JEFFERSON COUNTY NEW YORK

JEFFERSON COUNTY BOOKS OF GENEALOGY ON LINE

COUGHLIN, JERE. JEFFERSON COUNTY CENTENNIAL 1905. Published by Hungerford-Holbrook Co., Watertown, N.Y., 1905. 440 pages. This book is chock full of genealogical data organized by town. By going to the web page in the link, users can search the entire book.
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Index to GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY of the COUNTY of JEFFERSON, NEW YORK

JEFFERSON COUNTY BOOKS OF GENEALOGY AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

CONSTANCE FAMILY

2600 descendants of Lawrence Constance, an early Town of Cape Vincent pioneer. 120 pages plus an every name index, newspaper articles, chart. $20.00 + $3.50 shipping and handling. Order from: Phyllis Putnam, P.O. Box 58, Chaumont, NY 13622

FROM LYME HERITAGE

1. Roster of Jefferson Country’s Absent Sons and Daughters. An alphabetized list of about 4,000 people who left the county before 1905, the town they moved from and town to which they moved. $18.00 + $3.50 S. & H.

2. Ernest Cook Vol. 1. Compilation of Ernest Cook’s interviews with Jefferson County’s elders. Series such as: “Talks with Men of the North Country,” “The famed Goodenough School,” and “Forgotten Post Offices.” This last series is especially useful for the genealogist because Cook names all the families who received mail at these remote locations. One hundred and twenty articles, 118 pages, with index. $18.00 + $3.50 S. & H.

3. Ernest Cook, Vol. II in this volume there are a total of 100 articles; 42 on Theresa, 10 on the French nobility in the north country, 5 on the Edus emigration which tells why and how the non-noble left Europe, 15 articles on the Champion area, 28 on the Scotch Pioneers. There are 113 pages, many of them retyped for easier reading. With index $18.00 + $3.50 S. & H.

4. Ernest Cook, Vol. III. One hundred nineteen pages, completely retyped for easy reading, with 30 articles from March 1910 to July 1929, many on Chippewa Bay area. Cooks’s technique was to interview the elders of a community. If he were interviewing an 80 year old in 1920, the man would have been born in 1840 and could give an oral history of the area from those early days. With index $18.00 + $3.50 S.& H.

5. Ernest Cook, Vol. IV. Thirty three articles, 117 pages, completely retyped for easy reading. There are articles on some of the famous names in the North Country; Bonaparte, Coffeen, Cooper, Flower, Irving, LaFarge, LeRay and Remington. The book also includes 20 articles on the diary of a Scot immigrant relating the hardships that the early pioneer encountered in this uninhabited region.With Index $18.00 + $3.50 S. & H.

6. Ernest Cook, Vol V. Forty articles, 128 completely retyped pages, from August 1929 to November 1929, mostly on the Rossie, Hammond, Theresa areas.$18.00 + $3.50 S.&H.

7. Ernest Cook, Vol. VI. Forty one articles, 121 completely retyped pages, including a 13 article series on the Copley's of Chaumont and Antwerp, a 17 article series on the Town of Lyme and an 11 article series on Point Peninsula. $18.00 + $3.50 S. & H

8. Point Salubrious 1802 - 2006 by Clara Van Doren. Includes 169 color pictures. $32.00 + $3.50 S&H

9 Schermerhorn Park Memories by Frank Schermerhorn Silver. Special Order $16.00 + $3.50 S. & H. 10. The Historical Journal of John Bedford. A gripping saga of the difficult life of the pioneer in what was a nearly uninhabited Northern New York State. This is the story of Bedford’s life between 1810 and 1844 $25.00 + $4.50 S. &. H.

11. The Founding of the Schools in Lyme and the Pioneers who Built Them, by Joyce Lance. Includes a 3,000+ item index $22.00 + $3.50 S. & H.

12. Follow the North Shore by Joyce Lance. Stories of the Early Settlers of Point Peninsula. $18.00 + $3.50 S. &H.

13. History of the Town of Lyme by Charles R. and Harriet L. Knapp. Booklet $5.00 + $2.50 S. & H.

14. The “Ciscoe Chasers” of Chaumont Bay, Booklet. $5.00 + $2.50 S. & H.

15. A Historical Sketch of the Town of Cape Vincent, by Elizur N. Pratt, Booklet $5.00 + $2.50 S. & H. 16. Chaumont History through Old Postcards. There are about 80 old postcards of old Chaumont with commentary $15.00 + $3.00 S. & H.

17. Recipes and Reminiscences. Olde time recipes, curiosities, and pictures. 10.00 + $3.50 S. & H.

JEFFERSON COUNTY BOOKS OF GENEALOGY FOR REFERENCE

NAME INDEX TO 1864 TOPOGRAPHICAL ATLAS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, NY.

Emerson, Edgar C.

OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE.

1898. Laid out on the same general principles as Child's Gazetteer, Emerson provides history of each township as well as an overview of Jefferson County, a section on biographies of various families, and personal references. Illustrated, 936 plus 318 pages, indexed.

Evarts, L.H. & Co.

HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, 1797-1878.

A "glory book", like the previous, it provides town histories, with many biographies. This county history is more lavishly illustrated with photographs not only of the people, but of their houses and farms. It provides a history of Jefferson County in the Civil War, including rosters of various regiments.

INDEX

to the above Evarts' History of Jefferson County published separately in 1993. 234 pages. Compiled by Merton Sarvay, Crystal Lake, IL, at $50.

Gould, Ernest C., ed.

JEFFERSON COUNTY - 1876, 1976

132? pages. No Index. US Bicentennial Project. Short histories of the 22 towns and city of Watertown, 1000 Islands Bridge, etc. Many photos.

Haddock, John.

THE PICTURESQUE ST LAWRENCE RIVER

. 1895. 416 pages. Indexed.

Haddock, John.

GROWTH OF A CENTURY, THE HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY 1793-1894.

1895. 842 pages. Indexed.

Hough, Franklin B.

HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK

. The earliest, and by many considered the best, it is the prototype from which the others copied largely. Published in 1854. 601 pages. A myriad of information on the towns, their histories, newspapers, biographical information, etc. Index in separate volume.

Landon, Harry:

HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY, 3 vols.

1932

Oakes, Rensselaer Allston.

GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, NY,

volumes 1 & 2. 1349 pages; index at the beginning of volume 1. Gives the history of many of the early Jefferson County families.

Reeves, George W.

JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR

1920, not indexed, 208 pages. For World War I: gives names, town, addresses, branch of service, lists those on committees, short biographical sketches regarding some of the nurses, some death dates, and much more.

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GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, NY, volumes 1 & 2

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