© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ledyard family papers,
1793-1916,
1793-1884
(bulk)
Collection Number:
1912
Creator:
Quantity:
15 reels
microfilm,
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers
of the Ledyard family of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, especially of
Jonathan D. Ledyard. Includes account books, maps, correspondence with agents
of the Holland Land Company, tenants and mortgagors of the Cazenovia lands and
the Cazenove family in France; business and personal letters; journal of a
visit to Cuba and Mexico (1850); an incomplete typewritten autobiography of
Judge George Strawbridge; wills and agreements, accounts, inventories,
assessments, deeds, abstracts, and other miscellaneous papers. Also includes a
microfiche copy of the CALENDAR AND INDEX OF THE LINCKLAEN/LEDYARD PAPERS in
the collection of the Lorenzo State Historic Site.
Language:
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
In 1792, Colonel John Lincklaen, who was an agent for the Holland Land
Company, went to central New York to see some of the company tracts of land,
including the present township of Cazenovia. Colonel Lincklaen made a temporary
encampment at the foot of Cazanovia Lake, and later founded a village on this
spot. There, in 1807, he built a federal mansion called "Lorenzo." He and his
wife, the former Helen Ledyard of Aurora, New York, had no children, but they
adopted Mrs. Lincklaen's brother, Jonathan Denise Ledyard (1793-ca.1874) and
made him their heir. After the death of Colonel Lincklaen, Jonathan Ledyard
took over the management of the Holland Land Company's affairs and eventually
purchased their interests and property. Jonathan married Jane Strawbridge of
Philadelphia and their eldest son was named Lincklaen Ledyard. In an attempt to
perpetuate the name of the family benefactor, he had his name legally reversed
to Ledyard Lincklaen, but his only child was a daughter, Helen Lincklaen, who
married Charles S. Fairchild, the secretary of the treasury under President
Grover Cleveland. On the death of Mrs. Fairchild in 1931, Lorenzo was willed to
her cousin, Mrs. Eliphalet Remington, who died in 1953, leaving it to her
brother, George S. Ledyard, the present occupant with his son, John
Ledyard.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of the Ledyard family of
Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, especially of Jonathan D. Ledyard.
Includes account books, maps, correspondence with agents of the Holland Land
Company, tenants and mortgagors of the Cazenovia lands and the Cazenove family
in France; business and personal letters; journal of a visit to Cuba and Mexico
(1850); an incomplete typewritten autobiography of Judge George Strawbridge;
wills and agreements, accounts, inventories, assessments, deeds, abstracts, and
other miscellaneous papers. Also includes a microfiche copy of the CALENDAR AND
INDEX OF THE LINCKLAEN/LEDYARD PAPERS in the collection of the Lorenzo State
Historic Site.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Ledyard family.
Cazenove family.
Fairchild, Charles S.
Ledyard, George S.
Ledyard, Helen.
Ledyard, Jonathan Denise.
Ledyard, Lincklaen.
Lincklaen, Helen.
Lincklaen, John.
Strawbridge, George.
Holland Land Company.
Lorenzo State Historic Site (Cazenovia,
N.Y.)
Subjects:
Land companies.
Land speculation--New York
(State)
Voyages and travels--Cuba.
Voyages and
travels--Mexico.
Places:
Cazenovia (N.Y.)
Form and Genre Terms:
Deeds.
Maps.
Wills.