I am not able to locate the 1850 (or an 1855 if available) census for Berkshire County, MA. If anyone has easy access to one and would be able to look up someone for me I would be very grateful. I am looking for census records of my GG Grandfather, Frederick H Dewey. He was born in 1830 and was married to a Susan _ by 1860, but they had by then moved to IL. The IL Census of 1860 said they had a child in MA. I "think" he was from Berkshire county, but we would love some proof. He would have been 20 in the 1850 census, so he could have been married or living with his parents. We believe his parents are Mark Dewey and Paulina Hamlin, as his middle name was Hamlin. Any help would be most appreciated! Sincerely, Jon Peters Minnesota.

Judith Wilson, re: Absalom Backus I believe that when my family was living in Pittsfield in the late 1930s, early 1940s, we had a landlord whose last name was Backus. (Stayed in my mind, odd name.) Houses we lived in were: Underwood Place, Bartlett Avenue, Dawes Avenue. Perhaps real estate/property tax records would give you some info, from which you could work back to your Absalom.

Cliff: Kudos to both you and Agnes for making the 'Will Abstracts for the Town of Kinderhook, Columbia Co., NY' available to the Columbia Co., NY RootsWeb mailing list!! The wills of Jan Hendrickse BURGHARDT and his son, Garrett, were among the abstracts. The names of children, grandchildren, and in-laws listed in these abstracts have answered many questions for me. I have not yet perused the other abstracts, but expect that will also be very useful, since the BURGHARDT families from around Claverack and Kinderhook intermarried with many individuals of many of those families--GOES, HALLENBECK, HUYCK, KITTELL, KLAUW, LEGRANGE, MOOR[E], VAN DEUSEN, and VOSBURG. Jan was a brother of my direct ancestor, Coenreat Hendrickse BURGHARDT, who also lived in Claverack and Kinderhook before migrating to the area around Great Barrington, Berkshire Co. [then Hampshire Co.], MA in the early 1700's to help establish 'Housatonic Colony.' Thanks again! Otto Burgett Fort Lauderdale, FL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [NYCOL] Will Abstracts for the Town of Kinderhook, Columbia Co., NY > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:12:48 -0400 > From: Cliff Lamere <clifflamere@global2000.net> > To: NYCOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com > > I have just posted 25 will abstracts for the Town of Kinderhook, Columbia Co., NY (1708-1786). All were proved in New York City at a time before a Surrogate's Court was established in each county in 1787. New Amsterdam / New York City was the capitol of New York Province/State until the capitol moved to Albany in 1797. [NYC even became the first capitol of the United States in 1789, but only remained so for a year. In 1790, the capitol moved to Philadelphia.]. Apparently, if a will had a value over 50 pounds, it had to be proved by the provincial government. That government had its seat in New York City. When NY became a state in 1777, the capitol did not change until 1797 when it moved to Albany. > > Agnes Cloninger typed the will abstracts, and I created the index of 328 names that were in the wills. Since I was born in the Town of Kinderhook, this project has been very special for me. My thanks to Agnes for her tireless efforts in this project that will increase our online knowledge of Columbia Co. > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Wills/Wills-Kinder.htm > > Cliff > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/

Many individuals participating in the RootsWeb Mailing List for Berkshire Co.,, MA are probably not aware that there is a companion U. S. GenWeb website that contains a great deal of useful information about Berkshire County. It may be accessed at the following URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maberksh/

I am researching my father's family and am looking for information on the family of Gertrude Harriet Alderman, born 5 May 1896 in North Adams. She was the daughter of Herbert Henry Alderman of North Adams, and Ida Mae Fellows Alderman of New York. Other children were Herbert E. Alderman, Raymond Alderman, and Robert Alderman. This branch of my family is my one stumbling block, and any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Casey

I am looking for the parents of Absalom Backus. I believe he was born in Pittsfield about 1780. He married Abigail Luce ( I am looking for her parents too) in 1803 in Pittsfield. She died in 1824 and he died in 1855, both in Pittsfield. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Judith Wilson ayphoto@pacbell.net Redding CA

Hi, My name is Melodie Clarke. I am researching my family history. My maiden name is Rensehausen. My grandfather always told me growing up that it originally spelled Renziehausen. That it was Americanized to Rensehausen. My father told us that we had family in Pittsfield MA and Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, PA. Any information on the Renziehausen family name would be greatly appreciated. My e-mail address is tyger125@msn.com Thank you very much. Melodie (Rensehausen) ClarkeGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Yes, my family was also in the "oblong" area of western Mass------Hancock, MA and Lebanon Springs, NY. I am not sure that I can be of help but I will try. What do you need to know? Margaret in NV

this is what aol 6.0 looks like to the rest of us on aol...it changes plain text to something else Does anyone have any information on the Cummings family from Buffalo, NY?= =A0I=20 just=20 recently found (after 12 years searching), my gggrandfather Albert Cummin= gs=20 born in Lockport, NY in abt 1840 and died in Berlin, NY in 1869/70. =A0He= =20 married a Miriam Blowers born in Pendleton, NY in 1840. =A0They had three= =20 children: =A0Ida May born in 1868, Albert James born in 1870 and Adda who= died=20 at two years old. =A0 Albert and Ida both married and moved to Williamsto= wn,=20 MA. =A0He=20 >>

Are there BRESSIE/BRISSIE researchers on the list who have additional information about Engeltie BRESSIE/BRISSIE and Lambert BURGHARDT? Thanks for looking! Descendants of Lambert BURGHARDT: Generation No. 1 1. LAMBERT5 BURGHARDT (HENDRIK4, COENRAAT HENDRICKSE3, HENDRICK COENRAETSE2 BURCHARDT, COENRAET HENDRICKSE1) was born 1737 in NY. He married ENGELTIE BRISSIE. Children of LAMBERT BURGHARDT and ENGELTIE BRISSIE are: i. HINRICH6 BURGHARDT, b. 1761. More About HINRICH BURGHARDT: Christening: 29 October 1761, Loonenburg, Greene, NY ii. CHRISTOFFEL BURGHARDT, b. 1763. More About CHRISTOFFEL BURGHARDT: Christening: 01 July 1763, Loonenburg, Greene, NY iii. ISAAC BURGHARDT, b. 28 May 1765.

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Maryanne: My 5Ggrandfather was: Elijah SPRAGUE who lived out his final years in Adams, Berkshire County, MA. He was originally married to Avis Mitshall and they had a daughter named Avis SPRAGUE. Avis (the mother) died and Elijah remarried a woman named Anna ???. Avis SPRAGUE was living with Elijah and Anna Sprague and their three children, Zerviah, George and Henry in Adams, Berkshire, MA up until Elijah's death about 06 August of 1800. Avis SPRAGUE married a man named John HUIT, probably in Pittsfield Berkshire. Avis was born in Glocester, Providence County, RI. Does this ring a bell? (I think HUIT could very easily be HEWITT as well) Cheers, Peter In a message dated 6/26/01 5:30:22 PM, maryann@jcn1.com writes: <<> I had a Hewitt there in Berkshire Co. Benjamin Hewitt bought land there in > 1792. I now very little about him, he probably died about 1800. He probably had a son named Benjamin b 1782 in CT. Benjamin "Jr" moved to Cuyahoga Co Ohio about 1832. Benjamin Jr married Barintha Huggins and they had a large family. Mary Ann > Subject: ROSS, SPRAGUE, HUIT/HEWITT > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:17:20 -0700 > From: Peter <travels@jps.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Seeking kin with Ross, Sprague, Huit or Hewitt surnames from Berkshire > County MA or in Bennington County VT. between 1779 and 1805 > Thanks and Regards > Peter > http://members.aol.com/ancestour/MASTHEAD.html ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <MABERKSH-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zd02.mx.aol.com (rly-zd02.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.226]) by air-zd02.mail.aol.com (v78_r3.8) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:30:22 -0400 Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.32]) by rly-zd02.mx.aol.com (v79.20) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINZD28-0626203010; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:30:10 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f5R0KLe07170; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:20:21 -0600 Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:20:21 -0600 X-Original-Sender: maryann@jcn1.com Tue Jun 26 18:20:20 2001 Message-ID: <3B392813.C11391C0@jcn1.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:25:56 -0500 From: Mary Ann Null <maryann@jcn1.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re:ROSS,SPRAGUE, HUIT/HEWITT References: <200106270000.f5R00aX12265@lists2.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <3nbbY.A.zvB.FbSO7@lists2.rootsweb.com> To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/143 X-Loop: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: MABERKSH-L-request@rootsweb.com >>

Sorry - I am sending this again because the first message was hard to read. Does anyone have any information on the Cummings family from Buffalo, NY?  I just recently found (after 12 years searching), my gggrandfather Albert Cummings born in Lockport, NY in abt 1840 and died in Berlin, NY in 1869/70.  He married a Miriam Blowers born in Pendleton, NY in 1840.  They had three children:  Ida May born in 1868, Albert James born in 1870 and Adda who died at two years old.   Albert and Ida both married and moved to Williamstown, MA.  He married Della Hearn and Ida married William Orton.  Ida lived in Dalton, MA with one of her daughters.  

> I had a Hewitt there in Berkshire Co. Benjamin Hewitt bought land there in > 1792. I now very little about him, he probably died about 1800. He probably had a son named Benjamin b 1782 in CT. Benjamin "Jr" moved to Cuyahoga Co Ohio about 1832. Benjamin Jr married Barintha Huggins and they had a large family. Mary Ann > Subject: ROSS, SPRAGUE, HUIT/HEWITT > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:17:20 -0700 > From: Peter <travels@jps.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Seeking kin with Ross, Sprague, Huit or Hewitt surnames from Berkshire > County MA or in Bennington County VT. between 1779 and 1805 > Thanks and Regards > Peter > http://members.aol.com/ancestour/MASTHEAD.html

Seeking kin with Ross, Sprague, Huit or Hewitt surnames from Berkshire County MA or in Bennington County VT. between 1779 and 1805 Thanks and Regards Peter http://members.aol.com/ancestour/MASTHEAD.html

Hello List, First let me apologize if I have asked this question before-----if I did I don't recall ever getting any answer <g>. In the Pittsfield Cemetery there are two people interred in the BENZ family plot, that I do not recognize. They are, Harold E. FENTNER, 1955 and Anna Marie FENTNER, 1996. They are in Lot #134 in the Pontoosuc Hill section. Does anyone know who they were and how they were related to the BENZ's? I would greatly appreciate any information. Thank you, Margaret in NV

Phillip RASE was baptized on 23 Jun 1771 at Nobletown [now Hillsdale], Columbia Co., NY by Rev. Gideon BOSTWICK of the St. James Episcopal Church of Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., MA. Abraham RASE and Catherine [MNU] were listed as his parents. Does anyone on the list have information about the ancestors of Abraham RASE and/or the maiden name of his wife Catherine? Rev. BOSTWICK also baptized other RASE children of Abraham and Catherine, as well as other RASE parents--perhaps siblings of Abraham, at Nobletown. Thanks for looking. Otto Burgett

Have you tried the Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Springfield? That's where I found some early "Hampshire County" deeds for land in Russell/Westfield. Had already tried the current Hampshire County Registry of Deeds in Northampton, but had to go to Springfield for the earliest records. Joanne Garland -----Original Message----- From: James W. Crippen <crippen3@alaska.com> To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com <MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:45 PM Subject: Nobletown >Can anyone advise on archaic Hampshire County records ? Hampshire was >re-formed (when???) as Berkshire? Interested in learning whereabouts of >any remaining records from the period when Berkshire contained Nobletown >and Austerlitz in the Oblong of Massachusetts Colony lands contested by >New York. >The Joseph Crippen farm in Alford was dissected by the "New" MS-NY State >boundary re-set in 1787. More Crippen land became trapped in the "Gore" >east of Stockbridge. Looking for any clues to archaic Berkshire County, >Colony Land Records; Birth, marriage and death records, 1740-1790. All >ideas will be greatly appreciated. > >The Mass archives contain ca 1766 letters from William Kellogg of >Nobletown, testifying that his settlers were routed, burned and >murdered, by people from New York. Many of these same people were >chased to Egremont with their livestock and later re-settled north in >Austerlitz where Elisha Hatch was an original town proprietor. Details >appreciated. > >Thanks, >Jim Crippen >

Sorry if this appeared twice. I don't think I received a sent confirmation Looking for assistance to find my GGGrandmother(Julia Ann Kilroy, or Conroy or Fahey) and her daughter Mary. Appears Julia was married to a James Kilroy or Conroy in Ireland prior to coming to America about 1849. Connecticut Birth Records for her children, note that Mary was born in Pittsfield Mass about 1849. She gave birth to three children in Connecticut, and the CT/New Haven Birth Records all say the same thing. As far as I have been able to look, I have been unable to find this family. Any assistance in solving this puzzle would be greatly appreciated. Bob Martin, CSG #17217 martinrf@rcn.com Researching: Martin, Fahey, Kilroy, Dillon, in part My site is http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=martinrf

Cissi and Lynn: Do either of you have information about the parents and the relationship of Peter Race Markham to the RACE/REES family? Peter m. Hannah Maria BURGHARDT [B. 1813, Egremont, Berkshire Co., MA] and they had the following children: John H. [b. 1833] Henry C. [b. 1838--a twin] Mary [b. 1838--a twin] Hannah Maria was a dau. of John H. BURGHARDT and Jerusha HURLBURT. Otto Burgett mottob@att.net > Subject: Tyringham > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:26:42 -0700 > From: "Cissi" <MissCissi@prodigy.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Tyringham MA is one of the main areas where my ancestors would be found. Do > you have any info for Markham, Heath, Race and/or Johns? > Thanks > Cissi > Subject: Re: Nobletown > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:01:02 -0700 > From: "Cissi" <MissCissi@prodigy.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Dear Jim: > I'm also very interested in this info. Please forward, if you can. > Thanks > Cissi > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James W. Crippen" <crippen3@alaska.com> > To: <MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:45 AM > Subject: Nobletown > > > Can anyone advise on archaic Hampshire County records ? Hampshire was > > re-formed (when???) as Berkshire? Interested in learning whereabouts of > > any remaining records from the period when Berkshire contained Nobletown > > and Austerlitz in the Oblong of Massachusetts Colony lands contested by > > New York. > > The Joseph Crippen farm in Alford was dissected by the "New" MS-NY State > > boundary re-set in 1787. More Crippen land became trapped in the "Gore" > > east of Stockbridge. Looking for any clues to archaic Berkshire County, > > Colony Land Records; Birth, marriage and death records, 1740-1790. All > > ideas will be greatly appreciated. > > > > The Mass archives contain ca 1766 letters from William Kellogg of > > Nobletown, testifying that his settlers were routed, burned and > > murdered, by people from New York. Many of these same people were > > chased to Egremont with their livestock and later re-settled north in > > Austerlitz where Elisha Hatch was an original town proprietor. Details > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Jim Crippen > Subject: Re: Tyringham > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:12:37 -0400 > From: "Yustin Wallrapp" <llwallrapp@mediaone.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Cissi: > These are peripheral marriages into my main family lines so I do not have a > lot of information on these Heaths and Markhams. There is a published and > available Dowd/Doude/Doud genealogy from which I got this sketchy info. I do > have lots of Race/Rees informaion - just let me know which specific > Race/Reeses you are interested in. Also I am looking for an Andrew Race b. > 1770 so if you happen to have anything on this old Andrew, I would be > greatly interested. > > Sylvester Dowd b. 1803 in Tyringham m. Thetesa Heath b. Tyringham. (Thetesa > also m. Hyland Dowd.) > Sylvester and Thetesa had: > Harriet L. b. Tyringham 1834 m. Loomis Jones in 1851 > Wilbur S. Dowd b. Tyringham 1838 m. Sarah J. Heath > > Wilbur S. Dowd b. 1838 in Tyringham, son of Sylvester Dowd and Thetesa Heath > m. in 1860 - Sarah J. Heath > > George Washington Race b. Hampton, NY 1812 (these Races had very strong MT > Washington, Egremont and Great Barrington connections) m. Clarissa Barron > before 1844 and had Lydia Jane, and Caroline Race. Caroline Race m. James > Norton Heath and Albert Cook. With Albert Cook, Caroline had: Hattie Cook > (no birth date d. 1922 in Granville, NY) who m. George Heath who died about > 1900 in Cabot, VT. > Hattie and George Heath had: > Halsey M. Heath b. July 5, 1891 > Lena A. Heath b. March 1, 1892 m. Dwight E. Perry > > Hattie Race (no dates, no locations) m. ? Heath > > Noah Dowd b. 1766 in Monterey, MA (formerly part of Tyringham) m. in 1786 in > Monterey, Mehitable Markham (no dates) and had: > Noah, Jr. 1788 > Mehitabel 1790 > Selah 1792 > Cornelius 1795 > Adoniram 1798 > Anna b.1800 m. Elisha Markham in 1836 in Tyringham > Amos no date > Rachel Lavinia Dowd b. 1811 Tyringham m. Ira Markham > Hope this helps. > Lynn Rogers Wallrapp