Asa Fitch papers, [ca. 1831-1957], 1831-1865 (bulk).

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Asa Fitch papers, [ca. 1831-1957], 1831-1865 (bulk).

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Miscellaneous papers of Asa Fitch of Washington County include notes on ornithology, 1837; undated notes on medicine, chemistry, astronomy, and entomology; drafts of Stillwater Lyceum lectures on temperance and other subjects, 1830s; address before the Executive Committee of the New York State Agricultural Society, 1843; and other notes on his agricultural interests. There is also a diary, 1863-65, of Fitch's daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Lemuel) Poates of Bolton, Mississippi, describing the destruction of the Civil War in that vicinity, and a later typescript paper on her life as a school teacher and plantation wife, written by her granddaughter, Mrs. May Beattie Johnson; also her notes on her grandfather John Lemeul Poates, and a photograph of Mrs. Poates.

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Stillwater Lyceum.

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Fitch, Asa, 1809-1879

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The Saratoga Patent was originally granted to Peter Schuyler and others on November 4, 1684. From the description of Map of Saratoga Patent and Margaret Livingston's and Bayard's Lots, Saratoga and Washington Counties, New York, 1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122346632 Asa Fitch (1809-1879) of Salem, New York was an entomologist and genealogist. He was the grandson of Jabez Fitch (1737-1812) of Norwich, Connecticut and Hyde Park, Vermont, a soldier in the French and In...

Poates, Sarah Elizabeth Fitch.

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Johnson, May Beattie.

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Poates, John Lemuel, 1822-1868.

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New York State Agricultural Society. Executive Committee.

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