Roeliff Jansen Community Library, Hillsdale, NY

 
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Local History Books and Pamphlets

Art and Architecture
 

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

720.973

Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley

Eberlein, Harold D.

wooden shelves

974.739

A Visible Heritage, Columbia County, New York :
A History in Art and Architecture

Piwonka, Ruth

wooden shelves

726.5

Wooden Churches: Columbia County Legacy

Baker, Arthur A.

wooden shelves

Biographies

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

920

Biographical Review: Biographical Sketches of  the Leading Citizens of
Columbia County, NY 1871-2

 

wooden shelves

929.2

Bristol Genealogy

Bristol, Warren Edwin

wooden shelves

929.2

Cyclopedia of Biography of the Family of John Collin of Milford, Connecticut, 1872

Collin, John

history closet

974.7

The Fagan Sisters: A history of life in a New York Country Village

Mettler, Elinor

Soft cover

booklets

974.704 Governor Martin H. Glynn: Forgotten Hero Lizzi, Dominick history closet

Business Director

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

917.47

Gazetteer and Business Directory of Columbia County, NY

1871-2

Child, Hamilton

wooden shelves

Cemetery Records

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

929.574

Columbia County, NY Gravestone Inscriptions

Divine, Albert

wooden shelves

929.574

Gravestone Inscriptions 1935-1941  (Vol. 7)

Barber, Gertrude A.

wooden shelves

929.374

Old Tombstones & Unusual Cemeteries in Columbia County, NY

Divine, Gerta

Soft cover booklets
Divine & French

929.3747

Revolutionary War Veterans Buried in Columbia County, NY 
Vol. I

French, Esther G.

Soft cover booklets
Divine & French

929.3747

Revolutionary War Veterans Buried in Columbia County, NY 
Vol. II

French, Esther G.

Soft cover booklets
Divine & French

Church Histories

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

283.73 Ancramdale and Its Little Church Cleveland, Monica wooden shelves

283.73

Christ Church in the City of Hudson, 1802-1952

DeMille, George

wooden shelves

929

Quaker Records of the Hudson Monthly Meeting :
Columbia County, New York  1793 +

 

wooden shelves

Histories – Berkshire County

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

974.41

The Berkshires:  The Purple Hills

Peattie, Roderick

history closet

974

Great Barrington Bi-Centennial 1761-1961

 

history closet

974.4

Lenox: Massachusetts Shire Town

Wood, David H.

history closet

974

Stockbridge, 1739-1939

Sedgwick, Sarah Cabot

history closet

974.41

West Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1774-1974

Garnett, Edna Bailey

history closet

Histories – Columbia County

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

974.739

Civil List of Columbia County and Official Hand-Book

1786-1886

Terry, R. M.

wooden shelves

074.739

Columbia County at the End of the Century 1900

2 Volumes

Hudson Gazette

wooden shelves

352.0747

Columbia County Data Book 1965

 

miscellaneous  box 1

974.7

Copake Lake, Columbia County, NY

Keeler, Wes

soft cover booklets

974.739

History of Columbia County, New York 1878

Ellis, Capt. Frank

wooden shelves

974.739

A History of Hillsdale, Columbia County, NY 1883

Collin, John Francis

wooden shelves

974.739

A History of the Establishment of the Hillsdale Rural

Cemetery Association 1872

Rural Cemetery

Association

wooden shelves

974.739

A History of the Roeliff Jansen Area

Editions: 1990, 2003

Roeliff Jansen
Historical Society

soft cover booklets

974.739

Kinderhook and its People 1914-1984

Duck, Ralph S.

history closet

974.739 Let There Be Light: the forgotten history of the Chatham Public Library Lizzi, Dominick history closet

974.739

The Taconic Hills and Livingston Manor: a historical essay

Langdon, Grant Dinehart

soft cover booklets

362.5

Who’ll Weep for Me?

A Teacher’s Guide to the Rise of the Poorhouse System in

Ulster County

Stessin-Cohn, Susan

history closet

973.3

Ye Cohorn Caravan : The Knox Expedition in the winter

of 1775-76

Bowne, William L.

soft cover booklets

Histories – New York State

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

974.7

The Documentary History of the State of New York 3 volumes 

O’Callaghan, E. B.

history closet

974.7

Documents Relative to the Colonial History

of the State of New York (10 Vol.)

Brodhead, John R.

history closet

974.748

History of Saratoga County, New York 1609-1878

Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett

history closet

 

 

 

 

Indexes

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

974.73

An Alphabetical First and Last Name Index to

Ellis’ History of Columbia County

Divine, Albert

soft cover booklets

Divine & French

973.744

New York in the War of the Rebellion

1861-1865  Index only

Phisterer, Frederick

wooden shelves

Scrapbooks

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

286.173

The Articles of Faith and Covenant of the

West Baptist Church, Hillsdale, NY

 

red book truck

336.2

Assessment Roll of the Town of Hillsdale, 1811

 

red book truck

974.739

Black Grocery Road, Boston Corners

 

red book truck

974.739

Edith Harrison’s Journal, 1932

Harrison, Edith

red book truck

974.739

Gallatin

 

wooden shelves

974.739

Hillsdale, Columbia County

 

red book truck

 

The Knox Cannon Train  1775-1776

 

miscellaneous  box 1

920

Local Authors

 

red book truck

974.7

Mae and Evelyn Niver Scrapbook  1915-1945

Niver, Mae

wooden shelves

974.7

Original Scrapbook compiled in the 1800’s.

Dates range from 1869-1908

 

wooden shelves

974

Trails in Massachusetts and New York

 

red book truck

Vital Records

Baptism, Marriage, Death

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

929.3

Baptism Record of Reformed Church, Claverack, NY, 1727-1899

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

929.3

Baptism Record Reformed Church, West Copake, NY 1783-1899

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

929.3

Baptismal Record of Reformed Dutch Church, Hillsdale, NY (Krum Church) 1776-1849

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

929.374

Deaths, Marriages and Miscellaneous from Hudson, New York Newspapers 
Vol. I Deaths 1802-1851Vol. II  Marriages 1802-1851

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

929.3

Germantown, Gallatin, Copake & Hillsdale Reformed Church  1736-1899

 

wooden shelves

 

 

 

 

929.2

Hudson Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs4 volumes

Reynolds, Cuyler

wooden shelves

929.3

Marriage Record of Four Reformed Congregations inthe towns of: Germantown, Gallatin, Copake, and Hillsdale,Columbia County, NY 1736-1899

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

929.3

Marriage Record of Reformed Church, Claverack, NY, 1727-1899

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

920.02

Obituaries: 1972-1991

 

wooden shelves

929.1

Remarkable Records of Rev. Gideon Bostwick

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

929.3

Vital records of Ancramdale Presbyterian Church,
Ancramdale, Columbia County, NY [Ancram Lead
Mines Presbyterian Church] 1877-1993

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

929.3747

Vital Records of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Ancram,
Columbia County, NY, 1846-1945

Kelly, Arthur

wooden shelves

       

War Records

Call Number

Title

Author

Location

974.739

Columbia County in the World War, 1924

Home Defense Committee

history closet

974.4

Massachusetts Solidiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War  14 volumes

 

history closet

974.7

New York in the Revolution as Colony and State

Roberts, James A.

wooden shelves

974.7

Records for the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts

Columbia County’s Veterans Services

miscellaneous  box 1

974.7

World War II Veterans Service Records:Columbia County, State of New York

 

wooden shelves

 

The library has no original records.

Two fires which destroyed church and town records:
        1845  Methodist Church
        1927  Presbyterian Church

 


Mae and Evelyn Niver Scrap