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Leonard, J. C., Gloversville, manuf. of gloves and mittels, 19 Mail. Lepart, Augustus, Jonastown blacksmith.
Lesner, Alexander C., Sammons- ville, wag'ci maxer. Lewis, John, ' Gloversville, skin dresser.
Leynaugh, Patrick, Johnstown farmer 99.
Liswell, Abram, Jo .. nistown, gro- ceries, provisions, fruits, crocker. „-assware, etc., north side Main. L'sasl, W. Y., Johnstown, paper
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(Orerkirk and Lockland). Locklin, D. V. L., Gloversville, manuf. of gloves and mittens, Mason House.
Lord, Martin P., Johnstown (Lord and Yost.)
Lord and Yost, Johnstown (Martin P. Lord and Edward Yost). meat market, south side Main.
Lothridge, Robert, Johnstown, far- mer 95.
Lotridge, Charles, Johnstown, cheese manuf.
Lowry, A. J., Gloversville (Lowry and Jeffers. )
Lowry and Jeffers, Gloversville ( A. J. Lowry and Solomon Jeffers, ) man- ufs. of gloves and . mittens, 52
Bleecker.
Luther, John, Johnstown, kid dress- er.
: Lyke, Charles, Gloversville (Lyke and Robertson.)
Lyke and Robertson, Gloversville, (Chas. Lyke and James Robertson,)> giove and mitten manufs. 72 Main .. MacDonald, Isaac, Gloversville; manuf. paper boxes, 999 Fulton.
Malone, John, Gloversville, far-
mer 140.
( Malone, John, Jr., Gloversville
(with John), farmer.
· Mann, John, Sammonsviile, miller. Mann, Michael, Gloversville, mas- ter mason.
Mapes, John, Johnstown, farmer 2. Marley, A. C., Gloversville, tobac- conist, 136 Main.
· Marple, George, Johnstown, faf- mer 75.'
Marshall, L. T. Gloversville, presi-
dent of Gloversville Manuf. Co."
Martin, Adam, Keck Center, far- mer 7.
Martin, Alexander. P., Keck Cen- ter, farmer leases 994.
. Martin, George ,Keck Center, far mer 180.
Martin, Henry, Sammonsville,
blacksmith. Martin, Jacob, Sammonsville,
(Martin and Keck.) Martin, John H., Keck Center, teamster.
Martin, Joseph, Keck Center, far- mer leases 57.
Martin, Joseph D., . Gloversville, customm blacksmith, corner' Fremont and Middle. (To be continued)
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Ancestral Trails Along the Mohawk
By L. Worrick McFee In tracing vues ancestry in the Mohawk Vailey section of New York
j. (Address given by L. Worrick Mc- Fee, editor-in-chief of "Wisconsin State, it is not necessary to do as much actual, personal field work as Families," at the third annual Gen- ealogical Conference of the Wiscon- sin State Historical Society, at Mad- ison.)
it was a few years ago, for there ¡are now several good depositories of original and transcribed records, and there are many other practical aids.
(Continued from last week.)
As to possible aid from current In the first piace, there are such large and active organizations as periodicals and local newspapers: I the New York Genealogicai and Bi- remind you of the excellent articies ographical Society, New York City; and references to old Mohawk Val-
New York Historical Society located ley families to be found from time to at 71st time in the New York Genealogical Street and Central Park,
West; New York Historical Asso-
and Biographical Record, in its sev- ciation, with one of its two head-
enty-second year of existence. Sec-
ohd, I call your attention to a newer quarters at Ticonderoga and a newer publication, EARLY SETTLERS OF one at Cooperstown; and Mohawk Valley · Historical -, Association, of
NEW YORK STATE, edited at Ak-
Ton, N. Y., by Mrs. Janet (Wethey) which Mr., Harry, Bush ,, of Canajo- harie : (now deceased) is president. Foley, and issued monthly. The vol- umes for the first six years con tain about 70,000 records of early New York State persons, not a few Then too each of the valley counties has a well-organized historical so- ciety and ,each of the cities and vil- iages a public library ;. and there are various other local organizations and
interested Individuals collecting and
preserving valuable papers and vi- : you, if you are looking for a prac- tal records.
The extensive and praiseworthy
tical tool, the weekly newspaper, ST. JOHNSVILLE ENTERPRISE AND
work of the New York Genealogteal NEWS, edited by Lou D. MacWethy arid Biographical Society is too well (now by Stanley K. Iverson.) This known to need any special descrip-" small-town newspaper has become tion even to a Middle Western au- famous as a medium for collecting and preserving the history of the dience. I am sure that no one here today needs to be introduced to their
Mohawk Vailey and as an exchange fine magazine, THE RECORD; and for genealogical information. Besides giving the ordinary, local news for the community readers, the paper carries special articies about histori- cai and early settlers, and main- tains a question and answer depart- ment for family data. This page is to New York people what the gene- alogical department of the Boston Mass. Transcript and the Hartford TIMES, and the Monmouth DEMO- CRAT are to Massachusetts, Con- necticut and New Jersey people. The editor himseif says, "Our appeal is to the descendants of those hardy pioneers who did so much towards founding an empire and who had no writers to perpetuate their memory." That mission worked out in practice makes the ENTERPRISE AND NEWS almost indispensable to Val- ley genealogists. I have received many hints and much definite information from its columns, one certain query about my Henry Walrath having brought me four answering ietters, although'" on "an'average every fourth or fifth query brings an an- swer. An index 'of the main family references in this paper, for the years 1932 to 1936, has been compiled by the Archives Department at Fon- da and another index for later years is to be done soon.
that many of you have already had help from it. As you know, the so- ciety has one of the finest collec- tions of data to be found anywhere in the country. Probably you know too of the famous collection of books, maps; manuscripts and ' engravings of the New York Historical Society. However, with the possibilities of some of the smaller, more local, or- ganizations, you may not be familiar. Several of these historicai, groups in the Valley have quite sizable libraries of their own, and are. glad to look up records and report results by mail for small fees. Oftentimes such work- ers have access to several different collections and succeed in findng and copying data better thany any of us could, even if we were on the spot. For example, members of the Oneida Historical Society, Utica be- sides their own good library, have access to such other things as the land records of the Oneida County Cierk's Office, the wiiis and admin- istration papers of the Surrogate's cemetery, church, and Bible records in the Utica Public Library and in the DAR library, which is housed in the Historical Socety's headquarters. As . would be expected, the New York State Library at Albany has a very large collection of historical and genealogical material for up- state New York. I have had much courteous and practical advice from Miss Edna L. Jacobsen, head of the Manuscripts and History Section. In
one case, for example, I received copies of the calendar entries of an early land grant as recorded in "New York Colonial Manuscripts en- dorsed Land Papers," and a little later photostats of parts of the orig- inal records. At several other times I secured through Miss Jacobson painstakingiy compiled abstracts of Revolutionary War service records.
Probably the principal source in the New York State Library for gen- ealogical information on Mohawk Valley families is their collection of church records. They have aiso three series of typewritten records made up by the 178 chapters of the state DAR, each series of several volumes. The first of these series is "DAR Graves" (containing inscriptions and considerable personal data); thẻ second is "DAR Bible Records," and the third, "DAR Cemetery, Church and Town Records." Since vital sta- tistics were not kept officially in New York State previous to 1880,. when the Bureau of Vital Statistics in the State Board of Heaith was created, these series of DAR records constitute the chief source of records of early births, marriages and deaths.
Of course, the New. York State Adjutant General's Office, the State Department of Education and the Court, and eieven type volumes of | State Board of Health all have many. special records of value. By the way, the State Board of Health has about 100 odd records of marriages and about 100 of deaths, prior to 1880 .. which they / are willing to peruse and report on, even though such records were not kept officially until 1880. Besides these state departments, I should mention the New York Pub- lic Library, which has often given me suggestions and material.
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Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
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Schenectady Historical Society Schenectady, N. Y. (Continued from last week)
H. Dr. W .N. P. Dailey Collection, 1736, 17 v., 6 file boxes and 125 piec- es of manuscripts.
1. Notes and articles compiled 'by Dr. Dailey on a variety of subjects pertaining to the history of Sche- nectady and vicinity, 1911, 15 v. Top- ics covered include Indian history; the Schenectady Massacre; Schenectady schools, churches and
early
newspapers; folklore; golf and baseball; transportation on the Hud- son and Mohawk rivers; historic houses and forts in the Mohawk Val- ley; early apprenticeships; scientific inventions and tools; the Mohawk Valley In the Revolution; Union Col- lege graduates who became minis- ters of Reformed Churches 1772- 1912 Dutch Reformed Churches in Schenectady and their pastors, 1860- 1936; the Huguenots; early Dutch settlements; biographical sketches and addresses on famous American's, including George Washington, Abra- ham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Walter Butler, Charles P. Steinmetz, and many others; the United States Constitution; an historical causerie, questioning the historicity of Inci- dents and statements in connection with Independence Day, John Smith and Pocahontas, Rev. Cotton Math- er and the Quakers, Washington crossing the Delaware, the first church and school in America, the first free school In the province of New York, Blue Laws and other
May 26, 1825; minutes of meetings of the Particular Synod' of Albany 1814-15; minutes of the Consistory of the Church of Westerlo, 1813; min- utes 'of joint meeting's of the consis- tories of the Reformed Dutch church of Middletown and Westerlo in the town , of Canajoharie 1811,-1821; minutes of the comsistory of the Reformed Dutch church in Canajo- harie 1811-12, 1825-26, 1835-36; notes on baptisms; correspondence; remon- strances; data relating to the Classis of Montgomery; and records of doc- trinal controversies; particularly re- specting the doctrine of atonement as held by Rev. Conrad Ten Eyck .. 3. Miscellaneous materials, includ- ing: Toll family arithmetic books (9 v.) and "Geographical Exercises" (1 v.); accounts, bills,
bonds, notes, agreements, insurance policies, deeds, leases, mortgages, surveys, and oth- er papers of the Toll family, partic- uarly Charles and Philip R. Toll; per- sonal correspondence of Rev. John C., Charles H., Nicholas M., and Philip R. Toll; letters from Eve Veeder (daughter of Charles H. Toll who moved to Indiana and Illinols), throwing light on frontier life in the 1820s and 1830s; catalogue of books belonging to school district No. 10 In the town of Glenville (1844); and copies of letters of J. DeWitt Toll, while serving overseas during the World War, 1917-19.
J. Henry Glen papers, 1767-1813, 375 pieces. Relate largely to Henry Glen's service during the Revolution as deputy · quartermaster general and later as agent for transporting troops and stores. Included are ac- counts, invoices, reports 'on bids and contracts and correspondence regard- ing the provisioning of troops at var- ious army posts and the settlement of his accounts with the Treasury Department. Correspondents include Morgan Lewis, General Henry Dear- born, William | Simmons, Samuel Hodgson, Elisha Jenkins, Abraham Cuyler, John N. Bleecker, General James Wilkinson, John E. Van Alen, Anthony Lamb, Stephen Van Rensse- laer, Abraham, Van Eps, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and others. (To be continued)
GEN. WAINWRIGHT TO JOIN SYRACUSE CHAPTER, SAR
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright will join the Syracuse chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, it was an- 'nounced last week by Joseph H. Schaefer, secretary.
Murray Hulbert, president of the state society, notified the Syracuse Chapter in a letter that the general's application for membership was sign- ed during the homecoming celebra- tion in New York city. ,
'One of the' proposers was General Beebe, Wainwright's chief of staff in the Phillppines and a member of the state society of Wisconsin. General Douglas McArthur will be another proposer. Hulbert, a federal judge, accepted the acknowledgement. A copy of the document, when the sig- natures are completed, will be given to the Syracuse chapter and placed In the Syracuse library.
Proof Prepared
Gen. Wainwright qualified for.' membership through the services of Judge John Phelps (1736-1808) of' Stafford Springs, Conn. ,and Capt. Samuel Broome (1735-1810) of New York city. The ancestral lines and proof of service data were prepared by the Syracuse chapter's genealo- Fgist and furnished to the state so- ciety,
John Phelps was, justice of the
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Ancestral Trails Along the Mohawk
By L. Worrick McFee (Continued from last week.)
Very probably the most prolific source of records dealing especially with the Mohawk Valley 'is the Montgomery County; Historlan's col- lection at Fonda. The office is now technically known as the Department of History and Archives, and is for- tunate in having as its director, Ed- ward J. Sheehan, an experienced and enthusiastic historian. The set-up of this department was organized with kind in the state, but is being follow- ed by several other counties now. In 1936, with a WPA appropriation, this department was organized with Mr. Sheehan as head and with the well-known Valley historians, Messrs. L. D. MacWethy, Robert Hartley, Melvin Lethbridge, John Wymman, William Barclay and Harry Bush, as an advisory board. For four years this department has been ferreting out town and village records, school records, highway books, old church books, cemetery inscriptions, census records, military lists, old land trans- fers and all sorts of kindred material,; too valuable to be lost. All such re- cords, which are still being collected, are transcribed and filed systematl- cally for future historical, genealog- Ical, and legal use. Even though the work is far from complete, to date the department has copied about 500 sets of records and has had the copies bound for convenient use. Lat- er, I understand, quite detailed in- dexes will make the records still more usable.
Besides these local records, the dc- partment has the nucleus of a col- lection of genealogical works and in- dividual family records and papers, including those for the families of Leavitt, Voorhees, Bowman, Quack- enbush, Lasher, D'Allenbach, Klock, Frey, Enders, Van Slyke, Hudson, Brower, Allen, Putman, and Hall. Some of the department's historical papers of interest to research work- ers in the Mohawk Valley are David Cady's HISTORIC PEBBLES (arti- cles on early Amsterdam), W. Max Reid's Hollander Papers (fifty-
nine articles on early valley history, ) MOHAWK VALLEY HISTORICAL ARTICLES (good Schenectady re- ferences), and Prof. R. L Grider's HISTORICAL WRITINGS, The de- partment has, 'besides the several hundred transcriptlons of special sets of records, between. 50,000 and _60,- 000 'documents pertaining to the county, and the minutes of the Court of Common Pleas from 1772 to 1848 and has ready access to all records of the Montgomery ' County Clerk's Office and the Surrogate's Office, In the same building.
. Not all my help in following my ancestral trails along the Mohawk Has come from the original records or the transcriptions in the Valley
itself, and from the various, books and pamphlets to which I have refer- red. Several Important aids and Items, have turned up-oftentimes unex- pectedly or coincidentally and some- times in places far away from the Valley. In fact, In tracing my Mo- hawk Valley ancestry, I have had many a thrilling surprise, and have found ample proof of the idea that for genealogists the whole world is the field .
For example, after I had almost given up hope of getting any help from old newspapers of Cherry Val- ley, because of the loss by fire of the printer's file, I learned of an incomplete file of the Otsego GA- ZETTE AND EXAMINER (later the Cherry Valley GAZETTE), at the Li- brary of Congress in Washington; and secured from the issue of April 9, 1857, verification of the death date of my great great grandfather, Peter Ough. It was, an additional surprise to learn that a bound vol- ume of the Cherry Valley paper for, the year 1819 had been found in the * attic In Wauwatosa, Wis., twenty. miles from my present home. As' an- other example, when I wrote to the New York State Library to inquire about the . whereabouts of some
Cooperstown papers of 1844, I was advised that I could find a copy of the one I needed right here in our own Wisc. Historical Society files. To illustrate again, and to show at the same time the possible, far- reaching result of an item printed in the St. Johnsville, N. Y. newspa- per: I wished to learn the source of the 1795 date given in C. Ellis Flint's THE FLINT FAMILY for the marriage of my ancestors, Adam, Jr. and Mary (Potter)) Flint. The author had recently died and his wife to whom I wrote, did not know of the source. The only other data I had were from the gravestone inscription in the Presbyterian Church cem- etery at Buel. My query, printed in THE ENTERPRISE AND NEWS of October 6;" 1937, was answered three days later by a letter from Mr. Ralph N. Flint of Detroit,' Mich., in which he stated that the date of the Potter-Flint marriage was taken sev- eral years before by Mrs. Lillian Van Dusen of Fonda, N. Y., from an old Bible in the possession of Mrs. Lu- clus Nestle of Fort Plain; and that most of the data about the family of this second Adam Flint as printed in, THE FLINT FAMILY came from the same Bible. I was doubly sur- prised, for Mrs. Lucious Nestle stills living, Is my aunt; and the Bible re- ferred to was my own grandmother's,. a Bible which had been, all during my boyhood, in our own house, where my grandmother made her home, and which had in more recent years been mislaid. It is now a treasured pos- session of a cousin.
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H. Dr. W .N. P. Dailey Collection, 1736, 17 v., 6 file boxes and 125 piec- es of manuscripts.
. 1. Notes and articles compiled 'by Dr. Dailey on a variety of subjects pertaining to the history of Sche- nectady and vicinity, 1911, 15 v. Top- ics covered include Indian history; the Schenectady Massacre; early Schenectady schools, churches and
newspapers; folklore; golf and baseball; transportation on the Hud- son and Mohawk rivers; historlc houses and forts in the Mohawk Val- ley; early apprenticeships; scientific inventions and tools; the Mohawk Valley in the Revolution; Union Col- lege graduates who became minls- ters of Reformed Churches 1772- 1912 Dutch Reformed Churches in Schenectady and their pastors, 1860- 1936; the Huguenots; early Dutch settlements; biographical sketches and addresses on famous American's, including George Washington, Abra- ham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, -Walter Butler, Charles P. Steinmetz, and many others; the United States Constitution; an historical causerle, questioning the historicity of incl- dents and statements in connection with Independence Day, John Smith and Pocahontas, Rev. Cotton Math- er and the Quakers, Washington crossing the Delaware, the first church and school in America, the first free school' in the province of New York, Blue Laws and other subjects.
2. Transcriptlons of original manu- scripts, including records of the Am- erican Revolution, local church re- cords of births and marriages, cem- etery inscriptions, correspondence between George Washington and per- sons connected with the Dutch Church at Kingston, and records of the Dorp (village) of Schenectady, 1751-63 (1 v., translated by Mrs., M. W. Cormack.) - 1
3. Original documents, including: charter of the founding of Prince- town Academy Oct. 20, 1853; record book of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1858, 1 v .; Swits family papers, 1753-1848, 10 pieces; and other data.
I. Toll Collection, 49 v. and 3 car- tons of unsorted materials, includ- ing:
1. Business Records 1809-93, 38 v., comprising account books, invoice books, ledgers, daybooks, cashbooks, journals and memorandum books of various members of the Toil family (John C. Toll, Nicholas M. Toll, Phil- ip R. Toll, and Frank R. Toll) relat- ing largely to the operation of Toll's Vinegar Works, but including farm journals, records of personal ex- penses, Frank R. Toil's accounts with the town of Glenville for his services as town clerk (1885, 1887), and other financial data.
2. Church Records, including: ser- mons of Rev. John C. Toll; "Middle- town Society Records of Contribu- tion Money," 1 v., containing ac- counts of monies collected and ex- pended by treasurers (1806-13), re- cords of meetings of the Consistories of Westerloo and Middletown at the house of their pastor, Rev. John C. Toli 1822, and minutes of the con-
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GEN. WAINWRIGHT TO JOIN SYRACUSE CHAPTER, SAR
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright will join the Syracuse chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, It was an- Inounced last week by Joseph H. Schaefer, secretary.
Murray Hulbert, president of the state soclety, notified the Syracuse Chapter In a letter that the general's application for membership was sign- ed during the homecoming celebra -! tion in New York city. ,
One of the proposers was General Beebe, Wainwright's chief of staff In the Philippines and a member of the state society of Wisconsin. General Douglas McArthur will be another proposer. Hulbert, a federal judge, accepted the acknowledgement. A copy of the document, when the sig- natures are completed, will be given to the Syracuse chapter and placed in the Syracuse library.
Proof Prepared
Gen. Wainwright qualified for, membership through the services of Judge John Phelps (1736-1808) of Stafford Springs, Conn. ,and Capt. Samuel Broome (1735-1810) of New York city. The ancestral lines and proof of service data were prepared by the Syracuse chapter's genealo- rgist and furnished to . the state "so- ciety,
John Phelps was justice of the peace of Hartford county until 1779, when he was elected a delegate to the general assembly of Connecticut. In 1775 he participated in the elec- tion of a blast furnace In. Stafford for the manufacture of cannon balls and other munitlons for. the conti- nentai army. He also served in the 12th Connecticut mllitia.
Capt. Samuel Broome served as a member of the committee of 100 for the city and county of New York in May, 1775. He also was captain in Coi. Alexander McDougall's regi- ment, New York, of the continental' army. In July, 1775, he was appoint- ed captain in Coi. John Lasher's bat- talion, New York city militia. In ad- dition, his firm assisted in outfitting privateers, which harried British shipping.
The two patriots were the grand- fathers of Amelia Maria Phelps, wife of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wain- wright, Episcopal bishop of New York and the great-grandfather of Gen. Wainwright.
His election for membership by the national society will take place early next month. The Syracuse chapter will add a 29th star to its world war 2 service ' flag and will participate in the "remembrance" celebration with a display in the win- dow of the Merchants National bank.
Except for northern New York, practically every potato couney f the state has reported damage from leaf hoppers and blight, reports Prof. E. V. Hardenburg of the College of Agriculture at Corneii.
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enbush, Lasher, D'Allenbach, Klock, Frey, Enders, Van Slyke, Hudson, Brower, Allen, Putman, and Hall. Some of the department's historical papers of Interest to research work- ers In the Mohawk Valley are David Cady's HISTORIC PEBBLES (arti- cles on early Amsterdam), W. Max Reid's Hollander Papers (fifty- nine articles on early valley history,) MOHAWK VALLEY HISTORICAL ARTICLES (good Schenectady re- ferences), and Prof. - R. L Grider's HISTORICAL WRITINGS The de- partment has, besides the several hundred transcriptlons of special sets of records, between. 50,000 ,and _60,- 000 documents pertaining to the county, and the minutes of the Court of Common Pleas from 1772 to 1848 and has ready access to all records of the Montgomery ' County Clerk's Office and the Surrogate's Office, in the same building.
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