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Papers, 1747-1865.

Title: Papers, 1747-1865.

Six letters from Benjamin Doughty describing a tour through Quebec and western New York State including Buffalo, Skaneateles, and Saratoga Springs in hopes of bettering his sister's failing health, 1827. Letters contain detailed comments about sociological aspects of people encountered and about comparisons between farming practices in upstate New York and Queens. Other papers consist of wills and inventories, deeds, marriage certificate for George Doughty and Harriet Williams, farm maps, bills, loans, genealogical papers, Revolutionary War papers, correspondence, and two literary compositions (memorials of deceased relatives).

ArchivalResource: 41 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155462496 View

Papers, 1747-1849.

Title: Papers, 1747-1849.

Papers of the Doughty family of Flushing, Queens County, N.Y., include accounts, bonds, surveys, marriage certificates, wills, receipts, letters, slave documents and genealogical material. Items of note include wedding documents of Zebulon Dickinson and Mary Doughty, 1747, and of George Doughty and Harriet Williams, 1832; will of Zebulon Dickinson, 1748; receipts for pasturage, 1778-1780; letters to William or Benjamin Doughty from John Hinchman, a loyalist who removed to England, 1782-1786; a biography of Mary Doughty (1757-1824) by her son; and a list of graves in the Doughty family plot in Westbury Friends Cemetery. Others mentioned in the documents include Samuel Doughty, Benjamin Carpenter, Increase Carpenter, Silvanus Hicks, Elias Hicks, Willet Lawrence, William Mott, Cornelius Roosevelt, George Farrington Seaman, Nicholas Townsend and Thomas Willit.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155559904 View

Williams, Harriet. Friendship album, 1833-1839.

Title: Friendship album, 1833-1839.

Poems and letters from friends in Ipswich and Boston, Massachusetts, and Utica, New York; later used as a commonplace book and includes "Burial of the young" by Lydia Sigourney.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34522818 View

Williams, Israel. Israel Williams letters his family in New York state and Wisconsin : ALS, 1852 September 25 - 1855 August 26.

Title: Israel Williams letters his family in New York state and Wisconsin : ALS, 1852 September 25 - 1855 August 26.

Letters written from the gold fields in California to his wife and children, in Spring Prairie, Walworth Co., Wisconsin, and including one letter written to his brother, in Unadilla, Otsego Co., New York.

ArchivalResource: 13 letters in box (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453228 View

Williams, Harriet W. Harriet W. Williams letters to Mary R. Shumway [manuscripts] 1865-1881.

Title: Harriet W. Williams letters to Mary R. Shumway [manuscripts] 1865-1881.

Letters from Harriet W. Williams of Portland, Oregon, to her friend Mary R. Shumway, of Buffalo, New York, discussing life in Portland, Oregon, starting a Sanitary Society, family matters, and church life. Four letters, dated 1865 Mar. 14, describing Portland, telling about amounts of rent paid, and describing type of money in circulation, 7 pp.; 1879 Aug. 30, discussing aforementioned matters, 6 pp.; 1881 Nov. 25, discussing aforementioned matters, 5 pp.; and 1883 June 11, also aforementioned matters, 4 pp.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670265279 View