Green Hill Land Purchases

In November 1857 the citizens of Amsterdam

Amsterdam (city), New York

Amsterdam is a city located in Montgomery County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 18,620. The name is derived from the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands....

 convened to form an Association for the purpose of procuring and holding lands to be used exclusively for a cemetery. John J. Schuyler was appointed Chairman and Samuel Belding Jr. Secretary. It was then resolved to form the Green Hill Cemetery Association. It was also resolved that the affairs of the Association were to be managed my a 9 member Board of Trustees. By ballot were elected John J. Schuyler, Derick W. TenBrook, Stephen Sanford, Hoel S. McElwain, S. Belding Jr., John McDonald Jr., Leonard Y. Gardinier, Charles Devendorf and Joseph W. Sturtevant. The Trustees immediately examined several localities in the vicinity for the lands of the Cemetery. Days were spent surveying, digging pits to test the quality of soil, opinions were sought and weighed. All of the results were submitted to Burton A. Thomas, Esq./Civil Engineer “a man of cultivated taste and large experience”. As a result, the Cemetery was located. A contract was then drawn for the purchase of 14 acres (56,656 m²) of land and the following advanced the Association the sums opposite their names for the purchase and ornamentation of the grounds:

D.W. TenBrook        $200.00   John J. Schuyler    $200.00

J.W. Sturtevant       100.00   Chas. Devendorf      100.00

S. Belding Jr.        100.00   Est of J. Sanford    200.00

John McDonald         100.00   L.Y. Gardiner        100.00

Wm. K. Greene, Jr     100.00   D.I. McMartin        100.00

Alfred Birch          100.00   Alex. Scott          100.00

D.P. Corey            100.00   A.V. Morris          100.00

Adam W. Kline         100.00   Almarin Young        100.00

Henry Marcellus       100.00   S. Pulver Heath      100.00

Alex. Sheldon         200.00   Jas. Stewart         200.00

Wm. Lambier           100.00   H.S. McElwain        100.00

G.W. Brownson         100.00   Joseph Cornell       100.00

Samuel Sweet          100.00   M. Mallery           100.00

J.C. Duel             100.00   Chandler Bartlett     50.00

John J. Gray          100.00   X. Haywood            50.00

I.L. Bronson           50.00   Isaac C. Shuler       50.00

A.W. Young             25.00   Geo. W. Striker      100.00

Jno. McDonnell         50.00   T.J. Potter           25.00

The funds were to be refunded from the avails of the subsequent sales of lots. Early in the spring of 1858 the premises containing 14 acres (56,656 m²) were conveyed to the Association from Joseph Cornell for the sum of $2,800.00.

On October 31, 1865 the second parcel of land was sold to The Green Hill Cemetery Association again from Joseph Cornell. The property containing 22 and 87/100 acres of land was purchased for the sum of $7,218.00.

Deeds are recorded in the Montgomery County

Montgomery County, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 49,708 people, 20,038 households, and 13,104 families residing in the county. The population density was 123 people per square mile . There were 22,522 housing units at an average density of 56 per square mile...

 Clerks Office: Book 70 page 78 and Book 79 page 163

Notable people buried in the cemetery include U.S. Congressman John Knox Stewart

John Knox Stewart

John Knox Stewart was a Representative from New York.Stewart was born in Perth, Fulton County, New York on October 20, 1853. He moved with his parents to Amsterdam, New York in 1860 and attended the public schools and Amsterdam Academy...

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