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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY

In researching one's family history, a knowledge of a county's or a town's history can often be of value in determining what resources are available as well as what may have caused a family to migrate elsewhere. Many of the books listed in this bibliography can be found at libraries throughout Westchester County. If you are not located near a library in Westchester County, ask at your local library if they can borrow a copy of a book through the Inter-Library Loan system. Additionally, there are many library catalogs which can be searched on the Internet, including the Westchester Library System.

Arranged Alphabetically by Author within each Category

Biographies and Genealogies

Butler, Joseph T. The Family Collections at Van Cortlandt Manor. [Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1967]

Capek, Thomas. Ancestry of Frederick Philipse, First Lord and Founder of Philipse Manor at Yonkers, NY. [New York: Paebar Company, 1939]

Davis, Norman. Westchester Patriarchs: a Genealogical Dictionary of Westchester County, NY, families prior to 1755. [Bowie, MD: Heritage Books] 1988. ISBN # 1-55613-118-6, paperback.

DeBartelo Carmack, Sharon Bart. The Ebetino and Vallarelli Family History, Italian Immigrants to Westchester County, New York, in the early 1900's including Descendants to 1990. [Decorah, Iowa: The Anundsen Publishing Company, 1990?]

Diamant, William. Bernard Romans, Forgotten Patriot of the American Revolution. [c. 1985]

Dunlap, Charles J. The Pintard House Memorial, including a Backward Glance at New Rochelle [New Rochelle, NY: Knickerbocker, 1927]

Fowler, Edmund. Fragmentary History and Genealogical Record of Some of the Descendants of Henry Fowler of Eastchester. C. 1880

Hadaway, Williams S., editor. The McDonald Papers. 2 volumes. [c. 1927] Contains 13 papers on the American Revolution in Westchester County, based on 407 interviews with eye-witnesses, conducted in 1844-1850 by John M. McDonald.

Hall, Edward Hagaman. Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, NY: The Site, the Building and Its Occupants. c. 1925.

Hansen, Harry. North of Manhattan; persons and places of Old Westchester. [New York: Hastings House] c. 1950.

Jessup, Rev. H.G., Edward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester County, NY and His Descendants, with Records of Other American Families. c. 1887.

Lander, Richard N., [compiled by] A Lander Genealogy: Henry S. M. Lander and his Descendants of Worth, Dorsetshire, England and Greenburgh, Westchester Co., America [Armonk, NY: R.N. Lander] c. 1991.

Landgon van Norden, Theordore. Unpublished Manuscript dealing with genealogies of residents of South Salem houses prior to 1900. Copy held by Lewisboro Public Library in South Salem.

Lent, Nelson Burton. History of the Lent (van Lent) Family in the United States (Newburgh, NY: Newburgh Journal Printing House and Book Bindery, c1901).

Macy, Edith Carpenter. Edith Carpenter Macy. [Updike The Merrymount Press] c. 1926.

Pell, Robert T. Sir John Pell, 2nd Lord of the Manor of Pelham, Westchester County, NY and his father, Dr. John Pell, mathematician, scholar and ambassador to the Protestant Swiss Cantons. [Privately printed] c. 1964 [Pelliana, new series vol. 1, no. 2]

Pell, Robert T. Thomas Pell, 1st Lord of the Manor of Pelham, Westchester County, NY. [Privately printed] c. 1962 [Pelliana, new series vol. 1, no. 1]

Seabury, Rev. Samuel (1729-1796). Letters of a Westchester Farmer, 1774-1775. [White Plains, NY: Westchester Co. Hist. Society] c. 1930.

Shelton, Marion Brown. An American Schoolmistress: the Life of Eliza B. Masters, 1847-1921 [New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927]

Traeger, Helen. The School House at Pine Tree Corner, North Salem, 1784-1976.[c. 1976] Teaching and administrative practices in a Westchester rural school, with much biographical material on North Salem families.

Vaughan, Harold Stearns. History and Genealogy of Vaughan Family: History and Genealogy of the Descendants of John, Daniel, and Anthony Vaughan, who emigrated to Nova Scotia 1764, 1768: and the descendants of Daniel Vaughan who moved to New Brunswick in 1796. [Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: s.n.] n.d.

White, Elizabeth Brett. Remembered Days [c. 1966]. The Henry White family of Yorktown during the later 19th Century.

Cemetery Inventories and Transcribed Cemetery Inscriptions

___. A History of the Town of Lewisboro, Westchester County . Available for sale through South Salem Public Library. See info under town of Lewisboro. See pages 537 to 554.

Carretta, Katherine A., compiler. A Guide to Listings of Old Cemetery Inscriptions and other Genealogical Aids for Westchester County, New York. [Westchester County Historical Society, 1977]

Eardeley, William A., and Robert B. Miller, compilers. St. Mark's Episcopal Cemetery, Mt. Kisco, NY [Mount Kisco, NY: 1939]

Eardeley, William A., compiler. Westchester County, New York, Cemeteries... 1704-1914. [Brooklyn, 1914]. Contains inscriptions on tombs from Armonk, Bedford, Westchester, Croton, Mt. Kisco, Chestnut Ridge, Harrison, Mamaroneck, and Eastchester. Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Haacker, Frederick. C., compiler. New Rochelle, NY, deaths 1853-1881: copied from the New Rochelle Press Almanacs, 1879-1882, and records of deaths in New Rochelle from account books of Cornelius Seacord, coffin maker. [ s.l.: Haacker, 1955] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Horton, William P. Cemetery Inscriptions of Westchester County, NY. [Peekskill, NY: 1928] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Horton, William P. "Milton Cemetery records, Rye, Westchester county, NY" Daughters of American Revolution Magazine [Washington, DC], v.99, no. 4, whole no. 836 (April 1965), pp. 428-429; continued in subsequent numbers.

Jordan, Mable and Natalie Seth, compilers. Tombstone records of 18 Cemeteries in Pound Ridge. [Picton Press] Reprint of 1941 edition, with a comprehensive index of persons.

Katz, B. Burial Grounds of North Salem in Westchester County, N. Y. [New York: North Salem Historical Society, 1976] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Kriger, Malcolm. The Peaceable Kingdom in Hartsdale. [Rosywick Press] c. 1983.

Manville, Margaret. Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York. [White Plains, NY: 1966] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Perry, William Graves. The Old Dutch Burying Ground of Sleepy Hollow in North Tarrytown, New York. [Boston, MA: Rand Press] c.1953.

Rankin, Rebecca. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Cemetery. Person (sic) buried in the cemetery on Ashford Avenue, opposite Mohican Park Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., property of the South Presbyterian Church in Greenburgh.... [Dobbs Ferry, NY: 1956] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Spies, Francis F. Graveyard Inscriptions in Pleasantville and Hawthorne (formerly Unionville), Westchester Co., NY. Also a list of members, baptisms and marriages of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Hawthorne (Unionville); copied with additional genealogical notes. [Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: 1933] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Spies, Francis F. Inscriptions copied from gravestones in Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle, NY. ...with genealogical notes and index. [Mt. Vernon, NY: 1926] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Spies, Francis F. Inscriptions from the graveyards in New Rochelle, NY, transcribed and arranged with genealogical records... [Mt. Vernon, NY: 1926] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Spies, Francis F. Inscriptions copied from gravestones in West Chester County yards with genealogical notes. Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Spies, Francis F. Inscriptions copied from graveyards in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. With genealogical notes. [Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: 1933] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Spies, Francis F. Inscriptions copies from Quaker burying grounds, with notes.... Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Struble, Mildred E., comp. Burials in and around Pound Ridge, NY, 1860 to 1871; accounts of an undertaker, name unknown, probably High Ridge, just outside of Stamford, Conn. [n.p., 1947] Original ledger in the Archives of the Westchester County Historical Society. Copy available at the New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Weidt, Bew Patten, comp. Unrecorded Burial Permits of the Middle Patent Cemetery, town of North Castle, Westchester County, NY. [Mount Vernon, 1944]

Directories

Genealogical Guides

___. Historical Resources Directory for Westchester County. [White Plains, NY: Westchester County Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Conservation] c. 1983.

French, J. H. Gazetteer of the State of New York. 2 vols. [Syracuse, NY: R. Pearsall Smith, c. 1860] [Reprinted in 1983 and again in 1995 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. in one volume and included index of names compiled by Frank Place.] Note: This book is an invaluable aide to genealogical researchers of New York State.

Hufeland, Otto. A Check List of Books, Maps, Pictures, and Other Printed Matter Relating to the Counties of Westchester and Bronx. [White Plains, NY, Westchester County Historical Society]c.1929]

Lederer, Richard M. The place names of Westchester County, NY: A Dictionary of Origins & Meanings. [Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books] c. 1978., with 1980 update

New York Historical Society. Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. [NY: New York Historical Society] c. 1893-1909. 17 volumes.

Pelletreau, William S., Am. M. Early Wills of Westchester County, New York 1664-1784 Pub. 1898. Cornell University Library has scanned this book and placed it on the web at the following address: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/bookp.html

Renino, Marjorie. The Guide to Genealogical Research for Westchester County. [White Plains, NY; c. 1985] NOTE: This is an indispensable book for any researcher of Westchester genealogy. This book is presently being revised. However, you can contact the author and request that your name and address be placed on her mailing list so that you can be advised when the book is ready for publishing:

Census

"Census of town of Westchester 1698", NY Genealogical & Biographical Record, vol. 38, pp. 129-134 [1907].

Fuller, Elizabeth Griffen. Index to Westchester County Names in the Federal Censuses, 1790-1840 [Elmsford: Westchester Cty. Historical Society] 1994.

For more information on any of the various censuses taken for Westchester County, please see the Census page.

Histories -- Town

___. An Account of the Action at Tarrytown and of its Commemoration. [New York: Sons of Revolution] c. 1899.

___. The Artists of Bronxville: 1890-1930. [Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum] c. 1990.

___. Dobbs Ferry on Hudson: Westchester County, N.Y. [Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Press of Dobbs Ferry Register, 191?]

____. The Elephant Hotel: Its Architecture and History. [Somers, NY: Somers Historical Society, 1962]

___. Historical Records of Bedford, Westchester County. [Town of Bedford] c. 1966. Bedford Historical Record, vol. 1-3; Minutes of Town Meetings 1680-1737.

___. Historical Sketch of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, erected in 1685 and Organized in 1697, North Tarrytown, New York. [North Tarrytown, NY: s.n., 19??]

___. History of Pleasantville. [Pleasantville, NY: Mount Pleasant Public Library, 1947]. Written in 1947 by the students of the 7th and 8th grades of the Pleasantville School in commemoration of th the incorporation of the village of Pleasantville on its 50th birthday.

___. A History of the Town of Lewisboro, Westchester County . Available for sale through South Salem Public Library. See info under town of Lewisboro.

___. Larchmont Harbor, New York: Survey and Preliminary examination. [Wash., DC] c. 1889.

___. Life in New Rochelle, America's city of the Huguenots. [New Rochelle, NY: New Rochelle Trust Co., 1953]

___. Mamaroneck from Colonial Times through the First Century of the Republic [Mamaroneck, NY: American Revolution Bicentennial Committee of the Village of Mamaroneck, 1976]

___. (Ossining's) Golden Jubilee, 1901-1951, September 23-29, 1951. [Ossining, NY: Ossining Chamber of Commerce, 1951]

___. Peekskill, Fishkill, Matteawan and Cold Spring, their representative business men, and points of interest. [Newark, NJ: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1892]

____. Tales of the Old Dutch Graveyard: a Walking Tour of the Burying Ground of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow [Heritage Committee, Junior League of Westchester-on-Hudson, 1984]

___. A Village Between Two Rivers: Briarcliff Manor [Briarcliff Manor, NY: Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society, 1977.

___. "Vital records of Christ's Church at Rye, Westchester County, New York: 1816 -1829", NY Genealogical & Biographical Record, July 1907, pp. 278-284.

___. When our Town was Young, Stories of North Salem of Yesterday. [North Salem, NY: Board of Education] c. 1945.

Akerly, Lucy Dubois. The Morris Manor: address delivered at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the NY Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, December 9, 1916 [Baltimore, MD: s.n., 1916] Copy available at the New York Public Library's Genealogy and Local History Room.

Allison, Charles Elmer. The History of Yonkers . [New York: Wilber B. Ketcham] c. 1896. Since Reprinted.

Augur, C.H. New Rochelle through Seven Generations [New Rochelle, NY: National City Bank, 1908].

Anderson, William S. Threescore and Ten, Seventieth Anniversary of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon, New York [Mount Vernon, NY: First Methodist Episcopal Church, 1922].

Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. [New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons] c. 1897. Reprinted in 1900 by Putnam's Knickerbocker Press of NY.

Baird, Charles W. Chronicle of a Border Town: History of Rye, 1660-1870. Includes history of White Plains and Harrison until 1788. [Harbor Hills, reprint c. 1983.]

Barlow, William H. History of St. Paul's Church, Sing Sing, NY [Sing Sing, NY: 1901]

Barr, Lockwood, compiler. The Ancient Town of Pelham known onetime well & favorably as the Lordship & Manor of Pelham. Also the story of the three modern villages known as the Pelhams -- Westchester Co., NY. [Pelham Manor, NY: 1945]

Barr, Lockwood. A Brief, but Most Complete & True Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham, Westchester County, State of New York. [Richmond, VA: The Dietz Press, Inc.], 1946.

Bedford Historical Society. A Short Historical Tour of the Town of Bedford [Katonah, NY: Katonah Pub. Corp., 1965]

Bedford Presbyterian. Bedford Presbyterian Church 1681-1936. [Bedford] c. 1936

Bolton, Robert (1814-1877). A Guide to New Rochelle and its Vicinity. [Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books] c. 1976 (This is a facsimile of the 1842 edition with a preface, annotations and corrections edited by Marilyn Weigold.)

Briggs, George E., comp. Centennial Celebration, July 2, 3, 4, 1916, Commemorative of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the First Charter, April 17th 1816,to the village of Peekskill. [Peekskill, NY: The Highland Democrat Company, 1916]

Brown, Herbert H. Historical Sketch of the Church of the Redeemer, Pelham, New York, 1859-1941. [Pelham, NY: 1941]

Bronxville Diamond Jubilee Committee. Bronxville: Views and Vignettes. [Bronxville, NY: Bronxville Diamond Jubilee Committee] c. 1974.

Canning, Jeff, and Wally Buxton. History of the Tarrytowns, from Ancient Times to the Present [Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books] c. 1975.

Chapman, Charles F. (Mrs.) History of the Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco, NY: June 15, 1852 - June 15, 1902, including a list of members. [Katonah, NY: Katonah Times Press, 1902]

Cheever, Mary. The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough [Briarcliff Manor, NY: Phoenix Publishing, 1990]

Conklin, Margaret Swancott. Historical Tarrytown and North Tarrytown ( A Guide). [Tarrytown, NY: Tarrytown Historical Society] c. 1939.

Constant, Silas. The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Yorktown, New York. [Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1903] With some of the records of the Church and a list of marriages, 1784-1825, together with notes on the Nelson, Van Cortlandt, Warren, and some other families mentioned in the journal by Emily Warren Roebling.

The Town of Cortlandt Bicentennial History Committee. The History of the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York [published 1988]. Book has extensive bibliography.

Croton Golden Jubilee Committee. Croton-on-Hudson Golden Jubilee, 1898-1948 [Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Croton Golden Jubilee Committee, 1948]

Culver, Charles E. History of the Town of Somers. [Somers, NY: Somers Historical Society, 1959, 1886]

Danforth, Elliot. Address delivered by the Hon. Elliot Danforth at the 230th Celebration of the Purchase of Mamaroneck, NY, from the Indians: September 21, 1891. [Mount Vernon, NY: Press of the Argus, 1891]. Copy available at the New York Public Research Library's Genealogy and Local History room.

Darlington, Henry, Jr. "The Significance of New Rochelle as a Huguenot Settlement", from Huguenot Refugees in the Settleing of Colonial America, edited by Peter Steven Gannon. [Huguenot Society of America, 1985]

Daughters of the American Revolution, Mount Pleasant Chapter. Mt. Pleasant Genealogy: Descendants of Families Settled prior to 1850 [Mt. Pleasant, NY: D.A.R.] c. 19--?

Decker, Francis K. Deeds and Misdeeds: 1657-1763 The Story of New Castle's Beginnings. Available through theNew Castle Historical Society.

Duncombe, Frances R. Katonah, the History of a New York Village and its People. [Katonah, NY: Katonah Village Improvement Society, 1961]. Includes biographical references and maps.

Forbes, Jeanne A. Records of the town of New Rochelle, 1699-1828 [New Rochelle, NY: Paragraph Press, 1916]

Forbes, Robert Lucas, ed. New Rochelle, Two Hundred and Fifty Years.... [New York City, 1938]

Franko, Alfred M. Pelham Manor: The Forgotten Battle of the Revolution, near Mount Vernon, NY. [Mount Vernon, NY] c. 1963.

Fulcher, William. Mamaroneck through the Years [Larchmont, NY: The Larchmont Times, 1936].

Fulcher, William. Story of a Friendly Village: Mamaroneck, NY, 1896-1946 [Mamaroneck, NY: The Historical Committee of the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the Village of Mamaroneck, 1946]

Gilman, Winthrop Sargent. The Story of the Ferry. Being an account of the ferry, between Dobbs Ferry, Westchester Co., N.Y. and Snedens Landing, Rockland Co., N.Y., on the Hudson River, established about the year 1698..... [Palisades, NY: 1903] Copy available at NYPL. According to the catalog at the NYPL, " 'Three copies only of these papers have been prepared, one of which is in the Library of Congress. This copy, originally presented to the Palisades Library replaces the original New York State Library copy, the greater part of which was destroyed in the fire of 1911. A fourth copy was later prepared for the New York Historical Society Library."

Gotthelf, Peggy, and Richard Maurice Moss, compilers. Fairview Remembered: Oral Histories of the Fairview Vicinity [Greenburgh, NY: Greenburgh Preservation Commission, 1992]

Greenburgh, NY. Greenburgh, a Glimpse of Our Past: Town of Greenburgh, NY [Greenburgh Bicentennial Commission, 1988]

Gruber, Dorothy Whitney and Isabelle A. Haight. The Early Quaker Hamlet of Old Chappaqua. Available through the New Castle Historical Society.

Hansen, Harry. Scarsdale: From Colonial Manor to Modern Community. [NY: Harper, 1954]

Harris, Jay. God's Country: a History of Pound Ridge, New York. [Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1971]

Harris, Jay. For the Record: the People who made Pound Ridge "God's County" [Somers, NY: J. Harris, 1992]

Harris, Jay. Marriages, Baptisms, Deaths, 1850-1983: extracted from the records of the Methodist Episcopal/Community Church, Pound Ridge, NY. [Pound Ridge, NY: The Community Church, 1984] Copy available at the New York Public Research Library's Genealogy and Local History room.

Harris, Jay, comp. Records of the Methodist Episcopal/Community Church, Pound Ridge, NY, 1833-1983. [Pound Ridge, NY: The Community Church, 1984] Copy available at the New York Public Research Library's Genealogy and Local History room.

Harris, Jay, comp. Index to Records of the Methodist Episcopal/Community Church, Pound Ridge, NY, 1833-1983. [Pound Ridge, NY: The Community Church, 1984] Copy available at the New York Public Research Library's Genealogy and Local History room.

Hinitt, Dorothy H., and others, comp. The Burning of Bedford, July 1779, .... [Bedford, NY: Bedford Historical Society, 1974]

Horne, Philip Field. A Land of Peace; the Early History of Sparta, a Landing Town on the Hudson. [Ossining, NY: Ossining Restoration Committee, 1976]

Horne, Philip F. Mount Pleasant: The History of a New York Suburb and Its People [c. 1971]

Horton, Stephen D. Personal Recollections of Peekskill in my Boyhood Days... [Peekskill, 1910]

Horton, Stephen D. Sixteen nine to eighteen seventy; glimpses from the past in connection with the early history of the manor of Cortlandt, and more especially of the town of Cortlandt and the village of Peekskill.... [c. 1912]. Includes biographical sketches of men from Peekskill as well as a roster of Cortlandt men who served in wars.

Horton, William Tompkins. Pioneers, Patriots, and People, Past and Present: A History of Peekskill, New York. [Peekskill, NY: 1953]

Howe, Herbert Barber, editor. The Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco: Centennial History, 1852-1952 [Mount Kisco, NY: s.m., 1952]

Hultz, Helen Lorraine. Scarsdale Story: A Heritage History. [Morristown, NJ: Evans Pub. Co., 1987]

Hutchison, Lucille. The Centennial History of North Tarrytown. [Mass.: Western Publishing] c. 1974.

Jay, John (1817-1894). The Church and the Rebellion: Mr. Jay's letter to the rector and vestry of St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, with a preface in reply to the rector's speech from the chancel on Sunday, June 21, 1863, touching the recent visit of a clergyman of doubtful loyalty. [Bedford, NY: 1863]

Lander, Richard N. A history of the Armonk Methodist Church of North Castle: (formerly North Castle Church) written on the occasion of its 175th anniversary [Armonk, NY: s.n., 1962]

Larchmont-Mamaroneck, NY. The Larchmont-Mamaroneck Coastline: Our Heritage....

Lawes, Lewis E. Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing [New York: The New Home Library, 1932]. Lewis Lawes served as warden of Sing Sing Prison, beginning as a guard in 1905.

Lee, Arthur C. History of the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown from 1906 to 1975. [Yorktown Heights, NY: Mohansic Press, 1975]

Lockwood, Ezra. Sketches of Poundridge, NY., and Genealogy of the Lockwood Family. [New York: 1878]

Mancini, Anthony. The Miracle of Pelham Bay Park. [New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.] c. 1982.

Marshall, Donald Anthony. Bedford Tricentennial, 1680-1980: Articles on the history of Bedford in Westchester County, New York, from its beginnings as a settlement of the colony of Connecticut [Bedford Hills, NY: Town of Bedford, 1980]

May, Victor. Pathway to a Village. A History of Bronxville. [ Nebko Press, 1962.]

Mahoney, George L. Somers Confederates: James Wright and his Nephews. [Somers, NY: Somers Historical Society, 1983]

Morris, Fordham. The Borough Town of Westchester. [White Plains: The Eastern State Journal, printer; 1895] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Morris, Gouverneur (1813-1888). Morrisania and Upper Morrisania. Abstract of Title, 1849. [New York, 1849] Copy available at the New York Public Library's Genealogy and Local History Room.

Mount Vernon. Register of the Proceedings of St. Paul's Church at Eastchester...

New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce. New Rochelle, the City of Huguenots [New Rochelle, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1926]

Nichols, Herbert B., Historic New Rochelle [New Rochelle, NY: Board of Education, 1938 ].

O'Connor, Carol A. A Sort of Utopia, Scarsdale, 1891-1981 [Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1983]

O'Connor, Mary, editor and transcriber. Early Town Records of Mamaroneck 1697 - 1881 [Town of Mamaroneck, 1979]

Oechsner, Carl. Ossining: An Informal Bicentennial History [Croton-on-Hudson, NY: North River Press, 1975].

Owens, William A. Pocantico Hills, 1609-1959. [Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Restoration, 1960]

Parrell, Sr. Mary Agnes. Profiles of Dobbs Ferry. [Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1976]

Patterson, Emma L. Peekskill in the American Revolution [Peekskill, NY: The Friendly Town Association, Inc., 1944]

Pattison, Robert B. The History of the Briarcliff Manor. [Briarcliff Manor: W. Rayburn, 1939]

Pattison, Robert B. The History o the Briarcliff Congregation Church, Briarcliff Manor, New York. [Briarcliff Manor: 1946]

Pettit, Gaylord Joel. Today and Yesterday in New Rochelle [New York: William R. Jenkins Company, 1918]

Presbyterian Church, New Rochelle. The First Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle; a brief sketch of its history, 1688-1946 [New Rochelle, 1946]

Reische, Diana. Of Colonists and Commuters: A History of Scarsdale. [Scarsdale, NY: Junior League of Scarsdale, 1976]

Reynolds, Florence Leary, compiler. Reminiscences of Ossining [Ossining, NY: Moran-Register Press, 1922]. Compiled from articles written by Cornelia Sears Arnold.

Roake, Charles Edgar, compiler. The Journal of Joseph Roake, an Early Quaker Settler in Westchester County, New York State. [Peekskill, NY: Roake, 1954]

Rosch, John. Historic White Plains [White Plains, NY: Balletto-Sweetman Inc.] c.1937. Reprinted 1976 by Harbor Hills Books.

Scofield, Carlton B. Stories of Peekskill and the Hudson River [Peekskill, NY: Enterprise Press for the City of Peekskill, 1969]

Seacord, Morgan H. Biographical Sketches and Index of the Huguenot Settlers of New Rochelle 1687-1776. [New Rochelle, NY: The Huguenot and Historical Association of New Rochelle, 1941]. Includes an account of the development of the Huguenot monument in New Rochelle and of the tablet which contains the names of the New Rochelle Huguenots from the colonial period.

Seacord, Morgan H. and William S. Hadaway. Historical Landmarks of New Rochelle. [New Rochelle, NY: New Rochelle Trust Co., 1938]

Secor, Joan E. Landmarks in and near Pelham. [Pelham, NY: Town of Pelham, 1924]

Sherman, Arthur Outram. Westchester County and the Town of Rye. [Rye, NY] c. 1909.

Silliman, Arthur W. A Short, Informal History of Ardsley, N.Y. [Ardsley, NY: 1968] Available through the Ardsley Historical Society.

Smith, Chester Allen. Peekskill, a Friendly Town, its Historic Sites and Shrines; A Pictorial History of the city from 1654 to 1952. [Peekskill, NY: Friendly Town Association, 1952]

Snyder, Clifford L. Somers Remembered. [Somers, NY: Somers Historical Society, 1976]

Sopko, Joseph S. Archaeological Investigations of the Brick Lot at John Jay Homestead State Historic Site [Peebles Island, Waterford, NY: NY State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Bureau of Historic Sites, 1994].

Trustees of the Irvington Public Library. Portrait of a Village: Wolfert's Roost [The Washington Irving Press, 1971]

Vescelius, G.M., compiler. Gems of the Hudson: Peekskill and Vicinity [Newburgh, NY: News Co., 1916]

Walker, Mrs. Harry Leslie et alia, editors. A History of the Reformed Church of Bronxville in Commemoration of Its Centenary, November 5, 1950. [Bronxville, NY: Consistory of the Church] c. 1951.

Westchester County Historical Society Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society

Wygant, George P. Historical facts about the town of Cortlandt. [Peekskill: Highland Democrat, 1925]

Zion Church. 1834-1884. Whitsuntide. Semi-Centennial. Zion Church, Dobbs Ferry. ..... [New York: Rufus Adams & Co., 1884] Copy available at The New York Public Research Library's Genealogies and Local History Room.

Histories -- County

___. Biographical History of Westchester County, New York... [Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company] c. 1899.

___. The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources meet Urban Needs. [Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum of Westchester County] c. 1992.

Arcara, Roger. Westchester's Forgotten Railway, 1912-1937; the story of a short-lived short line which was once America's finest railway and its poorest: The New York, Westchester, and Boston Railway. [New York: Quadrant Press] c. 1972. Rev. and expanded ed., including "When the Westchester was new."

Bolton, Robert (1814-1877). A History of the County of Westchester from its first settlement to the present time. [New York: Alexander S. Gould] c. 1848. 2 volumes.

Bolton, Robert (1814-1877). The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its first settlement, with numerous genealogies of county families. Revised by the author. 3rd edition.

Bonham, Valeria Langeloth. Utopia in the Hills: The Story of Valeria House and Its Founding (in Westchester County, NY). [New York, NY: Robert M. McBride Co.] c. 1948.

Crandell, Richard F. This is Westchester: A Study of Suburban Living. [NY] c. 1954.

Fox, Dixon Ryan, ed., The Minutes of the Court of Sessions (1657-1696), Westchester County, New York. [White Plains, NY: Westchester County Historical Society], c. 1924.

Freeland Griffin, Ernest (editor). Westchester County and its People, a record. vols. 1-3. [New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co.] 1946.

French, Alvah P. History of Westchester County, New York. 5 volumes [NY: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.] 1925. NOTE: Contains many biographical sketches.

Hansen, Harry. North of Manhattan; persons and places of Old Westchester. [New York: Hastings House] c. 1950.

Hufeland, Otto. Westchester County during the American Revolution, 1775-1783. [White Plains, NY: Westchester Cty. Historical Society] c. 1926.

Jay, John. The Great Conspiracy. An Address Delivered at Mt. Kisco, Westchester County, New York on the 4^th of July 1861. [New York: Gregory] c. 1861.

Morrisey, Regina M. & Stephen H. Acunto. Westchester County, the Golden Apple of New York. [New York: Windsor Pub.] c. 1990.

Redway, Laurance D., History of the Medical Society of the County of Westchester 1797-1947. [NY: Medical Society of the County of Westchester] c.1947.

Sanchis, Frank E., Westchester County Architecture: Colonial To Contemporary. [NY: Harbor Hill] c.1977. [Venice: North River Press]

Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms which have been annexed to New York City. [Philadelphia: L. E. Preston & Co.] c. 1886. 2 volumes. NOTE: Since republished by the Westchester County Historical Society which has copies for sale. For an index of personal names to this work, see the entry under "Fuller, Elizabeth G." found above.

Shonnard, Frederic, and W. W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, NY: from its earliest settlement to the year 1900. [Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books] c. 1974, 1983 (Originally published by the New York History Company, NY, 1890.)

Shoumatoff, Alex., Westchester: Portrait of a County. [New York: Coward, McCann & Geogahegan] c. 1979.

Swanson, Susan Cochran and Elizabeth Green Fuller. Westchester County: A pictorial history. [Norfolk, VA: Donning Co.] c.1982. To be reprinted in 1998 by Westchester County Historical Society.

Weigold, Marilyn E [Editor-in-Chief]. Westchester County: the past hundred years, 1883--1983. [Valhalla, NY: Westchester Cty. Historical Society] c.1984.

Histories -- Ethnic

Caro, Edyth Quinn. "The Hills" in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: the History of a Rural Afro-American Community in Westchester County, NY. [Valhalla, NY: Westchester Cty. Historical Society] c. 1988.

Di Pietro, Joseph A. The History of the Italians of New Rochelle (and Westchester) [New Rochelle, NY: s.n., 1999]

Waldron, William Watson. Huguenots of Westchester and Parish of Fordham, New York. [New York: W.H.Kelly & Brother, 1864], 128 pages. Cornell University Library has scanned this book and placed it on their web site at the following address: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/bookw.html

Military info

Hall, Edward Hagaman. The Birthplace of the Yorktown Campaign: The American Revolution [New York: Republic Press, 1894]

Manville, Margaret. Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York. [White Plains, NY: 66] Copy available at New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

"Westchester County Volunteers who fought in the Famous French & Indian Wars of 1755 and 1760", Genealogical Exchange, vol. 3, pp. 23-24, 1906. Copy held by New York Public Library's Genealogical & Local History Room.

Hufeland, Otto. Westchester County during the American Revolution, 1775-1783. [White Plains, NY: Westchester Cty. Historical Society] c. 1926.

Verplanck, Catharine A. "Colonial Muster Roll", NY Genealogical & Biographical Record, vol. 37, pp. 201-202, 266-267; vol. 38, pp. 15-16, 87-88.

Wilt, Richard A. New York Soldiers in the Civil War: A-K, A Roster of Military Officers and Soldiers Who Served in New York Regiments in the Civil War [Heritage Books, Inc., April 1999]

Wilt, Richard A. New York Soldiers in the Civil War: L-Z, A Roster of Military Officers and Soldiers Who Served in New York Regiments in the Civil War [Heritage Books, Inc.,June 1999]

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