Delaware County, NY - Genealogy and History Site

Hardcopy submitted by Shirley Houck, electronic text by Joyce Riedinger
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(W)=Whole District (J)=Joint District

Common School Districts
TOWN OF HANCOCK
Jan. l - Dec. 31, 1855

  
Dist. Dist.   School    Year   Material    1855     District            School-house Location
No.   Town(s) Located   Built  Built    Condition   Trustees

1( ) No Report was found for this District Number. 2(J) Hancock Hancock 18-- ---- ------ Abraham Sprague On present State Route 30, Thomas T. Williams about 1/2 way beween Harvard Daniel D. Sprague & the Hancock/Colchester Town Line 3(W) Hancock Hancock 1855 wood good Clark Landfield Village of Harvard H.B. Clauson 4(W) Hancock Hancock 1854 wood good Ambrose S. Twaddell Shown as #3 on Gould Map. James M. Twaddell (Present village of East Branch) 5(W) Hancock Hancock 1853 wood good George Read Readburn William H, Brown H.J. Lewis 6(W) Hancock Hancock 1855 wood good James Wheeler Not shown on Gould Map, but Sherman S. Lewis possibly on City Brook Road, off State Route 17 East 7 W) Hancock Hancock 18-- ----- ----- James D. Turner On present Peas Eddy Road, near "Hawk Joel Lakin Point" as shown on Gould Map Omar Parks 8(W) Hancock Hancock 18-- ----- ----- John Knight On present State Route 17, on village of Elsira Thomas Hancock side of Hawk Mountain 9(W) Hancock Hancock 1851 ----- ----- E.K. Carrier In Village of Hancock N.G. Hyatt 10(W) Hancock Hancock 18-- wood poor William Knight Near intersection of Stockport Road & Edward Doyle present State Route 17 Samuel Doyle ll( ) No Report was found for this District Number. 12(W) Hancock Hancock 1852 logs good Octave Bonnefond In French Woods William Leumesden 13(W) Hancock Hancock 18-- ----- ----- Harvey Hughs On present State Route 28, near Basket Israel Palmer Pond 14(W) Hancock Hancock 1850 wood good George Labarr Jun Not shown on Gould Map, (Between Lordville & Stockport) William Manley Village of Hancock & Hancock/Tompkins Town Line 16(W) Hancock Hancock 1854 wood good James M Miller Not shown on Gould Map. Report refers to children William B. Smith from Trout Creek 17( ) No Report was found for this District Number. 18(W) Hancock Hancock 1853 wood good Jno. H. Kiersted Cadosia Valley John Palen 19(W) Hancock Hancock 1800 wood bad Squire J. Miller Not shown on Gould Map. Laurens Apley 20(W) Hancock Hancock 18 -- ---- ---- Hiram Fish Not shown on Gould Map, but probably near present John Fish Village of Fishs Eddy. "Set off in May 1855." 21(J) Hancock Hancock 18-- wood good Richard Sands Not shown on Gould Map, but 3/4s way to Route 10 & Tompkins Riley Read on Sands Creek Road. NOTE: The school-houses were sited, to the best of our ability, by reference to the Gould Map, the Beers Atlas & present day County Highway Maps.

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