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Peter Smith Papers, 1763-1850

Title: Peter Smith Papers 1763-1850

Papers of the New York State merchant and landowner; father of Gerrit Smith. Collection contains correspondence (1791-1837); financial papers (1771-1850) relating to various business enterprises; business and land papers (1767-1850); legal documents (1772-1840); and writings, including a journal of a trip from Albany to Johnstown in 1822. Notable correspondents include John Jacob Astor, Daniel Cady, William E. Dodge, Abraham Herring, Elbert Herring, Thomas Herring, Samuel Hoard, Nehemiah Huntington, Elisha Kane, John Kiersted, William Laight, William Lamont, Robert Lenox, John Lincklaen, Samuel McNeil, Morris S. Miller, Stephen Parkhurst, Samuel H. Payne, Jonas Platt, Harmon Pumpelly, Zebulon Shipherd, Gerrit Smith, Ezra Stiles, David Tomlinson, Lawrence Vrooman, Nathan Ward, and Elisha Williams.

ArchivalResource: 16.0 linear ft.

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Fairchild, Helen L. (Helen Lincklaen), 1845-1931,. Fairchild collection, 1745-1927.

Title: Fairchild collection, 1745-1927.

Collection contains papers documenting public and private institutions and the lives of individuals in Cazenovia, N.Y. from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (7 boxes, 12 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615960 View

Ledyard family. Ledyard family papers, 1793-1916, 1793-1884 (bulk).

Title: Ledyard family papers, 1793-1916, 1793-1884 (bulk).

Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of the Ledyard family of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, especially of Jonathan D. Ledyard. Includes account books, maps, correspondence with agents of the Holland Land Company, tenants and mortgagors of the Cazenovia lands and the Cazenove family in France; business and personal letters; journal of a visit to Cuba and Mexico (1850); an incomplete typewritten autobiography of Judge George Strawbridge; wills and agreements, accounts, inventories, assessments, deeds, abstracts, and other miscellaneous papers. Also includes a microfiche copy of the CALENDAR AND INDEX OF THE LINCKLAEN/LEDYARD PAPERS in the collection of the Lorenzo State Historic Site.

ArchivalResource: 15 reels microfilm, 18 microfiche.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074016 View

Pease, Seth, 1764-1819. Seth Pease journal excerpts and letters, with Robert Morris deed, 1792-1799 (bulk 1798-1799)..

Title: Seth Pease journal excerpts and letters, with Robert Morris deed, 1792-1799 (bulk 1798-1799)..

Excerpt from Pease's diary, 1 Oct. 1798 to 6 Jan. 1799, describing his assistance to Joseph Ellicott in surveying the New York Reservation along the Niagara River; and 12 letters to Pease from Adam Hoops, Joseph Ellicott, Thomas Morris, James Rees, James Brisban, and John Thompson, Apr. 1798 to Aug. 1799, regarding that survey and his other surveying work west of the Genesee River. Also, deed for one and a half million acres of land purchased from Massachusetts by Robert Morris, conveyed by Morris and his wife to Herman Le Roy and John Linklaen, 24 Dec. 1792.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

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Cushing, Enos. Deeds and survey and map of Town Lots no. 12 and 13, Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, 1802-1832.

Title: Deeds and survey and map of Town Lots no. 12 and 13, Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, 1802-1832.

Three deeds, 1802-1832, and one survey bill by Enos Cushing of Cazenovia Town Lots 12 and 13.

ArchivalResource: 3 deeds, 1 survey, 1 map.(1 land survey map : manuscript ; 33 x 20 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122583053 View

Van Eeghen & Co. J. Rogge letter: Amsterdam, to Heer Evans, 1922 June 23.

Title: J. Rogge letter: Amsterdam, to Heer Evans, 1922 June 23.

Encloses a letter to Paul Busti, Philadelphia, from John Lincklaen, Cazenovia, 25 Oct. 1802, describing Lincklaen's recent journey from Cazenovia through the Genesee Country and into Upper Canada. Includes Linckaen's ideas regarding the successful sale of the Holland Purchase lands.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.)

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Van der Kemp, Francis Adrian, 1752-1829. Francis Adrian Van der Kemp papers, 1792-1828, 1903-1905.

Title: Francis Adrian Van der Kemp papers, 1792-1828, 1903-1905.

Correspondence, lectures, travel diary, and autobiography, 1792-1828, of Dutch scholar and clergyman Francis Adrian Van der Kemp of Barneveld, New York; along with three volumes of scrapbooks, notes, clippings, and transcribed materials, ca. 1903-1905, pertaining to Van der Kemp and the Van der Kemp family.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 110 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58779954 View

Seymour Family. Papers, 1711-1912.

Title: Papers, 1711-1912.

The Seymour Family Papers are primarily of Horatio Seymour Jr. and his wife Abigail Adams (Johnson) Seymour, their children, and their antecedants. The biographical and genealogicial notes and writings include nine generations of the Seymour and and collateral families including Horatio Seymour Jr.'s biography on his uncle, "The Life of Governor Horatio Seymour." Correspondence is for the most part family letters with the bulk being Horatio Seymour Jr.'s letterbook for 1901 to 1903. Also there are two 1866 letters from Roscoe Conkling to his brother-in-law John Forman Seymour thanking him for his support during the Blaine-Fry controversy. Financial and legal materials contain miscellaneous documents and correspondence concerning finance, land holdings, estates, wills, military claims, and an 1868 letter by John Bloomfield Jervis (1795-1885) NYS civil engineer, recommending Horatio Seymour Jr. as a surveyor. Photographs and prints include family portraits as well as those of personalities such as Roscoe Conkling, U.S. Senator, John B. Jervis, Civil Engineer, and NYS Governors William L. Marcy and George Clinton. Photographs also include a family album of Horatio Seymour Jr.'s for 1887 to 1890 set in Utica, New York and Michigan; photographs of the construction of the Panama Canal taken on a trip in 1912; and photographs of family residence including "Lorenzo" the Lincklaen/Fairchild Mansion in Cazenovia, New York.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3.5 cu. ft.), 2 maps.(2 maps ; manuscript ; 39 x 40 cm. or smaller)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122519825 View