In a message dated 11/17/2004 1:14:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > > Could anyone tell me where a "Wood Creek" is located in Wash. County, or > whatever was once known as Wood Creek in about 1770? > WHITEHALL, a flourishing post-village of Washington co., New York, is beautifully situated in Whitehall township, at the head or S. extremity of Lake Champlain, and on the Saratoga and Washington railroad, 77 miles N. by E. from Albany. The Champlain canal terminates here, connecting the village with Troy. Five steamboats ply daily to the ports on the lake during the summer. Pawlet river and Wood creek enter the lake at this place, and furnish extensive water-power. It contains 4 or 5 churches, 2 banks, 2 newspaper offices, and has an extensive trade with Canada. Machinery, woollen goods, flour, lumber, and other articles are manufactured. A railroad is projected from this place to Plattsburg. Population of the township, 4726; of the village, about 4000. ---------------------------------- Here is a quote from "The Hortons in America." HON. NATHANIEL COE, son of Huldah Horton and Joel Coe (Dea. Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Caleb, Barnabas, Caleb, Barnabas I.), born in Morris Co., N. J., 12 Sept., 1788; moved with his father to Scipio, N. Y., in 1795; went by sloop to Albany--4 days--thence in wagons up the Mohawk, by way of Schenectady--thence to Cayuga and Wood Creek to Auburn, N. Y., and then Scipio, being one At that time period, counties were not fully formed.. Cumberland county in 1766, Gloucester in 1770, and Charlotte (later Washington) in 1772, were formed out of Albany county. The two first and part of the last, are now in the State of Vermont. Anoother mention for Wood Creek is in the History of Broome County. "Tryon county was erected in 1772, also out of Albany, and comprised the country west of a north and south line extending from St. Regis to the west bounds of the township of Schenectady, thence running irregularly southwest to the head of the Mohawk branch of the Delaware, and along the same to the southeast bounds of the present county of Broome; thence in a northwesterly direction to Fort Bull, on Wood Creek, near the present village of Rome; all west of the last-mentioned line being Indian Territory. Thus the Province consisted, at the Revolution, of fourteen counties.1" ----------------- The gazetteer also does mention a "Wood creek" this way.... FISH CREEK, Oneida county, New York, falls into Wood creek, about 2 miles from its mouth in the Oneida lake. The east branch of this stream abounds with fine mill-seats. Let us know what you are looking for there or who the people were? that might help the pursuit.