230 Pages, 25 Cemeteries, 16,000 Names, Maps, Indexed

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The patents for the Granville area were given to 30 Captains of the French and Indian War starting in 1764. In 1772, the area was set off from Albany County and known as Charlotte County and included part of Vermont. In 1784, the name was changed to Washington County and in 1790 the eastern part became Vermont. Jobbers soon obtained most of these lands.

Settlement began about 1770 by families mostly from New England. Settlement was slow until after the Revolutionary War. By  1800 there were over 400 families in town. Before 1855, large number of Irish moved to the area. With the opening of slate quarries in the 1850s, the Welsh slate workers began to arrive.

The oldest extant stone, dated 1779, is in the Old MIddle Granville Cemetery. There are pre-1800 stones in the Hill, Lee, and Bethany or Truthville Cemeteries. Before 1900 all of the bodies and stones from the Bishop Cemetery had been removed, mostly to Mettowee Valley Cemetery. The cemetery records are most important as New York did not require the registration of vital records until near 1900.

The book includes two maps, one of Washington County and one of Granville, showing the location of each cemetery. The larger cemeteries were recorded in sections to facilitate locating a stone.

Included are all extant stones in the following Granville cemeteries:

OLD MIDDLE GRANVILLE CEMETERY	BETHANY or TRUTHVILLE CEMETERY	METTOWEE VALLEY CEMETERY
BISHOP BURYING GROUND	ELMWOOD CEMETERY	NORTH GRANVILLE CEMETERY
DeKALB CEMETERY	PROUTY CEMETERY	HILL CEMETERY
LEE CEMETERY	REYNOLDS CEMETERY	TANNER CEMETERY
TAYLOR CEMETERY	MASONIC CEMETERY	CONGREGATIONAL CEMETERY
FRIENDS (QUAKER) CEMETERY	GREEN MEETING HOUSE (QUAKER) CEMETERY	EPISCOPAL CEMETERY
ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CEMETERY	MOUNT CARMEL CATHOLIC CEMETERY	ST. PETER & PAUL BYZANTINE CEMETERY
ST. MARY'S CHURCH CEMETERY	OATMAN CEMETERY	UNPLACED CEMETERY, Queensbury, NY