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Columbia County, taken from Albany in 1786: its greatest length on the E. line 36, medium breadth 18 miles. Centrally distant N. from New York 125, from Albany, SE., 34 miles. The surface of the county is considerably diversified, though no part can be called mountainous.  Ranges of small hillocks are interspersed with extensive plains or valleys,  and much of rich alluvion. There are some excellent lands, and much of the larger portion may be, by judicious culture, rendered highly productive. Nature, in the abundant beds of lime, has furnished  the means, as if by a special providence, of tempering the cold and  ungrateful constituents of the clay; and in many places the lime in the  form of marl does not require burning to become a stimulant. Scarce any portion of the state is better adapted to the raising of sheep, and the profits from this source, already great, are yearly increasing. This county is famed for the quantity and quality of its Indian corn. Lead and iron ore are found in this county. It is divided into 19 towns.  (Historical Collections of the State of New York, Past and Present, John Barber, Clark Albien & Co, 1851)

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Columbia County Towns

Ancram

Austerlitz

Canaan

Chatham

Claverack

Clermont

Copake

Gallatin

Hudson City

Ghent

Greenport

Hillsdale

Germantown

Kinderhook

Livingston

New Lebanon

Stockport

Stuyvesant

Taghkanic

 

 

BIOGRAPHIES

 

1878 BIOGRAPHIES

 

1900s BIOGRAPHIES

 

BIOGRAPHY OF THE REYNOLDS FAMILY OF VALATIE & NOVA SCOTIA

 

CENSUS

 

1855 STATE CENSUS - ANCRAM

 

1855 STATE CENSUS - BOSTON CORNERS

 

DIRECTORIES

 

BOYD'S 1869-70 BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR HUDSON & VALATIE

 

1912 HUDSON, INCLUDING CLAVERACK VILLAGE & STOTTVILLE - Offsite

 

1814-1851 DAY BOOK OF DANIEL B. STOW & SON, CLAVERACK

 

BOYD'S NEW YORK STATE DIRECTORY 1872-1873

 

CEMETERIES

 

CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS

 

HUDSON CITY CEMETERY - Off Site

 

CEMETERY PHOTOS - Off Site

 

FIND-A-GRAVE - Columbia County Cemetery Photos

 

MILITARY

 

CIVIL WAR VETERANS

PHOTOGRAPHS OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

DEEDS & WILLS

DEEDS & WILLS

FAMILY PAGES

FAMILIES OF COLUMBIA COUNTY

 

NORTHERN NEW YORK FAMILIES - Off Site

GAZETTEERS

J. H. FRENCH'S  1860 GAZETTEER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY

 

LINKS

 

LINKS - Lots of info on Columbia County & New York State!

 

COLUMBIA COUNTY'S HISTORY & MYSTERY - Off Site

 

COLUMBIA COUNTY MAIL LIST

 

COLUMBIA COUNTY - Off site

 

FACEBOOK – COLUMBIA COUNTY

 

BOOKS & EPHERMA

 

LIBRARY BOOKS INDEX

 

NEWSPAPERS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY

 

OLD DOCUMENTS

 

NEWSPAPERS

 

VARIOUS ARTICLES

 

MARRIAGES - VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS

 

DEATHS - VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS

 

THE REGISTER-STAR (Current)

 

THE INDEPENDENT (Current)

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

PHOTOGRAPHS - Index

 

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE KRUM CHURCH GRAVEYARD

 

 

 

RESIDENTS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY

 

1797 HUDSON CITY TAX LIST

 

1880 RESIDENTS OF CLAVERACK COLLEGE

 

NATIVE AMERICANS

 

DAY BOOK OF DANIEL B. STOW, 1814-1851, CLAVERACK

With Images of the Actual Day Book!

 

TALES & STORIES

 INDEX

 

 

 

VITAL RECORDS

 

VITAL RECORDS INDEX

 

KINSHIP BOOKS

 

CHATHAM CENTER METHODIST CHURCH VITAL RECORDS

 

MARRIAGES FIRST DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, CHATHAM

 

MARRIAGES FIRST DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, CHATHAM

 

NOBLETOWN BAPTISMS

 

MARRIAGES FROM THE 1865 STATE CENSUS - 2 Pages

 

MARRIAGES FROM THE 1875 STATE CENSUS

 

DEATHS FROM THE 1865 STATE CENSUS

 

DEATHS FROM THE 1875 STATE CENSUS

 

1847 MARRIAGES FROM THE RURAL REPOSITORY, HUDSON

 

1847 DEATHS FROM THE RURAL REPOSITORY, HUDSON

BIBLE RECORDS

 

PROFESSIONAL GENEALOGISTS

 

Holly MacCammon

 

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