Bedford document collection, 1770-1967.

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Bedford document collection, 1770-1967.

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Letters, receipts, bills, accounts, military papers, deeds, bonds, pamphlets, programs, and other items largely pertaining to the people and history of Bedford and the neighboring villages of Katonah, Mount Kisco, and Bedford Hills. Subjects include the Bedford Court House, the Woman Flyfisher's Club, churches, the Revolutionary War in Bedford, the Clark family, and land transactions. Of note are audio tapes and script of a radio program on the history of Mount Kisco, 1966; letter written to Lord Stirling (William Alexander) pertaining to military affairs, 1777; sketchbook of Howard Carpenter, 1889; Jeremiah Clark's manuscript account of the British raid on Bedford in 1779 as told by his father Nathan Clark, 1875; tombstone inscriptions from the old burying ground, Bedford, copied in 1917; pamphlet catalogs of the Bedford Library, ca. 1795 and 1824; several letters to Nehemiah S. Bates from James Guion, 1820, concerning state legislative and political matters; and letter and petition from Bedford residents to Harlem Railroad about getting a depot in Bedford, 1846.

ca. 2 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Woman Flyfisher's Club (Bedford, N.Y.)

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Harlem Railroad.

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Bedford Historical Society (N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of Bedford, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155536536 ...

Guion, James.

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Clark, Jeremiah S.

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Bedford Library (Bedford, N.Y.)

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Carpenter, Howard Childs, 1878-1955

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Clark, Nathaniel, 1789-1870

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Alexander, William, 1726-1783

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American Revolutionary soldier; Lord Stirling. From the description of Document signed : [n.p.], 1772 July 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132554 Revolutionary soldier; better known as Lord Stirling. During the French and Indian War, he was aide and secretary to Governor Shirley, and defended Shirley before the House of Commons in 1756. From the description of Letter : on board the sloop Massachusetts, to Governor Robert Hunter Morris, 1755 July 6. (Buffalo...

Bates, Nehemiah S.

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