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Box 4

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Contains 13 Results:

Notes on pioneers of New York State from Annals of Albany; Pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary records; notes on source materials; etc., 1660 - 1900

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 1
Scope and Contents Notebook 1 (formerly Mss Ii 77; also marked Vol. 302); Principal topics Caroline Township, Ithaca, and Tompkins County; p;. 12-13: Stage lines; First Episcopal Church in Ithaca; p. 18: Population of Caroline in 1830: 2033; Postmasters in 1850: Julius M. Ackley (Ithaca); Samuel P. Ashley (Speedsville); S. E. Green (Slaterville); p. 23: Tjerck Claessen DeWitt, ancestor of Simeon DeWitt, and DeWitt genealogy; pp. 38-42: DeWitt and Dubois families; p. 43: 1825 Census: County of Tompkins,...
Dates: 1660 - 1900

Tompkins County; Census of slaves in Marbletown, Ulster County, N.Y., 1755; Indians; etc,, 1755 - 1900

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 2
Scope and Contents

Notebook 2 (formerly Mss Ii 78); also: Ithaca and Owego Rail Road (sources for accounts); Notes on politics and lawyers; New York and Erie Telegraph, 1849-1850; Genealogy of the Cornell family; Anna Mulks; Ezra Cornell; Asheville, North Carolina

Dates: 1755 - 1900

History and records of the Town of Caroline; etc., 1802 - 1881

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 3
Scope and Contents Notebook 3 (formerly Mss Ii 79); Town of Caroline: List of residents (1802); Assessments (1813); Pioneers and inhabitants, also of Slaterville; Military enrollment (1862); (on p. 31): List of farmers owning over 200 acres, and their taxes (1864); Records of Robison, Whitewater, Speedsville, and Brookton cemeteries; Supervisors of Tompkins County (1825); Tompkins County Patrons Relief Association; Extent of the Watkins and Flint Purchase of 1794; Bull Tavern; Tavern licenses; Wisconsin...
Dates: 1802 - 1881

History of early inhabitants of Caroline and Ithaca; enealogies; property deeds; etc., 1743 - 1898

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 4
Scope and Contents Notebook 4 (formerly Mss Ii 80; also marked Vol. 305; dated Dec. 3, 1895); Tax roll of Caroline (1887); Account of Michigan Land Company (1824); Will of Ezra Cornell; Notes on northern part of Ithaca and Dryden (1813-1817), including the following families: Ayres, Bates, Beers, Bennett, Collins, Cornell,, Delamater, Peleg Ellis, Gee, Gunderman, Halsey, Abraham Johnson, McCormick, Garret Mandeville, Meddaugh, Benoni Mulks, John Mullex (Mullocks), Wm. T. Southworth, Speed, Thompson, and...
Dates: 1743 - 1898

Slavery in New York State, 1790-1850; treaties with Indians; early inhabitants of Tompkins and Tioga Counties; etc., 1790 - 1896

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 5
Scope and Contents Notebook 5 (formerly Mss Ii 81); Census of Free Blacks and Slaves in Tompkins County (1820); In 1820, 32 slaves lived in Caroline, then part of Tioga County; Origins of Dryden and Speedsville; Legends of early inhabitants of Slaterville, Speedsville, and Ulster County; Folklore of Mulks family; Complete Assessment Roll of Caroline Township for the year 1813; Settlement of Ellis Hollow, 1804-1816, by Ellis, Hurd, Parmenter, Gosper, and Smith families; Settlement of Rawson Hollow, 1802, by...
Dates: 1790 - 1896

Slaves and slave owners in Caroline; notes on Indians; notes on New York State law; etc., 1790 - 1892

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 6
Scope and Contents Notebook 6 (formerly Mss Ii 82); First Land Office, at Canandaigua (1789); New York representation at Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (1787); Election contests; Town meetings; School meetings; Cantine Location Patent; Dutch Settlement; County Divisions, Clinton family genealogy; Various legal cases; p. 25: Slavery in Caroline; p. 18: Members of Assembly, 1844; Peter Lounsbery of Mott's Corners on Colleges, Academies, and Schools Committee; p. 31: John Cantine voted against...
Dates: 1790 - 1892

Interviews with, recollections of, and genealogies of early settlers in vicinity of Ithaca; etc., 1794 - 1898

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 7
Scope and Contents Notebook 7 (formerly Mss Ii 83); pp. 1-18: Interviews with: John Marsh, former Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell. William Linn DeWitt, John H. Selkreg, Lucius G. Mix; Family histories: Moses Cantine (Cantyne), Bartholomew Green, Benjamin Pelton of Fredericksburg, Dutchess County, N.Y., Himspaugh, Cook, Jennings of Danby, John Pumpelly, Lewis Beers, Beardsley, Rev. Samuel Parker, Tyler, Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, Benjamin Ledyard Cuyler, James Eddy, Otis Eddy, William A. Gunderman; Other subjects: ...
Dates: 1794 - 1898

Town of Caroline geography, history; Slavery and slaveholders; interviews with early residents; etc., 1660 - 1900

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 8
Scope and Contents Notebook 8 (formerly Mss Ii 84); Johnson Lands and Cantine Tract; Land transactions in Ithaca; Indian settlements; Hugnenot settlers; Notes from early issues of Ithaca Journal and Advertiser (1829-1831); New York State Militia; pp. 3-18: Pioneers from Virginia who brought their slaves, 1803 on; p. 21: Early stage coach mail lines (1820); Route no. 43, Owego to Ithaca, via Berkshire; Land transactions involving State Street business properties; p. 37: Tompkins County Infant Heir Fund...
Dates: 1660 - 1900

Early history of pioneers to Caroline and Dryden; etc., 1600 - 1882

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 9
Scope and Contents Notebook 9 (formerly Mss Ii 85; Mulks's note on flyleaf: "This book is meant to present facts, figures, and reliable narratives of the history of the town of Caroline and is the second book I have devoted to that use and purpose. Over 42 families are considered"); Cantine family; Early postmasters and supervisors; Town clerks of Caroline; Bush tavern; Genealogical notes and other recollections; Additional local names: Jacobus Depuy, Aaron Cass, Amarah Yates, Maria Johnson Earsley, John...
Dates: 1600 - 1882

Origins of Tompkins County; Pioneers to Caroline; Slavery in Caroline; etc., 1731 - 1870

 File — Box: 4, Volume: 10
Scope and Contents Notebook 10 (formerly Mss Ii 86; First 21 pages are day book records); Peter Webb, slave from Virginia, purchases his freedom from John J. Speed (1818); Origins of N.Y.S. counties, and their populations in 1731; First settlements of Ithaca by Jacob and John Yaple, Isaac and John Dumond, and Peter Hinnepaugh[Himepaugh/Hinepau]; Military Tract created by treaty with the Iroquois (1789); Transfer of New York territory by Massachusetts; Members of Assembly, Tompkins County (1817-1870); Ithaca...
Dates: 1731 - 1870