Guide to the Cook Family Papers,
1795-1898

Collection Number: 4409

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
A. Lipsky
Date completed:
February 1989
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, March 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cook family papers, 1795-1898.
Collection Number:
4409
Creator:
Cook family.
Quantity:
.4 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Indentures, bonds, mortgage notes, farm survey maps, stock and financial reports, wills, newspapers, photographs, military records, political items, genealogical items, obituaries, and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Cook family.
Cook, Chauncy.
Hart family.

Subjects:
Family--New York (State)--Oneida County
Family--New York (State)--Kirkland.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographic prints.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Cook family papers, #4409. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Sept. 15 & 22, 1795
Land Indentures
 Box 1 Folder 1
Feb. 25, 1805
Land Indenture (in fragments)
 Box 1 Folder 2
Dec. 31, 1807
Manuscript Land Indenture between Thomas Hart, B.U. Smith, Henry McNeil and Josiah Cook.
 Box 1 Folder 3
Aug. 17, 1819, Oct. 22, 1841
Land Indentures. (Fragmented.)
 Box 1 Folder 4
ca. 1812-1850
Appropriations to Colleges in New York State.
 Box 1 Folder 5
Apr. 25, 1822
Manuscript Will of Elisha Hills.
 Box 1 Folder 6
Mar. 2, 1825
List of Contributors for the erection of a Parsonage in the Town of Augusta, N.Y. (Oneida County) for $1,000.
 Box 1 Folder 7
Nov. 21, 1826
Map drawn and surveyed by Amos Osborn. (Fragmented.)
 Box 1 Folder 8
Nov. 22, 1826
Mortgage Notes. Also, one Manuscript Land Division Document to various people mentioned.
 Box 1 Folder 9
Feb. 23, 1836
Land Indenture between Rebecca and Winthrop Chandler and Chauncy C. Cook.
 Box 1 Folder 10
Nov. 13, June 5, 1843
Two Bonds: Between Ira H. Hills and Chauncy C. Cook, and between Seth Hills and David L. Barton, Julius Candar and William Osborn.
Box 1 Folder 11
May 19, 1843
Legacy of Elisha Hills and Polly Warrinner to Elisha S. Hills.
 Box 1 Folder 12
Apr. 14, 1843; Oct. 24, 1856
Two Bonds, between Ira Hills and James Lumbard, and Sarah Gates and Chauncy C. Cook.
 Box 1 Folder 13
Oct. 22, 1841; Mar. 26, 1844
Land Indentures.
 Box 1 Folder 14
Aug. 21, 1844
Farm Survey Map drawn by Gaius Butler.
 Box 1 Folder 15
Aug. 1, 1839
Two Deeds: between Chauncy C. Cook and various people undersigned on the document.
 Box 1 Folder 16
1845
Town of Kirkland Supervisor's Report.
 Box 1 Folder 17
1848, 1853-1854
Manuscript Stock and Financial Statements.
 Box 1 Folder 18
1856
Constable Horatio Curtiss' expense list for serving warrants and subpoenas.
 Box 1 Folder 19
1824-1865
Records and other papers of Chauncy C. Cook.
 Box 1 Folder 20
July 27, 1868
Chauncy C. Cook's Will. (He died Apr. 1867.) Death Certificate and cemetery deed are also enclosed.
 Box 1 Folder 21
May 26, 1872
Esther E. Cook's Will. (Mother of Elisha H. Cook, Frances [Fanny] Cook and Marion E. Hart.) Other Hart family items are enclosed.
 Box 1 Folder 22
Cook Family Genealogy.
 Box 1 Folder 23
1842-1860, 1888, 1898
Newspapers.
 Box 1 Folder 24
Obituaries.
 Box 1 Folder 25
1851-1854
Political Items.
 Box 1 Folder 26
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, and "Attic School" children.
Box 2