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Slave records.

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

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Town of Beekman records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2515
Scope and content Microfilm of Town of Beekman, Dutchess County, New York, 1772-1835, includes minutes of town meetings, election canvasses, town ordinances, livestock earmarks and stray records, highway records, school district reports and accounts, and certificates of manumission and records of children born to slaves. Also accounts of Maturin Livingston and Ruth T. Livingston Mills, landholders in Dutchess County, 1845-1925, including lists of tenants in Dutchess County and the Town of Rhinebeck, New York,...
Dates: 1772-1925.

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.