Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in New York state (exclusive of New York city), Part 33

Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.). New York (State)
Publication date: 1941
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : [WPA]
Number of Pages: 550


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c. Narrative of the blizzard of 1888, relating the ex- perience of the Rev. C. S. HERBERT in his travels from Big Hollow, Mitchell Hollow, and Ashland.


One volume and two pieces, unarranged and uncatalogued, accessible upon application to the librarian. There is no photo- stat service.


224. YONKERS. - HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM AT YONKERS, Trevor Park, Washburton Avenue. Director, H. Armour Smith. Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., weekdays; 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday.


History and Purpose. - Founded as the Yonkers Museum


in 1919 with the gift of a collection of minerals and fossils. These were exhibited in the Yonkers City Hall until 1924, when they were transferred to the Trevor Mansion. That year the Yonkers Museum became the Yonkers Museum of Science and Arts, and it as- sumed its present name in 1939. Control is vested in a board of 15 commissioners, appointed by the mayor .. Tho Musoum specializos in the natural sciences, history, and art. Its permanent collec- tions and exhibits include rocks and minerals, fossils, zoological specimens, coins, furniture, stamps, portraits, historical matorial (including military equipment and insignia), sculpture, paintings, and etchings. Other exhibits are sponsored by the Yonkers Art Association, the American Federation of Arts, and other groups; sets of objects are lent to teachers and to churches and other organizations; and weekly talks, illustrated with slides, are given for the benefit of school children. No manuscripts are pur- chased, sold, or exchanged, but gifts and loans are accepted. The Museum is housed in the Trevor Mansion, a three-story, fireproof, stone building, erected in 1876, with ample space for its records and exhibits.


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Holdings


A. H. Armour SMITH Collection (on deposit), 1850-1910, 300 pieces, relating to the political, social, and business history of Yonkers. Included arc: village treasurer's receipts, civil appointments, contracts for grading streets, tax receipts, postal records, certificates of membership in volunteer fire companies, court orders, and other public records; Civil War muster roll and certificates of enlistment; promissory notes, checks, bankbooks, receipts, and other papers relating to the Yonkers Savings Bank; receipted bills from various Yonkers firms and merchants, including James C. BARRETT, John BENSON, CHADO- YANE & GARRISON, A. W. DORAN, John A. EAST, G. W. FRANCIS & Son, GARRISON & Co., SPEEDLING & LAWRENCE, and others; correspondence regarding Lyman COBB'S compilation of elementary school books, tuition receipts, report cards, certifi- cates of merit, diplomas, receipts for school taxes, German copybook of Minnie COBB as a stu- dent at Hooper's Academy, and other school rec- ords; deeds of pews in St. John's Church, Yonkers, and other church papers; extracts from the rec- ord books of the Yonkers Lyceum; papers relating to the Yonkers Library Association and Yonkers Circulating Library; minutos, election lists, bills, and reports of the Palisade Boat Club; and other data. Lyman COBB figures most promi- nently in those papers. Other names appearing in the collection include E. P. BAIRD, Jamos BELL, William R. BROWN, Jeremiah BURNS, Cyrus CLEVELAND, Thomas COYLE, Hugh CURRAN, Ethan FLAGG, Samuel T. GETTY, D. B. HART, James HUNTER, R. G. JACKSON, John KEEFE, Honry J. KEYSER, George H. MOORE, John B. PECK, L. P. ROSS, W. W. SCRUGHAM, and many others.


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B. Land papers, including:


1. Notice of an increase in ront sont to Abraham ODELL by Frederick PHILIPSE, Fob. 7, 1760.


2. Letters patent for 45,000 acres of land in Albany County, granted to John GLEN and forty- four others, Aug. 14, 1770.


3. Doed from Isaac STOUTENBURGH and Philip VAN CORTLANDT, Commissioners of Forfoitures for the Southern District of New York State, to . Benjamin FOWLER, Westchester farmor, of a 305-acre tract in the Monor of Philipsburgh, forfeited by Frederick PHILIPSE, dated May 18, 1786; also map of tho FOWLER property in 1817.


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4. Lease of farm in Columbia County, executed by John L. VAN RENSSELAER to John FALCONER, Mar. 9, 1791. 5. Schedule of lots sold and advertised for sale in the city of Yonkers for tax arrears, Sept. 29, 1862.


6. Map of the central portion of the city of Yonkers, April 1813, traced from a survey map of BRIDGES and PEPPLETON by M. K. COUZENS, Civil Engineer, in 1892.


c. Notebooks of John M. MASON, 1838-39, 6 v., compris- ing notes on philosophy, higher mathematics, and Roman literature written in his junior and senior years at Columbia College.


D. Constitution and bylaws of the Young Men's Lyceum of Yonkers, 1868, including signatures of members.


E. Minutes of the Veterans Baseball Club of Yonkers, 1873-80.


F. Miscellaneous matorials, including: last will and testament of Joshua ODELL, June 21, 1819; in- denture of apprenticeship of Anthony B. ARCHER to Michael ALLISON, cabinet maker, Aug. 16, 1827; commutation ticket issued by the Hudson River Railroad to J. E. GETTY, 1852; roster of Yonkers and Eastchester members of the Scrugham Guards, 1850; B. CURSER'S certificate of member- ship in the Westchester County Guards, formerly the 12th Regiment of Light Infantry; commission of Samuel CHAMBERS as captain in the 17th Regi- ment of the 7th Brigade, 2d Division of New York State, 1850; certificate of graduation from School District No. 6, Yonkers, issued to Imogono JONES, June 30, 1865; and other data.


There are 350 items, ontiroly arranged and catalogued. A mimcographed list of the materials comprising the H. Armour Smith Collection is available. The other 50 items are exhibited on walls and in showcases. Access is granted to accredited persons by permission of the director or his assistants. There is no photostat or other copy service.


See: Museum Notes, quarterly, 1929 --.


225. YONKERS. - PHILIPSE MANOR HALL, Warburton Avenue and Dock Street. Superintendent, Ernest Bergenson. Hours: 9 a.m. - 12 m. and 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., weekdays; and 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., Sundays and holidays.


History and Purpose. - Built between 1682 and 1745, Philipse Manor Hall was the scat of the lords of the Manor of Philipsburgh until the American Revolution, when Frederick Philipse,


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third lord of the Manor and a vigorous foc of the Revolution, was attainted of treason and his extensive estate confiscated and sold by the State. By sundry conveyances, the title to much of the Philipse proporty in Yonkers became vested in the village of Yon- kers in 1868, the Manor house serving as the Yonkers City Hall until 1911, when this relic of colonial times was surrendered to the custody of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Soci- ety. The building was opened as a public museum in May 1912. No manuscripts are bought, sold, or exchanged, but gifts and deposits appropriate for exhibit are accepted. Philipse Manor Hall is a three-story, nonfireproof, brick and stone structure, with ample space for its collections and exhibits.


Holdings


A. Land records, including: plan of Philipse Manor in 1724, comprising a copy of Cadwallader COLDEN'S map of the Manorial Grants along the Hudson by D. MacNeil STAUFFER; a plan of the Manor of Philipsburgh in the County of Westchester, sur- voyed by John HILL in 1785 by order of Isaac STOUTENBURGH and Philip VAN CORTLANDT, Commis- sioners of Forfeitures for the Southern District of the State of New York (Yonkers section: fragment of the original map); deed from Isaac STOUTENBURGH and Philip VAN CORTLANDT to John SMITH, Westchester farmer, of a farm in the Manor of Philipsburgh, forfeited by the attainder of Frederick PHILIPSE, dated Dec. 6, 1785; and deed from William CONSTABLE, leading merchant of New York, to Jacob STOUT, "Gentleman" of New York City, of the Philipse Manor Hall, together with mills, stables, and a 320-acre farm, which had been mortgaged to CONSTABLE by Cornelius P. LOW, original purchaser from the Commissioners of Forfeitures, dated April 29, 1796.


B. Military papers, including: Oliver POTTER'S commis- sion as 2d Captain in the Green Mountain Boys Regiment to be raised in the colony of New York by the Continental Congress, signed by John HANCOCK, President, and attested to by Charles THOMPSON, Secretary, July 27, 1775; letter from General WASHINGTON to Major BIGELOW from Army Headquarters at Fredericksburgh, Oct. 15, 1778; and photostatic copies of muster rolls of West- chester County Militia during the Revolutionary War, citing over 2,300 names.


C. Miscellaneous materials, including: Grand Jury in- dictment against Daniel WILKINS of Salem, Mass., for witchcraft, May 16, 1695; commission naming Frederick PHILIPSE, Israel HONEYWELL, and Samuel


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PURDY as Justices of the Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas of Westchester County, signed by George CLARKE, Nov. 21, 1739; facsimile of the tablet in Chester Cathedral, England, to the memory of Frederick PHILIPSE, third and last lord of the Manor of Philipsburgh; George DAVEY'S certificate of membership in the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and memorial of thanks for his contributions to the execution of the patriotic designs of this association; charter of the Keskeskick Chapter, D. A. R., June 12, 1895; agents' sample copy of Historical Collec- tions of the State of New York by John W. BARBER and Henry HOWE (published in 1841), con- taining signatures of Gen. Pierre VAN CORTLANDT, Col. John WILLIAMS, Rev. Cornelius D. WESTBROOK, Mortimer HOWE, William F. VAN WART, Aaron UNDERHILL, and many other Westchester residents who subscribed for this book; and other data.


Twenty items, exhibited on walls and in showcases. Material is available to users upon request to the superintendent. There is no photostat or other copy service.


226. YOUNGSTOWN. - OLD FORT NIAGARA. Executive Vice President, Sherlock A. Herrick. Hours: 9 a.m. - 10 p.m., daily.


History and Purpose. ~ Old Fort Niagara, the prop- erty of the United States Government, is in the custody of the Old Fort Niagara Association. The latter was incorporated in 1927 for the restoration and maintenance of the fort, the promotion of an informed and patriotic interest in places and events of historical significance, and the establishment and maintenance of a collection of relics of importance in the history of the United States. It has no policies with respect to the purchase, sale, or exchange of manuscripts, but will accept gifts and deposits. Its collections and exhibits are kept in sevon buildings, comprising the Old French Castle (a three-story, fireproof, stone structure, built about 1726), French storehouse, powder magazine, English bake house, and blockhouses. Space is adequate.


Holdings


A. Records of Old Fort Niagara, 1831-1931, 259 v., in- cluding: 1. Morning Reports of the Post at Fort Niagara,


1850-62, 1867-1908, 59 V.


2. Morning Reports of the 3d Battalion of the 12th Infantry in camps at various places, May 1902, Teb. 1904, Aug. 12 - Sept. 8, 1907, 2 v.


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3. Post Guard Reports at Fort Niagara, 1835-1908 (with gaps), 88 v.


4. Post Guard Report of Fort Sidney, Nebraska, 1886-87, 1 v.


5. Records of Post Correspondence, 1867-1915 (with gaps), 49 v., comprising records of all corre- spondence sent out and received, copies of letters sent by Post Commanders to various heads of the United States War Department, letter book of the Quartermaster's Department, 1867-70, and indexes to correspondence.


6. Post Orders, 1865-74, 1876-1906, 15 v., com- prising copies of orders issued by Post Com- manders at Fort Niagara; also post orders, 3d Battalion, 12th Infantry at Manila, P. I., 1895-1905, 1 v .; orders issued from headquar- ters of the Ist and 3d Battalions, 12th In- fantry, Camp Hughes, Farnham, August 1907; and reports of maneuvers at Camp Hughes and at Ingersoll's Farm near Derby, N. Y., 1907.


7. Summary Court Records at Fort Niagara, 1890- 1902, 1906-7, 14 v.


8. Record of Meetings of Post Lyceum, Fort Niagara, 1891-1902, 1 v. Includes also records of Officer's School, Capt. L. S. SORLEY, instructor.


9. Post Chaplain's Record Book, 1891-92, 1 v., con- taining records of baptisms, marriages, funer- als, religious services, visitations, and other data.


10. Miscellaneous materials, including: Company clothing books, 1889-1905, 3 v., comprising accounts of the United States with soldiers for clothing; lists of commissioned and non- commissioned officers, 1831-1905, 1 v .; daily journal of operations on the repair of Fort Niagara, 1839-49, 1 v .; record of time and pay of mechanics and laborers, 1840-70, 1 v .; copies of telegrams sent from Fort Sidney, Nebraska, 1882-89, 1 v .; copies of circulars issued at Fort Niagara, 1902-6, 1 v .; endorse- ments, 1872-83, 4 v. comprising copies of requests received by Post Commander and rec- ords of authorization and disposition of same; expense record of Post, 1876-92, 1 v., desert- er's register, 1908-12, 2 v .; ledger of orders received, 1918-19, 1 v .; doscriptive book of the recruiting service of the United States Army, 1896-1904, 1 v .; Post ledger of accounts, 1907-10, 2 v .; diary of Colonel JEWITT, kooper of the lighthouse at Niagara, 1831; and other data.


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B. Personal Papers of Augustus PORTER, 1803-58, 539 pieces, including: agreements with respect to the rental of farms, shipbuilding, and the con- struction and operation of grist mills; maps, descriptions, and chains of title of lands owned by Augustus PORTER; deeds; leases; ac- counts; appraisals; inventories; bonds; bank accounts and checks;drafts; post office circu- lars; memoranda; and correspondence relating to bids for lots in Detroit, boats, bonds, canals, deeds, foundry business, glass works, judgments, loans, minutes and activities of the directors of the Canandaigua - Niagara Falls Railroad Company, mortgages, notes, property values and sales, railroads, receipts, steamboats and other matters. Names prominent in these papers in- clude E. A. BRUSH, S. DRAPER, Gideon GRANGER, J. L. HOYT, Charles LARNER, C. D. NORTON, Augustus S., Peter A., and Peter B. PORTER, C. C. TROWBRIDGE, J. G. WHITNEY, and others. In- cluded among these papers are accounts of prop- erty losses sustained by Augustus and Peter B. PORTER on the invasion of the Niagara Frontier by the British during the War of 1812.


c. PORTER, BARTON & Company papers, 1802-39, 495 items, comprising miscellaneous business papers of the partnership of Augustus PORTER and Benjamin BARTON. Included are accounts, appraisals, articles of agreement, articles of partnership and employment, bills of lading, bills of sale, bonds, claims, contracts, correspondence, esti- mates, memoranda of goods received and shipped, orders for flour, salt, wheat, pork, grindstones, shingles, wines, liquors, and other commodities, receipts, records of debts due PORTER, BARTON & Company, and statements of accounts of Benjamin BARTON with Augustus PORTER, Augustus and Peter B. PORTER with Benjamin BARTON, and Augustus and Peter B. PORTER with PORTER, BARTON & Company. Included also are claims, inventories, and ap- praisals of property lost by PORTER, BARTON & Company at Black Rock and Lewiston during the War of 1812, and Gen. T. S. HOPKINS' affidavit relative to the occupancy of the properties of PORTER, BARTON & Company and of Peter B. PORTER at Black Rock at the time of their destruction in December 1813.


D. Marine papers, 1808-33, 50 pieces, comprising clear- ance papers, bills, receipts, permits, and corre- spondence of Peter B. PORTER, Augustus PORTER, and one Mr. BIRD regarding changes in control of canal finances, the passage of canal legislation, and harbor improvements.


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E. Land papers, 1808-55, 31 items, including deeds, leases, chains of title, maps, surveys, and correspondence involving property in Black Rock, Lewiston, Niagara River Reservation, Western Reserve, and other places. Names appearing in these papers include Benjamin BARTON, Augustus and Peter B. PORTER, Gen. Erastus ROOF, Stephen WILCOX, Wilhelm WILLINK, and others.


F. Military papers, 1801-64, 404 items, including: claims for buildings and personal property used and destroyed during the War of 1812; letters from Peter B. PORTER to Augustus PORTER with respect to property losses during the War of 1812 and the passage of legislation for the settlement of claims for these losses; articles of agreement for supplying rations to troops at Fort Niagara, Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michilimack- inac, Chicago, and other army posts; army con- tracts with Augustus PORTER; abstracts of provisions issued to troops and Indians; receipts for supplies; receipts of Indian annuities; correspondence relating to the provisioning of army posts; bills; instructions to recruiting officers in the Civil War; bills for clothing of soldiers and lodging of families of volunteer companies in the Civil War; accounts of cash received from subscribers to Civil War fund; muster roll of Capt. GOULD'S Company in the 28th Regiment, May 22, 1861; Civil War bills and vouchers; subscription lists for the purpose of raising volunteers and providing support for their families, 1862; and other data.


G. Political papers, 1820-56, 71 items, consisting of correspondence relating to presidential elections, Andrew JACKSON, Martin VAN BUREN, Henry CLAY, the Anti-Masonic party, appointments, banks, newspapers, the Missouri Compromise, the anti- slavery and secession movements, New York State politics, bridge tolls, canal and railroad con- struction, and other matters. Correspondents include Peter B., A. H., and George F. PORTER, A. D. FRASER, George F. FROST, George W. HOLLEY, S. S. POMEROY, R. F. SLEEPER, and others.


H. Miscellaneous materials, 1807-55, 305 pieces, includ- ing: Augustus PORTER'S accounts with the Navy Department for supplies, 1812-13, bills, adjust- ments of accounts, receipts for stores and serv- ices, and correspondence relating to the United States Navy, 1810-14; bills for lumber and mate- rials for Lewiston Academy (1819), outline of school districts in the town of Niagara (1816), and other papers relating to education; and


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miscellaneous accounts, agreements, bills of lading, contracts, correspondence, drafts, orders, reports, shipping invoices, and other data.


There are 395 volumes and 1,835 pieces, entirely arranged by subject and entirely catalogued by pieces. Materials are accessible to research by permission of the executive vice president of the Old Fort Niagara Association. Photostatic copies will be furnished at standard rates.


ERRATA


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INDEX


References are to the numbered paragraphs of the Guide, not to pages. The first numeral represents the depository; the capital letter and accompanying numeral, citations thereunder. The name of the state has generally been omitted for localities in New York.


A


Abbot, Lyman, 87B Abbott, Charles David, 29


Abeel, David, family genealogy, 460 Abeel, J., 4B32


Abercromby, Maj. Gen. James, 61


Abigail (ship), clearance


papers, 1704 Abigail Fillmore Chapter, D.A.R., Buffalo, 28All, 28B Abin, Samuel, 33B


Abolition, correspondence on, 25B, 19542; see also Anti- slavery Abott family, genealogy, 1943 Abrams, John, family genealogy, 1190


Academies, in Cortland County, 43E; reports of committees of Genesee Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church on, 28Al; in Schoharie County, 182F3; see Albany Academy, Alfred Academy, Angelica Academy, Augusta Academy, Canandaigua Academy, Elmira Academy, Fairfield Academy, Fairfield Academy and Seminary, Farmer's Hall Academy, Fredonia Academy, Friends Academy at Union Springs, Gaines Academy, Geneva Academy, Glens Falls Academy, Hamilton Academy, Holland Patent Academy, Hooper Academy, Hudson Academy, Hud- son Female Academy, Ipswich Academy, Johnstown Academy, Jonesville Academy, LeRoy Academic Institute, Lewiston Academy, Low Dutch Church Acad- emy in Albany, Mechanicsville Academy, Middlebury Academy,


New Paltz Academy, Onondaga Academy, Oxford Academy, Peoples Academy of Skaneateles, Phillips Exeter Acadomy, Princetown Academy, Schenec- tady Academy, Seneca Falls Academy, Springville Academy, Trumansburg Academy, United States Military Academy, Utica Academy, Vernon Academy, Wallkill Academy; see also Education, Scholastic Insti- tutes, School records, Semi- naries, Student societies Achilles, Mrs. Lillian, 9 : Ackerley, O. B., 169A Ackley family, 88F Adair family, genealogy, 179B


Adams, Dr. Charles C., 6


Adams, Charles Francis, 72A Adams, John, life mask of, 41F; military commissions by, 66E Adams, John Quincy, correspond- ence, 103, 250, 148312, 215A, 2153; life mask of, 41F; papers of, 26D; personal let- ters of family of, 1R Adams, Percy J., 128


Adams, R. B., literary collec- tion, 1640 Adams, Robert, 91B


Adams, Samuel, 1070


Adams, William, 270


Adams family, genealogy, 280


Adams, N. Y., 88D7


Addington family, genealogy, 205F8 Adelphi College, 65


Adirondack Plateau, maps of, 19743


Adirondacks, Association for the Protection of the, 174A; data on history of, 95, 143, 174A Adjutant General, records from


The first numeral represents the depository; the capital letter and accompanying numeral, citations thereunder.


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(Adr-Alb)


office of, HD2; records in office of, 40B


Adrian VI, Pope, manuscript of, 14804


Adriance Memorial Library, 147 Africa, commercial difficulties off coast of, 65A Agan, Patrick, 193G Agassiz, Louis, 87E, 205J


Agrarian movement, see Anti-rent agitation


Agricultural, accounts, 88El, 9631, 1320, 14837, 177B, 219G; banks, 85A, 114B; colleges, 87Z, S&D7; experiments, 178K7; fairs, 31M; implements, 6, 61, 154; improvements, 4349, 1580, 178K7; societies, IP, 4316, 8C1, 54E13, 7007, 86F, 88 I, 958, 130G6, 154G2, 205J; see also Farmers


Agricultural Bank of Herkimer, checks drawn on, 85A; stock share, 1143


Agricultural and Horticulture Society, Tompkins County, 88 I Agricultural and Mechanical


Society of Onondaga County, minutes, 193 I 2


Agricultural Society of Suffolk County, records, 154G2 Agriculture, books on, 166A; correspondence on, 19542;


lectures on, 87M; in Mt. Mor- ris, 117; rotes on, 4A20, 4345, 443; societies for pro- motion of, 1, 7007; statistics of Tompkins County, 88 I; in Western New York, 1580


Aigler, Christian, family gene- alogy, 460


Aiken Street School (Utica), register, 205E2


A. K. Thorp Post, Belfast, 20A Akin (Fort Johnson), public records, 59Ml


Akron, N. Y., 37 Alabama, 50A, 75A10


Albany, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7E2, 7E3, 7F1, 7H, 7 I, 7M5,


40A, 633, 871, 91E4, 97, 132G, 134E3, 178 I 2, 182J; account books of business men of, 1Q15; assessment roll, 444; Associate Reformed Presbyter- ian Churches of, 4A35; auto- graph papers of mayors of, 1S1, 182; Bank of, 17; commit- tee names suspicious charac- ters during the Revolution, 1R; correspondence on trans- porting of goods from New York to, 4B26; data on stage line between Utica and, 20508; Dutch Church in, 4A19; fire companies, 1Q3; founding of Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement, 2; Graco Methodist Episcopal Church at, 203G; Indian deed for land now comprising, 6; inspection returns of military companies stationed at, 215R; inventory of the property of the Schuy- lers in, IL; Irish Relief Bazaar in, IR; Jeremiah and Stephen Van Rensselaer granted letters of freedom and citizen- ship of, 4018; Joel Munsell's essay on the history and chronology of, 233; land trans- actions in, 205Dl; letter to Sons of Liberty in, 1D; letters on reception of LaFayette in, IR; letters on sale of lands in, 1C; Low Dutch Church Acad- emy in, 444; Mayor's Court, 4434; minutes of Wharf Associa- tion of, 1Q10; papers relating to building of Philip Schuy- ler's house in, 73; Particular Synod of, 178 I 2; photographs of old residents of, 435; re- ceipts of Overseers of the Poor, 1 T; record book of Ministerial Conference of Troy and, 75A23; sloop trade be- tween New York City and, 4351; Treasurer's receipt book, 106; William Cooper's checkbook on


The first numeral represents the depository; the capital letter and accompanying numeral, citations thereunder.


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bank in, 410 Albany (City and County), ex- tracts from minutes of Revolu- tionary Committee of, IR; journal of Regulating Committee during the Revolution, 1Q1; tax records of John N. Bleecker as treasurer of, 444 Albany County, 4B30, 41 0,




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