Genealogical Data from Colonial New York Newspapers. a Consolidation of Articles from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

This volume consists of abstracts of genealogical data from four of New York's earliest newspapers--the New-York Gazette (1726-1744) and the New-York Weekly Journal (1733-1751) the two earliest city papers and the New-York Mercury and the Weekly Mercury (1752-1783). These newspapers were originally produced as weeklies and usually consisted of four pages with occasional supplementary issues. Their subject matter encompassed essays treatises parliamentary proceedings governors' messages European and West Indian news shipping news incidents culled from other newspapers and many advertisements. In this volume of abstracts may be found items yielding information concerning marriage birth death age status place of residence and place of origin covering in all the years 1726 through most of 1783. Treatment is not confined to New York for among individuals mentioned are those from all the other colonies especially New Jersey (which had no newspaper in the colonial period) New England Pennsylvania and Maryland. Clearfield's reprint edition which appeared serially in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record between 1964 and 1976 has been reprinted by kind permission of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society with the addition of an introduction and an index containing the names of some 10000 persons.