00

 

H.K Colvin

300.00

B.C. Starbuck

25.00

 

D.B. Sanford

25.00

Geo. Norton

25.00

 

J.B. Putnam

25.00

Roberts & Goodman

300.00

 

Ezra Benedict

25.00

G.W. Vanderhyden

50.00

 

C.J. Brown

25.00

M.C. Rich

25.00

 

Jos. Mead

25.00

D.V. Brown

100.00

 

A. P. Whipple

10.00

Abr’m Wing

1000.00

 

H.R. Wing

250.00

S. Starbuck

100.00

 

Jas. Ferguson

500.00

John Keenan

100.00

 

Mrs. Henry Rogers

100.00

L.G. McDonald

100.00

 

E.J. Weeks

5.00

 

6130.00

 

Total

$9160.00


The amount is being rapidly increased, and some of the principal subscribers will double their subscription, if necessary.

Chas. Fowler, of Chester, we are told, pledges $2000. for the Volunteer Fund of that town. Good for Chester.


 

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