Abell family papers, 1797-1936.
Collection Number: 1480
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Abell family papers, 1797-1936.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1480
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, receipts, insurance policies, photographs,
and miscellaneous papers of the Abell family of Cazenovia.
Creator:
Abell family.
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, receipts, insurance policies, photographs,
and miscellaneous papers of the Abell family of Cazenovia. Papers of Dr. William Abell,
a general practitioner (d.1835), include diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and loose
notes on medical cases, travel; the status of the medical profession in Louisiana
and secret societies in Cazenovia. Other papers include school records, instructions
from the Commissioners of Roads of Cazenovia. Also included are genealogical and other
correspondence and paper of or about Anna Abell, Aurella Abell, Caroline Jones, George
Jones, Thomas Jones, George N. Manchester, Elisha Sanford, Henry Severance, and Ebenezer
Whitney.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Abell family papers, #1480. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Abell, William, -1835.
Subjects:
Secret societies.
Roads -- New York (State) -- Cazenovia.
Education -- New York (State) -- Cazenovia.
Voyages and travels.
Medicine -- Louisiana.
Medicine -- New York (State) -- Cazenovia.
Form and Genre Terms:
Genealogies.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
Correspondence,
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1798-1839 | |
Box 2 |
Correspondence, 1840-1936 and undated
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1840-1936 | |
Box 2 |
Genealogical notes
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Box 3 |
MSS copy of Medical Laws of New York, ca.
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1760 | |
Box 3 |
MSS notes on cure of erysipelas (bound in with An Act to Organize the Militia of the State of New York, 1818 )
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1818 | |
Box 3 |
Bye-Laws of the Chenango County Medical Society: 1822 (pamphlet)
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1822 | |
Box 3 |
Student Clinical Notes at Norwich,
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1820 | |
Box 3 |
Clinical Notes,
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1821 | |
Box 3 |
Medical Case Book,
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1830 | |
Box 3 |
Medical Case Book,
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1830-1831 | |
Box 3 |
Medical Case Book,
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1831-1832 | |
Box 3 |
Record of Fees Paid,
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1831-1832 | |
Box 3 |
Webster's Calendar or the Albany Almanack, by Andrew Beers, Albany, N.Y. Copies -
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1805-1815, 1817, 1818 | |
Box 3 |
Family Almanack and Franklin Calendar, 1848 , by George R. Perkins, Cazenovia, N.Y.
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1848 | |
Box 3 |
An Address to the Different Religious Societies, on the Sacred Import of the Christian
Name. 1814 , Utica, N.Y.
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1814 | |
Box 3 |
The Constitution of the Ancient Britons' Benefit Society, of the Village of Utica. By Augustine G. Dauby, Utica, 1824 .
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1824 | |
Box 3 |
Proceedings of the State Convention of Mechanics. Held at Utica, August 21st-22nd,
1834, For the purpose of taking into consideration the Effect produced on the Various
Mechanical Trades by the Present System of State Prison Discipline. New York, N.Y.,
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1834 | |
Box 3 |
Broadsides and fragment of broadside
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Box 3 |
Pass Book - Trust & Deposit Company of Onondaga in account with J.W. Abell, Sr.,
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1912-1920 | |
News Clippings
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Box 3 |
Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Sims, n.d. but after
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1827 | |
Box 3 |
Article on the Able [sic] Family, from Illustrated Weekly Magazine,
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Apr. 22, 1906 | |
Box 3 |
Article on Shaw Manor acquired by New London County Historical Society, from The Evening Post - Semi-Weekly, New York,
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Sept. 30, 1907 | |
Box 3 |
1928 Assessment Roll, Town of Cazenovia, from The Cazenovia Republican,
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Oct. 19, 1928 | |
Box 4 |
Farm Account Book
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1797-1819 | |
Box 4 |
Farm Account Book
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1826-1865 | |
Box 4 |
Farm Account Book
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1830-1841 | |
Box 4 |
Farm Account Book
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1833-1866 | |
Box 4 |
Diary and account book (Farm)
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1833 | |
Box 4 |
Notebook of expenses, Horatio Abell,
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1824-1835 | |
Box 4 |
Notebook of Asa S. Goodrich,
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1847 | |
Box 4 |
Diary,
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1864 | |
Unfilmed material:
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Box 4 |
A Geometrical Decimal Interest Table ... Williams, Glidden and Coleman, Utica,
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1815 | |
Box 4 |
Announcement of lectures, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
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1834 | |
Box 4 |
A Catalog of Medical Books, Allen & Ticknor, Boston,
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1832 | |
Box 4 |
The Doctor at Home, Dr. B.J. Kendall, Enosburgh Falls, Vermont, 1884 , Kendall Co.
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1884 | |
Box 4 |
The General Family Directory, New York, 1842 , Comstock & Co.
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1842 | |
Box 4 |
Analytical First Reader, Richard Edwards & J. Russell Webb, 1866 , New York, Taintor Brothers, Merrill &
Co.
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1866 | |
Box 4 |
John Bull in America, Henry Severance, 1887 , Dunkirk, New York, The Dunkirk Printing Co. (See manuscript
poetry in collection.)
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1887 | |
Box 4 |
Musica Sacra; or Utica and Springfield Collections United, Thomas Hastings and Solomen Warriner, 1825 , Utica, Willian Williams.
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1825 | |
Box 4 |
19 Printed post cards giving Official Reports for Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
Railway,
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Aug.-Dec. 1877, Jan.-Dec. 1878, Jan.-Dec. 1879 | |
Box 4 |
Scrap of paper redeemable for 10 cents, token of merit
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Box 4 |
6 photographs
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Box 4 |
4 tintypes
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Microfilm:
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Reel 1 |
Boxes 1 and 2
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Reel 2 |
Box 3 as far as "Record of Fees Paid, 1831-1832"
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Reel 3 |
Box 4 as far as "Diary for 1864"
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Reel 4 |
Box 3 from Webster's Calendar to end of box list
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