Catskill, N.Y. manuscript file, 1760-1935.
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Catskill, N.Y. manuscript file, 1760-1935.
Debtor's papers, leases, wills and estate papers, deeds, mortgages, letters, maps and surveys, clippings, bills, receipts, promissory notes, and other documents relating to Catskill, N.Y. Family names include Abeel, Beach, Becker, Bedell, Croswell, Dies, DuBois, Ford, Hall, Lawrence, McKinstrey, Oothoudt, Overbaugh, Post, Sage, Salisbury, Saulpaugh, Schuneman, Thomson, Van Bergen, Van Loan, Van Orden, Van Vechten, and Willard. Subjects include Catskill Mountain House, New York Sand and Facing Company, Catskill Mechanical Society, Catskill Shale Brick & Paving Company, School District No. 11, brick industry, temperance, railroads, churches, murder cases, water system in Catskill, Catskill Academy, bridges, Catskill Mountain Telephone Company, and steamships. Of note are verses by Theodore A. Cole on Echo Lodge at Big Indian, 1894; accounts from the Catskill Board of Health pertaining to the cholera epidemic, 1832; field book of lands belonging to Francis and Abraham Salisbury, 1789; and typescript of a judgment against William Salsbury for the murder of Anna Dorothea Swarts, 1762.
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