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Historical Staten Island eBooks and Journals - Free, Full Text

• Annals of Staten Island, from its discovery to the present time by John Jacob Clute. Published in 1877.
• The Conference or Billopp House, Staten Island, New York, by William T. Davis, chairman, Committee on History, Conference House Association ...Published in 1926.
• Cultural landscape report for the Battery Weed Headland: Fort Wadsworth, Gateway National Recreation Area, Staten Island, New York. By by Jean B. Gleisner & John Auwaerter ; George W. Curry, project director. Published in 2008.
• Days Afield on Staten Island by William T. Davis. Published in 1937.
• The Earliest Volume of Staten Island records, 1678-1813. Historical Records Survey. Published in 1942.
• Early History of Staten Island by Cornelius Kolff. Published in 1918.
• Facts and Documents Bearing Upon the Legal and Moral Questions : Connected with the Recent Destruction of the Quarantine Buildings on Staten Island / by the Executive Committee of Staten Island. Published in 1858.
• The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau : lately discovered among his unpublished journals and manuscripts edited by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Published in 1905.
• Historical Records of Staten Island by Erastus Brooks. Published in 1883.
• History and Legend of Howard Avenue and the Serpentine Road, Grymes Hill, Staten Island / gathered by Charles Gilbert Hine from real estate records and long memories. Published in 1914.
• History of Richmond County (Staten Island) New York, from its discovery to the present time by Richard Bayles. Published in 1887.
• History, Story, Legend of the Old King's Highway : Now the Richmond Road, Staten Island, N.Y. by C. G. Hine. Published in 1916 .
• Holden's Staten Island. An update to a1964 NYC Board of Education publication titled Staten Island: A Resource Manual for School and Community by Edna Holden and later revised by Borough Historian Richard Dickenson in 2003. The full text of the original 1964 edition is presented with some of the 2003 appendix - including "The Black Man on Staten Island" a history of African Americans on the Island.
• Illustrated Sketch Book of Staten island, New York, its industries and commerce by Selden C. Judson. Published in 1886.
• The Indians of Greater New York and the Lower Hudson...includes "The Lenape of Staten Island" by Alanson Skinner. Published in 1909.
• Inventory of the county and borough archives of New York City Staten Island Volume. By the Historical Records Survey. Published 1939-42.
• Lecture on the History of Staten Island Delivered Before the Tompkinsville Lyceum by Raymond M. Tysen. Published in 1842.
• Legends, stories, and folklore of old Staten Island. Part I. The North Shore by Charles Gilbert Hine and William T. Davis. Published in 1925.
• The Major and the Queen, or, A Royal Grant to a Gallant Soldier : a Staten Island Record of Historic Import. By S.L. Mershon. Published in 1915.
• Morris's memorial history of Staten Island, New York by Ira K. Morris. 2 Volumes. Published in 1898, 1900.
• Proceedings of the bi-centennial celebration of Richmond County, Staten island, New York. Published in 1883.
• Proceedings of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island 1883-1905. (Now The Staten Island Museum, formerly Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences.)
• Proceedings of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 1906-1920.
• Prominent Men of Staten Island. A. V. Hubbell. Published in 1893.
• Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Port Richmond, S.I., baptisms from 1696 to 1772; United Brethren Congregation, commonly called Moravian Church, S.I., births and baptisms: 1749 to 1853, marriages: 1764 to 1863, deaths and burials: 1758 to 1828; St. Andrew's Church, Richmond, S.I., births and baptisms from 1752 to 1795, marriages from 1754 to 1808... Ed. by Tobias Alexander Wright. Published in 1909.
• Rides and Rambles on Staten Island by Reau Campbell. Published in 1889.
• St. George Historic District Designation Report by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. Published in 1994.
• Staten Island, 1524-1898 by Henry G. Steinmeyer. Published in 1950.
• Staten Island. A Guide Book ...by Gustav Kobbé. Published in 1890.
• Staten Island : a Report by the President of the Borough of Richmond to the Mayor by Calvin D. Van Name. Published in 1921.
• Staten Island and Its People : a History, 1609-1929 (5 volume set) by Charles W. Leng and William T. Davis. The largest volume of S.I. History available. Volumes 1 & 2 provide a detailed historical overview.
• Staten Island and Staten Islanders compiled by the Richmond Borough Association of Women Teachers. Published in 1909.
• Staten Island Historian (selected issues online and index/keyword searching for more issues available in paper format.) Journal of Historic Richmond Town 1938 - Present.
• Staten Island Names ; Ye Olde Names and Nicknames by William T. Davis. Published in 1896.
• Staten Island, New York City : Its Industrial Resources and Possibilities by the Commerce and Industry Association of New York. Published in 1922.
• The Story and Documentary History of the Perine House, Dongan Hills, Staten Island, headquarters of the Staten Island antiquarian society, by Charles Gilbert Hine. Published in 1915.
• Trow's Business and Residential Directory of the Borough of Richmond, 1899 Vol. II. Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Co.

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