_federalists have Mr. Young's name on their ticket_, and who
told me they voted that ticket.--SIMEON P. ALLCOTT. _Milton,
April 1816_."

"I hereby certify, that a leading federalist, being as I
understood, one of the _federal_ convention from the town of
Northumberland, who met at the Court-House on the 14th of
April last, to make the federal nomination for members of
Assembly, &c.--informed me on his return home from that
convention, that James Merril, Esq. urged some of that
convention to place Samuel Young Esq. on their ticket, and
offered one hundred _dollars_ if they would _go halves_ with
Young's friends in the _ticket_ they should run at the then
next election, for the purpose of defraying the expences of
the election; and that the said Merrill took from his pocket
the _hundred, dollars_, and laid it on the table for that
purpose, as I understood it.--HENRY STAFFORD. _Saratoga
Springs, March 1816_."

"I, Joseph Ogden, of Malta in the county of Saratoga, do
hereby certify; that I was at the inn of James Jones in
Halfmoon, a few days after the election of 1815, and Aaron
Morehouse of Ballston, and a leading federalist of Halfmoon
were there, conversing together on the late election. Mr.
Morehouse said he voted for Mr. Hamilton, the federal
candidate, to get a federalist in his town to vote for Mr.
Young; and the federal replied, that be voted for Mr. Young,
and that it was the understanding among some of the
federalists and _some_ of the republicans in Halfmoon, that
the federals should vote for Mr. Young, and that the