Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Quaker Settlement (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Quaker Settlement. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Quaker Settlement is located in Madison County.
To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Madison County: Chenango, Cortland, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego & Otsego.
Below are the counties that are near Quaker Settlement. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Quaker Settlement:
- Madison County (The home county of Quaker Settlement)
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Puckerville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Puckerville is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puckerville
- DeRuyter
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- DeRuyter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeRuyter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
- New Woodstock
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- New Woodstock is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Woodstock
- Union
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Union is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Rippleton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Rippleton is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rippleton
- West Eaton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- West Eaton is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Eaton
- Cazenovia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Randallsville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Randallsville is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randallsville
- Bingley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Bingley is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bingley
- Morrisville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Earlville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Hamilton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Chittenango Falls
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Chittenango Falls is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chittenango Falls
- Broome County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Upper Lisle
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Upper Lisle is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Lisle
- Killawog
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Triangle
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Triangle is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangle
- Lisle
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Manningville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Manningville is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manningville
- Whitney Point
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Cayuga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Sempronius
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Sempronius is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sempronius
- Dresserville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Dresserville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresserville
- New Hope
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- New Hope is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- Summer Hill
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Summer Hill is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summer Hill
- Summer Hill has also been known as:
- Plato
- Kelloggsville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Kelloggsville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelloggsville
- Montville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Montville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montville
- Moravia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Niles
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Niles is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niles
- Locke
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Omro
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Omro is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omro
- Chenango County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Otselic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Otselic is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otselic
- Otselic Center
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Otselic Center is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otselic Center
- South Otselic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Beaver Meadow
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Beaver Meadow is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Meadow
- Pitcher
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Smyrna
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Kirk
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Kirk is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirk
- Plymouth
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sherburne
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- North Norwich
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- North Norwich is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Norwich
- Norwich
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Adams Corner
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Adams Corner is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Corner
- Columbus
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Columbus is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
- Cortland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Crains Mills
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Crains Mills is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crains Mills
- Truxton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- East Homer
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- East Homer is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Homer
- Solon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Solon is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solon
- Cummings Crossing
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Cummings Crossing is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Crossing
- Preble
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Slab City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Slab City is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
- East River
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- East River is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River
- McGraw
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Little York
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Little York is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little York
- Pratt Corners
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Pratt Corners is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratt Corners
- East Scott
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- East Scott is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Scott
- Homer
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Oneida County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Augusta
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Augusta is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Augusta
- Oriskany Falls
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Stockwell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Stockwell is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stockwell
- Oneida Castle
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Oneida Castle is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneida Castle
- Population from the 2020 Census: 603 people
- Sherrill
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Sangerfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Sconondoa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Sconondoa is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sconondoa
- Waterville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Vernon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Bridgewater
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Cagwin Corners
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Cagwin Corners is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cagwin Corners
- Clinton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Onondaga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Delphi Falls
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Fabius
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Apulia
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Apulia is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apulia
- Berwyn
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Berwyn is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwyn
- Pompey Center
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Pompey Center is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pompey Center
- Pompey
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Tully
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Log City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Log City is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log City
- Assembly Park
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Assembly Park is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assembly Park
- Watervale
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Watervale is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watervale
- LaFayette
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- LaFayette is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaFayette
- LaFayette has also been known as:
- LaFayette Square
- Te-Ka-Wis-To-Ta
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for LaFayette <1>
- Eagle Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Eagle Village is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Village
- Cardiff
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Cardiff is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
- Otsego County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- South Edmeston
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- South Edmeston is located in Otsego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Edmeston
- Pittsfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Pittsfield is located in Otsego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsfield
- Edmeston
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Tompkins County
- The following are listed by their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Groton City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Groton City is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groton City
- McLean
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Dryden
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Groton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Freeville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Peruville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Peruville is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peruville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Quaker Settlement, see our County-by-County Page for Quaker Settlement.
Cemeteries Near Quaker Settlement ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Quaker Settlement.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Quaker Settlement - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Quaker Settlement covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- Crumb Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Lincklaen Center Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Burdick Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Sheds Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Merchant Smith Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merchant Smith Cemetery
- The Merchant Smith Cemetery has also been known as:
- Merchant Cemetery
- Smith Cemetery
- Albro Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Cuyler Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Allard Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Cuyler Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Woodlawn Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Rhode Island Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Hillside Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Continue List (435 more) ...
- Lee Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Seventh Day Hollow Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Maple Grove Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Maple Grove Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Otselic.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #65178 <2>
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Quaker Settlement in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Quaker Settlement.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Quaker Settlement, with the one closest to Quaker Settlement listed first.
- DeRuyter
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- DeRuyter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeRuyter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
- Lincklaen Center
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Lincklaen Center is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincklaen Center
- Mariposa
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Mariposa is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mariposa
- Cuyler
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Lincklaen
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Lincklaen is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincklaen
- Georgetown
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Otselic Center
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Otselic Center is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otselic Center
- Otselic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Otselic is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otselic
- New Woodstock
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- New Woodstock is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Woodstock
- Keeney
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Keeney is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeney
- South Otselic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Erieville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Crains Mills
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Crains Mills is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crains Mills
- North Pitcher
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- North Pitcher is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Pitcher
- Lebanon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Lebanon is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lebanon
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Quaker Settlement. See our List of 1890's Communities around Quaker Settlement.
Newspapers Published in Quaker Settlement ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Quaker Settlement.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Quaker Settlement, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Quaker Settlement.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Quaker Settlement:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Madison County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Broome County
- Cayuga County
- Chenango County
- Cortland County
- Oneida County
- Onondaga County
- Otsego County
- Tompkins County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New York
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Quaker Settlement, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Quaker Settlement) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |