Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1793-1943.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1793-1943.

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Miscellaneous deeds, military papers, receipts, broadsides, bonds, appointments, programs, and other items pertaining to people and events in Lewis County. Of note are deeds signed by William and Ann Constable for Townships 3 and 4 in the Macomb Purchase issued to Nathaniel Shaler, 1795-1801; an 1812 letter by Asa Hotten of Lowville describing call for local men to march to Sackets Harbor; manuscript lecture on the Castorland colony by Franklin B. Hough, 1867; diploma of Romeyn B. Hough, 1908; undated prospectus of the Rome & Carthage Railroad; assessment roll for Lyons Falls, 1818; and papers of Vincent Le Ray de Chaumont including letter to Nelson J. Beach regarding a legal matter, 1831, deeds, 1837, and circulars in German and French advertising his land in Northern New York for settlement, 1849. Among the signers of documents are Samuel Adams and Daniel Tompkins.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was b...

Le Ray de Chaumont, Vincent, 1790-1866

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Tompkins, Daniel D., 1774-1825

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Daniel D. Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825) was an American politician. He was the fourth governor of New York from 1807 to 1817, and the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. Born in Scarsdale, New York, Tompkins practiced law in New York City after graduating from Columbia College. He was a delegate to the 1801 New York constitutional convention and served on the New York Supreme Court from 1804 to 1807. In 1807, he defeated incumbent Morgan Lewis to become the...

Constable, Anne L. (Anne Louise)

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Anna (Ann) Russell was born in Osceola, Missouri on October 18, 1923. She moved to Kansas City in 1941. Here she met her future husband, Lelon (Lee) Constable, and they married on January 1, 1942. During World War II, while Lee served in the military, Ann worked for Pratt Whitney as a drill press operator. When the war ended she went to work with Lee in the family business, Constable Bindery. In 1960 the couple became neighbors of Thomas Hart Benton and his family. This began a close personal fr...

Shaler, Nathaniel, 1775-1814

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Rome & Carthage Railroad.

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Constable, William, 1752-1803.

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Constable was a wealthy New York merchant who temporarily lived in London. From the description of Accounts, 1794-1798. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122601613 ...

Beach, Nelson J.

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Lewis County Historical Society (Lyons Falls, N.Y.)

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Hotten, Asa.

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Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924

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Romeyn Beck Hough (1857-1924) son of Franklin Benjamin Hough, was a naturalist, author and businessman in the state of New York. In 1888 he published the first volume of a series of 12 books titled American Woods, which contained the native and naturalized species of woods in the United States and Canada. These volumes were unique in that they included samples of wood as illustrations. Hough also devised a machine for cutting wood sections with thichnesses of 1/10 to 1/1,200 of an inch. In the s...

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...