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Nassau, Suburbia, U.S.A.: The First Seventy-Five Years of Nassau County, New York, 1899 to 1974
Nassau County, Long Island, in Early Photographs
Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island
Muscle, Steam and Motor...the Centennial History of the Sea Cliff Fire Department 1884-1984Sea Cliff Diamond Jubilee: 1883-1958
Original 1873 Vintage Map of Sea Cliff Grove
Original 1873 Vintage Map of Sea Cliff Grove Glen Cove
From the seller: "Art Source International is proud to present maps from F. W. Beers Atlas of Long Island, New York - 1873. This is the one of the rarest county atlases in existence today- subsequently, these maps are sure to sell fast! The maps show the counties and towns of Long Island, with roads, railroads, bodies of water and rivers, as well as buildings and the names of homeowners and landowners, making this an excellent genealogical resource! Original hand coloring highlights the maps in bright pastels. MAKER: F. W. Beers. CONDITION: Very GoodSIZE:15 1/2 x 24Year:1873."
From the seller: "22"x 14", map with original hand coloring in very good condition. There are two renderings of "View of the Metropolitan Tabernacle" and "Sea Cliff Summer Home for aged and infirm members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New York City." Pages 129 - 130 from "Atlas of Long Island, New York from Recent and Actual Surveys and Records under the Superintendence of F. W. Beers."New York City Court Records, 1684-1760: Genealogical Data from the Court of Quarter SessionsNew York City Records, 1760-1797: Genealogical Data from the Court of Quarter Sessions
New York City Court Records 1801-1804: Genealogical Data From the Court of General Sessions
Permanent New Yorkers: A Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of New York
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York
Petitions for Name Changes in New York City, 1848-1899Guide to Genealogical and Biographical Sources for New York City (Manhattan), 1783-1898
Rivington's New York Newspaper Excerpts From a Loyalist Press, 1773-1783
Churchyards of Trinity Parish in the City of New York, 1657-1969
Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign a Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930
St. Luke's Lutheran Church in the City of New York 1850-1940
Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995New York City & Brooklyn: 1866 Map:
The Blue Hill Troupe, 25th Anniversary
New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War
Graveyard Shift: New York City Metropolitan Area Cemeteries
Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892
The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in New York City
Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City
A History of Niagara County, New York
Journeys to the Brink of Doom: True Stories of Disaster, Mystery and Heroism at Niagara Falls
Niagara Frontier Genealogical Magazine
Niagara Country (American Folkways)
Niagara Falls (Images of America)The Town of Porter [New York] 1776-1976 a Bicentennial History
The Niagara Frontier: Embracing Sketches of Its Early History, and Indian, French and English Local NamesAnnals and Recollections of Oneida County
The Early Welsh Settlers of Oneida County, New York
Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society, at Utica. 1881-1884
Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York
Utica for a Century and a Half
DEVEREUX of the Leap, County Wexford, Ireland and of Utica, New York: Nicholas DEVEREUX, 1791-1855Early Histories and Descriptions of Oneida County, New York
Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
The Lesley E. Voorhees Records. Vol. I. Van Buren-Baldwinsville-Lysander Area Cemetery Inscriptions and Burial RecordsPioneer Irish of Onondaga, about 1776-1847
Pioneer Times in the Onondaga Country
The Local History and Genealogy Department Syracuse Public Library & Onondaga Public Library
Onondaga's Centennial, Gleanings of a CenturySyracuse Landmarks: An AIA Guide to Downtown and Historic Neighborhoods
The Ancestors and Descendants of Rulef SCHENCK: A Genealogy of the Onondaga County, New York Branch of the SCHENCK Family
1788 History of Ontario County, New York with Illustrations...
All Name Index to 1788 History of Ontario County New York
Unmasking the Past: Millers Corners-Ionia, 1789-1989
Atlas of Ontario County, New York: From Actual Surveys
Farmer's Diary Or Ontario Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1831
First Congregational Church Town of Canandaigua Sesquicentennial 1799-1949
Geneva Telephone Directory Summer 1931
Ontario County: Pictorial Reflections in the Finger Lakes Region
The Canandaigua Lake Steamboat Era: 1827 to 1935
Good Stuff Recipes, Hints, and Advice From Grandma Gifford
CanandaiguaWoodlawn Cemetery: Quarter Century Report of Canandaigua Cemetery Association
A History of Early Canandaigua
Our Grandmothers' Recipes and Some Others
(1914) Ontario County, New York Historical SocietyHistory of Orange County, New York
Cemeteries of Chester, New York
Along the Wawayanda Path from Old Greycourt to Chester to Sugar Loaf
Other Waters: a History of the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh, New York
Beatrice Rosenblum's Handbook Guide to Orange County BottlesHistory of the Town of New Windsor, Orange County, New York
Index to the 1881 Ruttenber and Clark History of Orange County, New York
Middletown. "The Whig Press" Marriage Notices 1851-1865Newburgh Centennial: 1783-1883, the Peace Celebration of October 18, 1883 [Newburgh, New York]
History of the County of Orange With a History of the Town and City of Newburgh (New York)
Pioneer History of Orleans County, New York...
Gazetteer and Business Directory of Orleans County, New York
Historical Album of Orleans County, New York
Directory of Orleans County N.Y., With Map 1903
A History of the Town of Yates in Orleans County New York 1822-1976
1902 Credit Directory: Oswego County, New York
At Rest in Unadilla: Otsego County, New York
Centennial of the City of Oneonta 1848-1948
History of Otsego County New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 1740-1878
Growing Up in the Cooper Country Boyhood Recollections of the New York Frontier
Descendants of Elisha COLE, Who Came from Cape Cod to What is Now Putnam County, New York, About 1745
The Town of Kent, Putnam County, New York
The Town of Southeast: 1788-1988
History of Putnam County, New York
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Old Gravestones of Putnam County, New YorkHistorical and Genealogical Record: Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York
Unique, Original 18th-Century Document: 1798 Manuscript Deed from Huntington, Queens County, Long Island, New York: John BISHOP to David WOOD; Families Crabmeadow
Queens County Sentinel, Queens County, New York: Index of Birth, Marriage, and Death Announcements, 1858-1878
From the seller: "Eighteenth-century manuscript deed agreement, between John BISHOP & William JONES Huntington deeding ".in the consideration of the Sum of thirty five pounds Current lawfull money of the State of New York to me in hand paid by David WOOD. Fresh meadow land and swamp situate lying and being at Crabmeadow in the township of Huntington." & more detail about the area of land to be deeded; 16" x 13" approximate size; BISHOP, WOOD families given generous and extensive mention in MATHER's opus genealogical work, "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut" documenting their genealogies and involvement in the Revolutionary War; with original paper-covered seals at bottom; signed by Jonas WOOD, Jonah BISHOP, John BISHOP, Helen BISHOP; some edge, tips wear and darkening to leaf; a few small holes, a little loss to a few letters; in medium brown ink, in legible hand; on back is old note, again in an eighteenth century hand: 'John BISHOP deed to David WOOD'; good condition."
Original 1873 Vintage Map: Ravenswood, Queens County
History of Queens County, New York with Illustrations, Portraits and Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals.
Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs: 261 Prints
Long Island GenealogiesGenealogies of Long Island Families: From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Records of the Town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York 1656-1751
Description of Private and Family Cemeteries in the Borough of Queens...Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island
The SANDFORD - SANFORD Families of Long Island: Their Ancestors and Descendants
The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York
First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, New York 1662-1942...
Unique, Original Collection of 15 Documents & Receipts Relating to the Life and Estate of William McQUEEN of the Town of Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1859 - 1865
From the seller: "Including: 2-page (with integral 2 pages of blanks) Bond dated 1859 for William McQueen of Oyster Bay Queens County Long Island New York for 1600 dollars to the Mary & Sarha Earle of the same town, with appropriate paper-covered seals and signed by James M. Burtis, McQueen is co-signed by Lucy McQueen, with interest information and payment details on next page, approx. 8" x 12" legal document size; other documents relate to this transaction and others: 1860 receipt from Edwin Griffing on order of J. Sammis interest on bond from McQueen and on the same paper, receipt for 2 years interest in 1862; evidently Wm. McQueen passes away around this time, since NOv. 19th 1861 receipt is from the Estate of Wm. McQueen to the School district for tax; other estate purchases in 1861 for white ash coal, pine slats, clths, horse, to S.Y. Ludlam; 1862 mortgage payment for J. M. Sammis & McQueen from Moses Austin(?); Town of Oyster Bay printed receipt accomplished by hand for town taxes for year 1862, printed at Glen Cove Gazette Print; estate of Wm. McQueen, interest payment, signed by Andrew McQueen; 1863 funeral expenses, travel interest charged for 2 years of carrying the bill, since 1860, J.S. White; 1863 McQueen estate payment receipt for large sheets of tin, charcoal, labor, more to Downing; 1863 from Edwin Griffin, for interest on note-now carried by David McQueen, signed by Stephen Schenck; Town of Oyster Bay town tax receipt for 1864 signed by Peter Vanderwater; 1865 receipt from Edwin Griffin executor of the estate of Wm. McQueen for professional services, by McCoun; 1865; 2 1865 receipts signed by Van Lise for Town of Oyster Bay taxes; and another 1865 Schenck interest receipt from original McQueen loan via David McQ. & Edwin Griffin; average size about 3 1/2" x 8"; light wear, old fold lines, a little foxing; very good condition and interesting Oyster Bay Long Island historical ephemera; a great 'snapshot' view of a family's estate & finances in the middle part of the nineteenth century."Unique, Original 1772 Manuscript Deed of Lands Between John & Henry WHITSON & Samuel, Richard and Richard JACKSON, Junior in Oyster Bay, Queens County, Colony of New York
From the seller: "Extensive Eighteenth-century manuscript deed for lands owned by the Whitsons to the Jacksons (of Hempstead) in the Township of Oyster Bay, dated thirty first day of July 1772; 12 1/2" x 8" approximate size; giving much detail of the location of these meadow lands, ".in the Lower Division of Oyster Bay West Neck. West Island or thirteenth Share of upland. from the Northwest Corner of the hay house. (to the) fence as now standeth being the old arbitration line fixed by Platt Conklin and William Smith and Lately Confirmed by an arbitration Settled by Jonathan Seaman William Townsend and Doctor James Townsend."; assigning these meadow lands to the estate of the Jacksons; with the names of Jacob Jackson & Isaac Minor, with their marks and John Whitson & Henry Whitson signatures, signing the document, with the remains of the original red wax seals; accomplished in a legible hand in brown ink, chain-laid watermark paper; Oyster Bay local historical figures of note, Townsend & Jackson, Whitson families given mention in Mather's major genealogical work, "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut"; light edge, tips wear and darkening to leaf; very good condition and interesting transaction just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and the division of many families due to their political loyalties."A Pictorial Reminiscence and Brief History of Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, N.Y., Founded in 1771
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Our Yesterdays: A History of Rensselaer CountyA Resourceful People: A Pictorial History of Rensselaer County, New York
Troy and Rensselaer County, A History
Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York
Cast in Stone: Selected Albany, Rensselaer, and Saratoga County, New York, BurialsAnnals of Staten Island, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island
Staten Island Wills and Letters of AdministrationA Finding List of Bibliographical Materials Relating to Rockland County, New York
The History of Rockland County
Rockland County, New York in the 1790s
Rockland County During the American Revolution, 1776-1781
The Way it Was in North Rockland
Now and Then and Long Ago in Rockland County, New York
Rockland County Century of History
19th Century Painters & Paintings of Rockland County, New York
Adventures for God: A History of St. George's Episcopal Church, Hempstead, Long Island
The Roots and Heritage of Hempstead Town
(1932)
Historical Collections of the State of New York / History of Rockland County
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