BIBLIOGRAPHY

of major source materials

for the history of the Town of Worcester

Otsego County, New York

and neighboring communities

Contributors on behalf of

The Worcester Historical Society, Inc.:

Lawrence A. DeLong

Marilyn E. Dufresne

Howson A. Hartley

Gary Hughes

James A. Kenyon

Nancy S. Milavec

Gynger O’Connor

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F = Available at the Worcester Free Library

L = Available in the Worcester Historical Society Library

N = Available at the New York State Historical Association Library

S = For sale in the Worcester Historical Society Museum

W = Part of the Town of Worcester Historical Collection

X = Available at the New York State Library or Archives

LOCATION	SOURCE and [SUBJECT]
L	Account Books of Leonard Caryl’s Store [Tuscan and Brighton, Town of Worcester, Otsego County New York, to 1832]
L X	Accounts of Silas Baldwin, Robinson and Company, Russ and Northrup, Nancy Froman, et al., 1831-1927
X	A Collection of the Public Papers and Addresses of Andrew S. Draper, LL.D., Superintendent of Public Instruction in the State of New York, 1886-1892, Albany, N.Y., Weed, Parson & Co., 1892
	All, Ruth S., Dufresne, Marilyn E., and Thurber, Walter A., The Elliot Hill Churches, Town of Decatur, Otsego County, N.Y., 1997
	All, Ruth S. and Thurber, Walter A., A Tentative History of the Elliott Hill Churches, 1989
	An Autumn Tour of Historic Houses and Landmarks, Worcester Historical Society, October 7, 1978
	An Autumn Tour of Houses and Landmarks, Worcester Historical Society, October 11, 1980
	Anteman, William, Spatters From a Greasy Pen, Sidney, N.Y., Sidney Favorite Printing, 1976
	Babcock, A. Emerson, Isaiah Babcock, Sr., and His Descendants, 1903
	Babcock, Harriet, A Brief History of the Methodist Church of East Worcester, April 14, 1999
	Babcock, Harriet, East Worcester United Methodist Church History, October 19, 2003
	Babcock, Stephen, The Babcock Genealogy, 1903
	Balch, William Ralston, The Life of James Abram Garfield, Philadelphia, Hubbard, 1881
X	Barber, Gertrude A. (comp.), A Collection of Abstracts from Otsego County, New York, Obituaries, 1808-1875, Waipohu, Hawaii, M. & W. Reamy, 1993
	Barnes, John J., Rifleman of the Revolution, The Story of Tim Murphy, Holland Patent, N.Y., JAM Publications, 2004
	Barnett, Louise, Ungentlemanly Acts, New York, Hill and Wang, 2000 [Brig. Gen. Napoleon B. McLaughlen]
	Bates, Delevan, “A Day With the Colored Troops,” Omaha Sunday World-Herald, October 22, 1911
	Baumgartner, Stan and Paxton, Harry T., “He Pitched the Phillies to the Pennant,” Saturday Evening Post, January 13, 1951 [Jim Konstanty]
X	Beardsley, Levi, Reminiscences; Personal and Other Incidents; Early Settlement of Otsego County, 1852
	Becker, Abraham, Diary, 1844-1851
L N X	Beers, Frederick, Atlas of Otsego County, New York, New York, Beers, Ellis and Soule, 1868
	Best, Issac O., History of the 121^st New York State Infantry, Chicago, Lt. James H. Smith, 1921
F X	Bevington, Helen, Charley Smith’s Girl, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1965 [daughter’s relationship with Methodist minister father]
N X	Beyer, Mary Elizabeth Queal, A Genealogical History of the French and Allied Families, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Torch Press, 1912
L	Bilovsky, Frank and Westcott, Rich, The Phillies Encyclopedia, New York, Leisure Press, 1984 [Jim Konstanty]
L N X	Biographical Review of Otsego County, New York, Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1893
X	Bowman, Fred Q., 8,000 More Vital Records of Eastern New York State 1804-1850, Rhinebeck, N.Y., Kinship, 1991
X	Bowman, Fred Q., 10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York 1777-1834, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987
L N X	Burr, David, Map of the County of Otsego, “published by act of legislature,” January 5, 1829 [patent map in color using Washington longitude]
	Burr, George L. (ed.), “Biography of General Delevan Bates,” History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume II, Chicago, S.J. Clarke, 1921
W	Butler, Frederick H., et al., “Farm Structure and Rural Communities in the Northeast,” from Swanson, Louis E. (ed.), Agriculture and Community Change in the U.S., Boulder, Westview Press, 1988
	Butler, Kathryn and Denny, Pearl, “History of the East Worcester Union School,” East Worcester Alumni News, 1936
W	Butterfield, Roy L., The Land Patents of Otsego County, Cooperstown, N.Y., The Freeman’s Journal, 1953
X	Campbell, William W., Life and Writings of DeWitt Clinton, 1849
L X	Campbell, William W., The Border Warfare of New York, During the Revolution, or The Annals of Tryon County, New York, Baker & Scribner, 1849
N X	Caryl, Arthur Silas, Caryl Family in England and America, 1937
	Catella, James, Our Home Town Railroad, Oneonta, N.Y., Main Street Print shop, 1991
	Champion, Simon Bolivar, East Worcester in Early Times – Reminiscence of John Champion
L	Child, Hamilton, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Otsego County, N.Y., 1872-73, Syracuse
W	Christensen, Maureen G., “A Walk from the River,” Kaatskill Life, Fall, 1997, page 62 [Tragic newlywed deaths on the Susquehanna River]
W	“Claim of Daniel Servos, late of New York,” Proceedings of Loyalist Commissioners, Montreal, 1787, Vol. XX, page 957
	Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1935
X	Conover, George Stillwell (comp.), Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan, 1779, Benchmark, 1967
	Cooley, Henry W., Evaluation of Education in Worcester, New York (1892-1904)
N	Crippen, Caroline, Silas Crippen and Descendants, 1924
	Cronkite, Lt. Col. J.W. (comp.), “Brief Historical Sketch of the 121^st NY Volunteer Infantry,” Report of the Gettysburg Monument Committee of the 121^st New York Volunteers
W	DeLong, Arthur S., Rural Route No. 1, Worcester, New York, 21^st Birthday Anniversary, September 1, 1926
F L N X	DeLong, Lawrence A., From the Short Stop Diner to the Elephant Valley and Back, An Account of My Military Service, Worcester, N.Y., 2006
F L N S X	DeLong, Lawrence A., Officers of the Town of Worcester, 1797-1964, Worcester Town Board, Worcester, N.Y., Times-Monitor, 1964
	DeLong, Lawrence A., Doig, Gladys B., and Ferguson, Margaret D., A Tribute, 1959 [reminiscences of Arthur B. Doig]
F L N S X	DeLong, Lawrence A. and Petro, Donald P. (eds.), The DeLongs of Worcester, New York and Associated Families; Halfmoon, N.Y., Printing Outlet, 2000
F L N S X	DeLong, Lawrence A. and Raide, Linda J. (eds.), Conversations; The Lives of Our Parents, Halfmoon , N.Y., Printing Outlet, 2001
L	DeWitt, Simeon, Map of the Head Waters of the Rivers Susquehanna & Delaware, 1790
	Disturnell, J., A Gazetteer of the State of New York, Albany, Disturnell, 1842
N	Dixon, Nancy Wagoner, Palatine Roots: The 1710 German Settlement in New York, Rockport, Maine, Picton, 1994
L N S X	Doig, Arthur B., et al., Town of Worcester, Otsego County, New York, History, Cooperstown, N.Y., The Freeman’s Journal, 1953
W	Dufresne, Marilyn E., History of the Worcester Fire Department, 1987
	Dufresne, Marilyn E., Tri Valley; Cobleskill to Colliersville, Charleston, S.C., Arcadia, 2001 [photos and stories along D&H railroad line]
	Dufresne, Marilyn E., Vintage Postcards of Otsego County, Worcester, N.Y., Main Street Miscellaneous, 2005
	Eggleston, Niles, Eva Coo, Murderess, Utica, N.Y., North Country Books, 1997
	Ewing, Alexander Crum, The Fountain Pen, Philadelphia, Running Press, 1997 [Lewis E. Waterman]
W	“Faces in the Crowd,” Sports Illustrated, February 18, 1985, page 67 [Raymond G. Preston, Jr.]
	Farm Directory of Otsego County, American Agriculturist, New York, Orange Judd Co.
L	Ferguson, W. Fern, An 1826 Visit to Caryl’s Store, Worcester, Otsego Co., N.Y., 1958
L	Ferguson, W. Fern, Works (16 volumes) [Worcester history and family stories]
	Fielder, Dorothy Scott, Otsego County Postal History, Walton, N.Y., Reporter Company, 1994
	Fielder, Dorothy Scott, A Pictorial History of the Town of Maryland, New York, Town of Maryland Historical Association, Walton, N.Y., Reporter Company, 1990
X	Flexner, James T., Mohawk Baronet, New York, Harper and Brothers, 1959 [Sir William Johnson]
X	Flint, Clarence Ellis, Robert Flint (the Pioneer) and His Descendants, St. Johnsville, N.Y., reprinted from The Enterprise and News, 1931-1932
W	Flint, Seth H., “I Saw Lee Surrender,” Saturday Evening Post, April 6, 1940
	Flora, Cornelia Butler, et al., Rural Communities; Legacy and Change, Boulder, Westview Press, 1992
N X	Fox, Ella Daily (comp.), The Molter Family Microform: A Biographical History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Dr. Philip Ludwig Mölter, 1932
X	Frey, Samuel Ludlow (ed.), Minute Book of the Committee of Safety of Tryon County, 1905
X	Gage, Clyde VanTassel, John A. Hudson-Rachel Ostrander Family of Worcester, N.Y., An Historical, Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1963
X	Gage, Clyde VanTassel, The Gage Families Microform, two parts, 1965
L N X	Gates, C., Wall Map of Otsego County, Philadelphia, A.O. Gallup & Co., 1856
X	Gardner, Emelyn Elizabeth, Folklore From the Schoharie Hills, 1937
W	“General Bates Honored for War Heroics,” Aurora News-Register, Aurora, Nebraska, October 14, 1992
	Gibbs, Lela M., South Worcester 1895-1940
X	Gibbs, Lela M., Visits With Laura Alberta, Laurens, N.Y., Village Printer, 1967 [Doll collecting]
	Gordon, Thomas F., Gazetteer of the State of New York, Philadelphia, Collins, 1836
N	Hall, John (comp.) and Harrison, Anita (ed.) , School House John’s Pictorial Collection of One Room Schools of Otsego County, NY, Hartwick, N.Y., 1997
L	Halsey, Francis W., The Old New York Frontier, New York, Scribner’s, 1901
X	Hamilton, Milton W. (ed.), The Papers of Sir William Johnson, The University of the State of New York, 1957
	Hamilton County Register (Nebraska), December 20 and 27, 1918 [ Brig. Gen. Delevan Bates]
F L N S W X	Hartley, Howson A., et al., A Bicentennial History of the Town of Worcester, Worcester Town Board, Albany, N.Y., Fort Orange Press, 1997
X	Hartley, Howson A., A History of South Worcester, N.Y., 1970
	Hartley, Howson A., American Presidents and the War Power, South Worcester, N.Y., 1994
	Hartley, Howson A., South Worcester, N.Y., the Second Century, 1990
N	Hartley, Howson A., The Servoses – A Loyalist Family in New York, South Worcester, N.Y., 1994
X	Heads of Families, 1790, Montgomery County, New York, U.S. Bureau of the Census
N X	Hendrix, Lester E. (ed.), The Sloughters’ History of Schoharie County, Schoharie, N.Y., Schoharie County Historical Society, 1994
	“Highway to History,” Albany Times Union, July 29, 1993 [article about Route 7 featuring Worcester]
X	Hillebrand, Pamela S., Treasures of the One Room School, Delaware County, New York, New York, P.S. Hillebrand, c. 1988
	History of the First Baptist Church of Worcester
	History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
	The Hometown AD*Vantage weekly commercial newspaper, beginning 1987
L	Hometown Recipes of Worcester, Worcester Historical Society, 1978
N X	Hotchkin, A., A Concise History of the Town of Maryland, Schenevus, N.Y., Monitor Printing, 1876
	Houck, Shirley A. (ed.), The Evolution of Delaware County, Nashville, Express Media Corporation, 1995
	Huntington, Willard V., Old Time Notes [Christopher Servos]
L N X	Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Otsego County, New York, Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1878
	Jacobus, Donald Lines (comp.), The Waterman Family; Descendants of Robert Waterman, New Haven, Connecticut, Edgar F. Waterman, 1939
	Johnson, Frances C., Education in Worcester, N.Y.
N X	Johnson, Mauritz (ed.), Two Centuries in Westford, Westford Community Association, Walton, N.Y., Reporter Company, 1987
	Johnson, Mauritz (comp.), Westford 2000, A Millenial Update, 1987-2000, Westford Historical Society, 2000
	Jones, Henry Z., Jr., More Palatine Families, Universal City, California, American Society of Genealogists, 1991
N X	Jones, Louis C. (ed.) Growing Up in the Cooper Country, Syracuse University Press, 1965
N X	Kelsay, Isabel Thompson, Joseph Brant 1743-1807; Man of Two Worlds, Syracuse University Press, 1984
W	Kirby, William, “Memorials of the Servos Family,” United Empire Loyalists of Canada, Canadian Methodist Magazine, 1883
	Kubik, Dorothy, A Free Soil ---- A Free People: The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York, Fleishmanns, N.Y., Purple Mountain Press, 1997
	Laplante, John Guy, “A Visit to Worcester, New York,” Feature Parade Section, Worcester Sunday Telegram (Massachusetts), September 18, 1960, page 3
	Lewis, Alfred Henry, “Sherburn M. Becker, the ‘Boy Mayor’ of Milwaukee,” Saturday Evening Post, October 6, 1906
X	Lowenthal, Larry, Marinus Willet, Defender of the Northern Frontier, Fleischmanns, N.Y., Purple Mountain Press, 2000
	Lunn, Orvis G. and Preston, June A., Worcester, N.Y. Post Office, September 30, 1983
N X	MacDougall, Hugh Cooke, Cooper’s Otsego County: A Bicentennial Guide of Sites in Otsego County Associated With the Life and Times of James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851, Cooperstown, N.Y., New York State Historical Association, 1989
	Maryland-Otsego County Sesqi-Centennial Souvenir Program 1791-1941
	McClintock, David R., McClintock Generations, 2002
	Mereness, Edith Atkins, Select Schools and District Schools of Old Worcester, 1932
	Milavec, Nancy S. (comp.), Otsego County Bicentennial 1791-1991 Weekly Engagement Calendar
	Miller, Jonas, “Westminster,” History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Boston, C.F. Jewett, 1879
X	Moore, Frank (comp.), Diary of the American Revolution 1775-1781, 1967
X	Nestler, Harold, A Bibliography of New York State Communities, Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, 1990
L N X	New Century Atlas of Otsego County, N.Y., Century Map Company, 1903, 1912
X	New York Colonial Muster Rolls 1664-1775; Report of the State Historian of the State of New York, New York State Historian, 2000
N X	Norris, Linda (ed.), “Time Once Past Never Returns,” A History of the Town of Milford 1796-1996, Milford, N.Y., Greater Milford Histrorical Association, 1996
	O’Connor, David, Old Otsego County in Postcards, New Berlin, N.Y., Molly Yes Press, 1982
	Otsego County, State of New York, Directory
W	Parker, Roy C., History of the East Worcester Fire Department, 1994
L N X	Patent maps of Otsego County, Burr, 1839
L N X	Patent maps of Otsego County, New York, Julius Bien & Co., 1895
L N X	Patents Granted in the Areas Around Cherry Valley and Lake Otsego, New York, ca. 1765 [reconstruction of “the Croghan map”]
F	Phisterer, Frederick (comp.), New York in the War of the Rebellion, Lyon, 1912
X	Pilkington, Walter, The Journals of Samuel Kirkland, Clinton, N.Y., Hamilton College, 1980
W	Rankin, John C., Why Faithful People, Who Understand the Facts, Can No Longer Remain in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1936
	The Poetical Works of Julia Ann Hoag Wilcox, Worcester, N.Y., The Worcester Times, 1906
	Records of the East Worcester Methodist Episcopal Church
	Records of the First Presbyterian Church of Worcester
F N X	Roberts, James A., New York in the Revolution as a Colony and State, Albany, N.Y., 1898
W	Ruland, Harold, A Brief History of the Becker Memorial Community Church of South Worcester, N.Y., 1968
	Rumple, Barry D., Second Baptist Church, Worcester, New York, 150 Year History, Worcester, N.Y., 1991
W	Saint, John G., M.D. (comp.), Collection of Civil War Stories by General Delevan Bates, Springfield, Illinois
	Saint, John G., M.D. (ed.), Delevan Bates, Civil War General. Medal of Honor Recipient. “One of Our Own” Worcester, New York, excerpt from Burr, op. cit., June, 1997
W	Saint, William S., Jr. (trans.), The Civil War Letters of Delevan Bates, May 1862 – June, 1867, Nairobi, 1988
L N X	Sauthier, Joseph, Esq., A Chorographical Map of the Province of New York, by order of Governor William Tryon, 1794 [patents]
	Sawyer, John, History of Cherry Valley from 1740 to 1898, reprinted by the Cherry Valley Bicentennial Commission, 1976
	Schenevus Post Office Sesquicentennial, March 27, 1998
N	Schull, Diantha Dow, Landmarks of Otsego County, Syracuse University Press, 1980
W	Servos (Service, Serviss) family genealogical survey, source unknown, date after 1971
N	Shafer, Ida Flint, Family Bible Records, Church Records of Worcester, Westford and East Worcester and Cemetery Records of Otsego, Delaware and Schoharie Counties, Iroquois Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1935
	Shaughnessy, Jim, Delaware and Hudson, Berkeley, Howell-North, 1967
	Shaver, Peter D. (comp.), National Register of Historic Places in New York State, Preservation League of New York State, New York, Rizzoli, 1993
	Shelton, William Henry, The Jumel Mansion, Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin, 1916 [Madame Jumel]
X	Sigsby, Life and Adventures of Timothy Murphy, Middleburgh, The Middleburgh Gazette, 1912
L	Simms, Jeptha R., History of Schoharie County and Border Wars of New York, Albany, Munsell and Tanner, 1845
X	Simms, Jeptha R., Trappers of New York, Harrison, N.Y., Harbor Hill Books, 1980
	Simonson, Albert J., A Nostalgic Tour of Old Furnaceville, Alpine, California, 1997
F L N S	Smith, Charlotte Snyder, Here’s to You, Worcester Schools, Worcester Central School Alumni Association and Worcester Historical Society, 1989
	Staats, E. Pomeroy, Town of Middlefield, Otsego County, New York, 1961; reprinted by Middlefield Town Board, 1991
X	Stone, William Leete, Border Wars of the American Revolution, volumes 1-2, 1900
X	Stone, William Leete, Life of Joseph Brant, volumes 1-2, 1865
N X	Taylor, Alan, William Cooper’s Town, New York, Knopf, 1995
	Thomas, Howard, Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), Utica, North Country Books, 1984
	Thurber, Walter A., The Great Bear Light and Power Company, Oneonta, Village Printer, 1994
X	Town and School District Records 1797-1941, Town of Worcester (microfilm)
	Town of Maryland Bicentennial Celebration Program 1791-1991
N	Tri-Valley News (microfilm)
	Vidich, Arthur J. and Bensman, Joseph, Small Town in Mass Society, Garden City, Doubleday, 1958
X	Volwiler, Albert Tangeman, George Croghan and the Westward Movement 1741-1782, 1926
	Vrooman, Beatrice (comp.), First Baptist Church of Worcester, East Worcester, N.Y., May, 1986
N	Vrooman, John J., The Promised Land, Johnstown, N.Y., Baronet Litho Co., 1958 [Palatine settlers]
L S	Walton, Ann, Life and Deeds of Seth Flint, Cooperstown, N.Y., Barton-Butler Graphics, 2002
X	Ward, John Richard Alden, The War of the Revolution, New York, Macmillan, volumes 1-2, 1952
X	Waterman Family Papers 1920-1950 (manuscript collection), New York State Library
	Waterman, Jot S., The Legend of Chief Schenevus, The Legend of the Twin Lakes and other tales; serialized fiction articles in The Worcester Times
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Boy for a Blond, Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1932 [light verse]
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Brief Candles, Dexter, Missouri, Candor Press, 1967 [light verse]
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Cabin for Two, Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1934 [light verse]
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Five Lines to Limerick, Dexter, Missouri, Candor Press, 1965 [light verse]
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Love of the Town, Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1955 [light verse]
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Mad Land of Limerick, Dexter, Missouri, Candor Press, 1963 [light verse]
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Those Brats From Limerick, Dexter, Missouri, Candor Press, 1964 [light verse]
F L	Waterman, Paul T.S., Thus and Now, Dexter, Missouri, Candor Press, 1974 [light verse]
L	Webb, Wheaton P., The Worcester Sesqui-Centennial Pageant script, 1947
	Webb, Wheaton P., Wind on the Stairs; The Autobiography of Wheaton Phillips Webb, Alice Webb & Family, 1990
	Wildgrube, Arnold W., Descendants of the James Strain Family of South Worcester, N.Y. 1739-1966
L	Wolverine, Worcester Central School yearbook, beginning 1956
N	Worcester Baptist Association, Minutes, 1830-
L	Worcester Central School Handbook
	Worcester Central School Newsletter
L X	Worcester High School Sports Records 1920-1934, 3 volumes, Worcester High School Sports
L X	Worcester School Records 1849-1943
L	Worcester Sesquicentennial program, 1947
L N	The Worcester Times; The Worcester Times-Schenevus Monitor (microfilm)
F L	Worcester, Town of, Comprehensive Plan, Worcester Town Board, 2003
	Worcester, Town of, Minutes of Town Meetings, 1797-1911
	Worcester, Town of, Minutes of Town Board beginning 1911
	Worcester United Methodist Church Directory, 1991
	Worcester United Methodist Church Membership Directory, Olan Mills, 2004
F L S	The Works of Wm. Fern Ferguson, (reprints); Book One including Volumes 1 and 2, 2002; Book Two including Volumes 2 and 3, 2004, Worcester Historical Society [Worcester history and family stories]
W	Wright, Charles (comp.), Complete Record Relating to Officers, Soldiers and Seamen Composing the Quotas of the Troops Furnished to the United States by the Town of Worcester, Worcester Town Clerk, November 28, 1865
L S	Wright, Milton V., Wright on the Line, Cobleskill, N.Y., Times Journal Press, 1985
	Yeutter, Franklin W., Jim Konstanty (Most Valuable Player series), A.S. Barnes, 1951

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