Scope and content Correspondence, deeds, indentures, miscellaneous pamphlets, commemorative booklets, and other papers. Includes papers (1752-1800) of Joshua Pine, Platt Townsend, Gerard Walton, and William Walton concerning land divisions at Hempstead, New York; material relating to the organization of Walton, New York, and to the first settlers there; Civil War letters written by Joshua Pine and Daniel Patrick, 38th Regiment, New York Volunteers (1861-1862); papers concerning Arthur North, lawyer,...

Scope and content Letters (1864) to Thomas G. North from his father, Colonel Samuel North, from G.B. Scofield, an associate of Colonel North in The New York State Agency, and from another friend concerning Samuel North's imprisonment and trial in Washington for allegedly using his position in that agency to defraud soldiers of their votes; letter to the Colonel (1865) from a committee in Unadilla congratulating him on his acquittal, and the Colonel's reply; printed transcript of the case, U.S. vs. Samuel...