SCHOHARIE COUNTY HISTORICAL REVIEW
ISSN 0361-8528
© 2003, Schoharie County Historical Society,
all rights reserved.
Published semiannually by
the Schoharie County Historical Society.
Lester E. Hendrix, editor

TheHistorical Review was established in 1937 as the Yo-Sko-Ha-Ro Quarterly and is sent to Schoharie County Historical Society members each Spring and Fall. A limited number of back issues, and a 1937-1989 index, are available at the Old Stone Fort Museum gift shop.

(Includes free museum admission and library use)

Individual – $25.00

Family – $40.00

Senior Citizen – $20.00

Benefactor – $100.00

Life – $1,000.00

Museum  Admission – $5.00

Children 5-17 – $1.50

Senior Citizens – $4.50

Library Use –$6.00. Members and Schoharie County residents free

Officers

Michael Breen, Middleburgh, chair

Michael A. West, Schoharie, president

Joseph Bernocco Jr., Richmondville, first vice president

Arthur Graulich, Sharon Springs, second vice president

William Bellinger Jr., Howes Cave, third vice president

Carl Rhinehart, Fultonham, secretary

Martha Foland, Howes Cave, treasurer

Anne W. Hendrix, Schoharie, assistant treasurer

Raynor B. Duncombe, Middleburgh, counsel

Trustees

Sarah Dinnel, Summit

Maurice Hodder, Schoharie

Clemens-Paul McGiver, Seward

Richard Norton, Cobleskill

Jeffrey O’Connor, Gallupville

Susan Rightmyer, Richmondville

William Slater, Central Bridge

Harold Vroman, Cobleskill

Henry B. Whitbeck, Cobleskill

Doris Vrooman, Colonie

Harold Zoch, Middleburgh

Helene S. Farrell, John H. Grosvenor, Maynard Jones, J. Leslie Rickard, Rudolph Snyder, William Seeger, Elbridge Smith

Carle J. Kopecky, director

Daniel J. Beams, curator

Librarian-Archivist, vacant

Martha Foland, genealogy

Harold Zoch, archaeology and historic Structures

May 1 to October 31: Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M., closed Monday
November 1-April 30: museum closed. Library open by appointment

April 25  –  Spring meeting

May 1 –  Old Stone Fort opening day

June 25  –  Strawberry festival

July 4 –  Independence Day celebration

August 16,17 (tentative)  –  Rambler centennial

October 11,12  –  Stone Fort Days

October 31  –  Annual meeting, trustee election

December 6 through 14  –  Festival of Trees

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Our Very Own Governor       The Battle of Cobleskill –– 1778 Schoharie County HISTORICAL REVIEW HISTORY      TRADITION      CULTURE      GENEALOGY Vol. LXVII No. 1 Spring 2003 Print Edition: ISSN 0361-8528 © 2003, Schoharie County Historical Society. All rights reserved to the copyright owner(s) Photo by Dick Danielsen         Restoration at the Cave House Hotel. Cobleskill Stone Products Inc. worker Gary Lull ascends the stairs at the natural entrance to Lester Howe’s cave. Howe began making improvements to the cave almost immediately after the discovery. The barrel-vaulted stone entrance, which once held a huge wooden door, was put in sometime between 1850 and 1860. See article. Photograph copyright 2003, Dick Danielsen. Table of Contents William C. Bouck: New York's Farmer Governor     Edward A. Hagan’s unfinished biography of New York State’s 13 th governor The Battle of Cobleskill     Richard Christman examines one of the brutal frontier raids of the Revolutionary War John H. Wilber: Teacher, Soldier, Patriarch     Roger Wilber finds a Fulton ancestor who inspires the Wilber family to this day Cave House Restoration Planned     Abandoned stone hotel to be a museum Information Please      Prohibition and the “lost” history of Schoharie County History in the News Old Stone Fort News Stone Fort Events Calendar Book Review      Never Forsake the Flag by Ken Jones, reviewed by Mary Murabito 2002 Index Then And Now     The Cave House hotel in an old post card and a 2002 photo About the S CHOHARIE C OUNTY H ISTORICAL R EVIEW Subscription Information About the Schoharie County Historical Society Notices & General Information Top of Page

Please take notice that the spring meeting of the Schoharie County Historical Society will be held on Friday, the 25th of April, 2003, at 7:30 o’clock in the evening, in the William Badgley Museum, Old Stone Fort Museum complex, Schoharie New York.
 

The REVIEW publishes selected articles about Schoharie County history, tradition, culture and genealogy. No payment is made. Please share your research, memories, diaries, letters, and photographs. The Spring deadline is February 15 and the Fall deadline August 15. Please contact Editor Lester E. Hendrix before submitting. He may be posted at P.O. Box 711, Schoharie, N.Y. 12157-0711 and e-mailed at Editor@SchoharieHistory.Net. The REVIEW's Web site address is: WWW.HistoricalReview.Org
 

The REVIEW is seeking recipes for Schoharie County-area dishes of the past. We’d like to publish your family recipe for delicacies such as Sloughter Pot Pie (always pronounced Sloughter Pop-eye), Buckle and Slump, and the like. Contributions may be submitted to Editor Lester E. Hendrix at P.O. Box 711, Schoharie, N.Y. 12157-0711, or Editor@SchoharieHistory.Net .
 

Historical, Planning and Promotion Committee

Susan H. Loden, Wright, chair; Robert Mann Jr., Blenheim; Dennis Richards, Middleburgh; Martin Shrederis, Schoharie; Philip R. Skowfow Jr., Fulton