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Gibbonsville. Old village incorporated into West Troy, 1836. Now 

 a part of Watervliet. 



Glen mont. Hamlet. Fancy name. 



Green Island. Village. Descriptive. 



Groesbeck. Formerly a suburb of Albany, in the town of Bethle- 

 hem. Named for the Groesbeck family. Now obsolete and in- 

 cluded in the southern part of the city. 



Guilderland. Township and village. Named from Gelderland, 

 in the Netherlands. 



Guilderland Center and Guilderland Station. 



Hamilton or Hamiltonville. "A town or settlement lately laid 

 out in Albany county, New York, in the extensive township of 

 Water Vliet, formerly called the Glass Factory; and has its 

 present name in honor of that great patron of American manu 7 

 factures, the late secretary of the Treasury of the United States 

 of America. It lies 10 miles west of Albany, 2 miles from the 

 Schenectady road; and is one of the most decisive efforts of 

 private enterprise in the manufacturing line, as yet exhibited in 

 the United States. The glass manufactory is now so well estab- 

 lished and so happily situated for the supply of the northern 

 and western people of the State of New York as well as Ver- 

 mont and Canada, that it is to be expected that the proprietors 

 will be amply rewarded for their great and expensive exertions. 

 The glass is in good reputation. Here are two glass houses and 

 various other buildings, curious hydraulic works to save manual 

 labor by the help of machinery. A copious stream runs through 

 the heart of the settlement which lies high; and being sur- 

 rounded by pine plains, the air is highly salubrious. The great 

 Schoharie road traverses the settlement. A spacious school- 

 house and a church of octagon form are soon to be erected." 



" The enterprising proprietors of the Glass and other works 

 in this thriving settlement, were incorporated by the Legislature 

 of New York in the spring of 1797; by the name of 'The 

 Hamilton Manufacturing Society/ which act has given spring 

 to the works here ; and authorizes a hope that American manu- 

 factures may not only subserve the interests of our county but 

 that also of the proprietors." (Jedediah Morse's Gazetteer, 



1798). 



The settlement and enterprise became effaced by 1840 and 

 the only local trace of it now remaining is to be found in the 

 name " Hamilton Church " in Guilderland township. 



