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Contains assorted legal instruments pertaining to the Niles and Taber families Otsego County, NY and others: Allen, Bull, Comstock, Gile, Mack, Miller, Latimer, Lyon, Heaton, Sleeper, Reed, Tickner Thayer, Thomas, and Smith.
Michael Reynard collection, 1769-1975 0.42 linear feet
A collection of letters, documents, manuscripts, and books collected by Dr. Michael Reynard and placed on deposit in The Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
M. Moran Weston Papers, 1824-1994 75 linear feet
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, oral histories, photographs, audio cassettes, and printed material. Family and personal correspondence; materials related to his secondary, college, and university education; materials related to his tenure at the National Council of the Protestant Church; business correspondence of St. Philip's Episcopal Church and the St. Philip's Community Service Council; bulletins of church services; drafts of sermons and speeches, as well as numerous audio-tapes; manuscripts and publications; correspondence related to the construction and on-going maintenance of several senior-citizen and other community housing; correspondence related to various community redevelopment initives and campaigns for affordable housing; materials related to college courses including oral histories for his Black Family Research project; photographs of St. Philip's Church and of activities of the St. Philip's Community Service Council.
The Monroe Co-Operative Building Lot Association of Rochester records, 1872-1879, highlights the period of expansion of the city of Rochester's western edges in the 1870s. Documents include shareholder and membership certificates for the sales of lots to numerous individuals, three treasurer books, bonds, discharge of mortgages, assignments of mortgages, indentures and mortgages, and related documents, including surveyor reports by Daniel Drummond, a rebuttal report, and a partial treasurer's report.
A collection of documents including deeds, leases, agreements, and land titles relating to transactions in upstate and Western New York. Includes records relating to Albany, Monroe County and the Pulteney Purchase.
Otis Nelson papers, 1820-1880s 2 boxes
The collection is representative of the activities of small businessmen in New Gloucester Maine and in the details of local government. Included are account books, business communications, letters, receipts, deeds, mortgates, personal and social correspondence of the Otis Nelson family, and letters of Lilly Nelson.
Park Benjamin papers, 1645-1925 9.24 linear feet
Correspondence, manuscripts of poems, and manuscripts of lectures by Benjamin. The correspondence consists of original letters of Benjamin, typescript and photostatic copies of Benjamin letters in other libraries, and letters to Benjamin from some of his literary contemporaries including Paul Hamilton Hayne, Willis Gaylord Clark, John Lothrop Motley, and Fitz-Greene Halleck. Many of the letters relate to Park Benjamin's lecture tours. There are other family letters and many documents relating to the Benjamin family,and two letterbooks of John Lothrop Motley. Also, a large amount of genealogical material of the Benjamin family, and its related families from the 16th century to the present day. There are also financial records, monographs, clippings, and photographs.