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From: David See <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Derick See bap.: Harlem? or Westchester Co.? (was:Harlem baptisms)
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:21:46 -0500
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On 1/1/05 3:25 PM, "Howard Swain" <> wrote:

(snip, snip)
>> My source is a typescript by Eleanor M. Hall called "The See Family As I See
>> It" written in Salt Lake City in 1984.
>> ...
>> A family group sheet on p. 19 of this book says Derick was b. 1695 at "O D C
>> Harlem" probably because his putative parents were supposed to have been
>> living in Harlem at the time
>
> Thanks. I take it the date is an estimate; so could be plus or minus a few
> years?
> One thing you might want to do that I did not do is to look carefully
> throught the New York RDC bap. records by hand, item by item, for
> 1695 and a few years either side.

I did that, thanks, although the years after 1695 aren't covered. The
baptism wasn't among those posted, but I'm not surprised. Glenna Hill, the
previous family historian, had been over the NYC church records already.

> (Snip)

> There is an interesting map in NYGBR vol 59 p. 109 showing the location
> of people's farms in Phillipsburgh Manor. It is not clear to me what the
> timeframe
> is, but it seems as if these were the "original" owners.
> It shows Isaac See with what appears to be 160 Acres.
> Also, James & Isaac See in another location.

Yes, I know about the map, but haven't been to it yet.

>> What I would really love to find is vital records for the Reformed Church of
>> Unionville, but there don't seem to be any surviving there, either, am I
>> right?
>
> I've never heard of that one. The list in the 1912 HSYB show only 3 churches
> in Westchester Co.: Cortlandt, Tarrytown, and New Rochelle French Ch.
>
> How about across the Hudson at Tappan? Bap. start there in 1694.

Yes, there is, or was, a Reformed Church at Unionville, not sure when it
started, but probably much later than Tarrytown. There is a cemetery which
has been transcribed (literally by hand), and includes some of the same
surnames as Tarrytown, but haven't seen any BMD's other than that.

-D

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