August 2008
Following, from Anthony M. Appa, “In Fond Memory of his Mother, Mrs. Parie Cotullas Appa:”
Hart, Simon and Kreider, Harry J. (translators), Lutheran Church in New York and New Jersey, 1722-1760
Spencer, Robert F., Jennings, Jesse D., et al., The Native Americans, Prehistory and Ethnology of the North 
	American Indians
Vrooman, John J., The Promised Land
Following from Mrs. David Osterhoudt:
DeLeo-Braunstein-Maier Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8959, The Eyes of the Past, A Pictorial History of Accord, 
	Kerhonkson, Wawarsing, Napanoch
Ellenville Sesquicentennial Committees, Sesquicentennial, 1805-1955, Ellenville, New York, 
	July 10th through July 16th, Souvenir Booklet
Fried, Marc B., The Huckleberry Pickers, A Raucous History of the Shawangunk Mountains
Sanderson, Dorothy Hurlbut, Ellenville Days and Ways, Until 1897
Terwilliger, Katharine T., Napanoch, Land Overflowed by Water
Terwilliger, Katharine T., Wawarsing, Where the Streams Wind, Historical Glimpses of the Town 
Terwilliger, Katharine T. and Dumond, Marion M., An Old House Sampler, Some Old Houses in the Town of Wawarsing

July 2008
Matthews, Mildred Mignon (compiler), Moss Family Genealogy Collection (hard copy and cd) 
	(From the compiler)
Rundell, Judith (compiler), Church Records of the East Durham Charge, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1891-1903 
	(From the compiler)
Schnettler, Diana Whitcomb (compiler), Whitcomb Family Genealogy Collection (2 cds) 
	(From the compiler)

June 2008
Bush, Jean M. (compiler), Bronk-Shear Archives (From Marjorie A. Bronk-Loux and the 
	Reverend Joseph Loux Jr.)
Bush, Jean M.; New Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Church, “Coeymans Circuit and New Baltimore Methodist 
	Episcopal Church History and Records” (From Jean Bush)
Dunn, Russell, Catskill Region Waterfall Guide, Cool Cascades of the Catskills & 
	Shawangunks (Library purchase)
Dunn, Russell and Delaney, Barbara, Trails with Tales, History Hikes through the Capital 
	Region, Saratoga, Berkshires, Catskills & Hudson Valley (Library purchase)
Dunn, Shirley W., ed., Mohican Seminar 1, The Continuance, An Algonquian Peoples 
	Seminar, Selected Research Papers, 2000 (Library purchase)
Eisenstadt, Peter, ed., The Encyclopedia of New York State (Library purchase)
Ely, Charles E. (compiler), Ely Genealogy 2006 (From the compiler)
Fone, Byrne, Historic Hudson, An Architectural Portrait (Library purchase)
Greene County, New York, 2008 Directory (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Greene County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors, Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors for the 
	Year ____, Greene County, New York (one each from 1887-8, 1928-1939, 1941-50, 1953-60 1966-68; 
	two each from 1951-52, 1961-65; From Town of New Baltimore through Town Historian Clesson Bush)
Heron, Jim, Denning's Point, A Hudson River History, From 4000 BC to the 21st 
	Century (Library purchase)
Lankevich, George J., River of Dreams, The Hudson Valley in Historic Postcards (Library purchase)
Lewis, Tom, The Hudson, a history (Library purchase)
Mazon, Bob (photographer), Seasons of Change, Aerials of NY Kaaterskill Falls, 1993-
	2007 (CD)(From the photographer)
McDevitt, Robert (compiler), A McDevitt Family History (From the compiler)
Podskoch, Martin, Fire Towers of the Catskills, Their History and Lore (Library purchase)
Schram, Margaret B., Hudson's Merchants and Whalers, The Rise and Fall of a River 
	Port, 1783-1850 (Library purchase)
Titus, Robert, The Catskills, A Geological Guide (Library purchase)
Van Valkenburg, Norman J. and Olney, Christopher W., The Catskill Park, Inside the Blue Line, 
	The Forest Preserve & Mountain Communities of America's First  Wilderness (Library purchase)
White, Carol Stone, ed., Catskill Peak Experiences (From Jean and Clesson Bush)

May 2008
Following, all from Anthony M. Appa, “In Fond Memory of his Mother, Mrs. Parie Cotullas Appa:”
Atkinson, Oriana, Manhattan and Me
Bellinger, G.W., ed., Life and Adventures of Timothy Murphy
Brooks, Doris West, The Old Eagle-Nester: The Lost Legends of the Catskills
Delineator Home Institute, New Delineator Recipes
de Lisle, Kenneth R., The W.L.L. Peltz Collection of Albany Postal History, The Hudson 
	River Mail, 1804-1858
Ledee, Edith, Songs of New Growth
Parie Cotullas Appa Native American Collection, MSS Box 526
Reed, Chester A., Wild Flowers of New York
Rezneck, Samuel, Profiles Out of the Past of Troy, New York, Since 1789
Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston, Canning and Preserving
Tryon County (N.Y.) Committee of Safety, The Minute Book of the Committee of Safety 
	of Tryon County, the Old New York Frontier
Whiteman, Teresa M. (ed.), The Youngest Voice, A Collection of Writing by Greene 
	County Children
Willoughby Avenue Baptist Church, A Companion for Housekeepers; Containing a 
	Choice Selection of Receipts for Cooking Purposes, and Hints for the Sick Room
Woodworth, Olive N., Methodism in the Catskills, The Story of the East Jewett 
	Methodist Church

April 2008
Bensel, John A., The Barge Canal System, Being Constructed by the State of New York 
	(From Anthony M. Appa, In Fond Memory of his Mother, Mrs. Parie Cotullas Appa)
Greene County, New York, 2007 Directory (From Raymond Beecher)

March 2008
Records of the Presbyterian Church of Hunter N.Y. from Feb 13th, 1822 to 1864, Book No 1 
	(Photocopy)(From Sylvia Hasenkopf)

February 2008
Whelchel, Charlotte Ann Bishop (compiler), Our Pratt and Murdoch Lineage from 
	England and Scotland to United States (Catskill, N.Y.)(From the compiler)

January 2008
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers, A Pictorial History of Greene County (Vedder Library purchase)
McEvedy, Colin, The Penguin Atlas of North American History to 1870 (From Jean and Clesson Bush)

December 2007  
Beede, Clifford P. (compiler), Glen Cliff House Collection (CD)(From Clifford P. Beede)
Bush, Jean M. (compiler), Bronk-Shear Archive (CD)(From Marjorie A. Bronk Loux and 	
	the Reverend Joseph Loux Jr.)
Greene County Courthouse Renovation Task Force, Greene County Courthouse 	
	Renovation Collection (From the Greene County Historian)
Linklater, Andro, The Fabric of America, How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the 	
	Country and Forged Our National Identity (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Purcell, L. Edward and Burg, David F. (eds.), The World Almanac of the American 	
	Revolution (From Jean and Clesson Bush)

November 2007
Beecroft, Laurie A., The Ashokan Reservoir Record Series, A Guide to the Special 	
	Record Collection Pertaining to the Construction of the Reservoir and Subsequent 	
	Court Proceedings (From Karlyn Elia, Ulster County Historian)
Burstein, Andrew, The Original Knickerbocker, The Life of Washington Irving (From 	
	Jean and Clesson Bush)
Cairo Bicentennial Committee (Robert Uzzilia), The Cairo Bicentennial Committee 	
	Presents Portrait of the Past, A Photographic Collection (From Robert Uzzilia)
Friday, Chuck, Field of Reams (From Chuck Friday)
Friday, Chuck, Field of Reams, Second Edition (From Chuck Friday)
How, James (Translator), A Narrative of the Captivity of John Van Dike, who was taken 	
	by the Algerines in 1791 (From Persis T. Elwood)
Irving, Washington and Moses, Will, Rip Van Winkle, Retold and Illustrated by Will 	
	Moses from the original Story by Washington Irving (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Johnson, William, The Papers of William Johnson (CD)(From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Nabozny, Carl, Founding C-GCC: A Documentary (CD)
New Baltimore (N.Y.: Town), New Baltimore News (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Regional and Community Historic Preservation Benefit Plan, Board of Trustees, Meeting 	
	Notes, First Meeting of the Board of Trustees… (Regarding Athens Generating – 	
	From Raymond Beecher)
Stessin-Cohn, Susan and Rudnitski, Rose, Who'll Weep For Me, A Teacher's Guide to 	
	The Rise of the Poorhouse System in Ulster County (From Karlyn Elia, Ulster 	
	County Historian)
Stessin-Cohn, Susan and Rudnitski, Rose, The Builders of Ulster County, A Curriculum 	
	on the History of Immigration (From Karlyn Elia, Ulster County Historian)

October 2007
Friends of New Netherland (ed.), Reflections on the World: The Writings of Howard G. Hageman   
	(From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Greenville Central School District, A History of the Greenville Central School District  
	(Library purchase)
Traver, Wanda West, Catskill, Greene County, New York, Revisited - 1930 to 1960 (From the author)

September 2007
Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York for the Year 1902 (This and 
	following three volumes from Charles and Dorothy Link)
Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York for the Year 1902
Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York for the Year 1903
Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York for the Year 1904
Athens , Village of, 33rd Annual Athens Street Festival, July 14, 2007, Athens, 
	New York (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Beecher, Raymond (ed.), Letters from a Revolution 1775-1783: A Selection from the Bronck Family Papers 
	at the Greene County Historical Society  (From the former St. Patrick’s Academy and Kathleen Hintz)
Burns, Eric, Infamous Scribblers, The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American 
	Journalism (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Camp Rip Van Winkle, Select Mountain Camp for Boys in the Northern Catskills  
	( Catskill , N.Y. ) advertising booklet (From Diane Smarro)
Greene County , New York , 2006 Directory (From Raymond Beecher)
Hommell, Pauline, Class Dismissed (From Kathleen Hintz)
John B. Earl Drug Store ( Cairo , N.Y. ) Scrapbook
Kennedy, David M., Over Here, The First World War and American Society (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Kingston (N.Y.) Area Chamber of Commerce, Kingston's 350th Anniversary, 1609-1959, 
	Hudson-Champlain Souvenir Booklet (From Dorothy Friedman)
Lexington Conservatory Theatre brochure (From Dorothy Friedman)
Mucich, Frank and Rusack, John, WHUC Radio Talk on General George Decker, May 2007  
	(From Frank Mucich and John Rusack)
Noble, Louis LeGrand (Vesell, Elliot S., ed.), The Life and Works of Thomas Cole 
	(From the former St. Patrick’s Academy and Kathleen Hintz)
Platner, Ronald (compiler), Christ Presbyterian Church ( Catskill , N.Y. ) Marriages, 1851- 1952, 
	with Name Index, 1891-1952 (From Ronald Platner)
Van Loan, Walton, Van Loan's Road Map of the Catskills and Vicinity (From Dorothy Friedman)

August 2007
Pavlak, Joseph M. (ed.), Alsen, New York, A Cement Plant, A Railroad Station, A School, 
	A Post Office, A Community (Gift of  Herman V. Thein in Memory of  Herman E. & Loda B. Thein)
Ringwald, Donald C., Hudson River Day Line, The Story of a Great American Steamboat Company 
	(Gift of Herman V. Thein  in Memory of Herman E. & Loda B. Thein)
Hall, Edward Hagaman (ed.), The Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909, (Gift of Herman V. Thein in Memory of 
	Herman E. &  Loda B. Thein)

July 2007
Hayes, Michael, Oak Hill: Voices from an American Hamlet, An Oral History 
	(From Michael Hayes and Nick Nahas)

June 2007
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860 (From Jean and  Clesson Bush)
Carbine, James Edmond and Carbine, Marianne Lemly, An American Family, 1575-1945, 
	A History of the United States of America Viewed Through the Eyes of One Family (From the authors)
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover and Howat, John K. (eds.), Art and the Empire City, New  York, 1825-1861 
	(From Ann and Robert Hallock)

May 2007
Kelly, Henry Russel (compiler), Imprints on the Sands of Time, Left by Certain Kelly's, 	
	Lampman's, Craig's, Ferguson's  (From David Bruce Lampman)
McCombs, W. Douglas, et al., Paul Cushman, The Work and World of an Early 19th 	
	Century Albany Potter, 2007 (From Albany Institute of History and Art)

April 2007
Bartley, Barbara (compiler), Scrapbook, Tanners Bank of Catskill, 2007 (CD from 	
	Barbara Bartley)
Burgess, Lauren Cook (ed.), An Uncommon Soldier, the Civil War Letters of Sarah 
	Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York 
	State Volunteers, 1994 (From Helen Eckler)
Cairo Bicentennial Committee, The Cairo Bicentennial Committee Presents Portrait of 	
	the Past, A Photographic Collection, 2006 (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Greene County, Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors, Greene County, 	
	New York, 1934
Morgan, Lewis Henry, League of the Ho-De'-No Sau-Nee or Iroquois, 1995 (From Helen 	
	Eckler)
O'Toole, Judith Hansen, Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, 2005 (From 	
	Jean and Clesson Bush)
Scherer, John L. New York Furniture, The Federal Period, 1788-1825, 1988 (From Steve 	
	Pec to commemorate Raymond Beecher 90th birthday)
Scherer, John L., New York Furniture at the New York State Museum, 1984 (From Jean 	
	and Clesson Bush to commemorate Raymond Beecher 90th birthday)

All of the following from Sidney S. Castle:
Anjou, Gustave, Ulster County, N.Y., Probate Records in the Office of the Surrogate, and 	
	in the County Clerk's Office at Kingston, N.Y...., 1980
Berne (Town). Bicentennial Commission, Our Heritage, 1977
Bergen County Historical Society, Bergen County History, 1970 Annual, 1970
Burgert, Annette Kunselman and Jones, Jr., Henry Z, Westerwald to America, Some 18th 	
	Century German Immigrants, 1989
Boyer, 3rd, Carl, Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825), 1978
Burke, Arthur Meredyth, Key to the Ancient Parish Registers of England and Wales, 1996
Christoph, Peter R. (ed.), The Diary of Henry Edgar Whittelsey, Catskill Mountain 	
	Storekeeper, 1835-1836, 1999
Ellis, David M., Oneida County, A Short History, 1991
Fisher, Charles A. (compiler), Early Pennsylvania Births, 1675-1875, 2001
LaFleche, Duane (ed.), Albany Tricentennial Guidebook, 1985
Lawton, Mrs. James M. (compiler), Family Names of Huguenot Refugees to America, 1991
Nelson, William, Church Records in New Jersey, 1996
Russell, Hezekiah Stone, Descendants of Moses Rowley, Cape Cod, Mass., About 1715, 	
	Also Descendants of George Warner, Wittenberg, Germany, Born 1720, 1908
Sanders, John, Centennial Address Relating to the Early History of Schenectady, New 	
	York and its First Settlers, 1999
Schweitzer, George K., Revolutionary War Genealogy, 1987
Shepherd, William R., The Story of New Amsterdam, 1926
Smith, Kenneth L. Genealogical Dates: A User-Friendly Guide, 1994
Tower, Maria Bockee Carpenter (ed.), The Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of 	
	New Hackensack, Dutchess County, New York
Van Buren, Augustus H., A History of Ulster County under the Dominion of the Dutch, 1989
Van Santvoord, C.W.; Halsey, C.S.; Becker, W.T., History of the County of 
	Schenectady, 1996
Weise, Arthur James, The History of the City of Albany, New York, from the Discovery 	
	of the Great River in 1524, by Verrazzano, to the Present Time, 1998
Wilcoxen, Charlotte, Seventeenth Century Albany, A Dutch Profile
Wood, Joan Bradt, Journey to a New Land, the Bradt Family in History

March 2007
Bartley, Barbara (compiler), Scrapbook, Tanners Bank of Catskill, 2007 (CD from 	
	Barbara Bartley)
Burgess, Lauren Cook (ed.), An Uncommon Soldier, the Civil War Letters of Sarah 
	Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York 
	State Volunteers, 1994 (From Helen Eckler)
Cairo Bicentennial Committee, The Cairo Bicentennial Committee Presents Portrait of 	
	the Past, A Photographic Collection, 2006 (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Greene County, Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors, Greene County, 	
	New York, 1934
Morgan, Lewis Henry, League of the Ho-De'-No Sau-Nee or Iroquois, 1995 (From Helen 	
	Eckler)
O'Toole, Judith Hansen, Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, 2005 (From 	
	Jean and Clesson Bush)
Scherer, John L. New York Furniture, The Federal Period, 1788-1825, 1988 (From Steve 	
	to commemorate Raymond Beecher 90th birthday)
Scherer, John L., New York Furniture at the New York State Museum, 1984 (From Jean 	
	and Clesson Bush to commemorate Raymond Beecher 90th birthday)

February 2007
Borneman, Walter R., 1812, The War that Forged a Nation (From Jean and Clesson 	Bush)
Buel, Jr., Richard, America on the Brink, How the Political Struggle over the War of 	
	1812 almost Destroyed the Young Republic (From Jean and Clesson Bush)
Helmer, William F., Rip Van Winkle Railroads (From Helen Eckler)
Leeds Friday Club, Nineteen Hundred Seventeen, Nineteen Hundred Eighteen (From 	David Dorpfeld)
The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians (Uncertain source – probably 	
	from Kenneth V.V. Parks)
Mason, Ed, Lemuel Hitchcock, 1749-1829, and Five Generations of Descendents, Book 	
	One, Family Tree (From Ed Mason)
Mason, Ed, Lemuel Hitchcock, 1749-1829, and Five Generations of Descendents, Book 	
	Two, Generational Facts (From Ed Mason)
Moul, Henry S., A collection of Modern Buildings selected from the many that have been 	
	erected from plans prepared by Henry S. Moul, Hudson, N.Y. (From Ted 	Hilscher)
Nabozny, Carl, Founding C-GCC, A Documentary (From Jim Campion)

January 2007 
(All from Sidney S. Castle)
Anjou, Gustave, Ulster County, N.Y., Probate Records in the Office of the Surrogate, and 	
	in the County Clerk's Office at Kingston, N.Y...., 1980
Berne (Town). Bicentennial Commission, Our Heritage, 1977
Bergen County Historical Society, Bergen County History, 1970 Annual, 1970
Burgert, Annette Kunselman and Jones, Jr., Henry Z, Westerwald to America, Some 18th 	
	Century German Immigrants, 1989
Boyer, 3rd, Carl, Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825), 1978
Burke, Arthur Meredyth, Key to the Ancient Parish Registers of England and Wales, 1996
Christoph, Peter R. (ed.), The Diary of Henry Edgar Whittelsey, Catskill Mountain 	
	Storekeeper, 1835-1836, 1999
Ellis, David M., Oneida County, A Short History, 1991
Fisher, Charles A. (compiler), Early Pennsylvania Births, 1675-1875, 2001
LaFleche, Duane (ed.), Albany Tricentennial Guidebook, 1985
Lawton, Mrs. James M. (compiler), Family Names of Huguenot Refugees to America, 1991
Nelson, William, Church Records in New Jersey, 1996
Russell, Hezekiah Stone, Descendants of Moses Rowley, Cape Cod, Mass., About 1715, 	
	Also Descendants of George Warner, Wittenberg, Germany, Born 1720, 1908
Sanders, John, Centennial Address Relating to the Early History of Schenectady, New 	
	York and its First Settlers, 1999
Schweitzer, George K., Revolutionary War Genealogy, 1987
Shepherd, William R., The Story of New Amsterdam, 1926
Smith, Kenneth L. Genealogical Dates: A User-Friendly Guide, 1994
Tower, Maria Bockee Carpenter (ed.), The Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of 	
	New Hackensack, Dutchess County, New York
Van Buren, Augustus H., A History of Ulster County under the Dominion of the Dutch, 1989
Van Santvoord, C.W.; Halsey, C.S.; Becker, W.T., History of the County of Schenectady, 1996
Weise, Arthur James, The History of the City of Albany, New York, from the Discovery 	
	of the Great River in 1524, by Verrazzano, to the Present Time, 1998
Wilcoxen, Charlotte, Seventeenth Century Albany, A Dutch Profile
Wood, Joan Bradt, Journey to a New Land, the Bradt Family in History

2006
Catskill First Presbyterian Church, Register of the Names of Members of the Presbyterian 
	Church in Catskill, Greene County, New York
Cole, Thomas, Papers, 1821-1863 (Four microfilm rolls purchased from the New York State 
	Library) Gehring, Charles T. (ed.), Fort Orange Court Minutes, 1652-1660 (Donor: 
	Catskill Monday Club in Memory of Elsie R. Van Orden)
Evers, Alf, The Catskills, from Wilderness to Woodstock
Gehring, Charles T. (ed.), Fort Orange Court Minutes, 1652-1660 (Donor: Catskill Monday 
	Club in Memory of Elsie R. Van Orden) 
Ham, John M. and Bucenec, Robert K., Light Rail and Short Ties through the Notch, 
	The Stony Clove & Catskill Mountain Railroad and Her Steam Legacy 
Mann, Steve A., Family and Friends, A Brief Look at Catskill's Jewish Community and a Personal 
	Connection to It (Gift of Steve A. Mann)
McCord, Douglas H. (compiler), "Memories of Bill," William J. McCord, 1921-1994 
	(Gift of Barbara McCord Shaffer)
Overbagh, Theodore S., Freligh Genealogy
Philp, Richard, Village, A Bicentennial Celebration of the Village of Catskill 
	(Gift of Richard N. Philp)
Poll, Edward and Elia, Karlyn Knaust, Saugerties
Simmons, Fred Charles, Northeastern Loggers' Handbook (Gift of Norman Fuller)
Van Loan, Dana L., Blue Skies and Tail Winds

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