Coxsackie, Town of
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: The town of Coxsackie is one of the two original townships which make up modern Greene County. Originally colonized by Pieter Bronck in 1663, the region became the Coxsackie District of Albany County during the Revolutionary War. When Greene County was founded in 1800 Coxsackie became one of the first townships in its boundaries, and over the course of the next several decades had the townships of New Baltimore, Greenville, and Durham partitioned from it. The origins of the name Coxsackie, like that of Catskill, are obscured by time. It is an original Native American place name, and on early European documents was styled variously in ways that phonetically sounded out the name Cook-Sah-Kee or Cooks-Hack-Ee. It has been debated whether the name means something similar to the following: "Hoot of the Owl/Place of the hoot of the owl," "Honking Geese," and even "Place of snakes" by various scholars. It is not known whether any of them were qualified to make conjectures on possible translations, nor is it known if these translations can be corroborated. Coxsackie is one of four townships in Greene County bounded on the east by the Hudson River, and it is bounded on the north by New Baltimore, west by Greenville, and south by Cairo and Athens.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Letter to Leonard Bronk from Samuel Van Vechten, re: social affairs, April 13, 1775
File — Case Bronck Manuscripts Drawer One
Identifier: BM 1775.1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bronck Family Manuscripts comprise roughly five cubic feet of material primarily on parchment and handmade paper. Contents include personal letters, business papers, and legal documents dating from the lifetime of Jan Bronck (1652-1742) to Leonard Bronk Lampman (1872-1939). Leonard Bronk Lampman was the final owner of the family's 1663 estate and its contents. The most intellectually unified series within the collection come from the lifetime of Judge Leonard Bronck (1751-1828) and his...