Colonial

A useful work for New York research (and Long Island in particular) is Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut (5 vols., 1939-58, Washington, D.C., privately printed) and two

As anyone who has worked on colonial New York or New Jersey families can tell you, researching families whose baptisms, marriages and burials occur in Dutch Reformed Church records can be quite rewarding.

Andrew Jackson Provost, Jr. (1867-1963) was a civil engineer with a lifelong interest in genealogy.

A useful work for finding families in New York and in New Jersey before 1900 is Henry Pennington Toler, The New Harlem Register: A genealogy of the descendants of the twenty-three original Patentees of the Town of New Harlem, containing pr

One of the unique aspects of New York history was the existence of manors as political and judicial units in the colonial era.

Compiled accounts of many Westchester County families are contained in “The Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh, Westchester County, N.Y.,” a four-volume typescript by Grenville C. Mackenzie [NYG&B Library MS. T 1.1].

This year [1999] marks the 375th anniversary of the arrival in New Netherland of the first two ships carrying permanent European settlers to the colony.