A Bibliography of African American Family History at the Newberry Library

New York

Caro, Edythe Quinn. “The Hills” in Mid-Nineteenth Century. The History of a Rural Afro-American Community in Westchester County, New York. Valhalla, New York: Westchester County Historical Society, 1988. Call # fF129.H27C37.

Eichholz, Alice and James M. Rose. Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census 1790-1830. Detroit: Gale, 1981. Call # E185.93.N56 E37.

-----. “New York State Manumissions.” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 108:4 (October 1977) – 110:1 (January 1979). Call # F116.N28 (LFH open shelf).

Eisenberg, Marcia Jesiek. “Seneca County, New York Afro-Americans in the Federal Census.” JAAHGS beginning 7:2 (Summer 1986). Call # CS1.A37 (LHF open shelf). Begins with abstracts from 18170 and 1820 schedules. Subsequent issues continue with census years up through 1850.

Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Deposit Ledger Indexes. Call # Microfilm 710. Indexes for New York City on reel 3.

Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Signature Books. Call #: Microfilm 709. Records for New York City on reel 17. These records are indexed by Freedman's Bank Records. Call # CD-ROM E185.6 F844 2000. (Ask at Genealogy Desk for this item.)

Gallagher, Kevin J. “Inmates of the City Almshouse, Poughkeepsie, New York.” JAAHGS 2:1 (Spring 1981). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf). African American inmates mid to late 19th century.

-----. “Registers of Births of Slaves.” JAAHGS 2:2 (Summer 1981). Call # CS1.A37 (LHF open shelf). Records from Poughkeepsie, New York.

Grover, Kathryn. Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. Call # F129.G3G76. Geneva, New York history.

Heidgerd, William. Black History of New Paltz. New Paltz, N.Y.: Elting Memorial Library, 1986. Call # F129.N53H39 1986.

Hodges, Graham Russell and Aland Edward Brown. "Pretends to be Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. New York: Garland, 1994. Call # E445.N56 P74 1994.

Hoff, Henry B. “A Colonial Black Family in New York and New Jersey: Peiter Santomee and His Descendants.” JAAHGS 9:3 (Fall 1988). “Additions and Corrections” in 10:4 (Winter 1989). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).

Marcus, Grania Bolton. A Forgotten People: Discovering the Black Experience in Suffolk County. Setuaket, New York: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1988. Call # fF127.S9M37.

“The Negro in Dutchess County in the Eighteenth Century.” Dutchess County Historical Society Year Book (1941). Call # F85124.242.

Swan, Robert J. "The Black Population of New Netherland: As Extracted from The Records of Baptisms and Marriages of the Dutch Reformed Church (New York City), 1630-1664." JAAHGS 14: 1&2 (1995). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).

-----. "Slaves and Slaveholding, in Dutch New York, 1628-1664." JAAHGS 17:1 (Spring 1998) Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).

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