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Spencer (N.Y.)

 Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Myron and Sydney A. Dawson diary and farm account book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941606]
Identifier: 3225
Scope and content

Diary, April 2, 1860 through August 2, 1862; and account book, December 31, 1859 through February 8, 1862, of Myron Dawson, Tioga County, New York. The diary continues in Sydney A. Dawson's name from 1873-1882.

Dates: 1860-1882.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Myron and Sydney A. Dawson diary and farm account book

New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology surveys

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-33-1485
Abstract

Collection includes schedules, interviewers' notes, correspondence, and other records containing information on individuals, households, farms, neighborhoods, and organizations gathered during the following projects in New York and elsewhere.

Dates: 1938-1966.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology surveys

Root family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3894
Abstract

Civil War letters and daily journals of William Harrison Root, a lieutenant in Company B, 75th Regiment, New York Volunteers. Also a notebook of Root's, clippings, and his account book of Company B, 1861. Also, letters and reminiscences, between Helen Isabel Root and her parents. Additional material includes account books, clippings, correspondence and transcripts, pamphlets, genealogical charts, deeds and other legal documents, and photographs of the Shepard and Osborn families.

Dates: 1828-1970.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Root family papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Thatcher family papers

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