Dave & Liz DuBois wrote: > In my quest for information on the Hezekiah MEAD family, living in > Orange County, I wanted to contact the historian for Warwick BUT I find > there is both a town and a village named Warwick and each one has their > own historian. How do I determine which person I should be writing to? > > Many thanks! > The town is older than, and contains, the village. In New York, villages are urban areas smaller than a city that have been incorporated, but remain part of the town they are formed out of. Towns are originally rural subdivisions of a county. If your Hezekiah Mead was a farmer, he would most likely not have been in Warwick village.

Richard - thank you! And a big "Thanks!" to all of you who so graciously sent me ideas, suggestions as well as actual cemetery info for my Wisners! I appreciate your help and ideas! Many thanks! Liz On 6/10/2010 7:22 PM, Richard VanHouten wrote: > Dave& Liz DuBois wrote: >> In my quest for information on the Hezekiah MEAD family, living in >> Orange County, I wanted to contact the historian for Warwick BUT I find >> there is both a town and a village named Warwick and each one has their >> own historian. How do I determine which person I should be writing to? >> >> Many thanks! >> > The town is older than, and contains, the village. In New York, > villages are urban areas smaller than a city that have been > incorporated, but remain part of the town they are formed out of. Towns > are originally rural subdivisions of a county. If your Hezekiah Mead > was a farmer, he would most likely not have been in Warwick village. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >