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Early Orange County Wills (1731-1830).\
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Two volumes in one, this reproduction of the two most widely used Orange County NY research aids puts 450 pages of solid genealogy at your fingertips. Vol. 1 (63 pages) is an abstract of all names found in Orange and Ulster County wills filed in New York City between 1731 and 1788; included is an index of wills and an every-name index. Vol. 2 (387 pages) contains abstracts of all names and relationships found in wills that were filed between 1787 and 1830 in the Orange County Surrogate's Office. An every name index has been added and Revolutionary Soldiers are noted. Two appendixes list un-filed wills at the Surrogate's Court and a few wills proved in the Court of Common Pleas.\
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Hard cover, 470 pages, 1997.\
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Index to Ruttenber and Clark's 1881 History of Orange County, NY by the Orange County Genealogical Society.\
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This every name index will work equally well with the reprint above or the original edition.\
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Hard cover, 262 pages, 1979.\
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The History of Orange County, New York by Russel Headley.\
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Originally published in 1908, this work contains over 1260 pages of history, biography, portraits and illustrations. The original oversized book has been reprinted into a convenient 2 volume set plus a matching index sold separately. The extensive history section discusses localities and events in great detail. This is followed by a large biographical section with many references to earlier generations. Portraits and illustrations are located throughout the book and a brief listing of subjects, biographies and portraits is located at the end.\
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Reprint, 2 volume set, hard cover, 1262 pages, (1908) 1993.\
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Index to Russel Headley's 1908 History of Orange County, NY by the Orange County Genealogical Society.\
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A matching volume to the reprint and also serves the 1908 original edition.\
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Hard cover, 126 pages, 1993.\
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History of Orange County [1847] by Samuel W. Eager.\
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The earliest of the three major histories has been reprinted by the Orange County Genealogical Society after pain-stakingly revising the every name index to now include almost 4,000 more entries than any previous version. This handsome volume will include this index as well as a slightly revised subject index to bring the total pages to 768.\
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Reprint, hard cover, indexed, 768 pages, (1847) 1995.\
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Newburgh--Her Institutions, Industries, and Leading Citizens by John J. Nutt.\
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This classic historical, descriptive and biographical history of Newburgh has been a standard research aid since 1891. It contains over 500 illustrations and photos. These and its detailed history are easily accessible by an Index of Illustrations and an Index of Personal Names.\
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Reprint, hard cover, indexed, 336 pages, (1891) 1992.\
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Newburgh and its Environs, 1909\
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This is a well known book created as the official program for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. Reproduced from the original, more than 200 businesses and local citizens are profiled. While this edition remains true to the original, it contains over 275 photographs (eleven more than in the 1909 edition) plus an account of the Celebration not included in the original volume. Seven of these new photographs are taken from the Fourth Annual Report of the Hudson Fulton Commission to the Legislature of the State of New York. Three more postcard scenes are added and finally a two page continuous photograph depicting area citizenry trying to position themselves to get the best view of the naval parade. A \"must have\" for anyone with an interest in Newburgh.\
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Reprint, cloth, indexes, 144 pages, (1909) 1994.\
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Early Owego by Leroy Wilson Kingman.\
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History of Owego, Tioga Co., from settlement to 1907. Written as a series of articles in the Owego Gazette which were later published in one binding in an edition of fifty copies.\
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Reprint, with added name index, (1907) 1987.\
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Historical Gazetteer of Tioga County, New York 1785-1888 by W. B. Gay Co.\
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The history of Tioga County from the first settlement to 1888. Added to this volume is the Directory of Tioga County 1887-1888 plus an index to the Gazetteer.\
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Reprint, cloth, 848 pages, illustrated, maps, (1888) 1985.\
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Owego Reflections 1887-1987 by Hilda R. Watrous.\
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A complete history of the village of Owego, Tioga Co., NY examined decade by decade.\
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Cloth, 572 pages, illustrated, name and subject indexes, 1994.\
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Interlaken Oral History Project\
Interviews with residents about the life and times of the area 1900-1950 including the history of the Hallstead Canning Company. In their own words: Aubrey Smith, Town Judge for over fifty years; Joe Dickerson, rural mail carrier; Marguerite Lee, telephone operator; Ted Day, NY State Senator; Maurice Patterson, school teacher and local historian; and other individuals who make up the fabric of this typical rural village tell their stories. 318 pages, paper, illustrated, 1997.\
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Unmasking the Past: Millers Corners--Ionia 1789-1989 by Sandra Bortle Schlenker, Sally D. Brainard, Toni DiPerri, Deborah J. O'Brien, Anne Fetzner Parrish, and Mary A. Twardokus.\
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Subjects of chapters include: town and house histories, genealogies, merchants, the railroad station, weather, church, animals, cemetery, wars, schools, fireman, pastimes and pleasures, memories, diaries, odds and ends, and other jam packed in this most interesting book on the hamlet of Ionia in the town of West Bloomfield, NY.\
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288 pages, paper, many pictures, 1989.\
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The Lost Resort by Lucile Peterson Macera, Shirley Knox VanDyne, and Merlyn H. Wheeler, Jr.\
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A history of the Crystal Springs area (1859-1987), its hotels, families, and the water cures. The resort was located in the Crystal Valley, Town of Barrington, Yates County, NY.\
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140 pages, photos, maps, genealogical records, paperback, index, 1993.\
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America's First Rushville by Robert Elbridge Moody.\
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A very complete history of the village and surrounding area by a long term resident who collected, documented, and recorded the history and people of the area for over eighty years. Born in 1897 in Rushville, the author attended Cornell University, and then returned to local high school teaching English and History.\
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As a community, Rushville is split and thus a part of both Yates and Ontario counties. Included is the early history of \"Federal Hollow\" (1790-1819), the early commuity (1819-1840), chapters on churches, industries, expansion, the effect of the Civil War, railroads, businesses, and stories of the residents.\
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462 pages, 7x10, many illustrations, maps, cloth bound, 1991.\
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Faded Laurels: The History of Eaton's Neck by Ed Carr.\
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A fantastic community history with many photos and some genealogical information.\
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School and Church History\
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Eisenhower College: The Life and Death of a Living Memorial by David L. Dresser.\
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A history and case study of this liberal arts collge founded in Seneca Falls in 1965 as a memorial to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Highly regarded for its unique general education program of World Studies, the College was closed for financial reasons in 1983 despite many efforts to sustain it.\
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Cloth, many illustrations and student lists, 799 pages, 1995.\
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Many Witnesses: A History of Dumbarton United Methodist Church, 1772-1990 edited by Jane Donovan.\
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The first comprehensive history written on one of the very few congregations founded under the supervision of Francis Asbury in British Colonial America that is still established in its original neighborhood, in Georgetown, Washington, DC, without ever closing or merging to lose its unique identity. This book sheds light on Asbury's ministry, on early church camp meetings, on the beginnings of the Sunday School movement, on two hundred years of race relations, on the effects of the nation's wars on local communitites, on the church's engagement with social issues, and most of all on the relationship between faith and daily living as ordinary people lived out their beliefs in the hurly burly of their community, through war and peace, poverty and wealth, participating in the growth of the nation's capital from its beginnings.\
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540 pages, illustrated, indexed, 1998.\
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Alive in the Spirit Since 1813: The Arcade United Church of Christ, Congregational by Jeffrey C. Mason and Harry S. Douglass.\
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A history of one of the oldest congregations in Western New York. Contains extensive information about the influence of Oberlin College on several church members who became active in the abolition and temperance movements in the mid-19th century. This book was the first-place winner of the 1990 Frederick Fagley Memorial Award from the Congregational Christian Historical Society.\
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253 pages, illustrated, paperback, 1990.\
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The Presbyterian Presence in Geneva, New York 1798-1998 by J. Richard Hart.\
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This history begins with a band of devout people on what was once America's Northwest Frontier. Their church survives war, depression, division, and excision. The story ends with a strong, diverse, influencial congregation, spiritually and socially active. Along the way, ordinary folks and luminaries who touched or were touched by this church stride across the pages. We meet Elizabeth Blackwell, the western world's first woman physician, and Arthur Dove, first abstract artist, Chester A. Arthur, DeWitt Clinton, and more.\
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313 pages, cloth, illustrated, indexed.\
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