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History of Ox Bow, New York

Leave a Comment / 9 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Adair, Barrow, Beardsley, Benton, Bonfy, Brainard, Clarke, Collar, Cooper, Cowper, Crary, Crofoot, Culbertson, Darling, Dickson, Dodge, Douglas, Fleming, Frazer, Gibbs, Gilbert, Gillett, Graves, Green, Hawley, Hoard, Howe, King, Lewis, Loomis, Matthews, McGregor, Morris, Nicol, Ormiston, Payne, Pierce, Proudfit, Reynolds, Sandford, Shepard, Smith, Stowell, Streeter, Turnbull, Vrooman, Wheeler, White, Williamson, Wood

This little village is located on the left bank of the Oswegatchie, at the southernmost point of the groat bend in that river. It lies due north of Antwerp village seven and one-half miles, and its communication with the latter place is over an excellent turnpike-road. Ox Bow, at the present time, contains a post-office, one hotel, four stores, one physician, one drugstore, one wagon-shop, three blacksmith-shops, one harness- and saddlery-shop, a good school-house, two churches, and about 300 inhabitants.

Militia of Charlotte County, New York, 1775-1781

2 Comments / 1 minute of reading / Charlotte County, Military Records, Revolutionary War, Warren County, Washington County / Armstrong, Avarill, Backus, Baker, Barber, Bartlet, Bartlett, Barttler, Bateman, Battey, Beatty, Bell, Bellows, Blackley, Boges, Bothell, Boyd, Bradshaw, Brown, Brundage, Buell, Cady, Cambe, Campbell, Chambers, Childs, Christie, Clark, Cleaveland, Collins, Colvr, Conkey, Cook, Cool, Covel, Crighton, Crookshank, Crookshanks, Croset, Crosset, Crouch, Dibell, Doan, Dune, Durkee, Eaton, Edgar, Evens, Fitch, Foster, Fowler, Fuller, Gelt, Getty, Gilbert, Gilchrist, Gilles, Gillespy, Graeer, Graham, Gray, Grayams, Grayham, Griffethe, Grimes, Grott, Grover, Gutrey, Hamilton, Hanna, Harnden, Harow, Harris, Harsha, Henderson, Herrinton, Higbe, Hopkins, Hoy, Hugans, Hunsdon, Hunter, Jerrel, King, Lamen, Law, Lindsay, Little, Livingston, Long, Lyon, Lytle, Martin, Mathews, Matterson, Mattison, McArter, McCallister, McCarter, McClaughry, McCleary, McClothery, McCoy, McCraken, McDanold, McFarland, McGinnis, McKnight, McMichel, McMillan, McMurray, McNaughton, McNees, McNeil, McNight, McNish, McNitt, McNorsh, McWelthy, McWethy, McWhorter, Moncief, Moncrief, Moor, Moore, Morrison, Mount, Muncreff, Munson, Nellson, Nelson, Nevins, Olds, Orcutt, Osgood, Page, Paig, Parker, Parrish, Pattengill, Patterson, Pattison, Peck, Pennell, Perrise, Peterson, Powers, Ramag, Ramage, Randles, Reid, Reynolds, Rice, Roge, Rogers, Rowan, Rowen, Rumage, Russell, Savage, Sawyer, Seely, Shapley, Shaw, Shepard, Sheperd, Sherwood, Simpson, Simson, Skinner, Slarrow, Smith, Steel, Stevenson, Steward, Stewart, Stocking, Stone, Stuart, Tackee, Tackels, Taner, Tanner, Teller, Terril, Terrill, Thomas, Thompson, Tinkee, Tinkey, Tomb, Tombs, Tozer, Tucker, Turner, Tyrel, Vanduee, Walker, Wallace, Warrin, Webb, Webster, Welch, Whedon, Wheedon, Wheeler, Williams, Willson, Wilson, Wright

This is a list of men who served in the Revolutionary War from Charlotte County, present-day Warren and Washington counties, New York. Many of the original pay lists from this period have been lost. These records are taken from both muster rolls and land bounty records.

History of Westminster Park, New York

Leave a Comment / 7 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Agun, Collis, Cornwall, Ellis, Fowler, Gilbert, Hough, Hungerford, Huntington, Phelps, Pope, Taylor, Van Duzee

This place of resort for the summer months has been inaugurated by the Presbyterians, on the lower end of Wellesley Island, in the St. Lawrence river, in the confines of the town of Alexandria. The association under whose auspices the park is maintained is incorporated under the Act of the Legislature of New York passed …

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Adams Rural Cemetery – G Surnames

Leave a Comment / 1 minute of reading / Cemetery Records, Jefferson County / Gabriel, Gage, Gale, Gallagher, Gard, Gardiner, Gardinier, Gardner, Garner, Gaylord, Gerow, Gess, Gibbs, Gifford, Gilbert, Giles, Gillett, Gillispie, Gilman, Gladding, Glasier, Glazier, Gleason, Goodell, Goodenough, Goodiner, Goodman, Goonan, Gordiner, Gordon, Gorrie, Gould, Graves, Gray, Green, Greene, Greenely, Greenfield, Greenlee, Greenlees, Greenley, Greenly, Gregg, Gregory, Grenell, Griffin, Griggs, Grimshaw, Grinnell, Grinter, Griswold, Gronan, Grove, Groves, Grow, Gunther, Gushlaw, Guyette

Adams Rural Cemetery is located on the west side of of South Main Street 1)NYS Route 3 at the southern edged of the Village of Adams. The cemetery is very well maintained. Stones, for the most part, are in excellent condition and readable. 2)Description of Rural Cemetery. Due to the large size of this cemetery …

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Alexandria New York in the War of 1812

Leave a Comment / 4 minutes of reading / Jefferson County, Military Records, War of 1812 / Baldwin, Burbank, Campbell, Dimock, Dixon, Gilbert, Hawkins, James, Perry

In Alexandria occurred an engagement during the war of 1812-15 which imparts considerable historic importance to the town. And we may add, en passant, that the British were met with that courage and intrepid gallantry that characterized the Revolutionary struggle about forty years before. Also that, near half a century subsequent to the occurrence of …

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1890 Business Directory of Adams New York

Leave a Comment / 50 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Allen, Alport, Andrus, Angell, Archer, Archibald, Arms, Armsbury, Atwater, Averill, Ayers, Babbitt, Babcock, Bader, Bailey, Ball, Banister, Bannister, Barney, Barrett, Bartlett, Bassett, Bateman, Bates, Bedford, Beedle, Belcher, Bemis, Bentley, Bersie, Blackstone, Blair, Blasier, Blount, Bond, Boomer, Bosworth, Boudiette, Bovee, Bowen, Boynton, Bradbury, Bradley, Brainard, Briggs, Brimmer, Bristol, Brooks, Broom, Brown, Brownell, Brundidge, Bryan, Bullard, Bullock, Bunce, Bundy, Burlingame, Burns, Butler, Cagwin, Cameron, Campbell, Carley, Carpenter, Carroll, Carter, Case, Casler, Castler, Cemmerman, Chafin, Chamberlain, Chandler, Chapman, Chase, Churchill, Clark, Clements, Cleveland, Clifton, Cobb, Coit, Colfax, Collings, Colton, Comins, Converse, Cook, Cooke, Cool, Cooley, Coon, Cooper, Copeland, Copland, Corey, Cosner, Coughlan, Cowles, Crandall, Crosby, Crowner, Cummings, Curry, Daily, Damon, David, Davis, Dawley, Dealing, Dekin, Delano, Deling, Delmater, Dennis, Denny, Devendorf, Dewey, Deyden, Dixon, Dodge, Dodson, Doren, Douglas, Downie, Doxtater, Dryden, Duncan, Dwight, Dyer, Edgar, Edmonds, Eggleston, Ellinwood, Elmer, Emerson, Empey, Enos, Fairbanks, Farr, Fassett, Fawdrey, Ferrin, Fish, Fisher, Fitzgerald, Foley, Fox, Franklin, Frasier, Freeman, Fuller, Gabriel, Galway, Gardiner, Gardner, Garlock, Garvin, Gaylord, Gero, Gibbs, Gilbert, Gillman, Glass, Glazier, Godfrey, Goodenough, Goss, Grant, Graves, Gray, Green, Greene, Gregory, Griffiths, Griswold, Groff, Grummon, Guess, Gurley, Gussman, Haight, Hakes, Hale, Hall, Hallett, Halley, Hammond, Hannahs, Harrington, Harris, Hart, Hathway, Haven, Hawes, Hawley, Haydn, Hazel, Heath, Heidenfelder, Hicks, Hill, Hinds, Hodge, Hodges, Hogan, Holloway, Holman, Horth, Hovey, Howe, Huestis, Hull, Hungerford, Hunniwell, Hunt, Huntington, Huson, Huson House, Hustis, Ingraham, Irons, Irvin, Isham, Ivory, Jeffrey, Jemieson, Jemmieson, Jenkins, Jimerson, Johnson, Jones, Judd, Kane, Kearns, Keller, Kelley, Kellogg, Kelly, Kenyon, Ketchum, Kirkland, Lamson, Landon, Lane, Langworthy, Larkin, Larkins, Larock, Lawrence, Leavitt, Lee, Leonard, Lewis, Linsey, Little, Littlefield, Livermore, Lockwood, Loomis, Lord, Loveland, Lovelle, Lyman, Lyon, Lyons, Magill, Main, Mainard, Maldoon, Maloney, Manville, Marriott, Martin, Mather, Maxon, Maxson, McAuley, Mccady, Mccalley, McCarty, Mccomber, McCormick, Mcdougall, Mcdowel, McGill, Mcintyre, McKee, McNeil, Medcalf, Merrick, Middleton, Miller, Mills, Miner, Mitchell, Monroe, Moody, Moore, Morgan, Moulton, Munderbach, Munson, Muzzy, Narrom, Nellis, Nelson, Newton, Niblock, Nichols, Nickelson, Norton, Nott, O'neil, Oatman, Oderkirk, Overton, Owens, Page, Palmer, Parham, Parker, Parsons, Patrick, Patten, Patterson, Payne, Pease, Peasley, Pelo, Pelsue, Penny, Perkins, Petrie, Pettit, Pharm, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Pitcher, Plumb, Pool, Poole, Porter, Post, Potter, Powers, Pratt, Prentice, Presley, Pruyne, Pryor, Puffer, Ramsdell, Randall, Ranney, Read, Reed, Remington, Rhoads, Rhodes, Rice, Rich, Richardson, Richmond, Ripley, Roach, Robbins, Roberts, Rodgers, Rogers, Rose, Ruff, Rundall, Ryder, Safford, Salisbury, Salter, Sanford, Saunders, Schram, Schrodt, Scidmore, Scriven, Seacor, Searles, Seeley, Seely, Shannon, Sharples, Shaw, Shepard, Sinclair, Sischo, Smith, Snell, Snow, Snyder, Spencer, Spicer, Squire, Stanley, Steele, Stevens, Steward, Stewart, Stillman, Stitt, Stokes, Stone, Stoodley, Strickland, Stuart, Sullivan, Swan, Tabor, Talcott, Tarbell, Taylor, Tedam, Thomas, Thompson, Thomson, Tifft, Timmerman, Titsworth, Tolls, Tomlinson, Totman, Towle, Towles, Towsley, Trowbridge, Twiss, Underwood, Utter, Van Auken, Van Schaick, Van Slyke, Van Waldick, Van Wormer, Visscher, Waggoner, Waite, Wakefield, Waldick, Walker, Wall, Walsworth, Ward, Wardwell, Warner, Warriner, Washburn, Waterbury, Weaver, Webb, Webster, Weller, Westcott, Wetmore, Wheeler, White, Whitford, Whittam, Wilbur, Wilcox, Wilder, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Wiswell, Withington, Witter, Wolcott, Wood, Woodard, Woodward, Woolworth, Worden, Wright, Wylie, York, Young

This 1890 Business Directory of Brownville New York is transcribed from Child’s Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890. Adams Collegiate Institute, D.A. Dwight, pres.; James G. Kellogg, vice-pres.; A.K. Hale, M.D., sec’y; T.T. Carter, treas.; Orlo B. Rhodes, prin.; Mrs. Helen Butterworth Coughlan, prec. Adams Laundry, Hodge & Potter, props., Church. Adams Lumber Co., …

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Adams New York Biographies – Part 9

Leave a Comment / 6 minutes of reading / Biographies, Jefferson County / Allen, Avery, Bates, Bliss, Brown, Case, Clark, Cleveland, Dixon, Dodge, Dryden, Eldred, Foster, Gardner, Gibbs, Gilbert, Green, Hannahs, Hodge, Horth, Howard, Ivory, Jennings, Knapp, Lewis, Lyons, Mills, Nott, Palmer, Perry, Rogers, Spink, Strickland, Wait, Wakefield, Watt, White, Whiting, Wilder, Wilson

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: Palmer Hodge; Sylvester G. Nott; Rufus D. Gardner; Waterman Horth; G. W. Hannahs; John Ivory; Simon Wakefield; John J. Gilbert; Charles C. Case; and John H. Dryden.

Adams New York Biographies – Part 3

1 Comment / 8 minutes of reading / Biographies, Jefferson County / Arnold, Boyden, Brimmer, Brown, Bull, Close, Coon, Davis, De Lancey, Dwight, Eggleston, Eygabroad, Fox, Fuller, Furguerson, Gilbert, Gould, Green, Hall, Heath, Jones, Keep, Kellogg, Kent, Kimball, Le Valley, Mann, Maxson, Millard, Muzzy, Packer, Parker, Peckham, Phillips, Rhodes, Rice, Robbins, Sanford, Saunders, Sheldon, Smith, Snell, Stillman, Totman, Trafton, Wardwell, Washburn, Whipple, White, Wilder, Williams, Withington

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: John C. Fox; Robert Muzzy; Henry B. Whipple; Newton M. Wardwell; Albert Rice; Samuel Fuller; Jesse Maxson; Calvin C. Totman; Jacob Brimmer; and Giles Parker.

Biography of John Cowles Cooper

Leave a Comment / 8 minutes of reading / Biographies, Jefferson County / Clinton, Cooper, Cowles, Fox, Gilbert, Smith, Stebbens, Winslow

A complete history of the town of Adams, or even the county of Jefferson, cannot be written without assigning a prominent place therein to John Cowles Cooper. In the best sense he was public-spirited. His clear views, practical good sense, and energy made him a leader in all those enterprises of a public nature affecting …

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History of Adams Village, New York

Leave a Comment / 10 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Andrus, Armsbury, Barney, Bartlett, Benton, Bliss, Bond, Burch, Carter, Chittenden, Clark, Cleveland, Cooper, Curtiss, Doane, Eddy, Edmonds, Estes, Fish, Fox, Frasier, Gilbert, Grant, Greene, Grenell, Griswold, Harmon, Hungerford, Huntington, Huson, Ingraham, Johnson, Kellogg, Kenyon, Lookwood, Lovelee, Lyons, Marsh, Maxon, Mendell, Merriam, Mitchell, Mondell, Morton, Munson, Nolton, Overton, Phillips, Pitcher, Ripley, Salisbury, Saunders, Skinner, Smiley, Smith, Sterne, Stone, Totman, Vickery, Wardwell, Wheeler, Whipple, White, Wilcox, Witcomb, Withington, Wood, Woodward, Wright

The location of this large and thriving village of 2000 inhabitants is on Sandy creek, one and a half miles from the Rodman town-line, and extending on its south to the towns of Lorraine and Ellisburg. The principal part of the village is in the valley of the creek, mostly on its north bank, although …

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