Migration, Internal -- United States.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Hugh White papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 610
Abstract
Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data and other papers pertaining chiefly to White's involvement in land in northern New York, particularly the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence; material concerning the cement business at Chittenango and Greenkills, New York. Also, political papers (1840-1867), which include material on the...
Dates:
1750-1933.
Robert Pollock letters
Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240453]
Identifier: 805
Scope and content
Four letters by Pollock to a brother in Scotland; the first from Lake Mills, Wisconsin including instructions on how to prepare for emigration, advice as to costs, prices, clothing, household utensils, and other matters, and advice as to the exact procedures to be followed on the trip from New York, Albany, Buffalo, and the West in order to escape "runners," and to avoid the dangers facing uninformed immigrants; the second letter from Cambridge, Wisconsin describing his failure as a grain...
Dates:
1848-1869.
Turner family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 689
Abstract
Chiefly letters written by members of the related Turner, Baker, and Wheeler families, describing their activities as they moved southward and westward from Massachusetts and New York.
Dates:
1799-1891.
William Pierrepont White collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 399
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and related families.
Dates:
1728-1939.