Research


Scope and Content Note

Microfilm reproduces records of the Washington County courts, the Washington County board of supervisors, and several towns and villages in Washington County.

Microfilmed records of the Surrogate's Court include minute books, recorded letters of administration and letters of guardianship, and a variety of other records. All the microfilmed Surrogate's Court records date before 1903; the general indexes were not microfilmed. Microfilmed records of the Washington County board of supervisors include the board's document files (1922-1979, 1992) and supervisors' annual reports (1963-1984). Microfilmed records of the county clerk are taxable transfers of real property (1892-1966) and civil case files of the Supreme Court and County Court (1984-1985). There are also microfilmed annual reports of the Washington County Highway Department (1937-1990).

Clerks' record and minute books were microfilmed for the towns of Dresden (1901-1993 with gap), Fort Ann (1787-1835, 1938-1983), Greenwich (1901-1992), and Jackson (1816-1991), and the villages of Fort Ann (1820-1993), Fort Edward (1849-1899), Granville (1929-1965), Greenwich (1809-1993), Hudson Falls (1965-1992), Salem (1926-1941, 1948-1984), and Whitehall (1879-1906).

Also microfilmed were tax assessment rolls for the towns of Salem (1915-1951), White Creek (1915-1955), and Whitehall (1915-1955), and the village of Cambridge (1976-1991). Microfilmed school records include Salem Union Free School District board of education minutes (1851-1926) and Washington Academy (Salem, N.Y.) board of trustees minutes (1841-1945); also various minute and account books and pupil attendance registers for several common school districts in the town of Hebron. For some towns and villages other records were microfilmed as well; consult microfilm roll list and records inventory sheets.