Fonda's Bush, Montgomery Co., NY, USA ( now Broadalbin, Fulton Co. ) - Three Rivers - Trappers of New York : "Fonda's Bush, a place in the Johnstown settlements, so called after Major Jelles Fonda, who took a patent for the lands. The place is situated about ten miles north of each from the village of Johnstown, and the same distance west of north from Amsterdam. Fonda's Bush signifies the same as if it were called Fonda's Woods, a dense forest covering the soil at that early period-bush being the usual term for woods on the frontiers of New York."; Spafford's 1824 Gazetteer of the State of New York - Profile of Montgomery County : "The principal Village is on the W. line of this Town, in a quarter called Fonda's Bush, where is the Broadalbin Post-Office, 10 miles from Johnstown. It is situated on both sides of Fonda's Creek, on the main road from Johnstown to Glen's Falls, and contains 1 church, 27 dwellings, 14 mechanics' shops, 4 stores, 2 tanneries, 1 paper mill, a school-house, 2 taverns, and an ashery. This has always been called Fonda's Bush, but by a late act of incorporation, its cognomen is changed, as a lawyer would say, to Rawsonsville, though the people still adhere to the old name, and probably always will."
Sources and references
- now Broadalbin, Fulton Co.: External reference; current availability not yet verified.
- Three Rivers - Trappers of New York: External reference; current availability not yet verified.
- Spafford's 1824 Gazetteer of the State of New York - Profile of Montgomery County: External reference; current availability not yet verified.