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Troy (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Ferguson diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065338588]
Identifier: 6405
Scope and content 2 ledger books which serve as Mary Ferguson's diary: 1) November 1855-December 12, 1870; 2) December 15, 1870-February 1881. The second also serves as a songbook and commonplace book. Diary entries begin after her marriage to Alexander Ferguson in 1854 and shortly after the birth of their first child. Although Mary Ferguson does not write daily, her concerns revolve around her family and community. She includes discussion of weddings, anniversaries, births, deaths, and funerals in the...
Dates: 1855-1881.

Young Men's Association of Troy correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 59 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256541]
Identifier: 3628
Scope and content

Letters to George Robertson, Jr., attorney and corresponding secretary for the Young Men's Association of Troy, New York, mostly containing invitations to lecture before the Association.

Dates: 1843-1847.