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- TITLE: Cornell Steamboat Company collection, 1855-1983
- AUTHORS: Hudson River Maritime Center (Kingston, N.Y.)
- SUBJECT:
Spangenberger, C. William
Cornell, Thomas, 1595?-1655?
Cornell, Thomas
Cornell Steamboat Company -- Description -- Views
Cornell Steamboat Company -- Employees
Steamboats -- New York (State) -- Hudson River
River steamers -- New York (State) -- Hudson River
Naval museums -- New York (State) -- Kingston
Museums -- New York (State) -- Kingston
Decedents' estates -- New York (State)
Family -- New York (State) -- Ulster County
Kingston (N.Y.) -- Exhibitions
Ulster County (N.Y.) -- Commerce
Ulster County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1.5 cubic ft.
- ABSTRACT: Materials concerning the Cornell Steamboat Company include clippings, photographs, and articles about the company, its crews, ships, and shop, 1898-1962; reproduction of an 1855 advertisement; issues of CORNELL NEWSLETTER, a company publication for its employees, 1956-1957; transcript of an interview with C. William Spangenberger about the history of the company, 1983; and the catalog from an exhibit on the company at the Hudson River Maritime Center with related correspondence, 1983. Materials on the Cornell family include clippings, articles, and genealogy of the Cornell family, descendents of Thomas Cornell (1595-1655), 1893-1896 and undated; and account books from the estate of Thomas Cornell, 1906-1935, concerning contracts, leases, vouchers, and claims.
- LOCATION: Hudson River Maritime Center, Kingston, NY.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Allen-DuBois-Decker family papers, 1743-1966
- AUTHORS: Decker, Katharine M., collector
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Allen, Joseph, 1752-1842
Allen, Andrew V.
Allen, Eliza T.
Cornell, Jane L.
Decker, John P.
Decker, Adeline
DuBois, Barent A., 1759-1837
DuBois, Cornelius, 1791-1824
DuBois, S. Barent, 1834-1901
Meserole, Julia DuBois, 1859-1887
Greene, Jeannette
DuBois, Samuel, 1801-1862
DuBois, Sarah Allen, 1802-1883
DuBois, Joseph Allen, 1826-1863
DuBois, Frederick Hopkins, d. 1913
Pratt, Zadock, 1790-1871
Shipping -- New York (State)
Real property -- New York (State) -- Catskill
Family -- New York (State)
Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Prattsville
Whaling
Brickworks -- New York (State) -- Greene County
Jails -- New York (State) -- Greene County
Sailing ships
Decedents' estates -- New York (State)
United States -- History -- War of 1812
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- History -- War of 1898
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
United States -- Armed Forces
Tennessee -- Commerce
Prattsville (N.Y.) -- Commerce
Greene County (N.Y.) -- Commerce
Greene County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
New York (State) -- Social life and customs
Greene County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
Spanish American War, 1898
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 16 v., 1 cubic ft.
- ABSTRACT: Letters, deeds, wills and estate papers, bills, receipts, legal papers, genealogy information, school compositions, diaries, account books, and other items of Capt. Joseph Allen (1752-1842), Andrew V. Allen, Eliza T. Allen, Jane L. Cornell, John P. and Adeline Decker, Katharine M. Decker, Barent A. DuBois (1759-1837), Cornelius DuBois (1791-1824), S. Barent DuBois (1834-1901), Julia DuBois Meserole (1859-1887), Dr. Jeannette Greene, Samuel DuBois (1801-1862), Sarah Allen DuBois (1802-1883), Joseph Allen DuBois (1826-1863), Frederick Hopkins DuBois (d. 1913), and others. Subjects include shipping business, Catskill property, family life, War of 1812, the Revolutionary War, Col. Zadock Pratt's bank in Prattsville, business in Tennessee during the Civil War, service on a whaling ship in the 1850s, brick manufacturing, household accounts, and the Greene County jail (1838-1844).
- LOCATION: Greene County Historical Society. Jessie Van Vechten Vedder Memorial Library, Coxsackie, NY.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Papers, 1692-1942, 1692-1840 (bulk)
- AUTHORS: Gardiner, Emily Floyd, collector
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Potounk, Indian Chief
Wacus, Indian Chief
Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785
Floyd, William, 1734-1821
Smith, Charles Jeffrey, fl. 1767-1780
Floyd, John Gelston, 1806-1881
Floyd, Nicoll, 1705-1755
Clinton, George W.
Floyd, Nicholl, fl. 1792-1836
United States. Continental Congress
Suffolk County (N.Y.). Treasurer
Real property -- New York (State) -- Long Island
Real property -- Indiana
Slave trade -- New York (State) -- Long Island
Taxation -- New York (State) -- Long Island
Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- Land tenure
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
United States -- Politics and government -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Suffolk County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: .4 cubic ft. (260 items)
- ABSTRACT: Deeds signed by Potounk and his officers, 1692, Wacus and other Indians, 1730, and other land transactions and appointments, 1692-1839; deed for proprietors share of the Territory of Indiana, 1779; map, memoranda about land, and list of land owners for Long Island property, 1779-1790; correspondence, bills, receipts, and legal documents relating to debt owed by Governor Jonathan Trumbull to William Floyd, 1771-1790; documents relating to affairs of Charles Jeffrey Smith, 1767-1780; documents and correspondence of Congressman John Gelston Floyd, 1819-1865; bonds, notes, receipts, and currency, 1747-1942; receipts for purchase and sale of slaves, livestock, school, and labor, 1792-1803; inventory, bond and payments for the estate of Nicoll Floyd (1705-1755), 1755-1774; handwritten copy of the Resolution of the Convention of the State of New York about Continental Congress, 1779; bills, contracts, deeds, indentures, correspondence, receipts relating to affairs in Western New York, of William Floyd, 1785-1839; documents relating to the will of George W. Clinton, 1823-1833; receipts, deeds, tax receipts, bonds, notes, correspondence of Nicholl Floyd, for his personal affairs on Long Island and as U.S. Tax Collector and Suffolk County Treasurer, 1792-1836; clippings, genealogical notes, appointments, and legislative notes, 1779-1939.
- LOCATION: William Floyd Estate-Research Center, Mastic Beach, NY.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Papers, 1745-1846
- AUTHORS: Platt, Zephaniah, 1735-1807
Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833
De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834
Gelston, David
Halsey, Frederick, 1731-1838
Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798
White, Hugh, fl. 1785
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 -- Correspondence
De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834 -- Correspondence
Gelston, David -- Correspondence
Livingston family
Platt family
Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798 -- Correspondence
Land records -- New York (State) -- Plattsburgh
Land records -- New York (State) -- Clinton County
Land records -- New York (State) -- Dutchess County
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Maps
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- Militia
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- Maps
Nine Partners Patent (N.Y.)
Sadaqueda Patent (N.Y.) Maps
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 box (.25 cu. ft.) Survey maps 7 maps : manuscript ; 54 x 45.5 cm. or smaller.
- NOTES: Language: One of the wills is in Dutch. Indexes: Unpublished guide available in repository. Organized into four series : I. Family correspondence, 1785-1800. II. Correspondence, 1784-1846. III. Financial and legal, 1745-1832. IV. Land papers, 1750-1794.
- HISTORICAL NOTES: Zephaniah Platt (1735-1807) was born in Huntington, New York where the first five of his fourteen children were born. He married Mary Hannah Davis and Mary Van Wyck. Platt removed to Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York and served as a lawyer, judge, member of the New York Provincial Congress, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and as a New York State Senator. Zephaniah Platt, with 32 others, was granted a patent to lands west of Lake Champlain which became Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. Platt settled there in 1795 and is buried in Riverside Cemetary.
- ABSTRACT: The Zephaniah Platt papers are organized into four series. Family correspondence is primarily letters to Zephaniah Platt by his children. Correspondence is concerned chiefly with land matters involving Zephaniah Platt and others, for the most part in Dutchess and Clinton Counties, New York. Family members, military officers, government officials, and proprietors of patents are represented including Egbert Benson, R. Cochran, David Gelston, members of the Livingston family, Simon R. Reeves, Melancton Smith, and Hugh White. There are some letters to family member Reverend Frederick Halsey who founded the First Presbyterian Church of Plattsburgh. Financial and legal items include an account memorandum book of Zephaniah Platt for 1785, business agreements, military certificate and inspection returns for Clinton County, receipts, and estate papers and wills for Gerard W. Beekman (1786), Gisbert Pele [Pelze?] (1755, 1790) and John Platt (1771). Land papers consist of abstracts, agreements (including a list of the original proprietors for Plattsburgh), deeds and maps for lands in Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess County and various patents in Clinton County. There are seven maps including Sadaqueda Patent, 1784, Oneida County, New York; Bell's Tracts, [Clinton County], New York; Township No. 24, [Somerset, Windham County, Vermont?]; Dean's, Beekman's, and Kelly's Patents, Clinton County, New York; and two which are unidentified.
- LOCATION: Manuscripts and Special Collections New York State Library Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Cemetery Records, 1932-1979
- AUTHORS: Gardiner, Emily Floyd, collector
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Fulton County, New York -- Genealogical records
Saratoga County, New York -- Genealogical records
Caroga, New York -- Genealogical records
Stratford, New York -- Genealogical records
Bleecker, New York -- Genealogical records
Oppenheim, New York -- Genealogical records
Perth, New York -- Genealogical records
Revolutionary War Veterans
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 10 v.
- ABSTRACT: Genealogical data obtained from surveys of cemeteries in Fulton and Saratoga Counties include data about cemeteries removed from Saratoga County before the flooding of the Sacandaga Reservoir, compiled by Caroline Rulison Fenton; cemetery recordings by Lewis G. Decker, 1977-79, in the Towns of Caroga, Stratford, Bleecker, and Oppenheim; recording of the Asa Clarke family burial plot in the Town of Perth, 1950; recording of the cemeteries in the Town of Perth, 1977, by Sylvia Zierak; alphabetical listing of Revolutionary War veterans buried in Fulton County, prepared by the Fulton County Chapter of the D.A.R., 1932.
- LOCATION: Gloversville Free Library, 58 East Fulton Street, Gloversville, New York 12078.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Kent-Delord mortgages, 1788-1823
- AUTHORS:
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Delord, Henry, 1764-1825
Bailey, James
Mooers, Benjamin, 1758-1838
Beekman, James
Woolsey, Melancton Lloyd, 1758-1819
Real property -- New York (State) -- Clinton County
Real property -- New York (State) -- Franklin County
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 14 items.
- NOTES: On deposit by Kent-Delord House Museum, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
- ABSTRACT: Mortgages concerning lands in Clinton and Franklin Counties; persons involved include Henry Delord, James Bailey, Benjamin Mooers, James Beekman, Melancton Lloyd Woolsey, and other early residents.
- LOCATION: State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. Feinberg Library, Special Collections, Plattsburgh, NY.
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- TITLE: Land papers, 1732-1864
- AUTHORS: Cockburn Family
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Banyar, Goldsbrow Beekman Family Bickley, May, Acting Attorney General of New York (State) Brodhead, Charles C. Cockburn, James, surveyor Cockburn, Walter A., surveyor Cockburn, William, surveyor Cockburn, William Jr., surveyor Desbrosses Family Duane Family Hardenbergh Family Kiersted, John, surveyor Morgan, Lewis. family Livingston Family Tremper Family Trumpbour Family Trumpbour, Jacob Jr., surveyor Van Rensselaer Family Ver Planck Family
Delaware County (N.Y.)
Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Essex County (N.Y.)
Greene County (N.Y.)
Orange County (N.Y.)
Otsego County (N.Y.)
Saratoga County (N.Y.)
Schoharie County (N.Y.)
Sullivan County (N.Y.)
Ulster County (N.Y.)
Vermont Catskill (N.Y.) Claverack (N.Y.) Crown Point (N.Y.) Durham (N.Y.) Hurley (N.Y.) Kingston (N.Y.) Mamakating (N.Y.) Marbletown (N.Y.) New Paltz (N.Y.) Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Saugerties (N.Y.) Shawangunk (N.Y.) Stillwater (N.Y.) Ticonderoga (N.Y.) Sumner's Vale (N.Y.) Hardenbergh Patent (N.Y.) Hurley Patent (N.Y.) Macombs Patent (N.Y.) Minisink Patent (N.Y.) Nine Partners Patent (N.Y.) Seton's Patent (N.Y.)
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 11 boxes (5 cu. ft.), 1,220 maps; manuscript ; 61 x 104.5 cm. or smaller)
- NOTES: Arrangement: Organized by material form into four series : I. Correspondence. II. Legal and financial. III. Land papers. and IV. Writings. Arranged by county, patent, great lot, township, and date. Indexes - Unpublished guide available in repository.
- HISTORICAL NOTE: William Cockburn (?-1804) from Berwickshire, Scotland, settled in Kingston, Ulster County, New York in the early 1760s and was employed as a surveyor, land agent, and speculator in Ulster County and throughout the state and Vermont. As a teacher and employer he influenced many of New York States' surveyors. He married Catherine Trumpbour (also spelled Tremper) of Palatine German descent. They had five children including James (ca. 1775-1848) and William Jr. who accompanied their father on surveying expeditions as did his nephew Jacob Trumpbour Jr. John Kiersted Sr. (1786-1862) of Saugerties was a frequent surveyor for the Cockburns and in later years James Cockburn's son Walter A. also participated. William Cockburn is buried in Mount Marion Cemetery, Kingston, New York.
- ABSTRACT: The Cockburn Family land papers are organized into three brief series - correspondence (on family history), legal and financial (miscellaneous documents not readily related to land transactions including accounts, court documents, slave bills of sale, etc.), and a series of miscellaneous writings. Drafts and excerpts of wills and estate matters for various persons are found throughout the collection.
- ABSTRACT: The bulk of the collection consists of land papers which include correspondence, fieldbooks, indentures, maps, receipts, and surveys. These are arranged by present county, township (according to Burr's atlas of New York State, 1829) or great lot, and date. Ulster County is the county most frequently represented with the Hardenbergh and the Hurley Patents the largest groupings as well as Greene County. Other counties represented span from Jefferson County to the present state of Vermont and from Franklin County down to Westchester County. The patents surveyed range in size from Macombs Purchase and the Van Rensselaer Family Manor to the Nine Partners and individual farms. Major family names include Beekman, Cockburn, Desbrosses, Duane, Hardenbergh, Livingston, Schuyler, Ver Planck and Van Rensselaer as well as lesser known families such as Persen and Tremper. Several of the maps describe the quality of the land and depict roads and houses. There are also maps of the Dutchess, Ulster and Delaware Turnpike. Six maps of the Hardenbergh Patent, Greene, Ulster, and Westchester Counties, New York and Vermont, are oversized.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Cockburn field notes, land records, and maps, [ca. 1755] - 1884
- AUTHORS: New York (State). Division of Land and Forests
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Land titles--New York (State)
Allotment of land--New York (State)
Land settlement--New York (State)
Surveying--New York (State)
Surveyors--New York (State)
New York (State)
Dutchess County (N. Y.)
Clinton County (N.Y.)
Franklin County (N.Y.)
Greene County (N.Y.)
Oswego County (N.Y.)
Rensselaer County (N.Y.)
Ulster County (N.Y.)
Albany County (N.Y.)
Saratoga County (N.Y.)
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 2 cu. ft.
- NOTES: Arrangement: Roughly chronological.
- HISTORICAL NOTE: William Cockburn (?-1804) from Berwickshire, Scotland, settled in Kingston, Ulster County, New York in the early 1760s and was employed as a surveyor, land agent, and speculator in Ulster County and throughout the state and Vermont. As a teacher and employer he influenced many of New York States' surveyors. He married Catherine Trumpbour (also spelled Tremper) of Palatine German descent. They had five children including James (ca. 1775-1848) and William Jr. who accompanied their father on surveying expeditions as did his nephew Jacob Trumpbour Jr. John Kiersted Sr. (1786-1862) of Saugerties was a frequent surveyor for the Cockburns and in later years James Cockburn's son Walter A. also participated. William Cockburn is buried in Mount Marion Cemetery, Kingston, New York.
- ABSTRACT: This series is comprised of land records (survey notes, copies of deeds, maps, quit claims, and indentures) created or accumulated by William Cockburn, his sons William Jr. and James, and his grandson Walter A. Cockburn, and maintained by the Division of Lands and Forests. The series contains three small bound volumes; miscellaneous survey notes, drawings, and maps arranged by date; and one disbound folio containing miscellaneous large maps. The three small bound volumes include: One household account book created by an unidentified member of the Cockburn Family (ca. 1881-1882); Survey notes of William Cockburn (ca. 1755), which appear to be copies of the original narrative courses and distances included in letters patents for lands along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers and including Dutchess, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Rensselaer, and Saratoga Counties;
- ABSTRACT: survey notes of Walter A. Cockburn (1859-1884), which contain a variety of surveys performed under contract to individuals and relating to the Hurley Patentee Woods in Ulster County. The miscellaneous survey notes, drawings, and maps (1766-1822) relate primarily to the Hurley Patentee Woods, the Saw Kill Road/ Jockey Hill region outside Kingston, and the town of Duane in Franklin County. Included in the material removed from the disbound folio are approximately 23 monochrome and hand-colored maps of towns and allotments in Clinton, Delaware, Franklin, Greene, Oswego, and Ulster Counties. The disbound folio also contains miscellaneous survey notes, maps, and two items of personal correspondence of Walter A. Cockburn.
- Provenance note: These records were transferred to the State Archives in May 2001 and accessioned in July 2001. See bibliography immediately above this one
- Access restriction: Restricted. Material is fragile. Use under supervision of an archivist.
- LOCATION: New York State Archives Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY
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- TITLE: Papers, 1768-1847
- AUTHORS: Quackenbush family
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Quackenbush, John
DeWitt, John
DeWitt, Ann
Quackenbush, Nicholas
Family -- New York (State) -- Dutchess County
Decedents' estates -- New York (State) -- Dutchess County
Pensions -- New York (State) -- Dutchess County
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: ca. .3 cubic ft.
- NOTES: Part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Hudson River Valley and Dutchess County Manuscript Collection.
- ABSTRACT: Family papers of John Quackenbush, 1774-1847, including legal papers concerning the estates of John DeWitt and Ann DeWitt, 1781-1810; family papers of Nicholas Quackenbush, 1774-1802, including copies of documents from the National Archives regarding the pension claims of his heirs; and other miscellaneous family papers, 1768-1792.
- LOCATION: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.
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- TITLE: Historical sketches and clippings relating to the Mohawk Valley, [ca. 1922-1923]
- AUTHORS:
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Dailey, W. N. P. (William Nelson Potter), b. 1863
Frey, S. Ludlow (Samuel Ludlow), 1833-1924
Van Dusen, Lillian D.
Palatines -- New York (State) -- History
Fulton County (N.Y.) -- History
Johnstown (N.Y.) -- History
Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) -- History
Montgomery County (N.Y.) -- History
Schoharie County (N.Y.) -- History
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 volume.
- NOTES: Staff will access all records and must approve all requests for copies.
- ABSTRACT: Many of the articles in this scrapbook were published in the Mohawk Valley Democrat (Fonda, New York) and appear to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the first Palatine settlements in the Mohawk Valley. The compiler of the scrapbook is unknown. The newspaper clippings are mostly undated, but appear to be predominantly from 1922-1923. Main subjects are the Palatine and early Dutch settlers, the Mohawk River and Mohawk Valley, transportation, Johnstown, and Fulton, Montgomery, and Schoharie counties. Authors of the articles include W.N.P. Dailey, Lillian D. Van Dusen, and S. Ludlow Frey, who wrote a series of articles entitled, "The Story of Our River."
- LOCATION: Crandall Public Library, Center for Folklife, History and Cultural Programs, 251 Glen Street, City Park, Glens Falls, New York 12801.
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