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Mohawk Valley Resources

This page is to record links to resources on the greater Mohawk Valley of New York. If you know of additional resources please post them here.

Church Records

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Bible Records

Cemetery Records

Genealogy

General Resources

Family Genealogies

Early Narratives

  • About the 1692 attack of the French on the Mohawk villages, Schuylers pursuit, and the capture and escape of two men at "Canactagiere" in July 1691: "A Narrative of an attempt made by the French of Canada upon the Mohaques country being Indians under the protection of Their Majesties government of New-York. To which is added, I. An account of the present state and strength of Canada, given by two Dutch-men, who have been prisoners there, and now made their escape. 2. The examination of a French prisoner 3 His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher's speech to the Indians. 4. The answer of the five nations of the Mohaques to His Excellency. 5. Proposals made by the four chief sachims of the five nations, to His Excellency. And His Excellency's reply thereto. 6. An address from the corporation of Albany to His Excellency, returning thanks for His Excellency's early assistance for their relief, &c." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N00506.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2024.
  • Wooley, Charles, A.M, E. B. (Edmund Bailey) O'Callaghan, and Edward Gaylord Bourne. A Two Years' Journal In New York: And Part of Its Territories In America. Reprinted from the original ed. of 1701. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Co., 1902. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001262497
  • "A friend to go between them": Interpreters among the Iroquois,"A friend to go between them": Interpreters among the Iroquois, 1664-17751664-1775, Nancy L. HagedornCollege of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences, 1995, https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/etd/article/3781/&path_info=9605787.pdf
  • Smith, Richard, 1735-1803, and Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey. A Tour of Four Great Rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna And Delaware In 1769, Being the Journal of Richard Smith of Burlington, New Jersey. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001262492

Books

Websites

State Census

Wills and Probate Records

Land Records

Marriage Records

  • New York (State). Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784. Albany: Weed, Parsons and company, 1860. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t16m3g706&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021
  • Saratoga NYGENWEB, Saratoga County, New York, Town of Charlton Marriages, (originally appeared in Heritage Hunters Newsletter Vol. 22, Nos. 1 & 2), Brookside Clerk Sharon Shields transcribed this data from the transcribed carbon copy of the Town of Charlton Vital Records in a bound volume at Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa. Mrs. Grace Leddick made the original transcription from records at the Town of Charlton Clerk's office in the mid 1 950's. That transcription was arranged, checked and indexed by Henry C. Ritchie and typed by Margaret C. Ritchie. http://www.saratoganygenweb.com/Charlton%20Marriages.htm

Place Names

Local History

Military Records

Maps

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Architecture

Museums

Art Museums

  • Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, Mohawk Valley, The museum has a growing collection of Mohawk Valley material that includes photographs, diaries, letters, and portraits of individuals and businesses of both local and national importance. http://www.arkellmuseum.org/mohawk-collections
  • Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, Now apparently rebranded as Munson or Pratt Munson, Has a large collection of 18th and 19th Century art, including local portraits and landscapes.
  • Albany Institute of History & Art, Mostly focused on Albany and the Hudson Valley, but some Mohawk Valley links. https://www.albanyinstitute.org/

Sir William Johnson Papers

Archive Entries: The Archive.org search engine doesn't give volume numbers. This is a monumentally important resource for historical and genealogical information for Mohawk Valley researchers.

v. 1. Period of settlemtn, 1738-1744. King George's War, 1744-1748. Period of peace, 1749-1755. Preliminary campaigns, 1755. -- v. 2. Preliminary campaigns, 1755-1756. Seven Years' War. -- v. 3. The Seven Years' War. -- v. 4-8. Post-War period, 1763-1774. -- v. 9. Period of settlement, 1738-1744. King George's War, 1744-1748. Period of peace, 1749-1755. Preliminary campaigns, 1755-1756. Seven Years' War. -- v. 10. The Seven Years' War. The Indian Uprising. -- v. 11. The Indian Uprising, 1764-1765. -- v. 12. Indian affairs to Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1766-1768. Indian affairs and land development, 1769-1774. -- v. 13. William Johnson's affairs 1738-1755. Sir William's Affairs 1756-1758. The Niagara Campaign 1759. Warren Johnson's journal 1760-61. The Detroit journal 1761. Building Johnson Hall 1763. Land and Indian affairs 1764-1773. Sir William's passing 1774. Miscellaneous documents. Chronological list of documents. -- v. 14. General index

Vol I (1): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli01johnuoft/page/n9/mode/2up

Vol II (2): https://archive.org/details/paperssirwillia00johngoog/page/n10/mode/2up

Vol III (3): https://archive.org/details/paperssirwillia00unkngoog/page/n10/mode/2up

Vol IV (4): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli04john/page/n3/mode/2up

Vol V (5): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli05johnuoft/page/n7/mode/2up

Vol VI (6): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli06johnuoft/page/n7/mode/2up

Vol VII (7): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli07johnuoft/page/n7/mode/2up

Vol VIII (8): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli08johnuoft/page/n1/mode/2up

Vol IX (9): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli09johnuoft/page/n7/mode/2up

Vol. X (10): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli10johnuoft/page/n5/mode/2up

Vol XI (11): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli0000john/page/n5/mode/2up

Vol XII (12): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwill12john/page/n7/mode/2up

Vol XII (13): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli13johnuoft/page/n5/mode/2up

Vol XIV (14): https://archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli14johnuoft/page/n3/mode/2up

See also Great Britain Indian Department Collection, 1753-1795 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/greatbritainindiandept/browse.html#series2 and Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs Reports, June 1753 - May 1755, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/greatbritainindiandept/greatbritainindiandept.0002.001/5#?s=0&cv=4

Miscellaneous

MRW Pages

Categories

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General Links

Loyalist Resources

Palatine Resources

Newspapers

Books

Other

Fiction

  • Robert W. Chambers, Cardigan Series,
  • In the Valley by Harold Frederic, Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9787
  • John J. Vrooman wrote several works of historical fiction and non-fiction about upstate New York, including Council Fire and Cannon[1] , a collection of stories about early New York; Forts and firesides of the Mohawk country, New York : the stories and pictures of landmarks of the pre-Revolutionary War period throughout the Mohawk valley and the surrounding country side, including some historic and genealogical mention during the post-war period,[2] The Promised Land, The Story of the Palatine Emigration from the Rhineland Homes to the Hudson and Schoharie Valleys,[3] concerning the Palatines who settled in the Schoharie valley and Conrad Weiser; The Massacre[4], the fictional story of the Schenectady Massacre, which features Cornelis Van Ditmars and Catharine Glen; and Clarissa Putman of Tribes Hill : a romantic history of Sir William Johnson, his family and Mohawk Valley neighbors through the flaming years 1767-1780, the story of Clarissa (Putman) Johnson[5] a historical novel. An accomplished amateur photographer, his pictures of historic sites illustrate many of his books, and were also used to illustrate material produced for the New York State Education Department.[6]

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