Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.

The records include meeting minutes which discuss routine matters of membership including requests for membership, advancement through the degrees and discipline of members as well as financial and operational matters of the lodge. There are registers of members for 1822-1826.

Diary includes information on daily activities, visiting with friends, church attendance, and local news of interest to the author, June 1863-March 1864.