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Will all the descendants of Hendrick Jochemsze Schoonmaker please join in to help make this a complete tree. We know that there are several books written on the Schoonmaker family, including other names such as Shumaker and Shoemaker. Please join in.Some Valuable Documents: Baptismal & Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster, NY Schoonmakers in the Hudson Valley, compiled...
Freeholders of the commonality of the town of Westchester:*William Richardson*John Hunt* Edward Waters* Robert Huestis Ponton* William Barnes*John Bugbie*John Bailey*John Tudor* John Ferris Palmer* Thomas Baxter===HistoryFrom “Colonial Bronx to the 19th Century” link > ... Most of the eastern half of the modern Bronx was bought in 1654 by Thomas Pell of Connecticut, who invited 16 families to f...
Irvington , also known as Irvington-on-Hudson , is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County , New York , United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, 20 miles north of midtown Manhattan in New York City.==Early settlers==* Capt. John Buckhout * Justus Dearman * William Dutcher * Jacob van Tassel* Wolfert Acker == Notable residents ==* Madam C. J. Walker...
The Evening Star Sank on October 3, 1866 ==== .........283 Parished ==Evening Star – On 3 October 1866, the Evening Star sank after sailing into a hurricane 180 miles east of Tybee Island, GA. Of the approximately 300 aboard, 283 perished. The ship contained lifeboats for only 60 people and not enough life vests for all on board. One group of survivors were picked up by a passing vessel and tak...
Master project for the New York City Board of Education. New York City Board of Education is the governing body of the New York City Department of Education. The members of the board are appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents.The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. ...
Genealogical roots of gang members and leaders, discussion of the history and legacy of street gangs, motorcycle gangs, Mafia families, and crews in New York City: all five boroughs; and neighboring areas of Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. >* Please join us by collaborating and adding your public profiles to the Project. Document uploads are more than welcome, too.==Background==* from ...
The Brooklyn Excelsiors were an amateur baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 1854, the Excelsior ballclub featured stars such as Jim Creighton, Asa Brainard, and Candy Cummings.The team is known for originating the "Brooklyn-style" baseball cap, precursor to the modern cap.
The Troy Trojans were a Major League Baseball team in the National League for four seasons from 1879 to 1882. Their home games were played at Putnam Grounds (1879) and Haymakers' Grounds (1880-1881) in the upstate New York city of Troy, and at Troy Ball Clubs Grounds (1882) across the Hudson in Watervliet, or "West Troy" as it was known at the time.*
The Philadelphia Tapers were an American and professional basketball team that played a partial 1962–1963 season, and traces its history to the 1950s AAU New York Tapers.When Abe Saperstein's American Basketball League was born in 1961, Tuck Tape owner Paul Cohen purchased a franchise, gave it the Tapers name, and placed it in Washington. Cohen signed Gene Conley, who had played for the Boston ...