A detailed 1864 town MAP showing residents. (677K file)
An 1864 map of the Village of Brownville
1918 TOWN OF BROWNVILLE FARM MAP
A list of POSTMASTERS in the town in existing and discontinued postoffices.
Presidents and Mayors for the Village of Dexter
1810 Census - Town of Brownville
Town of Brownville 1890 Census of Civil War Veterans
Civil War Soldiers Buried in the Town of Brownville
1863 Civil war draft and exemption list
Town of Brownville Civil War Enlistments
NORTHERN NEW YORK BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1867-68
BROWNVILLE
DEXTER
LIMERICK
Family sketches from CHILD'S GAZETTEER for the town of Brownville.
Child's Business Directory for the Town of Brownville.
Haddock's Family Sketches - Town of Brownville.
Bartlett's Cemetery Inscriptions for the Town of Brownville.
Vital Records 1847-1849 for the Town of Brownville.
| OFFICE | CONTACT | PHONE | ADDRESS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town Clerk | JUNE McCARTIN | (315) 639-6266 | 16431 Star Schoolhouse Rd, Brownville NY 13634 |
| Town Historian | JUNE McCARTIN | (315) 639-6266 | 16431 Star Schoolhouse Rd, Brownville NY 13634 |
| Brownville Village Clerk | BRENDA McCONNELL | (315) 782-7650 | Village Office, 216 Brown Blvd, Brownville NY 13615 |
| Brownville Village Historian | THOMAS BARKER | (315) 489-1856 | P.O. Box 536, Brownville NY 13615 |
| Brownville-Glen Park Library | CANDY WILDE | (315) 788-7889 | 216 Brown Blvd, Brownville NY 13615 |
| Dexter Village Clerk | PATRICIA LAMON | (315) 639-6260 | Village Office, PO Box 62, Dexter 13634 |
| Dexter Village Historian | PAMELA KOSTYK | (315) 639-6977 | 417 Liberty St, Dexter NY 13634 |
| Dexter Free Library | |
(315) 639-6785 | 120 East Kirby St, Dexter NY 13634 |
| Glen Park Village Clerk | CONSTANCE HOARD | (315) 782-4508 | 116 East Main St, Brownville NY 13615 |
Contact person:
Phyllis Putnam
Brownville
Dexter
Ferry
Freeman
Guffins
Bay
Ingalls
Kimball
Limerick
Luther Hill
Perch River
Pettit
Sherwins Bay
Stevens
Stone
Taylor
History of the Town of Brownville linked from Shirley Farone's Home Page taken from CHILD'S GAZETTEER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY by HAMILTON CHILDS, published in 1890, transcribed by Shirley Farone.
History of the Town of Brownville from "Ray's Place", as found in OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE by EDGAR C. EMERSON, 1898.
History of the Town of Brownville, taken from A HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK by FRANKLIN B. HOUGH, A. M., M.D., linked from Shirley Farone's Home Page.
A List of People who contributed information about the Town of Brownville in 1878 to Durant and Peirce's History of Jefferson County
History of the Town of Brownville, from Durant and Peirce's History of Jefferson County, 1878.
One of the oldest towns in Jefferson County, and the mother town for the northern tier of towns, Brownville was first settled by the pioneer Jacob Brown and his extended family in 1799. At its first organization, Brownville included all of present Brownville, as well as Pamelia, Lyme, Cape Vincent, Clayton, Orleans, and a part of the Town of Alexandria. Many pioneers first noted in the Town of Brownville were afterwards recorded in the Town of Orleans, or Lyme, or one of the others, without ever having moved.
Brownville is bounded by Lyme on the northwest, and continuing clockwise we find Clayton, Orleans, Pamelia, a bit of Watertown, with Hounsfield on the south. Brownville juts out into Lake Ontario with Pillar Point, Black River Bay on its south and Guffins Bay on the north. Its history is dominated by the Brown family, and the War of 1812. The main communities are Brownville, with the Jacob Brown mansion, Glen Park, now a suburb of the city of Watertown, and Dexter, once a paper mill town, all three on the Black River. Limerick and the hamlet of Perch River round out the settlements.
From the 1864 Jefferson County Atlas: a summary of statistics for Brownville
ACRES OF LAND
Improved 26,636
Unimproved 8,216
VALUATION
Real Estate 682,600
Personal Property 75,300
Total 757,900
POPULATION
Males 1,808
Females 1,861
Number of Dwellings 687
Number of Families 722
Freeholders 360
SCHOOLS
Number of Districts 21
Children Taught 1,529
LIVE STOCK
Horses 1,090
Working Oxen and Calves 1,493
Cows 2,752
Sheep 3,582
Swine 1,366
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Bushels of Grain
Winter 14,178
Spring 121,802 1/2
Tons of Hay 5,096
Bushels of Potatoes 9,663
Bushels of Apples 10,490
Dairy Products
Pounds of Butter 267,182
Pounds of Cheese 118,655
YARDS OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE 2,382
Names of the early settlers |
|---|
| Ackerman, Daniel * Ackerman, Robert Adams, Henry Aman, Andrew F. Avery, Frederick * Avery, Richardson * Babcock, Jesse Ball, Eleazer * Bates, Caleb J. * Baxter, John * Bell, James A. Blood, Jacob Blood, Joel Brawt, Andrew Britton, Calvin Britton, Luther Britton, Lyman Britton, Otis Britton, Samuel Broadt, Philip Brott, Nicholas Brown, Benjamin * Brown, George Brown, Greenlief Brown, Jacob Brown, Samuel * Brown, Simeon Burlingame, Asahel Burr, Noahdiah Carpenter, Jeremiah * Cathcart, John Chase, Asenath Cole, John * Cole, Moses Collins, Isaac * Collins, John W. * Conklin, Ezekiel COOL, Benjamin R. |
Day, Isaac Delemater, Henry A.* Desmore, Antoine Diefendorff, Daniel H. Dillin, William Douglas, Alexander Douglas, James Douglass, James Douglas, John Eaton, Joshua Emerson, Dustin Emerson, Elijah Emerson, Jonathan Evans, Ethni * FEDERLY, Daniel Fish, Sylvanus * Folsom * Fowler, Riley Fredenburgh, Henry S. Fuller, Lester Gibbs, Alvin A. HASTINGS, Laura Hursley, Kendall Ingalls, Peter * Ingalls, Solomon * JONES, Rachel Kane, Uriel KELSEY, Susan Kilborn, Jacob Kirby, Edmund Knap, Thomas S. Knox, William Langworthy, Sanford * Little, Shubael Loomis, Thomas Lord, William |
Luther, Isaac * Lyttle, David MAITLAND, William MAXON, Lois Moffatt, Alexander Moffatt, Alexander Jr Moffatt, Aquilla Moffatt, Hosea Moffatt, Isaac * Moffatt, Jonathan Moffatt, Melvin * Moyer, Solomon Orvis, Ira Parker, Nancy Peck, Eliphalet * Peck, Nathaniel Peck, Samuel Phelps, Jeremiah Pool, Sylvanus Pratt, Peter * Preston, Ozias * Pride, James Putnam, Abijah * Reed, Luther * Reed, Samuel * Rhodes, Joseph Robbins, Hosea Rogers, Elisha Rogers, George Rogers, William * Rounds, George * Rowe, Ferdinand Seeber, Henry W. Shelley, John P. Shelly, Samuel Sherwin & |
Shew, Aaron Shew, Jacob Skinner, Alanson Smith, Elias Smith, Ely Smith, Hugh Smith, Richard * Smith, Robert Spicer, Henry Sprague, Horatio * Sprague, Frederick * Stanley, Stephen * Starr, Samuel * Stearns, Samuel Stone, Jesse * Stone, Solon Swayze, Henry Timmerman, Nancy C. TYLER, Irene Heaton Van Allen, Mindred Van Allen, Richard Van de Walker, Maria Waffle, George * Wallace, David Ward, Henry James* Webb, Jonathan * Webb, Lewis * Webb, Silas * Webb, William * Webb, William Jr * Welch, Charles Wheeler, James White, Hazael Wilcox, Silas Philatus Wilson, Abner * Wilson, Leonard * Winegar, Jeremiah Wood, John T. Woolsey, James Lloyd York, William |
NOTE! Names marked with an asterisk (*) are taken from Edgar C. Emerson's OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE, published 1898.
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