What state are these counties in? I would be glad to look up the changing lines if I knew. I have read several of the messages and have not found a state mentioned. It might help you connect with others easier if you also listed them with the counties. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Rogers" <rogersga@wpe.com> To: <FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [FRENCH-L] French in Otsego County > I have been doing some checking. It might be worth while to check out > Herkimer County which borders Otsego to the north.(Who knows what county > was formed from what county! That has certainly sidetracked me before!) > Here are some more sites to check out and next time i get to the Library > I'll recheck French, but unfortunately it won't be before next Saturday. > Have another week before vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/ > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyotsego/ > > http://nysha.org/research.htm > Gail > > At 04:23 PM 8/12/00 -0400, you wrote: > >to Gail Rogers > > > >Yes, I know of the Wilders in Bristol, Ontario County, for whom Wilder > >Creek was named. My great-great-grandfather, William Gooding, writes > >fondly of playing on the banks of Wilders Creek as a child, and of the > >school there in the first decade of the 19th century. I also have a > >sketch map of the creek (I think it was in the family papers) which > >indicates the Wilder's property. > > > >I am particularly interested to hear about the French family, however, in > >Otsego County. Gideon Burgess, who married the Sally French I am looking > >for, kept a tavern on the old Cherry Valley Turnpike (then called the > >Burgess Tavern, but later the Angel Tavern, which burned down in the > >1960s), across from the Burgess farm between Winfield, Herkimer County, > >and Richfield Springs, Otsego County. All of that family are buried there > >(I have visited their graves) and old John Burgess (Gideon's father) had > >his will probate by Gideon in Cooperstown. Since you have found Frenchs > >in Otsego County, that may be where Gideon Burgess and Sally French met > >after all. If so the autograph book ties the Otsego County French family > >to Plainfield in Connecticut. It also means I should be looking in Otsego > >County for them. > > > >What detail do you know about the French family in Otsego County? Is > >there a good source for that family there? > > > >DEAN > > > >