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BOOKS ABOUT THE BRADT FAMILY

GENEALOGY:

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The "Third Supplement to the Bradt Book, Including Vanderzee" is now available.  It includes updates and additions, including new lines.  In addition, some previously unknown lines are now resolved.

It is hard cover with 164 pages, with over 1000 individual Bradt, Brott, Bratt, etc. descendants.  The cost is $18.25 plus $4.25 postage, for a total of $22.50, if mailed in the US.   Email or write Laurie Grimes (E-mail address on Homepage) for costs to Canada.  Make checks payable made to The Bradt Family Society.

* A few copies of the "Second Supplement to the Bradt Book, Including Vanderzee" are still available.  The cost has been reduced to $25, with $5 postage in US.
Hardcover, 241 pages.  More about this book below.
Make checks out to the Bradt Family Society.

The three genealogy books below were published at the request of the Bradt Family Society (BFS).
Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt
As Douglas Detling says: "The foremost source of information about the Bradt/Brott [and other spelling variations of the] family name is Cynthia Brott Biasca's 1990 book Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt, which is available from Higginson Book Company (http://www.higginsonbooks.comhttp://www.higginsonbooks.com).
Cynthia deserves our praise for the years of research she (with the assistance and support of her family and friends) dedicated to bringing together the vast amount of information in her two books, and ancestor charts.
Supplement to Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt
 
Cynthia published her Supplement to the Bradt Book in 1993.  It is also available from Higginson ( http://www.higginsonbooks.com ).  Cynthia's e-mail address is: cynthia.biasca@verizon.net."

Second Supplement to Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt
SPECIAL NOTICE: The Second Supplement to the Bradt Book is now available!  Our Bradt Family Society lineage expert, Laurie Grimes, has written the "Second Supplement to the Bradt Book, including VanDerzee."

It is available at cost from the author for $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping in the US. Send payment to: Laurie Grimes, 6690 Nicoll Dr., North Ridgeville, OH 44039. For Canadian Bradts, write to Laurie at lmgrimes@juno.com for shipping to Canada. The book contains about 6000 names, is 8/12 by 11, hardcover and 241 pages in length.
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A New Bradt Book by Joan Bradt Wood, Establishing a New Nation: The Bradt Family in Canada.  For details please e-mail joanbradtwood@shaw.ca or write to her at:
87-3500 144 Street
Surrey, BC, Canada
V4P 3J6

"Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt" and the 3 supplements can be found in this partial list of public libraries:

 

In Canada:  * Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario

                       * St. Catherines Public Library,

                         St. Catherines, Ontario

 

In the East:  * Bethlehem Public Library, Bethlehem, NY

                       * Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society

                            Buffalo, NY

                       * Fenton Historical Center, Jamestown, NY

                       * Genealogical Center Library, Marietta, GA

                       * Holland Society, New York City

                       * Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                       * Montgomery Co. Dept. of History & Archives

                            Fonda, NY

                       * New York Genealogical & Biographical Society

                            New York City

                       * New York Public Library, New York City

                       * New York State Library, Albany, NY

                       * Onondaga Public Library, Syracuse, NY

                       * Schenectady Historical Society

                            Schenectady, New York

                       * Stillwater Historical Society, Stillwater, NY

                       * Western New York Genealogical Society

                            Hamburg, NY

 

In the Midwest:  * Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio

                               * Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN

                               * Newbury Library, Chicago, Illinois

                               * Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio

                               * Wisconsin State Historical Society

                                    Madison, Wisconsin

 

In the West:  * Clayton Library for Genealogical Research

                             Houston, Texas

                        * Everton Publishers, Logan, Utah

                        * LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT

                        * Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA

                        * Sutro State Library, San Francisco, California



OTHER LIBRARIES:

Bethlehem Public Library

451 Delaware Avenue

Delmar, NY  12054


Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society

25 Nottingham Court

Buffalo, New York 14216

 

Fenton Historical Center

67 Washington St

Jamestown, NY 14701


Holland Society of New York Library
122 East 58th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10022-1909


Montgomery County Department of History & Archives
Old Courthouse
P.O. Box 1500
Fonda, NY 12068-1500


New York Public Library

Milstein Division, Room 120

Humanities and Social Sciences Library

5th Ave. and 42nd St.

New York, NY  10018

 

New York State Library
Cultural Education Center
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12230

 

Schenectady County Historical Society

32 Washington Avenue

Schenectady, NY 12305

 

The Pubic Library of Cincinnati

800 Vine Street
Cincinnati, Ohio  45202-2009

 

Indiana State Library

140 N. Senate Avenue

Indianapolis, IN 46204

 

Newberry Library

60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-7324

 

Western Reserve Historical Society Library

10825 East Boulevard

Cleveland, Ohio 44106


Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research

5300 Caroline
Houston, TX 77004-6896

 

Family History Library

35 North West Temple Street, Room 344

Salt Lake City, Utah, 84150-3440

 

Los Angeles Public Library

630 W. 5th St.

Los Angeles, CA 90071

 

California State Sutro Library

480 Winston Drive
San Francisco, CA 94132

 

New England Historic and Genealogical Library

101 Newbury Street

Boston, MA 02116

 

Sarasota County Libraries

Selby Library

1331 First St.

Sarasota, FL 34236

 

Iowa Genealogical Society

628 E. Grand Ave.

Des Moines, IA 50309-1924

Library / Archives Division

Nebraska State Historical Society
1500 "R" Street
P.O. Box 82554
Lincoln, Nebraska 68501

 

Library of Congress

101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20540

 

Library of Michigan

702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48909

 

Allen County Public Library

900 Library Plaza

Fort Wayne, IN 46802

 

Onondaga County Public Library,

The Galleries of Syracuse
447 S. Salina St.
Syracuse, NY 13202

 

Wisconsin Historical Society

816 State Street

Madison, WI 53706-1417

 

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

122 East 58th Street

New York, NY 10022

While paying tribute to those who have promoted Bradt research we must mention Thelma and Ken Bradt, who in November, 1989 published the first issue of the BRADT FAMILY NEWS.

HISTORY:

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CLICK FOR JOAN BRADT WOOD'S WEBSITE AND CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS

We should also thank Joan Bradt Wood (and your family who led our excursion to the Bradt homeland) and for Joan's book JOURNEY TO A NEW LAND The Bradt Family in History, a social history of the Bradt family and their move from their home in Norway to the Netherlands and then to New Netherland.  The book is available directly from Joan as a cost of $23.00 US.
 
 

 
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A SWEET AND ALIEN LAND
The Story of Dutch New York

by Henri and Barbara van der Zee


A Book Review


A Sweet and Alien Land was published in 1978 by (English) Barbara and (Dutch) Henri van der Zee, no relation to our Van Derzee cousins.  This history focuses mostly on Manhattan, with "side trips" to Rensalaerswyck (Albany), Esopus (Kingston), and other parts of New Netherland.  Many of the characters in the book were a part of Arent and Albert Bratt's everyday lives during the Dutch Period and on into the English Period.

The book focuses a lot of attention on the leadship of the colony and on the constant threat of English takeover.  New Netherland was a rough and roudy society from the beginning, and some of the leaders made the colonists look tame in comparison. 

Externally, the colony struggled against Indians who were often friendly, and the English who were always looking for an opportunity to move in.  In the end, the Dutch lost out because there was freedom of religion in Holland but not in England;  the Dutch were happy to stay in Europe, where they were prosperous and free from religious persecution.

The book also deals with the Dutch fur trade and the tobacco industry, businesses that the Andriessen Bratt brothers were involved in.  It also includes the contributions of the De la Montaignes, who immigrated on the same ship with Albert and his family and married into at least one line of Bratt descendants.

I enjoyed the book, but the general tone was downbeat in assuming that the colony was doomed from the beginning.  Some readers may want to pick and choose which parts they read and which they skip over.  I skipped a couple of chapters.

Russell Shorto's book "The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America," published a couple of years ago, is much more upbeat.  It has the added benefit of access to the recent research by individuals familiar to the Bratt Family.

Steve Brott, Webmaster

 
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