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Records, 1828-1988, 1907-1988 (bulk)

Title: Records, 1828-1988, 1907-1988 (bulk)

Minutes, account books, deeds, correspondence, scrapbooks, microfilm, video tapes, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia of the Smithtown Library. Stock certificates from 1828 pertain to an unrelated "Library Association of Smithtown." Records of the Smithtown Library, begining 1907, include constitution and bylaws, financial reports, librarians' reports, and trustees' reports; account books, 1907-1937; receipt books, 1928-1963; accession books, 1908-1953; records of book stock and circulation records, 1907-1960; records of the Library mobile unit, 1948-1952, and the Kings Park branch, 1948-1953; and correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings and manuals of Friends of the Library. Scrapbooks, ca. 30v., contain photographs, clippings, and other printed material on Library activities, 1954-1988. Also of note are a "Code Book" (library procedures), ca. 1938,; memoranda to staff and records of staff meetings; deeds and other papers concerning the Smithtown Village Green where the Library is located; architectural drawings, plans and financial records for an addition to the building, 1967; and papers about a suit brought by a former librarian against the library trustees.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 cubic ft., ca. 100 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155535703 View

Historical documents scrapbooks, 1641-1886.

Title: Historical documents scrapbooks, 1641-1886.

Deeds, wills, estate inventories, land patents, letters, drafts, receipts, probate papers, military orders, indentures, bills of sale of slaves, oaths of office, and military commissions associated with individuals and families of Long Island. Some documents of note are: deeds to land at Monhansacke (Shelter Island) by James Farrett and sealed by Theophilus Eaton, Governor of Connecticut (1641); inventory of the Richard Willets estate in Oyster Bay, verified by Edward Hyde Cornbury, Governor of New York and New Jersey (1704); letter to Nathaniel Huntting from Joseph Hand concerning British frigate near Montauk Point (1813); and various documents from the Clinton Academy. Many documents have typed transcriptions.

ArchivalResource: 18 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155566995 View

Thesis and essay collection, 1928-1983.

Title: Thesis and essay collection, 1928-1983.

Photocopy of typescript doctoral dissertation on Huntington, N.Y. from 1848-1862, by Grania Bolton Marcus, 1983; photocopy of manuscript, "Tylers and Gardiners on the Village Green" by Nancy Wilson Mann, 1980; carbon copy typescript on the manorial common pasture system at Montauk, N.Y., and photostats of documents, maps, and photographs of property lines by William B. Jackson, 1942; typescript "Suffolk County in Olden Times," written by Henry Onderdonk in 1865, edited and typed by Hazel M. Griffin, 1945; manuscript "The Dawn of American Expansion," 1928; typescript history of the Morton Pennypacker Long Island Collection by Bruce M. Maxim, 1966.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155566052 View

Tuscarora collection, 1839-ca. 1930, 1839-1841 (bulk)

Title: Tuscarora collection, 1839-ca. 1930, 1839-1841 (bulk)

Logbook of the ship Tuscarora of Cold Spring, N.Y., Capt. Halsey, Master, 1839-1841; typescript copy of 1851 article from the Sag Harbor Corrector detailing the scuttling of the Tuscarora; carbon copy of letter from Morton Pennypacker to James E. Bayles of Port Jefferson, N.Y. about the Tuscarora logbook, ca. 1930; essay on the history of the sea, n.d. The end of the logbook contains poetry and a note indicating it is the book of Charles A. Babcock.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155567612 View

Papers, 1658-1957, 1658-1854 (bulk)

Title: Papers, 1658-1957, 1658-1854 (bulk)

Papers of Jesse Merritt include letters and postcards from Christopher Morley, largely relating to Morley's literary work, 1942-1946; other letters, largely thank-yous, from Noel Coward, Ralph H. Gabriel, Henry L. Stimson, Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires, William Rose Benet, Herbert Hoover, and Morton Pennypacker, 1922-1950; and notes from Merritt's talk on the history of the Town of Hempstead, 1943.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155554502 View

Papers, 1915-1975.

Title: Papers, 1915-1975.

Papers from 1915-1956 include correspondence, copies of lectures and addresses, articles and clippings by or about Morton Pennypacker, essays, unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and pamphlets. Also included are genealogy charts of Abraham Woodhull and others, n.d., and catalog of Pennypacker genealogy collection, 1975.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155567017 View

Papers, 1906-1939.

Title: Papers, 1906-1939.

Typescript copies of Sleight's articles for the East Hampton Star and letters to Boughton, the editor; clippings of historical articles by Sleight, and undated article about Long Island refugees in the Revolution; unpublished manuscript on Sag Harbor's whaling fleet, n.d.; essay on the Sleights of Sag Harbor; and correspondence with Morton Pennypacker and others.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155567441 View

Collection, 1916-1951, 1933-1942 (bulk)

Title: Collection, 1916-1951, 1933-1942 (bulk)

Correspondence and notes regarding the controversy about Nathan Hale's capture at Huntington, 1916-1941; notes, clippings, and correspondence of Morton Pennypacker, Dixon Ryan Fox, Randolph G. Adams, Alexander J. Wall, Justice Isaac R. Swezey, Walter S. Funnell, Herbert P. Carter and the Public records Office (London) regarding Nathan Hale and photstat copies of the log books of HMS Niger and HMS Halifax (Sept. 1777), 1934-1951; correspondence, photograph, clippings about General Lord Howe Headquarters in Elmhurst, Queens and Nathan Hale, 1935-1942; draft copies of "Nathan Hale Report," 1935-1938.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155564800 View

Inventory of Southold records, 1935.

Title: Inventory of Southold records, 1935.

15 page typescript Southold records inventory.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155555000 View