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1864 Map of Ox Bow

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.

Adams Rural Cemetery

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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1864 Map of Adams Centre New York

Adams New York Biographies – Part 10

1 Comment / 6 minutes of reading / Biographies, Jefferson County / Agans, Arms, Bellinger, Chapman, Clark, Conant, Dewey, Eggabroad, Eggleston, Fish, Free, Fuller, Gillett, Green, Harrington, Hawes, Heath, Holden, Keep, Lanphire, Lee, Morgan, Nelson, Nichols, Overton, Parker, Peck, Phillips, Pierce, Potter, Read, Saunders, Scott, Shaw, Sheldon, Smith, Snell, Spicer, Stillman, Sweet, Talcott, Wells, Wilcox, Williams, Woodhouse, Woodruff

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: John Williams; Simeon Heath; David S. Snell; Edward D. Spicer; Newton M. Parker; Stephen Shaw; Clarendon Phillips; Rev. John F. Nelson; Giles A. Hall; and H. K. Eggleston.

1864 Map of Adams New York

History of Smithville Village, New York

3 Comments / 6 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Adams, Angel, Babbitt, Babcock, Bailey, Bart, Benjamin, Bishop, Bliss, Bosworth, Breed, Brigham, Burr, Campbell, Carter, Collins, Cooley, Corey, Crandall, Cromer, Davis, Dodge, Downie, Dudley, Eaton, Gibbs, Gillett, Hall, Hallett, Hardy, Harrington, Hunter, Ivery, Keith, Kendall, Knapp, Lewis, Lord, McGregor, McNitt, Mills, Morton, Myrick, Peck, Pierson, Powell, Rice, Rundell, Schuyler, Seeley, Seymour, Shanley, Smith, Sprague, Wakefield, Wetherill, Wheeler, Yates

Smithville Village, which was founded by Jesse Smith, is partly in Henderson. The portion lying in Adams is on lots 9 and 17, on Stony creek, which here affords excellent water-power. Settlement was begun here in 1804 by Daniel Hardy, although a little east of this point Chauncey Mills, from Connecticut, took up land in …

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1890 Business Directory of Brownville New York

Leave a Comment / 38 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Ackerman, Adams, Allen, Allison, Amans, Anderson, Anthony, Antis, Arnold, Austin, Avery, Babcock, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Banister, Banks, Banter, Barney, Barrett, Bass, Bates, Bavis, Bayley, Beattie, Beckwith, Bell, Bennett, Berry, Bidwell, Bigwood, Binninger, Bloom, Bonker, Bonney, Booth, Border, Bowker, Bowles, Bowman, Brawt, Brennan, Brimmer, Brinnen, Brothers, Brown, Brownell, Bruce, Buchanan, Buckminster, Bunker, Burlingame, Butler, Caepenter, Cahill, Calkins, Campbell, Carpenter, Carr, Carroll, Case, Casler, Cawkins, Chamberlain, Cheeseman, Christie, Christy, Clark, Clarke, Cleaveland, Clemens, Clement, Closson, Codman, Cole, Conklin, Cook, Cooper, Cornell, Cory, Countryman, Cowan, Cox, Crapo, Croke, Crosby, Crysler, Cummings, Cummins, Cummngs, Curran, Danforth, Daniels, Davis, Day, Dennie, Devendorf, Dexter, Diefendorf, Dietrich, Dillinbeck, Dingman, Doan, Dodge, Doner, Doran, Dorchester, Dorr, Douglas, Douglass, Dowdell, Drury, Dunback, Dwelley, Earl, Edgar, Edwards, Eggleston, Eigabroadt, Elliott, Ellison, Elmer, Emerson, Emmerson, Eveleigh, Everett, Fall, Farmer, Farr, Fay, Finucan, Fish, Fisk, Fitzgerald, Flannery, Flath, Foster, Fowler, Fradenburgh, Frazier, Fredenburg, Freeman, Frost, Fry, Fuller, Gale, Garlock, Garvey, Gates, Gayer, George, Gibson, Gifford, Giles, Gillett, Gilmore, Giltenan, Giltinan, Gladwyn, Glasettel, Gleason, Goodrich, Goodwin, Gotham, Gould, Graham, Grant, Green, Greenwood, Greigg, Groat, Grooms, Gunn, Hagen, Hahn, Halladay, Haller, Hammond, Hanchett, Hancock, Harrington, Harris, Hart, Hayes, Haynes, Hazelwood, Hearsley, Helbock, Henderson, Herzig, Higgins, Hilliker, Hoag, Holcomb, Hoover, Hovey, Howe, Howell, Hoyt, Hubbel, Hubbs, Hunter, Huntington, Ingalls, Jackson, James, Jaquay, Jarvis, Jeffreys, Johnson, Jones, Keith, Kellogg, Kennedy, Kentfield, Kerr, Kilborn, Kimball, Kinna, Kissel, Knapp, Knowlton, Knox, Krisler, La Pattrie, Lance, Lane, Lasher, Lawton, Lawyer, Lee, Lehr, Leonard, Lewis, Lidsey, Limerick, Lindley, Lindsley, Linnell, Liscom, Liscomb, Locy, Lonsdale, Loomis, Lord, Loungway, Lowe, Loyd, Luther, Lutz, Lynch, Mackey, Madley, Maldoon, Mallett, Mandigold, Marcell, Markel, Massey, Mayhew, Maynard, McAfee, McCormick, McGill, McGirven, McGraw, McKenzie, McMullen, McNett, McTaggart, Mead, Meldoon, Middlebrook, Miller, Moffatt, Moffitt, Monroe, Morehouse, Morey, Morgan, Morseman, Moyer, Mullen, Munson, Nelson, Nening, Northrup, Nutting, Oakes, Oaks, Olley, Osborn, Ostrander, Otis, Outterson, Palmer, Parker, Patrick, Pearce, Pearse, Peck, Penney, Perry, Pettit, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Pinney, Plant, Plumb, Poole, Porter, Potter, Pratt, Prior, Quencer, Ramsey, Ranney, Ranson, Rattler, Redmond, Reed, Reeves, Relyea, Reynolds, Rhines, Rice, Rider, Riggs, Roach, Roat, Roberts, Robertson, Rockwood, Rodlam, Rodrick, Rogers, Ross, Rounds, Rowe, Rundell, Ryder, Sanford, Sartwell, Satchwell, Sattemore, Savage, Schermerhorn, Schrodt, Schwartz, Scott, See, Seeber, Sharlan, Shattock, Shaver, Shaw, Shimmel, Silbison, Sills, Simpson, Skinner, Slater, Smith, Snell, Snook, Snyder, Soule, Spafford, Spicer, Sprague, Staley, Stanley, Steblen, Steele, Steles, Sternberg, Stevens, Stokes, Stone, Strainge, Sullivan, Swartwout, Sydmon, Taylor, Thompson, Thopmson, Timerman, Timmerman, Timmon, Treadway, Trickey, Tuttle, Underwood, Utter, Van Allen, Van Der Bogart, Van Dewalker, Van Schoick, Vance, Vanderwalker, Vandewalker, Vogt, Voodra, Waffull, Walrath, Walters, Waltz, Walworth, Warren, Waterman, Waters, Weaver, Webb, Webber, Welch, West, Westcott, Weston, Wheeler, White, Whitman, Whitney, Whittemore, Whittier, Wiedman, Wilcox, Wilder, Williams, Willis, Wilson, Winaker, Winn, Wisner, Witt, Wolf, Wood, Woodhead, Yerrington, Young, Zimmerman

This 1890 Business Directory of Brownville New York is transcribed from Child’s Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890.

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