New York Books

Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New York 1691-1704 the Minutes, Annotated $13.00
Paul M. Hamlin J. D., Ph.D. and Charles E. Baker
The New York Historical Society 1952
The New York Historical Society Collections 1946 volume LXXIX
Table of Contents: Minutes of the Supreme Court of Judicature Of the Province of New York, October 6, 1691, through October 12, 1692
Minutes of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New York, August 11, 1701, through October 14, 1704.
Notes to the Supreme Court of Judicature Minutes 1691-1692
Notes to the Supreme Court of Judicature Minutes 1701-1704
Appendix-Rules of Procedure, 1699-1764
386 Pages, Good Condition, Ex Library, Library Stamps and Markings, Title Page and inside Front Cover Have a Piece Cut out of Them.

Discover the Central Adirondacks $2.00
Barbara McMartin
Woodstock: Backpack Press, 1986
(from the back cover)
"The Discover the Central Adirondacks series of four-season, multi-use guides will allow the outdoor explorer to discover all of the Adirondacks, form the most popular trails to the most hidden destinations. Each guide will present, in author Barbara McMartins's own words, "hiking trails including trails suitable for ski-touring, unmarked paths, the best bushwhacks, most of the canoe routes, in fact just about anything you might want to do in the region." Each guide includes sections of topographic maps with trail overlays, as well as dozens of McMartins's excellent photographs. Eventually the series will embrace 11 regions within the vast Adirondack Park.
158 pages, 8x5 softbound, good condition.

Dutch New York
Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck 1657-1660 Vol II (NY Dutch) $55.00
Translated and edited by A. J. F. Van Laer
Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1923
(from the preface) The minutes of the court of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck, of which translations appear in the present volume, consist of four parts, each of which contains the proceedings of the court for a single year. For the years 1657 and 1660, there are no original minutes in the Albany county clerk’s office. Engrossed copies of these minutes, however, are contained in two separate records which before the Capitol fire of 1911 were bound as parts 2 and 3 of volume 16 of the New York Colonial Manuscripts, in the New York State Library. These records were fortunately salvaged from the fire in very good condition and from them the present translations have been made.
The minutes for 1658-1659 make up the first 211 pages of an original record in the Albany county clerk’s office which on he back is lettered: Court Minutes 2, 1658—1660, and underneath, in larger type, Mortgage No. 1, 1652—1660. A translation of these minutes, made by Professor Jonathan Pearson, was among the manuscripts which in 1914 were presented to the New York State Library by his sons. With the exception of these minutes, these manuscripts have since been published under the title of Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck, volumes 2—4. The present volume does not follow Professor Pearson’s manuscript translation of these court minutes, but contains a new translation. which uniform in character with that of the earlier minutes that are printed in the first volume of this series.
Among the minutes that are printed in this volume there are proceedings of a number of important conferences with the Indians which were held at Fort Orange during the first Esopus War. Translations of these proceedings were published by Mr Berthold Fernow in volume 13 of the Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York. They have been carefully revised for the present work, in which they appear in their proper chronological places. The same applies also to a number of ordinances issued by the court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, of which translations differing in some cases materially from the present are included in the Laws and Ordinances of New Nether/and, 1638—1674, compiled by Dr E. B. O’Callaghan.
In connection with the court minutes of 1657 and 1658, attention is called to the fact that a few leaves, containing memoranda in the handwriting of Commissary Johannes La Montagne of various complaints that were made to him in those years, have by mistake been inserted after page 1 36 in volume 2 of Deeds, in the Albany county clerk’s office. A translation of these memoranda, erroneously ascribed to Johannes Dyckman, will be found on pages 245—47 of volume 1 of the Early Records of Albany, published by Professor Pearson in 1869.
336 pages, 6x9 hardbound, the covers have some of the color rubbed off, corners slightly bumped, light shelf wear. Good condition.

New York City

Guide to Vital Statistics in the City of New York - Borough of Manhattan - Churches $45.00
New York: Historical Records Survey, WPA, 1942
Table of contents: Reformed Church in America, Jewish Congregations, Lutheran Churches, Society of Friends, Protestant Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., Moravian Church in America, Baptist Churches, Northern Convention, Methodist Church, Presbyterian Churches, Miscellaneous Bodies, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Institutions, African Wesleyan M. E. Church, Baptist Churches, Miscellaneous Bodies, Disciples of Christ, Churches of New Jerusalem, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Unitarian Churches, Interdenominational Churches, Reformed Episcopal Church, Evangelical Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, Undenominational Churches, Baptist Churches, National Convention, Evangelical Reformed Church, Christian Missionary Alliance, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Seventh Day Adventists, Congregational and Christian Churches, International Churches, Spiritualist Churches, Pentecostal Churches, Apostolic Church, African Orthodox Church, Catholic (Non-Roman) Churches, Methodist (Colored) Church, Miscellaneous Churches, Table of Denominations, Index, Churches and Institutions, Street Locations.
73 pages, 9x 12 softbound, fading and some stains on back cover, good condition

The Gunsmiths of Manhattan 1625-1900 $10.00
Michael H. Lewis
Alexander Bay, New York: Museum Restoration Service, 1991
A checklist of tradesmen. Most entries include address, years in business and more information.
40 page pamphlet, good condition.

The Man Who Tried to Burn New York $19.95
Nat Brandt
Syracuse University Press 1986
Fascinating story of the Confederate spies who set fire to New York during the Civil War.
292 pages, softbound, new >m

Genealogy in the Bronx: An Annotated Resource Guide to Sources of Information $8.00
Compiled by Janet Butler, Edited by Gary Hermalyn
New York: The Bronx Historical Society, 1977
Table of contents:
Books on The Bronx and the New York Area Selected Vendors
Selected Resource Centers Age Search Bureau
The Bronx County Historical Society
The Bronx County Register Bureau of Vital Records Bureau of War Records
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) County Clerk's Office
Department of Buildings Eastchester Historical Society
Historical Documents Collection, Queens College
Huguenot and Historical Association
Long Island Historical Society
Marriage License Bureau
Military Service Records, National Archives
Mount Vernon Public Library
Municipal Archives and Records Center
Municipal Reference and Research Center
National Archives and Records Service
National Personnel Center
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
New-York Historical Society New York Public Library
Local History and Genealogy
Microfilm and Reading Room
Map Division
Manuscript Division
New York State Historical Association
New York State Library Potter's Field
Schomburg Center for Black Culture
Surrogates Court
Westchester County Clerk and Land Records Office Westchester County Historical Society
Other Resource Centers Cemeteries of The Bronx Records Check List
Appendix
Family Tree Charts (missing)
30 pages, 9x12 typewritten photocopy, (this is the way it was published) good condition, missing the appendix.

Guide to Vital Statistics in the City of New York - Borough of the Bronx - Churches $29.95
NY: Historical Records Survey - WPA 1942
Table of contents:
Preface, Introduction, Explanatory Notes, Church Entries:, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed Church in America, Methodist, Presbyterian in the U. S. A., Roman Catholic, Congregational and. Christian, Moravian in America, Northern Baptist Convention, Lutherans, Jewish Congregations, Reformed Episcopal, Evangelical and. Reformed, Independent Baptist Church of America, Unitarians, Eastern Orthodox, Church Index, Street Index, Publications.
39 pages, 9x12 softbound, ex library, stamp on title page, pencil writing on cover

Landmark of New York - The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 1808-1958 $15.00
By Deacon George T. Peck, Ph.D.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 1960
I know it's not New England. Table of contents includes:
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Gathering of the Congregation
The Church in Cedar Street
The Duane Street Church
The Nineteenth Street Church
Dr. Hall's Church
Two Able Pastors-Dr. Purves and Dr. Stevenson
Two British Pastors-Dr. Jowett and Dr. Kelman
The Co-Pastorate of Dr. Howard and Dr. Morgan
John Sutherland Bonnell
A HISTORY OF OUR Church's MUSIC
OBSERVANCE OF THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF OUR CHURCH
ANNIVERSARY SERMON By DR. BONNELL, "AN UNFAILING TEST OF A GREAT CHURCH"
ADDRESS BY THE REV. PHILIP R. MAGEE ON JOHN BRODHEAD ROMEYN
OFFICIAL BOARDS OF THE CHURCH
THE SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL
CHURCH ORGANIZATION'S AND THEIR WORK
The Woman's Association
The Business and Professional Women's Club
The Young People's Association
The Fifth Avenue Fellowship
The Men's Club
The Fifth Avenue Outreach
MINISTERS AND OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH, 1808-1958
174 pages hardbound, good condition

New York Towns and their History

Revolutionary Soldiers Resident Or Dying In Onondaga County, N. Y.; With Supplementary List Of Possible Veterans, Based On A Pension List Of Franklin H. Chase, Syracuse, N. Y $69.95
Rev. W. M. Beauchamp.
Onondaga, NY:  1913. Onondaga Historical Association
Includes headstone inscriptions on some soldiers, sometimes gives wife and children. Information varies from soldier to soldier.
Table of Contents: Title page, Publications of the Onondaga Historical Association. Revolutionary soldiers in Onondaga County, Camillus, Cicero, Clay, De Witt, Elbridge, Fabius, La Fayette, Lysander, Manlius, Marcellus, Town of Onondaga, Town of Otisco, Town of Pompey, Town of Salina, Town of Skaneateles, Town of Spafford, City of Syracuse, Town of Tully, Town of Van Buren, Some names not assigned to towns, Back matter, Cemeteries, Index, Addenda, Affidavit, Cemeteries, Commission Discharge, Errata, General Plan, Land Grant, Local History, Military Tract . Index of Soldiers listed.
301 pages. Fair condition, (front cover detached) tears on spine.

Pathway to a Village A History of Bronxville, New York $23.00
Victor Mays Illustrated with drawings by the author and photographs.
Nebko Press, Publishers, Bronxville. New York
Dedication
PROLOGUE
The Land Beneath Us
PART I. FRONTIER AFLAME 1609-1646
The Great Canoe — September, 1609, Frontier Land, Warpath, The Massacre, Reprisals, PART II. WOLVES AND WITCHES 1647-1787
Back to the Land, North Riding on the Main, Colonial Days, A Wild Ride and a Welcome Hearth, Pioneer Spirit, A Famous Church Close to Us, Early Crime and Punishment, Farms, Ferries, Roads and Mills, Settlers on the Land, Fight for Freedom, Skirmishers and Raiders.
PART III. THE COUNTRY SQUIRES 1788-1865
Rebuilding, Alexander Masterton, Tuckahoe Marble, More Settlers for "Underhill's Crossing", The Iron Horse, Our Village becomes Bronxville, The Second Generation of Mastertons, The First Church, That Old Time Religion, Robber's Roost, The Civil War: 1861-1865, The Gate at Swain's.
PART IV. PRANKS AND PRIMERS 1835-1887
Old School Days, Private Schools, Public Schools, Union Corners, The Red Schoolhouse, Life in Old Bronxville.
PART V. THE SECOND WAVE 1888-99
The Blizzard, The Lawrence Idea, The Gramatan, The Price of Progress, Bronxville becomes Official, Building a Village, Ordinances, Police, Firemen, Village Health, "With Utmost Speed!", Bronxville gets its Hospital, History Relived, Continued Growth, The Village Hall, People and Change, The Yellow School, Today's Red Brick School, New Churches, Frank Ross Chambers, Transportation Improves, Two Colleges, War Years, Spare Time Fun, The Pageant, In Our Time.
APPENDICES:
A: Historical Chart, B: List of Presidents and, Mayors of Bronxville, C: Diagram of Village Government, D: Preparation of "Pathway to a Village".
INDEX
List of Illustrations
SUBJECT: Naoma Wetzel, Time Machine, Geologic profiles, LITTLE WOLF, RUNNING BEAR, lodge, HALF MOON, Anne Hutchinson, Map of early settlements, Map of early Westchester, Family tree of Westchester towns, Tom Drake and wolves, Plan of Drake home, St. Paul's Church, Dobb's Ferry, Old Underhill homestead, Revolutionary War drummer boy, Revolutionary War map of Westchester, Fulton's CLERMONT, Riggs (Morgan) house, Alex and Euphemia Masterton, Masterton homestead, Loading marble on schooners, The Boltons, "Stoneleigh", Swain mill, The Prescotts, Map showing early settlers' locations, First train through town, Underhill, Underhill's Stationhouse, The Masterton children, Early Reformed Church, Louise Masterton at organ, Civil War soldier, Mob at Stoneleigh gate, Map showing early Public and Private Schools, Miss Lyman, Union Corners School, Bert Burtnett, Red Schoolhouse, Red Schoolhouse interior, Smith-Tyler store, Arnie Dusenberry racing pigs, Map of town in 1880's, Early scenes around town, Archery or Ball scene98, Blizzard of 1888, "Crows Nest", William V. D. Lawrence, Tennis group in 1890's105, Hotel Gramatan in early days, Francis Bacon, Early firemen, hose cart and "steamer", Dudley Lawrence, Anna Bisland, Putting Dudley on train, Lawrence Hospital, Early Pageant, First Village Hall, Present Village Hall and Library, The Yellow School, Early photo of today's school, Frank R. Chambers, Railroad Station of 1893, Tub Race — Firemen's Picnic, Old Swimming Hole, Skating Pond, Christmas Pageant, Sketch of Bronxville children through the years,
Picture Credit: Many of the photographic prints used in this book were prepared from old private photographs by Robert Browning Baker.
163 pages, 6x9 hardbound, good condition.

Wolfert's Roost: Irving-On Hudson, New York $24.95
Carl Carmer
Washington Irving Press  1971-1st edition
247 illustrations, 16 maps Excellent condition
This book is about 1,850 acres, more or less, of land 22 mi. north of New York City, on the Hudson River.  Within its pages one finds the drama, history humor and characters which a bit of land has been host two.  From America's first great author, for whom Irvington was named, to his articulate neighbors, antecedents and successors, here is an album of nostalgia, adventure, pathos, information and involvement.
Once referred to as the richest square-mile on earth, Irvington was a mecca of the wealthy and famous.  In these pages will be met Goulds Vanderbilts, Morgan's and other "howling swells" of the Irvington's high society.  One also visits their mansions, estates and castles.  But the Smart said had no lien on gaiety in the community.  There were they immune from the day-to-day vicissitudes of sanitation, water supply and other services.  The reader shares in the colorful lives of settlers, farmers, soldiers-heroes, artists, writers-characters of many kinds, from a lonely hermit whose grave caused the route of one America's first superhighways to be altered, to the father of the Atlantic cable.
Here in the text, maps and pictures is rich and varied fair.  Wolford Lockwood, sometime Village historian, writes of life in the area over three centuries.  Clarence Dey describes a frustrating incident of the summer's day in Irvington from "life with father."  Carl Kremer, author and historian, contributes a charming essay on the Village, a romantic ghost story and a poem about unique  Octagon House.
The pictures illustrate the many-faceted scene-old-time golf, bobsledding merchants at their trades, drawing room tea times and boisterous saloons.  Compiled and edited by neighbors, all of whom live in Irvington, the scrapbook of literary highlights, human corks and lively illustrations foreshadows the community of today, a suburb particular and fascinating, in some ways a 20th-century Camelot where residents still know not only each other by name, but know the names of cats and dogs as well.
151 pages, dust jacket is ragged along the edges, book is in very good condition

Middletown, New York A Biography $36.00
Franklin B. Williams   Member of the Historical Society of Middletown and the Wallkill Precinct, Author of "Sources of Orange County History"
Middletown, NY., Lawrence A. Toepp 1928
Table of contents:
Preface .
I The Pioneers, Earliest Times until 1815.
II The Hamlet, 1816-1840 III The Village, 1840-1865 IV Super-Village, 1865-1888.
V The City, 1888 to the present
VI Military, The Wars and Militia.
VII The City's Growth, Population and Streets.
VIII Schools, Lyceum, Libraries, Hospitals
IX Fire Department.
X City Government, Officials.
XI Personalities
XII Churches and Cemeteries.. XIII Organizations
XIV Miscellaneous: Newspapers, Sports, Post Office, Banks, Bibliography
201 pages, top and bottom of spine worn, small white spots on cover, owners address sticker inside front cover, inscription on blank page, hinge is cracked but not detached. I have seen this book listed for $125.00

Centennial History of the Library at Port Washington New York - The Library Years 1892-1992  $9.95
Richard Dodge Whittenmore
Port Washington, New York: Port Washington Library 1992
From its origin in the front hall of a modest farmhouse to its present distinguished modern building in the center of town, the Port Washington Public Library has provided continuous library service for one hundred years to a community whose population has soared from 800 in 1892 to 32,000 in 1992.
There might never have been a library in Port Washington had it not been for two determined ladies: Miss Caroline Hicks of Sands Point who wanted a Woman's Club and Miss Wilhelmina Mitchell of Shore Road who wanted a library. They combined their ideas, their talents and their energies, attracted many other ladies who shared their interests, and made both wishes come true.
The Library Years-1892 to 1992 brings to life all those people and events who have shaped the Port Washington Library, a venerable institution that refuses to show its age.
Here is the 100-Year panorama of the Port Washington Library told through old newspapers, hundreds of priceless documents, oral histories of people "who were there," Boards of Trustees meeting minutes, news clippings and more than 200 evocative illustrations.
From those first days in Miss Mitchell's front hall (125 books), soon after housed in rented parlors in the Baxter Homestead (still standing today at Shore Road and Central Drive), the library, in 1903, progressed to its own building (mortgaged to the hilt) on Main Street. It took another 23 years before a new library, of a size to adequately serve the needs of the community, could be completed on Belleview Avenue.
By 1965, after the Depression, World War 11, and the unprecedented growth of Port Washington into a thriving suburb of New York City, the limited spa and inadequate facilities of the Belleville Avenue Library were recognized by both the Board of Trustees and members , the community who voted Overwhelmingly for the present award-winning building. In the 22 years since its opening, the Port Washington Public Library has achieved national recognition as one of the 50 best libraries of its size. Not just a collection of books surrounded by four walls, but a living part of the community the Port Washington Public Library is a art gallery, a place for music, films an meetings, as well as a cultural center. Unique in the annals of public libraries, there have been only three head librarians in its one hundred year history
190 pages, 9x11½ hardbound, dust jacket, slight wear on edges of dust jacket, good condition.