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8 On a former occasion a party of French, sent against the Mohawks, became reduced to the extremity of want. and were obliged to seek assistance of the English. The kindness shown them by Mr. Sanders was remembered, and his house was spared. A stone house built in 1713 is still owned by the Sanders family.
9 2 Ref. Prot. D., 2 3I. E., and Bap.
10 Said to be a corruption of Nis-ti-gi-oo-ne, or Co-nis-ti-gio-ne, by which it is known on the old maps. The name is said to sig- nify " extensive corn flats." The term was also applied to por- tions of Watervliet and Half Moon. Upon the advent of the whites this place was necupied by a tribe of Indians known as the " Conistigione."-Barber & Hove's Hist. Coll. N. Y. p. 508. 11 Among the early settlers were Clutes, Vedders, Van Vrankens. Groots, Tymesons, Pearces. Jansens, and Van Bockhoovens. 1º By an act of 1805, Alexander Alexander was anthorized to build a dam at this place.
13 Named from Jolm Prince, a member of the Assembly from Albany co. at the time of the formation of the town.
14 Upon this stream, on the farm of Eben'r Dougall, is a cas- cade 60 feet high, and from this point to the Mohawk are mine- rons rapids and cascades.
15 Among the carly settlers were Wilhelmus Van Otto Van Corazon, (a native of the island of Curacoa. ) Ryer Schermerhorn, and Simon Veeder. The house of Van Otto stood on the site of the one now ucenpied by Simon Vecder. At the time of the Revolution there were families living in town by the names of Delemont, Van Pelten, and Brangham.
16 At this place is a fwine and thread factory.
17 There are 3 churches in town : 2 Ref. Prot. D. and 1 M. E.
598
SCHENECTADY COUNTY.
E SCHENECTADY CITY-was patented, with certain municipal rights, Nov. 4, 1684; chartered as a borough Oet. 23, OF SCHEN 1765; ineorp. as a distriet, March 24, 1772, as a town, March 7, 1788, and as a city, March 26, 1798. Princetown was set off in 1798, Rotterdam and Glenville in 1820, and parts of Niskayuna and Rotterdam in 1853.1 It is situated on the Mohawk, and on the borders of one of the finest intervales in the State. A considera- ble amount of trade is carried on in the eity by means of the canal and the railroads that center here; but the people are more PORA largely engaged in manufactures.2 'The engine houses and repair shops of the N. Y. C. R. R. Co. are very extensive; and one of the largest locomotive manufactories in the country is located here.3 This city is especially noted as the seat of Union College. This institution was incorp. by the regents, Feb. 25, 1795, and received its name from the cooperation and union of several religious denomina- tions in its foundation.4 A fund was first raised by private subscription to erect the necessary build- ings and to defray the expenses of opening the school;5 and this was increased by the avails of several lotteries authorized by the legislature,6 by grants of land and money from the State, and by private donations. The total amount received from the State, up to 1822, for permanent investment, was $331,612 13. Iu a will dated Dec. 28, 1855, Dr. Nott, the president of the college, bequcathed to the trustees $555,000 for speeific purposes and an additional fund for miscellaneous expenses.7 The funds thus bequeathed were derived from the profits of certain investments of college funds, and amounts from other sources, which had been employed for the purpose of ereating a fund for the en- dowinent of the institution. The first college building was erected in the city ;8 but in 1814 a traet of land upon an eminence E. of the city was purchased, and the two principal buildings were erected.9 The site commands an extensive view of the city, the river, and the valley. The faculty of the college now consists of a president, 12 professors, 1 lecturer, and 3 tutors. The total number of students is 420, and has not materially varied from this number for a great number of years, the junior and senior classes being invariably larger than those that preceded them. A considerable number of students derive aid from the State fund, which is extended to students of limited means without reference to the profession they intend to follow. The college has received from E. C. Delavan, Exq., a magnificent donation of minerals and shells, known as the " Wheatley Collection," which was pur- chased for this purpose at a cost of $10,000. Departments of Civil Engineering and Analytical Chemistry have been organized, and the facilities which they afford arc of the most ample kind.
The Public Schools are under 8 commissioners, clected once in 2 years. There were, in 1857, 9 school districts, employing 3 male and 22 female teachers. The number of children between 4 and 21, was 3065, of whom 1729, or 56 per cent., attended the public schools.10
The first settlement was made in 1661, as already noticed.11 As this was an advance frontier settlement, the compact part, at an early period, was enclosed by palisades. Iu 1690 the enclosure
1 An Indian name signifying "beyond the plains." Formerly | Schenectady, it is said, chiefly through the influence of Gen. spellel Schenectada. The city, under its first charter. contained Schuyler, and hecanse of its then central location. an area of 128 sq. mi .; but the successive changes which have i been made have redneed it to a plat of 250 acres.
" The manufacturing establishments of the city consist of the R. R. machine shops, locomotive works, a cotton factory, 3 car- riage shops, an agricultural implement factory. 3 turning and machine shops. shawl factory, 2 breweries. I brick yard. 2 cabinet shops, + founderies a planing mill, pump factory, tannery. 2 tool factories, a vice and spring factory, and a great variety of other mechanics' shops.
3 The Schenectady Locomotive Works Co. was incorp. JJune 4, 1551. with a capital of $150.000, all of which is actively ent- phArd. When in full operation, they employ 600 hands, and can turn ont 1 locomotive every 5 days.
+ Bwv. Win. Andreas opened the first grammar school, in 1771; ul borfor the close of the year he proposed to change it to an academy. The Omsistory of the Ref. Prot. D. church erected a smail academy in 17:5. The Schenectady Academy was incorp. Jan. 20, 1793. and was merged in the college in 1995. Rev. John Blair Smith was the first President. He was succeeded in June, 1200. by Rev. Jonathan Edwards, who remained until his death in Ang. Iso1. Rev. Jonathan Maxey was next elected president. and rontinned till 1804. when he resigned. and was succeeded by Rev. Eliphalet Soft. the present venerable president of the College. 5 In 1550. the inhabitants of the northern part of the State petitinned for the incorp. of a college. but withont success. The jwtition was renewed in 1791. but did not succeed. In 1794 Another effort was made, and a subscription of $7935 was raised from 99 persons in Albany, and of $3425 from 231 persons in Schenectady. for an emlowment. This sum was afterward largely increased by subscription. The location was fixed at
6 Lotteries were anthorized in 1805, 1814, and 1822 .- Munsell's Ann. of Albany, VI1. 126: Semi-Centen. Celebration of Union Coll. 7 The items of this bequest are as follows :- $225.000 for 9 professorslips. with a salary of $1500 each.
$60.000 for 6 assistant professorships. at $600 each.
$60,000 for an astronomical observatory.
$20,000 for 60 auxiliary scholarships, of $10 and $12 per term. $60,000 for 60 prize scholarships for undergraduates, of $15 and
$18 per term; in certain cases to be increased to $24.
$45.000 for 9 scholarships for graduates or fellows, of $300 each. $20.000 for a cemetery.
$10,000 for apparatus. $5.000 for textbooks.
$30,000 for an eclectic library.
$5,000 for a geological and mineralogical cabinet.
$5.000 for a historical cabinet.
$10,000 for a lecture found.
The miscellaneous fotpl was left discretionary with the trustees to fill deficiencies and extend the operation of any of the foregoing objects. At the time of this gift the greater part of the funds were invested in real estate in Greenpoint village, opposite N. York City. 8 This Imilding, formerly known as " West College," was sold to the city, and, with an adjoining building. accommodates the 10 departments of the public schools of the city.
9 Other buildings have since been erected, for library, cabinet, and lecture rooms. The corner stone of the Central Chapel was laid July 28, 1858.
10 Total receipts, $14.423 06; total expenses, $14,423 06. Volumes in district libraries, 3045.
Il See page 590.
599
SCHENECTADY COUNTY.
was in form of an oblong reetangle, with gates at the ends. The people, however, felt so seeure that tlie gates were habitually left open, and no guard was kept; and hence it was easily entered by the enemy on the memorable 9thi of Feb. 1690, N. S. The lives of 60 old persons and children were spared from the massaere. The settlement recovered slowly from the disaster, and not until the elose of King William's War did it receive any considerable aceessions. A new fort was built in May, 1690, which was garrisoned for many years. Another fort was built in 1735, and another in 1780.1 The old fort stood at the intersection of Ferry and Front Sts. The first church (Ref. Prot. D.) was organized in 1684, and the building was erected on the s. end of Church St. in 1685. It was burned in 1690;2 and a new building was ereeted, about 1702, on the site of the present church, corner of Union and Church Sts.3 St. George's Church (Prot. E.) was organized, in 1735, by Rev. II. Barelay, ineorp. in 1766, and an edifiee ereeted in 1768.4 The first mail was brought to the town April 3, 1763.5 The first English school was opened, under the care of Rer. Henry Barelay, in 1710.6 The Vale Cemetery Association was formed Feb. 25, 1858.7 The population of the city has slowly and steadily increased, although, from the setting off of portions of its territory, the census reports for some periods show an apparent deerease.8
Acres of Land, Valuation, Population, Dwellings, Families, Freeholders, Schools, Live Stock, Agricultural Products, and Domestic Manufactures, of Schenectady County.
ACRES OF LAND.
VALUATION OF 1858.
POPULATION.
SCHOOLS.
NAMES OF TOWNS.
Improved.
Unimproved.
Real Estate.
Personal
Property.
Total.
Males.
Females.
No. of Dwellings.
No. of Families.
Freeholders.
No. of
Children
laught.
Duanesburgh
33,911₺
10,827
1.556
1,563
542
395 417
596 700
13
1,173
Niskayuna.
7,922
2,549
584 496
460
166
120
172
397
Rotterdam ...
16,729}
7,693
1.537
1,298
440
293
492
13
1,427
Schenectady
515
34
4,012
4,377
1.200
610
1,606
9
3,050
Total ...
93,44₺
31,6834
9,851
9.7:21
3,105
1,953 3,783
68
7.647
LIVE STOCK.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
BUSH. OF GRAIN.
NAMES OF TOWNS.
Horses.
Working
O.ren and
w| Calces.
Cous.
Sheep.
Sicine.
Winter.
Spring.
Tons of Hay.
Bushela of
Potatoes.
Bushels of Apples.
Pounds
Butter.
Pounds of
Domestic
in Yards.
Dnanesburgh
1,319
1,872|
1,940
5.541 2,644
2,097 2.205
2.4718 149.507:
6.233
10.826
25,401
194,591 127,599
28,684
1,2301
Glenville.
1,033
1,306
1.482
625
557
3.704
32,168
1.716
18.397
8.309|
34,521|
14,500
Princetown ..
404
629
673
1,123
784
7,291
61,160
2,163
11,826
53.181
13,800
666
Rotterdam
731
720
1,065 219
826
1,660
20,445
65.049 2.291
271
345
Total.
4,219l
4,846
5,768 10,759
7,727|
49,918
146,1177 16,185
105,132 105,551
515,662 72,019/1
3,4624
1 By an act of 1780, all the people living within a half mile | 2 Meth. E., Univ., R. C., Presh .. Bap., Af. Meth., and a Jewish of the Dutcht church were assessed, in labor and materials, for Synagogue. 5 Letter of Sir W'm. Johnson. the erection of defensive works -- the work to be done under the direction of the field officers and magistrates.
2 Rev. Peter Tasschemaker, the pastor and first teacher, was killed, and all his papers were destroyed.
8 On the 27th of Oct. 1701, the Governor granted a special license for the inhabitants, or their agents, " to gather, collect, and receive the free and voluntary offerings and contributions of all and singular his liege subjects, inhabitants of this pro- vince, at any time from the day of the date hereof for and during the term of six months then ensuing." The funds raised were restricted to the rebuilding of the church : and all justices of the peace. high sheriffs, and all others his majesty's friends, with all Protestant ministers, were exhorted to use each their utinost diligence to excite and stir up the charities of the inhabit. ants,- MS.S. Sec. Office.
4 Besides these, the census reports 10 churches; 2 Ref. Prot. D.,
6 A Lancasterian school was incorp. Nov. 12, 1816, and was tanghit 25 years. It was superseded by the present system of public schools.
7 The Vale Cemetery, containing 50 acres, is located in a beautiful vale abont one-fourth of a mi. from the city. It is
covered with pines, and is finely laid out and ornamented. 8 In 1699. 70 men took the test oath.
In 1710 there were 16 English and 100 Dutch families.
In 1714 the census reported .591 persons.
In 1790 there were s. of the Mohawk (in Schenectady, Prince town, Rotterdam, and a part of Niskayn ja ) 3472 persons. The fol lowing table shows the progress of population since 1820 :-
1820.
3939
1840 6784
1825.
4008
1845.
6555
1830.
4:268
1850.
8021
1835
6272
1855
8389
13|Districts.
1,234
Glenville ..
22,341£
7,159+
1,666
1,487
556
201
118
217
4
366
Princetown
12,029
3,421
15,324{ 135,942}
3.718
41,837
40,628
5.235
820
Niskayuna ..
341
271
389
105,770
9,800!
746
Schenectady.
391
48
424
680
2,328
1,756 30,447 1,869
19.042
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
of
Cheese.
Manufactures,
536
SCHOHARIE COUNTY.
C THIS county was formed from Albany and Otsego, April 6, 1795.1 A small part of Greene was annexed in 1836. It is an interior eo., lying s. E. of the center of the State, is centrally distant 35 - mi. from Albany, and contains 675 sq. mi. Its surface is au upland, broken by mountains in the s. and by hills iu the center OHO S and N. A northerly branel of the Catskill Mts. lies along the s. border, the highest summits of which are 3,000 ft. above tide. From them irregular spurs extend northward, oceupying the greater part of the co. Many of the summits along the E. and w. borders 1841 are 800 to 1,000 ft. above the valleys and about 2,000 ft. above tide. Iu the N. the hills are generally rounded and are arable to their summits; but in the center and s. the declivities are steep and in many places precipitous. The high ridge along the E. border, and extending into Albany co., is known as the Hellebark Mts.
The hills derive their general features from the rocks that underlie them. The extreme N. part of the co. is terraced like the limestone region farther w. Toward the s. the hills become more steep; and in the shaly region they are broken by deep, irregular ravines. In many places the hills bordering upon the streams are 1,000 ft. high and in places very stcep. Schoharie Creck flows N. E. through the eo., a little E. of the center. It receives as tributaries Foxes Creek, Stony Brook, Little Sehoharie Creek, Keysers, Platter, and Manor Kils from the E., and Cripplebush, Cobles, Line, Panther, West, and Mine Kils from the w. West and Punch Kils are tributaries of Cobles Kil. Charlotte River, a branch of the Susquehanna, takes its rise in the w. part, aud Catskill Creek in the s. E. part, having its source in a marsh called the Vlaie. Utsyanthia2 and Summit Lakes, two small ponds, are the only bodies of water in the co. The former is 1,900 ft. and the latter 2,150 ft. above tide.
The rocks in the co., commencing upon the N. border and appearing successively toward the s., are those belonging to the Hudson River group, Clinton group, Onondaga salt group, Helderbergh series, Hamiltou group, Portage and Chemung group, and the Catskill group. The limestones arc cavernous; aud the minerals which they afford are particularly interesting to mineralogists.3 Drift is scattered over the co. to a limited extent. Waterlime is found, but is not now manufactured.
The soils are principally derived from the disintegration of the underlying rocks. In the N. the soil is a productive, clay loam, and in the center and s. it is a clay and sandy loam, the latter pre- dominatiug upon the s. hills. The alluvial flats along Schoharie Creek are unusually fertile.
The eo. is eminently an agricultural region. Spring grains are largely produced. Hops are cultivated in the w. part, and broomcorn upon the Schioharie Flats. Dairying is the principal business in the s. part. Very little manufacturing is done, except such as is customary in an agricultural region.
The county scat is located at the village of Scholarie." The courthouse is a fine edifice built of blue limestone, located near the center of the village. The jail is a stone building, situated in rear of the courthouse. The clerk's office is a small, fireproof building, upon the courthouse lot, nearly in front. The poorhouse is located upon a farm of 160 acres in Middleburgh, 5 mi. s. w. of the court- house. The average number of inmates is 60, supported at a weekly cost of 75 cents each. This institution seems to be well managed and much above the average of similar institutions in the State. The Albany & Susquehanna R. R. is located along the valleys of Schoharie Creck and Cobles
1 Schoharie is said to signify " drift wood." At a place } mi. above Middleburgh Bridge the Line Kil and Little Scho- harie flow into Scholmarie Creck from opposite sides; and here drift wood is said to have aceminninted in large quantities, forming a natural bridge .- Broen's Hist. Schoharie.
The original Indian name was To-wos-scho'ber; and it has been written Sheary. Skolary. Selmghhorre, &c.
2 Utsyantha was the N. E. corner of the Hardenburgh Patent, and a distinguished landonik in early records.
3 Among the more interesting are stalactites of pure white. translucent and solid. sulphate of barytes, calcite, satin spar. tufa, agaric mineral, bog ore. Idack oxid of manganese, sulphate and carbonate of stroutia. tluor spar, calstronbaryte. carbonate MI iron, and arragonite. The ro. affords an mun-pal variety of fossils peculiar to the respective geological formations.
4 The first conris were hehl in a wagon house of Johannis Ingold, and prisoners were at first sent to the Albany jvil. The first meeting of the Judges. Justices, and Supervisor- was hold Dec. 16. 1795, and it was decided to fix the site for co. bublings 2 mi. w. ol their present location. The location was changed before the buildings were erected. The first buildings wire erected soon after, and were burned in 1847. The first court- house was built under the direction of Joost Borst. jr .. Jacob Lawyer, Peter Snyder, John 11. Shafer, and Win. Phrall. com. missioners. Abrahamu A. Post, of Ontario, Alexander H. Buel, of Herkimer, and Win. Duer, of Oswego, were appointed to locate the present site. The first co. officers were Win. Beck- man, First Judge, (reappointed constantly. till 1:38:) Joachim G. Staats, Clerk; Jacob Lawyer, jr .. Sheriff; and Stephen .A. Becker. Surrogate.
600
601
SCHOHARIE COUNTY.
Kil, through Esperance, Sehoharie, Cobleskill, and Richmondville.1 Several turnpikes and lines of plank road extend aeross the eo.2
About thirty years previous to the advent of the whites, a number of Indians belonging to the Mohawks, Mohicans, Delawares, Tusearoras, and Oneidas united together, formed the Sehoharie tribe, and took up their abode along Sehoharie Creek.' Their principal chief was Ka-righ-on- don-tee, who had been a prisoner of the French in Canada and had married a Mohawk woman. This tribe was subordinate to the Six Nations. They could bring into the field about 600 warriors, and in the wars that ensued they steadily espoused the cause of the British. At an early period, with the aid of the Colonial Government, they erceted several strongholds to protect themselves from the attaeks of the Canada Indians. A band of 200 Indians remained in the valley, at peace with the settlers, until the commencement of the Revolution. Efforts were made to induce them to remain neutral during the war; but the offers of the British were so tempting that at last they took up arms against their neighbors. Previous to this a pestilenee had swept off the greater part of the tribe, though the whites were not in the least affeeted by it.
The first white settlement was made by a colony of German Palatinates, in 1711. These people had previously settled at East and West Camp, on the Hudson. Their number is estimated at 600 to 700. They settled in 7 elusters, or villages, each under a leader or lead man, from whom the dorf, or village, was usually named." The Duteh soon after began a settlement at "Vroomansland," on the w. side of the ercek, 2 or 3 mi. above the German settlement.5 The Palatinates at first did not seeure a patent for the lands they occupied, and a short time after their settlement Nicholas Bayard appeared as agent of the British Government, and offered to give the settlers deeds for their lands ; but he was assailed by a mob and was obliged to flee for his life. Upon reaching Seheneetady he sent baek word that for an car of corn each he would give a elear title to the lands occupied by each ; but this offer was rejected. He returned to Albany and sold the traet to 5 persons at that place.6 A sheriff, named Adams, was sent to arrest some of the trespassers; but no sooner was his business known than he was assailed by a mob and ridden upon a rail. For a considerable time after this outrage none of the German settlers dared visit Albany ; but after a time they ventured to do so, and were at once arrested and thrown into jail. They were at length released on making a written acknowledgment of the outrage they had perpetrated.7 The settlers at length sent an embassy, consisting of Conrad Weiser, - Casselman, and another, to England to petition the king for redress. The ship that took them out carried also a statement of the out rages, and the ambassadors were at once imprisoned; but after a time they were set at liberty and permitted to return. Weiser was so chagrined at the result of the controversy that soon after, with about 60 families, he emigrated to Tulpehoeton, Berks co., Penn. Other families removed to German Flats and others to Stone Arabia.8 Peter Vrooman, with several Dutch families,9 perma-
1 The elevation of this road. where it enters the co. on the E., is [ the present town of Fulton, except Wilder look, at which 700 ft. above tide; at Schoharie Creek it is 550 ft. ; at Cobleskill. place was an Indian castle and settlement. Ilis son Peter, for whom it was bought, built a house, planted corn, and the first winter left the premises in charge of a man named Truax, and a negro man and his wife. Trnax was murdered, and the negro and his wife were arrested, tried at Albany, and burned alive; but years after, one Moore, a resident of " Weisers Dorf,' con- fessed that he and the negro man committed the deed, and that the woman was innocent .- Simm's Schoharir, p. 56. 900 ft .; at Richmondville, 1,175 ft. ; and at the w. co. line, 1,470 ft. 2 The principal turnpikes in the co. in early times were the Great Western. extending to Cherry Valley, built in 1802; and the Charlotte River Turnpike. built in 1809. The latter formed the great thoroughfare to the settlements in Delaware co. and adjacent regions. The plank road project was pretty thoroughly tried, and has been abandoned after a sacrifice of nearly all the capital invested.
3 The Mohicans principally settled near the month of the Little Schoharie; and the largest settlement of the others was at "Vroomansland," in the present town of Fulton.
4 Six of these leaders were Conrad Weiser, Hartman Winte- ker, John Hendrick Kneiskern, Elias Garlock, Johannes George Smidt, and William Fox; and John Lawyer, who came soon after, is supposed to have been the seventh. "Weisers Dorf" occupied the present site of Middleburgh Village, and had somne 40 dwellings, like the others, built rudely of logs and earth and covered with hark and grass. "Hartmans Dorf" was 2 mi. below, and had 65 dwellings. "Bruns Dorf," or "Brunen Dorf." or "Fountain Town," was near the courthouse. "Smiths Dorf' was a mi. farther N. "Foxs Dorf"' was still farther down, abont a mi. from Smiths. "Garlocks Dorf' was 2 mi. below ; and "Kneiskerns Dorf" 2 or 3 mi. still farther N. Among these early settlers, besides those above named, were families named Keyser, Bonck, Rieband, Richtmever. Warner. Weaver, Zimmer, Mattice, Zeh. Bellinger, Borst, Schoolcraft, Crysler. Casselman, Newkirk, Earhart. Brown, Settle. Merckley. Snyder. Ball. Weidman, Dritz, Mann. Sternberg, Stubrach. Enderse. Silney. Bergh, and Honck. Within a week after their arrival, Catharine Mattice, Elizabeth Lawyer, Wilhelmus Bouck, and Johannes Earhart were born. The first wheat was sown by - Sternberg, in 1973; and the first akipple planted like corn yielded 83 foldl. 6 Adam Vrooman, from Schenectady, obtained a patent for 1,100 acres, Ang. 26, 1714. Ilis tract was afterward found to contain 1,400 acres. It embraced the flats along the creek in
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