Otsego County, New York, Newspaper Records

This volume, compiled by Gertrude A. Barber in 1933, contains records abstracted from the following nineteenth-century newspapers:

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, 1828-31

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.

The text can be viewed at the NEHGS Research Library in the R. Stanton Avery Collection, call number MSS NY 117 12.

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