New York Occupation and Business Records

United States New York  Occupations

Two interesting references regarding the occupations of the residents of New York are:


 * O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. Calendar of New York Colonial Commissions, 1680–1770. New York, N.Y.: New-York Historical Society, 1929. . Indexed. Lists office holders, their residences, and dates of commission.


 * Scott, Kenneth. Nineteenth Century Apprentices in New York City: Abstracted and with an Introduction by Kenneth Scott. Arlington, Va.: National Genealogical Society, 1986. . Lists occupation, age, person to whom apprenticed, and sometimes parents.

Some Dutch New York settlers ventured into Detroit to trade with the Mohawk Indians:


 * Mason, Jacquelyn Lamson. "Dutch Traders of the Mohawk in Eighteenth Century Detroit," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 116, No. 2 (Apr. 1985):73-81. Digital version at New York Family History ($);.