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New York Genealogy Reference:
- New York State and County Archives
- New York State Maps
- New York State County Formation Timeline
- Obsolete Towns and Villages in New York State
New York Genealogy Records Online
New York Biographies
New York Cemetery Records:
- New York Cemeteries
- Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in New York State
- Sacandaga Reservoir Cemeteries Removed
New York Census Records:
New York Church Records
New York History
History of New York and it's early settlers
New York Military Records
New York Military Pension Records- 1813 Pension List
- 1818 New York Pensioners Of The United States
- 1820 Pension List
- 1840 Census of Pensioners
- Pensioners on the Roll: 1883
- New York Pensioners Of Revolutionary War Struck Off The Roll
- Civil War Munster Rolls for New York
- Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in New York State
- New York In The Revolution As Colony and State - offsite
- New York Spanish - American War Soldiers Deaths in the Service
- New York In The Spanish-American War - offsite
- World War 1 Roll Of Honor for New York
- World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing for New York
New York Newspapers
New York Obituaries
New York Vital Records
New York Wills and Probate Records
New York Genealogy By County:
List of Obsolete New York New York Counties
- Charlotte County, Province of New York (renamed and partitioned). See Washington County, New York.
- Cornwall County, Province of New York (transferred to Massachusetts in 1686).
- Cumberland County, Province of New York (claimed by and transferred to Vermont, unclear if ever implemented or administered). See Albany County, New York.
- Dukes County, Province of New York (transferred to Massachusetts in 1691).
- Gloucester County, New York (claimed by and transferred to Vermont, unclear if ever implemented or administered).
- Tryon County, New York (renamed and partitioned). See also: Montgomery County, New York
- Yorkshire County, Province of New York (original English county, partitioned in 1683 into Kings, Queens (including modern Nassau), Suffolk, Richmond and Westchester (including modern Bronx) counties.)
New York History
The earliest Europeans in New York were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade and proselytizing. New York had been inhabited by various tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time Dutch settlers moved into the region in the early 17th century. In 1609, the region was first claimed by Henry Hudson for the Dutch, who built Fort Nassau in 1614 at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, where the present-day capital of Albany later developed. The Dutch soon also settled New Amsterdam and parts of the Hudson Valley, establishing the colony of New Netherland based on trade and profitmaking, a multicultural community from its earliest days and a center of trade and immigration. The British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were quite similar to those of the present-day state.
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