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This collection of manuscript images dated from 1794 to 1832 includes a shop ledger, account book, and cipher book belonging to James Pine of Rye, New York. Shop Ledger of James Pine This title is dated from 1794 and is James Pine's shop ledger. Goods like rum, tobacco, and sugar are frequently...Read more
This collection contains births and baptisms from 1760 to 1788, and communicants from 1763-1788. Births and Baptisms, 1760 to 1788 Communicants, 1763 to 1788 View the full file. This collection was edited by Royden Woodward Vosburgh.Read more
Written by Arad Thomas and printed by H. A. Bruner of Albion, New York, in 1871. Subtitle, in full: "Containing Some Account of the Civil Divisions of Western New York, with Brief Biographical Notices of Early Settlers, and of the Hardships and Privations They Endured, the Organization of the Towns...Read more
Written by O. Turner in 1850, this text surveys major events in the history of Western New York, with remarks on the ancient “remains” in the region, the life and culture of the Seneca Iroquois, the Dutch colonization, the War of 1812 and, finally, the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. Broken...Read more
These records include baptisms, marriages, and church members from 1789 to 1824. The collection also includes abstracts from church minutes and church history. Introduction Baptisms, 1789–1824 Marriages, 1789–1824 Church Members, 1789–1824 Abstracts from the Minutes Register of Deacons and Elders...Read more
The Duke Laws of 1664 gave the state the power to administer the authentication of wills and managing the estates of people who did not write wills before their death. In the coming century, the laws regarding the probate of wills were altered in how they were supervised. As a result, we have documents that contain a great deal of information for readers looking for genealogical information.Read more
Transcribed gravestones inscriptions from cemeteries in Putnam County, New York. Researchers can search these records by text and can browse digital images. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.Read more
Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Queens County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.Read more
Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Queens County, New York. Researchers can search these records by text and can browse digital images. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church.Read more
This collection contains abstracted marriage and death information from in and around the vicinity of Queens county as well as parts of what we now consider Nassau county. These records span from 1847 to 1870. The newspapers this information came from is unknown, although some of it may have been gathered from the Flushing Journal.Read more
This collection contains church membership records, including deaths, as well as an index. The microfilm was taken from a copy of the original records by W. Herbert Wood. Records of the Congregational Church at Elbridge, New YorkRead more
This collection is a transcribed index of records from the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga. Baptisms, Late 18th Century View the full collection. This collection was edited by Royden Woodward Vosburgh.Read more
Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Rensselaer County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.Read more
Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Rensselaer County, New York. Some volumes are searchable, others can only be browsed by image. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church.Read more
Residents of Onondaga County provides a list of names and corresponding towns for the year 1803 who were also subscribers to "Introduction to English Grammar" by Hezekiah Munsell Jr. During the 19th century, for subject books of this nature, subscribers would sometimes pay an author or bookseller to...Read more