DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Farmers' Loan and Trust Company records,
1829-1866.
Collection Number:
659
Creator:
Farmers' Loan and Trust Company.
Quantity:
2.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes abstracts of titles, agreements of sale and articles of trust, copies of the deeds and the contract schedules used
to transfer title, detailed maps of townships where the transfers took place, resolutions by officers of the company, powers
of attorney to company agents, schedules of land and of mortgage foreclosures, bills of cost, accounts of cattle received
in payments on mortgages, and other material relating to the business. Also, accounts for the Batavia and Buffalo Land Offices,
land tables for the Batavia Land Office, and other material pertaining to Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, New York. Microfilm
covers correspondence of the presidents of the company; correspondents include Horatio Seymour, Erastus Corning, James S.
Wadsworth, August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and many others.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes abstracts of titles, agreements of sale and articles of trust, copies of the deeds and the contract schedules used
to transfer title, detailed maps of townships where the transfers took place, resolutions by officers of the company, powers
of attorney to company agents, schedules of land and of mortgage foreclosures, bills of cost, accounts of cattle received
in payments on mortgages, and other material relating to the business. Also, accounts for the Batavia and Buffalo Land Offices,
land tables for the Batavia Land Office, and other material pertaining to Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, New York. Microfilm
covers correspondence of the presidents of the company; correspondents include Horatio Seymour, Erastus Corning, James S.
Wadsworth, August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and many others.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Farmers' Loan and Trust Company.
Belmont, August, 1813-1890.
Corning, Erastus.
Seymour, Horatio.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877.
Wadsworth, James S.
Batavia Land Office.
Batavia Land Office.
Buffalo Land Office.
Subjects:
Land trusts--New York (State)
Real property--Exchange of.
Foreclosures--New York (State)
Banks and banking--New York (State)--Cattaraugus County.
Banks and banking--New York (State)--Allegany County.
Agriculture--History.
Mortgages--New York (State)
Trust companies--Real estate investments--New York (State)
Commercial finance companies--New York (State)
Financial institutions--New York (State)
Real estate investment--New York (State)
Land tenure--New York (State)
Powers of attorney--New York (State)
Real property--Valuation--New York (State)
Land titles--New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Abstracts.
Deeds.
Mortgages.