Hudson River Valley and Dutchess County manuscripts, [ca. 1540-1952].

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Hudson River Valley and Dutchess County manuscripts, [ca. 1540-1952].

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Correspondence, diaries, genealogical notebooks, account ledgers, indentures, receipts and other business papers, scrapbooks and printed material, and a miscellany of other manuscript types relating to the history of the Hudson Valley, and particularly Dutchess County. Most of the materials deal with business matters but also include personal correspondence, diaries, records of the Mid-Hudson Regional Committee on the Conservation of Cultural Resources, 1941-1943, and inventories of Dutchess County church and public records prepared by the Works Progress Administration, ca. 1937-1938. Examples include bird banding records and diaries of Maunsell Crosby, 1909-1931; papers of the DePeyster family, 1719-1905; diary of Clarence Gray Dinsmore, 1882-1883; minutes of the Dutchess County Council of Appointment, 1778-1779; daybooks from the Hyde Park Drug Store of Ray Hill, 1915-1942; papers of the Livingston family, 1736-1892; letterbooks and diary of Mary Livingston Ludlow, 1858-1867; diaries of Jane Ann Coffin Morgan, wife of Caleb Morgan, 1849-1862; minutes of the New Hamburg Ice Boat Club, 1869-1885; daybooks of William A. Plog concerning the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, 1910-1945; records of the Saint James Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, 1856-1935; papers of Smith Thompson and the Poughkeepsie Anti-Slavery Society, 1797-1832; and minutes from the Women's Preparative Meeting of the Little Nine Partners Society of Friends. 1800-1826.

ca. 18 linear ft.

New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

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New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Van Wyck, Richard T., 1838-

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Walton, William Clarence.

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Hall, Mary Livingston Ludlow, 1843-1919.

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Hill, Ray, 1927-

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New Hamburg Ice Boat Club (New Hamburgh, N.Y.)

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Marshall, Albert Livingston,

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Wigg, Daniel.

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Crawford, George C.

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Thompson, Smith, 1768-1843

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