Pound Ridge Historical Society
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Research Information

 

  • CHURCH:
    -Pound Ridge Methodist Church, now Pound Ridge Community Church- 1850-1983. Compiled and indexed by Jay Harris.
    -Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church- 1820-1938 - Baptism, marriages, and deaths. Presently being indexed.
    -Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church Sessional Records 1822-1899. Compiled by George W. Hoyt.
    -Dantown Church.
    -East Woods Methodist Church.
    -Sellecks Corner Chapel.
    -Long Ridge Methodist Church.
  • DEATHS:
    -Tombstone Records of 18 cemeteries in Pound Ridge.
    -Lockwood Journal- Includes genealogy of early Pound Ridge Families and accounts of Tarleton's Raid, 1779. Indexed.
    -Births, Deaths and Marriages- 1846-1853. Compilation of Pound Ridge Town Records with index by Peg Malcolm and Richard Major.
  • MARRIAGES:
    -Marriages by Aaron Fancher, JP, 1838-1871. Indexed.
    -Marriages by William Patterson, Minister of the Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church, 1837-1886. Indexed.
  • HISTORY:
    -Road Lists (copies) of Pound Ridge 1798, 1799, 1806 to 1892. The society's files extend only to 1852.
    -Vertical Files of Pound Ridge surnames.
    -God's Country - A history of Pound Ridge by Jay Harris, 1976. The society now has reprints availible for sale.
    -Transcription of an address (1972) given by L. Raymond Waterbury, Tax Assessor of Pound Ridge 1934-1967. Talks about history of the Long Ridge Road area.
    -Interview, 1939, with George Rusco, supervisor of Pound Ridge, 1894-1927. Indexed.
    -Archival Material, now 1,351 items, has been compiled in large data base. All names, places, etc. associated with these items are included in this data base.
    -Historic notes on the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation by Phil Pessoni, 1997.