Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York Genealogy

United States New York  Otsego County  Cooperstown

Quick Facts
Cooperstown is a village in Otsego County, New York, USA. It is located in the Town of Otsego.

The Village of Cooperstown is the county seat of Otsego County, New York. Most of the village lies inside the Town of Otsego, but part is inside the Town of Middlefield.

The village was part of the Cooper Patent, which Judge William Cooper purchased in 1785 from Colonel George Croghan. The land amounted to 10,000 acres (40 km2). Judge Cooper was the father of renowned American author James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Leatherstocking Tales.

The Village of Cooperstown was established in 1786, laid out by surveyor William Ellison. The village was established while still part of Montgomery County. It was incorporated (as the "Village of Otsego") on April 3, 1807. The name was legally changed to "Village of Cooperstown" in 1812. Cooperstown is one of only twelve villages in New York still incorporated under a charter, the other villages having incorporated or re-incorporated under the provisions of Village Law.

Village Hall
http://www.cooperstownny.org/

Village of Cooperstown P. O. Box 346 Cooperstown, NY 13326 Attn: Village Clerk

Newspapers

 * New England Ancestors.org site you can search by name, a volume compiled by Gertrude A. Barber in 1933 containing records abstracted from the following nineteenth-century newspapers. The Cooperstown Federalist was published from 1809 to 1817. The Watch Tower began publishing in 1813 in Cherry Valley before moving to Cooperstown the following year. It ceased operations in 1831.
 * Death Notices from the Cooperstown Federalist, 1808-09
 * Marriage Notices from the Cooperstown Federalist, 1808-12
 * Death Notices from the Watch Tower, 1828-31
 * Marriage Notices from the Watch Tower, 1828-1831


 * Death notices copied from the "Cooperstown federalist": from 1808-1809; Death notices copied from "Watch tower": from 1828-1831, deaths pp. 1-11; Marriage notices copied from "Cooperstown federalist": from 1808-1812; Marriage notices copied from "Watch tower": from 1828-1831, marriages pp. 12-26 FHL

Societies, Libraries and Museums

 * New York State Historical Association Wikipedia:
 * National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Wikipedia:
 * Farmers' Museum Wikipedia: