William Pierrepont White collection, 1728-1939.

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William Pierrepont White collection, 1728-1939.

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Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and related families, concerning their activities in the development of land, canals, railroads, cotton manufacturing, mining, banking, and highways, chiefly in New York State. The early papers relate to the White family of Middletown, Connecticut, and the development after 1783 of Whitestown, New York, and include the town books (1807-1823) for Richland, New York, church records, early election returns, deeds, documents on the Brothertown Indians, grist mills, civil and criminal cases, slave sales, the War of 1812, the Bank of Utica, and the Pierrepont Land Office. Includes the diary of William Pierrepont White. One group of papers relates to the disposal of the Constable lands and the development of Pierrepont Manor, and contains statements of land contracts (1801-1810) given by William Constable, an inventory of the Constable estate (1829), a memorandum of journeys made by William Constable Pierrepont to the Constable tract, lists of bonds for Ellisburgh, New York (1834-1841), and a series of letters from Franklin B. Hough relating to life boats for Ellisburgh and Oswego, and to other matters.

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Oneida Historical Society at Utica

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Wheeler family.

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Jefferson County National Bank (Jefferson County, N.Y.)

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Constable family.

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Van Wagenen family.

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Utica and Mohawk Railroad Company.

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Cohoes Company.

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Walcott family.

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Union Canal (Penn.)

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Erie Canal.

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Constable, William, 1721-1791

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On title page: "A synopsis of Stukeley's works with many original observations of great interest on antiquities and on Stukeley's notes by William Constable July 1872" From the guide to the Dr. Stukeley's Works, common-place book, 1872., 1972 July, (Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections) ...

White, Hugh

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Epithet: Curate of St. Mary's, Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x0003d8 ...

Pierrepont Land Office.

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Hough, Franklin Benjamin, 1822-1885

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Franklin B. Hough was born in Martinsburg, NY in 1822. He studied medicine and practiced in Somerville, NY from 1848 to 1852. He is described as a "pioneer historian of counties in New York State" and an advocate of forest conservation. In 1855 and 1865, he was Superintendent of the State Census for New York and was also involved in the 1875 census. He was one of seven Commissioners of Parks in New York in 1872 and in 1876 he became a Forestry Agent in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He published...

Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad Company.

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White family.

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New York (State). Legislature

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The 332nd Infantry Regiment was part of the 83rd Division, which was deployed overseas in June 1918. After training in France the regiment was detached for service as army and corps troops, and on July 25 it moved, with the 331st Field Hospital, to Villafranca, Custoza, and Sommacompagna, Italy. In October the regiment participated in the Vittorio-Veneto Operation (Italy). The regiment assisted in establishing bridgeheads at the Piave River, and as part of the Italian 31st Division (Tenth Italia...

Delaware and Raritan Canal (N.J.)

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White, Canvass, 1790-1834

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Engineer. From the description of Diary, 1823. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 122641026 Canal engineer and cement manufacturer of Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y. Canvass White served in the War of 1812, made surveys on the Erie Canal, visited England to study canals, introduced hydraulic cement into the United States, manufactured cement, was president of the Cohoes Company, chief engineer of the Delaware Breakwater, the Delaware and R...

White, William Pierrepont.

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Bank of Utica (Utica, N.Y.)

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New-York Water Works Company

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Pierrepont, William Constable.

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