NEW DATA FOR GENEALOGISTS
TOWN OF POUND RIDGE ROAD LISTS
The Pound Ridge Historical Society has been hard at work.  Richard Major, a trustee, past president and founder of the Pound Ridge Historical Society, has just completed transcribing the Town of Pound Ridge, NY road lists for years 1798 (partial), 1799, and 1806 to 1850. This data is extremely helpful for genealogists. This transcription records all men over the age of 21 living in Pound Ridge for each year. Property owners were assessed according to the value of their property while single men living at home are frequently assessed for 1 day of work. Some landholders are recorded as serving as much as 35 days of work. Women assessed in this time period were in most cases widows owning property.
This work consists of two volumes. Volume I contains an introduction to the transcription, a copy of an 1847 map of Pound Ridge with the district numbers assigned thereon, a page detailing an approximate location of districts on present day roads and an alphabetical listing of all men/women assessed for these years. There are approximately 13,000 entries.  Volume II contains a chronological sorting of names listed in Volume I according to the year and district number.
The PRHS has made available several hard copies of this transcript for research at the society’s library/museum. A CD ROM containing the full transcription is also available. The cost is $25 plus mailing. Please consider adding this transcript to your library.
Kindly contact prhsmuseum@earthlink.net or phone 914-764-4333 for further information or a list of the society’s research publications.
