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From: "Harriett Schultz" <>
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA-L] 1851-1857 Colchester/Long Flats Cemetery
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:32:18 -0500
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I think the Walton Reporter is the paper of choice here. Their archives are
located in the library in Walton NY.

Harriett Schultz
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Mallery
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Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA-L] 1851-1857 Colchester/Long Flats Cemetery


There is a hamlet of Colchester (near Walton), and a town of Colchester
(contains Downsville and Shinhopple). If she's buried in Long Flat, I would
bet you're looking for the town of Colchester, so the newspaper you'd be
looking for would be Downsville. But the newspaper there didn't start until
1875.

At 11:54 AM 11/4/2005, you wrote:
>Good Morning List!
>
>Could someone please tell me if there'd be a newspaper for the Colchester,
>NY area around the time of 1851-1857, and if so, what would it be?
>
>I am trying to find out information on my Great Great Grandma's Grandma,
>Mary "Polly" Dean/Dann, and she supposedly passed away March of 1851 or
>1857, according to the Long Flats Cemetery listing here on the Delaware
>County website.
>
>I had seen elsewhere that she passed away in Colchester, and while looking
>on the Newspaper Project, noticed that the Hancock area papers didn't go
>back that far, anyway.
>
>If there are no papers available, would my next best bet then be to try a
>funeral home, and if so, how could I find out the ones operating in
>Colchester and/or Hancock, at that time?
>
>Does anyone know who might be in possession of any records for the Long
>Flats Cemetery?
>
>I am interested in this, because of the slash between Dean/Dann. I would
>like to know if we are related to Deans or Danns, and since people are
>finding it hard to make a connection to the Deans in Orange County, NY
>where she was supposedly born, prior to marrying Joseph Gee, Benjamin's
>Dad, I am wondering if the Dann is more accurate, especially since my
>Great Grandpa was Charles EDSON Beers, and there was an Edson DANN, that
>the family spoke of.
>
>Thanks for any help, or ideas that you can give me, as I try and crack
>down this brick wall.
>
>Have a nice day, and a GREAT weekend!
>
>Beth (Beers) Rupert
>
>
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