Philipstown, Putnam County, New York Genealogy

Biography

 * Butterfield, Julia Lorrilard Safford. A biographical memorial of General Daniel Butterfield (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904).
 * Fish Family History and Documents (scroll down page)
 * Peekskill, Fishkill, Matteawan and Cold Spring : their representative business men and points of interest.. (Newark, N.J.: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1892). Ancestry.com ($)
 * Pelletreau, William S. History of Putnam County, New York, with Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men (Philadelphia: W.W. Preston &amp; Co., 1886).
 * Putnam History Museum Genealogy Files Index

Cemeteries

 * Buys, Barbara S. Old Graveyards of Putnam County, New York (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1975)
 * Eardeley, William Applebie. Putnam County, New York, Cemeteries: 1794-1914 (Brooklyn, N.Y.: the author, 1917). Ancestry.com ($)
 * Fisher, Floyd. They All Rest Together; burial sites of early settlers -- southern Dutchess and Putnam Counties (1972).
 * Four Cemeteries in Putnam County, N.Y. (typescript, 1941) (FHL 17862) Inscriptions from two Cold Spring cemeteries.
 * Genealogy Trails, Transcripts of some Putnam County cemetery inscriptions
 * Gentry, C. Historical Records of Enoch Crosby Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester Counties, New York (1991) [FHL 0860321]
 * Horton, W.P., "Graveyard Inscriptions, Methodist Churchyard, South Highlands [Garrison], Putnam County, N.Y.," NYGBR, Vol. 55 (1924), 185-190.
 * Horton, W.P., "Graveyard Inscriptions, North Highlands [Cold Spring], Putnam County, N.Y.," NYGBR, Vol. 55 (1924), 190-192,236-240.
 * Horton, W.P., "Graveyard Inscriptions, Methodist Churchyard, MeKeels Corners [Garrison], Putnam County, N.Y.," NYGBR, Vol. 55 (1924), 240-241.
 * Horton, William P. Cemetery inscriptions of Putnam County, N.Y. : including the towns of Adams Corners, Carmel, Cold Spring, Doansburg, Farmers Mills, Fredericksburg, Hortontown, Kent, Kent Cliffs, Lake Mahopac, Lake Oscawana, Ludington, Mahopac Falls, Meads Corners, Mekeels Corners, Milltown, Patterson, Secords Corners, Tilley Foster, Towners Corners, and Union Valley (Peekskill, N.Y.: the author, 1928). Ancestry.com ($) Also transcribed here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
 * Wheeler, Glendon E. Index of gravestones for the people of Putnam County, New York (Rhinebeck: Kinship Books, 1997). ISBN 1560121505

Church Records
Parish Registers (Transcription)


 * 1839 - 1919, Cold Spring: St. Mary's Church in the Highlands (years only)
 * 1810 - 1811, Peekskill, St. Peter's Church
 * 1811 - 1911, Garrison, St. Philip's Church in the Highlands

Histories 


 * Chorley, E. Clowes, History of St. Philip's Church in the Highlands, Garrison, New York (New York: Edwin S. Gorham, 1912).
 * Floyd-Jones, Elbert. St. Mary's Church in the Highlands : Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York : a history (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Frank B. Howard, 1920).

History
Books


 * Blake, William J. The history of Putnam County, N.Y. : with an enumeration of its towns, villages, rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, mountains, hills, and geological features, local traditions, and short biographical sketches of early settlers, etc. (New York: Baker &amp; Scribner, 1849).
 * Grace, Trudie A. Around Cold Spring : Images of America (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2011). ISBN 0738575976
 * Grace, Trudie A. and Forlow, Mark. West Point Foundry: Images of America (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2014). ISBN 1467120642
 * Peekskill, Fishkill, Matteawan and Cold Spring : their representative business men and points of interest.. (Newark, N.J.: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1892). Ancestry.com ($)
 * Pelletreau, William S. History of Putnam County, New York, with Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men (Philadelphia: W.W. Preston &amp; Co., 1886).
 * "Philipstown," in Gazetteer of the State of New York (1860)
 * Thirty Years of Early History of Cold Spring and Vicinity. 1886. By M. Wilson. Cold Spring : [M. Wilson]. Online at: Hathitrust

Digital Archives

Desmond-Fish Public Library online reference resources and research tools.

Articles

Don MacDonald, "A Brief History of Philipstown," philipstown.com.

Maps



 * 1854 Putnam County Map, includes Philipstown
 * 1867 Putnam Valley and Philipstown Map

Newspapers
Online

Old Fulton New York - PDF scans of various New York newspapers, including early issues of the Cold Spring Recorder. You can search the entire site by keyword from its main page.


 * Cold Spring Recorder, 1867-1934

The Highlands Current

Putnam County News &amp; Recorder

Microfilm 


 * Putnam County Newspapers at New York State Library, Albany
 * Putnam History Museum, Cold Spring, has the Cold Spring Recorder / Putnam County News &amp; Recorder on microfilm, 1867 -1988, and paper copies from 1988 to present
 * Putnam County Newspapers at Various Libraries and Institutions, via Chronicling America

Archives, Libraries and Museums
Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library 10 Morris Avenue Cold Spring, NY 10516 Phone: 845-265-3040

Desmond-Fish Library 472 Route 403 Garrison, NY 10524 Phone: 845-424-3020

Historical Societies
Putnam History Museum 63 Chestnut Street Cold Spring, NY 10516-2613 Phone: 845-265-4010 Research hours: Wed. 11-3, or by appointment

Town Clerk
Town Clerk’s Office 238 Main Street Cold Spring, NY 10516 Phone: 845-265-3329

Town Historian
Mark Forlow

Vital Records
Delanoy, Nelson, Clippings from Western Putnam County Papers, 1868-1916, scrapbooks at Putnam History Museum, Cold Spring, probably from Cold Spring Recorder, with card catalog index

Marriage

 * 1908–1935 Putnam County Marriages at – free; . Name index and images of records after state in 1908 began requiring counties to keep marriage records.