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Hartwick is a town located in Otsego County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 2,110. The Town of Hartwick is located in the center of the county, southwest of the Village of Cooperstown.

The town was named for Lutheran minister John Christopher Hartwick (1714–1796), an to come landowner of the town. He bought the area (the Hartwick Patent, granted 1761) that now constitutes the township from the Mohawk Indians in 1763. Discontented when the sparsely fixed communities of Palatine Germans in the Mohawk Valley to the north, which Hartwick believed made people immoral, he bought the native Hartwick Patent with the intent to build a “New Jerusalem”. Hartwick tried to govern development, stipulating that residents see to him as their religious superior. By the 1790s the shrewd land speculator William Cooper had sold most of Hartwick’s land adjoining his wishes.

Hartwick requested in his will that a Lutheran seminary be opened in the space of his estate. Upon Hartwick’s death in 1797, efforts to reach this started but were complicated by the fact that Hartwick left his house to Jesus Christ. The Lutheran seminary traditional at Hartwick in 1797 was incorporated in 1816. It moved to Oneonta after 1931 and in 1947 merged in the same way as the Hartwick College, established in 1927. The town was expected in 1802 from the Town of Otsego. In 1803, the north town pedigree was altered.