The term stereotype derives from the Greek words ÏÏÎµÏÎµÏÏ (stereos), firm, solid and ÏÏÏÎ¿Ï (typos), impression, hence solid impression. The term comes from the printing trade and was first adopted in 1798 by Firmin Didot to describe a printing plate that duplicated any typography.
The population was 941 at the 2010 US Census. Inventory of the town, village and city archives of Vermont, no. 10, Orleans County, vol. I, town of Albany, village of Albany, can be viewed online. History of Albany, Vermont, 1806-1991, by Virginia Wharton (1991) - find this book in a library.
Albany County was one of the original twelve counties created by the Province of New York on November 1, 1683. At that time it included all of New York state north of Dutchess and Ulster counties, all of what is now Bennington County in Vermont, and theoretically stretched west to the Pacific Ocean.