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Wills.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

A. Curtis papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239612]
Identifier: 255
Scope and content

Bill, checks, advertisements, and a bank postage book; also, the will of Isaac Wheeler.

Dates: 1852-1866.

Cantine family wills

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924131902821]
Identifier: 1867
Scope and content

Wills of Charles Cantine of Caroline, New York, 1831, and of John Cantine of Marbletown, New York, 1831, bequeathing land in Tioga, Greene, and Ulster Counties, and granting freedom to slaves.

Dates: 1803, 1831.

Clarke family miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 71 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254082]
Identifier: 836
Scope and content

Indenture between George and Edward Clarke and Abijah Putnam, 1792, and a recording of the last will and testament of George Clarke. Also, five broadsides pertaining to concerts in Utica, New York.

Dates: 1792-1859.

Cobb, Cobb& Simpson, Attorneys records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2632
Scope and content Files of this firm and its predecessors consist largely of correspondence, wills, deeds, indentures, petitions, affidavits, citations, depositions, memoranda, tax records, bills, and receipts pertaining to settlement of the estates of Austin B. Cook, Randolph Horton, Daniel E. Marsh, Ella Minturn, Jonathan Underdown, and Harry J. Van Valkenburg. The Horton estate papers also include correspondence concerning family investments in Canadian timber lands, 1913-28, and in Oklahoma and Texas farm...
Dates: 1872-[ca.1941]; -1904-1941 (bulk)

Edgar Williams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2856
Scope and content

Includes four medals received by Edgar Williams from King Albert of Belgium, Queen Elizabeth, the Parliament of Belgium, and the city of Brussels, with two supporting papers for the medals; photograph of D.J. Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines; correspondence concerning Williams' work with a war relief commission in Belgium, 1915-1917; photograph album of the commission; and a copy of Williams' will.

Dates: [1915-1920?].

Emily Boardman estate papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1936
Abstract

Will, accounts, receipts, and correspondence of Emily Boardman, addressed to George R. Williams pertaining to the settlement of her estate.

Dates: 1888-1903.

Ernest Ingersoll White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1843
Abstract

Papers of E.I. White and his family.

Dates: 1820-1960.

Estate files

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064939055]
Identifier: 7-1-1423
Scope and content

Files relating to bequests made to Cornell University. Includes correspondence and wills.

Dates: 1925-1968.

Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4681
Abstract

The Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection consists of newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, reward for capture of runaway slave advertisements, slave dealer and slave trade manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews and other records documenting the sale, hire, purchase and debt payment of slaves in 18th and 19th century America.

Dates: 1728-1973.

George Hyde Clarke family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2800
Abstract

Business, land and family papers of eight generations of the George Hyde Clarke family.

Dates: 1705-1937.