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History of the First Congregational Church of Antwerp

Leave a Comment / 9 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Canfield, Chapin, Clinton, Conant, Copeland, Crandall, Crum, Dearborn, Demming, Eaton, Finney, Foster, Hawley, Hough, Hoyt, Jones, Mosher, Parrish, Pickands, Pond, Randall, Sandford, Thompson, Wait, Waite, Wellington, Wickes, Williams

The First Congregational Church of Antwerp was organized in July, 1819, by Rev. Isaac Clinton, then principal of the academy at Lowville. The event took place in Copeland Hall, upon the site of the present Proctor House. The original members were William Randall, Percival Hawley, Edward Foster, Elijah Hoyt, Hosea Hough, Mrs. Hawley, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Frances Eaton, and Mrs. Polly Copeland. It was agreed beforehand to employ either a Presbyterian or a Congregational minister, as might be most convenient, and to allow him to choose the polity of the organization.

Adams Rural Cemetery – W Surnames

Leave a Comment / 1 minute of reading / Cemetery Records, Jefferson County / Wade, Waggoner, Wagner, Wagoner, Wait, Waite, Walker, Walsworth, Walts, Ward, Wardwell, Washburn, Waterbury, Waters, Watson, Weal, Weaver, Webb, Weidinger, Weidman, Weir, Welch, Weller, Wells, Wentworth, Wescott, West, Wetmore, Wetterhahn, Wheeler, Wheelock, Whipple, Whitcomb, White, Whiting, Whitney, Whittemore, Widrig, Wilbur, Wilcox, Wilder, Wilds, Wiley, Willard, Williams, Willis, Wilmot, Wilson, Wing, Wiswell, Wood, Woodard, Woodward, Wool, Woolworth, Worden, Wratten, Wright

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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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.

The Commercial Interests of Adams Village NY

Leave a Comment / 12 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Andrus, Angel, Arms, Armsbury, Babcock, Barney, Bealls, Bemis, Benton, Bersie, Bertram, Bond, Braddon, Brown, Brownell, Buckley, Bullock, Burch, Burnham, Butterfield, Carter, Case, Chandler, Channing, Chittenden, Cole, Cook, Cooper, Coughlan, Dayly, Doxtater, Dwight, Eastman, Eddy, Finney, Fox, Gaines, Gallup, Gates, Gaylord, Gilbert, Gilman, Green, Grenell, Griswold, Hale, Hart, Harter, Haven, Heusted, Hewitt, Hodge, Holman, Hungerford, Hunt, Huntington, Huson, Ingraham, Jackworth, Johnson, Kellogg, Kenyon, Kilby, Kimbull, Kinney, Kirkland, Kneeland, Lampson, Lawyer, Lewis, Little, Littlefield, Lockwood, Lovelee, Manville, Mariott, Marsh, Maxon, Miller, Morton, Munson, Niblock, Patrick, Perry, Phelps, Philips, Pierce, Ramsdell, Randall, Ranney, Redway, Ripley, Rosa, Rossiter, Salisbury, Saunders, Sheldon, Smith, Spafford, Stearnes, Steele, Stone, Taylor, Thayer, Thompson, Totman, Traver, Wait, Waite, Waldo, Waldson, Wardwell, Weaver, Webb, Wetmore, Wheeler, Whipple, White, Whitney, Willard, Williams, Withington, Wright

The Manufacturing Interests of the village date from 1800. That year David Smith built and got in operation a saw-mill near where the present mill stands. It did a great deal of work, yet it was not able to supply the demand for lumber, and even the slabs were used in building. From this circumstance …

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Brownville New York Biographies – Part 7

Leave a Comment / 6 minutes of reading / Biographies, Jefferson County / Adams, Allen, Barney, Breck, Calkins, Clock, Coburn, Collamer, Davis, Devendorf, Ericson, Frank, Greenleaf, Greigg, Hancock, Hartman, Holmes, Jones, Kissel, Loucks, Lowe, Mallett, Markell, McCombs, Misner, Outterson, Patrick, Peck, Quenzer, Ralph, Russell, Sanford, Sargent, Savins, Shaver, Smith, Taylor, Van Ness, Vogt, Wait, White, Whittemore, Whittier, Wright, Young

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: Herbert Whittemore, Augustus Devendorf, Mark Sanford, Vann N. Russell, James T. Outterson, Abel Greigg, Andrew Mallett, George Kissel, Ashahel Calkins, and John Vogt.

Brownville New York Biographies – Part 5

Leave a Comment / 7 minutes of reading / Biographies, Jefferson County / Baker, Ball, Beckwith, Benson, Bush, Christie, Dexter, Dilaberne, Dillenbeck, Emerson, Ewing, Ferguson, Fredenberg, Fuller, Gardner, Hayes, Hilliker, Jackson, Keats, Knapp, Lawyer, Lee, Loomis, Luther, Mindred, Patrick, Perry, Reeves, Reynolds, Rider, Ross, Shower, Spenser, Spicer, Starks, Timmerman, Van Allen, Vandewalker, Wait, White, Wilder, Wilson, Winn

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: Henry Fuller, Henry Fredenberg, Peter Christie, John Vandewalker, Jeremiah Wilson, Richard Van Allen, Capt. Francis Winn, William Adams, Henry Reeves, and David Knapp.

Brownville New York Biographies – Part 3

Leave a Comment / 8 minutes of reading / Biographies, Jefferson County / Ackler, Allen, Allison, Avery, Bell, Belton, Benjamin, Buchanan, Buckminster, Cole, Conklin, Day, Dillon, Easterly, Edwards, Fredenberg, Gale, Gilmore, Great, Hinman, Horr, Hoyt, Huntington, Jones, Judd, Knox, Leonard, Livermore, Lord, Loucks, Mandigole, Morgan, Norton, Ormsby, Overocker, Parker, Phelps, Powers, Prior, Rockwood, Seeber, Skinner, Snell, Spicer, Stephens, Stone, Sulief, Vaughn, Wait, Wallace, Wescott, Wilson, Wood

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: Newton B. Lord, Richard Buckminster, Ezekiel Conklin, Silas F. Spicer, Isaac Day, Horace Gilmore, George Bell, Ephraim Hoyt, William Seeber, and William T. Skinner.

Camp of 35th New York Volunteers, Jefferson County Regiment

Brownville Co. K 35th Regiment

Leave a Comment / 8 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Alexander, Allen, Armstrong, Auldrich, Ault, Barnes, Bowers, Brinnan, Broadbent, Brown, Camp, Carpenter, Clark, Conden, Cook, Corninold, Countrymer, Dexter, Dirby, Douglass, Duke, Foster, Gardner, Graves, Hannah, Happ, Hare, Harlon, Harrison, Hart, Hoover, Jackson, Jeffrey, Johnson, Keenen, Lanclot, Long, Lord, Losie, Low, Maldron, Malone, McNeil, McWoyne, Miller, Mobb, O'Harra, Patrick, Phelps, Potter, Powers, Rafter, Rathburn, Reese, Russl, Sampier, Savage, See, Sheeley, Smith, Staplin, Stokes, Stout, Switzer, Thomlinson, Van Allen, Wait, Welch, Weller, Wescott, Wiley, Williams, Worthingham, Zimmerman

Organization and Roster of Company K, 35th NY Vols. On the occasion of the 1887 Reunion of the 35th, Col. Newton B. Lord, regimental commander during the war, wrote the following regarding how the regiment and Brownville’s Company K came to be organized. “The news came to Brownville, where I lived, that Fort Sumpter had …

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History of the Village of Antwerp

Leave a Comment / 8 minutes of reading / Jefferson County / Bethel, Bordeau, Bush, Church, Conklin, Cooper, Copeland, Fletcher, Foster, Fulton, Green, Hind, Hitchcock, Hoard, Howe, Hubbard, Jenison, Kingsbury, McAllister, Morris, Mutoon, Nott, Parrish, Payne, Pratt, Proctor, Randall, Seymour, Shattuck, Wait, Ward, Welch, Wilmot

The first settlement and improvements upon the site of the present village of Antwerp were made under the direction of General Lewis R. Morris. On the 23d of December, 1804, he had purchased a tract of forty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty acres of land within the present boundaries of the town, comprising more then …

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