History of Slate Industry [Hancock]
Sources for Regional Guidebook
I.
History of Local Towns
History of Slate Industry [Hancock]
Poultney
Books
Newspapers
Pawlet
History
Fair Haven
Aerial View
Castleton
History
1.
Castleton looking back : the first 100 years / edited by Claire
Burditt and Sylvia Sullivan. Castleton, Vt. : Castleton Historical Society,
c1998.
55 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
2.
Currier,
John M[cNabb] 1832- comp.
Memorial exercises held in Castleton, Vermont, in the year 1885; including the
addresses, biographical sketches, reminiscences, list of the graves decorated,
roster of the veterans in line ... history of previous memorial days in
Castleton, and an account of the relics exhibited. Comp. by John M. Currier ...
Issued under the auspices of the Rutland County historical society.
Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell's sons, 1885.
66 p. illus. 23 cm.
3.
[Vermont
statesman (Castleton, Vt.)]
Vermont statesman.
Castleton [Vt.] : Ovid Miner,
v. ; 51-55 cm.
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 15, 1826).
Ceased in 1855.
Aerial view
4.
Burleigh,
L. R. (Lucien R.), 1853?-1923.
Castleton, Vt. 1889. Drawn and published by L. R. Burleigh.
Troy, N.Y., Burleigh Lith. Est. [1889]
col. map 35 x 61 cm. fold. in cover 12 x 9 cm.
Whitehall (Skenesborough)
Websites
and Books (Whitehall Free Library)
1. http://www.whitehallchamber.com/history.htm
2. Morton, Doris Begor. Day before yesterday. 1977.
3. Morton, Doris Begor. Philip Skene of Skenesborough. 1959.
4.
Wilson,
David. Life in Whitehall, during the ship fever
times. 1900
1. Poultney resources
New York
5. Town of Putnam Collection, 1810-1964
SUBJECT:
Putnam, New York
Education
Education Putnam, New York
Military history Putnam, New York
Putnam, New York Military history
Local history Putnam, New York
Putnam, New York Local history
Census United States, 1810
Civil War
Diaries
Putnam, New York Genealogical records
Genealogical records Putnam, New York
PHYSICAL
DESCRIPTION: 0.8 cubic ft.
ABSTRACT:
Reports from trustees
of various school districts in Putnam to the State Education Department,
1873-1915 and 1931; transcript of 1810 census; expenses and reports from the
Civil War recruiting committee in Putnam, 1864; diary of David Cummings, 1866;
local newsletter originating from Putnam Station, 1946; and clippings concerning
local events and residents, 1887-1964.
LOCATION: Washington County Historian's Office, County Office Building, Fort Edward, New York 12828, Repository surveyed November 1981..
6. Vault box collection, 1820-1949
AUTHORS:
Washington County
(N.Y.). Historian, collector
SUBJECT:
Land grants--New York (State)
New York
(State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
New York
(State)--History--War of 1812
Washington
County (N.Y.)--Commerce
Washington
County (N.Y.) Genealogy
Washington
County (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
Bayard,
Stephen
Boyd,
Eleanor
Boyd,
Robert
Hall, John
Harris,
Moses
Hunter,
Polly
Mahaffy,
Samuel
Potter
family
Reid
family
Reid, William
Rogers,
James
Schuyler,
Philip
Snyder
family
Stoughton, John
Tearse, Peter
Underhill,
Benjamin
Webster,
Alexander
White, Archibald
NOTES:
The name
of this collection comes from the original location of the materials. A majority
of
items were these stored in an old vault used by the Washington County
Historian.
ABSTRACT:
The Vault Box
Collection contains fragile maps, deeds, military rosters, and broadsides
relating to the 18th and early 19th century history of Washington County, N.Y.
Many of the maps relate to northern New York land patents (Bayard, Turner,
Schuyler, Blundell Patents). The collection includes copies of maps of Fort
Edward, East Greenwich, Argyle, Hebron, Fort Miller and North Argyle. The
original maps are now at the National Archives in Washington D.C., the New York
State Library, and the Washington County Clerk's Office. Older residents of
Washington County traced some of the maps from memory.
ABSTRACT:
Military records
in the collection are copies of items in the National Archives (Colonel
Alexander Webster's Regiment Militia, 1780-1782, and John Williams' Regiment
Militia, 1778-1781), and a copy of a Captain Moss's roster for Washington County
men in the War of 1812. Genealogical information is recorded in a journal
listing marriages and baptisms recorded by the Reverend Archibald White (1820),
a journal (1868) listing Washington County physicians and listing births in
several Washington County towns, an early 19th century mortgage index, the Reid
family tree, the Snyder and Potter marriage certificate, and deeds and mortgages
for the following Washington County families: Underhill, Harris, Bayard,
Schuyler, Tearse, Hunter, Rogers, Boyd, and Hall.
LOCATION:
Washington County
Historian's Department, 383 Broadway, Fort Edward, N.Y. 12828.
7. Bayard Patent release
AUTHORS: Washington County (N.Y.). Historian, compiler. Vault Box Collection,
1820-1949.
SUBJECT:
Bayard, Stephen
Bayard, William
Cuyler, Abraham
Cuyler, Cornelius
Cuyler, Henry
deLancey, Oliver
Lawrence, Catherine
Low, Isaac
Schuyler, Philip
Van Cortlandt, James
Land grants--New York (State)--Washington County
Real property--New York (State)--Washington County
Washington County (N.Y.)--Genealogy Sources
NOTES:
Forms part of the Vault
Box Collection. [as listed above]
ABSTRACT:
Release recorded 1795
in the New York State Secretary of State's Office relating to the indenture of
1765 between William Bayard and Oliver deLancey, Esq., Philip Schuyler,
Catherine Lawrence, James Van Cortlandt, Isaac Low, Henry Cuyler, Cornelius
Cuyler, and Abraham C. Cuyler concerning lands granted by patent to Stephen
Bayard in 1743 situated in the County of Albany on the East side of the Hudson
above Saratoga and adjoining the lands granted to John Schuyler, in the area
which, roughly, is now Washington County. Great Seal of New York attached;
leather seal is stamped with the date 1777.
LOCATION:
Washington County Historian's Department, 383 Broadway, Fort Edward, N.Y. 12828.
8. Church records collection, 1952-
AUTHORS:
Washington County
(N.Y.). Historian
SUBJECT:
Baptists--New York (State)--Washington County
Cemeteries--New
York (State)--Washington County
Church
records and registers--New York (State)--Washington County
Epitaphs--New
York (State)--Washington County
Presbyterians--New
York (State)--Washington County
Quakers--New
York (State)--Washington County
Registers of
births, etc.--New York (State)--Washington County
Columbia County
(N.Y.) Genealogy
Rensselaer
County (N.Y.) Genealogy
Saratoga County
(N.Y.) Genealogy
Vermont
Genealogy
Warren County
(N.Y.) Genealogy
Washington
County (N.Y.) Genealogy
Adamsville
Baptist Church
Cutshall-King,
Joseph A.
Fort Edward
Baptist Church
Fort Edward
Village Church
Friends Cemetery
(Easton, N.Y.)
Lakeville
Baptist Church (Cossayuna, N.Y.)
McEachron, Doris
Methodist
Episcopal Church (Hudson Falls, N.Y.)
Nathan Tanner's
Church at Bottenkill (Greenwich, N.Y.)
North Argyle
United Presbyterian Church
Old Reformed
Dutch Church (Schuylerville, N.Y.)
Old Turnpike Cemetery (Cambridge N.Y.)
Old White Church
Graveyard (Cambridge, N.Y.)
South Argyle
United Presbyterian Church
Stump Church
North Cambridge (Cambridge N.Y.)
United
Presbyterian Church of Argyle
United
Presbyterian Church of Bovina
Wade, Susan E.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 3 cubic ft.
ARRANGEMENT: Arranged according to geographic location.
ABSTRACT:
The Church Records
Collection mainly consists of cemetery lists, although some registers of births,
baptisms, marriages, and membership are included. Religious groups appearing in
the collection
include Quakers, Baptists, and Presbyterians. Also part of the collection is
correspondence of Washington County Historians Susan Wade, Doris McEachron, and
Joseph Cutshall-King regarding church records. Files cover church records from
the following Washington County localities: the Towns of Argyle, Cambridge,
Dresden, Easton, Fort Ann, Fort Edward, Granville, Greenwich, Hampton, Hartford,
Hebron, Jackson, Kingsbury, Putnam, Salem, Whitehall, and White Creek. Other
localities covered are in Warren, Saratoga, Columbia, and Rensselaer Counties in
New York State, and in Vermont.
LOCATION:
Washington
County Historian's Department, 383 Broadway, Fort Edward, N.Y. 12828.
9. Bible records collection
AUTHORS:
Washington County
(N.Y.). Historian, collector
SUBJECT:
Cull, Thomas
Manchester, Lydia
Manchester, Zilpha
Searles, W. B.
Families--New York (State)--Washington County (N.Y.)
Genealogy
Washington County (N.Y.) Genealogy
Bible records
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 5 cubic ft.
INDEXES:
There is an index to
surnames in the Bible Records Collection at the Office of the Washington County
Historian, Fort Edward, N.Y.
ABSTRACT:
The Bible Records
Collection primarily contains information copied from Bibles of families
connected in some way to Washington County, N.Y.. Sometimes publication
information for the Bible is included and owners of some of the actual Bibles
are indicated. Some family Bibles were donated to the Washington County
Historian and may be found in this collection. Related material such as
manuscript genealogies or photocopies of family documents such as wills and
obituaries are included in these files for some families.
ABSTRACT:
The file folders are
arranged alphabetically by surname. In the front of the files are marriage and
death records, 1820-1830, transcribed from a series of letters between Lydia and
Zilpha Manchester of Kingsbury, N.Y.; the 1854 marriage records of the Reverend
J. B. Searles of Wells, Vt.; and a record of marriages recorded by the Reverend
Thomas Cull of Greenwich, N.Y. Included in the collection are transcriptions of
cemetery markers (cemeteries are identified), typed extracts of family letters
and typed excerpts from wills. Much of the information in the files was
collected by members of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
ASSOCIATED
MATERIALS: Two
related collections are the Washington County Historian's Correspondence and
Manuscript Collection, 1940-present, and the Family Bibles Collection.
LOCATION: Washington County Historian's Department, 383 Broadway, Fort Edward, N.Y. 12828.
New
York Sources of Demographic, Newspaper, Diaries, Town Histories et al
Directory
to Collections of New York Vital Records, 1726-1989, with Rare Gazetteer
(Heritage) $31.00
Identifies several hundred collections of newspaper-published vital records,
1726-1989. Part One identifies statewide and regional collections, date spans of
the individual collections, newspapers' titles, and in which major genealogical
library, or
libraries, they can be found. Part Two contains an alphabetical list of 6710 New
York cities, villages and hamlets showing their
locations by present-day counties and towns. Part Three contains details
concerning the formation, origin, and other information
pertaining to each of New York's present-day sixty-two counties.
Salt Pork and Poor Bread and Whiskey: The
Adirondack Diaries of John Brown Francis
(Heritage) $14.00
This is an account of the visits of John Brown Francis (later a five-term
governor of Rhode Island) to the vast Adirondack wilderness known as "John
Brown's tract" after the diarist's grandfather, one of the founders of the
Brown dynasty in Providence. The elder man had had a grand vision of developing
the timber and mineral resources of the tract (210,000 acres, or over 320 square
miles), but had been repeatedly thwarted by climatic and environmental
obstacles. Even though his personal efforts died with him in 1803, his heirs
attempted for decades afterwards to carry out his vision. Descriptions of
floods, summer frosts and other difficulties in the diaries demonstrate that
even after the removal of the British and Indian threats following the War of
1812, most efforts to transform the Adirondack forests to agricultural and
commercial pursuits (such as the iron manufacturing described in the diaries)
were doomed to failure. John Brown Francis was in his twenties when he wrote
these accounts in 1816, 1817 and 1818. "[F]rom tavern keepers and toll
collectors to farmers' daughters and land barons, little of the human condition
escapes the eye of the youthful annalist. While most of our insights into the
population of the early American frontier stem from the observations of foreign
travelers like DeTocqueville, Mrs. Trollope and Dickens [and, 40 years earlier,
the numerous Hessian diarists], here, for historians of the early republic, is a
whole fresh catalogue by an American reporter." The editor of this work,
Henry A. L. Brown, is the grandson of John Brown Francis' adopted granddaughter.
This transcription is thoroughly annotated and well illustrated, and includes a
genealogy of John Brown Francis and a foreword by Albert Klyberg, director of
the Rhode Island Historical Society. The bibliography lists about 75 sources and
the everyname plus subject index includes about 350 entries.
Pioneer History of Cortland County and the
Border Wars of New York
(Heritage) $34.50
Discusses in depth the tribulations which faced the region's first settlers in
their mission to establish and maintain civilized life in the midst of colonial
conquest, border wars, Indian Raids and the like. Of particular interest to the
genealogist are the sections that concern the emigration to Cortland County, and
the settlement and organization of towns there. Chapters present the names of
those who settled, what town they settled in, what their occupations were, where
they came from, who their offspring were, who and how many family members were
living when this book was first published, etc. Also helpful is the section
dubbed Biographical sketches which discusses thoroughly the area's most
distinguished citizens.
Death and Marriage Notices, Tompkins County,
New York, 1870-1890
(Heritage) $17.00
Originally abstracted from the local newspapers of Tompkins County, the data in
this book was compiled from records of the DeWitt Historical Society in Ithaca,
New York. Ithaca, the major city of Tompkins County, is where most of the deaths
and marriages took place. Death records contain the name of the subject, the
subject's age, the date of death and the place of death; marriage records
contain the names of bride, groom and officiating clergy, the date and location
of the service, and the hometown(s) of the bride and groom. When know,
information such as occupation, names of relatives and/or cause of death has
been added. All entries are arranged alphabetically by surname.
A History of Deerpark in Orange County, New
York
(Heritage) $19.00
Settlement of the community that became Deerpark began in 1690, on land most
likely purchased from Indians. This book begins with that early settlement and
traces more than 150 years of the lives, customs and characteristics of
Deerpark's citizens, as well as its history. Family histories of those first
settlers profile both their ancestors and four generations of their descendants.
Genealogies of notable Deerpark citizens add to the completeness of the text,
and much space is dedicated to the day-to-day lives and practices in Deerpark
through the years. Sections deal with everything from market prices of
agricultural products to local topography and wildlife, to the "use of
spirits at funerals and weddings," to population and emigration data.
Enclosed also is information on occupations, religious affiliations and
political pursuits. The text is readable and enjoyable, and
impressive in its thoroughness; and a new everyname index is a great aid to
researchers.
The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with
Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers, and Land Titles,
1614-1800
(Heritage) $37.00
Divided into the following parts: Indians and Fur Traders; Missionaries and the
French War, 1650-1769; Land Titles and Pioneers, 1679-1774; The Border Wars
Begun, 1776-1777; Overthrow of the Frontier, 1777-1778; The Sullivan Expedition,
1779; Last Years of the War, 1780-1783; and the Restoration of the Frontier,
1782-18000. About half the book deals with the Revolutionary War period.
Notices from Steuben
County, New York, Newspapers, 1797-1884
(Heritage) $44.00
Newspapers are probably one of the most valuable and interesting sources for
genealogy and are too often overlooked by researchers. Some newspapers carry
family histories of many of the local people. They also print sales of
properties, notices of probate, advertising, and personal items such as
reunions, who was ill or who visited whom, etc. They can be very entertaining as
well as informative. In these volumes, 16 Steuben County newspapers have been
abstracted from microfilm copies available at the New York State Library.
Although these newspapers were