Tanner-farmer Eliakim E. Sherrill is elected to Congress from the Ulster district. The Court of Appeals is instituted. Long Island historian Silas Wood dies, in his late seventies, and is buried in Huntington. The citizens of Martinsburgh build an office for the Lewis County clerk. Syracuse Syracuse is incorporated as a city.
Construction begins on a fourteen-mile plank road.
It's completed next year. New York City's Holy Name Church is destroyed by fire. Xavier High School, located in the building, moves to quarters in St. James Church. The city of Auburn is incorporated. Ice blocks the mouth of the Niagara River, which runs dry for 30 hours.