Major Early Albany Family Names


now being studied by the Colonial Albany Social History Project

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Abeel Abel Archer Bancker
Barclay Barret Basset Beasley
Beekman Bell Benson Bleecker
Bloodgood Bloomendal/Maase Bogardus Bogert
Boyd Bradt Bries Bromley
Brooks Brown
Campbell Clark Clute Collins
Cooper Crannel Cuyler De Foreest
De Garmo De Peyster De Ridder De Wandelaer
Denniston Dole/McDole Douw Dox
Dunbar Egberts Eights Evertsen
Flensburgh Fonda Fryer Gansevoort
Gerritse Glen Goewy Graverat
Groesbeck Hallenbeck Hansen Harsen
Henry Hewson/Huson Hilton Hogan
Holland Hooghkerk Hun Jackson
Johnson Kane Ketelhuyn Kidney
Kip Knickerbacker La Grange Lansing
Lewis Livingston Loockermans Lotteridge
Lydius Mancius Marselis Marshall
Martin McChesney McClallen McDonald
McHarg (Graham) McIntosh McPherson Merchant
Miller Mingael Morrell Oliver
Oothout Ostrander Ouderkerk Pemberton
Price Pruyn Quackenbush Radcliff/Radley
Rogers Roseboom Russell Ryckman
Sanders Schermerhorn Schuyler Seeger
Sharp Sickles Sirloin/Van Schelluyne Sixberry
Slingerland Smith Staats Stafford
Stevenson Swits Tayler/Tyler Ten Broeck
Ten Eyck Trotter Truax Van Allen
Van Alstyne Van Arnhem Van Benthuysen Van Bergen
Vandenbergh Vanderheyden Vanderwerken Vanderpoel
Vanderzee Van Deusen Van Dyck Van Heusen
Van Iveren/Mynderts Van Ness Van Rensselaer Van Schaick
Van Santvoort Van Schoonhoven Van Valkenburgh Van Vechten
Van Vranken Van Wie Van Woert Van Zandt
Vedder Veeder Verplanck Viele
Visscher Vosburgh Waldron Waters
Wendell Wilkenson Willett Williams
Wilson  Winne Witbeck Wyngaert
Wynkoop Yates Young

Note:

  • Members of these families lived in the city of Albany for more than two generations before 1800.

  • These New Netherland family groups were in Beverwyck/Rensselaerswyck by September 1664.

  • Many, many name variants are readily encountered!

  • Spellings of family names have been standardized here for consistency.

  • Some of those without a family page are linked to the earliest available family member in Albany.

  • Some of these families have undergone a CASHP Family Reconstitution.


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    • first posted 1999; last revised 10/21/17