Rockland County, New York, in the 1790s

by Jacquetta M. Haley

The most comprehensive account to date of the creation of Rockland County

in 1798. Based on primary sources, particularly U.S. census records

and the diaries of David Pye and Tunis Smith, and enlivened with stories

of the people (white, black, and Native American) who lived in this agricultural

region two hundred years ago. Funded in part by a grant from

Furthermore, the publication program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, and

published in commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the

erection of Rockland County in 1998.

ISBN: 0-911183-42-6, cloth

1997, 156 pp., illus., index

Rockland County, New York, in the 1790s