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Essential Resources for African American Research on the NYG&B Website
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African American
Are you researching African American families from New York State? This area of research can be amazingly complicated and full of brick walls.
Slavery Records in the Common Council Papers at the New York City Municipal Archives
Meryl Schumacker, NYG&B Record, vol. 149 (2018), no. 1: 21 - 38
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.