The Orren Marshall family lived in Schagticoke, NY until 1858 His father Abner Marshall died in 1839 in Pawlings, Dutchess County. In the court records, Abner Marshall left two minor children, Tammy and Samuel. Abraham Kipp applied for guardianship of these two children. Does anybody know why this was in the court records in Rensselaer insead of Dutchess or does anybody know what relationship Abraham Kipp was to the Marshall family? Ruth __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Hello! Have been trying to pin down a Moffat/Moffet/Moffit from Stephenstown. My ggg grandmother Chila/Phila Moffat married Uriah Gregory. Uriah's mother was a Cady...and there are several on census records from there. I know that she is NOT related to Gen Hosea Moffat...unless he's a grandfather. His DAR papers do not list her as a child. There is a Chloe Moffat that was a neighbor in New Lisbon township, Otsego Co..to Chila/Phila..her census records says that she was from Ren. Co., too so were perhaps sisters. She died in 1869 at age 82..but headstone says born 1792. Would anyone have any record of Moffats? Thanks.. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <NYRENSSE-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <NYRENSSE-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:00 AM Subject: NYRENSSE-D Digest V01 #37

If anyone has access to these directories I would also be interested in a Lyman-Oliver or Margaret TAYLOR or any PELHAM that may have been living there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti Smith" <PSmith@fmd-inc.com> To: <NYRENSSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:21 PM Subject: [Rensselaer] Troy City Directories > Hello All! > > Does anyone have access Troy City directories for the years between June of > 1842 and April of 1848? > > I would really appreciate a look up for my GGgrandfather and his family who > resided in Troy between those years. > > William Gray (Born in Ireland) > Ellen Gray(wife-born in Ireland) > James Gray b 1842 > Thomas Gray b 1848 (when Thomas entered the civil war when he was 16 he > stated he was a shoemaker so possibly William was one as well). > > Thanks so much in advance! > > Patti(Gray)Smith > Orlando, Fl > > > ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== > Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ > GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer > GenExchange-Rensselaer Co http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=ny&county=rensselaer >

Hi again, I just listed a postcard on e bay. It's the home of William Carney in Melrose, NY. This house looks so familiar, I think it's on Rt. 40 just after the dip at Grant's Hollow. If anyone is interested you can visit the auction at: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1117835966 I'm also about to list a postcard of the old Melrose train station. You can go to the above auction and click on "view seller's other auctions" I hope someone recognizes this! Maybe knows who lives there now. Jenn

Hi all, I have an old faded photo of the following three ladies: Elsie Wright Blanche Arnold Susie Walker It is inscribed on the back, the three names and "Three good Pals and taken in our early 20's" If anyone can identify one of these 3 ladies and would like the photo, you are welcome to it. Sincerely, Jenn Olmstead

I am looking for a old picture of Hoosic{k] NY that I can have permission to use on a web site. just a house or old barn something like that. I am working on a web page for the Ezekiel Hodges family who came from Hoosic Ny . Ezekiel Hodges and Keziha Delivan raised there family there, and I thought a picture of the town where we have traced our family would be a great starting point . thank you for any help I may receive ahead of time Christy Hodges Smith Hhodges50@bellsouth.net

Hello All! Does anyone have access Troy City directories for the years between June of 1842 and April of 1848? I would really appreciate a look up for my GGgrandfather and his family who resided in Troy between those years. William Gray (Born in Ireland) Ellen Gray(wife-born in Ireland) James Gray b 1842 Thomas Gray b 1848 (when Thomas entered the civil war when he was 16 he stated he was a shoemaker so possibly William was one as well). Thanks so much in advance! Patti(Gray)Smith Orlando, Fl

Could someone please give me directions to Holcomb Cem. in Sand Lake? Thank you, Jim Conklin Researching in the Sand Lake, NY area: CONKLIN, HUNT

We have now almost completed the 9th ward and will be starting on the 6th ward this week. I just put on line at my freepages site (see URL) the Troy Male Catholic Orphanage Asylum which was located on Hanover St. at the corner of Bedford St. in the 9th ward. It has about 211 names and includes the people who lived and worked there. It was transcribed by Lynn Grice. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nymets/

For St. Joseph's Cemetery in Troy, NY, I have posted 47 names and 18 surnames from 14 gravestones. These were transcribed and contributed by Brooke Myers. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/ Look for "Vital Records - Deaths", then Rensselaer Co. Cliff

At 06:58 AM 2/19/01 -0800, Marlene Hartle wrote: >If......Schaghticoke - was formed as a district, March 24, 1772, and as a >town, March 7, 1788. > >Question > >Would anyone on the list know what the area was called BEFORE .......1772 ? > The sourcce of info for my earlier posting with the dates as quoted here is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/schag.htm Sorry I neglected to include it before :-) Florence

At 06:58 AM 2/19/01 -0800, Marlene Hartle wrote: >If......Schaghticoke - was formed as a district, March 24, 1772, and as a >town, March 7, 1788. > >Question > >Would anyone on the list know what the area was called BEFORE .......1772 ? Albany was granted a 500 acre tract of land at "Schaghticoke" in its municipal charter of 1686. Initially, the Albany government did not follow up on its obligation to purchase the land from the Schaghticoke Indians. Instead, in 1698 Hendrick Van Rensselaer was authorized to obtain an Indian deed. In 1707, he then sold the rights to the six square-mile tract east of the Hudson River and north of Rensselaerswyck to the city of Albany. The heart of the Schaghticoke tract was desirable farmland in the Hoosick Valley about sixteen miles northwest f Albany. In 1709, the Albany government conveyed lots to Johannes De Wandelaer, Jr., John Harmanse Visscher, Corset Veeder, Daniel Kettelhuyn, Johannes Knickerbacker, Louis Viele, and Dirck Van Vechten - all of whom went there to live. Additional plots later were granted to Martin de Lamont, Wouter Quackenbush, Peter Yates, David Schuyler, Wouter Groesbeck, Philip Livingston, Ignace Kip, Cornelis Vandenbergh, and others. Initially, these "sales" were leases. Later, leases became ownership deeds. Some of the first Schaghticoke landholders were younger sons of established Albany families. Others were more marginal but long-standing city people seeking a new start in the Hoosick Valley. Livingston and others obtained Schaghticoke titles for investment purposes. With tenants farming good Hoosick Valley bottomland and paying annual rents in wheat and wood to their Albany landlord, Schaghticoke figured to become a successful agricultural enterprise. But because those farms were vulnerable to Indian attack, after 1745 the agricultural settlement did not flourish. Only the most determined settlers were able to resist the temptation to take refuge in Albany during the darkest days of the colonial wars and the War for Independence. Schaghticoke officially became a district of Albany County in 1772 and a town in 1788. The census of 1790 showed the town with a population of 1,838 including 348 slaves. Schaghticoke became part of new Rensselaer County in 1791. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/sgtke.html

If......Schaghticoke - was formed as a district, March 24, 1772, and as a town, March 7, 1788. Question Would anyone on the list know what the area was called BEFORE .......1772 ? Thank you , Marlene

Scat-i-coke, I believe. Brad Miter -----Original Message----- From: NYRENSSE-L-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:NYRENSSE-L-request@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Nancy Hargiss Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 4:59 PM To: NYRENSSE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Rensselaer] Schaghticoke How does one pronounce SCHAGHTICOKE? Nancy Hargiss California, USA ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer GenExchange-Rensselaer Co http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=ny&county=rensselaer

At 01:59 PM 2/18/01 -0800, you wrote: >How does one pronounce SCHAGHTICOKE? > >Nancy Hargiss >California, USA > The following information is from "Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State," by J. H. French, 1860. Schaghticoke (1) - was formed as a district, March 24, 1772, and as a town, March 7, 1788. (1) Pron. "Skat-i-kook." In old documents it is variously spelled "Schetekoke," Schactekoke," "Scahwahook," and "Schagcoque." It is said to be an Algonquin word, meaning "landslide." The Stockbridge Indians called it [the rest of this line is illegible]. >==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== >Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ >GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer >GenExchange-Rensselaer Co http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=ny&county=rensselaer > > >

Thanks list. No longer do I have to stumble and mumble my way through saying Schachticoke. (It took me a year just to remember how to spell it!) Nancy Hargiss California, USA

How does one pronounce SCHAGHTICOKE? Nancy Hargiss California, USA

I am hoping some kind soul out there can help me locate information on this family I have been looking for several years to no avail . . . . Carl Fredrick Schlensker b. Jun 11, 1826 in Prussia m. Eliza Leifheit/Lifite/Lifeheight . . . (many spellings!) about 1852 in NY . . . Their first daughter was Mary Elizabeth, b. 1853; second daughter Sarah Elizabeth b. 1855 in Albany, NY. I am trying to locate their marriage record and Eliza's parents. I have locate some Lifite's in Rensselaer Co. (Philip Lifite b. 1786), but really have no idea if they have any connection. I can not locate Carl Fredrick Schlensker (usually went by Fredrick on other census) on the 1850 census. Perhaps he's living with another family member. I am hoping someone can locate this family on the 1855 NY State Census. I am guessing they were married about 1852 in either Albany or Renesselaer. Can anyone out there help me? Thanks!! Karen

Tonight I finished putting the 12th ward of the 1880 Fed. Census for Troy on line at my freepages site (see URL below). We now have two wards (also 6th ward) on line. That means you have 8,568 names to search which includes 1,547 families and 858 dwellings. These two wards are in the southern most part of Troy are are probably 80% Irish immigrants and their families. We are currently half way through the 9th ward which has a smaller percentage of Irish and includes more German, English and Scotch immigrants than the first two wards. People to thank for devoting their free time to transcribe all these records: Bob McConihe, Lynn Grice, Dorsey Clark, MaryAnn McConnell and Matt Bloomfield. Things to watch out for: misspelled surnames. This is caused by a few reasons... hard to read handwriting, enumerator couldn't spell the "foreign" name and many of the immigrants could not read or write in English. So, look up all the variations of how your surname might be spelled. This index is meant for a research tool. For full documentation, you should always refer to the source document, the census. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nymets/

The family I am researching was Irish Catholic immigrating about 1850. The family settled in western NYS in Seneca Falls where my ggrandfather was born in 1855. I thought the family came directly to that area from their port of entry. However, on my ggrandfathers marriage record there is a notation next to his fathers name that says Garfield. I assumed this was his nickname but the church priest said that this would mean that is where the father was born. I was told that Garfield was near Troy, NY. another possibility - is there a place in Ireland called Garfield? Does anyone have any ideas?