Household, farm, and general store accounts; numerous items relating to the church and business activities of the Rhodes and Smiley families of Groton and Dryden, N.Y.; printed materials pertaining to Tompkins County. Included is correspondence of or about John W. Dwight, H. Hopkins, Dana Rhodes, A.L. Smiley, E. Smiley, Joseph Smiley, Mary J. Smiley; First Universal Society of McLean, Groton Carriage Company, New York State Militia.

Includes genealogical chart; typescript genealogical data; bound volume entitled IN THE COURT OF APPEALS--HENRY RHODES (RESPONDENT) VS. GEORGE RHODES & OTHERS (APPELLANTS), 1849, and microfilm of the court case. Includes family names Rhodes, Halladay, Smiley, Bower, Jacobs, Ludlow, and Wilson, and personal names C. Everett Rhodes, George Rhodes, Dana Rhodes, Henry Rhodes, Jacob Rhodes, Marilda Ludlow, Lyman Halladay, and Joseph Smiley.