Meryl Schumacker, NYG&B Record, vol. 149 (2018), no. 1: 21 - 38
Forced Settlement: Documenting Descendants of Enslaved Americans and Their Scottish Connections
Millions descend from the more than 150,000 Scots who settled in North America by 1785. Those settlers, like many settlers of the time, took part in the transatlantic slave trade. A generous grant from the Scottish Government’s Scottish Connections Fund enabled the NYG&B to engage the services of expert researchers to compile the following guide and accompany resources to trace biographical and genealogical connections to those enslaved individuals.
Frans Abramse Van Salee and His Descendants: A Colonial Black Family in New York and New Jersey
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol 121 (1990) no. 2: 65-71; no. 3: 157-161; no. 4: 205-211.
Some Ancestors of Nelly Jane (Franklin) Lefevre: An African American of the Mid-Hudson Valley
Joan de Vries Kelley, NYG&B Record, vol 145 (2014) no. 4: 245-258; vol 146 (2015), no. 2: 107-116; no. 3: 187-197; no. 4: 283-298, 311; vol 147 (2016), no 1.
Swan Janse Van Luane: A Free Black in 17th Century Kings County
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 125 (1994), no. 2: 74-77.
Abstracts of Early Black Manhattanites
Richard Dickenson, NYG&B Record, vol. 116 (1985), no. 2: 100-104; no. 3: 169-173.
Researching African-American Families in New Netherland and Colonial New York and New Jersey
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 136, no. 2 (2005): 83-95.
A Selected Bibliography for African American Research
Instructional Books and Guides to Sources
- African American and American Indian Patriots of the Revolutionary War [E 251 D38]