Athens, Village of
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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Athens is an incorporated village founded in 1805 located originally within the boundaries Catskill township and currently within the boundaries of Athens township [since 1815]. Athens was the first of five villages incorporated in Greene County. The village was surveyed as a planned community at the start of the 19th century and founded within the same vicinity as an existing and sparsely populated dutch agrarian settlement known as "Loonenburg" [spelling varies] originally settled in the 1680s when the region was still a part of southern Albany County.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Athens and West Camp, NY Early Records [Arthur Kelly Transcription], 1703 - 1899
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3355
Scope and Contents
Records for Zion Lutheran Church, Athens, include: Elders and Deacons, Members Admitted, 1704; Confirmands and Communicants, 1775-1776; Confirmands and Communicants, 1785-1806; Confirmands and Communicants, 1833-1846; Communicants, 1858; and Members Admitted, 1867-1869.
Records for St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp, include: Confirmations, 1709-1717; Confirmations, 1816-1826 and 1829-1840; Communicants, 1820; Membership List, 1845; Confirmations, 1845-1850; Confirmands and Communicants,...
Athens and West Camp, NY Early Records [Arthur Kelly Transcription], 1703 - 1899
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2005.0581
Scope and Contents
Records for Zion Lutheran Church, Athens, include: Elders and Deacons, Members Admitted, 1704; Confirmands and Communicants, 1775-1776; Confirmands and Communicants, 1785-1806; Confirmands and Communicants, 1833-1846; Communicants, 1858; and Members Admitted, 1867-1869.
Records for St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp, include: Confirmations, 1709-1717; Confirmations, 1816-1826 and 1829-1840; Communicants, 1820; Membership List, 1845; Confirmations, 1845-1850; Confirmands and Communicants,...
Marriage Record of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at Athens, NY and St. Paul's Lutheran Church at West Camp, NY [Arthur Kelly Transcription], 1705 - 1899
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3358
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is meant to be a representative listing of published vital statistics materials for churches in Greene County currently available at the Vedder Research Library.