Hill, Atkinson, Fleming family papers, 1774-1916.

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Hill, Atkinson, Fleming family papers, 1774-1916.

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Business and personal correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Hill, Atkinson, Fleming, Greene, and Popham families of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Bellows Falls, Vt. Includes letters (1813-1819) to William Hill on the European market for American cotton, flaxseed, potash, etc.; four letters (1851-1852) to Margaret Hill from Anna McNeill Whistler mentioning the poor health of the artist James Whistler and his favorable reactions to life at West Point; A letter (1861) from Charles Carmer to his sister while in military service in Washington, D.C., in which he comments on a visit by President Lincoln and the capture of a runaway slave; a bill of sale and receipt (1808) for purchase of Negro slaves in Georgia; deeds, leases, mortgages, and other legal documents pertaining to land in Westchester and Herkimer Counties, N.Y., and in Bellows Falls, Vt.; Commissions, discharges, and other military records (1811-1898) of the Fleming family; papers (1815-1901) about Trinity Church, New York City and other Episcopal churches in New York State; register (1825) of military commissions in the New York State militia; register (1863) of commissioned officers of the Vermont volunteers; notes on the cost of lots in the Cayuga Reservation; And mss. by unknown authors on the background of the War of 1812 and on an eight week trip from Albany, N.Y. to the West in 1815.

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