Hi You might want to write to the German Village/Town Clerks to see if his Birth Certificate was filed there. It appears he was B after B Records were filed in NYS. His Marriage Record might also list his Parents and/or his Death Record. I would also search the Guardianship Records for Chenango County for the years following his DOB up to about 1900. It would appear that the Vosburg Family were his legal Guardians. If you knew the church that the family attended you might also find church records that name his parents. Pat R