Hartwick Map
Hartwick is a town located in Otsego County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a population of 2,203.
Town of Hartwick is located in the middle of the county, southwest of Village of Cooperstown. Hartwick, New York is the largest Hartwick in the world in terms of population.
It was named after Lutheran Minister John Christopher Hartwick (1714–1796), an early landowner of the town. Hartwick had bought the area (the Hartwick Patent, granted 1761) that now constitutes the township from the Mohawk Indians in 1763. Discontent with the sparsely settled communities of Palatine Germans in the Mohawk Valley to the north, which Hartwick believed made people immoral, he bought the original Hartwick Patent with the intent to build a "New Jerusalem." This did not occur as Hartwick stipulated, according to conditions in his lease that residents look to him as their religious superior, and by the 1790s the shrewd land speculator William Cooper had sold most of Hartwick's land against his wishes.
Nearby cities include Edmeston, Morris, Richfield Springs, Schenevus, Oneonta.