Columbia County Memorabilia
My Columbia County Memorabilia is focused on this one wonderful collection of early documents preserved amongst my fathers effects.
The Huyck Bain Crandell Collection
What I call here The Huyck Bain Crandell Collection is the result of my attempt to catalog and make sense of a wonderful collection of papers I found amongst my father's effects after his death in 1977.
The collection is a family archive assembled over approximately 225 years, descending through five generations of the Huyck family of Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York, and subsequently through the Bain and Crandell families.
It documents the commercial, legal, agricultural, and personal life of the Burger Huyck family and their community across five generations, from the Dutch colonial period through the early 19th century and from there into the early 20th century with the Bain and Crandell families.
The collection begins with a transfer from Jan Hendrik Bruyn to Andres Hanse Huyck in 1679 and ends with Bess (Bain) & Walter S. Crandell in the early 20th century.
— revised 2026-07-08 jhc