Reference materials
I have a list of items that I have found most helpful.
Book collections, map collections etc……
1829 Burr atlas- has maps and lot layouts of those in existence in 1829
on CD and also online
1895 Joseph Bein NYS Atlas showing Tracts, grants and Patetens also has 100 plus names in index on map with numbers to show locations. Ramsey Map Collection
1860 Frenches NYS Gazetteer with a section on obsolete place names-excellent source for old place names.
NY Regimental histories in the war of rebellion.
there are approximately 57 books that have been digitized and are part of a DV produced by HistoricalArchives.com
It should be noted that many of these books have been digitized by Google or are part of the internetarchives.com website
Central NY Business Directory- author is unknown was a gift to Cornell University Library and now part of their digital collection-can be found at the HathiTrust web site along with a listing for on published in 1861.
Having been published around 1905. The book encompasses a large section of central NY
is online and requires a hardcover copy to manually search. Location and type of business would be a starting point-primarily broken down by counties/towns and villages
Revolutionary soldiers resident or dying in Onondaga county (Syracuse NY)
based on pension list of Franklin H Chase
Pierce’s Register. 17th report of the National Society of the Daughter of the Revolution
briefly it is a register of the certificates issued by John Pierce Esquire paymaster general and
commissioner of Army accounts for the United States , to officers and men of the continental Army under act of July 4, 1783
NYS archives-can be found on ancestry.com-free to access with a valid NYS zip code
New York, U.S., Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804
the above link will go to ancestry’s NY records-has towns listed in each county that had been created by 1804. Displayed as pages and not searchable