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.

Manuscript documents by Moses Van Campen, including reports on the results of land surveys in Genesee County; an agreement by Philip and John Barker Church to sell a parcel of land in Allegany County to William Hyde Newville (witnessed by Van Campen), 1808; and notes on a survey of the square in the village of Angelica, Allegany County, New York, with drawings of a few lots of land with notes on who owned them and when they acquired them.

Letters, deeds, mortgages, loans, and tax receipts for Michigan and Iowa lands; deeds for properties in Castile, Wyoming County, Perry, Genesee County, and Cayuga County, New York; also annual statement of taxes for townships of Wyoming County.