Sullivan County History, Genealogy, and
Americana.
Sullivan County is the location
that we cover the most thoroughly. Perhaps it's because the
inherited portion of our own collection came from there, perhaps
it's because one of our partners grew up there, and possibly it's
because it's both a difficult place to research and, at the same
time a fascinating one. At any rate, this is our Sullivan
County page, the portal to a real treasure trove of Sullivan County
information.
Take a few minutes and have a look
around! We've divided the material between townships, and
lead off with a separate category for material that spans multiple
townships or covers the county as a whole. |
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Sullivan County, overall
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Index of Sullivan County Wills
before the 1909 Courthouse Fire, by Gertrude A. Barber.
This
typescript compendium of Sullivan County wills between 1876 and 1909 is
virtually essential for anyone doing Sullivan County genealogy in this
period. The courthouse fire destroyed most of the county seat,
Monticello, and the courthouse with it. 60+ pages, PDF format, download for $7.50
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Index
of Intestate Estates of Sullivan County, NY, 1811 – 1909, Letters A - K,
By Gertrude A. Barber
Gertrude Barber,
erstwhile copyist of gravestones and church records in Sullivan County,
also copied some records that had survived the Monticello fire of August
10, 1909 that destroyed many or most records. One typescript document
that survived, and which Mrs. Barber copied, was this one: an index of
intestate estates (persons who had died and left no will) – but for
surnames beginning with A through K only. We don’t know whether there
was also an index of letters L through Z; this is all we could find in
the New York Public Library when we copied it in the 1980s. Information
can be tantalizing sparse in this index but normally includes first and
last name, may include date of death or date letters of administration
were issued or both, may include township of residence, and in rare
cases includes other information (such as a notation that one deceased
had died in the infamous Andersonville Prison during the Civil War.
For anyone involved in Sullivan County genealogy during this period,
this index is essential, despite the limited information it contains.
Is more information available somewhere in Sullivan County? Perhaps.
Some say it is; others say it is not. If it exists, we’re not aware of
it. 55+ pages, PDF format, download now for $7.50.
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Changing place
names in Sullivan County.
Incredibly useful in figuring out what things were called "back then". We
began this project more than 20 years ago while working on our own
genealogy and we revise this continuously as we
learn more about Sullivan County -- and as people tell us of other names
that have changed over the years.
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There's no question what the authoritative
history of Sullivan County from its beginnings until 1872 is; it's Quinlan! We
have provided something that the author left out: we compiled a
complete index to this CD-ROM edition. (Download)
The full text of Quinlan's History of Sullivan County, plus our index,
plus our timeline, plus some pictures, all in one download.
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Important history and demographics of each of the Sullivan County towns,
now, for the first time, with our own complete index, in high
resolution, for download. While it may seem redundant to have both this volume and
Quinlan's history, that's simply not the case. Each contains
different information, and both are essential if you are trying to
unravel a Sullivan County pedigree. (Download)
French's is the authoritative gazetteer of New York State on the eve of
the Civil War. It's a great place to start studying the history
-- and genealogy -- of Sullivan County! You will see traces
of French's work in Child's Gazetteer,
which we sell on CD-ROM.
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Sullivan County in Mather & Brockett’s
Geographical History of the State of New York
(1848)
In
the 1840s, New York was still a growing state – still frontier, in parts
– and the authors of this volume attempted, with uneven results, to
capture the geography and history of the state. Sullivan County, which
rated a scant four pages, was not very well treated, unfortunately.
However, we also include in this publication the section on land grants
and patents state-wide due to their importance in the state’s history.
Those who wonder where some of the more unusual spellings of Sullivan
locations may have originated will find at least some clues in this
chapter. “Nevisink”, “Wurtzborough”, and “Collicoon” are all found in
this chapter, which is, due to its early date, an important part of the
historical record. 4++ pages, in PDF format, download now for
$2.00.
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Five Small Cemeteries in Sullivan County, NY, by Gertrude A. Barber
(1930)
Here are five small cemeteries Mrs. Barber collected in 1930 and
provided to a few libraries as a typescript: Forestburg Cemetery, located in the hamlet of Forestburg, in Forestburg
Township; Fosterdale Cemetery, in the hamlet of Fosterdale, in Cochecton
Township; and the Kiersted, Swan, and Union cemeteries, in the hamlet of
Mongaup Valley, Town of Bethel. All are in the southwestern quadrant of
the county. 18+ pages, in PDF format, download now for $5.00.
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Frances J. Knapp's 103 Years; A
Brief History of the Development of Sullivan County 1837-1939.
An important summary of county history,
and not the history one expects to read of Sullivan County, seen through
the life of a lifelong Sullivan County resident.
36 pages, PDF format, download now, $5.00
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The Historic Chapin Estate in Sullivan County, NY.
(1929).
Never heard of the Chapin estate? Neither had we, and we grew up
in Sullivan County! Little did we know what was just over the next
hill! This appears to have been a sales brochure for this
spectacular chunk of real estate only around 80 miles from New York
City. A herd of elk? Yes, a herd of elk. 14+ oversized pages, lots of photos, PDF format. $3.00
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The 143rd Regiment, New York
Volunteers, Infantry (1892).
This is the history of the
"Sullivan County Regiment" -- a well-respected Civil War outfit, largely populated
with Sullivan County boys. Includes rosters and other individual
information. 32+ pages, PDF format. $3.50.
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Three
Court Calendars of the Sullivan County Court.
July 1893 term, June 1899 term, and January 1904 term.
To us these are
quite novel.
Although they
were obviously very familiar to practicing attorneys a century and more
ago, we have not encountered other specimens of similar material.
Information includes the attorneys in the county were at that
time (they’re listed), the county officers (likewise
listed), and, interestingly, the grand jurors and the trial jurors for
the term are listed too. It
specifies which cases would be heard, and approximately upon what
date.
Among the
litigants, we say some familiar names, including a raillroad that
was never completed – the Liberty and Jeffersonville Electric Railway –
suggesting that without even operating it succeeded in running afoul of
some people (the investors, perhaps?).
Regardless of its historical value, it’s fascinating to look at
these relics of a judicial system that is now transformed into a far
different animal. 42 pages, in PDF format, $4.00
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Our World -- Yearbook
of Sullivan County Community College for 1977
Sullivan County Community College came to
Sullivan County amid high hopes. Area students desiring the
community college alternative had generally been attending Orange County
Community College, in Middletown, until SCCC opened. At the time
the college was planned it was felt that the local resort industry
represented a ready employment market for its graduates, whether in
Hotel Science or in one of the other majors the new college would offer.
After all, it was felt, the Borscht Circuit resorts were like small
cities in themselves, and not only would the training specific to the
hospitality industry be in hot demand, but virtually any other major
would find a home at the hotels. The full page letter to graduates
from the Concord Hotel shows what the hopes had been.
Sadly, by the time the class of 1977
graduated, the hotel industry in the county was well past its peak.
Virtually all of the summer hotels were gone, and many of the larger
year-round hotels were on shaky footing. The famous Woodstock Festival
had taken place a decade earlier in nearby Bethel. The villages were
deteriorating. Remaining resorts were being repurposed as religious
institutions. The dream of a casino to save the county’s economy was
continuing to cycle through bright aspirations and dashed hopes. It
must have been an interesting time to receive an Associates Degree in
Sullivan County. 64+ pages, in PDF format, download now for $3.50.
Links to
websites with major Sullivan County content.
Sometimes the search engines just don't do the job, or at least the
whole job. We've
collected a surprisingly
large number of websites that seem to have fallen through the cracks.
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The Descendants of Noah Cross and Rachel
Osterhout
Cross - New York State - 1775 - 1975.
Genealogy of this Dutch/English family centered in Ulster and
Sullivan counties.
See our Cross family page
for more information.
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Links to genealogy
sites with a strong Sullivan County connection.
There aren't a whole lot
of these, but there's no point in missing those that there are! If
you find more be sure to let us know so we can list them!
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The Indians
by Abraham G. Bevier
(1846)
The
full title of this work is “The Indians, or, Narratives of Massacres and
Depredations of the Frontier, in Wawasink and its vicinity, during the
American Revolution, by a Descendant of the Hugenots.” It will surprise few
that this short volume offends modern sensibilities. There are very
distinct good guys and bad guys in the author’s scheme of things, and while
the rare mention of a good deed by a bad guy is here, far more common is the
excusal of less-than-good-guy behavior by the ostensible good guys as the
sort of thing that, well, good guys just sort of do, and that it is actually
moderately humorous that they do it. It does take some getting used to.
Nonetheless, to have a real sense of how people in the 1840s viewed their
cultural history, one needs to understand the mindsets of the people of the
1840, as well as the mindsets of those who lived before them who passed
along the facts and legends of their own forbears.
As
well as views of the Indians that would be unpopular with most today, the
author adds some material on treatment of the Tories after the Revolutionary
War. While some may be encouraged that the treatment of Tories was not much
more humane than treatment of the Indians had been, the author’s
prognostication that the ill feeling toward Tories would have completely
faded away in a few years from the time he wrote the book, the Publisher
recalls his own grandfather, born in Neversink, NY in 1872, referring to a
neighborhood in Neversink as a “nest of Tories” as late as the early 1950s.
Predjudice indeed suffers a long and difficult death.
See our Ulster County page for
more information.
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Callicoon, Delaware, Fremont
Townships
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The Callicoon Historian,
by J. S. Graham (1892). Not many histories out there of the Callicoon
end of Sullivan County.
CLICK HERE for more information.
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Three
Jeffersonville Cemeteries
Collected by Gertrude Barber
(1930): 1. Lutheran Cemetery, 2. Presbyterian Cemetery, 3. Methodist
Cemetery. Click here for more
information.
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History of the Franciscans at Callicoon, NY.
The story of St.
Joseph's Seminary as well as the Catholic parishes of Western Sullivan
County the seminary supported in its heyday.
CLICK HERE for more information.
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The Town of Fremont,
by Charles S. Hick (1951). History and local color of this township.
CLICK HERE for more information.
Methodist Churches of the Long Eddy Charge
(1953).
Includes
information about the Methodist churches at Goulds, French Woods, Pea
Brook, Long Eddy, and Rock Valley (both Sullivan and
Delaware counties).
CLICK HERE for more information.
The Old Youngsville Cemetery
Gravestone inscriptions collected by Gertrude Barber (1929).
CLICK HERE for more
information.
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Youngsville Cemetery and Old Mouthrop
Cemetery in Kenoza Lake
Gravestone inscriptions collected by
Gertrude Barber (1930).
CLICK HERE for more
information.
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Douglas, the Delaware Valley City,
by Arthur
N. Meyers (1969). A lost community in Sullivan County. CLICK
HERE for more information.
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Fallsburgh Township
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Records of the Bridgeville Circuit of the Methodist Church
While these records are mainly about Town of Thompson locations, also
included are Glen Wild and Mountaindale records. Collected by Gertrude Barber in
1929. 42+ pages, in PDF format, download now for $5.00.
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Charges of Fallsburgh, South
Fallsburgh, Neversink, and Hurleyville
These records are available as a download. Please
CLICK HERE to go
directly to that page.
Fallsburg Central
School FOCUS Yearbook for 1948.
Please see our
main Fallsburg page for ordering
information.
Inscriptions in the
Woodbourne Cemetery.
Compiled by Gertrude
Barber .
Please see our
main Fallsburg page for ordering
information.
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of
Woodbourne.
Please see our
page about these records for ordering
information.
Inscriptions in the Old Fallsburgh
Cemetery, also known as Palen's Cemetery..
Please see our
page about these records for ordering
information.
Fallsburgh Ephemera
collected by Fay Brown Edwards
Please see our
page about this material for ordering
information.
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Liberty Township
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Records: Swan Lake, White Sulphur Spring, Harris Circuit.
This compiilation of church records for
the circuit was done by Gertrude Barber circa 1929 and is an important
source for genealogy and family history. See our
Liberty
page for more information. (Download)
The Liberty Centennial
Book
The Town of Liberty
celebrated its centennial in 1907 and this book served as both a
chronicle of those 100 years and a program for the celebration itself.
There are many pictures in it, many familiar but some not usually seen
elsewhere, particularly the photos of the residences and the leading
citizens.
See our
Liberty
page for more information. (Download)
History of the Liberty Fire Department
This
includes the J. C. Young Hose Company By-Laws. What was no
doubt intended simply as a departmental history turned out to be a
perspective on the history of the entire community! Worth reading
whether you have an interest in firetrucks or not, we think. See our
Liberty
page for more information.
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Swan Lake Cemetery.
This small
cemetery was recorded by Gertrude Barber circa 1929. It's a
small listing -- only five pages of actual lists of gravestones --
but of great interest if you had family in Swan Lake (originally
known as Stevensville, just to complicate things a little bit).
See our
Liberty
page for more information.
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Baptist Church Records of Liberty and Parksville (1929).
Gertrude
Barber collected from many different sources during her two summers
concentrating on the Liberty area, and the Baptist Church that was
originally two churches, one in Liberty and the other in Parksville,
was one of these. Vital if you had Baptist ancestors in the
area and useful for historical information in any case. We
have provided an index as well. See our
Liberty
page for more information.
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The 1919 Annual of Liberty High School
The very first yearbook of
Liberty High School. Don't miss this one! See our
page about this yearbook for more
information.
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The 1941 Libertas of Liberty High
School
yearbook of
Liberty High School. The last yearbook before World War II --
definitely worth a look! See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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The 1942 Libertas of Liberty High School
A
wartime yearbook that includes grades 7 through 12, and well worth a
look. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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The 1950 Libertas of Liberty High School
A brief yearbook typical of the
early 1950s.
See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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The 1952 Libertas of Liberty High School
Another brief yearbook typical of the
early 1950s.
See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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The 1953
Libertas of Liberty High School
Valuable as a transition into the more elaborate yearbooks of the years
following as well as being a document of this class. See our
Liberty page for more
information. (Download)
Liberty High School's
Libertas yearbook for 1954.
As Liberty High School yearbooks go, this was a rather short one.
But this class that left its mark on the world in several respects.
See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty High School's
Libertas yearbook for 1955
A solid yearbook, a good class,
graduating at a good time to be starting adult life in a community
that, at the time, seemed to have everything going for it.
See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty High School's
Libertas yearbook for 1956
Another good yearbook from what was then
a prosperous, growing community.
See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty Central School's 1957 Libertas yearbook
The
class pictured in this yearbook was born before World War II was a
reality for most Americans, and graduated high school when Liberty was
still a prosperous hub of the Catskills resort area. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty Central School's 1958 Libertas yearbook
Like the 1960 and 1962 Libertas issues, this one records Liberty
at a time when things were pretty good and getting better. The
class pictured in this yearbook – their yearbook – was born on the eve
of World War II, and had come of age at a time when Liberty, as one of
the hubs of the “Borscht Circuit”, was still becoming more prosperous,
famous
and successful – something that was not to last, however. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty Central School's Libertas yearbook for 1959
This is the class with which the Principal Partner of Between the Lakes
Group would have graduated, had he remained in Liberty, so this one MUST
be good! Liberty at its peak! See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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The 1960 Libertas
yearbook of
Liberty Central School - Liberty in the good years. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty
Central School's Libertas yearbook for 1962
We can't really pick a year when Liberty shown at its brightest as a
crown jewel of the famed Borscht Circuit, but it was certainly around
this time. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty
Central School's Libertas yearbook for 1963
1963 -- and this edition of Libertas --
celebrated the 50th anniversary of Liberty High School (Liberty
Central, by this time). It's quite an elegant edition,
incorporating several design refinements not previously seen in this
series, and, of course, the graduates were a great bunch. See
our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty
Central High School's Libertas yearbook for 1964
This Libertas was the
first produced in the new Buckley Street building, and still stands
out among 51 years of yearbooks from Liberty Hitgh School with its
striking yellow (nearly gold) and white cover.
See
our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty
Central School's Libertas yearbook for 1967
Happy looking students -- you wouldn't
guess that Liberty (and all of Sullivan County) was on the cusp of major
change -- and, sadly, not change for the better. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Liberty
Central School's Libertas yearbook for 1969
If there was a yearbook that reflects the social change in society
better than this one does, we've not seen it. We're grateful to
Debra Conway for the loan of her copy for this project. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Free Methodist Church Records, Ferndale, New York.
Collected by Audrey Barber (1929). This short compilation also
includes the extant records of the Briscoe Circuit of the Free Methodist
Church, which included Egypt and Beaver Brook.
See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Gertrude Barber's compilation of the
Old Liberty Cemetery
(1929 - 1930),
65 pages. This typescript of the Old Liberty Cemetery (the portion
of the current cemetery that is south of Cemetary Road) is essential for
anyone doing genealogical or family history research in the Town of
Liberty. While there were several smaller cemeteries in the town,
this was "the big one" and contains surnames more associated with
hamlets of Liberty as well as for surrounding townships, notably
Neversink. We have compiled an index of this document, which is
included.
See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Gertrude Barber's compilation of the White Sulphur Springs Cemetery
(circa 1930), 6+ pages. A
typescript by a woman who spent her summers in the mountains
transcribing cemeteries and church records, later typing them out
and donating copies to libraries. This is of use to anyone
interested in genealogy in the White Sulphur Springs area. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Gertrude Barber's compilation of the
Fulton-Fraser Cemetery in Ferndale (circa
1929 -1930), 14 pages. Another typescript cemetery compilation by
Gertrude Barber. We do not know the current status of this
cemetery, or even where in Ferndale it is (or was?) located.
See our
Liberty page for more information.
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The History of Sullivan County National
Bank
50th
Anniversary (1893 – 1943).
The bank’s
second headquarters was the Music Hall (properly known as the Wedemeyer
building) at the corner of Main and Chestnut Streets. In 1899, the bank moved
into its own building on the corner of Main and Law streets, next to the
Methodist Church. After the time covered by this history, the bank
moved again, this time into the former O. E. Keller department store on
North Main Street. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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Usually the surname is spelled Bonnell, or
Bunnell, but it's the same family. William was a miller in Liberty
(Mill Street was the location of his mill), and his family origins were
cloudy at best. He appears to have come from Goshen, CT, and you
may be able to discover more in these high resolution scans of his
family Bible. Daniel Reynolds Bonnell, who is believed to be his
son, was always very guarded about his ancestry. Amid the
scribbles, the link to his ancestry may lie. This is an active
project in our "sandbox". Please click
HERE
to download the file.
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Baptist Cemetery, Parksville, Town of Liberty, Sullivan County,
New York.
Collected
by Gertrude Barber (circa 1930).
Parksville historically has been more
connected to the Town of Rockland, to the north, and the Town of
Neversink, to the east, than to the Town of Liberty, where it is
actually located, at least in terms of family migration patterns.
Nonetheless, this cemetery is a possible location for a missing ancestor
from any of these three towns. Mrs. Barber, when collecting the
cemetery circa 1930, noted that it was in “very bad condition”.
Our suspicion, on that basis, is that there is little of it that can be
found or deciphered now, more than 80 years later. Short though
this listing is, we hope it will be helpful. See our
Liberty page for more
information.
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--Town of Liberty Sesquicentennial
(1957).
The year of this anniversary celebration by the Town of Liberty found a
township enjoying good economic health, the hub of a thriving resort
industry. The fifty odd years that have passed since then reveal that
if this was not the peak of the Township’s prosperity, it was very close
to it. The fortunes of Sullivan County (and the Town of Liberty) have
declined significantly since the optimistic days of the celebration this
publication commemorates. See our
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Rockland and Neversink
Townships
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The Grahamsville Fair: Souvenir Booklet
(1912).
This rural country fair in the Town of
Neversink is still running annually
and still worth visiting, as thousands do, but this century-old catalog of the
fair is very rare. Lots of fascinating ads from the period,
including many that seem to represent the agricultural sector in a way
other publications of the period do not. 36+
pages, PDF format, download for $5,00 (Download)
This CD, about the Town of Neversink, is our all-time best seller! When
we discontinued our CD-ROMs, we made sure to make the information that
was on the CD available as a series of downloads. You'll find them
on our main Neversink page. These include the 1910 Diary of Eugene
Cross, the Neversink material from Child's Gazetteer of Sullivan County,
a compendium of Neversink genealogy, and the Neversink chapter from
Quinlan's History of Sullivan County.
Click here to go to our
main Neversink page.
Methodist Cemetery, Livingston Manor, New York,
gravestone inscriptions collected by Gertrude Barber (circa 1930). Anyone with family
history in the Town of Rockland needs this. It's a facsimile of
Mrs. Barber's original typescript. 8+ pages, PDF format.
$5.00 (Download)
Presbyterian Cemetery, Livingston Manor
gravestone inscriptions collected by Gertrude Barber (circa 1930). Anyone with family
history in the Town of Rockland needs this and the companion article on
the Methodist Cemetery. This is a facsimile of
Mrs. Barber's original typescript. 8+ pages, PDF format.
$5.00
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Four Roscoe
Cemeteries
Gravestone inscriptions
collected (1934) by Gertrude Barber (1934) for the following: 1.
Westfield Flats Cemetery (adj. Presbyterian Church), 2. Westfield Flats
Cemetery, 3. Cemetery on the road to Binghamton, 4. Riverview
Cemetery.
Note: Roscoe, located on the
northernmost tip of Sullivan County, was for many years known as
Westfield Flats, and is also sometimes called Rockland – some would say
that Roscoe and Rockland are two separate villages. 29+ pages, PDF
format, download now for $5.00.
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Grahamsville Reformed Dutch Church Records
(1929).
Transcribed by Gertrude Barber, and vital
for anyone pursuing genealogy in this Town of Neversink community. Like
most church records, includes baptisms, marriages, funerals, and lists
of church membership.
See our Neversink page for more
information.
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Grahamsville Reformed Dutch Cemetery
Gertrude Barber's transcription (1934) of this cemetery is an
important record of the Town of Neversink. Those familiar with the
history of the area will find most of the familiar names represented;
this is an important accompaniment to the records of that church.
See our Neversink page for more
information.
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Records of the Methodist Episcopal Charges of
Fallsburgh, South Fallsburgh, Neversink, and Hurleyville
We offer these records as they are of particular
interest to those researching in Neversink. Please
CLICK HERE to go
directly to that page.
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Thompson Township
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Records of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Monticello, New York
Compiled by Gertrude A. Barber (1929).
Of the Sullivan County
church records we publish, this is by some margin the largest and most
complete, including, for example, a church history – uncommon among
these compilations. Baptisms begin in 1861 and continue through 1910.
Marriages begin in 1864 and continue through 1906.
See our Monticello page for more information.
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Rock Ridge Cemetery
located near Monticello, New York, gravestone inscriptions collected by Gertrude Barber (circa 1930).
See our Monticello page for more information.
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Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Rock Hill, Sullivan County, New York
Compiled
by Gertrude A. Barber (1929).
This record includes
baptism from 1884 to 1892, and marriages from 1883 to 1893. There is a
membership list, perhaps a combination of several such lists, bearing
dates of as early as 1867 and as late as 1906, although most dates are
in the mid 1880s.
See our Monticello page for more information.
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Monticello NY Sesquicentennial (1804 - 1954).
The unsung author of this history was one Alice G. Mapes. We do not
know what her official role was – whether she was a town or village
officer, or whether she was just someone who stepped up to the task of
collecting and organizing the very considerable amount of material in
this history. Looking back more than half a century later, it is
apparent that there were other historians involved, and these were the
advertisers and the participants in the sesquicentennial festivities –
by their participation, whether personal or financial, they wrote their
names and the names of their businesses in the history of Monticello.
See our Monticello page for more
information.
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Presbyterian Church, Monticello, New York,
Centennial (1909).
See
our Monticello page for more information about this church and
community history of Monticello, the county seat.
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Old St. John’s Cemetery, Monticello.
Collected
by Gertrude Barber (1930).
When Mrs. Barber collected this cemetery in 1930, she noted that it was
to the rear of what was then the present St. John’s Church Cemetery, and
that while the current cemetery was being maintained by that Episcopal
congregation, the section she calls the “Old St. John’s Cemetery” and is
collected here was not being maintained at all. See our
Monticello page for more information.
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Records of the Bridgeville Circuit of the
Methodist Church
The Bridgeville circuit of the Methodist Church included churches at
Bridgeville, Thompsonville (records for this one are unfortunately
lost), Rock Hill, Glen Wild, and Mountaindale, although over the years
the small churches covered appear to have changed. See our
Monticello page for more information.
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The
Apology Of Monticello High School, Monticello, NY, for June 1930
(Volume 11, Number 4).
This is a combination of school newspaper and literary magazine with a
decent amount of humor thrown in for good measure. We think it's
worth a few minutes of your time, particularly if you have any
connections with Monticello or Sullivan County that relate to this time
period.
See our
Monticello page for more information.
(Download)
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Cochecton, Mamakating,
Forestburgh, Lumberland, Highland, Bethel and Tusten Townships
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Lumberland
Bicentennial History
Town of Lumberland,
Sullivan County, New York (1776 - 1976).
Many towns
prepared histories around the time of the nation’s bicentennial, and
this was one. The booklet’s full title is “1776 – Town of Lumberland
Welcomes You this Bicentennial Year – 1976”. It’s a nice job, and there
is little fluff in its 30+ pages – no ads that run up the page count but
add little to the historical record. The photos included reproduced
well, considering the technology of the period, and some look better in
the scans than they did in the original document. We were pleased to
see that the written history here recognizes the significant historical
events and doesn’t wander off into legend. All in all, a vital source
for anyone interested in the history of Lumberland, and important for
those with an interest in Revolutionary war history, and the history of
canals and suspension bridges. It's $5.00.
Cushetunk Bicentennial
This program, for the bicentennial of the
Town of Cochecton, was produced in 1954 and is a worthwhile addition to
the literature of this section of the Delaware Valley. Sections,
in addition to the program, committees, etc., include the Newburgh-Cochecton
Turnpike, Indians of Cushetunk, the old red house at Milanville,
churches and schools, settlement of Cushetunk, Station Rock, communities
of the area (note that nearby Pennsylvania locales are included), the
Hon. James Clark Curtis, Cushetunk's people and progress, early settler
families, Capt. Joseph Ross, the first Callicoon settler, and historic
events, as well as many, many advertisements by area businesses and
individuals. 58+ pages, in PDF format, download now for $5.00.
El Dorado for 1941 - the Yearbook of
Eldred Central School.
The class pictured in this yearbook graduated on the eve of World War
II, and had come of age at a time when Eldred, like virtually all of the
United States, was mired in the Great Depression. Interestingly, this
yearbook staff was thoughtful enough to compile a listing of Eldred
Central School alumni – a traditional part of high school yearbooks a
decade and more before this one, but seldom seen since. 48++
pages, in PDF format, download now for $3.50.
Eldred High School - Commencement Program - 1938
We came across this four page bit of ephemera recently and decided that
it would be of interest to few, but that those few really ought to be
able to have it. This was, coincidentally, the 10th annual
commencement of Eldred High School. 4+ pages, in PDF format.
Free download.
Stanton (also called Centennial) Cemetery, Wurtsboro,
NY (1929).
Gravestone inscriptions collected by Gertrude Barber, essential for Town of Mamakating
history and genealogy. See our
Wurtsboro/Town of Mamakating page for more information.
(Download)
Wurtsboro: Two Cemeteries
Gonsalus Cemetery and Sylvan Cemetery (formerly Kings Highway Cemetery)
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Wurtsboro, Sullivan County, NY. Collected by Gertrude Barber
(1930).
These two cemeteries, both collected in 1930, were her second and third
in Wurtsboro (the first, collected the previous summer, was the Stanton
Cemetery, is also available as a download). See our
Wurtsboro/Town of Mamakating page
for more information.
(Download)
Poplar Grove Cemetery
Philipsport, Town of Mamakating, Sullivan County, New York.
Collected by
Gertrude Barber. There are
two reasons for which this compilation may be especially useful.
First, the cemetery is located near the old D&H Canal, and thus likely
includes graves related to that entity. Second, the cemetery is on
Route 209 just after entering Sullivan County from Ulster County, so
proximity to Ulster County may reveal some “missing” Ulster County burials.
As Mrs. Barber notes, the cemetery serves as a proxy for the missing records
of the Phillipsburg Methodist Church, destroyed by fire. See our
Wurtsboro/Town of Mamakating page
for more information.
(Download)
New
Vernon Cemetery (1930)
Also
known as the Old School Baptist Cemetery, Town of Mamakating, Sullivan
County, New York.
Collected
by Gertrude Barber (1930).
See our
Wurtsboro/Town of Mamakating page for more information.
(Download)
Westbrookville
Cemeteries
Town of Mamakating, Sullivan
County, New York, Collected by Gertrude Barber (1934).
Westbrookville
(erroneously called West Brookville by the compiler; the hamlet was named
for the Westbrook family, an old Dutch name found in Ulster County and the
Hudson Valley in general) is located very close to the Orange
County/Sullivan County line. Included in this compilation are two
cemeteries: the Westbrookville Cemetery, and another cemetery in the
Westbrookville area, which the compiler describes only as an “old, deserted
cemetery”. See our
Wurtsboro/Town of Mamakating page for more information.
(Download)
Records of the Barryville Congregational Church
Town of Highland,
Sullivan County, New York. Collected by Gertrude Barber (1929 - 1931).
While one thinks today of Congregational
churches as mainly being a New England institution, they are also found,
even today, where New England families migrated. It’s likely that the
Barryville church was one such. The church records consist of a
narrative history, a history of officers and pastors, a few baptisms,
and three rolls of members. These membership rolls often contain
information of interest to the genealogist, such as years of death and
comings and goings of parishioners. Interestingly, particularly for a
transcription as short as this one is, there is also an index. 18+
pages, PDF format, download now for $5.00.
First Presbyterian Church of Lake Huntington records
Gertrude
Barber's 1929 collection of the records of this congregation are now
available for download. Please see our
Callicoon Historian page (even
though Lake Huntington is in the Town of Cochecton) for more
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For the Town of Highland,
we're delighted to recommend the work one of our good
customers, Louise Smith, has done and continues to do with local and
family history. If the Town of Highland in general, and Eldred
(originally Halfway Brook) in particular, is of interest to you, we urge
you to visit her blog and bookstore, at
www.halfwaybrook.com. You can read
about how she made use of our publications in her own words
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