Delaware County NY Genealogy and History Site
Hardcopy submitted by Shirley Houck, electronic text by Joyce Riedinger, September 3, 2000
(W)=Whole District
(J)=Joint District
Common School Districts
TOWN OF HANCOCK
Jan. l - Dec. 31, 1855
Dist. Dist. School Year Material 1855 District School-house Location
No. Town(s) Located Built Built Condition Trustees
1( ) No Report was found for this District Number.
2(J) Hancock Hancock 18-- ---- ------ Abraham Sprague On present State Route 30,
Thomas T. Williams about 1/2 way beween Harvard
Daniel D. Sprague & the Hancock/Colchester Town Line
3(W) Hancock Hancock 1855 wood good Clark Landfield Village of Harvard
H.B. Clauson
4(W) Hancock Hancock 1854 wood good Ambrose S. Twaddell Shown as #3 on Gould Map.
James M. Twaddell (Present village of East Branch)
5(W) Hancock Hancock 1853 wood good George Read Readburn
William H, Brown
H.J. Lewis
6(W) Hancock Hancock 1855 wood good James Wheeler Not shown on Gould Map, but
Sherman S. Lewis possibly on City Brook Road, off
State Route 17 East
7 W) Hancock Hancock 18-- ----- ----- James D. Turner On present Peas Eddy Road, near "Hawk
Joel Lakin Point" as shown on Gould Map
Omar Parks
8(W) Hancock Hancock 18-- ----- ----- John Knight On present State Route 17, on village of
Elsira Thomas Hancock side of Hawk Mountain
9(W) Hancock Hancock 1851 ----- ----- E.K. Carrier In Village of Hancock
N.G. Hyatt
10(W) Hancock Hancock 18-- wood poor William Knight Near intersection of Stockport Road &
Edward Doyle present State Route 17
Samuel Doyle
ll( ) No Report was found for this District Number.
12(W) Hancock Hancock 1852 logs good Octave Bonnefond In French Woods
William Leumesden
13(W) Hancock Hancock 18-- ----- ----- Harvey Hughs On present State Route 28, near Basket
Israel Palmer Pond
14(W) Hancock Hancock 1850 wood good George Labarr Jun Not shown on Gould Map, (Between Lordville & Stockport)
William Manley Village of Hancock & Hancock/Tompkins Town Line
16(W) Hancock Hancock 1854 wood good James M Miller Not shown on Gould Map. Report refers to children
William B. Smith from Trout Creek
17( ) No Report was found for this District Number.
18(W) Hancock Hancock 1853 wood good Jno. H. Kiersted Cadosia Valley
John Palen
19(W) Hancock Hancock 1800 wood bad Squire J. Miller Not shown on Gould Map.
Laurens Apley
20(W) Hancock Hancock 18 -- ---- ---- Hiram Fish Not shown on Gould Map, but probably near present
John Fish Village of Fishs Eddy. "Set off in May 1855."
21(J) Hancock Hancock 18-- wood good Richard Sands Not shown on Gould Map, but 3/4s way to Route 10
& Tompkins Riley Read on Sands Creek Road.
NOTE: The school-houses were sited, to the best of our ability,
by reference to the Gould Map, the Beers Atlas & present day County Highway Maps.
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