Author: Harold E. Hinds (Jr.)
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Category : Essex County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Basic Guide to Genealogical and Family History Resources for Essex County, New York
Author: Harold E. Hinds (Jr.)
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Category : Essex County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Essex County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Black Woods
Author: Amy Godine
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501771698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship. Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith's suffrage-seeking plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and most leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo, a new Black Adirondack settlement in the woods. Smith's plan was prescient, anticipating Black suffrage reform, affirmative action, environmental distributive justice, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith's offer fell radically short of his high hopes, Smith's zeal cooled. Timbuctoo, Freemen's Home, Blacksville and other settlements were forgotten. History would marginalize this Black community for 150 years. In The Black Woods, Amy Godine recovers a robust history of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. Her immersive story returns the Black pioneers and their descendants to their rightful place at the center of this history. With stirring accounts of racial justice, and no shortage of heroes, The Black Woods amplifies the unique significance of the Adirondacks in the American imagination.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501771698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship. Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith's suffrage-seeking plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and most leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo, a new Black Adirondack settlement in the woods. Smith's plan was prescient, anticipating Black suffrage reform, affirmative action, environmental distributive justice, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith's offer fell radically short of his high hopes, Smith's zeal cooled. Timbuctoo, Freemen's Home, Blacksville and other settlements were forgotten. History would marginalize this Black community for 150 years. In The Black Woods, Amy Godine recovers a robust history of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. Her immersive story returns the Black pioneers and their descendants to their rightful place at the center of this history. With stirring accounts of racial justice, and no shortage of heroes, The Black Woods amplifies the unique significance of the Adirondacks in the American imagination.
Our Thew Family Heritage
Author: Diana G. Bastian
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
John Thew married Elsie Snedecker, daughter of Teunis Snedecker and Neeltje Polhemus, in about 1725 in New York. They had five children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New York and Ohio.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
John Thew married Elsie Snedecker, daughter of Teunis Snedecker and Neeltje Polhemus, in about 1725 in New York. They had five children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New York and Ohio.
The Genealogist's Address Book
Author: Elizabeth Petty Bentley
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Digest of Public General Bills with Index
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Adirondack Outlaws
Author: Niki Kourofsky
Publisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560376112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Local author and historian Niki Kourofsky exposes the North Country’s shadowy past of crime and dark deeds. Her wry, lively storytelling puts readers right in the thick of shootouts, jewel heists, bank robberies, manhunts, and unsolved murders. Spanning eight decades of Adirondack history and ranging from Glens Falls to the Canadian border, Adirondack Outlaws is a rollicking page-turner, rich in chilling details and amply illustrated with historical photographs.
Publisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560376112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Local author and historian Niki Kourofsky exposes the North Country’s shadowy past of crime and dark deeds. Her wry, lively storytelling puts readers right in the thick of shootouts, jewel heists, bank robberies, manhunts, and unsolved murders. Spanning eight decades of Adirondack history and ranging from Glens Falls to the Canadian border, Adirondack Outlaws is a rollicking page-turner, rich in chilling details and amply illustrated with historical photographs.
Federal Register
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
Obituaries 2000
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Tree Talks
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer
Author: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692319987
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Detailed review of the major record groups for genealogical research in New York, plus guides to the 62 counties of New York State.
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ISBN: 9780692319987
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Detailed review of the major record groups for genealogical research in New York, plus guides to the 62 counties of New York State.