Scope and content

Correspondence between the wife and children of John Boice Ostrander of Dryden, New York (1810-1879) concerning family matters. Also, photographs of Ostrander and his family, along with genealogical information.

Scope and content Ten letters (1831-47) from John Ostrander, Kennedyville (now Kanona), to his wife, Eveline, giving an account of his travels by stage, packet, foot, or raft in lower New York State, where he was selling lumber and cattle; inventory of John Ostrander's effects (1865); three papers relating to Mrs. Ostrander's suspension (1835) from the Second Presbyterian Church of Bath for embracing the doctrine of Universalism; Civil War papers (1863-65) of Clinton N. and Dwight H. Ostrander, sons of...