NYGenWeb's Putnam County, New York

These pages were last updated: Sunday, 15-Feb-2004 11:17:47 MST

February 2004

The following sections trascribed from Chapter XXVII of The History of Putnam county were recently added and complete the transcription for this entire chaper.

• Second Baptist Church of Kent (also lists some burials)
• Change of Boundary,
• Putnam County Bank
• Union Cemetery Association
• Mines
• Supervisors
• Daniel R. Nichols

January 2004

• The Reed Family, Chapter XXIII of The History of Putnam county
• Charles E. Everett, Chapter XXIII of The History of Putnam county
• More of Chapter XXVII, relating to the town of Kent from The History of Putnam county by Pelletreau.
• The Townsend Family, Chapter XXVII, from The History of Putnam county by Pelletreau.
• Coleman Robinson, Chapter XXVII, from The History of Putnam county by Pelletreau.

April 2003

• Brewster section of the Turner's New York & Harlem Railroad Directory between New York City and Brewster for the Years 1891-1892
• Chapter VI, entitled "Confiscation and Sale of the Shares of the Patent Belonging to Susannah Robinson and Mary Philipse" from Pelletreau's The History of Putnam county

 

July 2002

Census page listing the census schedules through 1930 for Putnam county. Also includes section on Locating Enumeration Districts in the 1930 Federal Census.
 

June 2002

• Biographical sketch of Morgan Horton was added to Chapter XXIII of Pelletreau's History.
• Area codes corrected from 914 to 845 on several pages.
• Lineage-Linked Surnames as found in Pelleatreau's "History of Putnam county, NY,...." — Now includes 1013 individuals and 478 families representing 310 surnames in this database. For a description of the database, see below.
• Cemeteries of Putnam Valley, Chapter XXVIII, from The History of Putnam county by Pelletreau.
• Lineage-Linked Surnames as found in Pelleatreau's "History of Putnam county, NY,...." — Over time, the names and lineages of those individuals stated in this history will be entered into a genealogical database and the GEDCOM file will be turned into web pages and uploaded here. Unfortunately, the program currently used does not identify sourcing so the page numbers from which the information was taken will not be reflected on the lineage-linked surname pages. Please also note that this is a work in progress and currently reflects only a small portion of those names in the history. Includes 513 individuals and 242 families representing 186 surnames.

 

May 2002

• Levi H. Roberts, Chapter XXIII of The History of Putnam county
• The Doane Family, Chapter XXIII of The History of Putnam county

 

February 2002

• Chapter VIII, entitled "The Oblong" from Pelletreau's The History of Putnam County...
• Genealogical Resources provided By The Wheeler Historical Society
• Map of The Oblong, Chapter II, from Pelletreau's The History of Putnam County,...
• Biographical sketch and picture of David Kent.

August 2000

new Cemetery page

From Pelletreau's "History of Putnam County" the entire Chapter XXIX containing the all of the following:

• Personal Sketches for the Town of Kent
• Personal Sketches for the Town of Carmel
• Personal Sketches for the Town of Patterson
• Personal Sketches for the Town of Putnam Valley
• Personal Sketches for the Town of Philipstown
• Personal Sketches for the Town of Southeast

July 2000

The following sketches have been added:

• The Fowlers of Southeast
• La Fayette Post of Kent
• Joel Conklin of Putnam Valley
• Oscar Speedling of Philipstown
• Warren S. Paddock of Southeast

June 2000

• Have added a search engine to the Putnam home page.
• Personal Sketches of Fowlers in Chapter XXIX have been transcribed. Also see the above entry transcribed in July which has greater detail of the Fowler family.
• Old Milltown Burying Ground, Southeast
• Red Mills Presbyterian Church Burying Ground, Carmel
• Red Mills Baptist Church Burying Ground, Carmel
• The Methodist Episcopal Church Burying Grounds
• Lake Mahopac Methodist Church and Burying Ground
• Added to town pages of Carmel, Patterson, Kent, Philipstown, Putnam Valley and Southeast some of the names of Cemeteries and Churchs as found in Pelletreau's "History of Putnam County".
• Gilead Burying Ground of Carmel
• Map of lots from Philipse Patent donated by Janet T. Newman.
• William Garrison's biographical sketch added.
• Table of Contents of Pelletreau's History of Putnam County (published in 1886) has been added. Eventually, I hope to have a major portion of this book transcribed and added to this site. However, sections will be added one piece at a time. For starters, the cemetery listings found within the book will be added. However, if upon looking at the table of contents for this book you see something of interest to you, feel free to contact me and request that your entry of interest be transcribed. This County Coordinator will try to transcribe them as time permits in the order that the individual requests are received.

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