This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1720.1 Message Board Post: Germantown is in Columbia Co.Vitals are recorded by the Town Clerk .But Upper Red Hook is in Town of Red Hook formed from Rhinbeck in Dutchess Co.NY mandated vitals in 1880 but some places did not start until after 1900. There was a Coon/Coons furniture store in Hudson on Warren St.