[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] died iu 1844, aged eighty-five years. John Townsend, who deceased in 1849, at the age of seventy years, rose to the highest trusts and exercised great influence among his fellow-citizens. As Supervisor, Assemblyman, State Senator, a mem-ber of Jast "State Council of Appointment," Comity Judge and Sheriff, he was extensively known and highly esteemed. Mr. Townsend was a pronounced opponent of Governor De Witt Clinton, and on that personal issue was elected, with Peter R. Livingston, to the State Senate, in opposition to General James Talmage and General Pierre Van Cortlandt, Clinton-ians. Mr. Townsend was, for seven years, a Vestryman and for twenty-six years Warden of St. Paul's Church. Jonathan Ward, son of General Stephen Ward, was born in 1768 and died in 1842. At twenty-three years of age he was chosen one of the assessors of the town, and two years afterwards town clerk. From 1802 to 1806 he was Sheriff of the county. The succeeding year he took his seat as one of the six representatives of the Southern District of New York in the State Senate, and in 1809 was a member of the Council of Appointment, which at that time