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Medical

This is a duplicate of the listing on the fonda.org website. Alexander Glen Fonda; Physician; born 17-Aug-1785, died 4-Mar-1869 at 83 years of age; b. and d. Schenectady, New York; 1850 U.S. Census, New York, Schenectady,…

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Executives

This is a duplicate of the listing on the fonda.org website. Avery Hunt Fonda; Financial Executive; born 1921, died June-1-2003 at 82 years of age; b. North Carolina; 1930 Census, North Carolina, Buncombe, Asheville, District 5;…

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Compendiums

[R001a] Early Irish in Old Albany, N.Y.: with special mention of Jan Andriessen, "De Iersman Van Dublingh", Danaher, Franklin M., Boston, MA, American-Irish Historical Society, 1903, p. 17 [R002] Contributions for the Genealogies of the First…

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Italian Roots

Genoa, Italy Extract from "Early American Families", Rev. W.A. Williams; Philadelphia, PA; 1916: "The Rensselaer-Bowier Papers say that Douw Fonda was a Frisian, and Tacitus says that the Frisians dwelt along the coast of the North…

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Merchants

This is a duplicate of the listing on the fonda.org website. Abraham Janse Fonda; Merchant, Ship Captain, Justice, Revolutionary War Soldier; born 18-Jan-1708, died 30-Jul-1762 at 54 years of age; b. Claverack, Albany Co., New York;…

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