Washington County New York Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy     This site is available for adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please read about what we're all about on our Volunteer Page (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) Until we get a dedicated volunteer to maintain this site, we'll do the best we can to add data as we come across it. You can send your family's raw data (transcribed birth/marriage/death, cemetery, census, biography records) to us and we'll include it on this site. WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. County Information Charlotte County in the colonial Province of New York was created in 1772 from Albany County. In 1784 the county name was changed to its current name, Washington County, in order to honor George Washington. In 1799 Clinton County was created from part of Washington County. Clinton County itself was partitioned to form other upstate counties. The Town of Cambridge was transferred in 1791 from Albany County to Washington County. County Seat: Fort Edward Year Organized: 1772 Square Miles: 836  Courthouse Info: County Courthouse 383 Broadway, Building C Fort Edward, NY 12828-1015 Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2013: bios for EYCLESHYMER, FAXON, GOODMAN, DOBBIN, BIGELOW, POGUE Oct 2012: BROWN bios Nov 2011: Fire newspaper story; Bliss bio Oct 2011: DAVISON bio June 2011: BURLEIGH bio; CRONCK obit; History of some old Cemeteries; Burials in West Hartford Cemetery Previous Updates: Bios for EASTMAN, MARTINDALE, RUSSELL, SPRAGUE; Obits for ELDREDGE, GRAVES, NORTON, RUSSELL; Civil War record of Brig. General David A. Russell Search Our Sites | Join Our Mailing Lists (New York is covered on the Northeast Mailing List)       Visit our NY State Site Surrounding Counties Cayuga Monroe Ontario Seneca Visit the National Genealogy Trails Site       Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.