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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 298 Collections and/or Records:

New York State Patrons of Husbandry records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3381
Abstract

Records of defunct local Granges consist primarily of minute and roll books and treasurers' accounts, but also include drill manuals, program books, bylaws, degree records, quarterly reports to the State Grange, certificates, and records of a few Junior Granges. The records of about half of these Granges extend, usually continuously, over a period of fifty years or more; about ten percent extend, usually continuously, from the 1870s or 1880s to the 1960s or 1970s.

Dates: [ca. 1874]-2020.

Northrup family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4551
Scope and content

Account books, ledgers, cashbooks, order books, and tax books for members of the Northrup family of Tompkins County (N.Y.); includes accounts for saddlery, general merchandise, carriage equipment, and produce.



Dates: 1831-1903.

Oliver J. Tillson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1458
Scope and content Account books, correspondence, diary-almanacs containing weather records, receipts, copyright papers, surveying notes, and maps pertaining to the administration of the farms of Tillson and his father Timothy F. Tillson in Ulster County (N.Y.), and to the creation and production of Tillson's map of Ulster County. Correspondence pertains to the operation of Daniel Butterfield's fruit farm, the affairs of Joseph Whelan and Joseph V. Whelan, and relations with Helen Miller Gould, P. Henry...
Dates: 1803-1898.

Orleans County, N.Y. account book

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924065451167]
Identifier: 423
Scope and content

Account book showing development land.

Dates: 1831-1846.

Oswego River Bank records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918174]
Identifier: 546
Scope and content

Correspondence, account books, receipts, mortgages, articles of association, and records of proceedings of stockholders, and election of directors for a bank in Fulton, Oswego County, New York.

Dates: 1855-1905.

Owego and Ithaca Turnpike Company records

 Collection
Identifier: 2005
Abstract

Articles of agreement, correspondence, notes, account books, and stock certificates pertaining to the Owego and Ithaca Turnpike Company.

Dates: 1808-1936.

Parker family account books

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 203
Scope and content

General accounts of Reuben W. Parker of Norwich, New York; also a letter from Ezra and Angeline Gregory to Jonas T. Parker of Norwich urging him to come to Pennsylvania because of the good land and climate, and describing his farm and the crops.

Dates: 1832-1910.

Parmele family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927092]
Identifier: 4367
Scope and content

Boarding house accounts, 1805-1833, of the Parmele family of Connecticut. Diary of an unidentified woman, discussing family, social life, and d boarding house operation, also Connecticut, 1864-1866. One entry mentions the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Dates: 1805-1866.

Patterson family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 286
Abstract

Letters and papers, mainly those of Chester Patterson and D. Williams Patterson Tioga County, New York.

Dates: 1701-1900.

Peck family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 322
Scope and content Letters of Mary Hopkinton to Lucetta Abbot (1832-41) mention Universalism in St. Lawrence County, New York, and describe McConnellsville, Ohio (1841); letters from the Olin family of Bloomingdale, Wisconsin (1841-49) describe the conflict of religious sentiment with the realities of land speculation, the weather, prices, and progress of settlement; letters from W. Abbot (1851) from Nevada City and Placerville describe mining conditions; and four account books of the Peck family, Potsdam, St....
Dates: 1808-1883.