Stony Brook/local miscellaneous collection, 1725-1945.
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Stony Brook/local miscellaneous collection, 1725-1945.
Papers and records of individuals and businesses in Stony Brook, in neighboring communities such as Setauket, St. James and Smithtown, and elsewhere on Long Island. Papers of William Shipman include business correspondence, insurance papers, freight receipts, and bills for lumber, grain, clothing, carriages and wagons, 1875-1896; papers of Lorenzo C. Mills include missionary society pamphlets, poems, business correspondence of D. T. Bayles and Son, 1929, and a letter to Edith (Mrs. Lorenzo C.) Mills from a friend describing travel in Europe, 1933; accounts and daybooks of Oakes & Davis General Stores, Setauket, 1839-1881; a genealogical chart of Blanche Evelyn Mott with records of the Mott, Coram, Fordham and Hudson families; deed from Benjamin Hallock to Benajah Edwards for a piece of land and an Indian boy, 1736; deed for land in Stony Brook, from John Satterly to Eliezer Hawkins, 1725; papers concerning the estate of Edward Hawkins, 1867; account books of Wessel Edwards lumber yard, 1859-1867; letters and telegrams from Stanford White to C. M. Sleight regarding a building project in St. James, 1904-1914; photographs of the Conklin and Gildersleeve families of Stony Brook; photos and pamphlets of Old Field Country Day School; and materials about the Stony Brook Assembly, 1916. Also, papers from churches in St. James, Mt. Sinai, Miller Place and Baiting Hollow; and other deeds, wills, account books, hotel registers, shipping papers and charters, programs, trade cards, bills, fliers, broadsides and calendars.
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ca. 4 cubic ft.
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