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Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book, vol. X / [compiled by] W.H. Samson.

Title: Note book, vol. X / [compiled by] W.H. Samson. 1903.

Extracts of historical publications about the travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries, particularly among the Iroquois in Western New York and Canada ; also extracts from book of travels of John Melish in Western New York in the early 19th century.

ArchivalResource: 371 leaves, bound : ill., maps; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41931417 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book : micellany, vol XII / [compiled by] W.H. Samson.

Title: Note book : micellany, vol XII / [compiled by] W.H. Samson. [1911?-1912?]

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the auction of Robert Hoe's library at the Anderson Art Galleries in New York.

ArchivalResource: ca. 240 p., bound : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41942526 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book, vol. XI / [compiled by] W.H. Samson.

Title: Note book, vol. XI / [compiled by] W.H. Samson. 1905.

Extracts or copies of published historical documents and correspondence related to 18th and 19th century western New York history, also on Aaron Burr.

ArchivalResource: 238 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.

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Pound, Cuthbert Winfred, 1864-1965. Letter : Lockport, N.Y., to W.H. Samson, Rochester, N.Y., 1907 Feb. 23.

Title: Letter : Lockport, N.Y., to W.H. Samson, Rochester, N.Y., 1907 Feb. 23.

Feb. 23, 1907, letter from Cuthbert W. Pound to William Holland Samson, a Rochester journalist and historian particularly interested in the history of western New York and its Indian tribes, regarding the governor's decision on a bill relating to a claim filed in 1906 by attorneys of the Cayuga Nation.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39640991 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book : Pouchot, La Hontan, life of Zeisberger, vol. V / / [compiled by W.H. Samson].

Title: Note book : Pouchot, La Hontan, life of Zeisberger, vol. V / / [compiled by W.H. Samson]. [1898?]

Extracts of historical documents about the 17th and 18th Century travels of M. Pouchot, Baron Lahontan, David Zeisberger and others among the Iroquois in New York Pennsylvannia, Iroquois culture, and the French and Indian War.

ArchivalResource: 312 leaves, bound : maps ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41891343 View

Selye, Lewis, 1803-1883. Autograph letters regarding James H. Kelly : appointed Collector of Customs at the Port of Genesee, Rochester, by Lewis Seyle's influence, and the latter's efforts to get rid of him when Andrew Johnson was Presdt. / [edited by William Holland Samson].

Title: Autograph letters regarding James H. Kelly : appointed Collector of Customs at the Port of Genesee, Rochester, by Lewis Seyle's influence, and the latter's efforts to get rid of him when Andrew Johnson was Presdt. / [edited by William Holland Samson]. [1908?]

ArchivalResource: [60] leaves ; 26 cm.

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Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book : miscellany, vol. VII / [compiled by] W.H. Samson]

Title: Note book : miscellany, vol. VII / [compiled by] W.H. Samson] [1904?-1908?]

Includes copies of George washington's will and some letters to his private secretary, Tobias Lear, and descriptions of the Genesee River and Carthage, a former town along the lower Genesee.

ArchivalResource: ca. 240 leaves, bound : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41931216 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book, vol. III / [compiled by W.H. Samson]

Title: Note book, vol. III / [compiled by W.H. Samson] [1894?-1907?]

Extracts of 18th-19th century historical materials about Western and Central New York and the Rochester N.Y. region. Topics include Rev. John Ogilvie, missionary, Susquehanna River region, P. Campbell, a traveler, Rev. Daniel Kirkland, and brief biographies of Jesuit missionaries of the 17th Century.

ArchivalResource: 280 p., bound ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41884606 View

Decker, George P. (George Palmer), 1861-1936. Letters, 1906-1907.

Title: Letters, 1906-1907.

Correspondence, 1906-1907, with William Holland Samson (Rochester journalist and historian particularly interested in western New York and its Indian tribes) and Charles Van Voorhis, providing details regarding the Cayuga claim against the state of New York to and for Samson in hopes that he would support the Cayuga case editorially.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 folders) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36803983 View

New York (State). Attorney General's Office. Before the Commissioners of the Land Office of the state of New York in the matter of the memorial of the Cayuga Nation of Indians : report, 1906 Mar. [29] / respectfully submitted Julius Mayer, attorney general.

Title: Before the Commissioners of the Land Office of the state of New York in the matter of the memorial of the Cayuga Nation of Indians : report, 1906 Mar. [29] / respectfully submitted Julius Mayer, attorney general.

Contemporary typescript copy of the opinion (March 29, 1906) of New York attorney general Julius Mayer, regarding the memorial of the Cayuga Nation.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (12 leaves) ; 28 cm. + cover letter (1 leaf ; 28 cm.) and newspaper clipping.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39063898 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book, vol. 2 / [compiled by W.H. Samson]

Title: Note book, vol. 2 / [compiled by W.H. Samson] [1893?-1898?]

Extracts of mostly published 18th-19th century historical materials about Central and Western New York and the Rochester N.Y. Region. Topics include the travels of John Maude and Robert Sutcliff, attempts to form a new state, and Ebenezer Allan, one of the first white settlers in the Genesee Valley.

ArchivalResource: 151 leaves, bound : maps ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41884527 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. The lives and reminiscences of the pioneers of Rochester and Western New York by John Kelsey / [copied by W.H. Sampson].

Title: The lives and reminiscences of the pioneers of Rochester and Western New York by John Kelsey / [copied by W.H. Sampson]. [18--?]

Typed copy of the original publication, which was published by the author, John Kelsey, in 1854.

ArchivalResource: 173 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41942641 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book, vol. I / [compiled by W.H. Samson]

Title: Note book, vol. I / [compiled by W.H. Samson] [1892?-1895?]

Extracts of 18th-19th century historical and biographical documents about Indians, particularly the Iroquois of Western New York.

ArchivalResource: 200 leaves, bound : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41884433 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Claim of the Cayuga Indians ... : scrapbook, 1894-1896.

Title: Claim of the Cayuga Indians ... : scrapbook, 1894-1896.

Handmade scrapbook in which have been pasted seven letters, 1894-1896, from George S. Conover and William Clement Bryant (both western N.Y. state historians) to Samson, and two typed notes (one excerpting an 1893 letter from Conover), all regarding claims of the Canadian Cayugas that they were entitled to lands and annuities from the state of New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 p.) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41070619 View

New York (State). Attorney General's Office. Report : Albany, N.Y., to Charles E. Hughes, governor, 1907 Oct. 28.

Title: Report : Albany, N.Y., to Charles E. Hughes, governor, 1907 Oct. 28.

Typescript report, Oct. 28, 1908, signed by New York state attorney general W.S. Jackson and addressed to Gov. Charles Evans Hughes, regarding an Oneida appeal to the governor for protection against the threatened partition of thirty-two acres which had been part of the Oneida reservation in Lenox, Madison County, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (15 leaves) ; 33 cm. + cover letter (1 leaf ; 27 cm.) and newspaper clippings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39064277 View

Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919. Note book, vol. IV / [compiled by W.H. Samson]

Title: Note book, vol. IV / [compiled by W.H. Samson] 1896.

Extracts of 18th-19th century historical materials about Western and Central New York. Topics include the English forts after 1783, early setlers Luke Swetland and Jemina Wilkinson, and Indian reservations.

ArchivalResource: 323 leaves, bound : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41884681 View