08/12/2026
For any descendants looking for an ancestor from Queens County, Long Island, New York, this is an excellent book with a name index and a petition of Loyalists to King George in 1776, pg 123 Henry Onderdonck, 1846. "Documents and letters intended to illustrate the revolutionary incidents of Queens county; with connecting narratives, explanatory notes, and additions." https://archive.org/details/documentsletters00onde/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater Many of these Loyalists settled in Nova Scotia Image retrieved from Journal of the American Revolution Book available at https://www.amazon.ca/Long-Island-City-1776-Revolution/dp/1467140953