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Real property, Exchange of.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Report on the Eugenia Van Cleef property

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065266334]
Identifier: 7-2-m.51
Scope and content

Report on the property, 417 University Avenue (now 660 Stewart Avenue), Ithaca, submitted by Robert B. Meigs, University Counsel, January 8, 1953.

Dates: 1953.

Samuel Kent letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 12 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241766]
Identifier: 2115
Scope and content

Ten letters (1828-1833) written mainly from Guilford, New York, by Kent to Timothy Ruggles Green concerning the sale of Green family lands in Chenango County; the writer mentions the current price of lands, surveying expenses, squatters and trespassers, the prospects of the Chenango Canal, land taxes and other matters; one letter (June 1822) to Mary Green asking whether she is willing to sell any of her lands and commenting on low prices for grain potatoes, butter and cheese, June 1822.

Dates: 1822-1833.

Shaver family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065088829]
Identifier: 3767
Scope and content

Items include deeds, land documents, and military commissions of the Shaver family, Albany, Montgomery, and Steuben Counties, New York. Names included are Henry, Edwin, John, Margaret, and Frederick Shaver; Johannes Lawyer; Cornelius Mabie; Johan Herman Schaffer; and Henry Snell.

Dates: 1751-1845.

Simeon Downing and Company letter : Chicago, Illinois

 Collection — Manuscript box 24 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244760]
Identifier: 537
Scope and content

Letter from Simeon Downing and Company, Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois, to H. W. Johnson requesting more complete information as to price and location of lands in Wisconsin he wishes to sell, in exchange for property, lands, or lots improved, a depot of patent medicines together with the same outstanding on commission with good merchants and druggists to amount of $4000.

Dates: 1856 Dec. 31.

Templeton family letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239927]
Identifier: 473
Scope and content Letters (1832-1842) from James Templeton of Hennepin, Illinois to his brother Samuel Templeton of New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, on bookselling, land settlement, the costs of land, animals, building, weather conditions, crops, and the need of money. Letters (1849-1856) from Sam Templeton of Freeport, Illinois, to Philip Grass of New Berlin on labor, land, produce, interest costs, the need of a post office and craftsmen, a description of a prairie fire, and on the raising of wheat...
Dates: 1832-1856.

Torrens Title League records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065174066]
Identifier: 691
Scope and content

Pamphlets and correspondence relating to the Torrens system of real estate transfer, to activities of the League in the New York State Legislature, to the passage of the amended Torrens law (1918), and to objections to and defense of the law.

Dates: 1916-1941.

Van Cleef family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3088
Abstract

Business and personal correspondence, briefs, legal materials, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, daybooks and a variety of documentation

Dates: 1841-1935.

Van Schaick family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 393
Abstract

Correspondence, accounts, receipts, deeds (including deeds for the sale of slaves), wills, inventory, and other papers pertaining to land transactions and other activities of the van Schaick family, including Anna, Anthony, Christina, Gerrit, Jacob, John, Henry, and Gerard van Schaick. Also, a map for the village of Oswego, New York.

Dates: 1732-1846.

Whiteside family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065174363]
Identifier: 643
Scope and content This set of papers deals largely with the activities of Phineas and John Whiteside, pioneer farmers in Washington County, New York, who acted as agents (1785-90) in the handling of 3,756 acres of land for Henrietta Maria Colden and her son. The papers include deeds to Phineas Whiteside for 1,011 acres from Alexander Colden (1769) and Richard Nicholas Colden (1775) containing detailed information as to lots, names, rents, and terms, and with some rents fixed at 20 bushels of wheat per 100...
Dates: 1769-1938.

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Dates: 1778-1952.