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Families -- New York (State) -- Livingston County.

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Scott/Shelp family correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4338
Scope and content

Family letters from the related Scott and Shelp families include news of daily activities and family members, illnesses, canals, railroads, business deals, prices, and Abraham Lincoln's funeral train (May 21, 1865). Correspondents include Anna Downing, Eliza Ann Shelp(e), J.P. Downing, Daniel Scott, and Rebecca Scott.

Dates: 1778, 1850-1880.

Selden family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065184024]
Identifier: 850
Scope and content The greater part of the collection is concerned with activities of Baptist churches in Livingston County, New York, and includes pamphlets of the annual meetings of the Livingston Baptist Association (1844-1918); manuscript volumes relating to the First Baptist Church of East Avon, New York; also, notes of church meetings (1823-1894) including lists of members, articles of faith, covenant, financial pledges (1849-1851), church records (1848-1884). Also, historical pamphlets on Avon and Rush,...
Dates: 1823-1947.

Taintor family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 25
Scope and content

Daybook (1871-1872) for a hardware store in LeRoy, New York; farm diary for S. Taintor Company; letters from Robert Pearsall Smith (1859); will of Samuel Mayo (1734); bills, receipts, certificates, and other printed material relating to family and business matters, Genesee and Livingston Counties.

Dates: 1734-1885.