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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, In the Year 1755, When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present Time, by James E. Seaver (Gutenberg text)
- The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks, by A. L. Byron-Curtiss (HTML at threerivershms.com)
- Binghamton, Its Settlement, Growth and Development, and the Factors in its History, 1800-1900 (Boston: Century Memorial Pub. Co., 1900), by William S. Lawyer
- History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
- History of Chautauqua County, New York, From its First Settlement to the Present Time; With Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches (Buffalo, NY: Printing house of Matthews and Warren, 1875), by Andrew W. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co., 1880), ed. by D. Hamilton Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Biographical Review: This volume contains Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Delaware County New York (1895) (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)
- The History of Delaware County (New York: W. W. Munsell, 1880) (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)
- The Centennial History of the Town of Dryden, 1797-1897, ed. by George E. Goodrich (PDF files at nysed.gov)
- History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
- History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co., 1880), ed. by D. Hamilton Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Franklinville, N.Y. in Pictures and Story (c1914), by Roy W. Van Hoesen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tagging Along: Memories of My Grandfather, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (Geneseo, NY: Published at Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo, c2013), by Stuart Symington (PDF and Epub with commentary at geneseo.edu)
- The Crooked Lake Review (partial serial archives)
- History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925: Covering the Six Counties of Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Herkimer, and Oneida (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1925), ed. by Nelson Greene
- 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s (c2005), by Max Millard (Gutenberg text)
- The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)
- "New World A-Coming": Inside Black America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), by Roi Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of Niagara County, N. Y.: With Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery, Private Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Important Manufactories, and Portraits of Old Pioneers and Prominent Residents (New York: Sanford and Co., 1878) (page images at New York Heritage)
- Documentary History of Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, N.Y. (1881), by E. M. Smith
- Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Office, 1871), ed. by Unitarian Congregational Society (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- The Pioneers of Unadilla Village, 1784-1840; Reminiscences of Village Life and of Panama and California From 1840-1850 (combined edition of two works; Unadilla, NY: Vestry of St. Matthew's Church, 1902), by Francis W. Halsey and Gaius Leonard Halsey
- The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy (New York: H. Lee and Co., 1878), by Henry Ossian Flipper
- The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy, by Henry Ossian Flipper (Gutenberg text)
- Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 (fifth thousand; Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, et al., 1853), by Solomon Northup
- Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)
- The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)
- A Heroic Priest: Memoir of Joseph Francis Brophy, D.D., Apostle of Coney Island (1910), by Mrs. Paul Boyton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chains and Freedom: or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross (New York: E. S. Arnold and Co., 1839), by Peter Wheeler and C. Edwards Lester
- Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
- Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
- Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), by Bryan Waterman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- History of Brooklyn Jewry (Brooklyn, NY: Scheba Pub. Co., c1937), by Samuel P. Abelow (page images at HathiTrust)
- Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Margaret A. Leary (PDF files at Project MUSE)
- For James and Gillian: Jim Gill's New York (photographs omitted; New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by James F. Gill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- Max Steuer, Magician of the Law (New York: Greenberg, c1932), by Richard Owen Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Two Years and Three Months in the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica; Together With the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse (1855), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at Google)
- The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- My Boyhood, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
- Historical Discourse (1888), by James H. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches of Printers and Printing in Colonial New York (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1895), by Charles R. Hildeburn
- Memoir of Rachel Hicks (Written by Herself), Late of Westbury, Long Islamd, A Minister in the Society of Friends; Together With Some Letters and a Memorial of Westbury Monthly Meeting (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Rachel Hicks
- Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Office, 1871), ed. by Unitarian Congregational Society (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Memoir of Rachel Hicks (Written by Herself), Late of Westbury, Long Islamd, A Minister in the Society of Friends; Together With Some Letters and a Memorial of Westbury Monthly Meeting (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Rachel Hicks
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