Also copied from today's NEHGS e-newsletter. I took a brief look at the NY Newspapers archive mentioned, put "Brooks" in the search engine for the oldest of the newspapers, which began publishing at Plattsburgh in 1811, and got 31 hits. Chris =========================== Northern New York Historical Newspapers This is an online collection containing more than 267,000 pages from eighteen newspapers from NNYLN�s service area: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and St. Lawrence counties. New newspapers are being added to the collection on a regular basis. To search a particular newspaper, click on the title link. A new window will open, from which you can run a basic or advanced search of the online newspaper collection. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the page images. New users are advised to read the guide on How to Search. There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions that provide useful information to individuals using the collection. This collection is a great resource for anyone with ancestors who lived in these counties, as records are scarce in this area. Many families from this part of Clinton County made their way to the Nashua area in the latter part of the nineteenth century. My great-great-grandparents, Lewis and Jane (Monty) Leazotte, and several of their 13 children moved from West Chazy, New York to Nashua, New Hampshire in 1873. Two of their older sons had moved there prior to 1870. Lewis Leazotte died in Nashua in 1884. His obituary in the Nashua Telegraph mentioned an only brother, Joseph, who had died �recently.� To no avail I searched through the Telegraph for an obituary or death notice for the man I believed to have been my great-great-grandfather�s brother, who had died in Nashua in 1882. It became clear that I needed to next search for a death notice in Clinton County newspapers, since Joseph Leazotte had been living in Altona, New York, as late as 1880. I happened upon a link to the NNYLN web site while searching for Clinton County newspapers in SUNY Plattsburgh�s library catalog. When I searched the newspaper database, the results included an obituary for Joseph Leazotte with the following: his �only brother, Lewis A. Leazotte, aged 60 years, resides in Nashua, N.H.� Also noted in the obituary was the fact that he had resided in Altona �until about year ago, when he removed to Nashua.� I now have confirmation that Lewis and Joseph were brothers. The obituary also names their father. I have moved one step closer to being able to prove that my great-great-grandfather, Lewis A. Leazotte, was the grandson of two Revolutionary soldiers (Lewis Lisot and Julian Belanger) and great-grandson of another (Lt. Francis Monty), all whom served in Moses Hazen�s 2nd Canadian Regiment.

This is another searchable NY newspaper site. The site itself is not the best, but it works. Papers are from Auburn, Oswego, Ithaca, Watertown and several others. Also several city directories from Auburn. http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html Search on "Casper Brooks" for an entertaining "Investigative Report" About the 5th hit: Newspaper Oswego Daily Times April-June 1884 - 0191.pdf