EARLY ALBANY CO. CHURCHES - A PARTIAL LIST (1642-1835) Compiled by Graham Louer Webpage and editing by Cliff Lamere Jul 2001   This list of early Albany Co. churches was made for Graham's personal use and is not complete. Nevertheless, it should be useful to many people. Names of churches sometimes changed, so you may know the church by a different name. More recent names are given below in square brackets [ ].   The names used herein are not official names. An official name might be "Dutch Protestant Reformed Church of Village-name". In common usage and on this webpage it might simply be referred to as "Village-name Reformed".   The columns represent 1) the date of formation of the church as best as could be determined, 2) the name of the church, 3) and the town(ship) or city of its location in the county. Albany, Watervliet and Cohoes are the only cities in the county. The third column sometimes consists of the name of a village or hamlet, followed by the name of the town in which it is located. Watervliet was once a huge town, but now the name applies only to the city. Both usages can be seen in the list below.   [Notes by Cliff Lamere]     1642 Albany 1st Reformed Albany 1668 1st Lutheran Albany 1715 St. Peter's Episcopal Albany 1762 1st Presbyterian Albany 1763 2nd [Beaver Dam] Reformed Berne [Town or hamlet] 1784 Boght Reformed Colonie [Town or Village] 1786 New Salem Reformed New Salem, New Scotland 1787 New Scotland Presbyterian Slingerlands, New Scotland 1788 St. James Lutheran Guilderland [Town of] 1789 Quaker Society Coeymans [Town or hamlet] 1789 1st Methodist Albany 1790 St. Paul's Lutheran Berne [Town or hamlet] 1791 Jersalem Reformed Feura Bush, New Scotland 1794 Rensselaerville Reformed Rensselaerville [Town or Village] 1794 [1786?] Helderberg Reformed Guilderland Center, Guilderland 1813 2nd Presbyterian Albany 1814 North [Gibbonsville] Reformed Watervliet [Town of] 1814 2nd [Madison Ave] Reformed Albany 1824 Asbury Methodist Newtonville, Watervliet 1826 Union Reformed Delmar [Unionville], New Scotland 1827 St. Paul's Episcopal Albany 1829 4th Presbyterian Albany 1834 3rd Reformed Albany 1834 Calvary Methodist 1835 Trinity Methodist Albany              Visitors since 4 Jul 2001