Princetown is a town in Schenectady County, New York, United States.

[6] It was named for John Prince, a New York State assemblyman from Albany County who lived in Schenectady proper at the time.

Today the town is mostly a mix of farming and exurban development with a little light industry.

[10] It was also home to the Princetown Academy and Female Seminary which opened in 1853 but operated for only three years before succumbing to financial mismanagement.

In the south end of the town was Cheeseman's Tavern (c. 1784) located in the hamlet of Gifford's (Corners).

[12] In the north end of the town, on the border with Duanesburg, was the location of the estate of George William Featherstonaugh, which was the subject of several Thomas Cole paintings.

Featherstonaugh was an English-American geographer and geologist also especially interested in the use of rail transportation to modernize farming.