Hardcover reprint of the original 1906 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Anjou, Gustave. Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records In The Office Of The Surrogate, And In The County Clerk's Office At Kingston, N.Y.: A Careful Abstract And Translation Of The Dutch And English Wills, Letters Of Administration After Intestates, And Inventories From L665, With Genealogical And Historical Notes. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Anjou, Gustave. Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records In The Office Of The Surrogate, And In The County Clerk's Office At Kingston, N.Y.: A Careful Abstract And Translation Of The Dutch And English Wills, Letters Of Administration After Intestates, And Inventories From L665, With Genealogical And Historical Notes, . New York: Anjou, 1906. Subject: Wills

Winner of the 2017 Hendricks Award presented by the New Netherland Institute In 1678, seven French-speaking Protestant families established the village of New Paltz in the Hudson River Valley of New York. Life on the edge of European settlement presented many challenges, but a particular challenge for these ethnic Walloon families, originally from the southern Spanish Netherlands, was that they lived in a Dutch cultural region in an English colony. In Set in Stone, Kenneth Shefsiek explores how the founders and their descendants reacted to and perpetuated this multiethnic cultural environment for generations. As the founding families controlled their town economically and politically, they creatively and selectively blended the cultures available to them. They allowed their Walloon culture to slip away early in the village's history, but they continued to combine Dutch and English cultures for more than 150 years. When they finally abandoned the last vestiges of Dutch culture in the early nineteenth century, they did so just as descendants of English colonists began to claim that the national commitment to liberty and freedom was grounded in the nation's English heritage. Not willing to be marginalized, descendants of the New Paltz Walloons constructed an alternative national narrative, placing their ancestors at the very center of the American story.

The core of the book consists of the contents of nearly 100 Bibles arranged alphabetically according to the surname of the book's owner, and, thereunder, in progressions of marriages, births, and deaths. In all, more than 1,000 mostly 18th- and 19th-century inhabitants of Suffolk and Nansemond are here rescued from obscurity and further made accessible in the index to Bible records at the back.

"This work covers the wills, inventories, distributions of estates, and court records of the men and women who settled in that fecund district of Connecticut embracing Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor."--Google Books.