Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, NY

SCHAGHTICOKE, was organized in 1788. Pop. 3,389. About the year 1630, some Dutch and German families settled on the rich alluvial lands of this town, then occupied by a clan of the Mohawk Indians. Schaghticoke Point, on the Hoosick river, 13 miles NE. from Troy, is a large manufacturing village having about 150 dwellings. The Valley village, on both sides of the Hoosick, and partly in Pittstown, has about 45 dwellings.
John W. Barber, Henry Howe, 1844

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Rensselaer County, New York. Excerpts From: Historical Collections of the State of New York. By John W. Barber and Henry Howe, 1844
Reminiscences of Troy (New York). Reprinted by Heritage Books Inc., 2000, from Reminiscences of Troy from Its Settlement in 1790 to 1807 with Remarks on its Commerce, Enterprise, Improvements, State of Political Parties, Second Edition with Notes, by John Woodworth 1853.
Hudson Mohawk Gateway, An Illustrated History. By Thomas Phelan, 1985.
Troy and Lansingburgh, W. Troy & G. Island, Cohoes and Waterford Directory, 1893. Sampson, Murdock & Co., Compilers and Publishers, 1893.

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1880 Federal Census, Abbott to Curan
1880 Federal Census, Dagament to Jury
1880 Federal Census, Karney to Ryan
1880 Federal Census, Salkine to Young

History

Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State, by J. H. French, 1860, Civil War Soldiers, much more about Schaghticoke, Jim Pool's website

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