USA > New York > Montgomery County > St Johnsville > Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1942-1945] > Part 11
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35
10. Coroner's Account Book 1841- 43 1 v. kept by A. P. Bassett.
11. Court . Records, including: jus- tice docket, town of Elbridge, 1831- 39 1 v .; Supreme Court docket 1823- 43 1 v .; arrest warrants; orders for removal of persons liable to become public charges; and other data. (To be continued)
Profitable Woodlands 1.
Well-managed woodlands pay divi- dends. Follow a plan of cutting which will preserve valuable trees until they will yield the largest te turns.
Index of Material of the Schenectady Gen. Society
This index contains,' in the main, the' names of officers and pew hold- only manuscripts and other such ers from 1694 (earliest extant re- genealogical items which might have cords of the church) and have "not been published, but not in book form; been recopied in the transcription made by our society. therefore in the folders. , To one not familiar with the files, it is difficult 8. Personal Records of Brick Pres- byterian Church of New York City 1809-1908. to know at a glance what they con- tain, hence the enumerating of these records.
9. History of the School of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of
The Accession Book notes title, date of purchase or gift with the New York City. This contains the name of donor. In the case of copied names' of students enrolled in this school. manuscripts, the name of transcriber is entered. This information was omitted here to save time and space. This also applies to published histori- cal books, which have been added to the society's records because of their genealogical value, but have been Married 1838-1940. placed in the book cases and can Deaths and burials 1901-1940. Memberships 1825-1940. readily be found. It is the hope . of the Archives committee that' the 12. Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia, Montgomery County, members will keep this list, so that
we might add from time to time |N. Y. baptisms, marriages and con-
and know at a glance, which records we have here for more leisure search,
",13./ Parish Register of Trinity therefore using the precious time Church of New York City. Baptized 1750-1783; married 1746-1780.
away from home, in study of those not available at Schenectady.
14. West Camp Lutheran Church In process of being copied are the records of Reformed Dutch Church "The Kocherthal Records. 'Baptized 1708-1729; married 1709-1719; com- of Stone Arabia in Town of Palatine: municants 1709-1719. /
Baptized 1739-1824.
Married 1739-1821.
Memberships 1739-1830.
Deaths, dismissals, etc., 1817-1830; CHURCH RECORDS
16. First Reformed Church of New London, Conn. Memorial presented to 1. St. George's Church records. Vol. II contains church records 1778- the teacher of primary class of Sun- day School upon the fiftieth anniver- 1850. These have been- indexed by, sary of service. This apparently is a Gen. Soc.
2. Schodack Church Records 1770- 18313.
3. First Reformed Dutch Church of Schenectady.
Baptized 1694-1938.
1784 are missing.)
Memberships 1694-1938. (Here as is usual, are notes giving deaths, re- movals, marriages, etc. to which were added as lists have been revised from time to time.)
4. History of Freehold Church of Charlton, Saratoga County, N. Y. 1786-1886,
5. Marriages and birth records by Rev. James Dempster (Montgomery Co.,) N. Y. 1778-1803.
6. Marriage records by Rev. Elijah Herrick and Rev. John Calvin Toll, Montgomery County, N. Y.
7. 200th Anniversary of First Re- formed Protestant Dutch Church of Schenectady 1680-1880.
These are very helpful in tracing Schenectady families as it contains
Index of Material of the Schenectady Gen. Society
Mrs. Marie Noll Cormack, Archivist for Schenectady Genealogi- cal Society.
FAMILY GENEALOGIES
(In -manuscripts unless otherwise stated) ,
1. Bradt. (These are clippings from St. Johnsville Enterprise and News which have been assembled in one folder and contain valuable informa- tion of this and allied families.)
2 The Toll Family.
3 Klock Family Papers
4. Furman and Allied families
5. Van Vranken
6. Brintnall
7. Christman and allied families.
8. Pangburn, Van Auken.
9 Yates, Ornsby.
10. Mattison and allied families.
11. Hoysradt and allied families.
12 Strever, Tanner.
13 Silvernail.
14. Vanderpool.
15. Hilton, Shell.
16. Day.
17 Smith (published book of Eng- lish families.)
18. Genealogy of New England and New York families (published book.) 19 Bradt Genealogy published, St. Johnsville. Have been mounted and indexed each branch separately. .
| CEMETERIES
Because of the difficulty of making a helpful list of private burials, we have only listed the public cemeter- ies. , See cemetery section of Index Book of Schenectady and Saratoga counties.
· 1. First Reformed Church of Sco- tia, Schenectady county, N. Y. (Park Cemetery.)
2. First Reformed Church of Sco- tia, Schenectady County, N. Y. (in churchyard; no recent burials.)
3. First Baptist Church, Scotia,' Schenectady County, N. Y.
4. First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, Schenectady county, N. Y. 5. Princetown Reformed Church. 6. Princetown Presbyterian Church, abandoned.
1. 7. Christ Episcopal Church of Du- anesburgh, Schenectady county, N. Y. 8. Duanesburgh Reformed Presby- terian Church. '
9. Duanesburgh Village cemetery. 10. Viewland - Cemetery ) (Cobble- stone Church, Rotterdam, Schenecta- dy County, N. Y.)
11. Woestina Reformed Church, Rotterdam, Schenectady County, N., Y. 12. Glenville Center Methodist Episcopal (Schenectady County, N.' Y.)
13. Glenville . Reformed Church, Schenectady county, N. Y.
14. Florida United/ Presbyterian Church, Montgomery County, Scotch Bush Church. 15. Town of Greenfield, Saratoga County, N. Y.
16. Sweetman, Saratoga county, N. Y. 17. ; Calvary Episcopal, Saratoga county, N. Y. Burn tHills. .
18. Smith, Saratoga County, N. Y. Charlton." :
19. Pine Grove, Saratoga County,, N. Y. Charlton. -
20. Visscher's Ferry Reformed. Church, Schenectady county, N. Y. 21. Niskayuna Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady county, N. Y.
22. Lisha Kill Dutch Reformed Church, Albany County, N. Y. 23. High Point, Albany county, N.
Y. 24. Groom's. Corners, Albany Co., N. Y.
25. See Montgomery bound " copy for public and private cemeteries. '
BIBLE RECORDS
1. For small records of individual Bible records see "Bible Records" in Index Book of Schenectady county.
2. Teachout-Cannell.
3. Coates, Van Vorst, Shannon.
4. Bible records of New Jersey.
MISCELLANEOUS
Records of Slave Manumissions of Albany County, N. Y.
List of emigrant ancestors of De- troit ' Genealogical Society.
Vital statistics copied from' Sche- nectady Reflector 1838-1852.
Miscellaneous clippings of St. Johnsville Enterprise and News of Madison county and Clarksville His- torical collections.
Clippings of Hartford Times and Boston Transcript genealogical sec-' tion; filed alphabetically in clipping envelopes.
Vital statistics of Montgomery, Schenectady and Albany counties, 1941-42; 1942 current.
Burton Collection (Detroit, Mich.) Records. Vol. I and II.
These are the John Askin Papers which cover the years 1747 to 1820. Much information of the war of 1812 and persons active at that time. As- kin was living at Albany, N. Y. be- fore migrating to Detroit in its ear- liest and active days.
Burton Historical Collection Bulle- tine 1, 6, 8.
Burton Historical Collections leaf- lets: ..
1. Chene family.
2. Orlando B. Wilcox.
3. David Bacon.
4. William Dummer Powell.
. 5. Francis Parkman.
6. British take Detroit.
7. Legend of Le Canot du Nord.
8. Memoirs. of Mayor Redfield.
Bulletin of N. Y. C. Library con- taining passenger list of ships com- ing to North America 1607-1805. Little Troy (Saratoga County, N. Y.) school, records 1816-1940."
Duane Land records.
Samples of genealogical charts. Detroit genealogical magazines, These records should be consulted he cause they contain information re- garding Eastern families which mi- grated to the western territory in the nineteenth century. "
Current files of Genealogy and His- tory.
Magazine of American Genealogy, Nos. 5, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 only. THE END
10. Parish Register of St. John's Episcopal Church of Clayville, N. Y. 11. First Reformed Dutch Church of Princeton, Schenectady County, N. Y. baptized' 1814-1940.
firmations 1740-1770.
15. Second Baptist Church of New Berlin, Chenango County, N. Y. Mar- riages 1831-1873.
copy of original enrollment of 1859 and carried the marriage, removals and deaths of this class.
18. St. John's Episcopal Church of Clayvilie, Oneida county, N. Y. Baptisms 1849-1901. Memberships 1850-1901. Confirmations 1849-1915.
Communications 1849-1907.
Marriages 1850-1918:
Deaths 1850 -- 1926.
18 Marriages in Cass county, Mich- igan 1867-1885.
20.Boght Dutch Reformed Church Albany county, N. Y., subscribers 1820-1846.
21. Minutes of the Saratoga Coun- ty Baptist Association 1747-1921. .
22. For old Dutch Records of New York State and New Jersey, see Year Books of the Holland Society in the book case of the Society.
(To be continued)
17. First Baptist Church of Scotia, Schenectady, N. Y. Membership list; revised and arranged alphabetically Married 1694-1937. (1776 through 1840-1908.
PAGE THREE
MOHAWK VALLEY FAMILY HISTORY
JANUARY, 1943
List of Residents Living in 1767 in Manor of Rensselaerwyck or Albany
B. J. Service of Schenectady has a map of the Manor of Rensselaer- wyck drawn from an original in the possession of Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer (in 1767, presumably.) D. Vaughan made the copy.
The names of the residents living on the south side of the Hudson rlv- er (Albany is right in the center of the map and river bisects it) are as follows according to the names on the map: Scarlota Coiemans, Samuel Coiemans and Verplanks, Homestead of Henry Ten Eyck, Rensselaer Ni- colls, Esq., Adam Winne, Hondrick van wie, alias groete Handrick, Jan van wie, ? van wle, Betty van os- trande, James Taylor, Gerritt ·Van Den. Bergh, ? Cooper, William Van Bergen, alias the Read House, Abra- ham Slingerland, Hithin Hollands Place, Philip Scuyler, The Patrons at Water Fleet, Late Jeremiah Schuy- lers Place, Peter Schuyler, Late Col.
Philip Schuylers Place, James Sharps, Guy Youngs, Stonehook, Jon- as Outhout, Hans van Arnem.
Cornelius Van Den Bergh, Abra- ham Van Den Bergh, ? Lansing, Henry Lunsing, Cornelis Ouderkirk, Derck Hemstreet, Hans Lansing, Wil- liam Liverse, Douw Fonda, Frans Lansing, Cornelis Van Den Bergh, alias King, the old place of Abraham Van Den Bergh, Wirt Vand Den Bergh,'Jan Outhout, Henry Bullsing, Peter Cluet, Jan Douwe Fonda, Jan Van Olinda, Jacob Cluet, Bastian Visher, Jacob Frettie, Diderick Schef- fer, May, Bovee, Fransway Bovie, Hans Heemstret, Junior, Bastian
Cregier, ? Duyvespagh, Simon Groot, Hans Cluet, Robert Canier, Christie at Sand Bergh, John Richies at the Knit, the Verfbergh, ? Consaloe,
Hans Consaloe, the old man, Isaac Truax Crupelboss, The Norman Kills People, Jacob Truax, Nocolaes Van Petten.
. .
John Banker, Mr. Ten Brooks, John Vroomans, Abraham Wemp, Peter Ouderkirk, Jacob Vrooman,
Robert Freeman, ? Apelie, Takel Hemstreat, John Lidie, Peter Living- ston, John Kidney, Jurla Siverse, ? van Arnem, Louwerence Woomer, Gerit Seger, Junior, Jacob Coper, Jan Storm Bratt, Storm Bratt, David Bratt.
Dirk Vanderwilligen, ? Black
Smith, Isaac Lagransie, Omie La- gransie, Christian Lagransie, ? Koens, Christopher Yates, Hans Broom and Simon Brumbly, John Bradstreet, Wouter Slingerland, Koerad Louak, John van Duesẹn, Adrian Bratt, Staats Seger, Jacob Louak, Jacob Rosebooms, Gerrit van Allen, Hans Slingerland, Hendrick Karn, Harms van Derzee, Peter Hoghteling, Hen- ry Jan van wie, Frans Winne, Hansie van wie, Hans Louak, Daniel Frans Winne, Daniel Peter Winne, Old Pet- er Winne, Albartus Becker, Areantie Becker, Milburn Van Hoesen, Abra- ham Vrooman, Tobias Ten Eyck, We- dow Andris Witbeck, Lendert Wit- beck, Andris Ten Eyck, William Hogeteling, Guert Bratt, Casparus Wibeck, Albert Van Derzee, John- athan ? Arent, Koenard Hogetling, Casper Fouser, ? Prys.
Residents living on the east side of the river: Hendrick Van Beuren, Wouter Barhuyt, Jeronimus van Val- kenburgh, Casper Sprnsteen, Jacob Cornelise Schermerhorn, Reyer Schermerhorn, Jacob Schermerhorn, Englie Schermerhorn, Jacob Van Valkenburgh, Rolof Janze, Nicolaes Kebel, Hansle Van Valkenburgh, An- thony Poel.
Isaac Muller, Schevers, Peter Lod- wick, ? Springsteen, ? Huyck, John Beekman, Molls, Schtack, Mills, Hans Van Beuren, Van Beuren, Hans Sals- burg, Johnathan Witbeck, Marte Van Beuren, Beniamin Van Den Bergh, Beniamin van I Beuren, ? Fetch, Henry Peter van Beuren, Evert Lans- ing, Hans Witbeck, Jacob Jacobse Schermerhorn, Jacobus Vin Hegan, Abraham Vinhegan, Hansie, Vinhag- an, ? Van Beuren, Cornelis Van Beu- ren, Joachim and Gerritt Staats, Kil- lian Van Renselaer.
. *
Widow Bris, Anthony Bris, . Tobias salsbergh, Teuentie Van Beuren, Ger-'' it C. Van Den Bergh, Melgert Abra- hamse Witbeck, Abraham Witbeck, John Witbeck, Peter Douw, Henry Cuyler, Christopher Yates, Hansie Witbeck, Anthony Van Eiversen, Wil- liam C. Van Den Bergh, Cornelia Van Eiversen, Widow Mindert Van Eiv- ern, the Pottebacker, John Cranel, Juria Sharp, ? Van Alstyn, Marte Deforest, Philip Deforest, Philip Wendell, Rutger Van Den Bergh, Cornelis M. Van Beuren, Jan Van Beuren, Widow Magin, Mathew Van- derheyden, Jacob Vanderheyden, Pet- er Fonda, Wilhelmus Smith, Barent
Bratt, ? Van | Derheyden, Lavinus Winne, Willlam Rogers, Abraham Ja. Lansing, Peter Hoewey, Robert Wen- dell, Henry Van Arnem, Adam Beem, ? Borck, Frans Hogg, Hans Heyner, ? Outhout, Jacob Van Arnem, ? Fisher, Melgertfret, Jacob Quacken- boss, Hans Muller, David Venn? ? Watson, John Fonda, Ed Hogg, Lau- werence Rysdorp, Wilhelmus Van Deusen, ? Weaderwax, ? Van Os- trande, Melvin Dan Der Poel, Caper Ham, henry Sbans, Cornelis Sprong, ? Wilson, Henry Post, John McCagg, Peter Bachus, hans Bachus,, Johs. Ruyter, Henry Litcher, Hans Lant- man, Barent Hogg, ? Primmer, Jacob Best, Petrus Vosburgh, Bastian Deel, Frans Burn, Juria Kreiger, Henry Young, ? Devoet, Scholemaster Wat- son, heretofore Long Andries.
Bathless Groggins says-
Yep' 1 m back at work agin. I figger on buyin' lots of War Bonds to help our boys. Don't forget-we're all sup- posed to be signed up for 10% by New Year's1
A Man of the Central Mohawk Valley
se
Mise Print
SMAPE
CENTRAL
MOHAWT VALLEY
for
eng
A historical map of the Central Mohawk Valley by John C. Devendorf, showing the most important - places and events in this area before and after the, Revolution.
Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
""'-New York State / Library Albany,' N. Y.
(Continued from last week) ;
12. Draft of Washington's Farewell Address, given in the spring of 1796. 13. Tabulated statement of Wash- ington's household expenses in 1789. 14. Map of colony of Rensselaer- wyck'about 1632.
15. Patent of the colony of Rensse- laerwyck, 1685.
16. Commissions in the militia, as justices of the peace and as com- missioners for Indian affairs, to var- lous members of the Van Rensselaer family, 1670-1768, 21 items.
,17. Commissions to Philip Schuy- ler as Major General in the Conti- nental Army, 1775 and as Governor General of the State of New York, 1781.7
18. Letters of freedom and citizen- ship of the city of Albany granted to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 1733, and to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1763.
19. Draft of commission to Teunis Van Wer Volgen as deputy ranger of the county'of Albany, from Jere- miah Van Rensselaer, 1732.
20. Draft of a report of General George Clinton to the commission- ers appointed by General Washington on order of the Congress, to Inquire into the conduct of the officers in command of Forts Clinton and Montgomery when in 1777 they fell into the hands of the British. The document is unsigned but experts agree that it is in Clinton's hand- writing (see New York History, Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association April, 1930.)
21. The original oaths of office signed and sworn to by George Clinton on his reelection to the gov- ernorship in 1801, 3 items.
22. Letter of Philip Schuyler to General James Clinton, Saratoga, May 24, 1781, expressing his regret at having to abandon Fort Schuyler after its recent burning and urging the necessity of his receiving rein- forcements.
23. Letter, dated March 1, 1776, from James Duane, John Jay, John Alsop and Lewis Morris, the New York delegates in the Continental Congress, addressed to the New York Provincial Convention, treating of
1. Office of State Treasurer: . re- cords of payments, recelpts .and de- posits, treasurer's statementse and accounts, -daybooks, "journals, " cash- books; letter books, records of 'loans, the necessity for : subordination of bonds, and mortgages and general the military to the civil authority. indexes. and the imposition of test oaths by
the latter only.
'D. Public Records. Rich collection of town, village, county and state re- cords, obtained by gift, purchase or transfer from various governmental departments. Despite heavy losses from fire in 1911, the Library still- has what, for 'the historian, is. the most important body of archives in the custody of the state.
1. Town, Village and county ar- chives include:
Assessment . rolls, court record, chattel mortgages, acceptances, de- clinations and resignations of office; enrollments of persons liable for mil- įtary duty; miscellaneous military re- cords; bills; bonds; Indentures; land records; accounts and claims maps of town and school boundaries; ap- plications for licenses minutes of town meetings; reports . of highway commissioners; records, of overseers of the poor; jury lists; oath books; poll lists; election certificates; regis- ters of electors and other election materials; vouchers; school .records; census, and. vital, statistics records; and other data. Such records are. available, in whole or In part, for towns and villages of some 38 coun- ties.
2. Records of /various State de- partments, including :
Office of . the Secretary of State: records of state canvass, records of appointments and commissions, cer- tificates of election, election returns, census records, minutes of the Coun- cil of Appointment 1786-1822, 13 v., land papers, colonlal and state, 1642- 1803, 63 v., original letters patent, 1664-1712, 1731-53, 1775-86, 12 v., re- cords of the Council of Revision and other data.
Office of the Adjutant General: re- cords of land grants to soldiers, 1817- 18, military fines, 1836-46, and many Civil War records, including fosters of officers and enrollments, historical notes on various regiments, letters and telegrams respecting military matters, claims for pay, bountles, and pensions, bounty ledgers, volunteer relief pay rolls, exemptions from mil- Itary duty and other .data .: (. '
(To be continued)
Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
New York State Library Albany, N. Y.
(Continued from last week).
Office of the Attorney General: ab- stracts of legal matters, accounts of bonds snd mortgages and of lots to be sold, records of interest due' on mortgages, miscellaneous letters and papers relating to sales of lands, mortgage sales, and · disputed , titles, reports to the Comptroller ,registers of cases brought before the Attorney General, account books of costs of sults, and general indexes.
Stats Conservation Commission: assessment roll of town in which the State owns land.
The Executive Chamber: records of correspondence, letter books, appll- catlons for various offices, titles of Governor, communications on mili- tary affairs, ledgers, appointments, messages and prison records. .
Department of Public Intruction: records of normal schools, a'ppoint- ments, and correspondence pertain- ing to institutions for the blind, deaf and dumb.
3. Miscellaneous records of the New York-Pennsylvania Boundary Com- mission, Including diary of opera- tions, engrossed record, field book, financial paper, letter books, map of survey and record of monuments.
E. Church and genealogical re- cords. The library has a very exten- sive collection of church records and biographical and genealogical ma- terials. For a complete list of church records received to June 1917, with statement of contents and dates in- cluded, see New York State Library One-Hundredth Annual Report, 1917, (Albany, 1918, pp. 31-35.) See subse- quent reports for accessories.
There are more than 500,000 man- uscripts of which 75 percent are ar- ranged: individual items by acces- sion number; collections In general, chronologically, or by subjects with chronological arrangement thereun- der-variations as needed. There are approximately 80,000 catalogue cards (3x5) which show persons, places, and subjects. The library uses the American Library Association book cataloguing rules 'as a basis, with modifications to sult manuscript ma- terlal. Manucript calendars have been made. for some collections. Material is available to users upon presenta- tion of identification. Photostatic
copies of 'unrestricted mannerripts are furnished at 20c and 40c cash for positive and negative prints. 2
See; New York State Library, Cal- endar of Historical Manuscripts
(Dutch and English) (1865-66); Cal- endar of N. Y. Colonlal Manuscripts Indorsed Land Papers (1864); Calen- dar of Council Minutes (1902); Names of Persons for whom Mar- riage Licenses were Issued; Prior to 1784 (1860); Library of Congress, Manuscripts in Public and Private Collections (1924); Annotated List of the Principal Manuscripts in the New York State Library, State Li- brary Bulletin, History No, 3, June 1899 (Albany, 1899); Report' of Di- rector of State. Library :1911.
bills received and approved by the New York State Historical Associa-
tion Central Quarters
Cooperstown, N. Y.
Testimony (9 v.) and report (1 v.).' in the case of the Troy Iron and Nail Factory vs. Corning et al, 1854-64, Jan. 6, 1866.
C. Judge William Cooper papers, 1790-1809, 31 pieces, relating to his personal and business affalrs. Includ- ed are: deeds, checkbook on Albany bank; letters from Cooper to Golds- brow Banyar, Frederick De Peyster, Leonard Gansevoort, Nicholas' Low, and Peter Van Schaak; letters /-to Cooper from Gen. Samuel, Meredith (photostat) and Morgan Lewis, de-" positions of Cooper's fight with James Cochran (1799) and other da- ta.
D. James Fenlmore Cooper papers, 1818-51, 17 Items, comprising: sub- stantial parts of the manuscript of. Red Rover, Oak Openings and frag -.. ments of other writings deed to John H. Prentiss canceled checks, and: personal and business letters of Coop- er to Micah Sterling, Robert ' Camp- bell, Mrs. Peter Jay, Mrs. George Pomeroy, Messrs. Straiffer &: Town- send and others.
E. Beadle family papers, 1777-1894, 14 items, comprising: genealogical materials, an account ;of David Beadle for 1777-79; deeds, three of them of Erastus F. Beadle (1821-94), the dime novel king; list of contribu- tors to Beadle's publications; and re- solutions passed at the death of Eras. tus F. Beadle. 1
(To be continued)
Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
(The following list of libraries and oath; stock certificates; receipts for societies and their hoidings with com- dividends; assignment of certificates; record of the leasing of the road to Levi Gray, Dec. 15, 1846; and the iatter's account of expenditures. ments as taken from the "Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collec- tions" prepared by The Historical Records Survey, WPA, . November, 1941. Mimeographed copies of the book are for sale by the New York State Historical Assn., Cooperstown, for. $2.)
(Continued from last week)
N. Y. State Historical Association, Cooperstown, N. Y.
F. < John H. I. Browere collection, 1825-28, 1 v. and 15 photostats, com- prising correspondence, and certifi- cates chiefly concerning' ' life masks supplied by Browere to clients Names prominent in the collection include Charles Carroll, DeWitt Clin- ton, Henry Gilpin, Philip Hone, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, S. F. B. Morse, Rem- brandt Peale, and others. On July 4, 1940 the Central Quarters of. the New York State Historical Associa- tion at Cooperstown opened its Hail of Life Masks, where the likenesses of the living faces of 17 great Am- ericans, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, , John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, and others, have been cast in bronze
from the masks taken by Browere by 1 v. and 1 pieces, comprising docket a secret process since lost.
G. Parafor Carr papers, 1767-89, 31 pieces, consisting mainly of letters from Col. William Edmeston, an offi- cer of the British 48th Regiment who received a large grant of land along the Unadilla River in return Q. Papers of Horace Lathrop, prominent attorney of Cherry Valley, who later moved to Cooperstown, 1810-59, 78 pieces, including legal clerkship agreement, licenses as at- torney and as counselor in the Su- preme Court, appointment as master and examiner in chancery, leases, re- ceipts, promissory notes, and other data. for his services in the French and Indian War, to Sergeant Carr, a for- mer soldier in his command, whom he sent out to manage it. The corres- pondence is concerned chiefly with the details of settling a wilderness tract in the difficult times prior to and during the Revolutionary War. Included are copies of letters (2) from Joseph Brant to Carr (1777, R. Papers of Abiathar H. Watkins, 1778) and of a letter from John Tun- operator of a steam boat line: on Ot- nicliff to William Cooper describing the treatment of Carr by Captain Robert Edmeston (1778.)
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.