Found this interesting list...hope it helps someone. Have a list for White Creek and Jackson also, will post them later. Loretta Bates POARMASTER DATE APPOINTED Benjamin Colvin September 14, 1797 (Established) Adonihah Skinner May 15, 1799 Paul Dennis *1st account rendered July 1, 1809 Clark Rice, Jr. March 6, 1817 Matthew Stevenson June 3, 1829 James P. Robertson January 23, 1838 Joseph Green March 25, 1841 Oliver Cook August 18, 1843 Clark McClellan April 21, 1849 Leonard Wells October 21,1850 James R. Livingston May 24, 1855 John Watkins July 29, 1857 Leonard Wells April 25, 1861 Elizah A. Wells November 11, 1865 Ezra Smith September 24, 1866 Benjamin P. Crocker January 6, 1868 Mitchell McFarland February 8, 1882 Jerome B. Jos;yn February 19, 1886 Benjamin L. Ward February 25, 1890 David C. Fassett July 30, 1894 Benjamin L. Ward August 26, 1898 John G. Ward May 6, 1905 David J. Sheridan January 5, 1916 Arthur K. Lansing January 21, 1922

A meeting of the Northeastern New York Genealogical Society will be held Monday, Sept. 20th, 2004 at 7 PM in the Old Empire Theater, 13 South St., Glens Falls, NY. A program "When & How to Publish a Manuscript" will be presented by NNYGS Member Connie Harris Farrinton. Connie has an AA degree from Green Mountain College, a BA from Syracuse University and a BD in Teaching and Research in Religion from Yale Divinity School. Her employment career includes cost accounting supervisor, can can dancer, technical writer, minister to youth, business analyst and public welfare social worker. She retired from DuPont Medical Instruments in CT and later retired from Dade Behring Medical Instruments in CT. She has been publishing genealogical manuscripts since 1970. Her past manuscripts focused on Harrisons, Trumbulls, Browns, Denios, Haywards and others. She has taught genealogy courses and lectured in CT, NJ and NY. She has been the research genealogist for the Matteson Historic! al Congress, a nation family association. Connie grew up in Queensbury and moved to CT in 1962. In March of 2004 she moved back to Queensbury with her husband, Lee Farrington, also a Queensbury native. Refreshments follow the program. This meeting and program is open to the public at no charge.

Hello- Were there standard dimensions for the lots in the Cambridge patent? The shapes seem to vary from square to elongated rectangle. If not, how was patent lot size determined? Has anyone ever come across any remaining old "stake and stone" corner markers? Is there any way to physically determine these lot boundaries present day? Thanks, Mike

FYI- I found on google a place in MA that sells reproductions of pages of county atlases of all NY counties for 6.95 a page +SH. , including the 1866 Beers atlas of Washington County. www.higginsonbooks.com

In most areas, there were early tax and militia rolls but I don't think there were separate rolls of voters, who generally had to be citizens, white, male, of age (usually 21) and property owners. There was no formal voter registration per se into the 1840s, at least not in most of the country, where virtually everyone in a small town or village who owned property was known to local officials. --- "J. McDonald" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Were there any lists of voters kept in > Washington County in the time period of > 1790-1840? Thank you for your help. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Source, Rutland (Vt) Daily Herald--Fri. Mar.29, 1918. FAIR HAVEN, Vt. DEATH OF MRS. ROBERTS. Mrs.Jeannette Roberts died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Patrick Burke, at 6:45 o'clock Wednesday evening after a short illness with pneumonia. She was 57 years old and is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Cyrell Preston, Mrs. Patrick Burke, Mrs. Morris Lewis of Granville, N.Y., and Mrs. John Roberts of Ilion, N.Y., and one sister, Mrs. Thomas Metcalf of Hydeville, Vt. The body was taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Preston, on Pine street. The funeral arrangements have not been made.

Were there any lists of voters kept in Washington County in the time period of 1790-1840? Thank you for your help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Does anyone have a copy of the "Descendants of John Vaughan in Newport, Rhode Island 1638" by H. Vaughan Griffin, Sr.? If you do, would you be willing to do a look up for me? I have several questions concerning the members of the Vaughn family who first settled in Washington County. . I know that the late Jay VAUGHN, of Ft. Edward, is the son of Darwin C. VAUGHN and Jane Marie DUERS. Darwin VAUGHN is the son of John VAUGHN (1799-1845) and Hannah MARTIN (1805-1902). I need to take this line back further so that I can determine when John Vaughn's ancestors first settled in Washington County. I need the names of his ancestors, who were early settlers in Washington County. I also know that a man named Henry Vaghan/Vaughn lived in what became present day Washington County in 1779. I need to know about Henry Vaghan/Vaughn, his wife, and his parents, and his descendants. Is Henry Vaghan/Vaughn any relation to John Vaughn (1799-1845)? If they are related, how are they related? Thank you for your help. Leslie Potter Glen Mills, PA

William Duers (my 4ggu)was born in Washington County, New York to David and Deborah [Sherman] Duers in about 1784. He had a brother John Duers who settled in Kingsbury Township and whose descendants still live there today. William, however, left Washington County and moved first to Palmyra, Ontario [now Wayne] County, NY. Until recently we were unable to track him beyond here. However, we have now discovered that he moved on to Oakland County, Michigan in about 1837. If any of you have any information on William, particularly on the family name of his wife Anna, I would appreciate hearing from you. --Bart His will and probate records are recorded there in the County Clerk's Office in several volumes and on several pages. The will itself is found in v. 19, p. 325 as follows: This last will and testament of William Duers of the Township of Rose in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being of sound mind and memory, blessed be almighty God for the same, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following, viz.: First, I order my executors herein after named to pay all my just debts and funeral expenses out of my personal estate. Second, I give and devise and bequeath unto my wife Anna all the remainder of my estate both real and personal during her natural life or so long as she remains my widow. Third, after the death of my wife Anna, I give, devise, and bequeath unto Mary and Martha my Grand Dauters age twelve years and nine months all my personal estate. Fourth, I give, devise, and bequeath unto Eliza my fourth Dauter now the wife of James Craft all my real estate, viz: southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section number twity four in townshippes north of Range seven east in the county of Oakland and state of Michigan...Lastly, I hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint John Highfield and James Craft executors of my last will and testament whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentyeth day of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty.

I just wanted to say thanks for all the help with the chains and links info. The dates the deeds I am looking at were approx 1841, so would that make it a reference to the older 66 ft Gunter chain or newer 100 ft engineers chain? Also, what would have been the approximate/average price of one acre of farmland in the Greenwich/ Cambridge area? Thanks for the help, Mike

CORRECTION A chain is twenty-two (22) yards not twenty (20). Sorry about the typo. Is my face red! Behold the corrected text follows. Measurement Trivia for Old Deeds A chain is a measure used by engineers and surveyors, being twenty-two (22) yards in length. Black's Law Dictionary (4th Edition) at pate 290. 1 Chain is equal to 100 links, or 4 perches, or 4 rods, or 4 poles or 66 feet. A link is a linear measure equal to 7.92 inches 25 links equals 16 1/2 feet or 1 perch or 1 rod or 1 pole. Additional terms that you may encounter in old deeds. A perch is a linear measure equal to 16 1/2 feet. Old deeds also use perch as a square measure and they did not always use the word square immediately preceding the word perch. You have to determine what they meant by context in which the work is used. If the deed read "Containing 66 acres and 43 perches", the scrivener meant square perches even thought he did not specifically write the word square. There are 160 square perches to 1 acre. An acre is 43,560 square feet. Rod is a linear measure equal to 16 1/2 feet. Rods are also used as square measurement same as perches. (see above) Pole is a linear measure equal to 16 1/2 feet. Poles are also used as square measurements same as perches. (see above) 16 square perches, rods or poles equals 1 square chain 10 square chains equals one acre 160 square perches, rods, or poles equals 1 acre 640 acres (one section) equals 1 square mile. Other trivia: 80 chains, 320 perches, 320 rods, 320 poles, or 5,280 feet equals one mile. Hope this helps. Leslie Potter P.S. I do not do metric!

Measurement Trivia for Old Deeds A chain is a measure used by engineers and surveyors, being twenty yards in length. Black's Law Dictionary (4th Edition) at pate 290. 1 Chain is equal to 100 links, or 4 perches, or 4 rods, or 4 poles or 66 feet. A link is a linear measure equal to 7.92 inches 25 links equals 16 1/2 feet or 1 perch or 1 rod or 1 pole. Additional terms that you may encounter in old deeds. A perch is a linear measure equal to 16 1/2 feet. Old deeds also use perch as a square measure and they did not always use the word square immediately preceding the word perch. You have to determine what they meant by context in which the work is used. If the deed read "Containing 66 acres and 43 perches", the scrivener meant square perches even thought he did not specifically write the word square. There are 160 square perches to 1 acre. An acre is 43,560 square feet. Rod is a linear measure equal to 16 1/2 feet. Rods are also used as square measurement same as perches. (see above) Pole is a linear measure equal to 16 1/2 feet. Poles are also used as square measurements same as perches. (see above) 16 square perches, rods or poles equals 1 square chain 10 square chains equals one acre 160 square perches, rods, or poles equals 1 acre 640 acres (one section) equals 1 square mile. Other trivia: 80 chains, 320 perches, 320 rods, 320 poles, or 5,280 feet equals one mile. Hope this helps. Leslie Potter P.S. I do not do metric!

A chain is equal to 100 links. There are two kinds of chains so you have to know which they used. The Engineers chain is 100 feet long, so a link is 1 foot. The older kind is the Gunter chain that is 66 feet long, so a link is 1/80th of a mile. Mike Barnes >X-Message: #2 >Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:01:10 -0400 >From: "Michael McAlonie" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: surveying measurements >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Could anyone tell me the actual lengths/distance of the surveying terms >"chains" and "links" I have seen in old Washington County deeds? > >Thanks, Mike _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

In Maryland, where I'm from originally, they used "perch" instead of pole or rod -- still 16.5 feet. Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Finel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: [NYWASHIN] Re: surveying measurements > Mike, > A good explanation of land records can be seen at web site - > http://users.arn.net/~billco/uslpr.htm > Go to page 2 and there is listed some of the terms used in old recording of > land. > This is part of the listing -- > a.. Chain - Unit of length equal to 66 feet, or 4 poles. A mile equals 80 > chains. > a.. Hectare - Area measurement equal to 2.47 acres. > a.. Pole - May also be called "rod". Equal to 16.5 feet. An acre equals 160 > square poles. When used to measure area, it was equal to a square with each > side one pole in length. > > A more expanded explanation of terms can be seen at - > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/land/index.html > Go to the bottom of the webpage and click the link titled - Terms found in > deeds. > > Don > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael McAlonie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:01 PM > Subject: surveying measurements > > > Could anyone tell me the actual lengths/distance of the surveying terms > "chains" and "links" I have seen in old Washington County deeds? > > Thanks, Mike > > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

I don't know the folks, but this might help... 1920, NEW YORK WASHINGTON WHITECREEK Series: T625 Roll: 1272 Page: 277 HILL HENRY C 61 M W NY NY WASHINGTON WHITECREEK He was 61, widowed, a farmer, living alone "on the crossroads from Blackhole Hollow into Murray Hollow", b NY, parents b NY. He seems to be the only one in Wash.Co. that year who could be your H. C. Hill. The only other one of these surnames I saw on the same page that year was a 61 yr old widower named George F. Smith, a laborer living with a Lawton family. In 1910, Henry Hill, 52, farmer, and wife Helen, b MA, were living in the same twp., a few houses from an Eli Smith (no middle initial), 41, farm laborer, and his family. The Hills were in the same area in 1900, and in 1880 below: Henry C. HILL Self M Male W 23 NY Farmer NY NY Helen HILL Wife M Female W 39 MA Keeping House MA MA Cynthia HEDGE MotherL W Female W 76 MA Boarding R.I. MA Julia W. ASHTON Other S Female W 20 NY Teacher NY NY Hannah ALLEN Other S Female W 63 NY Servant NY NY Merritt MONROE Other Male W 26 NY Laborer VT VT Census Place District 1, White Creek, Washington, New York There were of course many other Smiths in the county. -- Michael McAlonie <[email protected]> wrote: > I found a transcription of a document in the > Greenwich public library entitled: " A very old > framed record in possession of E.A. Smith, > Greenwich NY" > > It lists the B/M/D info for a James Miller of > Annandale Scotland, his wife Mary Anne Johnson > of England, and the names and birth dates of > their 12 children from 1784-1809. > > at the bottom it states "copied by H.C. Hill > Greenwich NY Member of Willard MT chapter D.A.R > October 1924" > > > Would anyone have any information about theses > two people in Greenwich and how they may be > connected to this Miller family? _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool

1 CHAIN= 4 RODS or 100 LINKS OR 66 FEET 1 ROD= 16.5 feet or 26 links 1 LINK= 7.92 inches I found this on http://www.convert-me.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McAlonie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 8:01 PM Subject: [NYWASHIN] surveying measurements > Could anyone tell me the actual lengths/distance of the surveying terms "chains" and "links" I have seen in old Washington County deeds? > > Thanks, Mike > > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ > >

I found a transcription of a document in the Greenwich public library entitled: " A very old framed record in possession of E.A. Smith, Greenwich NY" It lists the B/M/D info for a James Miller of Annandale Scotland, his wife Mary Anne Johnson of England, and the names and birth dates of their 12 children from 1784-1809. at the bottom it states "copied by H.C. Hill Greenwich NY Member of Willard MT chapter D.A.R October 1924" Would anyone have any information about theses two people in Greenwich and how they may be connected to this Miller family? thanks, Mike

Could anyone tell me the actual lengths/distance of the surveying terms "chains" and "links" I have seen in old Washington County deeds? Thanks, Mike

Mike, A good explanation of land records can be seen at web site - http://users.arn.net/~billco/uslpr.htm Go to page 2 and there is listed some of the terms used in old recording of land. This is part of the listing -- a.. Chain - Unit of length equal to 66 feet, or 4 poles. A mile equals 80 chains. a.. Hectare - Area measurement equal to 2.47 acres. a.. Pole - May also be called "rod". Equal to 16.5 feet. An acre equals 160 square poles. When used to measure area, it was equal to a square with each side one pole in length. A more expanded explanation of terms can be seen at - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/land/index.html Go to the bottom of the webpage and click the link titled - Terms found in deeds. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McAlonie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: surveying measurements Could anyone tell me the actual lengths/distance of the surveying terms "chains" and "links" I have seen in old Washington County deeds? Thanks, Mike

Source,Rutland (Vt) Daily Herald--Jan. 28, 1941. MRS. DANIEL E. ALEXANDER. Mrs. Cora Belle (Nelson) Alexander, wife of Daniel E. Alexander of 12 Pine street , Rutland, Vt., died early yesterday after a long illness. Besides her husband she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Jane Pelkey, Mrs. Estella Wescott and Mrs. Inez Knipes all of Rutland, Vt. three step-daughters, Mrs. Amey Williams of Granville, N.Y.,and Mrs. Jessie Vincent and Mrs.Mabel Vincent of Rutland, Vt.; one sister, Mrs. Edith Sweet of South Granville, N.Y. ; 14 grandchildren and one great-grandson. The body was moved to the Spencer funeral home on West street, where funeral services will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at 2 o'clock.