William Pierrepont White collection, 1728-1939.
Collection Number: 399
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Pierrepont White collection, 1728-1939.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
399
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers,
bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records
and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White
and related families.
Creator:
White, William Pierrepont.
Quanitities:
63.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers,
bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records
and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White
and related families, concerning their activities in the development of land, canals,
railroads, cotton manufacturing, mining, banking, and highways, chiefly in New York
State. The early papers relate to the White family of Middletown, Connecticut, and
the development after 1783 of Whitestown, New York, and include the town books (1807-1823)
for Richland, New York, church records, early election returns, deeds, documents on
the Brothertown Indians, grist mills, civil and criminal cases, slave sales, the War
of 1812, the Bank of Utica, and the Pierrepont Land Office. Includes the diary of
William Pierrepont White. One group of papers relates to the disposal of the Constable
lands and the development of Pierrepont Manor, and contains statements of land contracts
(1801-1810) given by William Constable, an inventory of the Constable estate (1829),
a memorandum of journeys made by William Constable Pierrepont to the Constable tract,
lists of bonds for Ellisburgh, New York (1834-1841), and a series of letters from
Franklin B. Hough relating to life boats for Ellisburgh and Oswego, and to other matters.
Also, correspondence, accounts, and other documents of Hugh White, son of the Whitestown
proprietor and early concrete manufacturer.
Other papers concern Canvass White, an engineer for the Erie Canal, construction
superintendent for the Union Canal of Pennsylvania, the Delaware and Raritan Canal
of New Jersey, and the New York Water Works Company, and promoter of the Cohoes Company.
Includes the papers of William N. White, vice-president of the Utica Pipe Foundry
Company, director of the Utica and Mohawk Railroad Company, of the Jefferson County
National Bank, the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad Company, and other companies;
he was the manager of the estate of his father-in-law, William Constable Pierrepont,
and an active figure in political, church, and educational affairs. Also the papers
of William Pierrepont White, lawyer and businessman of New York and Utica, president
of the Oneida Historical Society, and a pioneer in the development of modern highways.
Includes papers of the Wheeler, Constable, and Van Wagenen papers, as well as other
families; also, Walcott family correspondence beginning with a series of letters (1825-1827)
from Walnut Hills, Mississippi, and other series relating to real estate speculation
in Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, and Nebraska, to banking in North Dakota, to the management
of cotton mills in Georgia and New York, and to oil and mining interests.
Consists of collections #399, #565, #586, and #944.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Pierrepont White collection. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Constable, William.
Pierrepont, William Constable.
Hough, Franklin B.
White, Hugh.
White, Canvass.
White, William N.
White family.
Wheeler family.
Constable family.
Van Wagenen family.
Walcott family.
Bank of Utica (Utica, N.Y.)
Erie Canal
Union Canal (Penn.)
Delaware and Raritan Canal (N.J.)
New York Water Works Company
Cohoes Company
Utica and Mohawk Railroad Company
Jefferson County National Bank (Jefferson County, N.Y.)
Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad Company
Oneida Historical Society at Utica
Pierrepont Land Office
New York (State). Legislature
Places:
Whitestown (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
New York (State) -- Commerce.
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Industries.
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Economic aspects.
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Subjects:
Bankers.
Engineers.
Migration, Internal -- United States.
Families -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
Emigration and immigration.
Oil industries -- New York (State)
Education -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
Woolen goods.
Concrete.
Life-boats -- New York (State) -- Lake Ontario.
Slavery -- New York (State)
Grist mills -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
Brotherton Indians.
Elections -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
Roads -- Design and construction -- New York (State)
Banks and banking -- North Dakota.
Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
Mineral industries -- New York (State)
Textile factories -- Georgia.
Textile factories -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
Cotton manufacture -- Georgia.
Cotton manufacture -- New York (State)
Railroads -- New York (State)
Canals -- Pennsylvania.
Canals -- New Jersey.
Canals -- New York (State)
Real property -- Nebraska.
Real property -- Indiana.
Real property -- Missouri.
Real property -- Kansas.
Land titles -- New York (State)
Real property -- New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Inventories.
Account books.
Cashbooks.
Surveys.
Maps.
Deeds.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Correspondence
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Box 399|1 |
1728-1827 correspondence
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1728-1827 | |
Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. and Charlotte Walcott to Hugh White
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1820-02-05 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Creator: Walcott, Charlotte
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Scope and Contents
Brother
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Whitesboro, New York
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. and Charlotte Walcott to Hugh White
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1825-01-28 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Creator: Walcott, Charlotte
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Scope and Contents
Father
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Utica
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. Walcott to Hugh White
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1826-02-29 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Shrewsbury, New Jersey
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. Walcott to Hugh White
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1826-12-22 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Shrewsbury, New Jersey
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. Walcott to Hugh White
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1827-08-07 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Scope and Contents
Brother
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Chittenango, New York
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. Walcott to Hugh White
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1827-09-11 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Scope and Contents
Brother
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Chittenango, New York
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. Walcott to Hugh White
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1827-10-30 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Scope and Contents
Brother
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Chittenango, New York
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from E.D. Walcott to Hugh White
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1827-11-28 | |
Creator: Walcott, E.D.
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Walnut Hills, Mississippi
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Chittenango, New York
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from Sofia Duston to Hugh White
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1825-01-24 | |
Creator: Duston, Sofia
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Scope and Contents
Father
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Petit Saw Bluff, Missouri
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Utica
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from John Duston to Canvass White
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1827-08-24 | |
Creator: Duston, John
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Petit Saw Bluff, Missouri
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White, Canvass
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from John Duston to Hugh White and Susan Porter
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1827-08-25 | |
Creator: Duston, John
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Scope and Contents
Brother
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Petit Saw Bluff, Missouri
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Utica
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White, Hugh
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Porter, Susan
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from John Duston to Hugh White
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1818-07-16 | |
Creator: Duston, John
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Scope and Contents
Father
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Franklin, Missouri
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Whitestown, New York
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White, Hugh
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Duston, Sofia
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Box 399|1 |
Letter from John Duston to Hugh White
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1819-07-26 | |
Creator: Duston, John
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Father
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Franklin, Missouri
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Whitestown, New York
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|1 |
Two letters from Rufus Easton to Hugh White
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1805-07 | |
Creator: Easton, Rufus
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St. Louis
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|2 |
1828-1869 correspondence
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1828-1869 | |
Box 399|2 |
Letter from Robert White to Hugh White
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1829-09-04 | |
Creator: White, Robert
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Petit Saw Bluff, Missouri
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Chittenango
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White, Hugh
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Dustin, Sofia
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Box 399|2 |
Letter from Robert White to Hugh White
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1830-06-20 | |
Creator: White, Robert
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Petit Saw Bluff, Missouri
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Chittenango
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White, Hugh
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Box 399|65 |
Good Roads correspondence
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1903, 1926-1928 | |
Box 399|69 |
Correspondence
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1910-1912, 1915 | |
Walcott Papers
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Walcott papers
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1896-1898 | |
Box 399|4 |
Walcott papers
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1902-1903 | |
Box 399|5 |
Walcott papers
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1899-1901 | |
Box 399|6 |
Walcott papers
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1904-1929 | |
Box 399|66 |
Walcott papers
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1892-1893-05 | |
Box 399|67 |
Walcott papers
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1894-1895-05 | |
Newspaper Clippings
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Box 399|7 |
Newspaper clippings
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Mostly newspaper clippings
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Assorted Materials
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Box 399|1 |
Receipt for $1985 received by E.D. White
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1827-08-07 | |
Box 399|68 |
1902
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1902 | |
Box 399|70 |
1913-1914
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1913-1914 | |
Box 399|71 |
1922-1923
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1922-1923 | |
Box 399|72 |
1928-1934
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1928-1934 | |
Box 399|73 |
1925
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1925 | |
Box 399|74 |
Utica Tool
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1903-1915 | |
Box 399|75 |
Utica Tool
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1921-1927 | |
Box 399|76 |
Utica Tool
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1916-1920 | |
Box 399|77 |
Crow Holl
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1900-1913 | |
Box 399|78 |
Invitations
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Crow Holl
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1914-1915, 1922-1923 | |
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Cash and Securities, C.A. Van Waganen
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1895-1968 | |
Box 399|81 |
Printed Matter
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Box 399|82 |
W.P. White's societies
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Box 944 1 | Folder 1 |
Copy of 1792 Indenture No. 3
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1815 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 2 |
Copy of 1792 Indenture No. 4
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1815 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 3 |
Copy of 1794 Indenture No. 5
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1815 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 4 |
Copy of 1794 Indenture No. 6
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1815 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 5 |
Copy of 1794 Indenture No. 7
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1815 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 6 |
Copy of 1796 Indenture No. 8
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1815 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 7 |
Copies of 1795 Field Books
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Undated |
Box 944 1 | Folder 8 |
Woodhull and Scriba's Patents
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1801, 1807, 1817 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 9 |
Fonda's Patent
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1801, 1814, 1818 |
Box 944 1 | Folder 10 |
Surveys
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Undated |
Box 944 2 |
Field Books (19 Envelopes)
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1793-1831 | |
19 envelopes
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Box 944 2 |
Miscellany (1 Envelope)
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1819 | |
Box 944 2 |
Register of Notes and Due Bills belonging to William Constable Pierrepont (1 Volume)
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1840 | |
Box 944 3 |
Surveys and Maps
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Undated | |
Box 944 4 |
Charles H. Cross' "D" Daily Journal
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1863 | |
Creator: Cross, Charles H.
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Box 944 4 |
Alphabetical Index
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1863 | |
Box 944 4 |
Workbook "No. 7" Mr. Thompsons evening lessons
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1818 | |
Box 944 4 |
Workbook "No. 7"
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1819 | |
Box 944 4 |
Traverse Tables
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Undated | |
Box 944 4 |
Traverse Tables (mss.)
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1821 | |
Box 944 5 |
Report of the Different Routes and Estimates of the Sacketts Harbor and Saratoga Railroad
Co. Members
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1852 | |
Box 944 5 |
Benjamin Wright's original (?) book of Lorraine No. 1
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1815 | |
Creator: Wright, Benjamin
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Box 944 5 |
Orwell No. 11
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1829 | |
Box 944 5 |
Township No. 10
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1805-1822 | |
Box 944 5 |
Township No. 9
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1814-1819 | |
Box 944 5 |
A Survey of Town No. 10 Boyleston Tract
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1797 | |
Box 944 5 |
Field Book of Resurvey of Lot Lines in Township No. 1 of Lorraine by Benjamin Hadley
in 1832 and 1833
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Undated | |
Box 944 5 |
Cash Book
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1878-1887 | |
Mapcase Folder 399 1 |
Various plans and maps
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