Guides and General Resources
- Roger D. Joslyn, "New York," in Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources, rev.ed. (1992) pp. 521-40
The 131 volumes of the Record contain source material from many New York counties, but perhaps no county has been more extensively covered than Westchester.
This article is a continuation of Manors in New York (Part 1). It contains notable manors of New York, organized alphabetically by name.
My New York research centers on the family of Col. John Moore (1686–1749) and the related family names of Lambert, Barberie, Axtell, Holland, Bayard, Hoffman, and Livingston.
It is as if time stood still in New York City. On any given day between 1939 and 1941 photographers were capturing city buildings on film for the Department of Taxes (now the Department of Finance).
One of the unique aspects of New York history was the existence of manors as political and judicial units in the colonial era.
Compiled accounts of many Westchester County families are contained in “The Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh, Westchester County, N.Y.,” a four-volume typescript by Grenville C. Mackenzie [NYG&B Library MS. T 1.1].