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Jacob Snell (b.ca.1674?) and his family immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to New York City, settling at Livingston Manor (in what is now Columbia County) New York, and moving later to Stone Arabia in in the Schoharie Valley, New York. Descendants lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.
In 1723 a number of Palatine families were allowed to take up lands in the Mohawk Valley of New York. Those settling in the bounds of the present county of Herkimer were known as the Burnetsfield Patentees, after the name of the grant made by New York Governor William Burnet, and are the subject of this formidable work. This book deals with the families established in the area before the Revolution, and detailed genealogies are given for almost 100 of them.
Johann Jacob Zimmerman was probably born in Germany by 1673, and immigrated to New York in 1710, dying later that year. His son, Jacob, was born in 1690/91, probably in Germany, married Anna Margaretha Schutz (Schitzen) in Livingston, New York, and founded St. Johnsville, Montgomery Co., New York.
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Henrich H. Failing (1684/1685-1768/1769) married Anna Maria Kunigunda about 1708, and immigrated in 1709 from Germany to St. Johnsville, New York. Descendants listed lived chiefly in New York.
Conrad and Margaretha Kilts, who were likely born in Germany and married by 1725, brought their children to New York between 1730 and 1739, settling on the Stone Arabia Patent north of the Mohawk River in what is now Montgomery County. Some of their early descendants served in the French and Indian, and Revolu- tionary Wars. Most of the descendants listed in this work lived in New York or nearby throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
Horace Sylvester Tracy (1863-1904) married Hattie Ella Wade (1866-1944) in 1883 in Wisconsin. Many descendants live in Wisconsin and Illinois. The immigrant ancestor on the Tracy line is Lt. Thomas Tracy of Tewksbury, England who was born ca. 1610 and first appears in Salem, Massachusetts records in 1636.
In Susan A. Brewer's fascinating The Best Land, she recounts the story of the parcel of central New York land on which she grew up. Brewer and her family had worked and lived on this land for generations when the Oneida Indians claimed that it rightfully belonged to them. Why, she wondered, did she not know what had happened to this place her grandfather called the best land. Here, she tells its story, tracing over the past four hundred years the two families—her own European settler family and the Oneida/Mohawk family of Polly Denny—who called the best land home. Situated on the passageway to the west, the ancestral land of the Oneidas was coveted by European colonizers and the founders of the Empire State. The Brewer and Denny families took part in imperial wars, the American Revolution, broken treaties, the building of the Erie Canal, Native removal, the rise and decline of family farms, bitter land claims controversies, and the revival of the Oneida Indian Nation. As Brewer makes clear in The Best Land, through centuries of violence, bravery, greed, generosity, racism, and love, the lives of the Brewer and Denny families were profoundly intertwined. The story of this homeland, she discovers, unsettles the history she thought she knew. With clear determination to tell history as it was, without sugarcoating or ignoring the pain and suffering of both families, Brewer navigates the interconnected stories with grace, humility, and a deep love for the land. The Best Land is a beautiful homage to the people, the place, and the environment itself.