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Box 41

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1778-1952.

Business correspondence and bank notes, 1868-07 - 1868-12

 File — Box: 41, Folder: 17-21
Scope and Contents

Many items are addressed to Charles Hardy or George Williams, as part of the Merchant's and Farmer's bank

Dates: 1868-07 - 1868-12

Letters from Jane Smith, 1845 - 1855

 File — Box: 41, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Includes in depth writings about crops planted at the plantation and the work done by enslaved peoples.

Dates: 1845 - 1855