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The Washington County Historian’s Office is
located on the first floor of Building “A” in the Washington County
Municipal Center, in back of the County Clerk’s Record room. The
office is open for research on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The research material is available through
volunteers who are knowledgeable in genealogical and historical
searches. There is no charge for in-person research.
Researchers can request a search of records to
be done by sending a request through the mail. To
order, send a written request detailing the information you are
seeking, a Self-Addressed-Stamped-Envelope and a non-refundable
$15.00 check or money order made payable to the
“Washington County Treasurer”.
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Mail to:
Washington County Historian
Washington County Municipal Center, Bldg. A
383 Broadway
Fort Edward, New York 12828 |
Available for
research in the Historian’s Office:
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Published regional histories,
plus histories of several towns in
Washington County and
nearby counties
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Published and unpublished
Washington County family histories
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Books or Manuscripts in the Washington County Historian’s Office
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The Asa Fitch Papers on
Washington County genealogy and history
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The
Gibson Collection of genealogical material
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The Goodspeed Collection
containing over 50 boxes of information collected by a local
genealogist
Aaron Goodspeed of Granville, Washington County, NY lived from
1862 to 1932. He made a hobby and a business of gathering
genealogical data on local people of his area and Vermont. He
collected newspaper articles, wrote hundreds of letters requesting
information from families and spent a lifetime pursuing his love
of genealogy. He was a “top notch” pharmacist owning a drug store
which still stands today and houses a dry cleaning business. Much
of Goodspeed’s collection is from the mid eighteen hundreds to the
early nineteen hundreds, but some of his notes in his own
handwriting might contain information relating to even earlier
times. The following index has been prepared to advise
researchers of the surnames in this collection. Some of the
information found within is extensive, but in some cases it might
contain a lone newspaper article.
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Cemetery records for all 17 towns
of Washington County
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Washington County Poor House
Records
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The Morris-Rote-Rosen collection
from his Granville Sentinel newspaper column on local history
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The John Williams Papers
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Flack
Journal Index
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Over forty years of County
Historian’s genealogical correspondence filed by family name
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Church Records (limited)
United Church of Kingsbury
and Queensbury during the Ministry of Rev. Ravaud K. Rodgers and
Rev. E.E. Seeley
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Fort
Ann Births 1884 - 1899
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Loretta Bates,
September 2011
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Fort Ann
Deaths 1860 - 1894
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Loretta Bates,
September 2011
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Membership
List of the Fort Miller Reformed Church Records,1822 -1909
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Compiled by the D.A.R
of NY State 1950.
Copied by Loretta
Bates, Deputy Historian Washington County, NY; October 2011
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Fort
Miller Reformed Church Built 1813
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Loretta Bates, 2011
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List of Pensioners War of 1812 and the Civil War
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Absentee Ballots for Soldiers 1864
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Early
Baptisms by Archibald White
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Marriage
Records 1795-1857
Source Unknown
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Register
of Marriages
; Coila, Cambridge, Salem
Celebrated by John Dunlop, Minister of the Gospel
Original documents copied from the photostat of the Coila Church
records in the State Library.
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Marriage records from the Salem Press, Sandy Hill Herald and
the Greenwich Journal
(Published Dec. 11th 1849 - 1949), collected and compiled by
Susan Wade, first Washington County Historian and others.
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Death
records from the Salem Press (Published 2 Jan. 1874 - 28
January 1948) collected and compiled by Susan Wade, first
Washington County Historian
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“Dec. 27th 1779 A tax list of the District of Cambridge
pursuant to an act of the Legislature of the State of New York entitled
an act for razing (sic) the sum of two millons (sic) five hundred
thousand dollars by tax within this state passed the 23 day of October
1779”. This list was signed by John Younglove, Supervisor, February 22,
1780.
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Also
available is an assortment of |
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| Family Bibles |
Veterans
Records (limited) |
| Maps |
Newspapers (Microfilm only
and limited) |
| School Records |
Business Ledgers |
| Quaker Records |
Civil War letters
pertaining to Wash. Co. |
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Hours: 8:30
AM - 4:30 PM, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
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