Justices of the peace.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Alvan B. Doolittle papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927712]
Identifier: 4062
Scope and content
Papers consist of personal and business correspondence; legal documents concerning properties and lawsuit, including records from the years 1857-1859 when Doolittle was a justice of the peace; correspondence and documents concerning Nebraska Territory land agreements with the Omahas (Indians); bills and receipts for lumber (some shipped by canal), horses, and various merchandise; a few insurance policies; some items concerning Granger town and school business; and materials relating to...
Dates:
1837-1893.
Belden family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064698651]
Identifier: 1251
Scope and content
Letters and a journal written by Eugene C. Belden (1844-1864), including accounts of his Civil War service with the 137th Regiment, New York Volunteers. Other items pertain to militia service of other family members in New York and Massachusetts; William Franklin Belden's work as Justice of the Peace in Richford, New York (1866-1885); miscellaneous genealogical material; and papers of or about Ira and William Belden. Also, auction catalog of early American furnishings at Belden Estate,...
Dates:
1816-1891.
Elias Ely, George Wood, and Henry E. Harding attorneys' records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2602
Scope and content
This collection includes ledgers (4 vols., 1841-97) dealing with cases handled, correspondence, articles of agreement, bonds, leases, bills, and other papers concerning the private law practice of Elias, George, and Harry Harding; indexed dockets (5 vols., 1848-84; 1 vol., 1896-1900, 1917-22, 1924-30) pertaining to various cases presided over mainly by Elias and George Harding as justices of the peace, the earliest volume containing a list of marriages performed (1848-72). Also, account...
Dates:
1841-1930.
Hudson and Fiske families
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064939543]
Identifier: 2629
Scope and content
Includes receipts (1781-82) for a Continental Army soldier's pay, disbursed by William Hudson (1751-1841); five certificates (1827-39) attesting to the promotion in the New York State Militia of his son William F. Hudson, and to his appointment as postmaster in Lindseyville, New York; correspondence, affadavits, and declarations (1853-54) pertaining to W.F. Hudson's unsuccessful efforts to obtains the pension benefits from his father's Revolutionary War service; W.F. Hudson's docket (1 vol.,...
Dates:
1781-1882.
Hulce family papers
Collection — Box 690 2: [Barcode: 31924113867380]
Identifier: 690
Abstract
Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, and other records and material pertaining to the activities of the Hulce family in Deposit, Delaware County, New York. Subjects include their lumbering interests along the Delaware River, the making of potash, a general store business, land speculation and real estate in New York, Pennsylvania, and the west, saw-mills, labor matters, waterpower, and brick-kilning. Areas of their especial...
Dates:
1773-1899.
Joseph Dunlap papers
Collection — Manuscript box 6 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240552]
Identifier: 870
Scope and content
Notes recording a series of civil actions; docket book; account book.
Dates:
1833-1848.
Joshua Ferris papers
Collection — Manuscript box 17 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065242830]
Identifier: 4576
Scope and content
Land accounts and transactions, letter copy book, and memoranda of suits and judgments.
Dates:
1831-1847.