Manuscripts Box 1

Scope and Contents Account book of Orrin D. Seward (1798 - 1857), with later additions. Accounts run from June 1838 through April 1862, and include payments to Seward for sawing wood and other carpentry-related tasks, including framing houses, constructing coffins, repairing wagons and sleighs, etc. Credits are also given, and range widely from plowing to labor to household goods. Entries written after Orrin Seward's death may have been written by his widow or one of his sons.Following the account...

Scope and Contents Diary of Abner Griffis for 1855. Entries for January 1-10 are the most extensive, with Griffis stating at the outset that he intends to keep the diary "particularly about my Forest Lake farm," in Forest Lake Township, Susquehanna County, PA. Griffis's first few entries include information about the weather, plans for the farm, visitors, and daily chores. There are no entries between January 11 and June 30. Short entries resume on July 1 and largely comment on farm work done by...

Scope and Contents Letters and memos to and from William E. Van Atta in his capacity as treasurer of David Bernstein's campaign for the 33rd New York Congressional district in 1970. Most of the letters are acknowledgments of donations received; there is also an undated memo from Van Atta to David Bernstein asking how to acknowledge a donation from a Mr. Hale; an April 20, 1970 letter confirming rental arrangements for a campaign office; a May 5, 1970 memo from Bernstein's secretary to Van Atta with documents...

Scope and Contents Writing book of Esther Dopp of Rome, Oneida County, New York. Volume is an eighteen-leaf unlined writing book published by Mack & Chapman of Oxford, Chenango County, New York in 1830. The front cover gives the title "Writing Book," beneath which is printed "Good Penmanship is the neatest accomplishment of the Scholar" and a quote about penmanship from Chesterfield. The line reading "The Property Of" is filled in with "Miss Esther Dopp, Rome, 1831." Beneath this is a woodcut vignette of a...

Scope and Contents Diary of Willard Smith Niles for April through August 1832. Volume is a twenty-leaf unlined writing book published by Knowlton & Rice, Booksellers & Stationers, Watertown, New York. The front cover gives the title "Writing Book," beneath which is printed a woodcut vignette of military accoutrements. The border is of alternating bunches of grapes and roses, with two small houses and a tree at top center and two manicules at lower center. The back cover features a similar border with...

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Account book of Daniel Le Roy for roughly 1807 to 1812, with many later additions in various hands. These include sermon notes, poems, recipes, commonplace-style notes, pen trials, etc., some written in blank spaces around the account entries and others on unused leaves. The accreted material makes the volume fairly difficult to parse.

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Account book of John A. Stuart of Conklin, Broome County, New York for 1885 through 1900. Records daily household and farm expenses. Stuart (about 1814 - 1903) was born in Scotland; his entry in the 1900 federal census indicates that he emigrated from Scotland in 1852. By 1855 he was farming in Conklin, and remained there until his death. He is buried in Corbettsville Cemetery, Conklin.

Scope and Contents Nine leaves of a larger manuscript, which originally seems to have contained at least 67 pages.Contents:- One unnumbered leaf contains on the recto a list of band members' names, keyed to their relevant account pages within the larger manuscript. John Robinson and James Lamphear are noted as "Honorably discharged." Richard P. Ross is noted as "Left without cause," above which is written "A damned lie," with the word "damned" largely rubbed out. The verso of this leaf...

Scope and Contents Star Brand Letter Copying book used by Joseph P. Noyes (1838 - 1900) and his sons Joseph K. Noyes (1868 - 1926) and Thomas McKechnie Noyes (1878 - 1930) of Binghamton, New York. Contains retained typescript copies of their outgoing correspondence from 1898 to 1909. Some of the early correspondence in the volume pertains to Noyes's acquisition of an Oakman "horseless carriage" automobile, one the first in Broome County. The Noyes family ran a comb factory located in Binghamton, and some of...

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Manuscript account of a sailboat trip from Syracuse to Ticonderoga, NY via the Oswego Canal, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and Lake Champlain. Written by Charles A. Ford, who took the trip in August 1885 with his friend Tom Rushton. The narrative covers the period from August 7 through August 24; on a subsequent page is "the list of expenses copied from the Pilots account book December 6, 1898." This records that the trip cost $38.74.