a town of the United States of North America, in the state of New York, on the right bank of the Mohawk, 16 miles N.W. of Albany. It is regularly built; and contains several handsome churches, a town-hall, jail, lyceum, academy, and the Union College, which was founded in 1795, and contained, in 1857, 16 professors and teachers, 70 students, and a library of 17,000 volumes. It carries on several manufactures. The Erie Canal, which connects Lake Erie with the Hudson, passes through the town. Pop. (1850) 8821.