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Photographer: Howard C. Ohlhous
Taken: June 18, 2008
Caption: Founders Names
Additional Description: The stone for the chuch was taken from several local quarries in 1772. The thick walls were laid up by the Schoharie settlers who were overseen by a master mason, John Schuyler. The names of 49 settlers who helped build the church are recorded as chiseled inscriptions visible on the exterior stone walls. Several black spaces formerly bore the names of others who remained Loyalist during the Revolutionary War; these were subsequently chiseled away by their former Schoharie neighbors.
Submitted: November 22, 2009, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p86664
File Size: 2.852 Megabytes

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