Ashland, Town of
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Ashland is a township in the western portion of Greene County which was formed from a partition of the towns of Windham and Prattsville in 1848. Ashland is bordered on the north by Conesville [Schoharie County], on the west by Prattsville, on the east by Windham, and on the south by Jewett and Lexington townships. It falls within the region of Greene County colloquially known as the "Mountain Top."
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Minutes Book of the Schoharie Kill Bridge Company
Item — Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1732
Scope and Contents
Ledger contains the handwritten minutes of the Schoharie Kill Bridge Company from its incorporation in 1810 to the dissolution of the business in 1903. Each meeting lists the location of the meeting, officers present, and detailed resultions concerning the governance and maintenance of the turnpike road and its toll houses.
Record of the Windham-Ashland First Presbyterian Church [Jessie V. V. Vedder Transcript], 1802 - 1895
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3342
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.
Records of the First Congregational Church and Daughter Churches of Windham
Collection — Box LOB 2
Identifier: MSS 2020.0013
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises three books containing primarily minutes of the meetings of Trustees of what was initially a single Congregational Meeting located along the Batavia Kill in the vicinity of Pleasant Valley. This Meeting, which drew congregants from the modern Townships of Windham, Ashland, and Jewett, persisited from roughly 1803 for about a decade when the old Meeting began to fracture into individual Presbyterian Churches. It is from this original Congregational Meeting that the...
Records of the First Presbyterian Church Of Windham, Subsequently of Ashland [Volume 2], 1826-12-19 - 1896-04-10
Item — Box LOB 2
Identifier: MV 516
Scope and Contents
This volume, identified as "Volume II" of the Records of the First Congregational Church in Windham" is more accurately the second volume of sacred records of the Presbyterian Church in Windham which at the commencement of the volume was still gathering at the old Meeting House in Pleasant Valley. The volume begins with a copy of the text of the Articles of Faith outlined originally in Volume 1A [MV 486] and includes a transcription of the names of those congregants who first adopted the...
Records of the First Society in the Town of Windham [Volume 1B], 1808-10-10 - 1851-10-21
Item — Box LOB 2
Identifier: MV 487
Scope and Contents
This volume, Labeled Volume 1B of the Records of the First Congregational Church in Windham, is what would appear to be a subscription book of a secular nature supplemental to the sacred records of the Old Meeting House at Pleasant Valley described as Volume 1A [MV 486].The volume, which contains a title on its opening leaves given as "Records of the First Society in the Town of Windham, etc." opens in 1808 with a subscription of those willing to pay annually to the society...