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1922. Register 1 vol. Arr. chron .. Indexed alph. by. children. Includes . deaths. Custodian .. Emmet Martin, . town clerk (of. Wilna), Carthage, N ... Y.
Mannsville (1879)
. 1901-13. Record, 1 vol. Arr. chron ... Indexed alph. by childdren. Custo- dian M. G. Dealing, registrar of vi- tal statistics, Mannsville, N. Y. 1914. Register, 2 vols. Arr, chron. Indexed : alph. by .children. In- cludes deaths. Custodian M. G."Deal- ing, registrar of vital statistics, 1. AT_V.
Wapt. VCL. 3V, ITS4; sponsors, MarTe Elizabeth and Herman Hauss.
Parents, Jurrian Hauss and wife Catherine Earhart; child, Maria Dor- othea bapt. Jan. 7, 1736; sponsors, Henrich Knieskern and Maria Doro- thea Wanner.
Parents, Conrad Rickert and Eliz- abeth Hauss; child, Christian bapt. April 25, 1736; sponsors, Harmon Hauss and Barbara Wanner.
Schoharie Lutheran Church re- cords:
Parents, Conrad Rickert and wife Elizabeth; child, Elizabeth bapt. March 19, 1733; sponsors Johannes Layer and Elizabeth Schaeffer.
Elizabeth; child, no name given, bapt. Oct. 5, 1732; sponsors, William Fox and wife Eva.
Stone Arabia Lutheran Church rec- ords: ,
Parents, Johannes Mehr and Anna Christina; child, Conrad, bapt. Dec. still were usually feminine, but Hate- 23, 1754; sponsors Conrad Hauss and wife Engelga.
George Hauss and Maria Gumels (Campbell) married Jan. 20, 1761. Place of record not given:
Gertrude; child, Margretha born Sept. 11, 1768; sponsors, Johannes Van Slick, Sr. and wife Margretha. Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz, Ger- man Flatts church record:
Johannes Hauss and wife " Lana; Child, Abraham born April 25, 1786; Moonsors Abraham; 'Herkimer and fatherine' Rosencrantz.
Note: Abraham Herkimer was a son of Henry Herkimer, and wife Catherina. Henry " Herkimer was a brother of General Nicholas Herki- mer of Oriskany battle fame. Cath- erine Rosencrantz was a daughter of Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz who married Anna Maria Herkimer, a sister of General Herkimer and Hen- ry Herkimer. John House in 1790 liv- ed on a farm at Indian Castle ad- jscription from too glaring light.
joining the farm of Catherine Herki- mer who is. presumed to have been the widow of Henry Herkimer. (To be continued)
GENEALOGICAL WORLD
The September issue of the Nation al Genealogical Quarterly which has just arrived contains an article on "English Friends' Meeting Records," by Milton Rubincam, Green Mead- ows, Maryland; a miscellaneous in- dex of family data in the Hall of Records at Annapolis, Marylandd Genealogies in course of .preparation and recent books of interest to the genealogist (some of them have been listed in The Enterprise and News); and abstracts of Revolution- ary War Pension Applications.
A complete name index to "Tur- ner's History of the Phelps and Gor- ham Purchase," published in 1851, has been published recently. The new work containing more than 4,500 names and over 7,000 references en- ables researchers to quickly find the name of the Western New York pi- oneers in which they are interest:"
1. Local expression on national peace,
questions; the elections of 1942 and (To be continued)
Early Churches in New York State
A brief summary delivered by H. A. McConville before the Schenectady Genealogical Society on May 11, (Continued from last week)
were named Mindwell, Silence, Hu- mility, Recompense, Submit and Tem- perance. (but one Temperance named her daughter Desire.) More men were named Pardon. (More in need of it ?) Hopestill, Abovehope and Wait-
vil was for the sterner sex. Concur- rance had a sister named Trial, so may have needed it. Lowly Eliza, Suffrance, Mourning and Admoni- tion are not to be envied their names
Alds In" Deciphering"Gravestone Inscriptions
Among the tools for this purpose are coarse and fine wire brushes, good stout trowel, a hatchet if there is much brush to clear away (and in case one meets a snake!) and ' a pinch bar will help in lifting a fallen stone. If poor light or light from the wrong angle presents a problem, à pocket mirror often helps and a dark cloth may help by shielding an in-
Chalk is a necessity.' Rubbed on the face of a weathered stone it will of- ten bring out an otherwise illegible inscription. One that was listed as il- legible except for the first name, in the DAR cemetery records, Albany, yielded to the last letter when chalk was used. There are times when rub- bings are the easiest way to obtain an inscription and for that one needs a large sheet of wrapping paper and a lumberman's marking crayon' or other soft lead with which to rub over the paper, held flat against the stone, (just as you once reproduced the face of a coin, remember ?)
"Think not that the nobilitie of
your ancestors doth free you to doe all that you list, contrarywise, it bindeth you more to follow virtue." -Erondell.
Preserve records of our own day. Tho well known to us, future gen- erations will not know the story of the day unless we record it.
Do label all heirlooms and keep a written record of them besides. It immeasurably increases their values and interest to know their story. THE END
THEY'RE A COMPLEMENT
.To good food, and whet jaded ap- petites. They're dry. That's one rea- son why Utica Club Ale and Beer L'e preferred by millions .- Adv.
Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley --
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BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAGE RECORDS (Continued from last week) JEFFERSON COUNTY.
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Henderson (1886)
-- 1847-50, 1883Register, 5 vols: Arr. chron. 1847-50, 1883-1913, no: index; 1914, indexed alph. by children .! Includes marriages 1847-50, 1883- - 1907 and deaths 1847-50, 18-3. Cus -- todian O. W. Forward, town clerk,. .. (of Henderson), Henderson, N. Y. Herrings (1921)
1922. Register 1 vol. Arr. chron .. Indexed alph. by. children. Includes : deaths. Custodian. . Emmet Martin, . town clerk (of. Wilna), Carthage, N ...
Y. Mannsville (1879)
. 1901-13. Record, 1 vol. Arr. chron ... Indexed alph. by childdren. Custo- dian M. G. Dealing, registrar of vi- tal statistics,-Mannsville, N. Y.
1914. Register, 2 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by\"children. " In- cludes deaths. Custodian M. G. Deal- ing, 'registrar of vital statistics, Mannsville, N. Y.
Philadelphia ·(1872)
1847-50. Record, 21 paper. Arr. chron. No index. Includes marriage es and deaths. Custodian, Edwin. A. Drake, registrar of vital statistics, Phildaelphia, N. Y.
1883. Register, 5 vols. Arr. chron. 1883-1907, no index; 1908 indexed al- ph. by children. Includes marriages 1883-1907 and deaths 1883-1907, 1914. Custodian Edwin A . Drake, registrar of vital statistics, Phila- delphia, N. Y.
Sackets Harbor (1814)
1882. Register, 4 vols. Arr. chron. 1883-1913, no index; 1914 indexed alph, by children. Includes marriages, 1882-1908 and deaths 1882. Custodian Jenni B Carpenter, village clerk, Sackets Harbor, N. Y ., (To be continued)
LADIES!
Lets abolish this Male Line of De- scent business. Register both names in the Maiden Name Directory -- Cross indexed with the Genealogy Di- rectory for 15c stamps and self ad- dressed stamped envelope. Harry A Odell, P. 'O. Box 899, Church street Annex 8, New York City. 11 -- 21-3t
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Was there any significance in largely confining names of virtues as well as hopes and fears to the Parents, Conrad Rikert and wife distaff side? Of course they alone
.. Johannes Van Slaick, Jr. and wife and Sobriety and Duty were hard names to live · up to (or to live down.) Why did Isaac Hill name a son Billious ? How could one be sure, Peaceable would prove appropriate ? For lack of space we end the list here.
MOHLW
GENEALOGY AND HISTORY
St. Johnsville Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville. N. Y.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946
Questions and Answers A department devoted to the pursuit of knowledge. No charge to regular subscribers. Any reader, whether subscriber or not, is invited. to submit answers. Give dates, places and sources.
CONE, HUNGERFORD, GATES
Rachel Cone born Oct. 9, 1735, E. and 1795. Wanted dates of birth and Haddam, daughter of Daniel and death of Nathaaniel and Dolly and
Mary (Spencer) Cone, married Dec. 8, 1756, E. Haddam, Nathaniel Hun- gerford born May 23, 1733, E. Had- dam, died there 1807. Their children were Jehiel Daniel, Stephen, Nathan- iel, Elhu, Amos, Mehitable, Lydia and Mary. At least _ Jehiel Daniel, Nathaniel, Elihu and Amos moved from East Haddam to Frankfort, Herkimer county, N. Y. Rachen Cone Hungerford died Frankfort. Wanted date of her death and place of bur- ial. -
Nathaniel Hungerford, Jr. born about 1704, married Nov. 5, 1788 Dolly Gates born 1767, still living 1850 in Frankfort aged 81, with her son Divdatt. Nathaniel and Doliy removed from E. Haddam to
Frankfort some time between 1790
dhere buried. They had children at least Octavia born Jan., 1790; Steph- en born Nov., 1793 and Divdatt.
Wanted birth record of Divdatt or Divdatus, his marriage date and whom he married; list of children. HOPKINS
Jason Hopkins born Oct. 3, 1801, New York, died May 21, 1859, Ra- cine, Wisc., married Oct. 10, 1822, Gilbertsville, Otsego county, N. Y. Fannie Ward born March 21, 1804, Gilbertsville, died Feb., 1875, Hol- land, Mich.
It is possible Jason had a sister Priscilla Hopkins who married Jay Ward. Wanted ancestry of Jason
Hopkins.
Grace C. Keeler
25 West 9th Street,
Holland, Mich.
CLARK
Sylvanus Clark born probably in N. Y. State was the youngest of 13 children. Hi s father was Asa Clark who lived to the age of 87 and was named for his father and grand- father, Asa Clark. In 1920 the ds. scendants of one branch only, num- bered 103. Sylvanus Clark, a Bap-} tist deacon for 50 years, married Rebecca Warner, born July 14, 1813. They lived in Holland Patent, near,, Utica, Oneida county, N. Y. where the eldest of four children, Sarah." Ann was born July 9, 1844. About 1850 the family removed to southern Michigan where in 1867 Sarah Ann Clark married George Ferris Mc- Ray. Want data of the other three' Clark children but more particularly. data of Sylvanus Clark and his pro- jenitors, the Asa Clarks, one, two, and three and their spouses. Mrs. J. Harry Baker,
2732 Mabel street,
Berkeley 2, Calif.
Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
AND NEARBY BIRTII, DEATH AND MARRIAGE RECORDS (Continued from last week) JEFFERSON COUNTY ALLEGANY COUNTY ANGELICA
1847-53, 1888. Record, 8 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph, by childreni. In- cludes marriages and deaths. Cus- todian L. W. Messenger, town clerk, Angellca, N. Y.
BELFAST
1882. Record, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Gailmann, town clerk, Belfast, N. Y. Y.
BIRDSALL
1887. Record, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes mariages and deaths. Custodian T. S.Manning, town clerk, Birdsall, N. Y .... .
BOLIVAR
1847-49, 1882. Record, 14 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph, by chiid- ren. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Maude Maxson, town cierk, Bolivar, N. Y. BURNS
1887., Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Mrs. Jennie Mitchell, Wheeler, town clerk, Canaseraga, N. Y.
CENTERVILLE
1902. Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Mrs. Winifred Poweli, town clerk, Centerville, N. Y ...
CLARKSVILLE
1890." Certificates, ! 6 vols. Arr. num. Indexed alph. . by children.
The Myth and Reality of the Early Log Cabin
(Continued from last week)
Father Jogues in 1643 described Fort Orange, now Albany, as "a miserable .. structure of logs," that consisted of some 25 or 30 houses roughly built of boards and roofed with thatch, scattered along the riv- er and below the fort. The al- lusion to the "miserable structure of logs" apparently referred to. the Fort, for he peaks of the houses as "roughly built of boards." There is no doubt that the Fort was sur- rounded with log pallsades after the fashion of the Indian castles in the Mohawk Valley, and which the white settlers copied most everywhere. There is no mention . in Father Jogues record of log houses with walls of logs laid horizontally with the ends notched and chinked with clay. It Is possible that there were log. block, houses within the pall- sades at Fort Orange but they were used as military defenses and were quite different from the log dwell.
straw and chimneys of wood. Wind
Arent Van Curler at Rensselaer- wyck on June 16th, 1643 wrote Kiillen Van Rensselaer, the First Pa- troon, in Holland about a house for the newly arrived Rev. John Mega- polensis. He complains in his letter about a carpenter with whom he had made a contract when sober, to built a house and then the carpenter went on a long debauch. Van Vurler was so disgusted with the carpenter that he purchased "a house of oak wood, all ready, cross casings, door casings, all of wood" for 350 guild- ers. Apparently this house for Dominie Megapolensis was not a log house. Here we have another exam- ple of Dutch economy and trading ability. "They were better traders than ' farmers.
Neither did the first French in Canada build log houses. In the journal of Sieur de Monts, who ad- companled Samuel . Champlain to. Canada in 1604 he writes of the set- tlement on the River Sainte Croix and describes "the dwelling of M. de Monts, built of fair sawn timber, with the banner of France over- head." After passing a miserable winter there the French removed to Port Royal, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Funday. De Monts says: "the buildings which cost , a thousand labours were pulled down to trans- port. To finish all this took several voyages." These buildings must have been framed buildings as ""sawn' timber" was used in their construc- eltion and it would have been sense
No index. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian Mrs. Gertrude for water wheels were erected here! Wood, town clerk, Swain, N . Y. HUME and there to grind corn or to saw lumber. The City of Albany contain- 1847. Record, 7 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. For some of the early years there are gaps in the records. Custodian, Carl Fritz, town clerk, Fillmore, N. Y. INDEPENDENCE ed in 1646 not more than ten hous- es." Albany claims to be the old- est city of permanent settlement in the original thirteen colonies. The first permanent settlers sent over from . Holland came ,direct to Al- bany. Both New Amsterdam and Fort Orange had previously been military and trading posts.
1886. Record, 6 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes mrariages and deaths . Custodian. H. M. Bassett,. town clerk, Whites- ville, N. Y.
(To be continued)
VALLET
1847-53, 1888. Record, 8 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. In- cludes marriages and deaths. Cus- todian L. W. Messenger, town clerk, Angelica, N. Y.
BELFAST
1882. Record, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodlan, Gallmann, town clerk, Belfast, N. Y. Y.
BIRDSALL
1887. Record, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes mariages and deaths. Custodian T. S. Manning, town clerk, Birdsall, N.Y ... .
BOLIVAR
1847-49, 1882. Record, 14 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by child- ren. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Maude Maxson, town clerk, Bolivar, N. Y. BURNS
1887., Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron. no doubt that the Fort was sur- Indexed alph, by children. Includes rounded with log palisades after the marriages and deaths. Custodian, fashion of the Indian castles in the Mrs. Jennle Mitchell, Wheeler, town clerk, Canaseraga, N. Y. CENTERVILLE
1902. Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed 'alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Mrs. Winifred Powell, town clerk, Centerville, N. Y.
CLARKSVILLE
1890. Certificates, 6 vols, Arr. num. Indexed alph. by children. Custodian, - Malcolm- W. Lewis, town clerk, West Clarksville, N. Y.
1890.' Record, 6 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Calcolm W. Lewis, town clerk, West Clarksville, N. Y. CUBA
1882-96, 1905. Register, 10 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by child- ren. Includes deaths 1914. Custodian R. M. Wheeler, town clerk, Cuba, N. Y.
FRIENDSHIP
1882, Register, 7 vols. Arr. cron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1882-1901 and deaths, 1882-1901, 19933. Custodian Floyd E. Barrett, town clerk, Friendship, N. Y.
GENESEO
1883. Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Fred M. Burdick, town clerk, Little Gencseo, N. Y.
GRANGER
1847-53, 1889. Record, 5 vols. ren. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian Lloyd E. Voss, town clerk, Fillmore, N. Y.
GROVE
1886. Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron.
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H. M. Bassett, town clerk, Whites- ville, N. Y. (To be continued)
The Myth and Reality of the Early Log Cabin
(Continued · from last week)
Father Jogues in 1643 described Fort Orange, now Albany, as "s miserable, structure of logs," that consisted of some 25 or 30 houses roughly built of boards and roofed with thatch, scattered along the riv- er and below the fort. The al- lusion to the "miserable structure of logs" apparently referred to. the Fort, for he peaks of the houses as "roughly built of boards." There Is
Mohawk Valley and which the white settlers copied most everywhere. There Is no mention in Father Jogues record' of log houses with walls of logs laid horizontally with the ends notched and chinked with clay. It. is possible that there were log. „block houses "within" the pall- sades at Fort Orange but they were used as military defenses and were quite different from the log dwell- ï ings of later years.
The French report of the burning of Schenectady in 1690 says: "Three were upwards of elghty well bullt and well furnished houses in town." No log house is mentioned." When the Dutch began making thelr perma- nent settlements there is no doubt that they built the most substantial structures of any ploneer group for they brought tools, mechanics and builders with them from Holland, something only a few. other pioneer groups did.
Conrad Welser, the Palatine In- dian interpreter of New York and Pennsylvania made this record in his diary began in 1710. "the ground was cleared and log huts erected" at East Camp on the Hudson. Later in speaking of Weiserdorf, the town his father founded in the Schoharle Valley , in 1712, now Middleburg, he ¡ says "There were some forty log houses here." The diary of Conrad Weiser Is a rellable and valuable re- cord of Provincial America between 1710 and 1760.
Peter Kelm visited Albany in 1743 and wrote In his journal: "the hous- es in the town are very neat and partly bullt of brick and covered
E. B. O'Callaghan, a great chron- icler of New York history, in his "Colony of Rensselaerwyck". quotes an ancient record: "1664. The great- er number of houses around Amster. dam (New York ) and Orange (Al- bany), were In those days, low sized bulldings with roofs of reeds
wyck on June 16th, 1643 wrote Killiem Van Rensselaer, the First Pa- troon, In Holland about a house for the newly arrived Rev. John Mega- polensis. He complains in his letter about a carpenter with whom he had made a contract when sober to built a house and then the carpenter went on a long debauch. Van Vurler was so disgusted with the carpenter that he purchased "a house of oak wood, all ready, cross casings, door casings, all of wood" for 350 gulld- ers. Apparently this - house for Dominie Megapolensis was not a 1og house. Here we have another exam- ple of Dutch economy and trading ability. They were better traders
than ' farmers.
Neither did the first French in Canada build log houses. In the journal of Sieur de Monts, who ad- companled Samuel . Champlain to. Canada in 1604 he writes of the set- tlement on the River Sainte Croix and describes "the dwelling of M. de Monts, bullt of falr sawn timber, with the banner of France over- head." After passing & miserable winter there the French removed to Port Royal, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Funday. De Monts says: "the buildings which cost a thousand labours were pulled down to trans- port. To finish all this took several voyages." These buildings must have been framed , buildings as";" sawn timber", was used in their construc- tion and It' would have been sense- less to take apart log buildings and transport them to a place where there was an unlimited supply of; timber.
(To be continued)
HOW
Shall I proceed to trace my ances- try to the Revolution ? *
We have so many inqulrles of this nature that we have prepared the following suggestions:
1 Visit your library and consult New York in the Revolution for the names of ancestors.
Consult government census re- port for 1790 and learn where ances- tor resided at that time. This will give you a number of males and fe- males in family, both over and under 16 years of age at that time and the number of slaves.
from application. Copy will be fur- nished free by government but pho- tostate coples will be charged for.
Send your querles to the Query Column for publication. Very fre- quently a correspondent will have what you want. Entire missing links have been thus recovered. Subscrip- tion rate $3.00 per year.
If you find ancestor engaged in Revolution write Government at the Washington Bureau of Pensions, Re- volutionary Department and ascer- tain if ancestor drew pension. If so with shingles of white pine." No proof of Identity will be obtained log houses are . mentioned. Albany may have been the home town of the first Dutch Clenser Woman. Kalm's journal confirms Irving's Knicker- bocker History of New York and the cleanliness of the Dutch "house- vrow".
Church and cemetery records are available for most of the church- es and cemeteries in Montgomery county, also for adjacent counties. Address Archives Division, Old Court House, Fonda, N. Y.
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LOCAL HISTORY"
MORE DATA. ON THE HOUSE FAMILY
By M. R. Shaver Ransomville, N. Y.
John Varrboss and wife Anna, child, Johannes born Sept. 9, 1780; sponsors Johannes House and wife Lana.
Johannes Haus and wife Lena; child, Engelga born June 6, 1784; sponsors, Conrad House and wife Engelga.
Johannes Haus and wife Lana; child, Garrett born Jan. 24, 1782; sponsors Henrich Uhly and Engelga Van Slyke.
Johannes Haus and wife Magdalc- na; child, John born August 9, 1779; sponsors, John Van Slyke and wife Magdalena.
Johannes Haus; twins, born May 14, 1788 possibly George and Peter; sponsors, Johannes Smidt and George House.
Johannes Smidt and wife Eva; child, Maria Christina born July 28, 1776; bapt. Aug. 4, 1776 ;. sponsors, George House and Maria House.
Robert Robertson and wife Re- becca; child, Robert born Sept. 1, 1776; bapt. Sept. 17, 1776; sponsors Johannes Smidt and wife Eva.
John Smidt and Anna Eva; child, Nicholas born June 24, 1781; bapt .. June 29, 1781; sponsors, Nicholas Tyghart and Engelga Van Slyke. Johannes Smidt and wife Eva; child John born June 16, 1785; bapt. July 3, 1785; sponsors, Johan- nes House and wife Lena.
George Haauss and wife Maria; child, Nicholas born Dec. 3, 1784; bapt. Dec. 5, 1784; sponsors, Nicolas House and Dolly Maybee.
George House and wife Marla; child, Christina born Dec. 31, 1786, bapt. an. 2, 1787; sponsors Cobus Mabee and wife Christina.
Married June 20, 1791 Saul Ab- böt to Dorothea, daughter of Con- rad House.
Harmonas House and wife Margre- tha; child Engelga born Sept. 20, 1777; bapt. Dec. 28, 1777; sponsors Conrad Hauss and wife Engelga.
Christian Hauss and wife Chris- tina; child, Conrad born March 6, 1785; bapt. March 8, 1784; spon- sors Conrad Hauss and wife Engelga. John Hen: Hauss married Lena daughter of Jacob Starring Feb. 3, 1787 (possible 2nd wife).
( Source of records unknown:
Johan Joseph C. Haus and wife Elizabeth; child, Abraham, born March 24, 1795; sponsors, Caenar and wife Eva.
Peter Haus and wife Maria; child Abraham born Feb. 25, 1796; spon- sors, John George and wife Eliza- beth.
Peter C. Haus and wife Anna. child . Abraham born March 6. 1806; sponsors Carl Gerlach and wife Ger- trude.
Nicholas Haus and wife Maria; child Abraham born Aug. 2, 1813; sponsors Conrad Miller and wife Christina.
Abraham Haus and wife Maria; child, Isaac born Sept. 9, 1804; spon- sorg Isaac Wright and Magdalena Nellis.
St. Johnsville Reformed Church record:
Jacob Schaffer and wife Engelga; child, Magdalena bapt. August 26, 1792;' sponsors Johannes Haus and wife Lena.
George House and wife Maria Ma- bee;"child," Conrad bapt. Dec. 14, 1788; sponsors Bartholomew Mabee and Margretha Freymeyer.
George" Haus and Maria - Mabee; child Arina hant Ton, -90 1793. died Nov. 10: Godfrey. Perry borna
BY DONALD D. PARKER .. Brookings, South Dakota ..
"LOCAL HISTORY" -- HOW TO GATHER IT, WRITE IT,
AND PUBLISHI IT'
(Continued from last week)
This outline requires a few 'com- ments to try to anticipate some questions that will doubtiess be rais- ed. Details given in the subheadings are not intended to imply complete coverage of the subjects to which they relate. Additional subjects will be important features in the histor- ies of some communities; others will find certain points in the present outiine irrelevant or inapplicable. If a general survey of the war years is undertaken, as proposed in Part II, discriminating use should be made of worldwide and national events so that they supply momentum to the narrative without overshadowing the local scene and its action. Sections B and C of Part II may be enriched by selecting important data from various subjects in Part IV to weave into the story. Some of these facts could be used effectively again in the topical sequence. The five prin- cipal headings are not meant to suggest a limit of five chapters. The relative amounts of material gath- ered on various subjects and their final arrangement will help deter- mine the division by chapters. Part III might well constitute a single chapter. Data on individuals in the
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