Westchester Patriarchs

Westchester Patriarchs
Author: Norman Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

Westchester County is an original shire; it was formed in 1683 although it was settled much earlier. Hence, the county and its families have a long and illustrious history. The first settlers were primarily Dutch, English, and French Huguenots; Irish, Sco

The Leisler Papers, 1689-1691

The Leisler Papers, 1689-1691
Author: Peter R. Christoph
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780815628200

Jacob Leisler has been more an icon in historical writing than a person. That the icon has served very different groups over the centuries only shows that is has had little to do with the real person. In his own century he was both the fanatical and villainous despot and the martyred hero. In later times he was a forerunner of American democracy, and a symbol of colonial rebelliousness. He has also been pilloried in the Catholic press, not without justification, although Catholics were not among those treated most harshly during his administration. To Marxist theoreticians he was a voice for the proletariat; to National Socialist propagandists he was a German martyr. In short, much that has been written about Leisler has had to do with the interests of various groups and causes, many of them unrelated, or only distantly related, to anything happening in Leisler's time. It is only today that articles and books are beginning to appear in which his career is examined dispassionately. Many of the untruths are so ingrained that one must almost begin by saying what is not true before going on to discuss what is true about Leisler. Suffice it to say that, despite a long tradition of popular writing that he was base-born, resentful of being outside the mainstream of colonial life and commerce, and failing in his enterprises, he none of these. For much of our enlightenment we are indebted to the research by David William Voorhees, who has assembled copies of several thousand documents from private institutions and government archives from throughout Europe and North America.

The Burling Books

The Burling Books
Author: Jane Thompson-Stahr
Publisher: Jane k thompson
Total Pages: 1664
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780961310400

Includes Barnes, Bedell, Bowne, Brown, Carpenter, Cornell, Cruger, DeZeng, Dusenbury, Ferris, Field, Ford, Griffin, Gummere, Hallock, Haviland, Hunt, Ketcham, Kimble, Lawrence, Lowerre, Mott, Nelson, Norrington, Parsons, Pixley, Roesch, Rogers, Sampson, Schieffelin, Shotwell, Smith, Street, Thompson, Titus, Underhill, Vail, Vincent, Way, Weeks, White, Wood. S0000HB - $80.00

The Guide to Genealogical Research for Westchester County, New York

The Guide to Genealogical Research for Westchester County, New York
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2003
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

"This guide is designed to point the researcher toward logical directions by listing the various research facilities and repositiories of records in Westchester County. It covers Westchester County to the present and the Bronx before 1900"--Page 3.