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Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

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.

William Brown Callendar papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064697315]
Identifier: 3234
Scope and content Collection comprises estate papers dealing with Massachusetts properties, mainly in Boston, including a copy of the will of William Brown Callendar (1864), deeds, examining records, leases, other legal documents, rough sketches of property and household bills; are mainly related to bequests that William Brown made to his daughter Mary, the wife of William Joseph Callendar and mother of William Brown Callendar, and thence from Brown or Callendar to various children and grandchildren,...
Dates: 1787-1874.

William Constable papers

 Collection
Identifier: 608
Abstract

Survey records, field books, survey maps, and deeds pertaining to the Constable Purchase, under the direction of Benjamin Wright; deeds for Constable and Alexander Macomb in Jefferson, St. Lawrence, and Franklin Counties, New York.

Dates: 1790-1805.

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.

Williams family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918141]
Identifier: 582
Scope and content

Primarily letters of the Williams family of Corning, New York, relating to student and teaching activities at Mount Holyoke College and Kalamazoo College, Michigan; school attendance records for Pulteney and Urbana (1845-46); an autograph book of Mary Williams; and Steuben County deeds.

Dates: 1836-1924.