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Veeder, Volkert S. Deed and survey maps of land on the Normans Kill, Albany County, New York, 1790-1799.

Title: Deed and survey maps of land on the Normans Kill, Albany County, New York, 1790-1799.

A deed of property on the Norman's Kill, Albany County, New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 deed, 2 maps.(2 survey maps : manuscript ; 16 x 50 cm. or smaller)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122379225 View

Fonda family. Papers, 1697-1889.

Title: Papers, 1697-1889.

This collection is largely unprocessed. The collection contains various records of the Fonda family including accounts, receipts, invoices, deeds, promissory notes, and correspondence. Included in the collection are a number of items relating to the operation of a general store by Jelles Fonda in Caughnawaga, (now Fonda) N.Y. Other family members represented include Peter and Jacob Fonda. Several ledger and day books from family members and associates are included. Some of the material in this collection relates to provisioning troops during the American Revolution. Many land records related to Tryon County, N.Y. are included. Also included are records related to African American slaves, Native Americans and Loyalists.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122379169 View

John Lansing, Jr. papers, 1781-1870

Title: John Lansing, Jr. papers 1781-1870

John Ten Eyck Lansing, Jr. (1754-1829) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician. He disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1829. The John Lansing, Jr. papers consist mainly of letters received from prominent business and legal figures of the day, including Rufus King, Theodore Sedgwick, Stephen and Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Eilardus Westerlo, and Jellis Fonda. Many letters are from his brother-in-law, Cornelius Ray. Also present are financial and legal documents including wills, indentures, land patents, invoices, and passports relating to members of the Lansing, Livingston, Ray, and Van Rensselaer families

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/19033 View

Butler, Walter, 1750?-1781. Letter, 1775 March 27 : Butlersbury, to Jellis Fonda, Cognewago.

Title: Letter, 1775 March 27 : Butlersbury, to Jellis Fonda, Cognewago.

Letter concerns the receipt of payment from Jellis Fonda to settle a legal dispute between Walter Butler and Charles Epps.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50787167 View

Fonda family. Fonda family papers, 1736-1870.

Title: Fonda family papers, 1736-1870.

Correspondence and various land, legal, and financial papers, 1736-1870, of the Fonda family of the Mohawk Valley in New York State; principally including the papers of Douw Fonda, of Albany; Henry Fonda, of Johnston, New York; and Jellis and Peter H. Fonda, both of Caughnawaga (later Fonda), New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 230 items)

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Fonda, Jellis, 1729-1791. Slave bill of sale and cash account, 1766.

Title: Slave bill of sale and cash account, 1766.

These two items relate to the varied business interests of Jelles Fonda, one of the earliest settlers of the Mohawk Vally region of New York State. The cash account records various amounts paid to John W. Vandenburgh for freight, postage, potash, and other goods. The slave bill of sale records that Fonda's purchase of "a negro named Cesar" for the consideration of four hundred & twenty-five pounds of good merchantable ginseng roots well cured..." The endorsements on the verso of this document duly note that Philip Cuyler did in fact receive "the within roots in full.'"

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Stuart, John, 1740-1811. John Stuart correspondence, 1771 July 1.

Title: John Stuart correspondence, 1771 July 1.

ALS from Stuart to Major Jellis Fonda requesting the sum of ten pounds.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980763 View

Fonda, Jellis, 1729-1791. Letter to John Sanders 1788 March 20.

Title: Letter to John Sanders 1788 March 20.

Letter to John Sanders concerning a kettle used for beer making and a dispute over it in which they are involved. Fonda states that he will leave the matter to three good men to decide at any time.

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122687838 View

Fonda, Jellis, 1729-1791. Letter, 1773 February 12.

Title: Letter, 1773 February 12.

Letter to Philip Van Rensselaer. "The bearer Hendrick Dockstader, Jr. will deliver you 16 [Sept.] wheat and 9 [Sept.] peas which please credit my account by and give him a receipt for what he delivers you." Written at Caughnawaga, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

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Fonda, Jellis, 1729-1791. Ledger of Jellis Fonda, January 1, 1775 to June 1792.

Title: Ledger of Jellis Fonda, January 1, 1775 to June 1792.

A ledger kept by Jellis Fonda. It is unclear if this is the Jellis Fonda born 1729, who died in 1791 or his son, born 1759 who died in 1834. Both were merchants in Schenectady and served in the Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86084018 View

Fonda, Jellis, 1729-1791. Jelles Fonda accounts, 1755-1777.

Title: Jelles Fonda accounts, 1755-1777.

Indian and small settler accounts, Caughnawaga, Montgomery County, (N.Y.).

ArchivalResource: 1 reel positive microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63938604 View

Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807. Letter, 1789 August 14.

Title: Letter, 1789 August 14.

Letter to Major Jelles Fonda acknowledging the receipt of supplies and inquiring as to the state of affairs respecting the lands of the Mohawk, Onondaga and Cayuga Indians. Brant makes specific references to the conduct of General Clinton in the western New York campaign. Written at Niagara.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122434125 View

Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804. Letter, 1781 December 1.

Title: Letter, 1781 December 1.

Draft of letter from Philip Schuyler, acting as Quartermaster General for the Northern Department of the Continental Army, to Robert Morris, Commissioner of Finance for the Continental Congress. Discusses the distribution of supplies to the troops and to the Indians. Schuyler states that he denied a request for troop supplies submitted by Jelles Fonda on the grounds that an Act of Congress implicitly designated the supples that Fonda desired as strictly for the use of the Indians. Schuyler cites the Act of Congress he bases his case upon and discusses, in detail, the other laws passed by Congress regarding the fulfillment of supply quotas for the United States by the various states of the Union. Draft written at Albany, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (10 p.) ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122487035 View

Lansing, John, 1754-1829. Manuscripts, 1776-1823.

Title: Manuscripts, 1776-1823.

This collection consist of letters and other documents related to the personal and professional life of John Lansing. The letters relate to all facets of his long and varied career such as secretary to General Schuyler, member of the New York Assembly, delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention, justice of the New York State Supreme Court, and Chancellor of New York State. Also included are documents related to Lansing's land holdings in the Town of Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York, and Oriskany Patent, which is now situated mostly in Oneida County, New York. Of special interest is a field book of surveys of parts of the Oriskany Patent compiled by James Cockburn, which includes detailed descriptions of numbered lots and some maps.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.25 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122379246 View

Kirkland, Samuel, 1741-1808. Papers 1765-1808.

Title: Papers 1765-1808.

Correspondence, diaries, fragment of an autobiography (1764-65), Oneida Declaration of Neutrality (1775), and census of Six Nations (1789). Some of the letters are in the Oneida and Mohawk languages.

ArchivalResource: 650 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60552671 View

Fonda, Jellis, 1729-1791. Account book, 1768-1778.

Title: Account book, 1768-1778.

Account book, 1768-1778, attributed to Jellis Fonda, listing individual sales of such items as gun powder, rum, shoes, blankets, ash, shot, clothing, tobacco, groceries, utensils, etc. to white and Native American residents of Mohawk Valley in New York State. Includes accounts with members of the Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, and Cayuga communities. European settlers listed include Peter Cock, Sir William Bush, Aron Vandebergh, Job Bullingham, John Penn, Lewis the Frenchman, Col. Butler, Sanakey Phillips, Richard Atkinson, Styntie Hammer, Sanders Martin, and many others. Includes partial index.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (184 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58758367 View

Johnson, John, Sir, 1742-1830. Deed to Robert Adams, 1771 September 21.

Title: Deed to Robert Adams, 1771 September 21.

Deed between Sir John Johnson, Daniel Claus, Guy Johnson, Jelles Fonda, Michael Byrne, and Gilbert Tice as grantors and Robert Adams as grantee. The deed transfers ownership of three lots on the west side of the Schoharie Hill. Entered into the clerks records of Tryon County, N.Y. at Johnstown and notarized by Sir William Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346499 View

Frey, Samuel Ludlow, 1833-1924. Papers, 1706-1916.

Title: Papers, 1706-1916.

The Samuel Ludlow Frey Papers consist of correspondence, financial records, land records, and legal records, related to the Frey and collateral families as well as materials he used in his research on the history of the Mohawk Valley. Several members of the Frey family were lawyers, hence, there is a strong representation of court-related papers, introducing personalities outside of the Frey family and Samuel Ludlow Frey's interest in early Montgomery county history. The collection also includes an extensive amount of genealogical research materials collected and compiled by Frey.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3.0 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346476 View