This volume, published in 1869 by Joel Munsell, contains a detailed history of Albany up to 1848. Notable chapters include the Colony of Rensselaerswyck, 1614 to 1646, the Celebration of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 1788, and the Scene of the Revolution in Albany.
Chapters include:
• Discovery of Hudson’s River
• Colony of Rensselaerswyck, 1614 to 1646
• Kiliaen Van Rensselaer
• Executors of Jeremias Van Rensselaer
• Sentence of Banishment
• Arent Van Curler
• Codirectors of Rensselaerswyck, 1630
• Visit of Peter Kalm to Albany, 1749
• First Charter Officers
• Names of Settlers in Rensselaerswyck, 1630 to 1646
• Sentence of William Juriaensen Bakker
• Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Albany
• Houses in 1786
• Evangelical Lutheran Ebenezer Church
• Reformed German Church
• Sabbath Evening School
• German Evangelical Lutheran Church
• First Presbyterian Church
• Bethel for Watermen
• Jewish Synagogues
• Universalist Church
• Society of Friends
• Ancient Albany
• Rutten Kil
• City of Albany
• County of Albany
• Remarkable Winter
• Operation of the Cheap Postage System in Albany
• Civil Officers of the City of Albany, 1693
• Overslaugh
• Manufacture of Bricks, 1847
• Albany Academy
• School of 1785
• Albany Female Academy
• State Normal School
• School Appropriation
• Grammar School, 1806
• Lights and Shadows of Traveling in New York in 1796
• Lancaster School
• Commission of John Abeel, 1694
• Books in 1772
• Barlow’s Prediction of the Erie Canal
• Closing and opening of the River, 1785 to 1849
• Centennial Anniversary
• Incidents of a Northern Winter
• Cold days in the last Century
• Hudson River
• Opening and Closing of the Canal from 1824 to 1849 inclusive
• Imprisonment for Debt
• Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1848
• Ferry Rates, 1784
• Albany Merchant’s Stock in 1790
• Celebration of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 1788
• Condition and Prospects of the City in 1789
• Tobacco Establishment of 1790
• Board of Trade
• Custom House
• Hibernian Provident Society
• Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road
• St. Andrew’s Society
• Albany Society of Brotherly Love
• Stage and Mail Routes in Olden Time
• General Hamilton at Quarantine
• Albany County Bible Society
• Price Current of Goods usually Imported at London from Albany, 1750
• Ancient Commerce of Albany
• List of the Freeholders of the City and County of Albany, 1720
• Description of Albany in 1823
• Dr. Morse’s Description of Albany in 1789
• Albany in 1796
• Bond of the Aldermen of Schenectady, 1766
• Family Record from the Groesbeeck Bible
• Banks
• Harmanus Bleecker
• Vanderheyden Palace
• Stevenson House
• Wendell House
• State Street in 1792
• Scene of the Revolution in Albany
• Canadian Invasion
• Chronicle of Events in Albany, 1847 and 1848