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• The Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, the Sixth of August, 1791 (Windham, CT: Printed for J. Huntongton, 1797), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• The Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, the Sixth of August, 1791 (Hartford: Reprinted by Hudson and Goodwin, ca. 1797), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• A Remarkable Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, in the State of New-York, for Murder (Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet, 1793), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• A Remarkable Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany in the State of New York for Murder (second Exeter edition; Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet, 1794), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• The narrative of Whiting Sweeting, who was executed at Albany, the 26th August, 1791. : Containing, an account of his trial before the Supreme Court of New-York, at the July term, for the murder of Darius Quimby: the substance of the charge of His Honor the chief justice to the jury, with the sentence of death on the prisoner; an address to the public, on the fatal consequences of a life spent in sin, instanced in his own conduct ... / Written by himself, and published for the benefit of precious souls, at his particular and dying request. ; To which are added, an account of the behaviour of the unhappy sufferer from his confinement to execution, and the substance of his address at the gallows. By one who had free access to, and frequent conversation with him. ([Lansingburgh, N.Y.] : Printed for Silvester Tiffany, Lansingburgh., [1791]), by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (HTML at Evans TCP)

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• A short account of the life, of John ************ alias Owen Syllavan, alias John Livingston, alias John Brown, by which names he stood indicted by the Grand Jury, and was found guilty by the Supreme Sessions for the City and County of New-York, for counterfeiting and passing the current bills of that colony emitted in the year 1737: and was executed on Monday the 10th day of May 1756. Shewing what manner of life he led from his infancy. / Taken from his own mouth. ; To which is added, his dying speech at the place of execution. ([Boston] : New-York: printed. Boston: re-printed and sold by Green & Russell, at their printing-office near the Custom-House, and next to the writing-school in Queen-Street., 1756), by Owen Sullivan (HTML at Evans TCP)

• An Account of the trial of Joseph Andrews for piracy and murder, together with his confession to the gentlemen of the clergy who visited him during his confinment [sic], and to the keepers of the goal the day before his execution; the account he gave them of his parentage and manner of life, also his character and dying speech. (America [i.e., New York]. : Printed for every purchaser., M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]), by Joseph Andrews (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The conversation & conduct, of the late unfortunate John Young, who was executed for the murder of Robert Barwick, (deputy sheriff,) from the time of receiving sentence of death, to that of his execution. By Christopher Flanagan, Preacher of the Gospel. ; Who frequently visited him, during that period. ; [Four lines of verse] (New York, : Printed by T. Kirk, two doors down from the tea-water pump. 1797. (Copy right secured.) Price six-pence., [1797]), by Christopher Flanagan (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Narrative of part of the life and adventures of Joseph Andrews, particularly of his piracy and the murder of Capt. Duryee and his company, for which he was tried on the 17th instant, and condemn'd to be hang'd this day, the 23d of May, 1769, on the shore between the air furnace and the town, and his body afterwards hung in chains on Bedlow's Island. ([New York : s.n., 1769]), by Joseph Andrews (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Narrative of the life, last dying speech & confession of John Young, condemned to be executed this day, for the murder of Robert Barwick, one of the deputy sheriffs. ([New York : s.n., 1797]), by John Young (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Myron Buel, the boy murderer (Republican Print, 998 Water Street, 1879), by Gordon W. Treadwell (page images at HathiTrust)

• God will trouble the troublers of his people. A sermon preached at Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess-County, in the province of New-York. July 14th, 1758. Being the day of the execution of Hugh Gillaspie, for felony. / By the Rev. Chauncy Graham, M.A. Minister of the Gospel in Rumbout. ; Published at the request of the hearers. ; [Five lines of Scripture text] (New-York: : Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square,, 1759), by Chauncey Graham and James De Lancey (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Narrative of the life, and dying speech, of John Ryer: who was executed at White-Plains, in the county of Westchester, state of New-York, on the second day of October, 1793, for the murder of Dr. Isaac Smith, deputy-sheriff of that county. (Printed at Danbury [Conn.], : by Nathan Douglas, for the publisher., --1793), by A. H. and Margret Ryer (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Transactions of the Albany Institute. (Webster and Skinners, 1830), by Albany Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of the court of Albany, Rensselaerswyck and Schenectady, 1668-1685 (Albany : University of the State of New York, 1926-1932., 1926), by Colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schaenhechtede Albany. Court of Albany and Arnold J. F. Van Laer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of Albany's Bicentennial loan exhibition, at the Albany academy, July 5 to July 24, 1886. (Weed, Parsons & co., printers, 1886), by Albany. (1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noted living Albanians and state officials. A series of biographical sketches (Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1891), by D. A. Harsha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Albany's historic street : a collection of some of the historic facts and interesting traditions relating to State Street & its neighborhood ; published in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary ([Albany], 1918), by National Savings Bank of the City of Albany and Walton Advertising & Printing Company (Boston) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last words of a pastor to his people : two discourses delivered to the Third Presbyterian Church, Albany, December 21, 1854, and January 7, 1855, the last two Sabbaths of a ministry of eighteen years, with a history of the Third Presbyterian Church, Albany (Fisk & Little, 1855), by E. A. Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Albany and its place in the history of the United States. A memorial sketch written for the 200th anniversary of its birthday as a city. (C. Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1886), by Berthold Fernow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Albany hand-book. A strangers' guide and residents' manual ... (Brandow & Barton, 1884), by Henry P. Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies for Albany (Bartlett-Orr Press], 1914), by Arnold W. Brunner and Charles Dowing Lay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Committee on Freshets in the Hudson River of the Albany Chamber of Commerce and sub-committees at Troy, Watervliet, Rensselaer, Castleton, Coeymans and New Baltimore. (The Committee, 1902), by N.Y.). Committee on Freshets in the Hudson River Chamber of Commerce (Albany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of Albany : an address delivered before the Young Men's Association of Albany, February 7th, 1854 (Van Norden & Amerman, 1854), by William Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbols of the capital; or, Civilization in New York. (Thatcher & Hutchinson, 1859), by A. D. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our ancient landmarks. The sermon delivered in St. Paul's Church, Albany, on the bi-centennial commemoration of the city's charter, the fourth Sunday after Trinity, 1886. (Argus Co., 1886), by Maunsell Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charter of the Albany and Greenbush Bridge Company : and a statement of its claims on the public interest in connection with the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Albany Railroad. (Weed, Parsons and Co., printers, 1874), by Albany and Greenbush Bridge Company, J. W. Gascoigne, and John Swinburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Committee of the Albany Chamber of Commerce appointed to suggest a plan for the improvement of the river front, November 14, 1911 ([Albany, 1911), by N.Y.) Chamber of Commerce (Albany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bonded debt of the city of Albany, 1883. ([Albany,, 1883), by Albany (N.Y.). Finance Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addenda to Players of a century : a record of the Albany stage, including notices of prominent actors who have appeared in America (s.n.], 1889), by Henry P. Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early records of the city and county of Albany, and colony of Rensselaerswyck (1656-1675) (J. Munsell, 1869), by Albany County (N.Y.) and Jonathan Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catholic Albany : an illustrated history of the Catholic churches and Catholic religious, benevolent and educational institutions of the city of Albany (P. Donnelly, 1895), by Michael J. Louden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address, delivered by appointment, in the Episcopal Church, at the opening of the Apprentices' Library, in the city of Albany, January 1, 1821. ... (Printed by John O. Cole, 1821), by Solomon Southwick, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of Temple Commandery No. 2 of Albany, N.Y. (s.n.], 1898), by Will L. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of De Witt Clinton Council Royal and Select Masters, Albany, New York, 1861-1911 : fiftieth anniversary ceremonies (J.B. Lyon, printers, 1911), by T. Austin Williamson and Royal and Select Masters (Masonic order) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public schools of Albany, N.Y., illustrated : a souvenir volume (H.W. Cole & T.C. Hailes, 1894), by Harold W. Cole, Theodore C. Hailes, and Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Albany Burgesses Corps : quick step (Prentiss & Clark, 1844), by William C. Glynn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Town of Colonie, New York, Albany County ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration, [1979], 1979), by United States. Federal Insurance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial laws of New York from the year 1664 to the Revolution, including the charters to the Duke of York, the commissions and instructions to colonial governors, the Duke's laws, the laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York and the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive. (J.B. Lyon, State Printer, 1894), by New York (State), A. Judd Northrup, William H. Johnson, Charles Z. Lincoln, and New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision (page images at HathiTrust)

• My mother's girlhood (Knickerbocker Press, 1904), by Sara A. van Deusen Merritt and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Albany authors. ([Albany?, 1902), by Albany. Library Albany Institute of History and Art and Cuyler Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Address, delivered by appointment, in the Episcopal Church, at the opening of the Apprentices' Library, in the city of Albany, January 1, 1821. ... (Printed by John O. Cole, 1821), by Solomon Southwick, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philip Hooker; a contribution to the study of the renaissance in America (C. Scribner's sons, 1929), by Edward Wales Root (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies for Albany (Bartlett-Orr Press], 1914), by Arnold W. Brunner and Charles Dowing Lay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Special agents' report to the Comptroller in relation to the affairs of the Canal Bank. (s.n., 1848), by New York (State). Comptroller's Office, Millard Fillmore, Thomas McMullen, and Andrew White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Special agents' report to the Comptroller in relation to the affairs of the Canal Bank. (s.n., 1848), by New York (State). Comptroller's Office, Millard Fillmore, Thomas McMullen, and Andrew White (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National Commercial Bank of Albany : a brief history of three-quarters of a century, its officers and directors (Weed, Parsons, 1901), by Herbert F. Prescott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Articles of association of the Deposite Bank of Albany : and the General Banking Law of the State of New-York. (Printed by Packard, Van Benthuysen, 1838), by Deposite Bank of Albany (N.Y.) and New York (State) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Church of Christ, Albany, Sharon, Johnstown (1958), by N.Y.) Church of Christ (Albany (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. (Re-printed from the London edition, by Barber & Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, book-seller, Market-Street, 1793), by Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Spencer, Solomon Southwick, John Barber, Selina Hastings Huntingdon, John Wheatley, and Barber & Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cannibals' progress; or The dreadful horrors of French invasion; as displayed by the Republican officers and soldiers, in their perfidy, rapacity, ferociousness and brutality, exercised towards the innocent inhabitants of Germany. / Translated from the German, by Anthony Aufrer, Esq. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts] (Albany: : Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, at their bookstore, in the white house, corner of State and Pearl-Streets., [1798]), trans. by Anthony Aufrere (HTML at Evans TCP)

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