Scope and content Includes letters (in part, transcripts), genealogies, diaries, account books and receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the related families of Vorhis (van Voorhees), Purdy, Patchen, Thatcher, Barrett, and Williams. Letters (1832-1839) to Steven Vorhis from father Jotham, brother Joseph, and friend David M. Underwood touch on religious problems, abolition, friends, and farming in Spencer, New York; from Stephen Vorhis, who served as minister in Akron, Ohio, as pastor of the...