Local history document collection, 1831-1877.

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Local history document collection, 1831-1877.

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Miscellaneous documents pertaining to the Town of New Castle, including ledger and loose accounts of Samuel Allen, 1834-1856, concerning sale of milk, hides and tanning accounts, and apples, and notes on fruit growing, 1846-1852; arithmetic copybook of Eliza Allen, ca. 1847; a letter to Mary Jane Field of Tarrytown concerning children and family matters, 1831; daybook of C & C Kipp, general store accounts, 1838-1839; a marriage certificate, 1858; a pamphlet on deceased Quakers of Chappaqua, 1832; and two pamphlets on what might have been in Greeley had won the Presidential election in 1872, 1876-1877.

ca. .5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6881824

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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New Castle Historical Society (Chappaqua, N.Y.)

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Greeley (1811-1872) was the editor of the New York TRIBUNE, an abolitionist, and Presidential candidate in 1872. He and his family lived on their farm in Chappaqua, which he bought in 1852-1853, into the 1930s. From the description of Horace Greeley collection, 1826-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540108 Collecting area: History of the Town of New Castle. Will also accept Horace Greeley items. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). Wor...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Allen, Eliza.

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C & C Kip (New Castle, N.Y.)

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Field, Mary Jane, 1806 or 1807-1889

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Allen, Samuel A., 1801-

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In 1825, Samuel Allen went to Chester County to settle his father's estate leaving his family in Slippery Rock, PA for five years to fend for themselves and to cope with the debts left behind. From the description of Papers, 1798-1841. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122489015 ...