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The Pound Ridge Historical Society encourages you to explore other resources which may answer your inquiry and may provide you with information which may help you to proceed or could suggest to you a narrowing or focusing of your inquiry. Some of these many resources are:

• The Westchester County Historical Society
  info@westchesterhistory.com
  T. 914.592.4323
  WCHS maintains a reading room which is available to conduct research. The reading room is opened to the public on Tuesdays and Wednesday from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

• The Westchester Archives
  T. 914.231.1500
  WCHS and the Archives share the reading room and hours. The Archives are a repository for public records in Westchester County.

• Ancestry.com

• FindMyPast.com

Local History Resources

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, can also be found on Ancestry.com

• 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 available 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 Collection, now 2000 items, has been compiled in large database. All names, places, etc. associated with these items are included in this database.

• Historic notes on the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation by Phil Pessoni, 1997.