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This volume is the twenty-second in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. The Clerk's Office, at the Essex County, New York Courthouse, houses wills, guardianships, and dowers in bound volumes, and also probate loose papers, all before 1947. Dower papers are quite rare, occurring in only two cases. The authors have abstracted wills and guardianships; but for dowers and probate packets they have fully transcribed all surviving documents. The transcripts retain all words and names exactly as contained in the documents. Despite the fact that only a few people had an estate in probate; most, if not all, male members of the Wilmington community do appear somewhere in the documents. Not only are they mentioned as kin and heirs-at-law; but they also appear as creditors, debtors, witnesses, Justices of the Peace, buyers of goods and property at estate sales, etc. Who dug an ancestor's grave? Who carved his/her monument? The final settlement of accounts by the estate's administrator might contain this information. If your ancestors owed debts, you might find the promissory note or the original doctor's or store's ledgers included in the file. Inventory taken of the estate will provide a fascinating glimpse into your ancestor's material culture. Finally, since the authors have transcribed all surviving documents in a probate packet, a window is provided into the historical process of probate. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume is the twenty-third in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. The Clerk's Office, at the Essex County, New York Courthouse, houses wills, guardianships, and dowers in bound volumes, and also probate loose papers, all before 1947. Dower papers are quite rare, occurring in only two cases. The authors have abstracted wills and guardianships; but for dowers and probate packets they have fully transcribed all surviving documents. The transcripts retain all words and names exactly as contained in the documents. Despite the fact that only a few people had an estate in probate; most, if not all, male members of the Wilmington community do appear somewhere in the documents. Not only are they mentioned as kin and heirs-at-law; but they also appear as creditors, debtors, witnesses, Justices of the Peace, buyers of goods and property at estate sales, etc. Who dug an ancestor's grave? Who carved his/her monument? The final settlement of accounts by the estate's administrator might contain this information. If your ancestors owed debts, you might find the promissory note or the original doctor's or store's ledgers included in the file. Inventory taken of the estate will provide a fascinating glimpse into your ancestor's material culture. Finally, since the authors have transcribed all surviving documents in a probate packet, a window is provided into the historical process of probate. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume is the twentieth in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. Surviving records include chattel mortgages, which are a frequently overlooked resource. Chattel mortgages are especially valuable because there were no banks in Essex County during much of the nineteenth century. Money was borrowed from private individuals and businesses, such as the general store or blacksmith. Both the borrowers and the lenders are captured in the chattel mortgage records. Chattel mortgages contain important details, the most significant of which have been abstracted: the names of the mortgagor and the mortgagee, and their place of residence, if given; the date of the instrument; what had been put up as collateral; the loan; the terms of the loan, generally when a note came due; the witness(es) to the chattel mortgage; and the resolution of the mortgage if known. In addition, chattel mortgages describe possessions with more specificity than probate inventories or the various agricultural and industrial censuses, which is particularly important since evidence for the possessions of nineteenth century rural inhabitants is generally sparse. The entries have been transcribed as presented, with all variations for the same individual's name included in the index; the original spelling has been maintained. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume is the eighteenth in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. Unfortunately no village or hamlet in the Town of Wilmington ever produced a newspaper. Wilmington was dependent on coverage in regional newspapers. Only scattered issues of the regional newspapers, the Keeseville Herald (KH) and the Keeseville Argus (KA), survive from the 1830's. By far the most significant regional newspaper was the Essex County Republican (ECR). Only scattered issues of the ECR survive for the 1840's through 1869. Even for the 1870-1900 period there are significant gaps. Genealogists and family historians will appreciate the wealth of abstracted information regarding the Town of Wilmington and its inhabitants. For any given item, this volume supplies the name of the newspaper, its date and number of the newspaper issue, and the page and column number where the item appeared. In addition, all names are abstracted and entered under "Name Mentioned." A description of the item is provided, and in many cases the item is categorized under a general subject and/or a type of event. In order to facilitate locating items of interest regarding a general subject we have grouped items in the following subjects: Accidents, Agriculture, AuSable River, Business, Census, Church, Civil War, Court, Crime, Donations, ECR, Education, Elections, Entertainment, Fire, Fuel, Gossip Column, Gossip Columnist, Health, History, Holiday, Home Improvements, Housework, Hunting and Trapping, Industry, Iron Works, Judicial, Letter to the Editor, Lot for Sale by Sheriff, Lumbering, Maple Sugar, M.E. Church, Medical, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Accounts, Notch House, Politics, Real Estate Transactions, Recreation, Religion, Relocation, Starch, Tabular Statement, Taxes, Tourism, Transportation, Visits, Weather, Whiteface Mountain, and Wilmington Pass. The entries have been transcribed as presented; the original spelling has been maintained. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume is the fifth in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains, 1830-1900. For the purpose of this series, a serial record is any record or group of records which extends over a period of time and captures a significant portion of the population. It is hoped that by capturing all extant serial records for Wilmington, this series will present a "record density" that will allow the genealogist and family historian with Wilmington ancestors to reconstruct a fuller portrait of their ancestors. The entries have been transcribed as presented; the original spelling has been maintained. Surnames have been added (in brackets) to the entries of wives and children in the 1880 Federal Population Schedule. This was done for indexing purposes. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume is the twenty-first in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. The blacksmith ledger transcribed herein was found in the old Warren/Haselton house located in the hamlet of Haselton (formerly known as Markhamville), in the town of Wilmington, when it was put up for sale by George Warren in 2006. The house had been in the Haselton and Warren families since the mid-1800s. The provenance of the ledger is not clear; initially, it was most likely to have been the ledger of Timothy Haselton, and then of his son, Daniel. It is also possible that the initial forty-eight pages involved Nathan B. Markham. Genealogists and family historians should find the Haselton blacksmith ledger of considerable value. It captures a somewhat different population than that of the village of Wilmington's general store ledger, 1852-1854. A prime example will be the very large number of entries for Chancey Wilcox. The ledger reveals a complex web of commercial relations and transactions at the sub-town level, and specifically for a hamlet located between the villages of Wilmington and Black Brook. And the entries for government service and non-farm labor will significantly add to an understanding of economic activities at the personal level. Although the ledger primarily concerns blacksmithing tasks and equipment, it also mentions a great variety of goods and tasks, ranging from traditional blacksmith work to grocery store goods. Another significant part of the ledger's contents was the important role of the iron ore industry. To aid the reader, a glossary of unfamiliar terms follows the introduction. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume is the twelfth in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. Starting in 1886, and continuing in the years covered in this volume, both the lot numbers and tract (complete with descriptive comments) are provided for taxable residents. The following information may also be recorded: number of acres, value of estate, value of personal property, total valuation, amount of tax, dog tax, whether the tax is paid, returned resident highway tax, and returned resident school tax. For lands of non-residents there is considerable information provided, but the owner's name is omitted. For some years (excluding 1892-4 and 1896), an end-of-year Town Supervisor's report (sometimes a newspaper clipping) is appended. It contains valuable information, as all town offices and officers are listed. In some cases the year-end report includes not just officers and amounts paid them, but others who were paid by the Town for services provided. Occasionally, comments are added which could prove useful or add a bit of "color" to your family portrait. The tax records have been transcribed as presented. All names have been reproduced as spelled in the original. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume is the first in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. The first ledger book for the Town of Wilmington, "lost" for many years, covers the period from the founding of the town in 1821, until 1865 (except for cattle earmarks which are covered until 1884), and contains a record of the Town of Wilmington minutes, plus much more. The minutes of annual and special town meetings are included. Entries make special note of the persons elected or appointed to various offices: e.g., Town Clerk, Town Supervisor, Assessors, Commissioners of Highways, Overseers of Highways, Path Masters, Justices of the Peace, Overseers of the Poor, Tax Collectors, Election Inspectors, Sextons, Poor Masters, Scalers of Weights and Measures, and Superintendents of Schools. Votes are recorded for provisions for the poor and schools. Surveys of new roads, and occasionally new plats, are included. Highway taxes, in the form of corvee labor or days of labor owed by individuals, are recorded for every year. Earmarks for cattle are registered and illustrated. The original ledger is not consistently chronological and is often illegible; however, the authors have attempted to transcribe the entries as presented. Names have been faithfully transcribed, and it is not unusual to find the same name spelled several different ways. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

Never underestimate the value of gossip! Emma D. Hinds, under the pen name of "Rupert," was the gossip columnist and vital records recorder for the Essex County Republican during the period covered. For researchers interested in a family's web of kith and kin, gossip columns can be an indispensable resource, adding regional, cultural, and socio-economic aspects. Numerous pieces of social history linked to individuals or families are recorded here that may not have been noted in print elsewhere. Births, marriages, and deaths are of particular value to genealogists as the period of 1877-1881 falls before Wilmington's civil vital records begin. These tidbits, clipped from a regional paper that otherwise reported little on Wilmington, provide insights into life in a town which had no newspaper. The appointment of school teachers, local schools' closing exercises, church-related meetings, sermons, the coming and going of visitors, and social occasions such as the Sabbath school picnics were all reported along with a sprinkling of disease, illness, crimes, fire, prostitution, and "demon" drink.Entries are sub-divided into personals and subjects, and then each section is further sub-divided into alphabetical listings and chronological entries. The Alphabetical Order by Person section includes the full name, date, subject, and scrapbook page number. The Listing by Event section lists the event, date, description, and page number.

This volume is the third is a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records, 1830-1900, for the Town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. All genealogically significant schedules for the 1860 Federal Census and the 1865 New York State Census have been transcribed. These include the following: Population, Agricultural, Industrial, Mortality, Marriage and Death, Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Insane & Idiotic, and the Miscellaneous Schedule. Also transcribed are the 1862 and 1865 military census schedules that were taken in the Town of Wilmington. By capturing all extant serial records for Wilmington, the genealogist and family historian with Wilmington ancestors can reconstruct a fuller portrait of their ancestors. A fullname index adds to the value of this work.

This volume presents a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records, 1830-1900, for the Town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. Serial records, for the purpose of this series, extend over a period of time and capture a significant portion of the population. Presenting this "record density" allows genealogists and family historians with Wilmington ancestors to reconstruct a fuller portrait of their ancestors. Records were transcribed from microfilm, and photocopied or scanned images. Entries include: 1850 Population Census, 1850 Agricultural Census, 1850 Products of Industry, 1850 Social Statistics, 1855 Population Schedule, 1855 Agricultural Schedule, 1855 Industrial Schedule, 1855 Churches & Schools Schedule, and 1855 Inns & Store Schedule. A fullname index adds to the value of this work.