Place:Stockbridge, Madison, New York, United States

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Stockbridge is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 2,103 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from a group of Native Americans.

The Town of Stockbridge is located on the eastern border of the county.

History

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The land surrounding where Stockbridge would be established, was being lived upon by "Stockbridge Indians" (as local settlers would refer to them), who had been relocated already to the New Stockbridge Indian Territory during the latter half the 18th century, being told that this land was to be reserved for future tribal generations. The Stockbridge, refuges of tribes mainly of adjoining New York that had settled in the "prayer town" of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, accepted an invitation of the Oneidas to live and share on their reservation in New York. Subsequent disagreements with White settlers caused many Stockbridge Indians to relocate to Indiana and later to Wisconsin, where they became the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. Stockbridge is the birthplace of meatpacking industrialist Philip Danforth Armour and brother Herman Ossian Armour.

The town was first settled in 1791 by pioneers from New England. The town was formed in 1836 by composing parts of four other towns: Augusta, Lenox, Smithfield and Vernon.

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