Cook family papers, 1795-1898.
Collection Number: 4409
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cook family papers, 1795-1898.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4409
Abstract:
Indentures, bonds, mortgage notes, farm survey maps, stock and financial reports,
wills, newspapers, and family photographs of various members of the Cook family of
Kirkland, Oneida County, N.Y. Other documents are Chauncy Cook's army appointment
and discharge papers and other personal papers including his mss. will; Constable
Curtiss' expense list for serving warrants and subpoenas; political items; Cook family
genealogical items; and obituaries for Cook and Hart family members.
Creator:
Cook family.
Quanitities:
.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Indentures, bonds, mortgage notes, farm survey maps, stock and financial reports,
wills, newspapers, and family photographs of various members of the Cook family of
Kirkland, Oneida County, N.Y. Other documents are Chauncy Cook's army appointment
and discharge papers (1824-1828) and other personal papers including his mss. will
(July 27, 1868); Constable Curtiss' expense list for serving warrants and subpoenas
(1856); political items; Cook family genealogical items; and obituaries for Cook and
Hart family members.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cook family papers, #4409. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Cook, Chauncy.
Hart family.
Subjects:
Families -- New York (State) -- Kirkland.
Families -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Land Indentures
|
Sept. 15 &, 22, 1795 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Land Indenture (in fragments)
|
Feb. 25, 1805 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Manuscript Land Indenture between Thomas Hart, B.U. Smith, Henry McNeil and Josiah
Cook.
|
Dec. 31, 1807 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Land Indentures. (Fragmented.)
|
Aug. 17, 1819, Oct. 22, 1841 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Appropriations to Colleges in New York State.
|
1812-1850 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Manuscript Will of Elisha Hills.
|
Apr. 25, 1822 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
List of Contributors for the erection of a Parsonage in the Town of Augusta, N.Y.
(Oneida County) for $1,000.
|
Mar. 2, 1825 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Map drawn and surveyed by Amos Osborn. (Fragmented.)
|
Nov. 21, 1826 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Mortgage Notes. Also, one Manuscript Land Division Document to various people mentioned.
|
Nov. 22, 1826 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Land Indenture between Rebecca and Winthrop Chandler and Chauncy C. Cook.
|
Feb. 23, 1836 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Two Bonds: Between Ira H. Hills and Chauncy C. Cook, and between Seth Hills and David
L. Barton, Julius Candar and William Osborn.
|
Nov. 13, June 5, 1843 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Legacy of Elisha Hills and Polly Warrinner to Elisha S. Hills.
|
May 19, 1843 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Two Bonds, between Ira Hills and James Lumbard, and Sarah Gates and Chauncy C. Cook.
|
Apr. 14, 1843, Oct. 24, 1856 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Land Indentures.
|
Oct. 22, 1841, Mar. 26, 1844 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Farm Survey Map drawn by Gaius Butler.
|
Aug. 21, 1844 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Two Deeds: between Chauncy C. Cook and various people undersigned on the document.
|
Aug. 1, 1839 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Town of Kirkland Supervisor's Report.
|
1845 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Manuscript Stock and Financial Statements.
|
1848, 1853-1854 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Constable Horatio Curtiss' expense list for serving warrants and subpoenas.
|
1856 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Records and other papers of Chauncy C. Cook.
|
1824-1865 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Chauncy C. Cook's Will. (He died Apr. 1867.) Death Certificate and cemetery deed are
also enclosed.
|
July 27, 1868 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Esther E. Cook's Will. (Mother of Elisha H. Cook, Frances [Fanny] Cook and Marion
E. Hart.) Other Hart family items are enclosed.
|
May 26, 1872 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Cook Family Genealogy.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Newspapers.
|
1842-1860, 1888, 1898 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Obituaries.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Political Items.
|
1851-1854 |
| Box 2 |
One 2" letter box of Cook, Miller and Hart family photographs, including some original
pressed flowers, Grandmother Cook's needlecase, an original pen and ink sketch of
a Dickens character dated
|
Jan. 23, 1914,, "Attic School" children. 1914 | |