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Burns family.

 Family

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Tooke Butler, collector, family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2306
Scope and content Papers of the Tooke (Tuke) family and various relatives include diaries of Isaac P. Richmond, his son, and other family members, who lived in Knoxboro, Oneida County, and nearby, mainly concerning school days, hop growing and other farm work, and the activities of family and friends; accounts, 1897-1909, of Isaac Richmond, a licensed preacher, with the Vernon Center Methodist-Episcopal Society and the Hector Union Society, a recipe and remedy book, 1887, of Mary E. Tooke and announcements...
Dates: 1819-1963.

Life in the North Country 100 years ago

 Collection — Manuscript box 54 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252029]
Identifier: 2965m
Scope and content

Typescript essay focusing on life on the farm of the Byrne family in Essex County, New York, based on the diary kept by Martin John Byrne from March 1855 to March 1881. Includes a detailed description of the crops grown and farm work done, including planting, harvesting, haying, gardening, and raising livestock. With a few corrections made by hand.

Dates: 1969.

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Account books 1
Agriculture -- Michigan -- Washtenaw County. 1
Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Essex County. 1
Chenango County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy. 1