Abstract

Account books, correspondence, pamphlets, and newspapers relating to the work of Langellier in the land industry.

Scope and content

Land patent issued by the United States General Land Office granting 160 acres to Adah Roberts, the sister and heir of Oliver Roberts, a private of the 25th Infantry Regiment in the War of 1812; a statement signed by J. M. Edmunds, Commissioner, certifying the copy of the Illinois Military Bound Land Patents.

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.

Abstract

Publications, including land valuations, estimates, reports and development studies by Frederick Morrison Babcock. Areas represented in these studies are located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Scope and content Business correspondence and personal papers of Gauntlett and others engaged in real estate and business in New York and New Jersey. Gauntlett real estate transactions pertaining to the McGraw family, Cornell University, and others in western lands, including letters, legal documents, blueprints, and account books from Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Letters, account books, and legal documents pertaining to the household, will, and the administration of the estate...

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Farm, labor, and personal accounts, and broadsides, in Hall, Ontario County, New York; patents for land in Illinois; a rate bill for persons liable for teachers' wages in Italy, Yates County; an agreement to give instructions on the abolition of the Canadian thistle.