Manuscript collection, 1690-1956.
Title:
Manuscript collection, 1690-1956.
Letters, bills, receipts, agreements, memoranda, deeds, bonds, promissory notes, wills and estate papers, legal papers, maps, land surveys, minutes, account books, diaries, and other miscellaneous papers primarily generated by Ogden Hoffman, Ambrose S. Murray, Samuel S. Seward, William Henry Seward, the Smith family, William Wickham, George D. Wickham, James W. Wilkin, and Henry G. Wisner. Subjects of these personal papers include legal affairs, family and personal life, railroads, education, local government, business affairs, land transactions, western lands and settlement, and political matters such as campaigns, elections, the Albany Regency, slavery, legislative business, and appointments. Other notable segments include account books, receipts, maps, surveys, minutes, letters, and legal papers concerning the Drowned Lands, 1807-1850; transcript of the divorce trial of Martha Ellis vs. Levi Ellis, 1837; maps, deeds, agreements, accounts, letters, and legal papers concerning military bounty lands in Orange County, 1791-1838; and Civil War letters and military documents of Alfred Neafie, 1864-1865.
ArchivalResource:
56 cubic ft.
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