Athens, New York, USA
1780 - Early Settlers of what would become Athens

Previous to the Revolution the number of inhabitants was very small, a comparatively short list would embrace the names of all who inhabited the town at that time. With the exception of the Van Bergens living near Potick, the western part of the town had no inhabitants that can be mentioned with certainty. The Brandows and the Persons were the only dwellers on that part of the Corlaers Kill Patent within the limits of this town, and a few scattered families of Van Loons, and Hallenbecks, with a few others, composed the population of Loonenburg, this side of Fountain Flats. The following is believed to be a list of families living here in 1780:

Isaac Schram, Phillip Conine, Aaron Faulkner, John Coonley, Frans Clow, Petrus Egbertson, Jacob Hallenbeck, Abraham Provoost, John C. Hallenbeck, Jerry Clow, John Clow, John Hallenbeck, Jacob I. Van Loon, John M. Van Loon, Conradt Flaack, Cornelius De Groot, Shadrach Sill, Albertus Van Loon, John G. Voogd, Caspar Jans Hallenbeck, Clement Schram, Petrus Brandow, Jurry Van Loon, Jacob Isaac Van Loon, John Van Loon, Albert Van Loon jr., William Hallenbeck, Conrad Jensen, Arent Van Schaick, John Van Buskirk, William Edwards, John Person, Isaac Hallenbeck, Albertus Van Loon jr., Nicholas Van Woert, Johanis Conine, William Groom, John Person jr., Nicholas Perry, Peter Jansen, Petrus Van Loon, Hendrick Brandow, John I. Van Loon, Hermanus Bunt, Petrus Van Bergen, and perhaps Thomas, Jacob, and Silas Rushmore.

History of Greene County New York with Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men J.B. Beers,1884

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