Some Local History:
This cemetery was established in 1787. The building in front of the cemetery is the Greenbush Reformed Church. On September 14, 1787, the “Reformed Protestant Low Dutch Church in the Manor of Rensslearwyck and county of Albany" was organized. Several buildings occupied approximately the same site until the current Church building was erected in 1860. The bellfry contained a Meneely and Oathout bell that was manufactured in West Troy, NY in 1836.
Edmund Charles Genet, Late Adjutant-General, Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General from the French Republic to the United States of America was born in Versailles, France on January 8, 1763. He died at Prospect Hill in the Town of East Greenbush on July 14,1834. He is buried in the East Greenbush Cemetery.
A history lesson taken from Wikipedia:
“ The Citizen Genêt affair began in 1793 when he was dispatched to the United States to promote American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain. Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on the warship Embuscade on April 8. Instead of traveling to the then-capital of Philadelphia to present himself to U.S. President George Washington for accreditation, Genêt stayed in South Carolina. There he was greeted with enthusiasm by the people of Charleston, who threw a string of parties in his honor. Genêt's goals in South Carolina were to recruit and arm American privateers who would join French expeditions against the British. Genêt organized American volunteers to fight Britain's Spanish allies in Florida. After raising a militia, Genêt set sail toward Philadelphia, stopping along the way to marshal support for the French cause and arriving on May 18. He encouraged Democratic-Republican Societies, but President Washington denounced them and they quickly withered away. His actions endangered American neutrality in the war between France and Britain, which Washington had pointedly declared in his Neutrality Proclamation of April 22. When Genêt met with Washington, he asked for what amounted to a suspension of American neutrality. When turned down by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and informed that his actions were unacceptable, Genêt protested. Meanwhile, Genêt's privateers were capturing British ships, and his militia was preparing to move against the Spanish.
Genêt continued to defy the wishes of the United States government, capturing British ships and rearming them as privateers. Washington sent Genêt an 8,000-word letter of complaint on Jefferson's and Hamilton's advice – one of the few situations in which the Federalist Alexander Hamilton and the Democratic-Republican Jefferson agreed. Genêt replied obstinately.
The Jacobins, having taken power in France by January 1794, sent an arrest notice which asked Genêt to come back to France. Genêt, knowing that he would likely be sent to the guillotine, asked Washington for asylum. It was Hamilton – Genêt's fiercest opponent in the cabinet – who convinced Washington to grant him safe haven in the United States.
Genêt moved to New York State and married Cornelia Clinton in 1794, the daughter of New York Governor George Clinton. Their son was Henry J. Genet (1800–1872), a member of the State Assembly in 1832. Cornelia died in 1810, and in 1818 Genêt married Martha Brandon Osgood, the daughter of Samuel Osgood, the United States' first Postmaster General.
Genêt lived on a farm he called Prospect Hill located in East Greenbush, New York overlooking the Hudson River. Living the life of a gentleman farmer, he wrote a book about inventions.
He died on July 14, 1834 and is buried in the churchyard behind the Greenbush Reformed Church, about two miles east of his farm.”
The answers to these questions can be found in the information above and at the posted coordinates. The new coordinates will direct you to the location of the cache.
Please solve for: N 42 AB.CDE W 073 FG.HIJ
Questions:
A: How many words in his name?
B: How many letters in the name of his birth country, less 1?
C: How many countries was his birth country at war with in 1793?
D: On what day of the month was Edmond and Martha’s son Edme born? Add 3 to this number and only use the second digit.
E: What is the last digit of the year that Edmund’s wife Martha died?
F: How many flat stones are in this plot, minus 6?
G: Approximately how many miles away was his farm, Prospect Hill, from his burial site?
H: How many standing stones are inside the chains?
I: Number of letters in Edme’s rank in the militia, plus 2.
J: How old was Edmund’s wife when she died? Use only the first digit.
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Unfortunately, Citizen Genet’s grave marker is very difficult to read, so his descendent’s markers were used for this puzzle. Hope you enjoy the history lesson. A picture of his marker from the East Greenbush New York Yesterday & Today A Historical Journey-A Publication of the East Greenbush Sesquicentennial Committee which was printed in 2005, is shown below. A copy of this publication is available for review at the local library.
!!!CONGRATULATIONS TO TIMPAT FOR FIRST TO FIND!!!