Scope and content

Includes 29 letters, 1826-1851, 27 of which are to Fitzgerald Frazer, mostly from family members; also 50 letters, 1862-1865, from David E. Ferris to Susie Frazer of Haverstraw, New York, while Ferris was a Union soldier in the Civil War (killed in 1865). Also included are a contract (1781), and a November 6, 1787 copy of a patent belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dyke, dated July 28, 1688.

Scope and content Letters (1845-1888) to Robert Humphreys in Dublin, Ireland, and Windsor, England, from his aunt and uncle, Honora and John Fleming, of Philadelphia, and a few from cousins and a friend in the United States, urging him to immigrate to America, mentioning the good wages offered here in his trade, and keeping him informed on family matters; letters from one friend, Patrick Taggart, mention anti-Irish sentiment in England and the United States (1869) and give a brief description of Middletown,...

Abstract

Reminiscences concerning Griffin's life as a lumber camp worker, sawmill operator, farmer, and maple syrup cooperative president, and concerning the hardships of his Irish immigrant parents in the 1840s and 1850s. Interview conducted by Charles D. Bonsted.