The Lincklaen/Ledyard Collection is comprised of materials collected by the Lincklaen and Ledyard Family, primarily the Ledyard Family, from the years 1740 to 1970. The materials within the collection include correspondence, business documents, account books, ledgers, cash books, memorandum books, day books, land documents and papers, maps, blueprints, white prints, and browline prints, legal documents and papers, estate records of members of the Fairchild, Fitzhugh, Krumbhaar, Ledyard, Lincklaen, Remington, Stebbins, Seymour, and Vander Kemp Estates, newspaper clippings, genealogy, research notes, printed materials such as blank postcards and blank greeting cards, publications, catalogs, books, administrative records, government records such as military records dating back to the 1770s, speeches and addresses, circulars, fliers, leaflets, pamphlets and programs, posters, bradosides, advertisements, instructional materials, lists, journals, writings, address books, blank forms, blotting papers, calendars, certificates, commemorative materials, drawings, envelopes, guidelines, identification cards, licenses, memorial books, money, paintings, plant materials, playing cards, post office return receipts, prescriptions, prints, resource sources, registrations, schedules, school records, sheet music, stationary, tags, textiles, telephone numbers, travel documents, wallpaper, and miscellaneous items. The collection also includes subcollections of important note: Anti-Suffrage Materials, the Third Great Western Turnpike Documents and Papers, the Madison and Oneida County Courthouse Documents and Papers, the Holland Land Company, and the Grand Tour of 1884, a European trip taken by the third generation family member, George S. Strawbridge Ledyard Sr., in 1884. The Anti-Suffrage Materials collection contains printed speeches and addresses, pamphlets and programs to events, fliers, broadsides, leaflets, photographs, and sheet music. The Third Great Western Turnpike Documents and Papers subseries contains historical documents pertaining to the construction of the Turnpike such as articles and a charter of of incorporation, blank forms, construction contracts, correspondence, financial records, guidebooks, instructional materials, land documents, newspaper clippings, posters, a petition, speeches and address, and power of attorney documents. The Madison County Courthouse Documents and Papers subseries contains a certificate of commissioners, financial records, land documents, and meeting minutes. All of the documents are pertaining to the construction of the court house. The Grand Tour of 1884 subseries contains advertisements, broadsides, calling cards, correspondence, drawings, envelopes, guides, leaflets, menus, notes, pamphlets and programs, hotel and retail receipts, souvenirs, tags, tickets, a tracking chart, travel receipts, and travel documents.