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| | Village Of Saugerties: History: History [Digital Towpath] |
 | | On April 27, 1677, New York's Governor Andros signed an agreement with the Esopus Indian Kaelcop, chief of the Amorgarickakan family, to purchase "a place called Sagiers" for a blanket, a piece of cloth, a shirt, a loaf of bread, and some coarse fiber to make socks. |
 | | Saugerties village had electricity for four decades before electification came to the rest of the town under Franklin Roosevelt's administration. |
 | | The Saugerties and New York Steamboat Company was incorporated on January 29, 1889 by Henry L. Finger, Robert A. Snyder, James and William Maxwell, and John and George Seamon. |
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