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A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times
A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times Author:Jonathan Pearson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. Professor Pearson, of Union College, enjoys a well earned reputation as student, translator and writer on the colonial history of Northern New York. ... more »During the past forty or more years, he has been a constant worker at the records of the ancient county of Albany and has accumulated a vast store of information, which has fortunately been put in writing and embraces many thousand pages of legal cap manuscript. This herculean task was a labor of love without hope of pecuniary profit; as Professor Alexander aptly expresses it—the recreation of a busy life. His friend, the late Joel Munsell, of antiquarian fame, induced him to print much of this matter and ' Early Records of the county of Albany," translated from the original Dutch, "Contributions toward the Genealogies of the First Settlers of Schenec- tady," " Genealogies of the First Settlers of Albany," " History of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Schenectady " besides very many magazine and newspaper articles have been given to the public from Mun- sell's Press. There remain more than four thousand pages of unpublished manuscript and notes, much of which was written many years ago. Professor Pearson's unique collection of facts has been at the service of all who sought to write on the subject and much has appeared from time to time from others, which was strictly his work. In the study of the subject he is unquestionably the best guide and it is doubtful if any facts essential to a history of the ancient Schenectady Patent have been overlooked by him. He gave the writer free use of most of his manuscript and notes, and they are in the main printed here that due credit may be given to the author and that the data may be at the service of the general historian. In the preparation of these contribution...« less