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Salem (N.Y.) -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Fairley and Stevens family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4341
Scope and content Correspondence, diaries, accounts, guardianship documents, and estate settlement papers of William D. Fairley (d. 1871) and his wife Catherine (later Mrs. Melvin James Stevens). Included are letters from James Stalker, describing hospital conditions during the Civil War; Mrs. Fairley's sister, Mrs. Hugh Moore, Nashua, Iowa; her son Charles Fairley, Nebraska; the Copeland family, other relatives, and friends; and letters to Charles from his mother and stepfather. Also, documents relating...
Dates: 1839-1907.

Harry E. Cole papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 698
Abstract Correspondence, diaries (1912-36), indentures, poems, genealogies, photo album, and other materials on the early and contemporary history of Salem, Washington County, New York, including papers relating to the raising of regiments for the Revolutionary War and compensation for the same; a general history of Washington Academy; a Salem letterbook (1794-1882); a notebook of outlines of theological studies kept by Henry M. Davis; two scrapbooks of Albany clippings; and diaries and...
Dates: 1763-1937.

James Gibson Jr. papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065448734]
Identifier: 4342
Scope and content

Correspondence and other papers concerning his editorship of the SALEM REVIEW-PRESS and his interest in local history and genealogy; microfilm copy of a scrapbook (1887-1951) which includes clippings of articles written by Judge Gibson on local history and genealogy; deeds and articles of agreement, drafts of speeches, accounts, diary (1883), and other items. Also, publications and some correspondence relating to St. Paul's Church (Episcopal), Salem, N.Y.

Dates: 1849-1941.

Salem village papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065448742]
Identifier: 4347
Scope and content Manuscript materials include a Village map (ca. 1780), instructions for the celebration of the Fourth of July on the heights of Saratoga (1808), anti-British and anti-Federalist doggerel (1818), political speeches, fair copies of surveyors' notes taken from Commissioners of Highways records (1782-1819), notations concerning common school instruction and attendance (ca. 1850); also scattered letters, accounts, legal documents, and other papers of Laura B. Crane, Isaac Getty, C.W. Larmon, and...
Dates: [ca. 1780-1959]