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  New York
The southern tip of New York State— New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley—can be considered to form the central core of a " megalopolis," a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington and therefore occasionally called " BosWash ".
New York City is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, allowing it to facilitate one of the most extensive subway and bus systems in the world.
New York is one of seven states that mandates that Holocaust and genocide studies be taught at some point in elementary or secondary schools' curriculum.
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 Saratoga County, New York
This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770 by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont.
Saratoga County is in the northeastern part of New York State, north of Albany, northwest of Troy, and east of Utica.
In the county the population was spread out with 25.00% under the age of 18, 7.80% from 18 to 24, 31.50% from 25 to 44, 24.20% from 45 to 64, and 11.50% who were 65 years of age or older.
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  Clinton County, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean.
This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770 by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont.
In the county the population is spread out with 23.00% under the age of 18, 12.40% from 18 to 24, 30.60% from 25 to 44, 22.10% from 45 to 64, and 11.90% who are 65 years of age or older.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clinton_County,_New_York   (727 words)

  
 BedfordHistory
Cumberland County could also be called the mother county of Blair in view of the fact that she was the first county to be erected out of the lands purchased from the Indian nations which claimed this mountainous region as their rightful homeland.
In the course of this meeting, a new treaty was agreed to between the natives and the proprietary representatives of the province of Pennsylvania.
This acquisition, called the New Purchase, was the result of a treaty agreed to between the Six Nations and the governments of the provinces of New York and Pennsylvania.
www.motherbedford.com /BedfordHistory.htm   (1815 words)

  
 GenBook02
This acquisi-tion, called the New Purchase, was the result of a treaty agreed to between the Six Nations and the governments of the provinces of New York and Pennsylvania.
The line was continued in a north-easterly direction until it reached the Berks County line, in the general vicinity of the northern end of the Bald Eagle Mountain.
The "mother" county of Bedford was eventually reduced in size by the erection of Westmoreland, Huntingdon, Somerset, Blair and Fulton Counties from its original boundaries.
www.motherbedford.com /GenBook02.htm   (1725 words)

  
 Newberry Library | Cumberland Local and Family History
The History of the county of Cumberland, and some places adjacent, from the eariest accounts to the present time: comprehending the local history of the county; its antiquities, the origin, genealogy and present state of the principal families.
As is usually the case with the Victoria histories, the initial volumes are concerned with flora, fauna, etc. with little relevance to local historical or genealogical concerns.
The Extinct and dormant peerages of the northern counties of England
www.newberry.org /genealogy/cumberland.html   (268 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : The Constitution of New York : April 20, 1777
And the journals of all their proceedings shall be kept in the manner heretofore accustomed by the general assembly of the colony of New York; and except such parts as they shall, as aforesaid, respectively determine not to make public be from day to day (if the business of the legislature will permit) published.
That loan officers, county treasurers, and clerks of the supervisors, continue to be appointed in the manner directed by the present or future acts of the legislature.
The Duke of York had previously purchased in 1663 the grant of Long Island and other islands on the New E:ngland coast made in 1635 to the Marl of Stirling, and in 1664 he equipped an armed expedition which tool possession of New Amsterdam which was thenceforth called New York.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/states/ny01.htm   (3224 words)

  
 Putney Historical Society- Celebration 2003
Before the proprietors could implement their new plan, colonial governance switched by royal proclamation in 1765 from New Hampshire to New York.
Josiah Williard led the request and Governor Moore of the Province of New York issued a confirmatory charter on November 6, 1766 under King George III.
Population decreased from 1167 in 1870 to 1075 in 1890.
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 1750-1775 - York Daily Record
A county prison is constructed on a lot at the northeast corner of East King and South George streets.
Residents of Carlisle petition courts in York and Cumberland counties for construction of a road to York.
His life is decorated with achievement: He heads the York Rifles during the Revolutionary War; and serves as county sheriff and prothonotary, York's first burgess, state representative, justice of the peace and delegate to the state constitutional convention.
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 Cumberland county new jersey criminal records - Locate criminal records
The county of Salem was one of the counties comprising the West Jersey Province.
To become a notary, you must be a resident of New Jersey, be 18 years of age or older,...
Cumberland County Courthouse Broad andamp; Fayette Streets Bridgeton, NJ 08302...
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 Old maps of New York towns with family names
This historical town map of Bethlehem, New York (NY), is reproduced from the 1866 Atlas of Albany and Schenectady Counties, New York (NY), Stone and Stewart.
This historical town map of Coeymans, New York (NY), is reproduced from the 1866 Atlas of Albany and Schenectady Counties, New York (NY), Stone and Stewart.
This historical town map of Guilderland, New York (NY), is reproduced from the 1866 Atlas of Albany and Schenectady Counties, New York (NY), Stone and Stewart.
www.oldmapsne.com /category/New_York/c19   (2069 words)

  
 Transportation (from New Brunswick) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At Saint John, a modern ocean port and the province's largest industrial centre, oil refining, shipbuilding, and papermaking are major employers.
The Maritime, or Atlantic, Province of New Brunswick is washed on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean.
One of the smallest states in size, New Jersey is one of the largest in population.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-43040?tocId=43040   (862 words)

  
 PHMC: Pennsylvania History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Seeking a haven in the New World for persecuted Friends, Penn asked the King to grant him land in the territory between Lord Baltimore's province of Maryland and the Duke of York's province of New York.
In 1682, the Duke of York deeded to Penn his claim to the three lower counties on the Delaware, which are now the state of Delaware.
Because of the liberality of Penn's principles and the freedom of expression that prevailed, the province was noted for the variety and strength of its intellectual and educational institutions and interests.
www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/pahist/quaker.asp?secid=31   (2231 words)

  
 Cumberland County Progressives presents Molly Ivins
Cumberland County Progressives does not WARRANT the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any information and shall not be liable for any losses caused by such reliance on the accuracy, reliability, or timeliness of such information.
The New York Times says the journalists were interrogated at gunpoint and stripped of all of their equipment -- including cameras, phones and notebooks.
At the World Bank, the New York Times is reporting Paul Wolfowitz has begun negotiating the terms under which he would resign in return for the dropping or softening of the charge that he had engaged in misconduct.
www.cumberlandcountyprogressives.com /id10.html   (14363 words)

  
 Old maps of Pennsylvania towns for genealogy
This historical old Cumberland map was reproduced from the Atlas of Adams County, Pennsylvania (PA), From actual Surveys by and under the directions of D. Lake, C.E., published by I. Field and Co., 1872.
This historical old map of New Oxford Borough was reproduced from the Atlas of Adams County, Pennsylvania (PA), From actual Surveys by and under the directions of D. Lake, C.E., published by I. Field and Co., 1872.
This historical old map of Allegheny County was reproduced from the 1876 Atlas of the County of Allegheny, Pennsylvania (PA), published by G. Hopkins.
www.oldmapsne.com /category/Pennsylvania/c268   (2327 words)

  
 Rivers (from New Brunswick) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
It rises in the forests of Maine and Quebec and crosses New Brunswick from northwest to southeast for 418 miles (673 kilometers) to empty into the Bay of Fundy.
New York holds a preeminent position among the 50 states of the nation.
Its great metropolis and seaport, New York City, is the largest city in the United States.
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A draught of New York and Perthamboy Harbour.
A map of the Province of New-York, reduc'd from the large drawing of that Province, compiled from actual surveys by order of His Excellency William Tryon, Esqr., Captain General and Governor of the same, by Claude Joseph Sauthier; to which is added New-Jersey, from the topographical observations of C. Sauthier and B. Ratzer.
A Portion of New York from the Hudson River west to the Unadilla Branch of the Susquehanna River; from the Delaware River north to Fort Stanwix.
www.sunysb.edu /libmap/nypath2.htm   (6305 words)

  
 New York Indian Tribes
Bands of two of the main divisions of the Delaware Indians, the Munsee and Unami, extended into parts of New York State, including the island of Manhattan.
In the upper and central part of the Mohawk Valley and the lake region of central New York.
Ostonwackin, Delaware and Iroquois, at the mouth of Loyalstock Creek on the west branch of the Susquehanna River, at Montoursville, Pa.
www.accessgenealogy.com /native/newyork   (2220 words)

  
 New Jersey militia during the Revolutionary war
New Jersey had an estimated One hundred and seventy thousand residents, leaving appromiately 50 thousand men of military age (16 to 50).
That the several County or (where there is no County) Township Committees do transmit the names of all the Militia officers chosen with in their respective Districts to the Provincial Congress, or the Committee of Safety, to be by them commissioned, agreeable to the directions of the Continental Congress.
Washington intended to protect New York from the British, and asked for the NJ militia to man a "Flying Camp" in NJ to defend against any movement by the British.
www.doublegv.com /ggv/militia.html   (3841 words)

  
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Baxter's varied ability and power of adaptation have rendered him a most efficient functionary in city and State, his favorite field is literature; and his labors with the pen for the last twenty years have been constant and valuable.
His annual addresses to the City Council during his period of office as Mayor are models of a clear, incisive style, placing before the city fathers in terse and forcible English the condition of the municipal departments' and calling attention to the city's most urgent needs.
The "English Colonization of the New World" was the result of careful and discriminating study, as was also his work entitled "Western Civilization," the two being among the most important of his publications.
www.raynorshyn.com /meGenWeb/cumberland/biographies/baxter.txt   (919 words)

  
 An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera: Titles: 92
To the inhabitants of New York, and all the British Colonies, New-York, 20th April 1775.
To the inhabitants of the City and County of New York.
To the inhabitants of the Ward of the City of New York, being the Collection District of the State of New York.
lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/rbpehtml/rbpebibTitles92.html   (3489 words)

  
 Birth Records, Marriage Records, Death Records. Parish & Proabate Record Databases. Vital Records & Certificates.
Aiken County, South Carolina Cemetery Inscriptions: Graniteville This is an extraction of the Graniteville Aiken County, South Carolina Cemetery Inscriptions.
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Church Records Records of baptisms, marriages, and burials for various churches in Cumberland County.
Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah Cemetery, 1846-1999 This is an extraction of the Granstville, Tooele County Utah cemetery 1846 - 1999
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 Cumberland Maryland
Cumberland, England, of the 39 traditional counties of England.
The Cumberland Plateau and Cumberland Mountains in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee and westernVirginia
Cumberland Sound is aninlet of Baffin Island, Canada.
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 Loyalist Institute: A History of the 1st Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers
The officers of the 5th battalion, primarily from Sussex County, were extremely loyal to BARTON, while those of the old 1st battalion remained attached to the memory of Elisha LAWRENCE and resented BARTON's presence and command.
The freezing of New York Harbor, reportedly as far down as Sandy Hook, coupled with the bulk of the British Army upon an expedition to South Carolina, led to a reduced New York garrison wide open to attack.
These men were recruited at New York City and Virginia and consisted mainly of American and French prisoners of war and deserters.
www.royalprovincial.com /military/rhist/njv/1njvhist.htm   (2724 words)

  
 GenealogyForum.org: York County, Maine Resources
York County, was the First County created in Maine, by a grant from King Charles I of England to Sir Fernando Gorges in 1636.
On June 19, 1760 Lincoln County and Cumberland Co were established from portions of York County land.
Historical Maps of York Co 1893; 1920 & 1956 by University of New Hampshire
www.genealogyforum.org /resources/ME/meyork.php   (524 words)

  
 History of York County, Maine
Province of Maine of Gorges' heirs; and again Yorkshire was ex-
of the county inclines to sandy loam, though clay, and clayey and
Saco, Kennebunk and York, are within its limits.
history.rays-place.com /me/york-cty-me.htm   (432 words)

  
 GLOUCESTER COUNTY New Jersey - USGenWeb - HISTORY
The half of New Jersey which the two Quakers Fenwick and Byllinge had bought from Lord Berkeley was an undivided interest, but after 1673-74, Cateret obtained a new grant which divided the State geographically and gave him the northern portion of the State.
The County is the only one of the State, and is among few in the entire United States, which originated directly in action of its own freeholders and inhabitants -- it was not created by the provisional government of West Jersey.
Draft of roads in New Jersey (1777) - image shows roads of Camden and Gloucester counties, New Jersey; Described in Samuel S. Smith's The fight for the Delaware, under the title Route the Hessians took from Coopers Ferry to Red Bank.
www.jwbrown-home.com /Gloucesterco/gchistory.htm   (2228 words)

  
 GENUKI: Genealogical research information for Cumberland, England
Owing to the general elevation of the land, and the moisture of the climate, the cultivation of the soil is less attended to than the rearing of sheep and cattle.
Cumberland and Westmorland Online Parish Clerk - collection of records (census, parish registers, war memorials, andc) for selected parishes in Cumberland, with support and encouragement for those who want to go about it.
The Province of York covered most of northern England, including Bewcastle, and anyone who died leaving property in more than one diocese within the province would have their will proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of York (PCY) or sometimes in the Chancery Court of the Archbishop of York.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/CUL   (3473 words)

  
 New York State genealogy books for sale
The Commissioners for detecting and defeating Conspiracies, was officially created on February 5, 1778 in response to the invasion of New York by the British army, and the fear of domestic foes, such as the Tories.
New Concord, located in the Town of Chatham, was founded in approximately 1760 by predominantly Connecticut settlers who brought with them their Congregationalist traditions.
The French continued to claim New York as French territory, and settlements near Lake Ontario would pass back and forth between French and English possession, depending who had the upper hand, until the territory was surrendered to the United States in 1796.
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