Union Society is now Brooksburg. see this link for nearby cemeteries http://www.histopolis.com/Place/US/NY/Greene_County/Brooksburg -----Original Message----- >From: Barbara Proko <lida_ancestors@yahoo.com>>Sent: Mar 12, 2011 6:00 AM >To: NYGreene <nygreene-l@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [NYGREENE] Windham's Union Society Post Office neighborhood / families > >Are these any resources that might provide information or description of  what >the 1860 U.S. Census identifies as the "Union Society Post Office" neighborhood >of Windham?  More specifically, would residents of this section of Windham have >attended any particular church or been educated at some specific school that >might have records anywhere? >  >For the benefit of my children, I am researching my ex-husband's lineage. Among >these lines is the family of George and Sarah C. Robertson, who lived in Windham >for just a few years, ca. mid-1850s to perhaps early to mid-1860s.  (Note: This >George Robertson has no connection whatsoever to the quite prominent George >Robertson whose life seems to be well documented in local histories.) >  >From the little I glean from the 1860 census, the Union Society P.O. area seems >to have been a neighborhood of tradespeople.  If the sequence of families >enumerated is any indication of the layout of properties here, the immediate >neighborhood comprised the following: Thomas Kearns, blacksmith; George >Robertson, cabinet maker; Daniel Jones, cooper; D. (?) Sutton, blacksmith; >Nelson Camp, farmer. >  >The 20 Aug 1860 census cites the following: George, 45, cabinet maker, owns real >estate valued at $1,200 and personal estate of $270, b. Nova Scotia; Sarah C., >35, b. New York; Anna M., 16, b. New York, attended school; Mary A., 14, b. New >York, attended school; George W., 12, b. New York, attended school; Adelaide V., >9, b. New York, attended school; Charles R., 6, b. New York, attended school; >Emma L., 4, b. New York, Jessie E., 1, b. New York. >  >I'm hoping that this will finally be the year I take a summer research road trip >to explore Windham and its resources.  My specific interest in this line is >George and Sarah's son George W. Robertson, who in adulthood married Agnes >Smith, a descendant of Revolutionary War Lt. Abraham Osborn of New Jersey. A >number of Osborn's descendants are in the DAR, but this particular line is not >documented. >  >At this point, I have no idea where the Robertson family lived between 1862 and >1868, or where/when George died. Advertisements for property in Ocean County, >NJ, promote it as a healthy place to live, especially for people with >respiratory problems. Since Ocean County was also being developed for tourism, >it seems that if George was still alive and not ill, he might have found work >there as a carpenter/cabinetmaker, just as he did in Greene County and earlier >in Brooklyn and his youth in Nova Scotia. On the other hand, Sarah handled the >family's real estate transactions in the 1860s, which suggests to me that George >was perhaps ill and then died by 1868. >  >Below is the time line I've compiled for George Robertson and family: >  > 1814/15: George Robertson born in Nova Scotia. >  >27 Sep 1839: George Robertson, 25, cabinet maker, arrives in New York from >Halifax aboard the Schooner Barbara. >  >1839-44: George Robertson marries New York native Sarah ?  (Possible parents, >per Brooklyn directory, could be Thomas and Anna Williams. Later census data >identifies an Anna Williams as Sarah's mother, living with the Robertson >family. What does Sarah's middle initial C. stand for? It appears consistently >with her name.) >  >1844 approx.: daughter Anna M. Robertson born in New York. >  >1846 approx.: daughter Mary A. Robertson born in New York. >  >1848:  “Robertson, George, cabinet maker, 199 Gold,” per 1848 Brooklyn city >directory.  Not listed in 1850 or 1859 directories. >  >1848/49 approx.: son George W. Robertson born in New York. >  >12 Aug 1850: US Census for Brooklyn Ward 8 lists George, 35, cabinet maker, owns >property valued at $400, b. Nova Scotia; Sarah C., 25, b. New York; Anna M., 6, >b. New York, attended school; Mary A., 4, b. New York; George W., 1, b. New >York. >  >1851 approx.: daughter Adelaide V. Robertson born in New York. >  >1854 approx.: son Charles R. Robertson born in New York. >  >1856 approx.: daughter Emma L. Robertson born in New York. >  >1859 approx.: daughter Jessie E. Robertson born in New York. >  >20 Aug 1860: US Census for Windham, Greene County, New York (Union Society Post >Office) lists George, 45, cabinet maker, owns real estate valued at $1,200 and >personal estate of $270, b. Nova Scotia; Sarah C., 35, b. New York; Anna M., 16, >b. New York, attended school; Mary A., 14, b. New York, attended school; George >W., 12, b. New York, attended school; Adelaide V., 9, b. New York, attended >school; Charles R., 6, b. New York, attended school; Emma L., 4, b. New York, >Jessie E., 1, b. New York. >  >1861 approx.: daughter Ida G. Robertson born in Windham. >  >2 April 1862: Sarah Robertson, on behalf of George, sells property in Windham. >  >On April 2, 1862, Sarah C. Robertson (identified as owner and as George's wife) >sells 15 acres of this property to a David Davis. It's described as being on the >southerly side of the turnpike, abutting that of Eli Parsons, with the boundary >line running "west of a little barn opposite and nearly south of the house now >occupied by the Robertsons," south to a barn, east to "where the red (???) shop >formerly stood," then directly north to the highway, then east along the >turnpike more or less to "a wall running north a few feet west of the tavern >house now occupied by Peter Jacobs."  North along a wall to the property line of >Thomas Kearns, then west to the Goshen road, southeast to property of Daniel >Jones (deceased?), then east to the beginning point. A second 5-acre parcel, >abutting Kearns, was sold to Thomas B. Holcomb. >  >(In response to my post a few years ago conceriing this property transfer, town >historian Patricia Morrow wrote: "David Davis lived several miles east of >Windham Centre, along State Route 23 in the vicinity of Union Society (now >called Brooksburg). Goshen Road is located in the hamlet of Hensonville. On this >1867 map of Windham, just to the left of the words "Union Society," you will see >property marked D. Davis and P. Jacobs >Hotel.http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2/wpeE3.gif) >  >26 Oct 1868: Sarah Robertson buys property in Bricksburg, Ocean County, New >Jersey.  Resident of village of Bricksburgh in Brick Township. For $225, >purchases lots on west side of Lexington Avenue between First and Second streets >from Bricksburg Land Improvement Company.  (Lots 25-26 of Block 7, frontage on >Lexington Avenue.) >  >17 Aug 1870: US Census for Brick Township, Ocean County, New Jersey (Point >Pleasant Post Office) lists Sarah C., 46, dress making, real estate valued at >$1,650, personal estate of $150, born in New York; Mary A., 23, dress making; >Charles R., 15, at home, attended school; Emma L., 13, at home, attended school; >Jessie E., 11, at home, attended school; Ida G., 9, at home, attended school; >Anna M. Williams, 65, at home, personal estate of $700; George W. Robertson, 21, >painter.  All born in New York.  All children list “father of foreign born.”  >(Note: Anna M. Robertson, b. ca. 1844, is not listed.  Unless she died, she is >probably married, and could have married while the family resided in Windham.) >  >11 Jun 1880: US Census for Western District of Brick Township, Ocean County, New >Jersey, lists Sarah C., 56, widowed, head of household, keeping house, self/both >parents born in New York; Anna Williams, 75, widowed, mother, at home, self/both >parents born in New York; Emma Robertson, 23, single, dressmaker,; Jessie >Robertson, 21, single, upholstress; Ida G., 19, single, dressmaker, all >daughters list self/mother born in New York, father born in Nova Scotia. >  >Jun 1880: US Census for Camden, New Jersey, Ward 7, 59 Cherry Street, lists >George W. Robertson, 29, married, painter, born New York, mother born New York, >father born Nova Scotia; Agnes, 25, keeping house, self/parents born New Jersey; >Frankie, 5, born New Jersey; Cora, 3, born New Jersey. >  >1885: New Jersey State Census for Brick Township, Ocean County, lists George W. >Robertson, 20-60; Agnes, 20-60; Frank A., 5-10; Cora M., 5-10; Harry H., under >5; Herbert W., under 5. > >Thanks for any help, >  >Barbara Proko >New Britain, CT > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message