Books & Videos

Books:

Akers, Vincent, The Low Dutch Company, A History of the Holland Dutch Settlements of the Kentucky Frontier, November 1982; A pamphlet containing four articles, with some additions, which originally appeared in de Halve Maen: Vol. LV, No 2, Summer 1980; Vol. LV, no. 3, Fall 1980; Vol. LV, No. 4, Winter 1981; Vol. LVI, No. 1, Spring-Summer 1981.  

Allen, Oliver E.,  New York, New York, A History of the World’s Most Exhilarating and Challenging City, New York: Atheneum, 1990.

Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Dutch Systems in Family Naming, New York–New Jersey, Special Publication of the National Genealogical Society, Number 12, reprinted from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, March 1953, December 1953,  Fifth Printing 1992.

Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, PreRevolutionary Dutch Houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968, an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by William Morrow & Company in 1936 in a limited edition of 334 copies for the Holland Society of New York.

Bangs, Bleecker, Mrs., Reminiscences of Old New Utrecht and Gowanus, (publisher ?), 1912.

Banta, Elsa M., Banta Pioneers and Records of the Wives and Allied Families, 1983.

Barreveld, Drs. Dirk J., From New Amsterdam to New York, The Founding of New York by the Dutch in July 1625, Writers Club Press, 2001.

Barth, Barbara A. and Judith Smith Cassidy, The Dorland Engima Solved, A Revision of the Dorland Genealogy, (Sandisfield, MA: Diane Barth Swartz, 2006). and the book can be ordered from Amazon and is $38.00 + postage

__________, A Beautiful and Fruitful Place, Selected Rensselaerswijck Seminar Papers, edited and indexed by Nancy Anne McClure Zeller, introduction by Charles T. Gehring, The New Netherland Project, 1991.

Beekman, George C., Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth County, New Jersey, originally published in Freehold, New Jersey: Moreau Brothers, Publishers, 1901; New Orleans: Polyanthos, Inc., second edition reprinted by the Township of Neptune Historical Society, 1974;

Beekman, George C., Index to Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth County, New Jersey, by George C. Beekman, 1915, Second Edition, reprinted 1974; and index, c 1982, compiled by Helen L. Schanck, Little Silver, New Jersey, Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, New Jersey.

Bergen, Teunis G., The Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1683 to 1884 Vol.I,pages 255-267, History of the Town of New Utrecht, New York: W. W. Munsell & Co., Publishers, (date ?).

Bergen, Teunis G., Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y., From Its First Settlement byEuropeans to 1700, New York: 1881, facsimile reprint, Higginson Book Company, Salem, Massachusetts.

Brodhead, John Romeyn, History of the State of New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Vol. 1, 1853, Vol. 2, 1871.

Cassidy, Judith Smith, Conowago Pennsylvania and Berkeley Virginia Reformed Dutch Church Records. This is the story of how the Baptismal, Deacons and other Records from the Low Dutch Church in  Conewago and Berkely were saved by Ministers who were descendants of the original members of the Congregation plus Rev. John K. Demarest Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Gettysburg, whose friend the Honorable Edward McPherson of Gettysburg took them to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  It really is a Journey of 100 years of being passed along through time generatons.  It is 95 pages. 

Cassidy, Judith Smith, Entwined Vanarsdale Families. This book contains the Slave Owners, Lucas (Leake Co, MS) and William Van Arsdale (Bossier Parish, LA), their descendants and Lucas’s slaves Ruffin, Sally, Drew, Jane and Others,  Williams slaves were his children, Union, Canada, Gronison, Penny  by Eliza Sergeant and Lucius by Susie. William and Lucas were the sons of Cornelius Vanarsdale of Shelby County, Kentucky and Grandchildren of Captain Lucas Vanarsdale of the Low Dutch Company.  The shakers would visit William from time to time., probably from Pleasant Hill. He was murdered for his gold in 1867.  All families came together and contributed their family information and it is about 330 pages.

Cassidy, Judith Smith, The History of Low Dutch Slavery from New Netherlands through Kentucky and Beyond. This book is  330 pages, contains Low Dutch Family write ups and stories, from the Dutch West India Company in the Netherlands, to Slave Trade in New Netherland, the Low Dutch Congregations of Conewago, Pa. and Berkeley, Va. , Mercer County, Ky. Low Dutch Slave Owners, Abolitionists in Kentucky, Remembrances of Samuel Demarest (Contributed by Vince Akers); West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois Territory, When Your Children are Your Slaves, etc. Names include, Banta, Brinkerhoff, Cassat, Cozine, Degraff, Demarest/Demaree, Dorland, Cosine, Smock, Van Arsdal, Van Nyse Vanant, Ryker, Nevas, Monfort, Stagg, Houtz, Carnine/Cony/ Brewer and many more. This is not a Whips and Chains book. While Slavery is simply that, the Dutch treated their slaves in a very different mannor than the English. While descendants hate the though, slavery was very common among the Dutch. Available on Amazon as a Kindle or paperback.

Cassidy, Judith Smith, The Revolutionary War Years in the Low Dutch Settlements of Berkeley County Virginia and Conewago York County Pennsylvania 1760-1800, 2024. The Impact of the Revolutionary War including The History and Compiled Records of Dutch Reformed Settlers during this time period. The Records include the Deacon and Baptismal Records of the Conewago Reformed Dutch Church, Cemeteries, Wills, Land Office Records, Taxes, Militia, Slavery. Due to the great depression which followed the War, members of the Congregations began departing for Kentucky and Owasco, New York. Berkeley and Conewago became obsolete by 1820. Available on Amazon.

Cozine, James “Jim”, Finding Our Wooden Shoes.

Davies, Maria T., History of Mercer and Boyle Counties, 1924.

DeJong, Gerald F., The Dutch Reformed Church in the American Colonies, The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America No. 5, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1978.

Dilliard, Maud Esther, An Album of New Netherland, New York: Bramhall, 1963.

__________, Dutch Family Heritage Society Quarterly, Mary Lynn Spijkerman, Editor, Dutch Family Heritage Society, West Jordan, Utah.

__________, Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture edited by Roger Panetta

Fabend, Firth Haring, A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 (Rutgers University Press, 1991). This prize-winning work is a reconstruction of the first five generations of the Haring Family in New Netherland and Early New York and New Jersey. The settler Jan Pietersen Haring was the husband of Grietje Cosyns and the father of their seven children, from whom are descended more than forty related Dutch-American families. Illustrated. Winner of the Hendricks Award of the New Netherland Institute and the New York State Historical Society’s Book Award.

Fabend, Firth Haring, Land So Fair, 2008. This is a historical novel set in the Hudson and Hackensack valleys in the eighteenth century, with flashbacks to New Netherland. Based on the facts in A Dutch Family, Grietje Cosyns and her female family members are the major characters.  

Fabend, Firth Haring, A Catch of Grandmothers, 2004. A historical poem in ten stanzas, one for each of the author’s Haring grandmothers, starting with Grietje Cosyns, 1641-c.1731. “Unique in American letters!” (Books by Firth Haring Fabend are all in print and are available through on-line bookstores.

Fabend, Firth Haring, Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals, 2000.

Flaherty, Carol Gibson, Following a Kentucky Trace, 1999.

Homberger, Eric, Historical Atlas of New York City, 2016.

Irving, Washington, Knickerbocker’s History of New York.

Jacobs, Jaap, New Netherland, A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America, Brill, 2005.

Kammen, Michael, Colonial New York, A History, White Plains, New York: KTO Press, 1975.

Kenney, Alice P., Stubborn For Liberty, the Dutch in New York, Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1975.

Leonard, Carolyn, The First Hundred Years: The US Presidents, the Federal Census, and current events that influenced the lives of your ancestors 1790-1890, 2020.

Leonard, Carolyn, Who’s Your Daddy: A Guide to genealogy from start to finish, 2018.

Major, David C. and Major, John S., A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and his Legacy.   

Murray, Joan England. The Bantas of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky : Their Ancestors and Descendants.

__________, New Netherland Connections, a quarterly publication, Dorothy A. Koenig, Editor, Berkeley, California.

O’Callaghan, Edmund B., History of New Netherland; or, New York Under the Dutch, 2 vols., New York: D. Appleton, 1846-1848, reproduced from an original by The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

O’Callaghan, Edmund B., The Documentary History of the State of New York, 4 vols., Albany, N. Y., 1848-1851.

Panetta, Roger, foreword by Russell Shorto, Russell, Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture,  Dutch New York.

Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson, Dutch Houses in the Hudson Valley before 1776.

Rink, Oliver A., Holland on the Hudson, An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York, New York, Ithaca, New York: CornellUniversity Press, 1987.

Roegner, Harry, Gerrit, 2016.  A story of the VAN DUYN families 1649-1700.

Rutherfurd, Edward, New York (A book of fiction based on the history of New York from the tiny Indian fishing village, arrival of the Dutch and British, the Revolutionary War through the attack on the World Trade Center.)

Scheltma, Gajus and Heleen Westerhuijs, Exploring Historic Dutch New York  “This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history also serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference. Sixteen internationally renowned scholars explore such topics as Dutch art and architecture, Dutch cooking, immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, furniture and antiques, and much more. Color photographs and maps throughout.” –overview from Barnes and Noble

__________, Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825), edited and indexed by Carl Boyer, 3rd, Newhall, California: published by the compiler, 1978.

Shepherd, William, The Story of New Amsterdam, New York & London:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.

Shorto, Russell, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America.

Singleton, Esther, Dutch New York, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1909; facsimile reprint, Higginson Book Company, Salem,Massachusetts.

Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, New York: Vol. 1, originally published 1903, Vol. 2, originally published 1906; facsimile reprint, Higginson Book Company, Salem, Massachusetts.

Sweet, William Warren, Religion on the American Frontier, Vol II The Presbyterians 1783-1840,  pub 1936 with Minutes of the Synod of Kentucky and Dutch New York – and autobiography of Peter Van Arsdale, son of Simon Van Arsdale and Ellen (Aeltje) Cozine

Thompson, Benjamin F., History of Long Island, From Its Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time, The Third Edition, Three Volumes, Third Edition, Robert H. Dobb, New York, 1918, [information prior to 1839].

_______ Through Two Hundred Years, Pictorial Highlights of Harrodsburg & Mercer County, Kentucky; compiled by Chinn, George M.; Researched and edited by Rebecca Wilson Conover.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, Good Wives, Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650 – 1750.

Van Nuys, Kathleen, The Hopewell Journey: 350 Years from Immigrant Religion to Hoosier Faith: Hopewell Presbyterian Church 1831-2006, 2006.

Voreis, Larry M., A Biographical Study of Richard Pearis and Jacob Hite, early inhabitants of Frederick County, Virginia and the Backcountry of South Carolina, 2 vols. (1,189 pp.) (Taylors, SC: Burr Oak Publications, 2024).Price $150.00, plus $25.00 shipping and handling. SC residents add $9.00 sales tax. Note: This book has only about 25 pages about the early settlement of Frederick County, VA and the Low Dutch families of VanArsdalen, VanBebber, VanMeter and VanSwearingen, and may not be of interest to Kentucky Low Dutch families. On the other hand, there are three chapters or so devoted to the early settlement of western Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina that may be of interest to some of our cousins. 

Voreis, Larry M. , The Low Dutch Migration From Drenthe to Kentucky: An Account of the Voreis Branch of the Van Voorhees Family, 1660-1780 (Taylors, South Carolina: Burr Oak Publications, 2019, 2021). Available from the author at 204 Angie Dr. Taylors, SC 29687. Price $30.00, plus $8.00 shipping and handling. SC residents add $1.80 sales tax.

Voreis, Larry Michael, Our Low Dutch Heritage, First Edition, Printed by McDowell Publications, Utica, Kentucky, 2003.

Vories, William L., Biographical Sketches of  Vories and Montfort Families, 1906.

Ward, Christopher, The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware 1609-64, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930.

Weaner, Arthur, Taxables The Low Dutch Settlement of the Conewago, York County, Pennsylvania, 1762-1799 (Gettysburg, PA: The Adams Co. Historical Society, 1977).  The book is still available for purchase through the Adams County Historical Society and can be ordered either over the phone or on line at their website.  It is listed under Books, Ethnic and the cost is $10.00 probably plus mailing.

Weslager, C. A., Dutch Explorers, Traders and Settlers in the Delaware Valley, 1609-1664, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961.

Wilcoxen, Charlotte, Seventeenth Century Albany: A Dutch Profile, Albany, New York: Published by the Education Department, Albany Institute of History and Art, 1981, revised edition 1984.    

vanderZee, Henri and Barbara, A Sweet and Alien Land, The Story of Dutch New York, New York: The Viking Press, 1978. Special mention should be made of de Halve Maen, the quarterly journal published by The Holland Society of New York, which is a continuing source of valuable information relating to the Dutch colonial period in America.  The Holland Society of New York was organized in 1885 to collect and preserve information respecting the early history and settlement of New Netherland by the Dutch, to perpetuate the memory, foster and promote the principles and virtues of the Dutch ancestors of its members, to maintain a library relating to the Dutch in America, and to prepare papers, essays, books, etc. in regard to the history and genealogy of the Dutch in America. Theodore Roosevelt joined the Society in 1885, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt also was an active member.  

Videos:
Drums Along the Mohawk   — “Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert play newlyweds in New York’s Mohawk Valley at the time of the Revolutionary War. That war is more a distant rumor than a direct concern of people with cabins to raise, crops to harvest, and firstborn on the way. When it comes to their valley, in the form of hitherto-peaceable Indians whipped up by a gaunt Tory with an eyepatch (John Carradine), life changes as though with the passing of a cloud shadow.”  –overview from Amazon.