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 proofs of births, baptisms and marriages from the year 1630 to date (New York: New Harlem Publishing Co., 1903) [NYG&B call no. N.Y.C. G 33.5 (oversize)]. In the first 108 pages of the book the author traces the male-line descendants of the patentees and their seven associates; in the remaining 509 pages he traces descendants in female lines. There is an every-name index. The information included is usually fairly accurate, but not surprisingly there are many large omissions in a work of such breadth.

Listed below are the surnames of the patentees and associates (in bold) and the surnames of those descendants in female lines traced for three or more generations. Several surnames appear multiple times, sometimes under slightly different spellings.

A 

Abbott
Ackerman
Adams
Addis
Ahles
Alling
Amos
Anderson
Arieyanse
Armstrong
Atwood

B 

Babbit
Babcock
Baker
Banta
Barbour
Barnes
Barton
Bateman
Beck
Beckwith
Bedford
Beekman
Bell
Bellis
Benedict
Bennett
Benson
Benton
Bergen
Bergh
Betts
Beyea
Biddle
Billings
Blackledge
Blakesly
Blanch
Blauvelt
Bleecker
Bodine
Bodle
Bogardus
Bogert
Bolmer
Bond
Bonnell
Booth
Brant
Brasher
Bratt
Brayman
Breeze
Brett
Brevoort
Brickell
Brigham
Brinckerhoff
Brodhead
Bro(u)wer
Brown
Bryant
Bryson
Buckhout
Bundy
Burhams
Bush
Bussing
Butterfield
Byington

C

Cain
Callow
Camerden
Campbell
Cappo
Cardoze
Carpenter
Carrick
Chamberlain
Champlin
Child
Christie
Christopher
Church
Churchwell
Clark(e)
Clayton
Cole
Colfox
Colligan
Conard
Congreve
Conklin
Conover
Cool
Cooper
Cosgrove
Covert
Cowenhoven
Crane
Creed
Cross
Cruser
Cummings
Curtiss
Custer
Cutter

D

Davis
Davison
Dawson
De Baen
De Clark
De Forest
De Groot
De Kline
Delamater
De La Montagne
(see Montanye)
Delavall
Demarest
Dennis
Den(n)ison
De Pew
De Veaux
Devoor
De Witt
Dexter
Disbrow
Doe
Donaldson
Doremus
Dorland
Dorrance
Doty
Douw
Downing
DuBois
Duffie
Dunn
Dunning
Duryee
Dutcher
Dyckman

E

Eager
Earle
Eaton
Eells
Eichelberg
Ellis
Ellison
Elmendorf
Elting
Emans
Emerson
Ennist

F

Faulkner
Fearney
Felter
Ferdon
Ferguson
Finch
Firman
Fonda
Forker
Forshee
Foster
Fowler
Frazer
Freeborn
Fulper
Furman

G

Gale
Ga Nun
Garner
Garretson
Gault
Gilbert
Gilchrist
Glenn
Goodheart
Goodwin
Gordon
Gould
Gove
Gowdey
Granger
Grant
Graves
Green
Greenleaf
Griffen
Groesbeck
Grout
Gwynne 

H

Haldron
Haley
Hall
Hallock
Halloway
Halstead
Hamilton
Hammond
Hanes
Hardin
Harding
Haring
Harrison
Hart
Hasbrouck
Hathorne
Hawley
Hays
Healy
Heermance
Henderson
Henry
Hicks
Higgins
Hill
Hoadley
Hogenkamp
Holder
Holley
Holmes
Hoogland
Horton
Hotaling
House
Howe
Hudson
Humason
Humphrey
Hun
Hunt
Huyler

I

Ives

J

Jackson
Jeffrey
Jennings
Jersey
Jessup
Johnson
Johnston

K

Kane
Kellogg
Kendall
Kenny
Kerr
Kiersen
Kierstead
Kilts
King
Kinney
Kip(p)
Kissam
Kithcart
Kline
Knapp
Knickerbocker
Knowlton
Knox
Kortright
Krom

L

Lamberson
Lamreaux
Landrine
Lane
Lanning
Lansing
Larrimore
La Wall
Le Baron
Le Count
Lee
Lefevre
Lefferts
Legget(t)
Lennon
Lent
Lester
Leydecker
Linderman
Line
Lockwood
Lovejoy
Low
Lowe
Lounsbury
Lownds
Lozier
Lusbaugh
Lyman

M

McConnell
McCracken
McCulloch
McDuffie
McGow(a)n
McIlvaine
McKee
McNaughton
Mabie
Mandeville
Mann
Manning
Mapes
Marks
Marsh
Masterson
Mayes
Mead
Megranigle
Melick
Melvin
Mereness
Merseles
Meseroll
Meyer
Middagh
Millard
Miller
Mills
Moffat
Molenar
Moller
Monroe
Montanye
Moore
Morse
Mosher
Mulford
Myer(s)

N

Nagel
Newman
Newton
Nichols
Noble  

O

Oblinus
Odell
Ogden
Onderdonck
Oothout
Orr
Orson
Osgood
Osterhoudt
Ostrander
Outwater

P

 

Packard
Paddock
Painter
Palmer
Parcells
Parsell(s)
Patterson
Pattison
Pearce
Perkins
Persel
Peterson
Pettinger
Phillips
Pierce
Pierson
Pipon
Porter
Post
Postley
Potter
Powell
Powless
Presley
Price
Pugsley
Purdy

Q

Quackenbush
Quick

R

Ramsdel
Randell
Ransom
Rappelye
Redner
Reed
Reese
Remsen
Renwick
Requa
Reynolds
Rhodes
Rich
Richards
Ridgeway
Riley
Robbins
Robinson
Rockwood
Rogers
Roosa
Roosevelt
Rundle
Russell
Ruton
Ryker

S

Sackett
Safford
St. John
Sal(i)sbury
Sands
Sargent
Sarvent
Schnebly
Schoonmaker
Schureman
Schuyler
Scriver
Seaman
Sedgwick
See
Serven
Secor
Sehler
Shapter
Sharp(e)
Shaw
Shear
Sheridan
Sherwood
Shimeall
Shrader
Shuler
Shurts
Sickels
Simpson
Sims
Sinn
Slater
Sleight
Sloat
Smith
Snider
Southwick
Sowarby
Spangler
Spears
Spencer
Spragge
Staats
Stair
Stearns
Stegg
Stephens
Stevenson
Stewart
Straight
Strong
Storms
Stryker
Stubbs
Studdiford
Stultz
Sturgis
Sutphen
Sweetser

T

Tallman
Tappan
Tate
Tator
Taylor
Teller
Templin
Ten Eyck
Terwilliger
Teter
Thayer
Thompson
Thorburn
Thorn
Tibbits
Tiebout
Tilt
Timmerman
Tipton
Titus
Todd
Tourneur
Townsend
Truax
Tuthill
Tuttle
Tyler

U

Underhill
Upton

V

Valentine
Van Alstyne
Van Antwerp
Van Arnum
Van Buren
Vandenburgh
Vandemark
Vanderbeek
Vanderbilt
Vanderhoef
Vanderpool
Vanderwerken
Van Dien
Van Gaasbeek
Van Horn
Van Houten
Van Loon
Van Middlesworth
Van Natta
Van Ness
Van Nest
Van Sciver
Van Steenburgh
Van Valkenburgh
Van Vredenburgh
Van Wagoner
Van Wie
Veghte
Velie
Vermilye
Verveelen

Vine
Vlerebome
Voorhis
Vreeland
Vroom

W

Waldron
Walker
Wallace
Wanzer
Ward
Warne
Washburn
Watts
Webster
Weeks
Weiant
Wendell
Wertz
Wessels
West
Westervelt
White
Whitfield
Whitney
Wiggins
Wight
Wiles
Willard
Williams
Wilson
Winn
Winnie
Wood
Woodward
Woolf
Woolley
Wormley
Wortenbee
Wotherspoon
Wright
Writer
Wynkoop

XYZ

Yates
Youmans
Young
Zabriskie

 

by Henry B. Hoff, CG, FASG, FGBS

Originally published in The NYG&B Newsletter, Summer 1998

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