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Steuben County (N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology surveys

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-33-1485
Abstract

Collection includes schedules, interviewers' notes, correspondence, and other records containing information on individuals, households, farms, neighborhoods, and organizations gathered during the following projects in New York and elsewhere.

Dates: 1938-1966.

New York (State) judicial records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064931847]
Identifier: 3843
Scope and content

Records of judgments, petitions, writs, summonses, affidavits, land petitions, warrants, and other New York City and New York County court business, 1750-1772; also, lists of deaths in an unspecified town, 1804-1819, and in Prattsburg, Steuben County, New York, 1806-1841.

Dates: 1750-1841,-1750-1772 (bulk)

Shaver family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065088829]
Identifier: 3767
Scope and content

Items include deeds, land documents, and military commissions of the Shaver family, Albany, Montgomery, and Steuben Counties, New York. Names included are Henry, Edwin, John, Margaret, and Frederick Shaver; Johannes Lawyer; Cornelius Mabie; Johan Herman Schaffer; and Henry Snell.

Dates: 1751-1845.

Slave bill of sale

 Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240289]
Identifier: 712m
Scope and content

Legal document signed by Dugald Cameron, sheriff of Steuben County, confirming the sale at public vendue (auction) of a "a certain Negroe girl named Anne," about 10 years old, from the estate of William Helm, to Ira Pratt for 40 dollars.

Dates: 1808 February 22.

Steuben County Home Bureau records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3783
Scope and content

Records of the Bureau, including extension files.

Dates: 1930-1970.