School accounts and personal accounts of Thomas Bower, including inventories, deeds, and miscellaneous papers of the Bower and Cooper families of Ulysses, New York. Also, membership lists and constitution of the Ulysses School District Temperance Society.

Personal letters to members of the Ward and Cooper families, mostly about family matters, but also containing some comments on national politics, travels in India and Egypt, a visit to a slave pen in St. Louis (1861), and the extensive public interest in education in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1820); also, miscellaneous deeds and indentures (1792-1846) pertaining to land in Connecticut, and Herkimer County, New York.