Honoring the legacy of the Madison County veterans that gave the ultimate sacrifice... Madison County answered the call to service and has left behind a generation of those who served in World War One and World War Two and lost their lives in service to the nation and freedom around the globe. This harrowing title covers the lives and stories of those service members.

General Marshall's victory report : on the winning of World War II in europe and the Pacific.

"The late William Tuttle, one time Madison County Historian compiled a file of those Madison County veterans of the War of 1812 from various sources: pensions, claims against the State for clothing/equipment, etc. for which the individual soldier paid out of pocket; local sources such as cemetery inscriptions, newspaper items et al. The following list is taken from his file, now in the County Historian's office in the Madison County Courthouse in Wampsville, NY." This slender volume was originally published as Pipe Creek Publication's Early Settler Series: New York, No. 6. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname. A bibliography completes this work.

Abstracted from newspapers filed in the archives of Colgate University, Hamilton, Madison County, New York. As vital records were not recorded in New York until after 1900, these abstracts help fill that void.

In Susan A. Brewer's fascinating The Best Land, she recounts the story of the parcel of central New York land on which she grew up. Brewer and her family had worked and lived on this land for generations when the Oneida Indians claimed that it rightfully belonged to them. Why, she wondered, did she not know what had happened to this place her grandfather called the best land. Here, she tells its story, tracing over the past four hundred years the two families—her own European settler family and the Oneida/Mohawk family of Polly Denny—who called the best land home. Situated on the passageway to the west, the ancestral land of the Oneidas was coveted by European colonizers and the founders of the Empire State. The Brewer and Denny families took part in imperial wars, the American Revolution, broken treaties, the building of the Erie Canal, Native removal, the rise and decline of family farms, bitter land claims controversies, and the revival of the Oneida Indian Nation. As Brewer makes clear in The Best Land, through centuries of violence, bravery, greed, generosity, racism, and love, the lives of the Brewer and Denny families were profoundly intertwined. The story of this homeland, she discovers, unsettles the history she thought she knew. With clear determination to tell history as it was, without sugarcoating or ignoring the pain and suffering of both families, Brewer navigates the interconnected stories with grace, humility, and a deep love for the land. The Best Land is a beautiful homage to the people, the place, and the environment itself.