Box 6

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Includes letters to Louise Williams, 1860-1864.

Includes drafts of letters concerning loans to A. Shaler Williams, Guayabal, Cuba.

Includes copies of "Ancestry and Descendents of Josiah Williams, 1656-1910." One copy belonged to Augusta Hardy Williams and contains her notes and corrections.

Includes photographs of Hardy/Williams family documents from the 1700s.

Judy Jackson (1814-1897) was a formerly enslaved woman employed by the Williams. Correspondence includes discussions of Jackson's death, her grave stone, her personal effects, and dictated letters to her relatives. Also includes letter from Malvina Higgins about Judy Jackson and describes Judy's history, including that her son was sold when he was eight.

Includes accounts of Louise Hardy, Mary Williams, and Jane Hardy with estate (1870-1882); Ella Williams account with Clara Williams Tanner; Diary telling of Louisa's death (1869); notebook of problems with rural churches; 1903 trip of Newman family to California, Oregon, and Canada; The Wellesley Prelude description of trip to Mexico by Laura Lyon Williams.