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7. Tayler LEWIS
Manuscripts of books, essays, articles, and notes on Greek philosophy, the classics, re- ligion, Biblical literature, and the study of Hebrew; also drafts of lectures delivered at the Ogdensburg Lyceum in 1836 (1 box); also letter books, 1856-66, 2 v., comprising letter- press copies of correspondence regarding the publication of his books and articles, biblical controversies, defense of his writings against critics, affairs at Union Collego (where he taught Grock, Latin, Oriental languages, and Biblical literature), the anti-slavery contro- vorsy, the Civil War, and other matters.
8. Rov. Andrew YATES
Sormons, 1801-44, 335 items. Included arc notes on the organization of a course in theology.
9. John A. YATES
Lottors, 1822-48, 76 piccos. Consist mainly of family correspondence, particularly with his father, Rov. Androw YATES, touching on his travels and studios in Europe, theological matters, religion and politics in Europe, and personal affairs.
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Schohario - Schohario County Historical Society
(181010 - 182)
10. Charles E. PEASE
Miscellaneous papers, 1855-82, 2 v. and 104 piccos. Include: Union College bills and roports for Charles E. PEASE (1855-56) ; roc- ords of Civil War appointments, commissions, promotions, and honorable discharge of Major PEASE; army passos, claims for pay, letters, and autograph material of army officers; in- dex of the Army of the Potomac (1863, 1 v.), citing number of regiments and commanding of- ficers for various states; Major PEASE'S ac- count of preliminaries to the surrender of General LEE (1865, 1 v.); and various personal papers.
ll. Tobias TEN EYCK
Daybook, 1763-71, 1 v.
12. Amasa BECK
Tavern Account Book, 1729-66, 1 v. (in Dutch).
13. (Ownership indeterminable) Account Book, 1762-92, 1 v. (in Dutch). 14. J. J. RAMEE
Plans and drawings of Union College buildings and grounds.
D. In addition, there are personal papers of Harmanus BLEECKER, the ROMEYN family, and Schuyler STRONG, records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Schenectady, data on the controversy botwoon Ryor SCHERMERHORN and Arent BRADT over the owner- ship and distribution of common lands in the township of Schenectady, and many conveyancos, bonds, mortgages, invontorios, and other trans- actions involving property not owned by Union College.
The collection comprises 913 volumes and some 69 linear feet of manuscripts in packages, boxes, and filing cases. About 90 percent of the manuscripts are arranged according to subject, and chronologically thereunder. Qualified research students are allowed access to the materials upon application to the librarian and undor supervision. There is no photostat service.
182. SCHOHARIE. - SCHOHARIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Old Stone Fort. Curator-Librarian, Myron Vroman. Summer hours (Apr. - Oct.): 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., daily; winter hours (Nov. - Mar.) : by appointment only.
History and Purpose. ~ Organized in 1888 for the purpose of gathering and preserving documents and rolics closely associated with the history of Schoharie County in general and the Old Stone Fort in particular. The latter is sponsored by the Society and is supported by county funds and voluntary contributions.
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Schoharie - Schoharie County Historical Society (182A] - 182B3)
It was originally erected by the Reformed Protestant High Dutch Church Society as a house of worship in 1772, and was converted into a fort during the Revolution. The stockade was removed in 1785, after which the pews were again placed in the building and it reverted to a place of worship. In 1857 the Roformed Protestant High Dutch Church Society sold the old church to the State of Ilow York. It was used as a state arsenal and as the headquarters of the 108th Regiment, New York National Guard, until 1873, when it was given back to Schoharie County on condition that it be kept in good repair. In 1888 the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors assumed the custodianship and care of the building, and the Schoharie County Historical Society began the work of collecting materials relating to the building as a church and as a fort. The Society welcomes gifts and conditional deposits, does not soll or exchange manuscripts, and has limited funds for their purchase. The Society's holdings are housed in the Old Stone Fort, a two-story, fireproof, stone building, which serves primarily as a museum. The prosent facilities for the storage and consultation of the Society's holdings are inadequate.
Holdings
A. Public Records, comprising:
1. Copies of Minutes of the towns of Cobleskill (1797- 1812, 1 v. ), Jefferson (1803-61, 1 v. ), Fulton (1824-59, 1 v.) and Sharon (1826-47, 2 v.).
2. Copios of Minutes of the Board of Supervisors, Schoharic County, 1845-74, 2 v.
3. Copies of Proceedings of the Highway Commissioners, Town of Middleburgh (1849-89, 1 v. ), and Town of Seward (1863-1900, 1 v.).
4. Schohario tax list, 1802.
5. Justice docket, town of Sharon, 1830-49, 1 v.
6. Republican Canvass Book, Schoharie County, 1894, 33 v., citing names of voters, addresses, oc- cupations, nationality, and party affiliation.
7. Miscellaneous materials, including receipts for wolves' heads (1735), record of proposal to remove the county seat to Cobleskill or Middle- burgh after the burning of the courthouse in 1845, warrants, subpoonas, and other data.
B. Church and Cemetery Records, including:
1. Consistory minutes of the Schoharie Mountain Roformed Church, 1810.
2. Records of the Presbyterian Church Society, Schohario, 1813-74.
3. Record book of the Domestic Missionary Society of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Schohario, May 31, 1828 - Apr. 29, 1831, 1 v., including con- stitution, records of subscriptions, and min- utes of meetings.
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Schoharie - Schoharie County Historical Society
(18234 - 182C1)
4. Minutes of Hartwick Synod, Ist session, Sept. 24, 1831, 2d session, Oct. 20, 1832.
5. Middleburgh Methodist Church records of baptisms and marriages (1850-72, 1 v.) and Records of Board of Trustees (1871-1939, 1 v.).
6. Records of the Presbyterian Church in Schoharie, 1813-43, 1 v., including record of establish- ment, "Confession of Faith, " membership lists, baptismal and death records, and minutes of meetings.
7. Miscellaneous church records, including: photo- stat of a petition of the Reformed Low Dutch Congregation of Schoharie to the Legislature, Oct. 18, 1784, asking aid in erecting a new church, the old one having been burned and destroyed by Sir John JOHNSON and a party of British Regulars, Tories, and Indians on Oct. 17, 1780; memorandum on the financial obliga- tion of the High Dutch Reformed Church of Schoharie to Peter VROOMAN, Apr. 11, 1790; record of incorporation of St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery in Schoharie; and other data.
8. Cemetery records, 1 v. and over 3,000 pieces, comprising copies of inscriptions on tombstones of St. Paul's Lutheran Church Comotory in Schohario, Old Reformed Church Cometory at Middleburgh, cometorios in Breakaboon, Koyser- kill, Patria, Batos Hollow, Gallupville, Gilboa, Huntersland, Livingstonvillo, and Pine Grove, and many private burial grounds in Schoharie County.
c. Military Records
1. Papers relating to the Revolutionary War, includ-
ing: letter of Col. Peter BELLINGER, dated Fort Dayton, Jan. 6, 1779, referring to men wounded in the Battle of Oriskany, Aug. 6, 1777; itemized bill for supplies for Fort Defiance for Aug. 1777; provision return of a detachment of Col. VROOMAN'S Regiment of mi- litia, July 17, 1779; letter from Johannes H. BECKER to the Tryon County Committee of Safety, seeking aid and protection against attacks of Indians and Tories, dated Schoharie, Jan. 2, 1778; map of trail and description of the JOHNSON and BRANT raid through the Schoharie Valley, Oct. 17, 1780, by William E. ROSCOE, the historian; maps and descriptions of the upper and middle Schoharie Fort, where occurred tho principal engagement of the JOHNSON and BRANT raid; map and description of the Battle of Cedar Swamp (Sharon), July 10, 1781; Peter VROOMAN'S order to Lieut. Jacob SNYDER to raise
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Schoharic - Schoharic County Historical Society
(18202 - 182D2)
mon for service, with a list of the names of the mon constituting the draft, Apr. 20, 1782; and other data.
2. Papors relating to the War of 1812, including: record of subscribers offering themselves "for the service of the United States, " Juno 1, 1812; miscellaneous papers of Capt. Gilos KELLOGG'S Company, U. S. Volunteer Artillery from Schoharie County, including certificates of service, receipts for supplies, requests for pensions, brigade and general orders, data on the use of substitutes and the posting of bonds, enlistment papers, receipts for adver- tising and apprehending dosorters, inventories of losses at Ogdensburgh, Feb. 22, 1813, and receipts from the United States for said losses; records of clothing lost at Sackott's Harbor by Capt, R. C. SKINNER'S Company, U. S. Vol., May 29, 1813; and other data.
3. Civil War papers, including appointments, dis- charges, passes, certificates of deserters, muster rolls, and letters from John BARLOW to Francis HAGADORN, 1862-63, telling of military life.
D. Real Estate Records, comprising:
1. Indian grants, including deeds (2) to Adam VROO- MAN of land in the Schoharie Valley, 1711, 1726, and deed (copy) of 4,800 acres of land in Cobleskill to John Fred BAUCH, Christian ZEHE, Johannes ZEHE, Michael WARNER, and Johannes KNISKER of Schoharie, 1752. Also copy of petition of the Sachoms of the Mohawk and Schoharic Indians to the Governor in 1734 for the roclaiming of 5,000 acres of land in the Hudson and Schohario valloys, which they folt had been stolen from them by the River Indians, and map accompanying the petition, showing the upper portion of the Schoharic River and the location of the castle of the Indians.
2. Miscellaneous patents, doods, mortgages, rolcasos, and othor instruments, including: grant of 1,270 acres of land at Schoharie to Augustus VAN CORTLANDT by Governor George CLINTON, Arch- ibald KENNEDY, Cadwallader COLDEN, and Alexander COLDEN, Oct. 28, 1752; letters patent issued to Johannes BECKER, Jr., Johannes SCHAFER, Jr., Hendrick SCHAFER and Jacob SCHAFER for 6,000 acres of land in Albany County, Mar. 19, 1754; Revolutionary bounty grants to Peter GASPER in the town of Dryden (1791) and to John CREKENBOOM in the town of Ulysses (1790); stato grant to
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Schoharie ~ Schoharie County Historical Society
(182D3 - 182E6)
John BAY, with field notes and map of lot (1792); deed from Simeon DEWITT to John and Jacob GEBHARD for land in the Totten and Cross- field Purchase in payment of quitrents, 1808; and numerous conveyances and other instruments involving Jacob BECKER, John ECKERSON, Adam EHLE, John GEBHARD, Johannes LAWYER, Christian, John, Lawrence, and William SCHOOLCRAFT, Myndert and Philip SCHUYLER, Jedediah STEPHENS, Peter and William STRAUBE, Arent VEDDER, Barent and Peter VROOMAN (VROMAN), members of the HANES, CHRYSLER, and FRITCHER families, and many others.
3. Maps, including: survey and map books of Isaac MANN, 1839-91, 3 v .; map of BECKER'S patent, Cobleskill, 1815; map of lots in Schoharie County from BUTLER'S patent, 1793; drawings and descriptions of the houses of the rifle- man ZIELIE and of Timothy MURPHY, great Revo- lutionary soldior-scout and companion of ZIELIE; copy of map discovered in the British Museum by Chaplain R. R. HOES in 1866, showing the location of the Indian Castle at the Wilder Hook ( Indian's Corner) in VROOMAN'S land orocted by Sir William JOHNSON in 1754 and containing a plan for the orection of a fort 2 milos below the mouth of Foxe's Crock on the east side of the Schoharie River; map of division of lots in Fountain Town (now Schoharie), made in 1753 by John R. BLEECKER, surveyor; and other maps ond sketches.
E. Mercantile and other Business Records, including:
1. Account book of Johannes BAUCH, 1766, 1 v. (in German).
2. Ledger of John E. DEAN, 1809-22, 1 v.
3. Daybook of TIFFANY and MAIN, early law firm in Schoharie, 1814.
4. Daybooks and ledgers of Dr. John B. ROSCOE, 1807-54, 12 v., citing daily calls, fees for visits and medicines, and accounts with patients.
5. Ledger of Potor VROMAN, 1833.
6. Miscellaneous materials, including accounts, articles of agroomont, bills, bonds, cortifi- cato of stock in Middleburgh Bridge Company (1814), chocks, Confederato bills, Continental currency, extracts from lodgors, indentures of apprenticeship, liconsos, papors relating to the construction of the Blonhoim Bridge (1855) and to the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Cobleskill, receipts, records of sales of negro slaves, and other data. Namos prominont
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Schoharie - Schoharie County Historical Society (182F1 - 182J)
in these papers include: Joal BAKER; Jacob BECKER; Jacob I. BORST; Abraham CUYLER; Johannes LAWYER; Johannes SCHAEFFER; Henry, Isaac, Joseyas, Martin, and Peter SWART; Jacob G. TEN EYCK; Adam, Barent, and Peter VROOMAN (VROMAN) ; and others.
F. School Records, including:
1. Minute book of School District No. 7, Town of Broome, 1847-93, 1 v.
2. Arithmetic books (3) of Augustus MACOMBER, George M. WOOD, and William Briggs BOUDISH.
3. "Early Academies and Seminaries of Schoharie County, New York, " by Marion French NOYES ( typewritten copy of a masters' thesis pre- sented to the Pennsylvania State College, Graduate School, Division of History).
G. Genealogical Records, including data on the follow- ing families: BAILEY, BALL, BECKER, BELL INGER, BORST, BOUCK, BRADT, CADY, DIETZ, ECKERSON, ENDERS, HAGADORN, HAGER, HALLENBECK, KILMER, KNISKERN, LAWYER, MANN, MATTICE, MAYHAM, RICKARD (RICKERT ), RICHTMYER, RULIFFSON, SCHAEFFER, SNYDER, STERNBERG, SWART, UPHAM, VAN SCHAICK, VAN VALKENBURGH, VROOMAN, WARNER, YOUNGS, ZEHE, ZEILEY, ZIMMER, and others.
H. John GEBHARD papers, 1823-66, 750 items, comprising: deeds and mortgages recorded by GEBHARD as Schoharie County Clerk; maps and surveys; li- censes; bonds; receipts; correspondence; records of incorporation of the First Methodist Episco- pal Church in Summit (Aug. 18, 1829) and the Methodist Episcopal Church in Charlotteville (Feb. 7, 1832); briefs of cases tried before GEBHARD as Justice of the Peace of Schoharie County, 1845; income tax returns; notes on polit- ical meetings, Whig politics, and election re- turns in Schoharie County; and quarterly returns of ordnance storos of Co. G, 3d Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Cavalry, stationed in Virginia, 1864, vouchers, abstracts of expenditures, invoices, inventories of supplies and stores lost in ac- tion, 1864, and other papers relating to the Civil War.
I. FRITCHER collection, 1780-1831, 30 items, including deeds, leases, bonds, and other papers relating to the real estate transactions of the HANES, CHRYSLER, and FRITCHER families in Schoharie and Otsego counties.
J. Miscellaneous materials, including: record of or- ganization of the Seward Valley Temperance Soci- ety, May 1, 1842; extract of court proceedings in the trial of "Indians" in the antirent war in Schoharie County, 1842; old stage mail time bill, listing stations at Albany. Knowersville (now
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Scotia - Scotia Public Library
(1834 - 1830)
Altamont ), Schoharic, Richmondvillo, and Char- lottevillo, 1850; minuto book of the Limo Kiln Farmers Club, 1890-92, 1 v .; minuto book of tho Lasoll Park Association, villago of Schoharic, 1884-97, 1 v .; Chauncey RICKARD'S journal (1934- 35, 2 v.) and articles on the "General Character of the Five Nations", "Slaves in the Valley, " "An Anti-Rent Episode, " and other matters; typewritten record of old newspapers on file in the Old Stone Fort; and other data.
There are approximately 100 volumes and 5,000 pieces, of which 30 percent have been arranged, and 15 porcent cataloguod by pieces. Plans aro now undor way to arrange and catalogue all the manuscript holdings and provide more adequate facilities for thoir care. There is no photostat or other copy servico. Sco: The Old Stone Church and Fortress - Catalogue and Historical Notes, compiled by Chauncey Rickard, Schohario, 1933, The Yo-Sko-Ha-Ro Quarterly, Apr. 1937 - Jan. 1941, and The Quarterly Bulletin, April 1941-, all publishod by the Schohario County Historical Society.
183. SCOTIA. - SCOTIA PUBLIC LIBRARY, 14 Mohawk Avenue . Librarian, Mrs. Ann H. O'Brien. Hours: July - September, 10 a.m. M 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday; October - June, 2 p.m. - 9 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday.
History and Purpose. - Organized in 1929 to provide reading and reference material for the inhabitants of Scotia. It does not buy, sell, or exchange manuscripts, but accepts gifts. It occupies the first floor of the Abraham Glen House, a two-story, nonfireproof, frame building, constructed in 1731, with ample space for expansion.
Holdings
A. History of Scotia by Gweneira M. WILLIAMS and George PALERMO, 1 v. (typewritten; also three copies), tracing its beginnings under Dutch rule, rela- tions with the Indians, and subsequent growth. Legends and History of Scotia, 1934, 1 v., comprising bibliographical material compiled by Fannie MOLLICONE on various subjects relating to the history of Scotia.
B.
C. Record of tombstone inscriptions taken from private burial grounds in Schenectady County, 1 v., com- piled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration in 1938.
Three volumes, accessible upon request to the librarian. There is no photostat service.
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Seneca Falls - Soneca Falls Historical Society
(184A - 184 I)
184. SENECA FALLS. - SENECA FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Fall Street. Assistant Curator, Aileen van Benschoten. Winter hours: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Summer hours : 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Saturdays.
History and Purpose. - Organized October 18, 1896 and incorporated June 27, 1904 to collect and preserve materials of historical interest and to foster the study of local and general history. Manuscripts are acquired by gift and deposit, and are not purchased, sold, or exchanged. The Society is housed in a three- story, nonfiroproof, brick building, constructed in 1857, with ample storage and work space.
Holdings
A. Licut. William H. BEACH papers, 1859-1907, 275 piocos, including diploma from Hamilton College (1860), military commissions (1864,1865) and other Civil War records, notos on Abraham LINCOLN, ossays, personal correspondence, and business papers.
B. James BENNETT papers, 1815-41, 55 piocos, consisting largely of records of real estate transactions. c. BLOOMER papers, 1840-92, 200 pieces, including per- sonal papers and addresses of Dexter C. BLOOMER and correspondence of his wife, Amelia BLOOMER, champion of temperance and women's rights.
D. Janet COWING papers, 1825-35, 50 pieces, comprising correspondence, deeds, bills, contracts, and other business papers; also some 300 "war enve- lopes, " most of them sent to her father during the Civil War.
E. Danicl T. GREENLEAF papers, 1852-63, 40 piccos, com- prising deods, mortgages, and business agrec- ments.
F. Justice Martin O'NEILL papers, 1864-1900, including rent books (5), deeds, mortgages, bills, certif- icate of membership in the Fenian Brotherhood, Seneca Falls (1864), jury lists, justice dockets (1891-94, 2 v.), account book of the American Central Insurance Company (1893-1900), and per- sonal correspondence.
G. Belle L. PALMER papers, including many old programs of musical and dramatic entertainments in Seneca Falls, and personal correspondence, 1869.
H. Gary V. SACKET papers, 1812-40, 100 items, including account book (1812-30), daybook (1829), and miscellaneous deeds, mortgages, agreements, in- voices, and other business and legal papers.
I. James SANDERSON, Jr., papers, 1871-78, 7 items, com- prising deeds and mortgages of property in Sonoca Falls.
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Soneca Falls - Soneca Falls Historical Society
(184J - 184M10)
J. Diedrich WILLERS Collection, 1800-1900, comprising personal correspondonce, goncalogical material, notos on local history, data on the history of and troaties with the Cayuga Indians, and school records.
K. School Records, including:
1. Minutes of Meetings, School District No. 6, Owasco, N. Y., 1827-40, 1 v.
2. Roll of Students, School District No. 10, Ovid, N. Y., 1841.
3. Register of School District No. 2, Varick, N. Y., 1863-64, 1 v.
4. Account Books of Seneca Falls Academy, 1856, 2 v. 5. Miscellaneous materials, including arithmetic book (1811-12), Amelia A. POWELL'S diploma from Hudson Female Academy (1855), and H. K. PALMER'S diploma from Ames' National Business College, Syracuse (1865).
L. Miscellaneous Account Books of Wilhelmus MYNDERSE (1798, 1 v.), Nathaniel CHURCH (1829,1 v.), PONTIUS & BARTON (1848, 2 v.), Hiram A. PALMER (1850, 2 v.), John MARKHAM (1844-51, 1 v.), and a blacksmith from the vicinity of MacDougall (1836-44, 1 v.).
M. Other holdings include:
1. Records of the First Wesleyan Methodist Church, Sonoca Falls (1843-72, 7 v.), and of the Burgh Church, Sonoca Station (1875, 1 v.).
2. Poll lists, Soncca Falls, 1855-58, 25 piccos.
3. Rocord books of fire companies 1854-90, 2 v.
in Seneca Falls,
4. Addross by Elizabeth Cady STANTON to the Wido Awakos of Soneca Falls at the outbreak of the Civil War.
5. Civil War records, including muster rolls (5) of Co. A, 33d Rogimont, New York State Volun- toors, Capt. Goorge M. GUION commanding, 1861-62, and Company Order Book and Descriptivo Book, 1864, 2 v .; also music books usod in the Civil War, 1862, 5 v.
6. Minutos of CROSS Post No. 78, G. A. R., 1896- 1905, 6 v.
7. Records of the Musical-Literary Society of Soneca Falls, 1897-1916, 8 v. 8. Minute book of the Shakespeare Socioty, 1901-2, 1 v.
9. Minutos and other records of the Soneca Falls Historical Society, 1896-1923, 1 v.
10. Miscellaneous materials, including: maps (13) by H. W. BENEDICT (1814), J. GEDDES (1815), Wilhelmus MYNDERSE (1825), John BURTON (1835), and others; biographical sketches of John Scroly EDWARDS and Jason SMITH, and genealogies of the GOULD and HOSKINS families: diary of
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Sherman - Minerva Free Library
(185A - 1850)
Jefferson V. PALMER, 1855, 4 v .; albums and autograph books of Amelia JENKS (BLOOMER), 1839-42, Sarah FRAZES, 1896-97, Libbie S. REED, 1885-96, and others; letters (2) from Jared SPARKS to Phineas HEARD, ono discussing Phillips Exeter Academy (1810), and the other, war maneuvers (1814); music book, 1769-71; essays on the early history of Seneca Falls and Seneca County; and other papers.
There are 64 volumes and approximately 1,120 pieces, 13 maps, and 2g cubic feet of loose manuscripts, of which 50 percent have been arranged and catalogued. Materials are accessible to ac- credited researchers upon request and undor supervision. Thoro is no photostat or other copy service.
185. SHERMAN. - MINERVA FREE LIBRARY. Librarian, Florence E. Hawley. Hours: 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
History and Purpose. - Founded in 1907 by the Minerva Club for the purpose of maintaining a free circulating library for the inhabitants of the town of Sherman and nonresident members of the Minerva Club. It has no policy regarding the purchase of manu- scripts, but gifts are welcomed. It is housed in a three-story, fireproof, brick building, erected in 1909, with ample space for records.
Holdings
A. Records of the Minerva Club, 1897 -- , Il v., includ- ing constitution and bylaws, minutos of meetings, financial records, membership lists, roports of treasurer, corresponding secretary, and the vil- lago improvement commission, and other data. B. Records of the Minerva Free Library, 1907-, 5 v., including secretary's record book of the board of trustees, minutos, and roports of the treasurer and librarian.
c. Census records, including: returns of the enumera- tion of the inhabitants of the town of Sherman in the county of Chautauqua, 1845, with certifica- tion that it is a true copy of the Marshall's return of the Election District of the town of Sherman, signed Richard BUSS, Jr., Town Supt., 1 v .; census of State of New York, 1845, town of Mina, Election District No. 1, 1 v .; census of State of New York, 1835, town of Sherman, Book 1, 1 v .; and census of State of New York, 1825, town of Mina, 1 v.
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Sherrill - Sherrill-Kenwood Public Library
(185D - 186)
D. Record of the Town of Sherman, county of Chautauqua, prepared by Isaac E. HAWLEY, town clerk, as required by law of 1865, 1 v., citing names of officers, soldiers, and seamen, and their resi- dence, date of birth, rank, regiment, when en- listed and mustered, date and place of enlistment, color, bounty paid by the town, relief granted, marital status, parents, occupations, promotions, resignations, discharges, deaths, and remarks.
E. Civil War Records:
1. Records of enrollment of porsons liable to mili- tary duty in Mina, Sherman, Westfield, Ripley, Clymer, and West Creek, 1860-64, 5 v. Enrolling officers were Capt. H. N. GROVER, Lieut. Erie HALL, J. F. GLEASON, and Horace WESTOVER.
2. Record of soldiers killed in action, citing data as to birth, residence, parentage, and service, 1861-64, 2 pieces.
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