Letters of the collector's maternal ancestors, including members of the Alden, Day, Meloy, Perkins, Willard, and Williams families, many of whom migrated from New England to the Cooperstown and Chenango River areas of New York State; correspondence deals with personal and family matters.

Notebook of manuscript notes on the genealogy of the Ward family of Jefferson County, New York. Related families include Leishman, Taggart, Alden, Armstrong, Barber, Bogardus, Brower, Call, Dana, Dykes, Frost, Graves, Grosvenor, Horr, Paine, Penniman, Pickman, Reed, Sprague, Swart, Truax, Van Valkenbergh, Van Vleck, Van Pelt, Vedder, and Weller.