Roster of Schoharie & Montgomery County Officers
of the
40th Regiment, Eighteenth Brigade, Fifth Division
New York State Militia
1859
The district under the umbrella of the 40th regiment, under Elias A. Brown, was made up of the county of Schoharie (excepting the towns of Summit, Seward and Sharon) and the towns of Root, Glen, Florida and Charleston, in Montgomery County.
| NAMES | Office | Date of Commission | Date of Rank | Letter of Company | Non-commissioned officers and privates of company | Total officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, including staff | Arm of Service | Residence |
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| Field Officers |
| Elias A. Brown | Colonel | July 24, 1854 | June 28, 1854 |
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| Infantry | Minaville, Montgomery co. |
| Cornelius Murphy | Lieut. Colonel | July 30, 1858 | July 2, 1858 |
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| Infantry | Fulton, Schoharie co. |
| George W. Ellis | Major | July 30, 1858 | July 2, 1858 |
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| 3 | Infantry | Livingstonville, Schoharie co. |
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| William H. Granby | Captain | October 16, 1854 | August 12, 1854 |
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| Infantry | N. Blenheim, Schoharie co. |
| Lewis R. Baker | 1st Lieutenant | October 16, 1854 | August 12, 1854 |
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| Infantry | N. Blenheim, Schoharie co. |
| William G. Martin | 2d Lieutenant | October 16, 1854 | August 12, 1854 | B |
| 3 | Infantry | N. Blenheim, Schoharie co. |
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| George Mattice | Captain | January 1, 1858 | September 30, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Cobleskill Centre, Schoharie co. |
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| John W. Coons | 2d Lieutenant | January 1, 1858 | September 30, 1857 | C | 27 | 29 | Infantry | Cobleskill Centre, Schoharie co. |
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| Oscar Pierson | Captain | December 5, 1856 | October 1, 1856 |
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| Hiram A. Blodgett | 1st Lieutenant | July 29, 1857 | October 1, 1856 |
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| Thompson Efner | 2d Lieutenant | December 5, 1856 | October 1, 1856 | D | 25 | 28 | Infantry |
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| John I. Johnson | Captain | October 10, 1851 | September 20, 1851 |
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| Infantry | Fonda, Montgomery co. |
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| George S. Stanton | Captain | May 14, 1849 |
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| Cavalary | Middleburgh, Schoharie co. |
| Abram L. Vrooman | 1st Lieutenant | June 11, 1849 | September 26, 1848 |
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| Cavalary | Middleburgh, Schoharie co. |
| Merriman G. Preston | 2d Lieutenant | October 16, 1854 | September 26, 1854 | R | 24 | 27 | Cavalary | Middleburgh, Schoharie co. |
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| Non-commissioned staff |
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| 12 |
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| Total of Regiment |
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| 76 | 109 |
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Source: State of New York. No. 184. In Assembly, April 7, 1859. Annual Report of the Adjutant General. (E.D. Morgan, Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State of N.Y.)
"In every State there are large numbers of citizens who, from pure military zeal alone, are wiling to abstract from their vocations time enough to devote to the acquirement of military information, and from a thousand motives other than a desire to don the insignia of command, or to swell the ranks of a quasi military and a quasi social body, are ready to assume the real duties of the soldier, with the patriotic view of being ready to suppress the disorders of a time of peace, and to maintain the public liberties in a time of war.
Experience has shown that, in our State, at least, there are large numbers of such men, who, in obedience to this spirit, will organize into military bodies, whether pursuant to, or independent of law; and the State has wisely recognized the existence of this spirit.
By the act of 1846, it swept from its statute books laws which sought to foster what had been proved an impossible militia, and addressed itself to the development of a militia, based upon the predilection of the individual. By this act it inaugurated a system which, if properly sustained by the State, will accomplish the great purposes of a citizen military.
Already in lieu of divisions upon divisions, brigades upon brigades, and regiments upon regiments of tatterdemalion militia, we have condensed a mobile body of uniformed troops, comprising eight divisions, twenty-six brigades and sixty-two regiments, armed, equipped, and passibly well disciplined for service."
- Frederick Townsend, Adjutant General.
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