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Vital Records in New York State

Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in the State of New York was first required by Chapter 152 of the laws passed in 1847. The record keeping under this law was to be done by the clerk of each school district, who would report these records to the appropriate town clerk who would in turn report to the county clerk. The records, or an abstract, would be then sent to the Secretary of State. The law was poorly written and not very easily enforced. On December 19, 1850 the Secretary of State wrote to all County Clerks:

Although most action under this law seems to have stopped at the end of 1850, the actual law stayed on the books until 1885. In Chapter 270 of that year's laws, paragraph 9 repealed "Chapter one hundred fifty-two of the laws of 1847."

Another attempt by the state to collect death records was begun in 1864 in which the assessor of each town or ward was directed to accumulate the data. (Chapter 380) This law was repealed in 1865. (Chapter 723)

An improved law for vital records was not subsequently enacted until 1880, when registration was put under the jurisdiction of the New York State Department of Health.

Source: A Guide to Vital Records in the Collection of the Saratoga County Historian's Office , by Lynn Calvin.

Vital Records in Saratoga County

• Town of Corinth 1847-1849
  Births
  Marriages
  Deaths
• Town of Saratoga 1875
  Marriages in the Town of Saratoga June 1 1874 - June 1 1875 , from the 1875 NY State Census

Bible Records

ALDERMAN	William and Clarissa (Hocumb) Alderman Family Bible Record
ALLEN	Daniel and Minnie F. (Van Schaick) Allen (in Van Schaick Bible)
ANDREWS	James M. and Rosanna (Brown) Andrews Bible Record
ARCHER	Harriet Amelia Archer's Family Bible
AVERY	George H. and Cynthia (Badgley) Avery Bible Record
	John and Maria (Stevens) Avery Bible Record   (in Avery-Closson Bible)
BARNES	Michael and Celia (Conlin) Barnes Bible Record
BOUK	Jacob Bouk Bible Record
BRIGGS	Joshua and Caroline (Rymph) Briggs Bible Record
BRYAN	Alexander and Mary Elizabeth (Fake) Bryan Bible Record
BUCKBEE	Mahlon and L. Matilda (Deyoe) Buckbee Bible Records
BURNHAM	R. Jay and Elizabeth (Jones) Burnham Bible Record
BURNS	John B. and Rebecca (Randal) Burns Family Record
CLANCY	Thomas and Sarah (Kearney) Clancy Family Bible
CLOSSON	Eli and Mary J. (Avery) Closson Bible Record  (in Avery-Closson Bible)
CONDE	John T. and Frances L. (Curtis) Conde Bible Records
DEWEY	David and Bethia (Larkin) Dewey Bible Record
DRIGGS	Elisha and Charity Driggs Bible Record
ELMS	Pardon and Ursley Elms Bible Records
FEAN	J. Patrick and Margaret (Storan) Fean Bible Records
FULLER	Benoni and Lydia (Case) Fuller Bible Record (with Case Family Data Sheet)
GRAHAM	Benjamin and Betsey (Myers) Graham Bible Records
GREENFIELD	John Greenfield Family Bible Record
HERRICK	George W. and Maria J. (Loversee) Herrick Bible Records
HOSKINS	Thomas and Mary Hoskins Bible Records
HUMPHREY	Henry Humphrey Family Records
KELLEY/KELLY	Patrick and Winifred (Mulvihill) Kelley/Kelly Family Records
KNIGHTS	Aaron and Hannah (Snedekar( Knights Family Records
KNOWLTON	Alexander R. Knowlton Bible Record
	with inserted leaflet Lines on the Death of Mr. Joshua Brown
KRATZER	Jacob and Sarah (Moody) Kratzer Bible Records
	Andrew and Lydia (Tracy) Kratzer Bible Record
LATHAM	George W. and Polly Ann Latham Bible Register
LAWRENCE	Joseph Lawrence Bible Record
LOCKWOOD	Charles S. and Gertrude Lockwood Bible Record
MABEE	Albert G. Mabee Bible Record
MACKLIN	Robert Macklin Bible Family Records
MARSHALL	William & Hannah (Fish) Marshall Bible Record
MILLER	Ebenezer Miller Bible Record
	1882 Letter with Jacob Miller Bible Records
MILLERD	Eleazar Millerd Bible Record
MOODY	Henry and Mary Jane (Dingman) Moody Bible Record
ORCUTT	Luther B. and Elmina (Brown) Orcutt Bible Record
PALMER	Gidley Palmer Bible Record
PIERCE	Hugh and Mary (Rogers) Pierce Bible Record
PORTER	William and Elizabeth Porter Bible Record
QUACKENBUSH	Adam and Jane M. (Delong) Quackenbush Bible Record
ROBLEE	Roblee Family Bible Records: Hamilton and Helen (Martin) Roblee and descendants
SAYRE	Rev. Ezra and Sophia (Westfall) Sayre Bible Record
SEARLES	James and Ab Searles Bible Record
STRAIGHT	Nehemiah Straight Bible Record
STURDEVAN	James and Lydia (Shaw) Sturdevan Bible Record
TAYLOR	Isaac and Percillar Taylor Bible Family Register
THAYER - PRATT	Thayer - Pratt Family Bible Record
THOMPSON	Isabella C. Thompson's Family Bible Records
TRITES	David and Cathrin (Galler) Trites Family Bible Records
VAN BUREN	Harman and Ruth (Millard) Van Buren Bible Record
VANDENBURG	Cornelius and Hannah (Hays) Vandenburg Bible Family Record
VANDERWERKEN	Peter and Sarah (Guffin) Vanderwerken Bible Record
VANDERWERKER	Vanderwerker Birth Records in a 1715 Bible
VAN SCHAICK	George W. and Martha (Dailey) Van Schaick Bible Record
WATERBURY	Nathaniel and Catherine L. (Winney) Waterbury Bible Records
WHEELER	Francis D. and Abigail (Miller) Wheeler Bible Record
WHITHEAD	John and Margaret Whithead Bible Record
WILBER	William Wilber Bible Record
WILBUR	John and Hanna R. (Sarles) Wilbur Bible Record
	Fones Wilbur Family Bible Record
WOODIN	Woodin Family Bible Record

Other Vital Records

• See many entries in Diaries included on the "Scrapbooks" page.
• The Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  Mr. James E. Hazard, working with the original records at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, completed a name index to New York Yearly Meeting in 2005. This index is now on-line, and includes all of the monthly meeting minutes and vital records that were on deposit at Swarthmore to that date.
• Rev. James Dempster's Saratoga County Marriage and Birth Records
• Miscellaneous Marriage Records by Rev. John M. Webster, Schuylerville NY
• Miscellaneous Published Vital Records
• Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1878 Marriages from Newspaper Clippings
• Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1878 Deaths from Newspaper Clippings
• Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1879 Marriages from Newspaper Clippings
• Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1879 Deaths from Newspaper Clippings
• Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1880 Marriages from Newspaper Clippings
• Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1880 Deaths from Newspaper Clippings