Heading west form Albany County Present day counties: At the time of the Erie Canal, there were fewer as they formed new counties from combinations of older ones. County Original Date formed Albany " 1683 Schenectady Albany 1809 Montgomery " 1772 Herkimer Montgomery 1791 Oneida " 1798 Madison Chenango 1806 Cayuga Onondaga 1799 Onondaga Herkimer 1794 Cayuga Onondaga 1799 Seneca Cayuga 1804 Ontario Montgomery 1789 Monroe Genesee, Ontario 1802 Genesee Ontario 1802 Niagara Genesee 1808 or Erie Niagara 1821 Hope this helps! ----- Original Message ----- From: "E" <grel@ix.netcom.com> To: <GEN-NYS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:50 PM Subject: [GEN-NYS] Erie Canal >I am trying to track down a Patrick Donlon family. Migrated to US before >1847. Had a daughter born in Steuben County 1847 , another 1849 and a son >1852. The family does not show up in the 1850 , 1855, 1860 census for >Steuben County but is there in 1865. > Patrick had a brother John who was in Steuben County and it is possible > that Patrick's wife Catherine went there to be with John's wife when > Catherine was going to give birth. . > Patrick as a family does not show up in PA , NJ , Conn or Mass census > for 1850 or 1860 and does not appear per Census of 1850 and 1860 to be in > NY. > Could it be he was working on the Canal which was being rebuilt at the > time? . What New York Counties would this have been? The NY census for > 1855 must be check for each county. Any suggestions.... Grant > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thank you . It is a help.. Does anyone know where the Erie Canal was being rebuilt from 1845 thru 1860? Grant