Excerpt from Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Resselaerswyck, Vol. 2

Professor Pearson, Of Union College, enjoys a well-earned repu tation as student, translator and writer on the colonial history Of northern New York. During the past forty or more years, he has been a constant worker at the records Of the ancient county Of Albany and has accumulated a vast store Of information, which has fortunately been put in writing and embraces many thousand pages of legal cap manuscript. This herculean task was a labor of love without hope Of pecuniary profit; as Professor Alexander aptly ex presses it - the recreation of a busy life. His friend, the late Joel Munsell, of antiquarian fame, induced him to print much Of this matter and Early Records Of the County of Albany, translated from the original Dutch, Contributions Toward the Genealogies of the First Settlers Of Schenectady, Genealogies Of the First Settlers Of Albany, History of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Schenectady, besides very many magazine and news paper articles have been given to the public from Munsell's Press. There remain more than four thousand pages of unpublished manu script and notes, much Of which was written many years ago.

Just what the rest of these four thousand pages contained it is impossible -to say, but from other statements in the sam-e history and from rough notes left by Professor Pearson, it seems that they must have consisted partly of translations of church and city rec ords of Albany and Schenectady and partly of manuscript for a last volume on the history Of Schenectady, relating to the city proper, more especially to streets, schools, churches, names Of local-i ties, mills, stream-s, hills etc.

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