Brittin Family Genealogy Collection open to researchers

William and Nathan Brittin emigrated from England to Long Island in 1635 and later became farmers and innkeepers. Notably in 1670, Nathaniel was involved in negotiating the sale of Staten Island from the Lenape to English colonists . The history of their lineage from the 1600s through the early 1940s is outlined in the Brittin Family Genealogy Collection, which Assistant Archivist Katelyn Leffler recently processed.

The materials include letters, notebooks, genealogy charts, and manuscripts. Also of note are nineteenth century receipts for William and Abraham Brittin and L.H. Brittin’s incomplete autobiography draft. A finding aid to the collection can be found here, and the papers may be consulted in the History Center’s reading during normal Library hours.