Ledyard family papers, 1793-1916,-1793-1884 (bulk)
Collection Number: 1912
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ledyard family papers, 1793-1916,-1793-1884 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1912
Abstract:
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of the Ledyard family of Cazenovia, Madison
County, New York, especially of Jonathan D. Ledyard.
Creator:
Ledyard family.
Quanitities:
15 microfilm reels.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ledyard family papers, #1912. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Fairchild, Charles S.
Ledyard, Helen.
Ledyard, George S.
Ledyard, Jonathan Denise.
Ledyard, Lincklaen.
Lincklaen, Helen.
Lincklaen, John.
Strawbridge, George.
Cazenove family.
Holland Land Company
Lorenzo State Historic Site
Places:
Cazenovia (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Lincklaen, Ledyard.
Lincklaen, Helen Ledyard.
Fairchild, Helen Lincklaen.
Voyages and travels -- Mexico.
Voyages and travels -- Cuba.
Land speculation -- New York (State)
Land companies.
Form and Genre Terms:
Wills.
Maps.
Deeds.
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