The Columbia County Historians and the Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the DAR hosted a rapt gathering of historians, chapter members, and the public on May 10th, 2025 to celebrate and remember May 10th, 1775. That was the date of the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga and also the first recorded seating of delegates from our area, then still part of Albany County, in the Albany County Committee of Correspondence.
Following remarks by the chapter’s regent about the preservation of the 1811 Robert Jenkins House, Germantown Historian Tom Shannon spoke about the Committee of Correspondence and a rigged election to that committee. He talked about the German Camp district that was carved out of Livingston Manor, and the relationships between the Claverack district’s Lower Manor Van Rensselaers, their tenants, and the large influx of New Englanders.
The talk was followed by a docent-led tour of the chapter house, its genealogical and historical library, and its museum.
The Historians’ website is available at historian.columbiacountyny.com.
Hendrick Hudson Chapter, NSDAR 