Author: (Veersteeg, Mr.).Clearwater, Judge Alphonse T.
Title: Kingston Records. Reprinted from the Index to the Public Records of Albany County, 1905. (Cover Title).
Description: (1905). (1905). - Folio [approximately 16-3/4 inches high by 13 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wraps backed with blue cloth tape. The wraps are bumped, chipped & unevenly darkened. There is staining to the bottom corner of the front wrap & there is a piece out of the top corner of the rear wrap. [vi] & pages 4331-4426 [95] pages]. The top page corners are lightly bumped, else the contents are bright & near fine. Very good.

A rare and possibly unique publication purchased from a Clearwater family member.

The Superintendant in charge of preparing these seventeenth-century records writes in his historical introduction: "The translated abstract of the Dutch records was prepared through the efforts of Hon. A. T. Clearwater, of Kingston, and others, who recognized in them a prolific source of reliable information concerning the trials and tribulations, habits and customs, of the hardy Dutch settlers of old Esopus. The Superintendant of this work is indebted to Judge Clearwater for his assistance in obtaining access to the records here indexed." The translation was made by a Mr. Veersteeg, the official translator of the Holland Society, and was completed in 1898. Very good .

Keywords: NEW YORK STATE; UPSTATE NEW YORK; HUDSON VALLEY; ULSTER COUNTY; KINGSTON, NY; KINGSTON RECORDS; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; 17TH CENTURY; DUTCH SETTLERS; JUDGE ALPHONSE T. CLEARWATER.

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