Welcome to the Rensselaer County, NY
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About Rensselaer County

Rensselaer County was formed 24 March 1791 out of Albany County. The county seat is in Troy.

Rensselaer County is in the northern part of the Hudson River Valley, about 12 miles distant from Albany.

Boundary

Rensselaer County is bounded by the following counties:

• North
  • Washington County, NY
    
    
• East
  • Bennington County, VT
  • Berkshire County, MA
• South
  • Columbia County, NY
    
    
• West
  • Albany County, NY
  • Saratoga County, NY

Town Development

The original districts (formed 1772) of Rensselaer County were Rensselaerswick, Hoosick, Pittstown and Schaghticoke. These districts became towns in 1788.

Town	Date Founded	Created From
Rensselaerswick	1772	Original Town
Hoosick	1772	Original Town
Pittstown	1772	Original Town
Schaghticoke	1772	Original Town
Stephentown	1784	Rensselaerswick
Troy	1791	Troy
Petersburgh	1791	Stephentown
Greenbush	1792	Rensselaerswick
Schodack	1795	Rensselaerswick
Nassau	1806	Petersburgh, Schodack and Stephentown
Berlin		Petersburgh, Schodack and Stephentown
Lansingburgh	1807	Troy and Petersburgh
Brunswick	1807	Troy
Grafton	1807	Troy and Petersburgh
Sand Lake	1812	Greenbush
Troy	1814	part of Brunswick added
Lansingburgh	1819	part of Schaghticoke added
Troy	1836	part of Lansingburgh added
Brunswick	1839	part of Lansingburgh added
Postenkill	1848	Sand Lake
East Greenbush	1855	Greenbush
North Greenbush	1855	Greenbush

Lookup Volunteers

At this time we have no volunteers

If you have any books or CDs on this county and will volunteer to do lookups, please email me at bathrick@berkshire.net .

Please follow these guidelines when requesting a look-up.

1. Put name of county and LOOKUP in caps in subject of message. This will ensure that your request is not accidently overlooked or deleted.
2. Put name of book or CD you are requesting the lookup from in the first line of the message. Many of these wonderful volunteers have more than one book or CD and need to know what you are looking for in order to try to help you.
3. Limit your request to 1 or 2 specific names. Asking for ALL the marriages on a surname of Brown or Jones or Smith will probably be ignored or request denied.
4. Don't forget to thank your volunteer for their time and trouble.

Queries

Rensselaer County queries may be found at

Other Sites Relating to Rensselaer County

• Rensselaer County Newspapers available on microfiche from the New York State Library.
• 1720 Census of Albany County from US GenWeb Archives.

Other Sites Relating to New York

• New York State Archives and Records Administration
  
• New York State Library Gopher
  
• A 3-D map of Eastern New York and Western New England
  
• New York State Maps: Digital Images of Maps Made Prior to 1830
  
• GEN-NYS-L Web page a mailing list devoted to New York State Genealogy.

NYGenWeb

NYGenWeb Master County Index Page Find out all about the NYGenWeb project and visit the other counties here.

US GenWeb Archives: NY Archives

US GenWeb Index Page

Gene Stark's Index of Names for all Gen Web Sites (Includes all Adair County lines.)

John Rigdon's Index

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