SCHAGHTICOKE

            Information about Schaghticoke may be found here: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/na/sgtke.html

               In 1709, the Albany government conveyed lots to Johannes De Wandelaer, Jr., John Harmanse Visscher, Corset Veeder, Daniel Ketelhuyn,                Johannes Knickerbacker, Louis Viele, and Dirck Van Vechten - all of whom went there to live. Additional plots later were granted to

               Martin de Lamont, Wouter Quackenbush, Peter Yates, David Schuyler, Wouter Groesbeck, Philip Livingston, Ignace Kip, Cornelis Vandenbergh,                aothers.Initially, these "sales" were leases. Later, leases became ownership deeds. Some of the first Schaghticoke landholders were younger

               sons of established Albany families. Others were more marginal but long-standing city  people seeking a new start in the Hoosick Valley.

               Livingston and others obtained Schaghticoke titles for investment purposes. Many of thes  persons are found in mm family history.

                       

            Shaghticoke Indian Tribe

               The Schaghticoke Tribe was first documented as an Indian community within the Housatonic Valley of Connecticut Colony as early as the

               seventeenth century. Under the leadership of its first recorded Sachem, Gideon Mauwee, the Tribe became a refuge for Indians who were fleeing                 colonists. The 18th century community consisted of 500-600 members, mostly of Mahican, but including those of Oweantinock, Pequot,

                Pootatuck, and Tunxis descent.           

           

               The 18th century Tribe followed a traditional seasonal round of group movements involving a winter-spring village, a summer village, and

               numerous smaller camps at which economic activities occurred, such as fishing, hunting, tin crafting, and collecting materials for basket and

               broom-making. The community supported itself through a mixed economy of maize agriculture, home gardens, hunting and fishing, and small  

               livestock farming. Tribal members added to these subsistence activities by selling woodsplint baskets, brooms, canoes, tin products, and other   

            wood objects to white farmers and shopkeepers.              

           

            See http://history.rays-place.com/ny/ren-schaghticoke-ny.htm

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          Dutch Reformed Church

          The Dutch Reformed Church at Schaghticoke dates from 1714 - although it relied on missionary service from Albany and elsewhere. The first                           log cabin church was destroyed during an Indian raid. Its surviving records date from 1750. A new church was built in 1760. Beginning in

             1715, parish burials were made in the Knickerbocker family plot.

         

            Baptisms at the Schaghticoke Dutch Reformed Church 1752-1866

            http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/sdrcb.htm

 

        Marriages at the Schaghticoke Dutch Reformed Church 1750-1868                      

          http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/sdrcm.htm