DUTCH SETTLERS SOCIETY YEARBOOK TRANSLATIONS
The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany is making available digitized copies of a number of early volumes of its Yearbooks: from 1924, the year of the Society’s founding, to 1950. This includes Volumes 1 through 25-26.
Some of these early editions contain translations of 17th century Dutch-language documents translated by A.J.F. van Laer that are not available elsewhere, such as records from the Deacon’s Account Book, 1652-1664, and notarial records dating from 1666 to 1687.
The current yearbook volume, earlier volumes and/or reprints of some individual articles from The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany yearbooks are available to the general public for a donation. For more information contact our Registrar:
A.J.F. van Laer, translator and archivist of the Colonial Dutch Manuscripts held by the NYSL, was working on a new translation of volume one when the 1911 fire broke out. This traumatic event delayed any further work as a translator for many years. However, the 400th anniversary of the construction of Fort Orange in 1924 brought Van Laer out of retirement as a translator. His translations of local Dutch records were published in the Dutch Settlers Society Yearbook in successive volumes, beginning with volume one in 1924, also the founding of the Society. As a cautionary note, it should be mentioned that volume XV contains a forged letter and map, both produced and translated by the forger himself.
Major Articles in the Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbooks
Volume #1
1924 - 1926
Translation of Patent granted to Abr. Pietersen Vosburgh Constitution
Volume #2
1926 - 1927
Old Albany;
The Dutch grants along the south side of State Street; Patents and Deeds
Volume #3
1927 - 1928
Housing and Homes of New Netherland;
Burial Record of Kilian V. Rensselaer;
Arent Van Curler and his letter to the...
Volume #4
1928 - 1929
A model of the City of Albany about 1700; Letters to Evert Jansen Wendel; Hendrik Gerritsen Van Wie, 1664-1690; Hannacrois Kill
Volume #5
1929 - 1930
Some half-forgotten worthies of New Netherland; Settlers of Rensselaerwyck,
1659-1664
Volume #6
1930 - 1931
Letter from Gov. Richard Nicolls to the Magistrates of Albany;
Executive Committee Report;
The ancestry of Domine Gideon Schaets in the Netherlands from the year 1520;
Date of settlement of the Lansing family in Beverwyck; Miller Plan of Albany in 1695; The ancestry of Domine Gideon Schaets in the Netherlands from the year 1520;
Date of settlement of the Lansing family in Beverwyck;
Miller Plan of Albany in 1695;
Albany in 1694;
Albany wills and other documents, 1665-1695
Volume #7
1931 - 1932
Deacon’s account book, 1652-1664
Volume #8 & #9
1932 - 1934
Burial records, First Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, 1654-1862;
Index to Burial Records
Volume #10
1934 - 1935
Albany Wills and other documents, 1668-1687
Volume #11
1935 - 1936
The orphan chamber of Amsterdam;
The old Dutch kitchen in Fort Crailo
Volume #12
1936 - 1937
The Society’s float in the Albany Charter-Day parade;
The Dutch West India Company
Volume #13
1937 - 1938
Albany Notarial Papers, 1666-1693
Volume #14
1938 - 1939
Albany Notarial Papers, 1667-1687
Volume #15
1939 - 1940
Letter from Jeronimus De La Croix to the Commissary at Fort Orange and a hitherto unknown map relating to Surgeon Van der Bogaart’s journey into the Mohawk country, 1634-1635
Volume #16
1940 - 1941
To her majesty, Queen Wilhemina;
Protocol of Dirck Van Schelluyne, Secretary of the colony of Rensselaerwyck, 1660-1665
Volume #17
1941 - 1942
Letters to Adriaen Gerritsen Papendorp;
Evert Nolden, the first schoolmaster of Rensselaerwyck
Volume #18 & #19
1942 - 1944
The Dutch fur traders of Fort Orange and Albany; Early Records of Albany;
The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Albany;
List of early members of the Albany DRC
Volume #20
1944 - 1945
18th Century merchants in Colonial Albany;
Gleanings from an old account book of the sloop Criestiena, 1753-1760;
A list of persons from Albany who were married in New York at the Reformed Dutch Church, 1639-1801;
Members of the Dutch Settlers Society of Albany and members of their families in the...
Volume #21 & #22
1945 - 1947
Early Dutch life at Fort Orange and Beverwyck;
Deed to 10,000 acres – Teunis Slingerland from the Mohawk Indians;
Some incidents and information about the history of commerce and transportation pertaining to the City of Albany;
The ancestry of Jan Dareth;
Burying ground inscriptions, Town of Berne
Volume #23
1947 - 1948
Christmas and New Year ye ancient City of Albany;
Burying ground inscriptions, Town of Bethlehem
Volume #24
1948 - 1949
La Grange family genealogy, Town of Coeymans burying ground inscriptions
Volume #25 & #26
1949- 1951
The organizing of the DSSA,
Gen. Philip Schuyler and the Schuyler Mansion
Sixty guilders for the 
