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Yorktown, Westchester County, New York
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A brief history of the Presbyterian Church at Bedford, N.Y. from the year 1680 with an account of the laying of the corner-stone and the services at the dedication of the present edifice in the year 1872
A brief, but most complete and true account of the settlement of the ancient town of Pelham, Westchester County, state of New York known one time well and favourably as the Lordshipp sic and mannour sic of Pelham also the story of the three modern villages called the Pelhams
A historical sketch of St. Peter's Parish Cortlandt-Town, N.Y
A hundred years the Second Reformed Church, Tarrytown, New York, 1851-1951
Address delivered at the 230th celebration of the purchase of Mamaroneck, N.Y. from the Indians
Amawalk, Westchester County, New York, Friends Monthly Meeting records births, marriages and deaths, 1724-1908
Biographical history of Westchester County, New York
Burials in and around Pound Ridge, N.Y. 1860 to 1871
Cemetery inscriptions of Westchester County, N.Y.
Centennial book of Christ Episcopal Church, Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson
Chappaqua, N.Y., Quaker records
Commemorative discourse delivered at the centennial anniversary of the erection and the sixtieth of the consecration of St. Paul's Church, East Chester West Chester Co., N.Y., October 24th, 1865
Corporate centennial anniversary, 1835-1935 Asbury Centenary M.E. Church, Crestwood, Yonkers, New York, 1771-1935 February 21, 1935
Description of Herdsdale Farms situated in the towns of Scarsdale and New Rochelle, Westchester County, 16 miles from Central Park, New York property of Lewis G. Morris
Dobbs Ferry on Hudson Westchester County, N.Y.
First record book of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, organized in 1697, and now the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, N.Y. an original translation of its brief historical matter, baptisms, and marriages from its organization to 1791
History of the First Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, New York
History of the erection and dedication of the house of worship of the Warburton Avenue Baptist Church, Yonkers, N.Y.
Index to microfilms, U.S. Census, Westchester County, New York 1800-1880
Inscriptions copied from gravestones in Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle, N.Y.
Inscriptions copied from gravestones in Yonkers, N.Y. Oakland Cemetery
Inscriptions copied from graveyards in Bedford, Westchester County, New York with genealogical notes
Inscriptions copied from the gravestones in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
Inscriptions from Quaker burying grounds with notes Purchase, West Chester Co., Chappaqua, West Chester Co., Pawling, Dutchess Co., (Quaker Hill), Bethel, Dutchess Co., index
Inscriptions from graveyards in Yonkers and Inwood, N.Y.
Inscriptions from the graveyards in New Rochelle, N.Y.
Katonah, Westchester Co., N.Y.
Manual of Westchester County past and present civil list to date, 1898 containing specially prepared articles relative to the county, written by distinguished residents matters concerning the county's history organization of towns, villages and cities, population as shown by the various census enumerations, with other statistics and general facts of interest and value names and addresses of present officials in county, towns, cities
Names on stones in Quaker Cemetery on Post Road, Larchmont, N.Y.
New Rochelle, New York deaths, 1853-1881
New Rochelle, New York, cemeteries part 1, inscriptions from graveyards of Trinity Church, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal churchyard on Main Street, Coutant Yard part 2, Beechwoods Cemetery
Old wills of New Rochelle copies of wills by citizens of New Rochelle, N.Y., 1784-1830
One hundredth anniversary of the present church building of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church Tarrytown, New York 1937 one hundred forty-one years of Methodism in Tarrytown
Our village Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., 1902 to 1952
Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, N.Y. the site, the building, and its occupants
Poundridge Presbyterian Church, Westchester County, N.Y. marriages performed by Rev. William Patterson, 1837-1886
Publications of the Huguenot and Historical Association of New Rochelle, N.Y.
Purchase, Westchester Co., N.Y. tombstone inscriptions in the Quaker burying ground and minutes of monthly meetings, etc. with genealogical notes
Purchase, Westchester County, New York, monthly meeting of Friends intentions of marriage, 1726-1850
Quaker Marriages in Westchester County, New York
Records of early settlers of Putnam County and Cortlandt Manor, New York
Records of the town of Eastchester, Westchester County, New York
Services in commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the first election of wardens and vestrymen of the parish of Rye, New York held in the parish church, Thursday, February 28, 1895
Seventy-fifth anniversary exercises of the First Presbyterian Church, Peekskill, New York
Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y. October 19th, 1894
St. Mark's Episcopal Cemetery, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.
St. Paul's Church, Eastchester N.Y. situated near South Columbus Avenue and South Third Avenue, Mount Vernon, N.Y. gravestone inscriptions, with genealogical notes
The Jay Cemetery, Rye, New York established 1815, incorporated 1906 under New York law as a family cemetery corporation
The Lord's great things, historical sermon by George B. Reese 1884
The Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco centennial history, 1852-1952
The manor of Philipsborough address written for the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
The minutes of the Court of Sessions (1657-1696), Westchester County, New York
The old Dutch burying ground of Sleepy Hollow, in North Tarrytown, New York a record of the early gravestones and their inscriptions
The semi-centennial anniversary of the Presbyterian Church of Peekskill, N.Y.
The story of the Town Clock Church 1837-1937 erected as the South Church of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in 1837
To capitalists, investors, manufacturers, and all persons desiring homes in the country and suburbs of New York a brief historical and topographical description of that portion of Westchester and Putnam Counties immediately contiguous to the N.Y. City and Northern Railroad
Tombstone records of eighteen cemeteries in Poundridge, Westchester County, N.Y. fully indexed
Westchester County, New York and the French and Indian Wars 1755-1762
Westchester County, New York biographical
Westchester County, New York during the American Revolution
A FEW RESOURCES SPECIFIC TO THIS STATE:
720,000+ Historic Photos of New York City
Annals of Albany
Chronology of New York
Civil list and constitutional history of the Colony and State of New York
Dutch Records of New Netherlands
Early Images of Broome County, NY
Early New York Church and Vital Records
Early Records of the First Presbyterian Church of Syracuse
Early Settlers of Columbia County, New York
Early Settlers of Madison County, NY
Early Settlers of New York State
Genealogical and Family History of Central New York
Genealogical and Family History of Western New York
Historical collections of the state of New York
History of Broome County, New York
History of Cortland County, New York
Index of Deaths from Early Central New York Newspapers
Index of Marriages from Early Central New York Newspapers
Legends and Traditions of Old Otsego
Madison County, New York, Biographical Record
New York Chronology
New York Death Records and Index
New York Ecclesiastical Records
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
New York Land Records 1630-1975
New York Marriages prior to 1784
New York Newspapers Published before 1831
New York Olde Ulster Magazine
New York State Birth Index 1881-1942
New York State Marriage Index 1881-1963
New York in the Revolution
New York's Early Indian Villages and Forts
New York's Part in History
Old New York Lakes, Rivers and Places
Onondaga, or Reminiscences of Earlier and Later Times
Quaker Records of Otsego County, New York
Relics of Cortland, New York
Summerhill, Cayuga County, New York
Tales of Old New York
The History of Marathon, Cortland County, NY
The Pioneers of Utica
Ulster County Probate Records
Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York
10,000 names of persons given in the first book of vital records in Moravia, Cayuga County, NY
100 years of education, 1847-1947
140 years of Methodism in the Jamestown, N.Y. area
150 years of the Presbyterian Church, Lyons, New York, 1809-1959
1813 Pension List New York State
1818 Pension List New York State
1818 Pension Roll Cortland, New York
1820 Pension List New York State
1840 New York State Census of Pensioners
1853 Map of Cayuga County, New York
1855 New York State Census
1859 Map of Herkimer County, New York
1905 New York State Census
75th anniversary of Wells College 1943, Aurora, New York
75th anniversary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Keeseville, N.Y. 1902
A brief history of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church and its activities
A brief sketch of the first settlement of the county of Schoharie, by the Germans
A century of change being the centennial history of a city church the First Baptist Church in Williamsburgh, 1839-1939
A complete and accurate description of the procession which took place in the city of New York, November 26, 1830
An 1826 visit to Caryl's store, Worcester, Otsego Co., N.Y.
An address before the association at its annual gathering and festival, Rochester, NY 1859
Auburn Old and New - Official souvenir, old home week, 1906
Bi-centennial celebration of the 200th anniversary of the settlement of the Minisink Valley
Binghamton centennial, 1867-1967 souvenir booklet
Biographical sketches of leading citizens of Chenango County, New York
Bounty land applications
Cassadaga Lakes bicentennial memory book
Cassadaga, Lily Dale sesquicentennial, 1809-1959 June 28-July 5, 1959 souvenir historical book
Castile sesquicentennial, 1808-1958 July 18, 19, 20 one hundred fifty years of the joys of rural living
Catalogue of relics exhibited at the Onondaga County centennial
Cayuga County Cemeteries (New York)
Centennial Celebration of the First Settlement of Chautauqua County, 1902 at Westfield, N.Y.
Centennial Oration
Centennial anniversary, the record of a full century, Canandaigua, N.Y.
Centennial book of Christ Episcopal Church, Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson
Centennial celebration of the Minisink battle on the actual battle field 1879
Centennial chronicle 100 years of the Newburgh story with illustrations and historical sketches, 1865-1965
Centennial historical discourse, Reformed Church of Mapletown
Centennial historical souvenir of Watertown, New York
Centennial history of Sinclairville Free Library, 1870-1970 history
Centennial of the town of Brant, 1839-1939
Central New York Church Records at Carl A. Krock Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Central New York, an inland empire, comprising Oneida, Madison, Onondaga, Cayuga, Tompkins, Cortland, Chenango counties and their people
City of Newburgh a centennial historical sketch
Collections of the Cayuga County Historical Society
Cortland County Historical Society
Cortland County Land Ownership Map 1855
Cortland County sesquicentennial celebration July 20-26, 1958
Dutchess County Medical Society centennial meeting, 1906 with a record of the medical profession of Dutchess County from 1740 to 1906
Early History of the Village of Havana, New York
Early Probate Records at Norwich, New York
Early marriages in central New York
Family bible records found and copied in northern Chenango County, New York
First Presbyterian Church, Cortland, NY 100th anniversary, 1925
First fifty years of Cazenovia Seminary, 1825-1875 its history, proceedings of the semi-centennial jubilee, general catalogue
Folk-Lore from Schoharie County, New York
Four centennials, Geneva, New York
Genealogy of the Cortland County, N.Y., branch of the Sanders family
Gravestone inscriptions of Columbia County, New York Vol 1-3
Gravestone inscriptions of Columbia County, New York Vol 10
Gravestone inscriptions of Columbia County, New York Vol 7
Grip's Historical Souvenir of Cortland
Guide to ten major depositories of manuscript collections in New York State
Hannibal centennial edition and official program 1860-1960
Harlem (city of New York): its origin and early annals.
Historic Towns - New York
Historical sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of Victor, N.Y. 1888
History of Central New York - 3 Volumes
History of Chenango county, containing the divisions of the county and sketches of the towns, Indian tribes and titles
History of Herkimer County, N.Y. with Illustrations...Portraits of Old Pioneers
History of Oneida County, New York, 1667-1878
History of the Town of Otselic
History of the city of Troy from the expulsion of the Mohegan Indians to the present centennial year of the independence of the United States of America, 1876
Honor Roll, Oneida County in the War, 1917-1919
Immigration and Naturalization Records Onondaga County NY 1802-1859 2 Volumes
In Rochester 100 years ago and now, centennial year of the Rochester Savings Bank, 1831-1931
Index to marriages and deaths in the New York herald 1835-1855
Indian Mound Cemetery in Moravia New York
Inscriptions copied from gravestones in Yonkers, N.Y. Oakland Cemetery
Irondequoit centennial album, 1839-1939
Jefferson County centennial, 1905 speeches, addresses, and stories of the towns
Jefferson County sesqui-centennial program and historical almanac 1805-1955, one hundred and fifty years of progress
Liberty centennial addresses, June 11 and 12, 1907
Long Island Genealogies
Map of Chenango County, New York 1855
Map of Schoharie County, New York, 1839
Memorial of the centennial celebration of the battle of Oriskany, August 6, 1877
Mina-Findley Lake sesquicentennial, 1824-1974
Minerva, Essex County, N.Y. Local History
Narrative of events connected with the bicentennial celebration of Trinity Church, New York in May, 1898
New Rochelle, New York, cemeteries part 1, inscriptions from graveyards of Trinity Church, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal churchyard on Main Street, Coutant Yard part 2, Beechwoods Cemetery
New Windsor centennial Temple Hill, June 22d, 1883
New York City Municipal Archives - Vital Records
New York County Naturalization Records
New York Pensioners Of Revolutionary War Struck Off The Roll
New York Probate Records, 1629-1971
Notes from the diary of Abner H. Thomas town of Ulysses, Tompkins Co., New York, 1863-1865
Official Record of Indian Conference
Official program of the Plattsburgh centennial celebration at Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Lake Champlain, 1914, in grateful recognition of a successful defense of our country
One hundredth anniversary of the present church building of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church Tarrytown, New York 1937 one hundred forty-one years of Methodism in Tarrytown
Onondaga County centennial historical address
Onondaga's Part in the Civil War
Onondaga's Soldiers of the Revolution
Parish annals a sermon giving historical notices of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, N.Y. 1795-1845
Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, NY
Past and present a historical and descriptive sketch of Cortland, N.Y.
Paul Smith's and the St. Regis and Osgood chain of lakes, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.
Perinton's heritage Perinton sesquicentennial, 1812-1962
Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York
Poland sesqui-centennial, 1805-1955 town of Poland, as we remember
Presbyterian Church, East Hampton, New York, church records 1696-1884 extract from printed records of the town, vol. 5, 1905
Proceedings at the centennial anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church, Plattsburgh, New York, 1897
Proceedings at the tenth anniversary of the organization of the North Presbyterian Church, Binghamton, N.Y. 1880
Proceedings of the centennial anniversary of the old town of Cambridge
Publications of the Oswego Historical Society
Purchase, Westchester County, New York, monthly meeting of Friends intentions of marriage, 1726-1850
Re-union and memorial services of First Presbyterian Church, Fredonia, N.Y. 1874
Records of Bethel Free Church, Washington Street Church, Central Presbyterian Church and Central Presbyterian Church Sunday School, 1836-1906 typescript
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Swan Lake, Sullivan County, N.Y., White Sulphur Springs, Sullivan County, N.Y., Harris, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Grahamsville, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, Nyack, New York
Report of the Joint Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Evacuation of New York by the British Monday, November 26th, 1883 with an historical introduction
Review, the Tomb of the Martyrs
Revolutionary War Bounty Land, Cayuga County, New York
Revolutionary War Graves of Soldiers Buried in New York
Saint Joseph's parish centennial an historical and illustrated commemorative of Saint Joseph's parish, 1941
Semi-centennial a sermon, Rome, NY 1850
Semi-centennial celebration of the city of Buffalo 1882
Semi-centennial history of the city of Rochester with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
Semi-centennial souvenir Alfred University, the mountain college, its patriotic aim and noble work, 1857-1907
Sesquicentennial of Malone, 1802-1952
Seventy-fifth anniversary exercises of the First Presbyterian Church, Peekskill, New York
Silver Creek centennial celebration, complete history, program of events
Silver Creek through the years - Silver Creek, New York
Some Chenango County vital records before 1880
Souvenir of the Sherburne centennial celebration 1893
Souvenir of the civic celebration at Martyrs Hill, Auriesville, NY 1930
Souvenir program of the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the village of Fultonville
St. Ann's Church (Brooklyn, New York) from the year 1784 to the year 1845
Stockton centennial address 1810-1910
Sullivan in history interesting people and events contributing to the development of the township of Sullivan, Madison County, New York
Summerhill census indexes, Summerhill Township, Cayuga County, New York State, census indexes for 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 federal censuses
The Cemeteries of New York and Vicinity 1895
The Cortland Academy jubilee celebrated at Homer, N.Y., July 7 and 8, 1846
The Elmira centennial and Scottish pioneers, 1838-1938
The First Unitarian Church of Buffalo its history and progress
The Hudson-Fulton celebration Albany, N.Y., 1909
The Lord's great things, historical sermon by George B. Reese 1884
The New York conspiracy, or, A history of the Negro plot
The Old Martyrs' Prison, New York
The Peopling of Tompkins County
The Pompey (N.Y.) Stone, with an inscription and date of A.D. 1520
The Stone House at Gowanus scene of the Battle of Long Island, Stirling's headquarters, Cornwallis's redoubt, occupied by Washington colonial residence of Dutch architecture, built by Nicholas Vechte, 1699
The Twenty-fifth anniversary of the dedication of the Richmond Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
The annals of Newtown in Queens County, New York
The centennial celebration of General Sullivan's campaign against the Iroquois, in 1779 held at Waterloo 1879
The centennial history of the town of Marcellus
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American Library Association (ALA)
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Biographical Review
Brunswick Public Library Heritage Room
Castle Garden's Immigration Records New York City
Cemetery Records
Centennial bibliography
Center for Civic Education
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Chronicling America
Civil War Corporal's Pay
Civil War Preservation Trust
Coastal Georgia Genealogy and History
Coat of Arms Collection
Coats of Arms and Their Meanings
Cornell Making of America Digital Library
DNA Painter
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David Rumsey Map Collections
Descendants of Adam and Eve
Digital History
Directory of Open Access Journals
Ethnic Genealogy - A Research Guide
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Gedmatch explanation and tips for comparing results
Genealogy Bank
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Grandparents Galore
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Heraldry Meanings and Symbols
HeritageQuest Census Records
Historical Books on DVD
Historical Records Collection
How the races were developed
How to personalize your family scrapbook
Interment.net
International Society of Genetic Genealogy
Internet Archive of Texts and Documents: The United States
Introduction to Genetics
JSTOR Journals and Books online
Librarians' Internet Index: History
Library of Congress
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Markings on the Manifest's Left Margin
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Naming patterns for children
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Naval Historical Foundation
Newspaper Archive
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Our New England ancestors and their descendants, 1620-1900
Recollections of the Civil War
Roman Numeral Converter
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The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy
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Timeline of Events and Inventions
U.S. Register of Army Enlistments (1798-1914)
Understanding Removed Cousins
Using maps in Genealogy
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What you can learn from a Social Security number
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Where to find passenger lists
Who's Who in America
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Your Ancestors Magazine

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Yorktown was a part of the Manor of Cortlandt, a Royal Manor granted by King William III, for the Van Cortlandt family from the Netherlands in 1637. The township was incorporated as Yorktown in 1788. Hamlets in Yorktown include Lake Mohegan, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley-Yorktown, Yorktown Heights, and Crompond, which is also partly situated in the town of Cortlandt.

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