Jeremiah Finch, the grandfather of Wm. P. Finch, came from Nine Partners, Amenia, Dutchess county, to Saratoga town soon after the close of the Revolutionary war. He settled on a farm leased of the old Schuyler estate, near Schuylerville, where he passed the remainder of his life. Previous to his death, by industry and frugality, be acquired other land in that section. On one of his farms Joseph, his oldest son, settled, and Daniel, the father of Wm. P., on another. Jeremiah Finch had eleven children, - nine boys and two girls. His descendants are very numerous, and are represented in different sections of the United States. Many of them are prominent and successful men of business, having acquired large wealth, and been identified with the material growth and welfare of their several localities.
(from the History of Saratoga County, New York by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1878 submitted by Ronald Finch, #48609821)
(from the History of Saratoga County, New York by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1878 submitted by Ronald Finch, #48609821)
Jeremiah Finch, the grandfather of Wm. P. Finch, came from Nine Partners, Amenia, Dutchess county, to Saratoga town soon after the close of the Revolutionary war. He settled on a farm leased of the old Schuyler estate, near Schuylerville, where he passed the remainder of his life. Previous to his death, by industry and frugality, be acquired other land in that section. On one of his farms Joseph, his oldest son, settled, and Daniel, the father of Wm. P., on another. Jeremiah Finch had eleven children, - nine boys and two girls. His descendants are very numerous, and are represented in different sections of the United States. Many of them are prominent and successful men of business, having acquired large wealth, and been identified with the material growth and welfare of their several localities.
(from the History of Saratoga County, New York by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1878 submitted by Ronald Finch, #48609821)
(from the History of Saratoga County, New York by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1878 submitted by Ronald Finch, #48609821)
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