Town of Wilmington Essex County New York Transcribed Serial Records Volume 18

This volume is the eighteenth in a series devoted to presenting a transcription of the surviving serial manuscript records for the town of Wilmington Essex County New York in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains. Unfortunately no village or hamlet in the Town of Wilmington ever produced a newspaper. Wilmington was dependent on coverage in regional newspapers. Only scattered issues of the regional newspapers the Keeseville Herald (KH) and the Keeseville Argus (KA) survive from the 1830’s. By far the most significant regional newspaper was the Essex County Republican (ECR). Only scattered issues of the ECR survive for the 1840’s through 1869. Even for the 1870-1900 period there are significant gaps. Genealogists and family historians will appreciate the wealth of abstracted information regarding the Town of Wilmington and its inhabitants. For any given item this volume supplies the name of the newspaper its date and number of the newspaper issue and the page and column number where the item appeared. In addition all names are abstracted and entered under “Name Mentioned.” A description of the item is provided and in many cases the item is categorized under a general subject and/or a type of event. In order to facilitate locating items of interest regarding a general subject we have grouped items in the following subjects: Accidents Agriculture AuSable River Business Census Church Civil War Court Crime Donations ECR Education Elections Entertainment Fire Fuel Gossip Column Gossip Columnist Health History Holiday Home Improvements Housework Hunting and Trapping Industry Iron Works Judicial Letter to the Editor Lot for Sale by Sheriff Lumbering Maple Sugar M.E. Church Medical Medicine Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Accounts Notch House Politics Real Estate Transactions Recreation Religion Relocation Starch Tabular Statement Taxes Tourism Transportation Visits Weather Whiteface Mountain and Wilmington Pass. The entries have been transcribed as presented; the original spelling has been maintained. A full name index adds to the value of this work.