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Wills.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

George Washington Schuyler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 923
Scope and content Collection consists largely of genealogical and historical notes, many of which were used by Schuyler in his COLONIAL NEW-YORK. Included are notes, copies of baptismal, marriage, and other certificates, and wills for the Schuyler, Van Cortlandt, Bleeker, Livingston, Cuyler, Wessels, and other families of New Netherlands and the Province of New York, translations by Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer of Dutch manuscripts, a number of copies of papers relating to the dispute between Nicholas Van...
Dates: 1776-1777, 1845-1885.

Goddard family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 133
Scope and content

Mortgages, leases, deeds, wills, bills, cancelled checks, papers concerning volunteers in the Civil War, printed material about Women's suffrage, and miscellaneous James and Solomon Goddard papers, of Onondaga and Cortland counties, New York State.

Dates: 1842-1918.

Horace Eugene Whiteside papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065183620]
Identifier: 18-2-1997
Scope and content

Lecture notes of Professor Horace Whiteside regarding trusts and wills.

Dates: [ca.1947-1954]

Hugh Olmsted papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064920360]
Identifier: 3200
Scope and content Included is correspondence between Captain William Fancher and Lydia Fancher during his enlistment in the Union Army, 1861-62; childhood correspondence of Everett Ward Olmsted and Bula Hubbell; correspondence of Silas Olmsted, Emily Ward Olmsted, and Everett Ward Olmsted; photocopied wills of Nicholas Olmsted, 1863, and Richard Olmsted, 1864; Silas Olmsted notebook, 1826; Silas Olmsted Jr. journal of a trip west, 1835; photographs of members of the Olmsted family, as well as Lydia Fancher,...
Dates: 1683-1971,-1832-1911 (bulk)

Jemima Wilkinson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 621
Abstract

Papers of the "Publick Universal Friend," her followers, and their descendants, including letters, wills, deeds, accounts, and other items; correspondents include James Brown, William Carter, Thomas R. Gold, Giles Kinney, Rachel Malin, Christopher Marshall, William Oliver, Sarah Richards, and Ruth Spencer.

Dates: 1768-1872.

Jemima Wilkinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 357
Abstract Includes papers of the "Universal Friend," her followers, and their descendants, relating largely to the migration of Wilkinson and her followers from Rhode Island to what is now Yates County, New York, the development of their settlements, their conflict and litigation over land, and their religious life. Included are minutes of meetings, deeds, the last will of the "Universal Friend" and others, journals, sermons, accounts, documents covering the Boston and Massachusetts Pre-emptions, the...
Dates: 1772-1849.

Kolb and Rothermel Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: 7067
Scope and Contents

Two account books of Henry Kolb, 1800-1807, 1807-1812, written mainly in German. The will of Jacob Kolb in township of Shippack. Also one account book of Johannes Rothermel, 1800-1843, mainly written in German.

Dates: 1737-1843

Krum family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 8647
Scope and content Krum Family material includes bibles, letters to Amelia A. Krum and Landon D. Krum, insurance policies and mortgages, newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents pertaining to the Krum family and Krum's Corners in Ulysses, Tompkins County, New York. The papers of Landon D. Krum and his daughter Amelia A. Krum are most prominently represented across the collection.Clippings and publications include newspaper articles from The Ithaca Journal...
Dates: 1837-1957

La Rue family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938511]
Identifier: 321
Scope and content

Deeds, letters, and a will of a family in Watertown, New York.

Dates: 1802-1905.

Last will and testament

 Collection — Manuscript box 4 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240107]
Identifier: 599
Scope and content

Last will and testament of Zebulon Cornell, White Creek, Washington County, N.Y., March 14, 1834; makes reference to Walloomsac Patent lands.

Dates: 1834.