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Mortgages.

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

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Charles G. Howell miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926987]
Identifier: 960
Scope and content

Leases, mortgages, warranty deeds, deeds, bills, a justice of the peace transaction recording book, and other documents concerning several people other than Howell, including Isaac Hawes, James Babcock, Meriba and John Coddington, and Stephen Sharks, all pertaining to land and other activities in Danby, Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1832-1867.

Church family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065173761]
Identifier: 325
Scope and content Letters concerning family matters and describing the everyday life of people who owned and operated small farms in upstate New York during the nineteenth century (Steuben County); includes letters from Henrietta Harwood (Wells), a school teacher, to her sister Helen Church, concerning her life as a teacher (pay, pupils, board, etc.), life in California, and economic conditions there. Letter from Julius Lichenstein to William Enos on methods of salesmanship in the West for selling...
Dates: 1838-1936.

Cook family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1389
Scope and content

Mortgages and deeds for lands in Genesee County, for David Cook, Elias Cook, and Irving D. Cook. Also, reminiscences by Irving Cook recalling pioneer days in western New York, including living conditions, farming practices, the coming of the railroad, potash manufacture, the Erie Canal, the country school, and other matters.



Dates: 1825-1909, 1954

Cornell University Office of Investments records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7-2-82
Scope and content Includes deeds, and other legal documents; land contracts, tax receipts, correspondence, and land examiner's reports regarding Western lands owned by Cornell University, 1866-1920; legal documents and logging reports of the New York State College of Forestry; leases for campus houses, including the use of fraternity houses by the armed forces, 1943; manuscript "Narration on the Financial Beginnings of the University 1865-1897"; volume "Mortgage Foreclosure Accounts," 1893-1898; reports to...
Dates: [ca.1865]-1943.

Davenport family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1903
Abstract

The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates.

Dates: 1800-1941.

Determining the appropriate interest rate in mortgage loan cram-downs

 Collection — Manuscript box 67 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065253217]
Identifier: 4898
Scope and content

Article DETERMINING THE APPROPRIATE INTEREST RATE IN MORTGAGE LOAN CRAM-DOWNS.

Dates: 1993.

Farmers Loan and Trust Company records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 659
Abstract

Includes material relating to the business. Also, accounts for the Batavia and Buffalo Land Offices, and other material pertaining to Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, New York. Microfilm covers correspondence of the presidents of the company.

Dates: 1829-1866.

George S. Kephart family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3268
Abstract

Legal documents, 1790-1897, include articles of agreement, deeds, mortgages, and property titles in and around Ithaca, New York; family material includes photos and correspondence

Dates: 1790-1989.

Goddard family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 133
Scope and content

Mortgages, leases, deeds, wills, bills, cancelled checks, papers concerning volunteers in the Civil War, printed material about Women's suffrage, and miscellaneous James and Solomon Goddard papers, of Onondaga and Cortland counties, New York State.

Dates: 1842-1918.

J. DeMotte Smith and Henry D. Barto papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 304
Scope and content

Includes material concerning legal cases of J. DeMotte Smith and Henry D. Barto, such as briefs, deeds, mortgages, bonds, indentures, financial statements and correspondence; legal papers of the Auble Family; and bills and inventories sent to G. W. Cole of Havana, Chemung County (now Montour Falls, Schuyler County), New York, concerning the Elmira and Corning Line.



Dates: 1800-1892.