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Subject: [NYALBANY-L] Naming of Colonie
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 22:33:27 EDT

I found a referral to the naming of Colonie, one of the items the list
discussed within the past weeks. According to Amasa Parker's "Landmarks of
Albany County, New York", p. 41, published 1897, Colonie was named by George
L. Stedman.

"Mr. Stedman was the nominee on the Republican ticket for State senator and
in 1893 for delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, but was defeated
by small majorities. He has taken a very active interest in the affairs of
the town of Colonie, where he has lived many years and drafted the law by
which the town was separated from Watervliet and has since been its legal
adviser. Upon the separation the committee in charge of the matter suggested
several names for the new town, but finally left it to the pleasure of Mr.
Stedman to name the new town, which he did, giving it the present name of
Colonie."

However, in other reading material, I've seen that the area outside Albany
was called the Colonie, thus being the basis, perhaps, for Mr. Stedman's
selection.

Melissa Simmons

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