Miscellaneous collections: personal names, 1729-1972.

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Miscellaneous collections: personal names, 1729-1972.

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Letters, certificates, deeds, patents, bonds, receipts, estate papers, legal documents, sermons, wills, historical notes, photographs, postcards, and other documents of Long Island and New York State residents. Names mentioned include Ackerly, Barkeloo, Beecher, Bennett, Brown, Conkline, Cromson, Darling, Davis, Disbrow, Dunn, Furman, Haff, Hallock, Havens, Hillman, Huff, Jayne, Mills, Miller, Mowbray, Nicoll, Phillips, Pope, Powell, Reeve, Roberts, Smith, Syms, Tallmadge, Vail, Van Dam, Wilson, Williams, and Woodhull. Items of note include an order of George Clinton, Governor of the Province of New York, to Richard Bradley, H.M. Attorney General, not to prosecute a case involving the ministers and elders of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Kings County, 1744; complaint against the Rev. Mr. James Davenport of the 5th parish in Southold, Long Island, 1742; notes on a voyage from Stony Brook to Bangor, Maine by Leonard W. Lawrence, 1848, with loose bills for dental work, 1830; letters concerning the Long Island Rail Road from members of the New York State Legislature, 1832, and a letter from Samuel R. Brooks, president of the New York and Harlem Railroad Company to George B. Fisk, Esq., president of the Long Island Rail Road, 1840.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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King, Rufus, 1755-1827

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Clinton, George, 1739-1812

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Quick, Hewlings H.

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Treadwell, Mary

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Platt, Zophar.

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Beal, Abraham.

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Brooks, Samuel Reeves

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Pan American World Airways, inc.

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Terrel, Benjamin L.

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Wickes, Elnathan.

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New York (State). Legislature

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Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (U.S.)

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From 1816 to 1826, was part of the United Missionary Society which merged with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From c.1833, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Dutch Church operated under the ABCFM, but separated completely in 1857. Later known as Reformed Church in America. From the description of Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, 1828. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152631 ...

Bradley, Richard, 1961-

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Fisk, George B.

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Davenport, James, 1716-1757

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Wickham, William, active 1847

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Lawrence, Leonard

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Priddy, John

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New York and Harlem Railroad Company.

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Treadwell, Thomas, 1779-1860

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Tuthill, Nathaniel.

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