Schoharie County, New York Historical Society - The Old Stone Fort

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Schoharie Valley, Schoharie, New York, United States

This profile will provide information about this organization and its resources. This profile was created, in part, as a source of information for The Palatine Migration Project.

The Old Stone Fort Museum^[1]
Schoharie County Historical Society
45 Fort Road
Schoharie, NY 12157
(518) 295-7192

Hours for 2023 are:
Monday-Friday 10am-4pm
Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 12pm-5pm.

There is a library research request form at the website: ^[2]

Visit the web site. Visit the museum and library. There are historic buildings; a historic cemetery; a research library containing well-organized collections of a variety of materials including church records, surname files, genealogies, newspaper clippings, transcriptions of a variety of records, books relevant to the history of the area and more. The staff are very helpful and knowledgeable. It's a lovely and historic area.

Resources

Library

Bibles with genealogical information transcribed and/or copied on file in library. This is a partial list of bibles in the collection (only those containing genealogical information); a full list was given to the author, September 2023.

NOTE: Appointment with the Curator is required to see the bibles.

Badgley, Simon G.

Becker, Henry I>

Becker, Sarah - daughter of Henry I. Becker - picture of Charles Becker, son of Henry I.

Bouck, Abraham

Bouck, George B.

Brainard

Brown, Christian - Braun

Brown, William P.

Collette

Collet

Coons, Frederick

Diefendorf, Rev. Benjamin - No. 1

Diefendorf, Rev. Benjamin - No. 2

Eckerson

Efner

Elliot / Gibbs / Morrison

Fanning

Fero

Frantz

Graham, Ida / O'Dell, Mabel

Hager

Harper / Hotchkis

Harrison / Stewart - tin type pictures in back

Hatch / Loucks

Herrick

Hewson

Hoflich - several loose pages of letters, etc.

Houck, Eve

Houck

Karker, Aaron / Andrew

Karker, Harvey

Lewis

Mattice - very poor condition - genealogy on card in bible transcribed

Mattice - 1743 German

Mereness

Murphy, Timothy

Nichols

Palmatier / Nethaway

Parsons

Patchen, Freegift

Race / Rase

Richtmyer, Jacob

Rickert, Marcus

Rood

Schaieffer, Johannes / Schaefer, Henrich

Shafer, Jacob

Schell

Schell, Frederich / Richtmyer, Maria - Dutch bible

Simmons

Staley

Stanton

Tygart / Brewster

Underhill - 1815 - English - 84-10-13B

Van Volkenburgh

Van Wormer, Benjamin

Volk - 1736 Dutch bible

Vrooman, Alexander / Kniskern, C.E.

Vrooman, Elizabeth - 1832

Vrooman, Leland - pocket bible - military - poor condition

Weidman

Winter / Zimmer

Sources

1. ↑ The Old Stone Fort Museum
2. ↑ Library research request form