Directors of the Eastern Turnpike Road, 1799

Shares in the Eastern Turnpike Road cost $25 each, and 400 shares were designated. Many of the directors and investors owned businesses that relied upon transport of farm goods and other merchandise. The road followed the route of Washington Ave. on its way:

...from the village of Bath in the county of Rensselaer in the nearest and most direct route to the house of James Main in Peterborough in said county and from thence to the line of the state of Massachusetts where the road from Williamstown to the city of Albany crosses the said line...

Eastern Turnpike Road, Incorporators:

• Abraham Schuyler (Albany merchant)
• Thomas Hun (Lawyer, agent for the Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer)
• Teunis T. Van Vechten (Albany merchant, militia officer)
• Barent Bleecker (Albany merchant, extensive real estate owner)
• John C. Cuyler (Albany merchant, in association with John Maley)
• David Fonda (Merchant, grocer in Albany)
• Barent G. Staats (Albany grocer, merchant, real estate owner)
• John Maley (Albany merchant, banker, extensive real estate)
• Gerrit W. Van Schaick (Albany, extensive real estate owner)
• John E. Van Alen (Congressman, surveyor for the Patroon, Defreestville farmer and Greenbush merchant)
• Daniel Gray (Petersburg/Berlin? Member of NY state assembly?)
• James Main (Tavern owner? Petersborough/Berlin)

Laws of the State of New York, Twenty Second Session, 1799 (Turnpikes)

The links are my best guess for biographical information. I'd appreciate corrections and additions.

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