Papers, ca.1686-1865, 1760-1780 (bulk dates).

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Yates family. Papers, ca.1686-1865, 1760-1780 (bulk dates).

Papers, ca.1686-1865, 1760-1780 (bulk dates).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261232519

A miscellaneous collection of papers dealing with a variety of people and families, almost entirely in New York, a good many from Schenectady. There is no obvious connection between all the different families mentioned in the papers; most do not concern the Yates family. The collection includes bills, account books, deeds, apprenticeship papers, inventories, letters, and two printed items. Highlights are accounts of a hat seller (probably Peter van Benthuysen) working in New York City and Schenectady; an account book kept by Philip Schuyler and Thomas Butler while trading with the Indians around Oswego; records about a sawmill on the Ale Kill; and Robert Gardiner's expense record from his college days at Yale. Also in the collection are a hand-drawn certificate from the St. George's Master Mark Lodge of Schenectady; accounts of the Butler family (perhaps from Albany); apprenticeship papers for a weaver and perhaps for a blacksmith; a deed from the Reformed Dutch Protestant Church of Schenectady, selling a woodlot to two men; and a list of items received by Esther Denniss Chesebrough from her father's estate. Many of the bills are for shoes, clothes, and leather goods. A few mention that items were purchased for someone's slaves (referred to as Negroes). Printed items in the collection are from the 1860s: a copy of the poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" and sheet music from a minstrel show entitled "Why Don't They Do So Now?"

62 items (1 box).

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