Amos Canfield genealogical papers
Scope and content
Handwritten and typescript notes relating to the genealogical research of Dr. Amos Canfield. Includes copies of wills, probate records, deeds, and genealogies from Tompkins, Tioga, Chemung, and Orange Counties in New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. Families include Crossman, Edmund Jackson (of Boston, Mass.), Thomas Canfield, Foshay, and Knapp. Also, handwritten copy of the records of the Tioga County Medical Society, 1871-1887, and the Town of Candor, 1812-1874; and typescript listing of soldiers serving in the Revolutionary War, who received Military Tract land, lived or were buried in Tompkins County, compiled by Dora Pope Worden.
Also, typescript notes relating to churches in Bedford (Westchester County), Candor, Richford, Spencer, and Westville (Tioga County), Cherry Valley and Cooperstown (Otsego County), Danby (Tompkins County), Fishkill (Dutchess County), Canaan Four Corners (Columbia County), New York; Sussex County, New Jersey; and Smithfield, Pennsylvania.
Dates
- undated.
Creator
- Canfield, Amos, 1878-1942 (Compiler, Person)
Biographical / Historical
Physician. Amos Canfield was born in Van Etten, N.Y., lived in New York City, and maintained a summer residence in Candor, N.Y. He received an M.D. from Cornell Medical College in 1902 and was an active member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
Extent
.6 cubic feet. (.6 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Bedford (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Bedford Baptist Church (Bedford, N.Y.)
- Bedford Presbyterian Church (Bedford, N.Y.)
- Canaan Four Corners -- Religious life and customs.
- Canaan Four Corners Congregational Church
- Candor (N.Y. : Town) -- Politics and government.
- Candor (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Canfield family.
- Canfield, Thomas.
- Chemung County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
- Cherry Valley (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Cherry Valley Presbyterian Church (Cherry Valley, N.Y.)
- Christ Church (Danby, N.Y.)
- Clove Church (Sussex County, N.J.)
- Cooperstown (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Cooperstown Presbyterian Church (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
- Danby (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Dutch Reformed Church (Smithfield, Pa.)
- Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Genealogy.
- Fishkill (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Foshay family.
- Jackson, Edmund.
- Knapp family.
- Orange County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
- Richford (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Smithfield (Pa.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Spencer (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- St. John's Church (Spencer, N.Y.)
- St. Mark's Church (Candor, N.Y.)
- Sussex County (N.J.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Tioga County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
- Tioga County Medical Society
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
- Trinity Church (Fishkill, N.Y.)
- Union Church (Candor, N.Y.)
- West Creek Baptist Church
- Westville (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Worden, Dora Pope.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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