Ye Olden Time

Historical Sketches of the Town of Coxsackie

Transcribed by Arlene Goodwin. From the book entitled, "Ye Olden Time, as compiled from the Coxsackie News of 1889" written by Robert Henry Van Bergen, together with notations by Rev. Delber W. Clark, and edited by Francis A. Hallenbeck, 1935

• Introduction  

• I—All About the First Reformed Church  

• II—An interesting Sketch of the Van Den Bergh Patent  

• III—Local History Dating From 1770  

• IV—The addenda in Last Week’s "News" Causes an Explanation    

• V—A Sketch of Unusual Interest  

• VI—An Old Mill—The Upper Landing  

• VII—Facts About Men Who Preached the Gospel

• VIII—A Short Sketch of Teachers and Surveyors 

• IX—An Interesting Sketch Concerning The Early Business Men  

• X—Facts Connected With the Lower Landing  

• XI—The First Settler, House and Wharf  

• XII—Epenetus Reed—First Sloop Loaded at Coxsackie   

• XIII—Levi Freligh; Some Notes of His Life   

• XIV—The Location of the Early Business Places  

• XV—Minor Hubbel, Peter Hubbel, Olney F. Wright and Henry Greene  

• XVI—Early Settlers and Representative Men of Coxsackie  

• XVII—About the Inns Where Our Forefathers Toasted Their Shins  

• XVIII—A Document 151 Years Old; All About It –An Ancient Portrait and Dishes  

• XIX—An Interesting Paper Containing Names of People Who Lived in this Period  

• XX—Coxsackie Declaration of Independence 

• XXI—The Great Flood 

• XXII—Where the Red Man Trod 

• XXIII—The Bronk House  

• XXIV—Coxsackie in the Revolution  

• XXV—How Coxsackie Was to Have Been County Seat   

• XXVI—Another Great Benefit Lost to Coxsackie  

• XXVII—Notes on Rev. Reuben Winegar  

• XXVIII—Enlarging Greene County  
  

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