Author: Reformed Church (Port Richmond, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Discourse Delivered in the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church by the Pastor
Author: Reformed Church (Port Richmond, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Graveyard Shift
Author: Carolee R. InskeepPublisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Trying to find some peace in the City That Never Sleeps"" has always been difficult-even for dead New Yorkers. Rapid development, rising property values, a lack of space, health concerns, and government regulation have all conspired to move the dead from one graveyard to the next. The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries documents the changing landscape of New York City cemeteries, telling the story behind each decision to move, as well as providing the new names and locations of each burial ground. This book, with its complete index, is an invaluable tool for anyone researching New York City ancestors.""
The Witch of New York
Author: Alex HortisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639363920
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials—in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh—for the “Christmas murders.” After Polly’s legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her character and fate as a fallen woman in society. Public opinion split into different camps over her case. Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman covered her case as young newsmen. P. T. Barnum made a circus out of it. James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel was inspired by her trials. The Witch of New York is the first narrative history about the dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen, and shameless hucksters who turned the Polly Bodine case into America’s formative tabloid trial. An origin story of how America became addicted to sensationalized reporting of criminal trials, The Witch of New York vividly reconstructs an epic mystery from Old New York—and uses the Bodine case to challenge our system of tabloid justice of today.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Writings on American History
Author: Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York
Author: Ira K. MorrisPublisher:
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Category : Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Tercentenary Studies, 1928, Reformed Church in America
Author: Reformed Church in America. Tercentenary Committee on Research and PublicationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Proceedings of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences
Author: Staten Island Association of Arts and SciencesPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
History of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York
Author: Richard Mather BaylesPublisher:
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Category : Richmond County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description