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Genre/Form: | Surveys (land) Autographs Maps History Local history Military history |
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Named Person: | John Quincy Adams; Henry Ashley; Ephraim Beach; James Malcolm Pierson; Nicholas Sickles; Peter H Silvester; John Quincy Adams |
Document Type: | Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: | Greene County Historical Society (Coxsackie, N.Y.) |
OCLC Number: | 155505860 |
Description: | 6 cubic ft. |
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Letters, wills and estate papers, financial records, legal papers, deeds, maps and land surveys, slave documents, military papers, and other documents pertaining to individuals, families, communities, and businesses in Greene County. Family names include Baker, Clark, Eaton, Fiero, Lawrence, McCarty, Pratt, Prevost, Reed, Salisbury, Sherman, Sickles, Silvester, Van Dyck, Van Loan (Loon), and Van Vechten. Subjects include shipping, roads and turnpikes, cement companies, Civil War, pottery, railroads, education, newspapers, churches, mills, firemen, elections, politics, government, poor records, ferries, steamboats, women's clubs, lotteries, merchants, militia, 120th Regiment of the New York State Volunteers, slavery, Spanish-American War, the Susquehanna Turnpike, tanning, temperance, transportation, War of 1812, whaling, and the Whig Party. Of note are letter from John Quincy Adams written from Congress, 1833; two letters on politics by Henry Ashley, Congressman, 1826; notebook of Ephraim Beach regarding his engineering work on the Canajoharie & Catskill Railroad, 1836; printed proceedings of the General Assembly of the Colony of New York, 1773, and the laws of the Colony of New York, 1762; Civil War papers of James Malcolm Pierson (1832-1905); correspondence of Nicholas Sickles regarding his legal practice, 1821-1834; and speeches and letters of Peter H. Silvester concerning Whig politics, 1849-1850.
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- Adams, John Quincy, -- 1767-1848.
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- Beach, Ephraim.
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- Sickles, Nicholas.
- Silvester, Peter H.
- United States. -- Army. -- Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 120th.
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- Roads -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Toll roads -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Cement industries -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Pottery, American -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Railroads -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Education -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Newspapers.
- Church buildings -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Mills and mill-work -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Elections -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Poor -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Ferries -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Steamboats -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Women -- Societies and clubs.
- Lotteries -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Lawyers -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Merchants -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Slavery -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Tanning -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Temperance -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Transportation -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Whaling.
- Decedents' estates -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- Real property -- New York (State) -- Greene County.
- New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- New York (State) -- Militia.
- Greene County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Greene County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Greene County (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
- Greene County (N.Y.) -- History, Military.
- United States -- Politics and government.
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States -- History -- War of 1812.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Spanish-American War, 1898.
- United States -- Armed Forces.
- Susquehanna Turnpike (N.Y.)
- Armed Forces.
- Cement industries.
- Church buildings.
- Decedents' estates.
- Education.
- Elections.
- Ferries.
- Fire fighters.
- Lawyers.
- Lotteries.
- Manners and customs.
- Merchants.
- Militia.
- Mills and mill-work.
- Politics and government.
- Poor.
- Pottery, American.
- Railroads.
- Real property.
- Roads.
- Shipping.
- Slavery.
- Steamboats.
- Tanning.
- Temperance.
- Toll roads.
- Transportation.
- New York (State)
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