Farm tenancy.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Matthew T. Scott papers
Collection — Box 12: [Barcode: 31924064937349]
Identifier: 330
Abstract
A collection of business documents relating to the establishment and development of a 55,000-acre frontier estate in Illinois and a 5,000-acre estate in Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, the Scott family and other partners. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe purchases, acquisitions and sales of land and the development costs and crop yields of frontier farms.
Dates:
1831-1930.
Town of Beekman records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2515
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,...
Dates:
1772-1925.
Whiteside family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065174363]
Identifier: 643
Scope and content
This set of papers deals largely with the activities of Phineas and John Whiteside, pioneer farmers in Washington County, New York, who acted as agents (1785-90) in the handling of 3,756 acres of land for Henrietta Maria Colden and her son. The papers include deeds to Phineas Whiteside for 1,011 acres from Alexander Colden (1769) and Richard Nicholas Colden (1775) containing detailed information as to lots, names, rents, and terms, and with some rents fixed at 20 bushels of wheat per 100...
Dates:
1769-1938.