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Germantown (town), New York

Germantown is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 1,954 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Germantown town, Columbia County, New York )〕 Germantown is located in the southwest part of the county, along the east side of the Hudson River.
==History==
The first known inhabitants of the area were the Mahican. The first Europeans to buy property in the county were Dutch. Robert Livingston, a Scots immigrant, bought thousands of acres from the native Americans, before gaining a huge grant from the Crown. He owned a total of . He was made lord of the Livingston Manor. In 1710, he sold of his property to Anne, Queen of Great Britain, for use as work camps and resettlement of Palatine German refugees.〔("About Germantown", Town of Germantown )〕
Some 1,200 persons were settled at work camps to manufacture naval stores and pay off their passage as indentured labor. Known as "East Camp", the colony had four villages: Hunterstown, Queensbury, Annsbury, and Haysbury.〔(Otternesss, Philip. ''Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York'', Chap. 5, Cornell University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780801471162 )〕 The area was later renamed "Germantown". In 1775 Germantown was formed as a "district".〔(Ellis, Franklin. ''Germantown, Columbia County, New York'', 1878 )〕 Germantown was one of the seven original towns of Columbia County established by an act passed March 7, 1788. (The others were: Kinderhook, Canaan, Claverack, Hillsdale, Clermont, and Livingston).〔("History", Columbia County )〕
In March 1845, a boat-load of people from East Camp, who had been to Hudson to make purchases, was run over first by a scow, and then by the steamboat ''South America''. All nine individuals were lost.

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