Read Introduction to New York in 1698, by Kory Meyerink

As we have noted previously, New York in 1698: A Comprehensive List of Residents, Based on Census, Tax, and Other Lists, by Kory L. Meyerink, represents a masterful effort to reconstruct a comprehensive census of the inhabitants of the New York Colony in 1698, many of the original returns of which have been lost to history. Aided by statistical summaries of that census, which have survived the passage of time, Mr. Meyerink was able to locate more or less contemporary substitute sources (e.g., militia lists, tax lists, church records, town minutes, etc.) and reconstruct the residents of the missing counties, towns, and manors.

So our readers may better appreciate the author’s methodology, the surviving records, as well as the arrangement of New York in 1698 we are reproducing the first eight pages of his Introduction below. (View Book Details)