Scope and content
Microfilm of Town of Beekman, Dutchess County, New York, 1772-1835, includes minutes of town meetings, election canvasses, town ordinances, livestock earmarks and stray records, highway records, school district reports and accounts, and certificates of manumission and records of children born to slaves. Also accounts of Maturin Livingston and Ruth T. Livingston Mills, landholders in Dutchess County, 1845-1925, including lists of tenants in Dutchess County and the Town of Rhinebeck, New York, lists of leases, and letters from tenants to Mills.
Dates
- 1772-1925.
Creator
- Beekman (N.Y. : Town) (Organization)
Extent
1 microfilm reels. (1 microfilm reels.)
Language of Materials
English
Location of Originals Note
Holder of originals: Originals--retained by Dutchess County Clerk's Office.
- Beekman (N.Y.)
- Dutchess County (N.Y.)
- Education -- Costs.
- Elections -- New York (State) -- Dutchess County.
- Farm tenancy.
- Landlord and tenant -- New York (State) -- Beekman.
- Landlords.
- Livingston, Maturin, 1769-1847.
- Local government -- New York (State) -- Beekman.
- Mills, Ruth Livingston, -1920.
- Rhinebeck (N.Y.)
- Roads -- New York (State) -- Beekman.
- Slave records.
- 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
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)