Diaries of B.F. Cloyes concern daily farm routines and the weather.

Letters, 1842-1845, from Solomon West to his brother, Washington West, of Durhanville, Oneida County, New York, concerning crops, butchering a pig, business affairs, and the family's potential move to Wisconsin. Also, documents, 1863, exempting Frederick N. Bushnell from the draft and receipt for $300.00 attached to the discharge notice; clippings from THE POST STANDARD, Syracuse concerning Stockbridge, Madison County, New York, the birthplace of Philip Armour, and his childhood there.

Manuscript, typed, mimeographed and printed material derived from family and genealogical research; local, county, court, church and cemetery records; and printed local and family history, primarily in southern and central New York State and nearby Pennsylvania counties. Includes research notes and correspondence concerning Cayuga, Schuyler, Tompkins, Madison, Chenango, Tioga and Chemung Counties, New York.

Poem, 1810, and last will, 1827, of Luther S. North; letter to Louisa North from her aunt, Mabel Whiton, 1841; letter to Stephen North, author unknown, 1848; letter to Stephen and Louisa North from cousins Malvina and Lucy Ann Kittel, 1847.