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OTSIKETA. Lake St. Clair .- Pownal's Map of Middle British Provinces, 1776.
OUKORLAH. Indian name of Mount Seward, signifying the big-eye .- C. F. Hoffman.
OUNOWARLAH. Scalp mountain. Supposed to refer to that peak of the Adirondacks known as Whiteface mountain .- C. F. Hoffman in The Vigil of Faith.
OWERIHOWET. Indian name applied to a creek, a branch of the Susque- hanna .- Calendar N. Y. Land Papers, p. 501.
PAANPAACK. The Indian name for the locality covered by the city of Troy .- O' Callaghan's New Netherland, I, 180.
PANGASKOLINK. Glens Falls, N. Y .- Sabele.
PAPAQUANETUCK. The river of Cranberries. One of the names of the Ausable river .- Sabattis.
PASKONGAMMUC. Pleasant or beautiful lakes. A term applied to the three Saranac lakes .- Sabattis.
PATTOUGAMMUCK. The middle Saranac lake .- Sabattis.
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PEELEEWEEMOWQUESEPO. The Black river. The stream that separates the Mohawk from the St. Lawrence river .- Hough's Hist. St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties.
PEMPOTAWUTHUT. The place of fire, or fire place of the nation. The pre- sent site of Albany, and once the chief seat of the Mohegan tribe .- Hoyt's Antiquarian Researches.
PETAONBOUGH. " A double pond or lake branching out into two." An Indian name of Lake Champlain, which refers probably to its con- nection with Lake George .- R. W. Livingston, quoted in Watson's Hist. Essex Co., N. Y.
PETOWAHCO. Lake Champlain .- Sabele.
PETAQUAPOEN. Indian term applied to the site of Greenbush opposite Albany .- Ruttenber's Indian Tribes, p. 375.
PISECO. An aboriginal name for a lake of considerable magnitude in Hamilton Co., N. Y. " The Indians speak it as though written Pe-sic-o ; giving a hissing sound to the second syllable. It is derived from pisco a fish, and therefore signifies fish lake .- John Dunham. Piseco, says Spafford in his Gazetteer of New York, and which he spells Pezeeko, is so called after an old Indian hermit who dwelt upon its shores."- Simms's Trappers of New York, p. 163, note. Sabattis says that it was called after an Indian bearing that name. PITTOWBAGONK. Lake Champlain. The dividing waters between the east and west and north of the Hudson .- Sabattis.
POPQUASSIC. Indian name of Lansingburgh .- Ruttenber's Indian Tribes, p. 375.
QUEQUICKE. The falls on the Hoosick river .- Calendar of N. Y. Land Papers, p. 27.
QUONEHTIQUOT. Long river. Corrupted to Connecticut .- Morse's Uni- versal Geography.
RAQUETTE. " The chief source of the Raquette is in the Raquette lake, towards the western part of Hamilton county. Around it, the Indians in the ancient days gathered on snow shoes in winter, to hunt the moose then found there in large droves, and from that circumstance they named it Raquet, the equivalent in French, for snow shoes in English. This is the account of the origin of its name given by the French Jesuits who first explored that region. Others say that its Indian name Ni-ha-na-wa-le, means a racket or noise, noisy river, and spell it Racket, But it is no more noisy than its near neighbor the Grass river which flows into the St. Lawrence from the bosom of the same wilderness."- Lossing's Hudson, p. 11. ROTSIICHNI. An Indian name of Lake Champlain signifying the cow- ard spirit. An evil spirit, according to the legend, whose ex- istence terminated on an island in Lake Champlain. The name was thence derived to the lake.
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SACANDAGA, Sagendage, Sackondaga, Sackondago, Sacondaga, Sacondago, Sachondage, Sachendaga ( Vide Calendar of N. Y. Land Papers) ; " is an aboriginal word, which signifies," as the Indians assured Godfrey Shew, much water. Capt. Gill, an Indian hunter, said it meant sunken or drowned lands .- Simms's Trappers of New York, p. 42. In Spafford's Gazetteer of New York, p. 89, it is defined as a swamp, and asserted to be derived from the Oneida dialect.
SANAHAGOG. The Indian name of Rensselaerswyck .- O' Callaghan's Hist. New Netherland, I, 122.
SANATATEA. The Hudson river .- Schoolcraft's Notes on the Iroquois, p. 69.
SANDANONA. A mountain near Lake Henderson in the Adirondacks .--- The Vigil of Faith by C. F. Hoffman.
SARATOGA. Vide General Index to documents relating to the history of the state of New York for seventeen different spellings of this word. See also Calendar of N.Y. Land Papers, where it is found spelled Saragtoga, Saraghtoga, Saraghtogue, etc. Morgan renders it on his map in the League of the Iroquois Sharlatoga. Hough, in the Hist. of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, has it Saratake, while Ruttenber, in his Indian tribes of the Hudson, on what au- thority is not stated, derives it from Saragh, salt, and Oga a place, though he adds that " the name was originally applied to the site of Schuylerville, and meant swift water," an assertion which greatly impairs the value of the preceding statement. Gordon, in his Gazetteer of New York, p. 671, derives the word from Sah-ra-kah, meaning the great hill side, and states that it was applied to the country between the lake and the Hudson river. An anonymous writer in the Troy Times of July 7, 1866, defines it as a place where the track of the heel may be seen.
SCHAGHTICOKE. In Spafford's Gazetteer, p. 293, this is derived from Scaughwank and defined as a sand slide, with the statement that the final syllable cook was added by the Dutch. O'Callaghan in his works, quotes about twenty-five different spellings of the word. Ruttenber derives it from Pishgachticook a Mohican appelative meaning the confluence of two streams, and applied to the Indian village at the mouth of the Hoosick, and also to a settlement on the Housatonic .- Indian Tribes of the Hudson, p. 195. Gordon derives it from Scacoghwank and gives it the same signification as Spafford .- Gazetteer, p. 645.
SCHENECHTADY. Various spellings. The aboriginal name of Albany, " which signifies the place the natives of the Iroquois arrived at by traveling through the pine trees."-Dr. Mitchill, quoted in Munsell's Annals of Albany, II, 333. Hough, ut supra, makes it Skanatati,
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" on the other side of the pines." Stone, in his Life of Red Jacket, p. 5, writes it Scaghnacktada, beyond the pine plains. Spafford translates it, " over the pines."- Gazetteer, p. 100.
SCHENEGHTADE. Beyond (or at the other side of) the door .- Col. Hist. N. Y., vol. 2, p. 594.
SCHODACK. " A derivation from the Mohegan word ischoda," a meadow, or fire plain. This was anciently the seat of the council fire of the Mohegans upon the Hudson. They extended their villages along the eastern bank of the stream as high as Lansingburgh, and their hunting grounds occupied the entire counties of Columbia and Rensselaer .- Lossing's Hudson, p. 102.
SCHROON from Skaghnetaghrowahna, or "the largest lake."- Gordon's Gazetteer, p. 453. Written "Scaroon " on some of the earlier maps, and it has been alleged, on what seems a very slender foun- dation, that the name was conferred in the latter part of the 17th century by a wandering party of Frenchmen in honor of Madame de Maintenon the wife of the poet Scarron.
SCOWAROCKA. The Indian name of the northern termination of " Maxon- hill," Greenfield, N. Y .- Simms's Trappers of New York.
SENHAHLONE The village of Plattsburgh .- Sabattis.
SENONGEWOK. A hill like an inverted kettle, familiarly known as " the Potash," on the east side of the Hudson river about four miles north of Luzerne village, Warren Co., N. Y .- Vigil of Faith by C. F: Hoffman.
SHANANDHOI. Indian name of Clifton park .- Laws of New York, 1795. SHATEMUCK. The Mohegan name of the Hudson river .- Washington Irving. Believed to be derived from a word meaning pelican. The name was applied to the Hudson below Dutchess county .- H. R. Schoolcraft.
SHEEPSHAAK. An Indian name of Lansingburgh .- Ruttenber's Indian Tribes, p. 375.
SHEGWIENDAWKWE. A cascade on the Opalescent river, signifying " the hanging spear."- Lossing's Hudson, p. 32.
SHENONDEHOWA. Ranging in a north line from Schenectady river, and adjoining the easternmost bounds of Nastigiuna Patent (Clifton Park, Sar. Co., N. Y.) .- N. Y. Calendar of Land Papers, p. 82. SINHALONEINNEPUS. Large and beautiful lake. A term applied to the upper Saranac lake .- Sabattis.
SKANEHTADE, G. The west branch of the Hudson river and the river generally .- Morgan's map in the League of the Iroquois.
SKANADARIO. Lake Ontario. A very pretty lake .- Frontenac, a Poem by Alfred B. Street.
SKMOWAHCO. Schroon river .- Sabele.
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SKNOONAPUS. Schroon lake .- Sabele.
SQUINANTON. Cumberland head on Lake Champlain .- Calendar of N. Y. Land Papers, p. 474.
TAESCAMEASICK. Indian name for the site of Lansingburgh .- Ruttenber's Indian Tribes, p. 375.
TAHAWAS. Mount Marcy, Essex Co., N. Y. The highest peak in the state. " He splits the sky."- The Vigil of Faith by C. F. Hoff- man.
TAKUNDEWIDE. Indian name of Harris's bay on Lake George. So called on a map of the Middle British Provinces by T. Pownal, M. P., Lond., 1776.
TAWALSONTHA. The Norman's kill, a little below Albany - O' Callaghan's New Netherland, vol. I, p. 78. Otherwise called Towasentha which is " an abbreviation of Toowasentha, the Mohawk word for falls."- Gallatin's Synopsis.
TAWASSAGUNSHEE. The Lookout hill. An elevation within two miles of Albany, where the Dutch erected a trading post before Fort Orange was built .- Barber's Hist. Coll., p. 46.
TECKYADOUGH NIGARIGE. The Indian name for the narrows between Ticonderoga and Crown Point, forming the entrance to the lake proper .- T. Pownal's Top. Descrip. of N. A., Lond., 1776. On a map in the same work it is defined as "two points opposite to each other," and applied to Fort St. Frederick, now Crown Point. It is quite probable that the much discussed word Ticonderoga is derived from this term.
TENONANATCHIE. A river flowing through a mountain. A name applied to the Mohawk river by the western tribes .- H. R. Schoolcraft. TEOHOKEN. The pass where the Schroon finds its confluence with the Hudson river .- The Vigil of Faith by C. F. Hoffman. See also Col. Hist. N. Y., vol. VII, p. 10, where it is defined as the forks of a river.
TICONDEROGA. There are about twenty renderings of the orthography of this word, and wide differences of meaning assigned to it. Those most worthy of acceptance are given herewith. Tienderoga. "The proper name of the fort between Lake George and Lake Champlain signifies the place where two rivers meet."- Colden's Account of N. Y., Col. Hist. N. Y., VII, 795. " Tiaontoroken, a fork or point between two lakes."- Hough's Hist. St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, p. 181. Morgan, on his map, frequently referred to herein, spells it "Je hone ta lo ga," Teahtontaloga and Teondeloga are both defined as "two streams coming together." The sound and structure of the three words are similar. The definition given by Colden is doubtless correct.
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TIGHTILLIGAGHTIKOOK. The south branch of the Batten kill .- Calendar of N. Y. Land Papers, 303.
TIOSARONDA. The meeting of the waters. The confluence of the Sacan- daga with the Hudson .- The Vigil of Faith by C. F. Hoffman.
TOMHENACK. A creek in the town of Cambridge, Washington county, N. Y .- Calendar of N. Y. Land Papers, p. 290.
TOOWARLOONDAH. The Hill of Storms, Mt. Emmons .- The Vigil of Faith, C. F. Hoffman.
TUSCAMEATIC. Indian name for Greenbush, opposite Albany, N. Y .- O' Callaghan's Hist. New Netherland, vol. I, p. 330.
WAHCOLOOSENCOOCHALEVA. Fort Edward .- Sabele.
WAHOPARTENIE. Whiteface mountain .- C. F. Hoffman.
WAHPOLE SINEGAHU. The portage from the Upper Saranac lake to the Racket river .- Sabattis.
WAWKWAONK. The head of Lake George, Caldwell .- Sabele. WOMPACHOOKGLENOSUCK. Whitehall, Wash. Co., N. Y .- Sabele.
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CIVIL LIST OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
N. B .- The names embraced in this catalogue, are of those only, who have been at some period residents of the town of Queensbury.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE. EMMONS, HALMER H., (a) - 1870.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TO SPAIN. SICKLES, DANIEL E., (b) - 1869.
(a) Son of ADONIJAH and HARRIET S. EMMONS, was born on the 22d of Novem- ber, 1813, in the older portion of the dwelling now owned and occupied by J. W. Finch, Esq. The elder Emmons was a lawyer, editor and postmaster, and an active, influential politician of the bucktail school, also a man of more than ordi- nary mental calibre and ability. He was charged with the authorship of the calumnies which reflected so severely upon the public life and character of De Witt Clinton, and incurred the ouium and hostility resulting therefrom. Later on, he removed to Sandy Hill, where, in 1825, he engaged in the publication of a partisan sheet called The Sandy Hill Sun, which afterwards became the rabid organ of the anti masonic party.
In early youth the son went to Essex Co., N. Y., where he commenced the study of law in the office of Judge Ross. Following the tide of emigration, the family, in 1838, went west, and settled in Detroit, Mich., where father and son formed a legal copartnership, and at once opened upon a large and remunerative practice. The death of the elder Emmons in 1843, left the younger to make his own way unaided, from triumph to triumph, through a series of cases involving large inte- rests and widely extended relations, to the very summit of professional eminence and success.
(b) Son of GEORGE G. SICKLES whose name appears in the town records for the year 1832, and who carried on the mercantile business in the stone store under the hill, from 1831 to 1834. He afterwards removed to New York, where he opened a broker's office. The son is remembered by many of the older residents of the village as a bright, active, and somewhat unruly lad, who dominated over his playmates, and gave early promise of a brilliant and controlling mind.
He removed with his father to New York, about the year 1835, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and for many years thereafter was known as one of the Tam- many leaders, and an active, indomitable partisan. Was elected to the Assembly in 1847, to the Senate in 1856-7, and from 1857 to '61 represented the third New York district in the xxxvth and xxxVIth Congress. It was during the first term of his congressional service that he obtained an unenviable notoriety by the assassination of Philip Barton Key. At the outbreak of the rebellion in 1861, he lent
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UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OF SOUTHERN CLAIMS. FERRISS, ORANGE, -, 1871.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
FERRISS, ORANGE,- 1867-9,-1869-71. XL and XLI Congress.
MARTINDALE, HENRY C.1- 1823-5,-1825-7,-1827-9,-1829-31,- 1833-5, XVIII-XIX-XX-XXI-and XXIII, Congress.
RUSSELL, JOSEPH, 1845-7,-1851-3,-XXIX,-and XXXII, Congress. SICKLES, DANIEL E.,2 1857-9,-1859-61,-xxxV-and xxxVI Con- gress.
COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE.
CHERITREE, ANDREW J., -, 1372. FAXON, WALTER A., -, 1862. CUNNINGHAM, JOHN L., -, 1866. ROCKWELL, WILLIAM W., -, 1869.
DEPUTY COLLECTORS.
CUNNINGHAM, JOHN L., -, 1867. JOHNSON, EMMETT, -, 1867. FAXON, CHARLES H., -, 1862. BROUGHTON, CHARLES H.,-, 1873.
HOTCHKISS, WILLIAM, -, 1869.
ASSISTANT ASSESSORS.
BRIGGS, WILLIAM, -, 1862. GOODMAN, STEPHEN L., -, 1869.
N. B .- The offices of Assessor and Assistant were abolished May, 1873.
an active and cordial support to the government and was largely instrumental in raising the famous Excelsior Brigade. He and his command won distinguished honors in many severe engagements. He was several times wounded, and lost his leg in a daring charge made at the battle of Gettysburg, of which great and important action, he has been justly styled the hero. He was promoted succes- sively to the position of division and corps commander, and was one of the few civilians who attained the distinction of a major general's commission. After the termination of the war, he again became conspicuous in the arena of politics, aid- ing largely in the election of Gen. Grant in the heated political contest of 1868.
As a recognition of his distinguished abilities and services, he received the follow- ing year the appointment of minister to Spain. After the Revolution and the decla- ration of the Spanish Republic, Gen. Sickles very ably represented our government and people in recognizing the new order of things. In consequence of the Cuban complications, he has recently resigned his position ; and his return home will doubtless be welcomed by fresh honors and successes.
1 Elected from the Eighteenth Congressional District ; Judge Martindale being then a resident of Sandy Hill.
2 Elected from the Third Congressional District, city of New York.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
CLARK, BILLY J., (a). -, 1848 PETTIT, MICAJAH, -, 1808.
COOL, KEYES P., -, 1840.
(Appointed).
MORGAN, ALONZO W.,
1864. SHELDON, N. EDSON (b), -, 1860.
MOTT, ISAAC,
1872.
(a) BILLY J., son of Ithamar and Sarah (Simonds) Clark, was born at North- ampton, Mass., on the fourth of January, 1778.
About the year 1784 his parents removed to Williamstown, Mass., where, for three or four years he enjoyed the benefits of that public school founded by the munificence of Col. Williams, who fell in action at " the bloody morning scout." At the age of ten he removed with his parents to Pownal, Vt., where his youth, up to the time of his father's death, was passed in the varied avocations of farm boy, clerk and bar-tender. His medical studies were commenced at the age of seven- teen in the office of Dr. Gibbs of Pownal, where he was soon charac- terized as a pains-taking, indefatiga- ble student. In 1797 he removed to Easton, Washington Co., N. Y., where his studies were continued in the office of Dr. Lemuel Wicker, a practitioner at that time of exten- sive repute and practice.
Having obtained the requisite tes- timonials, and passed the necessary from your father 3.1. Clark. examinations, he obtained a license from the county judge of Washington county to practice medicine. He commenced his life work in the town of Moreau, Saratoga Co., N. Y., in 1799, where, for forty years, he was the only physician, and supplied a radius of country nearly twenty miles in extent, following the humanities of his calling, achieving a well earned reputation for usefulness, and that by the popu- larly appreciated gauge of success, a substantial competency.
Dr. Clark's name will be famous through all time as the originator of the first temperance organization that ever existed. The date of this important event was in the early part of April, 1808. In this field of philanthropy, the doctor was an ardent and efficient laborer all his life. He represented his county in the assembly in 1820, and, as above appears was a member of the New York Electoral College in 1848. He died in this village on the 20th of September, 1866.
Through his energy and perseverance, a special act of legislature was obtained, incorporating the Saratoga County Medical Society, the first organization of the kind in the state.
(b) NATHANIEL EDSON SHELDON was the youngest of ten children, the offspring of Job and Joanna C. (Trippe) Sheldon, who migrated from Cranston, R. I., to
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LIST OF POSTMASTERS AT GLEN'S FALLS. (a)
BRIGGS, JABEZ, appointed 5th March, 1835.
BUELL, HORATIO,
8th October,
1818.
EMMONS, ADONIJAH,
13th April, 1816.
FERRISS, JOHN A.,
1st January 1808.
Barnet, Vt., where the subject of this sketch was born on the 28th of September, 1804. The family record bears the following names back to the original immi- grant, viz .: Job, the grandfather, who was the son of Pardon, the son of Nicholas, the son of John, the son of John, one of three brothers who came to this country from Warwickshire, England, in 1634, who settled in Pawtuxet, R. I., from whom the numerous descendants have diverged and settled in almost every state and territory in the union.
While in early youth, Dr. Sheldon's father removed to Delhi, Delaware Co .. N. Y. Here he received the advantages of a good common school education, and being baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal church, commenced studying for orders in that communion. We are not advised as to the causes which led to a change of pursuit in life, but shortly after we find him prosecuting the study of medicine with Dr. Lang in the city of New York, in one of whose colleges he graduated about the year 1831. After receiving his diploma, he was appointed ward physician in one of the worst and hardest districts of the city. During the cholera season of 1832 he saw and reported the first case of that terrible scourge in the city. His superiors scouted the idea. The next morning seven more were down with disease and three dead bodies in the building. A medical commission which had been dispatched to Canada to investigate the disease, on examination confirmed his diagnosis, and he was awarded the credit due to his discrimination and good judgment. At the end of the season he was presented with a massive silver pitcher, which remains as an heir-loom in the family, upon which is engraved the following inscription :
"Presented by the Board of Health of the City of New York to N. Edson Shel- don, M. D., for professional services gratuitously rendered to the poor of the Second Ward during the prevalence of the cholera, A. D., 1832."
The following year he removed to Glen's Falls and embarked in practice, and notwithstanding a sharp and sometimes acrimonious competition, he soon suc- ceeded in acquiring a fair proportion of the patronage; the population of the vil -- lage and town being less than one-fourth what it is to-day. For nearly twenty years, and until his voluntary retirement from professional cares, he held the position of a first class practitioner, and the reputation of more than ordinary success. Even" later his professional brethren, in token of respect, elected him president of the County Medical Society.
While pursuing his medical studies, a young English lady, named Elizabeth Goodwin Olive, stopped for a few days' visit at his preceptor's while on her way with an uncle, a clergyman of the church of England, to Canada. A romantic attachment sprang up between them, and in May, 1834, they were married. She died on the 30th of December, 1840. On the 3d of October, 1842, he was again married to Abigal T., daughter of the late John A. Ferriss, Esq. Soon after, he engaged in the drug and medicine trade, and by strict attention and assiduity he. built up a large and remunerative business, and for years has been considered one of the leading and successful business men of the place. For a large proportion
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FERRISS, JOHN A., appointed 11th December, 1823.
FREEMAN, JONATHAN W.,
25th March, 1841.
HARRIS, HIRAM M., 66
27th June, 1860.
KENWORTHY, JOHN L.,
27th March, 1861.
MORGAN, CARLOS,
16th June, 1863.
Since twice re-appointed, and the present incumbent.
PADDOCK, IRA A.,
17th December, 1829.
PALMETER, JAMES,
9th May, 1845.
of his life, Dr. Sheldon has been known as an active and influential politician. Originally a democrat, he with many others came out in 1838 in opposition to that party, and for many years his office was the rallying place and centre where poli- ticians arranged the local affairs of both the whig and republican parties. In the exciting and important campaign of 1860, whose events culminated in our late civil war, he was chosen one of the electors of the Empire State, and cast his vote for the first term of service of the martyred and lamented Lincoln.
In 1866 he was appointed by the governor, one of the Board of Trustees of the New York State Institution for the Blind at Binghamton. In the exciting cam- paign of last fall, feeling that his name was a tower of strength to his party, he was nominated and elected county treasurer, a position which his failing health compelled him to resign early in the present year.
Dr. Sheldon was public-spirited, and has always contributed to the development and advancement of the place. He has been from the first a stockholder and director in the Glen's Falls and Lake George Plank Road Company, and for many years its secretary. He was also for a long time one of the trustees of the Glen's Falls Academy. Conspicuous, however, above all other traits of character, was his sterling honor and integrity. In the language of one who knew him intimately and well, " he would not have done an unjust, dishonest or fraudulent act to save his life." He died suddenly at his residence in Glen's Falls, on the 3d of July, 1873.
(a) It appears from the records of the post office department, that the first post office was established at Glen's Falls on the first of January, 1808. Previous to this date the nearest post office was at Sandy Hill, whither the inhabitants of this place were obliged to resort for postal privileges.
The first Assistant Postmaster General, St. John B. L. Skinner, who kindly fur- nished the list, imparted the following information. "In examining the old books, some doubt has arisen whether " Glenville " was not the original name ; but, as no change of name is found, it is presumed that Glen's Falls was estab- lished, or commenced rendering 1st January, 1808. Unfortunately, the fire which destroyed the building in 1836, consumed three of the oldest books, which makes it difficult to trace the exact date of many of the old offices ; but this is believed to be correct."
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