Agriculture.
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Purdy family diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3797
Scope and content
Diaries of Isaac Purdy, a farmer and grape grower, and his son J. Harvey Purdey, of Yates County, New York discuss the Purdy's daily chores and social life, and the chores of Isaac Purdy's wife Amelia. Includes much discussion on grape growing.
Dates:
1867-1910
Thatcher family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3355
Scope and content
Includes letters (in part, transcripts), genealogies, diaries, account books and receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the related families of Vorhis (van Voorhees), Purdy, Patchen, Thatcher, Barrett, and Williams. Letters (1832-1839) to Steven Vorhis from father Jotham, brother Joseph, and friend David M. Underwood touch on religious problems, abolition, friends, and farming in Spencer, New York; from Stephen Vorhis, who served as minister in Akron, Ohio, as pastor of the...
Dates:
1818-1957.