A RECOMMENDATION AND AN APPRECIATION By Frank V. Mylod Past President and Honorary Member Anyone desirous of learning about the early history of Dutchess County and of the Hudson River territory will probably find no better concentration of data than in the published books edited by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. The titles to the books listed below do not necessarily indicate that therein contained one will find an immense source of information mined by her in her research work. Fortunately, Miss Reynolds in forewords or in appendices in the various books set forth miscellaneous items which she considered indicative of the times and which a future researcher would be delighted to come upon. See Vol. I Foreword - Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, 1924 Vol. II Foreword - Poughkeepsie - The Origin and Meaning of the Word by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, 1924 Vol. IV Editorial Preface - Notices of Births and Deaths, 1798-1825, completed and edited by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, 1930 Vol. V Introduction - Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Hackensack edited by Marie Bockee Carpenter Tower, 1932 To the Reader - Records of the portion of Dutchess Vol. VI County, New York, that was included in Rombout Precinct and the original Town of Fishkill collected by Willis W. Reese and edited by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, 1938 See in this volume also the miscellaneous index to source material Background-Twenty-five pages setting the background for "Dutch Houses in the Hudson Valley before 1776" by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, 1929 In addition to the foregoing, much more may be gleaned from the many articles by Miss Reynolds in the Years Books of the Dutchess County Historical Society of which she was the editor for many years.
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