Abstract Includes genealogical correspondence, 1922-53; mimeographed Elsbree family letters and other papers; letters and other papers of Jabez and Lewis Beers relating to the New Jerusalem Church of Danby, 1815-74, and to the Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company, 1810-20; attendance records and other papers of the Tornado Hook and Ladder Company, No. 3, Ithaca, 1843-1928; notes and clippings on history of Ithaca and Tompkins County; commencement ball in New Haven; invitations; cemetery records from...

Scope and content Papers of these related families include the accounts (1841-1874) of David Elsbree, recording amounts which he and others received for food, liquor, lodging, stabling horses, and other goods and services, as well as farm labor expenditures, weather observations, recipes, and directions for the treatment of human and animal disorders; and accounts (1852-1860) of Elsbree's son-in-law, Samuel Increase Jackson, for farm and household, funeral and estate settlement, and logging and lumbering...