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From: "Martha Millington" <>
Subject: RE: [NYWestch] Re: NYWESTCH-D Digest V02 #173
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:14:20 -0500
In-Reply-To: <d2.1cbf0c87.2a93083d@aol.com>


Barbara (and others)

Glad I could help....send any "Purdy" info my way... :-)

As for the records, Theresa Hall Bristol was a member of the NY
Gen. & Biographical Society, and I would presume in the 1900s when
these records were abstracted, had access to the original land
record books and will books at White Plains. I believe these
records were also microfilmed by the LDS Church and can be ordered
on microfilm through them. I am not certain where the original
land records and wills are now, but would suspect at the NY State
Archives (we can only hope that they have been thus preserved).

Note too, that these are abstracts of the records and not ALL the
entries are represented, but those that Ms. Bristol thought were
genealogically worth reprinting.

Our library in Peoria Illinois has the NY Genealogical &
Biographical Record on microfiche and has hardbound volumes and
the current issues. You can also obtain the issues in which these
records appear from the Society. I believe they had on their
website an abstract of the records appearing in their volumes
which pertain to Westchester County.

Also, Theresa Hall Bristol published in the RECORD, Volume XLIX
(49) "Genealogical Gleanings from Land and Probate Records at Rye
and White Plains, with a map of the White Plains patent" published
in the quarterlies beginning in April 1918 and continuing through
Oct. 1918. Keeping in mind this is 1918, here is what she had to
say about the records:

"The records of Rye are at Port Chester. The first volume is
missing, but there are three volumes of land and one of town
records, and , as White Plains was a part of Rye, the earlier land
transactions of White Plains are included among them... As Rye
was, for a short time, in the Connecticut Colony, some of the
early probate records are at Fairfield and probably at other
Places in Conn. (Stamford to name one). The earliest Eastchester
records are at Tuckahoe, and those of the districts annexed to New
York City are in the office of the City Comptroller, Municipal
building, New York City. There are at White Plains, the land
records dating back to 1687; the probate records after
Revolutionary times; also, int he County Clerk's office, an old
County Road Book dating from 1723 to 1773, several Books of Common
Pleas, dating from 1723, and other court records, to be had if
asked for."

Where the records are now, I can't say. But the contributions to
the RECORD by Theresa Hall Bristol has made my ancestral search
MUCH easier. Of all the contributors to the RECORD, she is, I
believe, one of the most meticulous and thus, I would have no
problem accepting any of her work as accurate.

Marti

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Subject: [NYWestch] Re: NYWESTCH-D Digest V02 #173


Marti, I apologize! I accidentally hit some key when the phone
rang just
now, and your letter went on its own merry way! I'm sure you're
wondering
why the heck anyone would send you a letter with about half a
sentence in it!
Anyway, I'm sorry!

As I started to say, virtually every single person mentioned in
your letter,
is either a direct or a collateral ancestor of mine. Most are
direct. And
the Joseph RODMAN (I'm not sure which one) bought the house in New
Rochelle
that Antoine L'ESPINARD/LISPENARD built ca 1720. I've been
fortunate enough
to not only been in the house, but have spent a night there, in a
room in the
oldest part of the house. The man who owned the house at the time
(approx.
1984) was a professor at Adelphi Univ. and also an historian. He
is largely
responsible for having the house placed on the Register of
Historic Places.
I had written to him, regarding the house, and he and his wife
decided to
find as many other descendants of the three men who had owned the
house:
Antoine Lispenard, Joseph Rodman, and Newberry Davenport. We
wound up with
quite a few descendants, and even the NY Times and the Gannett
paper sent
reporters to cover the story which they ran shortly after, along
with quite a
few photos.

But I had never seen the wills of any of them, and didn't know
that my
HOYT/HAIGHTs are also connected in some way with these families.

All I can say, Marti, is you have done a wonderful favor for me,
and I really
can't thank you enough. If there's anything that I can do for
you, please,
just ask!!

I can't wait to get to work on this! Oh, and I wanted to ask:
where does
one find the Libers from which you got this info?? (And why the
heck didn't
I do some of this research myself, when I was born and brought up
in
NYC???!!) (The answer, by the way, is that even if I'd known
about them back
then, I wasn't into genealogy then, and wouldn't have given them a
thought...I guess that was my "wasted youth"!)

Anyway, thank you so very much...you can bet that I'll always
remember you!!

Best regards,

Barbara


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