East Bloomfield Historical Soc. Show will be at Old Bloomfield's barn and lawn on Route 20 and Toomey's Corners just east of Bloomfield village. Annual Autumn Antique show sponsored by East Bloomfield Historical Society . More information in later issues. Anyone having information to share with these researchers is invited to contact them directly at the address shown.
Inquiries run two consecutive months at no charge.
She is tracking all families of this name as they migrated from albany and the NYC area upstate. She finds them in the 1820 census of Phelps on p. 283. It says four members of the family are foreigners, not naturalized. She is trying to tie them to Philander Shirley who married Eve Rose, daughter of James and Elizabeth Cline Rose, who are on the 1830 census of Phelps. James Rose died in Phelps in 1822 and his wife, Elizabeth, returned to Rockland Co. by 1850.