Montgomery County, New York

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Location: Montgomery County, New York, United States
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Contents 1 Montgomery County, New York Project 1.1 Status of On-going Projects 1.2 Maps and Boundaries 1.3 Communities 1.4 Topics 1.5 Resources and Records 2 Footnotes

Montgomery County, New York Project

County Courthouse in Fonda

Historically occupied by the Mohawk people, one of the original Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the county was created in 1772 during the period of British colonial rule as Tryon County. In 1784, after the Americans gained independence in the War, Montgomery County was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec. The county seat is Fonda.

Status of On-going Projects

• Historical TImeline of Montgomery County, completed and doing some updates
• Category: Montgomery County, New York, Cemeteries is not nearly complete. Supposedly there are 324 cemeteries, but only 40 have Wikitree categories.
• Clean up duplicate towns, cemeteries, and profiles in Montgomery County

Maps and Boundaries

Montgomery County was created in 1772 from Albany County but it was called Tryon County until 1784--after the Revolution War. Albany County dates from 1683. Revolutionary War soldiers from the area of current Montgomery County served in Tyron County Militia, New York Levies, and Continental Army units during the war. See Space:New York in the American Revolution for a complete listing of Revolutionary War Units from New York.^[1]

Portions of the original county were set off to form five other counties:

• 27 January 1789: Ontario County
• 16 February 1791: Herkimer, Otsego, Tioga Counties
• 21 February 1816: Hamilton County
• 18 Apr 1838: Fulton County

The original county seat for Tryon County and Montgomery County until 1838 was in Johnstown, New York. The Montgomery County county seat and courthouse was moved to Fonda, New York in 1838. Fulton County has continued to use the original courthouse of Tryon and Montgomery County since 1838. See Space:Formation of New York Counties for creation dates and what county they were created from for New York Counties.

North: Fulton after 1838

East: Saratoga

West: Herkimer

Southwest: Otsego

South: Schoharie

Southeast: Schenectady

Communities

Montgomery County communities as of 1925

The following categories contain profiles and pages for Montgomery County communities (cities, towns, villages, and other populated places):

A Ames | Amsterdam (town) | Amsterdam | Auriesville

B Buel

C Canjoharie (village) Canajoharie Charleston

F Florida, Montgomery County | Fonda | Fort Johnson | Fort Plain | Fort Wagner | Freysbush | Fultonville

G Glen

H Hagaman

M Mannys Corner | MInaville | Minden | Mohawk, Montgomery County

N Nelliston

P Palatine Bridge | Palatine

R Root

S Saint Johnsville | St. Johnsville (village) | St. Johnsville | Stone Arabia

Topics

The following categories within Wikitree contain profiles and pages on various topics concerning Montgomery County, New York:

Cemeteries Census Records

Religious Congregations Schools

Resources and Records

The following external resources and records are useful to genealogists working on Montgomery County, New York:

• Montgomery County on Wikipedia
• County Website
• Family Search Wiki for Montgomery County
• Montgomery County History and Archives
• Mohawk Valley Library System Local History and Genealogy
• Montgomery County on NY Genweb
• Capital District Genealogical Society
• Central New York Genealogical Society
• Montgomery County, NY Dept of History and Archives on Facebook
• Montgomery County Map in 1853 from the Library of Congress
• David Rumsey Map Collection, Browse All : Images of Montgomery County (N.Y.), https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/where/Montgomery+County+(N.Y.)?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No .
• History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots, by Frothingham, washington, b. 1822, Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason, 1892, https://archive.org/details/historyofmontgom00frot .
• History of Montgomery and Fulton counties, N.Y. : with illustrations and portraits of old pioneers and prominent residents, by Beers, F.W., & co., New York, pub, 1878. https://archive.org/details/historyofmontgom00beer/page/n265/mode/2up .

See also:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Mohawk_Valley_Resources , includes Montgomery and Tryon County links.
• http://www.threerivershms.com/ , Includes many Montgomery and Tryon County links. An older site, many links are broken, but still extremely useful.
• Information About Montgomery County, New York, History and Genealogy, http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/local/montgomery-history.html .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Profiles of persons that resided prior to 1784 in the area that would become Montgomery County should be tagged with the Category:Montgomery County, New York, Early Settlers, even though they may or may not have lived long enough to be in the county when it was called Montgomery County.