Scope and content 22 items relating to the celebration of the Bicentennial in New York State. Programs for Bicentennial celebrations in Trumansburg, New York and another, unnamed town, possibly King Ferry; sheet of publicity postcards for the Ithaca Bicentennial Barge Festival, August 20-22, 1976; leaflet on the New York Festival Barge, with a map of its route and schedule of stops; a program for the opening ceremonies of the barge's visit to Seneca Falls, New York, August 24, 1976; a calendar of Bicentennial...

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Typewritten essays on two families who came to live in the town of Goodwill, New York, near Walden, with emphasis on the American Revolution period. The essays focus mainly on John VanArsdale, Patrick Barber, and Colonel Francis Barber, who served in the Continental Army during the Revolution.

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Autograph list of commissioned officers of the New York line, with rank and regimental affiliation frequently noted; copied from the Balloting Book in the Secretary of State's office, Albany; names arranged in alphabetical order; date and place of death or genealogical data given after certain names; identity of copyist and date of copying (ca.1850?) not stated.

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Letter calling Clinton's attention to the smuggling of flour and wheat from New York into New England, which Rodgers deplores especially at a time when "our Army is in a suffering condition for bread" and depending heavily on New York to supply the ingredients. With the letter is a typewritten transcript.