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Letter Book of John Moore, Esq.

John Moore, Esq. of New York City (1745-1828) was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Channing) Moore, and the grandson of Col. John and Frances (Lambert) Moore and William and Anne (Bowne) Channing.

The Walloon Index

In 2005 the NYG&B Collection acquired 199 reels of microfilm containing the famous “Walloon Index” or Collection des Fiches of the Bibliothèque Wallonne in Leiden, The Netherlands.

The Calendar and Colonial New York

All colonial genealogists learn that Britain and its colonies changed from the old style (Julian) calendar to the new style (Gregorian) calendar on January 1,1752.

Seversmith's Colonial Families

A useful work for New York research (and Long Island in particular) is Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut (5 vols., 1939-58, Washington, D.C., privately printed) and two

Principal Families in The New Harlem Register

A useful work for finding families in New York and in New Jersey before 1900 is Henry Pennington Toler, The New Harlem Register: A genealogy of the descendants of the twenty-three original Patentees of the Town of New Harlem, containing pr

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