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Slavery.

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

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Augustus Ward Loomis papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2474
Abstract Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). Also included are papers (1803-1849) of Ward's father, Seba Loomis, among them deeds for lands in Coventry, Connecticut, and Cazenovia, New York; a survey of his farm in Road Township, Madison County, New York; debtors' writs from Tolland...
Dates: 1803-1897.

Cantine family wills

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924131902821]
Identifier: 1867
Scope and content

Wills of Charles Cantine of Caroline, New York, 1831, and of John Cantine of Marbletown, New York, 1831, bequeathing land in Tioga, Greene, and Ulster Counties, and granting freedom to slaves.

Dates: 1803, 1831.

Cooper and Ward family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065200176]
Identifier: 2196
Scope and content

Personal letters to members of the Ward and Cooper families, mostly about family matters, but also containing some comments on national politics, travels in India and Egypt, a visit to a slave pen in St. Louis (1861), and the extensive public interest in education in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1820); also, miscellaneous deeds and indentures (1792-1846) pertaining to land in Connecticut, and Herkimer County, New York.

Dates: 1784-1884.

Hatheway family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2281
Abstract

Papers relating to the family, personal affairs, and political career of Samuel Gilbert Hatheway (1780-1867).

Dates: 1788-[ca. 1900]

Sandra Greene papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924131175303]
Identifier: 14-17-4578
Content Description

Collection contains files documenting the research and teaching of Sandra Elaine Greene. Files include presentations, manuscripts, research writings and collected materials, conference, seminar, and academic organization items including correspondence. Also course materials and items relating to fellowships and awards. Includes files relating to her time as department chair.

Dates: 1974 - 2023

Stebbins family correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239323]
Identifier: 124
Scope and content

11 letters.



Dates: 1832-1840.

Thomas Jefferson Ingersoll letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 12 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241782]
Identifier: 2171
Scope and content

Seventeen letters from Ingersoll to his brother, Richard, and sister-in-law, Ann, of Massachusetts, written from Worthington, Ohio; Cheneyville, Louisiana; Fredericksburg, Texas; and San Jose and Stockton, California, telling of the writer's experiences as he moved West and giving his views on the practice of medicine, slavery and states' rights, other political questions, religion, and social and economic conditions.

Dates: 1834-1861.