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Sources for New Netherland

See also:

• New Netherland Settlers Project Reliable Sources
• Baptism and Marriage Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Netherland and Beyond
• Primary and Secondary Sources for New Netherland

Genealogical Sources for New Netherland

Note: Inclusion on this list does not necessarily indicate endorsement of the contents of the source.

• Anjou, Gustave. Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records. (New York, 1906)
• Cole, David. First Record Book of the "Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow", Organized in 1697 and Now the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, N.Y. (Yonkers, N. Y., 1901)
• Collections of the Holland Society of New York
• Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society
• Collections of the New-York Historical Society
• Colonial Dames of Delaware. A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800 (Baltimore, 1911)
• Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey (The Daily Journal Establishment, Newark, New Jersey, 1880-1949)
• Evjen, John Oluf. Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674 (K.C. Holter, Minneapolis, Minn., 1916)
• Fernow, Berthold. Calendar of Wills on File and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at Albany, and of the Secretary of State, 1626-1836 (New York: Colonial Dames of the State of New York, 1896)
• Fernow, Berthold. The Minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam, 1655 to 1663 (New York, F.P. Harper)
• Fernow, Berthold. The Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini (The Knickerbocker Press, 1897)
• Foley, Janet Wethy. Early Settlers of New York State, Their Ancestors and Descendants (T.J. Foley, Akron, N.Y., 1934-1942)
• Frost, Josephine C. Records of the Town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York (New York, 1914)
• Hicks, Benjamin. Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long island, New York (Long Island Farmer Print., Jamaica, NY, 1896-1904)
• Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York New York: De Vinne Press, 1891.
• Klett, Joseph R. Genealogies of New Jersey Families: From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.
• Luckhurst, Charlotte Taylor. Marriage Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Schenectady, N.Y. (New York, 1917)
• Moore, Charles B. The Early History of Hempstead (Long Island) (New York, 1879)
• Munsell, Joel. The Annals of Albany (Albany, J. Munsell)
• Munsell, Joel Collections on the History of Albany (Albany, J. Munsell)
• The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1847-)
• New Hackensack, N.Y., and Maria Bockee Carpenter Tower. The Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Hackensack, Dutchess County, New York (New York: 1932)
• New Netherland Connections. Berkeley, CA: Dorothy A. Koenig, 1996-2010. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)
• New York (State). Ecclesiastical Records, State of New York (New York: J. B. Lyon)
• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
• New York State Library, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Arnold J. F. Van Laer, Nicolaas de Roever, and Susan De Lancey Van Rensselaer Strong. Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany, University of the state of New York, 1908)
• O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. (Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, Albany, 1865)
• O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New-York (Charles Van Benthuysen, Public Printer, 1849-1851)
• O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York (Weed, Parsons, Albany, 1853-1887)
• OʹCallaghan, E B. (comp.) The Register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674. (Albany, J. Munsell, 1865)
• Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient county of Albany, from 1630 to 1800. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1872.
• Reformed Dutch Church (Oyster Bay, N.Y.). Records of the R.D. Church of Oyster Bay, L.I. (Wolverhollow) (New York, 1912)
• Riker, James, Jr. The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York; containing its history from its first settlement, together with many interesting facts concerning the adjacent towns (D. Fanshaw, New York, 1852)
• Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem. (New Harlem Publishing Company, New York, 1904)
• Robison, Jeannie. Genealogical Records, Manuscript Entries of Births, Deaths and Marriages Taken From Family Bibles, 1581-1917 (The Colonial Dames of the State of New York, New York, 1917)
• Somerset County Historical Quarterly (New Jersey)
• Van, Laer A. J. F, Kenneth Scott, Kenn Stryker-Rodda, and Charles T. Gehring. Council Minutes (Baltimore, 1974)
• Van Laer, Arnold J. F., and Jonathan Pearson. Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck (Albany, J. Munsell/The University of the State of New York)
• Van Laer, Arnold J. F. Minutes of the court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, 1652-1656 (University of the State of New York, 1920)
• Van Laer, Arnold J. F. Minutes of the court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, 1657-1660 (University of the State of New York, 1923)
• Van Laer A. J. F, Kenneth Scott, Kenn Stryker-Rodda, and Charles T. Gehring. Register of the Provincial Secretary (Baltimore, 1974)
• Versteeg, Dingman, ed. The New Netherland Register (Dingman Versteeg, New York, 1911)
• Van Winkle, Edward. Baptismal register of the Bergen Reformed Church 1666-1788 (New York: Holland Society of New York, 1913)
• Wardell, Patricia A. "Early Bergen County Families". Genealogical Society of Bergen County, New Jersey.
• Year Book of the Holland Society of New York

Websites

• Huguenot Ancestors. huguenotsocietyofamerica.org. Accessed 17 Feb 2017. http://huguenotsocietyofamerica.org/?page=Ancestors

• Bielinski, Stefan. "The People of Colonial Albany." An online exhibition of the New York State Museum. https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov//albany/pcalhindex.html

• Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Surname index was at https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/surname_index.htm . Changes at Rootsweb have resulted in the index pages on this site becoming inaccessible. The situation may improve after Rootsweb is re-established. The excellent content is still on the website, if the deeplink URLs are known.

• "Dutch Door Genealogy." Formerly at dutchdoorgenealogy.com, temporary home as of October 2022 is http://dutchgenie.net/bergen/DutchDoorGenealogy/ddg-about.html . That website indicates that it will soon be moved to njgsbc.org

• Genealogical Society of Bergen County, New Jersey. https://www.njgsbc.org/

• "New Netherland And Beyond." Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20190901112213/https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nycoloni/

• "New Netherland Institute." http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/

The Rensselaerswijck Seminars (archived links to a series of programs conducted in 1979-2006)

• New Amsterdam History Center, Mapping Early New York, Encyclopedia, https://nahc-mapping.org/mappingNY/encyclopedia/ , see also: Map. https://nahc-mapping.org/mappingNY/ . accessed 05 Feb 2022.

• Olive Tree Genealogy, http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/

• "WieWasWie." www.wiewaswie.nl. Accessed 16 Feb 2017.

• "Zoekakten." zoekakten.nl. Accessed 16 Feb 2017.

Names

• Wikipedia contributors, "Appendix: Dutch diminutives of given names," Wiktionary, The Free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Appendix:Dutch_diminutives_of_given_names&oldid=25437038 (accessed February 17, 2017).

Place names and dates for them

• Eno, Joel W. "A Tercentennial History of the Towns and Cities of New York; Their Origin, Dates, and Names 1614-1914. Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, 1916, Vol. 15 (1916), pp. 225-264 Published by: Fenimore Art Museum. Online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/42889532 or https://archive.org/details/newyorkstatehist0015unse/page/224/mode/2up

• "Maps of New Jersey." www.mapsofus.org. http://www.mapofus.org/newjersey/

• "Maps of New York." www.mapsofus.org. http://www.mapofus.org/newyork/

• Wikipedia contributors, "East Jersey," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Jersey&oldid=755613661 (accessed February 20, 2017).

• Wikipedia contributors, "New Netherland," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Netherland&oldid=763724966 (accessed February 17, 2017).

• Wikipedia contributors, "Province of New Jersey," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Province_of_New_Jersey&oldid=749740474 (accessed February 17, 2017).

• Wikipedia contributors, "Province of New York," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Province_of_New_York&oldid=764748923 (accessed February 17, 2017).

• Wikipedia contributors, "West Jersey," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Jersey&oldid=763059313 (accessed February 20, 2017).

Caution! - Use with caution sources

Mistakes have been found with these works and they should not be treated as primary sources. Any fact from these sources should be double checked.

Caution! Books

• Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y.: From Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700 : with Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies, Compiled from Various Sources. New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881.

• Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800. New York: J. Munsell, 1872.

• Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800. Albany, N.Y: J. Munsell, 1873.

• Talcott, S.V. Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families (Weed, Parsons and Co. in Albany, N.Y., 1883)

Caution! Websites

• Clarke, Robert Gordon. "Early New Netherland Settlers." https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rclarke/

Quite a bit of the information is valid but there are many mistakes: locations are not given in most cases, sources are not cited clearly, families are not cross-checked and a single person can be represented differently in different trees.

Caution! Church transcriptions

• Flatbush Baptisms 1677-1764, Marriages 1677-1757 - Year Book of the Holland Society of New York (1898)

The Flatbush records in the Year Book of the Holland Society are badly transcribed and shouldn't be used to determine a last name at birth. The preferred transcriptions are in David William Voorhees' Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York but the records are not online. Some of the records are transcribed in the "The Brouwer Genealogy Database". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/

• Brooklyn Baptisms & Marriages 1660-1710 - Year Book of the Holland Society of New York (1897)

The Brooklyn records in the Year Book of the Holland Society are badly transcribed and shouldn't be used to determine a last name at birth. The preferred transcriptions are in A. P. G. Jos van der Linde's New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch. Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York. First Book of Records, 1600-1752, but the records are not online. Some of the records are transcribed in the "The Brouwer Genealogy Database". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/surname_index.htm

• "Olive Tree Genealogy." olivetreegenealogy.com. Accessed 05 Apr 2017. http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/index.shtml

The New Amsterdam (New York) Dutch Reformed Church records, at the very least, are missing every instance of the Dutch character combination of "ij"; it has been replaced with "y". Other information has been left out of the records, such as a woman being described as vrouw (wife).

• "Ancestral Things": http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rbillard/index.htm (Also ancestralcurios.com, which is no longer online but may appear in source citations)

Read the descriptions very carefully as some of these "records" are not actually record transcriptions. Note in particular, that many of the Schenectady marriages are synthetic "records" based on information from Pearson's books. These "records" are just estimates, as the Albany and Schenectady records start very late.

Caution! Erroneous material on the Quackenbos/Quackenbosch family

• "Genealogical Notes on the Quackenbos Family." In The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 24, Vol. 25. New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1893.

This is the origin of many mistakes in the Quackenbosch family line. There are sources for some of the information, mostly in other issues of the NYGBR.

• Quackenbush, Adriana Suydam. The Quackenbush Family in Holland and America (Patterson, New Jersey: Quackenbush & Co., 1909)

Adriana Suydam Quackenbush was not aware that the progenitor of the Quackenbosch family used an alias of Bont and the first three generations of the family, at the very least, are quite off due to this, as she assumed that Pieter was much younger.

Caution! See also

• False and Disproven Information of New Netherland