Box 01, Folder 02
No scale given. Indicates lots of number, their dimensions, total acreage enclosed.
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Box 01, Folder 03
A.D.1799 by E[lijah] Blake under Benj[amin] Wright”, copied by A.H. Foster. Date of copy unknown
Box 01, Folder 02
No scale is given. Indicates lots of number, their dimensions in chains, total acreage enclosed. Notebook also includes a copy of Elijah Blake’s survey of the Old Mexico Road. Copy dated April 1, 1851, Utica, N.Y.
Box 01, Folder 01
Notebook indicated lots by number, their dimensions, total acres enclosed. Some note of owner and purchase price of lots is given. Scale: 10 chains = 1 inch
Box 03
Deeds, mortgages, and bonds, ca. 1880-1930. Individuals represented include Ezra and David, and Seymour Spoon, and Mary Rayder, all of the Amboy area.
Box 02, Folder 11
Bills, receipts, etc. Includes a typescript copy of a re-survey of the streets of the village of Camden, N.Y., in 1893 by P.W. Leete.
Babcock Family Papers, 1801 - 1930 3 linear feet
Babcock Family
The family papers consist primarily of surveying notes generated by, or collected by, various members of the Babcock and Foster families of Oswego County, New York. The bulk of material can be attributed to A.H. Foster, who surveyed Williamstown and Amboy between [1930 and 1870]. The collection also includes field notes, maps, deeds, and mortgages from various surveyors and residents of Oswego County.
Five surveyor’s notebooks prepared by Elijah Blake, William Rowell, and A.H. Foster. The area covered by their work represented here is generally the towns of Williamstown and Amboy, Oswego County, N.Y.
Box 01, Folder 03
Charles [?] H. Cross’name written in front of book. Field notebook relating to survey activities in township 3, dated August 18, 1795 through June 7, 1797. Notes indicate direction and distances, as well as description of terrain and woodlands through which the survey ran.
Box 02, Folder 01-10
Road survey notes prepared by A.H. Foster for roads in the towns of Amboy, Mexico, Parish, and Williamstown, as well as the village of Camden and Florence in the period 1832-1872. The notes appear on separate slips of paper and typically indicate only compass directions and distances as measured in chains. Included in these notes are several copies of road surveys made in the area of Elijah Blake made in the ca. 1790-1801 period.