Scope and content Bound typescript copies of excerpts from a diary kept by John Drake, Jr. of New Hamburg contain references to family matters, financial difficulties, imprisonment for debt, and local events; biographical and genealogical data on the Dearin, Drake, Flagler, and Graham families; and copies of four letters written by Drake in 1830 to Rev. Elphalet Price concerning his excommunication from the Presbyterian Church. Also, a pamphlet containing constitution and bylaws of the Pomona Grange, n.d.,...

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Includes "The Reed Family, The Drake Family, and The Gray Family of Sullivan County, New York," 1968, and a 1975 addendum; "Between the Lakes: The History of South Seneca County," a Town of Covert Bicentennial Project, 1976; photocopy of 1825 petition for division of the town of Covert, New York; and indenture for land in Covert.