"In all, [the compiler] has identified by name 96% of the men, 50% of the women, and at least 40% of the children alive in the colony of New York in 1698. New York in 1698 is arranged alphabetically by county and thereunder by town, ward, or manor. Mr. Meyerink begins each county chapter with a detailed discussion of the reconstruction variables: original source(s), spelling, layout of the original information, statistical recap, a brief history of the area under investigation at the time of the census, and a bibliography ...
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"In all, [the compiler] has identified by name 96% of the men, 50% of the women, and at least 40% of the children alive in the colony of New York in 1698. New York in 1698 is arranged alphabetically by county and thereunder by town, ward, or manor. Mr. Meyerink begins each county chapter with a detailed discussion of the reconstruction variables: original source(s), spelling, layout of the original information, statistical recap, a brief history of the area under investigation at the time of the census, and a bibliography for further research on that county. The chapter-by-chapter lists of persons are arranged to conform to the earliest known transcription of the 1698 census, or substitute. The volume concludes with a complete name index of 13,700 and, owing to the significant New Netherland heritage of turn-of-the-17th century New York, a substantial listing of Dutch names with their English versions"--Page 4 of cover.
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