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Keene
1884. Record 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed aiph. by children. Includes marriages 1884-1907 and deaths, : 1884 Custodian Francis P. Hickey, town clerk, Keene, N. Y. Lewis
1883. Record 4 vois. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Harry Vurpee, town clerk, Lewis, N. Y.
Minerva
/ 1883. Record 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1883-1908 and deaths 1883. Custodian Margaret Bradley, town cierk, Olmsteadville, N. Y. Morialı
1882, 1909. Record, 4 vois. Arr. chron. No index. Custodian Walter T. Bradford registrar of vital statis- tics, Ticonderoga, N. Y.
1910. Register, 6 vols, Arr. cron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes deaths. Custodian Walter T. Brad- ford, registrar of vital statistics, Tl- conderoga, N. Y. (To be continued)
county in 1811. Gaz. Mont. and Ful- ton counties.
Feb. 7-Queries-Hales, Cook, Jones, Potter, Cobb, Gibbs, Alcott. Olcott, Delong, Richardson, Raught, Darrow. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton Cos. Mont. in 1811. Alfred Dolge cont.
Feb. 14-Queries-Norton, Clark, Rudd, Parker, Kellogg, Borst, Cady, Vaughn, Kessler, Petrie, Bellinger, Close, Knapp, Henton, Mills, Rey- nolds, Rundell, Smith, Weston, Alli- son, Roe, Sayer, Campbell, Roth, Volz, Hipp, Young, Van Ness, Van Denbergh, Van Woert, Armitage, Ly- al. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton Cos. Al- fred Dolge cont.
Feb. 21-Queries-Whelan, Bil- lington, Houck Vande Bogart, Webb, Spencer, Brower, Smith, Petri, Ellis. Alfred Doige cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton counties.
Feb. 28-Queries -- Fuller, Weller, Fitzgerald, Fitch, Fox, artin, Back- er, Danieis, Lacy, Willis, Gilbert, Tompkins, Boyd, Staats, Schermer- horn, Van Vechten, Shoemaker, Lockwood, Hearsey, Groot, Totten,
fred Dolge cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fui- agara Falls.
fred Dolge cont. Gaz. Mont. and ul- ton counties.
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minor part in bringing the log house to the American frontier. They re- inforce the iog wall craftmanship of the Swedes. The Germans began coming into Pennsylvania and New York in large numbers by 1710. They came from the Black Forest, Upper Bavaria, Saxony, Baden Baden, Wur- temburg, Alsace and Switzerland and other Rhineland principalities where they had lived in log houses in' the
forested. areas of the Rhineiand,
many of them knew no other type of house for they were people of modest means. There is no doubt but that both the Dutch and English settlers coming into contact with the Swedes and Germans soon copied this type of dwelling so admirably suited to the American frontier and climatic conditions.
Genealogical Material in the Schenectady County Hist. Soc. By H. A. McConville
These may be divided into several classes for convenience as follows: A. Family Histories.
B. Church Register.
C. Genealogicai Periodical and
Books.
D. County and Town and City His- tories.
E. Military Records.
G. General Interest.
A. The family histories include:
1. Koons, Coon Family.
2. Bailey, Myers, Mason.
3. Burnham Genealogy.
4. Cox Family in America
5. Donnan Family.
6. Liddle Family.
7. Thomas Hatfield of .Westches- ter
8. Hiilman.
9. Lott.
$ 10. Alonzo Potter.
11. Conde.
12. Mumford.
13. James Thornton.
14. Peter Reist.
15. Rosebloom.
16. Snell.
17. Schermerhorn.
18. Carter.
19. Starin.
(20. Underhill Genealogy.
Cassidy, Cary, Campbell, Ehle, Dillenbach, Dockstader, Devendorf, Stowitts, Hess, Bellinger, Francis- co, Flint, Fox, Fuller.
21. Welch and Allied Families. 22. Annals of Van Rensselaers.
23. Howard.
24. Boydstun.
25. Toll.
26. History of a Distinctive Fanı ily Peck).
27. John Stuart.
28. Gustine.
29. Genealogical Record of Kelly.
Lampman, Craig and Ferguson. 30. Stephen Van Rensselaer.
31. Arent Van Curler.
32. Memoirs.
33. John Howard Payne.
34. Matthew Gailbraith Perry.
35. Life of Gen. Franklin Pierce.
36. Life of Gen. Putnam.
37. Judge Augustus Porter of Ni-
38. Life of Horatio Seymour, Caz enovia, N. Y.
39. Verbeck of Japan.
40. Memories of Lafayette.
41. Life of G. Washington.
. 42. Life of Conrad Welser.
43. Life of Joseph Brant.
:44. Memories of Dr. Nott.
B. Church Registers.
1. Kingston 1st Dutch Reformed. 2. St. George's Episcopal of Sche- nectady.
3. Mariages of Rev. John Calvin Toll of Middletown, (Mapletown), Westerloo (Sprakers) and Canajo- harie 1803-18444).
4. Marriages of Elljah Herricq of Baptist Church at Ryders Corners, .... Charlestown, Mont Co. (1796-1844.)>
5. The Simmendinger Register. 6. Register of Dutch Church, Aus- tin Friars, London 1571-1874).
C. County, Town and City Histor- ies.
1. Memorial History of Boston.
2. Mariborough, N. Y.
3. Kings County, Stiles.
4. Long Island.
5. Chenango and Madison Counties.
6. Rensselaer County Landmarks.
7. Ulster County (Everts and Peck.)
8. Landmarks of -Albany . Co. . ",
9 .. Albany and Schenectady Coun- ties (Howell).
10. Schenectady County (Yates).
11. Schenectady Roberts).
12. Ballston Spa.
13. Otsego County.
14. Oneida County,
15. Whiteside County, Illinois.
16. Kingston, N. Y.
17. Historic Towns of the Middle
States.
18. The Salem Book N. Y.)
19. Oid Saratoga,
20. Old Helieburgh Gregg).
21. Mohawk Valley, (Grene) vols.
3 and 4.
22. Encyclopedia of American Bi-
ography vols. 32. 23. New York State Men.
24. Notable Men of Chicago.
25. Hudson and Mohawk Valleys
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sections of the world. When a ""cab-
in" was mentioned in the year 1600 in England it meant a sleeping closet, and alcove or a closed-in-bunk. In Europe in 1700 a "cabin" meant a flimsy hut of boughs. and leaves, as in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,
"make me a wilow cablne at your gate." This was the interpretation of the word "cabin" all over Europe at that time. Then in this country: no writer ever thought of housing; as of any public interest until the rise of social history and that was- long after the log cabin myth had become a conviction. "Neither did anyone in this country think it was: necessary to study English or Dutch: housing as a background to an un- derstanding of colonial housing .. (To be continued) .. "0"
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GENEALOGY AND
HISTORY
St. Johnsville Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville. N. Y.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1947
Questions and Answers A department devoted to the pursuit of knowledge. No charge to regular subscribers. Any reader, whether subscriber or not, is inviter to submit answers. Give dates, piaces and sources.
FRANKLIN N. Y. state and later removed to I would like to know the names, Wisconsin; Chester born 1801, mar- of the children of Joseph Franklin whose name appears on page 245 of Essex county, N. Y. by H. P. Smith, 1885. It states Joseph Frank- lin late sergeant In the 27th regi- name of Morton. ment united with Sergt. Benjamin Porter in a petition July 9, 1764, praying for a grant to each of 200
acres. Patent to Franklin Issued July 1765. On March 5, 1792 Frank- lin conveyed his title to James Gra- ham. Was he the father of Molly Franklin born Jan. 14, 1765 in Es- sex county, N. Y. who married Jon- athan Lynde at Washington, Mass. on May 24, 1781? If he is her fath- er I would like to know his Frank- lin lineage.
MARTIN
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Census of 1820, Huron county, Ohio, vol. 4 Christopher Martin has 2 males under 10, 1 male to 16, 1 female to 16, 1 female over 45. He was engaged in commerce (fishing). He came to Ohio from Herkimer Co., N. Y. In cemetery, church and town records of Herkimer county, N. Y. I find a number of Marting listed: Avis L., Beulah Ann, Ephraim, Wil- liam and Michael. I think Christo- pher is connected with the Martins from which Ephraim springs. I would like to get into correspon- dence with this family. I am sure I found their ancestry in Washington, D. C. last summer. Would be glad to exchange data.
Lucile L. Hutson,
917 Vine street,
Sandusky, Ohio
GRIMES
James Grimes, Londonderry Town, Vt. served in Revolution. Capt. Joslah Fisk's Company, Col. Sam Fletcher's Battalion June 6, 1781 to Nov. 18, 1781. Reenlisted.
James Grimes married Agagail
Johnson. After the war moved to Oswego Co., N. Y. We know of one son Moses Grimes born Nov. 1, 1787, died Aug. 26, 1845, married Feb. 13, 1812 Ruth Ketchum, born Dec. 7, 1793, died Dec. 30, 1871.
Who were the parents of James Grimes, of Abagail Johnson Grimes, of Ruth Ketchum Grimes? Who were the parents of Melissa Abagail Phelps who married Sept. 6, 1838 Joseph Grimes, son of Moses and Ruth Ketchum Grimes.
J. V. Robinson,
Oldsmar, Florida
PHELPS
Paul Phelps, Jr. was born Oct. 19, 1748 at Lebanon, Conn. and served In the Revolutionary war. His wife was Zervia Huntington Calkins and their children were: Anna born 1768, Simeon born 1771, Zervia born 1773, Eliiah born 1775. . Inhn horn 1770
Hathaway who married 1806 at
Westfield, Mass. Garner Nelson.
They removed to Lewis county, N. Y. in 1816 with their turn children
County cont. Persona: Recollections cont.
June 13-Queries-Backus, Crim, Dixon, Wert, Ferris. House Family cont. Personal Recollections cont. June 20-Queries-Simpson, How- land, Vincent, Mcclellan, Demming, Crittenden, Sikes, Hicks, Cass, Rob- lee, Tarbell, Lusee, Ingalls, Ester- ried Sally Billings and they lived some where in western New York, Artalusia married Lymon Boydon, brook, Salisbury, Mallory. Comment on Wisner, Blain. House Family cont. Personal Recollections. Gaz. Mont. and Harriett married a man by the and Fulton counties.
June 27-Queries-Lockwood, He-
Plynne Phelps born March 3, 1794 ning, Blanchard, Seward, Johnson, married Oct. 10, 1816 Lucy Cumber born Feb. 7, 1798. They had 14 child- Llywelyn, Deuel, Dale, Futhy, Bur- dan, Steele. House family cont. Per- sonal Recollections cont. July 4-Queries-Lynde, Franklin, Stults, Lawyer, Ball, Austin, Rey- nolds, Young, Tompkins, Hary, Hu- sted, Odell, Ferris, Knapp, Austin, House family cont. Mary Hart Smith a Gold Star Mother. Personal Re- collections cont. ren and according to data taken from their family Bible the first 11 children wer born at Solon, N. Y. They moved to Candor, N. Y. some- where between 1835 and 1840 and in 1841 moved to Burlington, Bradford county, Pa. where they resided untii July 11-Queries-Alden, Sharkey, Gunsaul, Duel, Swart, Braman. House Famlly cont. Personal Recol- lections. their deaths and both are buried there. I have quite a complete record of their descendants. In the family Bible there is pasted a newspaper clipping, at the time of his death, July 18-Queries-Gurnaich, Du- mont, Martin. House Family cont. Personal Recollections cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton counties. stating that he was born at Tim- mouth, Rutland county, Vermont. I have this story but no authen- tic proof that Lucy Cumber was left an orphan at an early age, her fath- July 25-Queries-Cantine, Wick- ham, Chase. House Family cont. Austin family association. Gen. World. Personal Recollections. Gaz. Montgomery and Fulton counties. er and mother having been killed by the Indians; that she was brought up or adopted by her mother's brother, Ralph Rice, that they were children of Moses and Anne Rice, that she had a brother, Walter Cumber.
August 1-Queries Klum, Fisk, Campbell, Copley, Wickham. House Family cont. Gen. World. Personal Recollections cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton counties.
August 8-Queries Briggs, Lock- wood, Norris, Mosher, Cantine, Tur- ner. House Family cont. Personal Recollections cont. Gen. World.
Sommers Family reunion.
August 15- Queries - Campbell, Booher, Lewis, Dunlap, Eckert, Fish, Barnhart. House Family cont. Gen. World. Famous Yale Family.
August 22-Queries-Bellinger, Wetmore, Goodrich, Gurnick, Deline, Claas, Jans, Freeman, Vine, Pitcher, Petrie, Sanderson, Crosby, Duane, Sibley, Van Anden, Yelverton, De- pew, Bogardus, Anneke, Jans, Mon- tross, Cameden, . Wilcox, Winney, Boyce, Wager, McChesney, Abbott, Watson. House Family cont . Gen. World. Yale family cont.
August 29-Queries-Inman, Run- won, Weatherwax, Baldwin, Star- ing. Hess, Ameigh, Bronson, Mills. House Family cont. Gen. World. Stevens family of Schenectady.
Sept. 5-Queries-Fellows, Im-
golsbe, Norton, Wood, Ward, Cleve- land, Clough. House Family cont. Danforth family of Schoharie.
Sept. 12-Queries-Zoller, Braat, Viele, Covell, Hollister, Fort, La NELSON, HATHAWAY Wanted data on ancestry of my Fort, Van Schoonhoven, Benoit, Viele. House family cont. Gen. World. One branch of Lewis family. Dan- great great grandmother Lucinda forth family cont.
Sept. 19-Queries-Hess, Merrick, Perkins, Cooper, Church, Morey,
Marble, Bellinger. Lewis family
.I should be pleased to obtain any further Information of the Rice family, the Cumber family or of any of the families of Plynne Phelps' brothers or sisters, or of the Phelps family's residence in Vermont.
Sherman H. Hill,
105 Evergreen avenue,
Elmira, N. Y.
MOREHOUSE
Want data on ancestry of Charles Morehouse, my great grandfather, buried at Herkimer. He died Feb. 2, 1861, aged 55 years. Was he the son of Levi C. Morehouse also buried at Herkimer ? Charles had a son Levi Albee Morehouse. Charles had brother John born 1819 at East Creek, also a brother Matthew. In one census Levi and Mary More- house are listed as living in the town of Russia,' Herkimer county and Charles and his family follow, in the same list. There was a John
Morehouse born in Connecticut June 10, 1739 who had two nephews, Le- vi born Feb. 1, 1767, later at Scho- harie, also in Saratoga county at some time. Levi C. Morehouse who died Aug. 22, 1851, aged 69 could have been a son of Levi above or Ca- Jeb.
dence with this family. I am sure I further information of the Rice
found their ancestry in Washington, D. C. last summer. Would be glad to exchange data.
Lucile L. Hutson, #
917 Vine street,
Sandusky, Ohio
GRIMES
James Grimes, Londonderry Town, Vt. served in Revolution. Capt. Josiah Fisk's Company, Col. Sam Fletcher's Battalion June 6, 1781 to Nov. 18, 1781. Reenlisted. James Grimes married Agagail Johnson. After the war moved to Oswego Co., N. Y. We know of one son .Moses Grimes born Nov.
1 1787, died Aug. 26, 1845, married Feb. 13, 1812 Ruth Ketchum, born Dec. 7, 1793, died Dec. 30, 1871.
Who were the parents of James Grimes, of Abagall Johnson Grimes, of Ruth Ketchum Grimes ? Who were the parents of Melissa Abagail Phelps who married Sept. 6, 1838 Joseph Grimes, son of Moses and Ruth Ketchum Grimes.
J. V. Robinson,
Oldsmar, Florida
PHELPS
Paul Phelps, Jr. was born Oct. 19, 1748 at Lebanon, Conn. and served in the Revolutionary war. His wife was Zervia Huntington Calkins and their children were: Anna born 1768, Simeon born 1771, Zervia born 1773, Elijah born 1775, John born 1779, Solomon born 1781, Jedediah bapt. 1784, Paul III bapt. 1786.
Simeon Phelps born Oct. '24, 1771 married Submit Whitcomb, born Aug. 4, 1772 and they had six children, Simeon, Jr., Plynne born 1794, Aurilla married Eber W. Whit- ing. They lived in central of western, Jamestown, N. Y.
family, the Cumber family or of any of the families of Plynne Phelps' brothers or sisters, or of the Phelps family's residence in Vermont. Sherman H. Hill,
105 Evergreen avenue, Elmira, N. Y.
MOREHOUSE
Want data on ancestry of Charles Morehouse, my great grandfather, buried at Herkimer. He died Feb. 2, 1861, aged 55 years. Was he the son of Levi C. Morehouse also buried at Herkimer? Charles had a son Levi Albee Morehouse. Charles had a
brother John born 1819 at East Creek, also a brother Matthew. In one census Levi and Mary More- house are listed as living in the town of Russia, Herkimer county and Charles and his family follow, in the same list. There was a John Morehouse born In Connecticut June 10, 1739 who had two nephews, Le- vi born Feb. 1, 1767, later at Scho- harie, also in Saratoga county at some time. Levi C. Morehouse who died Aug. 22, 1851, aged 69 could have been a son of Levi above or Ca- Jeb.
NELSON, HATHAWAY
Wanted data on ancestry of my great great grandmother Lucinda Hathaway who married 1806 at Westfield, Mass. Garner Neison. They removed to Lewis county, N. Y. in 1816 with their two children, my great grandmother Lucinda who married Benjamin Sanders and died at Poland, Herkimer county, N. Y. and a son William born 1816 who liv- ed In Detroit. A daughter Nancy was born in Lewis county.
Mrs. E. G. Peterson, .
540 East Second street,
1946 Genealogical Historical Index Of E. & N. Articles
March 7-Queries-Klum, Sloan, Hopkins, Fortune, Freman, Janz, Richards, Barry, Warner, Irons, Ea- ton, Hall, Thorp. Alfred Doige cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton countles.
March 14-Queries Bullock, Lam- bert, Gray, Conkling, Brewster, Earle, Webb, Sabin, Lyman, Wet- more, Goodrich, Coleman, Hull, Her- kimer, Warren, `Richards, Spencer, Catlin, Fitzgerald, Burroughs. Tlic Barnes line from Mass. to the val- ley. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton Cos.
March 21- Queries-Hoosen,, Ha- german, Brunneal, Waldron, Van Vliet, Biggs, Van Fleet, Wyckoff, Stevens, Secrest, Houston, Dies, Reid, Lansing, Clark, Nicholoy. The Barnes Line cont. Rome, N. Y. a short history. - Gaz. Mont. and Ful- ton Counties.
March 28-Queries-Helmer, Bron- son, Bishop, Shapley, Van Leuvan. Bailey, Horton, Burchard, Dixon, Trumbull, Stone, Strong, Howard, Best, Ehle, Dingman Devol. House | Family In the Mohawk. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton counties.
April 4-Queries --- Van Woert · Fort,- Van Ness, Van Denbergh, Young, Vander Werker, Crippen
Griffiths, Worden, Stevens, Wood, Palmatier, Red, Rogers, Cox. House Family In the Mohawk cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton counties.
April 11-Queries-Allen, Cum- mings, Knox, Gross, Whipple, Deven- burg, Saddlemire, Yourdon, Yule, Devoe, Webb, Smead. House fam- ily cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton Cos. April 18-Copy missing ..
April 25-Queries-Smith, Scaia, Beatty, Cole, Spencer, Boyce, Ken- nedy, Carey, Hale, Turner, Northrup, Bond, Hicks, Ellis. House family cont. An outline sketch of Tryon county. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton cos. May 2-Missing.
Van Curler, Duel, Kalmbach, Zwinck, Himes, Feeter. House family cont. An outline sketch of. Tryon Co. cont. Story of one of the oldest sects in the county of Fulton.
May 23-Queries-Deuel, Wells, Sloat, Overacker, Conklin, Ackler, Joiner, Darby, Chaffin, Powers, Dav-
June 6-Queries-Duel, DIeleman, Woodworth, Secheverell, Gates. Hous Famlly cont. Outline Sketch of Tryon
Recollections cont. Gaz. Mont. and Fulton counties.
August 8 Queries-Briggs, Lock- wood, Norris, Mosher, Cantine, Tur- ner. House Family cont. Personal .
Recollections cont. Gen. World. Sommers Family reunion.
August 15 -- Queries - Campbell, Booher, Lewis, Dunlap, Eckert, Fish, Barnhart. House Family cont. Gen. World. Famous Yale Family.
August 22-Querles-Bellinger, Wetmore, Goodrich, Gurnick, Deline, Claas, Jans, Freeman, Vine, Pitcher, Petrie, Sanderson, Crosby, Duane, Sibley, Van Anden, Yelverton, De- pew, Bogardus, Anneke, Jans, Mon- tross, Cameden, Wilcox, Winney, Boyce, Wager, McChesney, Abbott, Watson. House Family cont . Gen. World. Yale family cont.
August 29- Queries Inman, Run-
won, Weatherwax, Baldwin, Star- ing, Hess, Almeigh, Bronson, . Mills. House Family cont. Gen. World. Stevens family of Schenectady.
Sept. 5-Queries-Fellows, Im- golsbe, Norton, Wood, Ward, Cleve- land, Clough. House Family cont. Danforth family of Schoharle.
Sept. 12-Queries-Zoller, Braat, Viele, Covell, Hollister, Fort, La Fort, Van Schoonhoven, Benoit, Viele. House family cont. Gen. World. One branch of Lewis family. Dan- forth family cont.
Sept. 19-Querles-Hess, Merrick,
Perkins, Cooper, Church, Morey, Marble, Bellinger. Lewis family cont. House family cont. New com- pact Blog. form.
Sept. 26-Queries-Patterson, Har- ris, Miles, . Clark, Brooks, +Grant, Weller, Briggs, Moss. House family cont. Lewis family cont. Gen. World. Oct. 3-Queries-Billington, Whe- lan. Wallonsack Patent. Lewis fam- ily cont. House family cont. Sugges- tions on collecting data
October 10 missing.
October 17 missing.
October 24 missing.
October 31-Queries-Walton, Ho- taling, Smith, Petrie, Straight, Canady. The Old Red School House. Origin of first settlers
Nov. 7-Queries-Austin, Manser, Gale, Bice, Fancher, Johnson, Wool- cutt, Phillips, Weller. House, Loucks and Wagner problem. Early churches in New York state. The Old Red School House cont. Origin of the first settlers of Hudson valley and . New York city.
Nov. 7-Queries-Keller, Goetsch- ius, Petrie, Soules, Carpenter, Ad- ams, Smith, Creighton, Streach.
May 9- Queries-Van Anden, Yel- The old Red School House cont. Ear- verton, Vanden Bergh, Huyck, Fort, ly churches cont.
Nov. 21-Queries- Vole, Harris, Nordeck, Smythe, Whittemore, Buffum, Wells, Ruggles, Miner, Irish. The Palatine Caslers and al- lied families.
Nov. 28-Queries-Gillet, Davey, Smith, Winne, Chidester, Clark, Nich- olson. Old Red School House cont. is,, Read, Meddows. House family. Early churches . cont. Offers and cont. Story of one of the oldest sects cont.
wishes data on Russell, Furman. :
Dec. 5-Queries-Buffum, Hunt' Willis, Constant, Hood, Morgan.
May 30-Queries Fink, Gibson, Parker, Duer, Northrup, Clark. Mooney, Dark, Lin, Dichter, Tucker' House Family cont. Outline Sketch of Tryon county. Personal Recollection Shannon, Campbell, Mckown. Va Slyke, Quackenbush. Earl Church of DeLilah Wisner Merritt. Gaz. of es cont. The Myth and Reality of th Mont. and Fulton counties.
Early Lor Cabin. Early Churchc continued.
Dec. 12-Queries Somnor foyle, Kittel Ga Fanh - --
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Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
AND NEARBY
BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAGE RECORDS (Continued from last week)
ESSEX COUNTY
Newcomb
1883. Record, 3 vols, Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1883-1907 and deaths, 1883 Custodian E. D. Rist, town clerk, Newcomb, N. Y. North Elba
1886. Record, 7 vols. Arr. chron Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1886-1909, deaths 1886. Custodian Mrs. E. M. Wells, town clerk, Lake Placid, N. Y. North Hudson
1889-1904, 1914. Record, 2 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by child- ren. Includes marriages 1889-1901 and deaths 1889-, 1914. Custodian, Robert Duntley, town clerk, North Hudson, N. Y.
St. Armand
1883. Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1883-1907, deaths 1883. Custodian Mark Clarke, town clerk, Bloomingdale, N. Y.
Schroon
1882. Record, 2 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1882-1910 and deaths 1882. Custodian Lucy Vohrmann, town clerk, Schroon Lake, N. Y. Ticonderoga
1882. Record 9 vols. Ar. chron. No index. Includes marriages 1882- 1908 and deaths 1882. Custodian, Walter E. Bradford, town clerk, Ti- conderoga, N. Y.
Westport
1882. Record, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1882-1907 and deaths, 1882. Custodian Harry C. Pattison, town clerk, Westport, N. Y. Wilisboro
1883. Record 5 vols. Arr. chron. No index. Includes marriages 1883- 1907 and deaths 1883. Custodian C R. Amos, town clerk, Willsboro, N. Y
Wilmington
1885. Register 4 vols. Arr. chron. No index. Includes mariages 1885- 1907 and deaths 1885. Custodian, Charles Farrell, town clerk, Wil- mington, N. Y.
Bloomingdale (1905)
" . 1883. Register 6 vols. Arr. chron. 1883-1913, no index; 1914 indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1883 -- 1907 and deaths 1883. Custo- dian Mark Clark, registrar of vital statistics, Bloomingdale, N. Y. ; Elizabethtown
1922. Record 4 f. b. Arr. chron. No index. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian B. Kirsner, vil- lage clerk, Elizabethtown, N. Y. Keeseville (1878)
1884. Register 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1884-1907 and deatlıs 1884. Custodian Antoine Lesperance, registrar of vital statistics, Keese- ville, N. Y.
Lake Placid ..
1885. Register, 8 vols. Arr chron. 1885-1907, no index; 1908 indexed alph. bv children Tnoludas mnulan
The Myth and Reality of the Early Log Cabin
(Continued from last week) Then about the time of the heat- ed Presidential campaign of 1840 one Rev. Alexander Young, a Boston clergyman in preparing to write a history of the Pilgrim Fathers read Governor William Bradford's journ- al of the Plymouth Colony in which the term "daubing" was used in fin- ishing the inside of their houses. Rev. Young assumed that "daubing" was synonymous with "chinking", another colonial building term.
"Daubing" however in English con- struction meant the same as plas- tering, while "chinking" meant to fill the interstices between the logs with clay or other material. "Daubing" was not the equivalent of "chink- ing." Thus Rev. Young erroneously assumed that to "daube" a structure you had to have a log house. This was not the English understanding of "daubing" or plastering their frame constructions. And so this two hundred year old myth was born.
Reverend Young was a political enthusiast and an ardent Whig. He wrote many pamphlets, statements and campaign arguments for the Boston Whigs. The Whig leaders of the country seized upon the slogan "log cabin and hard cider" in their appeal for votes for their presiden- tial candidate, William Henry Har- rison. They pictured him as the candidate of the common people
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