This subseries contains photographs of various animals owned by the family that include dogs, and horses and carriages. If more pictures of animals are desired, please refer to the "Cazenovia Scenes- Hunting and Fishing" folder where there are multiple photos of hunting dogs. This series is arranged alphabetically.

This subseries contains documents pertaining to the Association of Ex-Members of Squadron A in which George Strawbridge Ledyard Jr. was a part of. This subseries contains correspondence, invitations to the Association's events, pamphlets and programs, and receipts for membership dues.This series is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains atlases for Madison and Onondaga County, as well as New York State, astrological locations, and the world. Some of these atlases belonged to the family member Charles S. Fairchild. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title of the atlas.

This subseries contains bills and receipts for account payments, apparel, textiles, shoes, combs, tailoring, shoemaking,

This subseries contains bills and receipts for Henry H. Potter, including grocery receipts, hardware receipts, freight receipts, and due bills. These receipts are mostly for building materials for various jobs Henry H. Potter was working on.

This subseries contains blueprints for the Cherry Valley Turnpike and the Syracuse Turnpike, as well as the Village of Cazenovia sewer system, the Village of Cazenovia and its environment, the Fairchild Memorial stone, and an unknown highway labeled "new highway". This subseries is arranged alphabetically by the subject of the prints and chronologically if the subject has more than one folder.

This subseries contains booklets, classified as such due to their page quantity and size. This subseries is also arranged by their subject materials of booklet. This subseries is arrnaged alphabetically by subject of the materials and chronologically by decade if the subject has moe than one folder.

This subseries contains building plans, floor plans, and blueprints of the Cazenovia pier and family properties, including the Ship Studio. The family properties are denoted in their folder's scope and content note. This series is arranged by importance of family property.

This subseries contains account books of yearly accounts, rough accounts, general accounts, and "servants' account". The bulk of this subseries are books on the Cazenovia Establishment. This subseries is arranged chronologically by exact date.

This subseries contains account books for labor and various goods. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains account statements for various goods, sales, and labor. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains business documents pertaining to the delivery, sales, expenses, articles of agreement, and correspondence pertaining to ashes and asheries. This series is arranged alphabetically by materials and chronologically by decade. The contents of each folder within this subseries will be denoted in their scope and content note as each folder is labeled, "business documents and papers- ashes".

Contains calculations made pertaining to unknown business dealings. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries contains cashbooks, books that keep records of all cash receipts and disbursements, kept by unknown keepers. This series is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to accounts and daybooks in relation to business dealings with the Cazenovia Establishment.

This subseries contains correspondence about business proceedings, such as the sale of a sloop, voyages, shipping, delivering, and ordering various goods, payment and account requests,

This subseries contains a daybook kept by an unknown author in account with "Cazenovia". This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it only being one folder.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to the business of Samuel S. Forman's store at Fort Schuyler. This subseries includes: correspondence, bills and receipts for delivery of various goods, and invoices of goods for the Fort Schuyler store. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries is made of illegible papers due to aging and tearing. This subseries is made up of what is believed to be correspondence, bills, and receipts. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme as it is only made up of one folder.

This subseries contains invoice books for purchases made by unknown people and Samuel S. Forman. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains papers pertaining to business proceedings involving Isaac Van Vleck. These papers were kept together with a paper wrapper titled, "Isaac Van Vleck's Papers". These papers pertain to a store in Salt Springs that was consigned to Isaac Van Vleck by Samuel S. Forman. It's unknown as to whether this store was part of the Holland Land Company. This subseries contains legal and land documents, bills and receipts, correspondence, and payment orders. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to Jacob H. Ten Eyck. Jacob H. Ten Eyck was Samuel S. Forman's assistant and was later sold the general store that Samuel S. Forman ran when he moved to Syracuse, New York. This subseries contains correspondence, account payments and statements, account of sales, bills, receipts, invoices, orders, promissory notes, memorandums, This series is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to the business proceedings of Jonathan Forman and Samuel S. Forman Sr., Samuel S. Forman's father. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it only being one folder. Although these documents can be found in different subseries within this collection, these documents were kept together by the creator. The documents include: correspondence, receipts for various good sold, shipped, and purchased, and freighting, and work lists.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to the business proceedings of Jonathan Forman and Samuel S. Forman Sr., Samuel S. Forman's father. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade. Although these documents can be found in different subseries within this collection, these documents were kept together by the creator. Although these documents can be found in different subseries within this collection, these documents were kept together by the creator. The documents include: correspondence, receipts for various good sold, shipped, and purchased, and freighting, and work lists.

This subseries contains ledgers for family expenses and a "petty ledger" for petty cash accounts. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This series contains ledgers kept by John Lincklaen, Jonathan Denise Ledyard, and George Strawbridge Ledyard Sr. This differs from the daybook series due to the fact that ledgers are recorded expenses with different accounts, not day to day expenses. This subseries is arranged chronologically by exact date.

This subseries contains a memorandum book of daily transactions with various accounts. The keeper is unknown but is presumably Samuel S. Forman. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries cont ains business documents and papers that are miscellaneous. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries contains bills, receipts, and memorandums from a trip taken by Samuel S. Forman. These documents include receipts and bills for jewlery, groceries, apparel, ashes, carpeting, boarding, and prints. This series doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries contains correspondence and receipts for a due bill owed by Samuel S. Forman pertaining to the Oneida Turnpike Road Co. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries consists of orders for various goods such as: apparel, textiles, shoes, groceries (sugar, snuff/tobacco, molasses, tea, flour, beef, pork, butter, potatoes, oats, indigo, peppermint, beeswax, Spanish indigo, garden lime, Spanish whiting, coffee, oil, soap, giner, vitrol, vinegar, and ham), hardware (nails, hammers, brooms, scythes, hinges, warming pans, cask powder, iron, steel, shovels, gun locks, screws, wheel heads, ladders, sickles, locks, paint), glassware (window sashes, glass panes), stoneware, produce (wheat, corn, turnips, bran, grain, rye, copras, barley, and hay), timber/lumber (plaster, shingles, bark, and boards), This series is arranged alphabetically goods purchased and chronologically by decade. The goods ordered will be denoted in their folder's scope and content note.

This subseries contains receipt books with unknown authors, but believed to have been kept by Samuel S. Forman. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains a bill register book. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one item.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to the sale of salt. This subseries contains correspondence, bills and receipts, and prmissory notes. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme as it is only one folder.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to the construction of Samuel S. Forman's new house in Cazenovia, NY. This subseries includes: labor agreements, receipts and bills, correspondence, measurements/diagrams, and work lists. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries contains a copy of a scratch book that says on the inside cover, "A list of accounts that remain unsettled taken from Scratch Book A". The keeper is unknown, but is presumed to be Samuel S. Forman. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being on ly one folder.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to the Sloop Monmouth, a boat that carted merchandise, that was in business with Samuel S. and Jonathan Forman in Middletown Point, New Jersey. This subseries contains correspondece, account of sales, account of voyages made by the sloop, bills and receipts, payment orders for voyages. and a form of a security on a vessel. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme as it is only one folder.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to suppliers of goods for Samuel S. Forman. These suppliers most likely supplied the general stores Samuel S. Forman ran for the Holland Land Company. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by supplier and chronologically by decade and each supplier's name will be denoted in the scope and content note of each folder. It is also separated out and arranged by: account statements, bills and receipts, and correspondence, within each supplier. These are also arranged alphabetically within each supplier.

This subseries contains business documents and papers pertaining to the business proceedings of S. Van Rensselaer, believed to have been a storekeeper at the Cazenovia general store. This subseries contains an account book, correspondence, payment orders, and bills and receipts. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains land and business documents in relation to Benjamin and Solomon Lovejoy and John Sweet. These three men cleared and sowed land purchased by the Holland Land Company and constructed loghouses on lots #49-51 in the Road Township. Lot #57 and six acres in lot #51 were sold to Samuel S. Forman by John Lovejoy and the deeds and mortgages are included in this series. other documents within this series are labor agreements, promissory notes, business notes, and bills and receipts. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement schemes due to it only being one folder.

This subseries contains correspondence, bills and receipts for labor, reciepts of stock, articles of agreement, and construction receipts pertaining to the construction of the Third Great Western Turnpike. Samuel S. Forman was the treasurer of the Third Great Western Turnpike. This series doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one folder.

This subseries contains a petty list book by a unknown keeper. It is believed to be a petty cash book. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it being only one item.

This subseries contains documents and correspondence on the efforts of Ledyard Lincklaen and Lamburtus Wolters Ledyard to qualify in having certain canal lands abandoned. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by subject of materials and chronologically if the subject has more than one folder.

This subseries contains cashbooks, a record kept of all cash receipts and disbursements, kept by Jonathan D. Ledyard. This series does not have an arrnagement scheme since it contains one folder.

This subseries contains photographs of Cazenovia Scenes and are labeled specifically. This subseries is arranged alphabetically, first by specific types of sports, then by the scenes in Cazenovia.

This series contains two census records of a Resvervation, the Village of Cazenovia, and the Townships- DeRuyter Township, Tromp Township, Road Township, Road Township Reservation, Brackel Township, and Township No. 1, both being conducted in 1806. This is arranged by subject of each cenus and is dated with its exact year to simplify research.

This subseries contains checkbooks with their stubs and has been arranged chronologically by specific monthly date and year.

This subseries contains checks and cancelled checks and has been arranged chronologically by specific monthly date and year.

This subseries contains daybooks and has been arranged chronologically by specific monthly date and year.

This subseries contains daybooks by George Strawbridge Ledyard Sr., John Lincklaen, and Samuel S. Forman. Daybooks differ from a ledger in that daybooks are recorded day to day expenses. This subseries is arranged chronologically by exact date.

This subseries contains photographs of various families. Some families are related to each other by blood or by marriage. This series is arranged chronologically by family name and chronologically if a said family has more than one folder.

This subseries contains photographs of family properties. The majority of this subseries is made up of photographs of the Lorenzo mansion. Other properties within this subseries are The Meadows, owned by Jonathan D. Ledyard and then George S. Ledyard Sr., The Oaks, owned by Lambertus Wolters Ledyard, Corner Cottage, owned by Mary F. Ledyard (nee Colgate) and Robert Colgate, Willow Bank, owned by the Fairchild Family, Charles S. and Lewison Fairchild's apartments, Arthur Kennards apartment, Anne. F. Ledyard's house, and various other family properties. This series is arranged alphabetically by property name and chronologically if the property has more than one folder.

This subseries contains film negatives that do match photographs within the collection. Although they were not paired with the positive photographs within the collection, it is known that these negatives do match the positives within this collection since most photographs were taken by family members and the negative envelopes had family names written on them. This series is arranged chronologically. within each folder's scope and content note, the boxes with the matching photographs are listed.

This subseries contains glass negatives. These negatives were not paired with and positive photographs within this collection, so it is unknown whether these negatives belong to any photographs within this collection. Although the negative may be of a similar positive photograph, it is unknown if they are an exact match. This subseries is arranged by the subject of the negatives.

This subseries contains group photos, some with family members and friends, others are unknown. This subseries is arranged chronologically.

This subseries contains land books of various maps of lands believed to have been owned by The Ledyard family. This subseries has been organized chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains ledgers and has been arranged chronologically by specific monthly date and year.

This subseries contain documents and correspondence about the Ledyard Canal.

This subseries is made up of stereoscopic cards that are believed to have been owned by Ledyard Lincklaen, due to the fact that on the back of each card has "Ledyard Lincklaen" or "L.L." written in his own hand. This subseries is arranged by national and international scenes, unknown locations, and cards that were for recreational use.

This series contains letters patents for lands that were awarded to various buyers. These patents have a medal of New York State attached to each patent and are extremely fragile. This series does not have an arrangement scheme.

This subseries contains documents pertaining to the Lorenzo Farm that include- financial records, lease paperwork for the farm, cattle documents, farm lease applications, and miscellaneous documents. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by the subject of materials and chronologically if the subject has more than one folder.

This subseries contains documents pertaining to the Madison and Oneida County Courthouse such as correspondence, meeting minutes, contracts, land documents, financial records, and certificates. This subseries is arranged chronologically by subject of the materials and chronologically if the subject has more than one folder.

This subserie sis made up of maps of Cazenovia, its surrounding counties, national locations, and international locations. This subseries is arranged by alphabetically by county and alphebtically for national and international locations. If the county or location has more than one folder, it is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries contains maps of the No.1 Township, the Tromp and Road Township, and the New Petersburgh Township. Includes within this series is also plats. The maps in case 1, drawer two and folder 4 are a reproduction of maps from the State University of New York at Freodnia's collection of Holland Land Company documents and are NOT originals.

This subseries contains one memorandum book of the business dealings of Benjamin Ledyard that include the shipment and receving of goods and his business dealings with the Cazenovia Store.

This subseries contains documents such as appointments, birth and discharge certificates, recruitment documents for the Civil War, military commissions for WWII and local militias, muster rolls, regimental and camp orders, military passes, payroll documents, pension certificates, ration documents, resignations, return documents, and miscellaneous documents. This subseries is arrnaged alphabetically by subject of the materials and chronologically by decade if the subject has moe than one folder.

This subseries contains documents pertaining to local militias such as brigaide orders, nominations for captains for two tropps of horse, general court proceedings in the County of Cayuga, and General Ledyard brigade. This subseries doesn't have an arrangement scheme due to it only being one folder.

This subseries includes photographs that did not fit in with the previous series made within this collection. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by subject of the photograph.

This subseries contains photographs of national and international scenes. This series is arranged alphabetically by the location in which it was photographed, with national scenes coming before international scenes. Unidentified landscapes are at the end of this subseries.

This subseries also contains newspaper clippings, however, they have been pasted into books or scrapbooks. Some are of local Cazenovia news, while others pertain to local area news outside of Cazenovia. This series is arrange chronologically by decade.

This subseries is made up of photographs of the surrounding New York State area outside of Cazenovia. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by location photographed.

This subseries contains photographs of non-family mmebers such as employees. This series does not have an arrangement scheme.

This subseries contains family pets, cattle, and horses, mainly showing The Meadows.

This subseries contains various local Cazenovia photographs and Central New York photographs that are taken by Cazenovia photographers such as Johnson Brothers, Mather and Lyon, H.S. Mather, Marshall Bros., and E.G. Weld and Son.

This subseries contains daguerreotypes and tintypes, many of unidentified people. Some of the daguerreotypes are encased in small cases and cannot be removed.

This subseries focuses on the house, in and out of Cazenovia, that noted families of The Meadows Collection owned. Please see the biographical note for an in-depth explanaition of each house that is within this collection. If images of the interior are included, it is denoted in this section.

This subseries focuses on photographs of prominent families found within the collection. Men who married into these prominent families can be found in these folders, as well as being grouped within their own namesake. For example, Robert Frederick Hubbard, who married Helen Seymour Ledyard (Hubbard), is found in both the Ledyard family folders and the Hubbard family folders. Women who married into prominent families have their married names denoted by parentheses. If other family members are included in a folder with their spouses, they will be noted in this field as well as family house folders, for cross referencing. Nicknames are denoted between first and last names and inside quotation marks.

This subseries contains film negatives of Cazenovia and Central New York scenes; houses in Cazenovia, New York (The Meadows and Corner Cottage); Barnstable, Massachusetts; a trip, believed to be to Europe and Mexico; and various unidentified people, many of them children, believed to be from either the Ledyard or Hubbard families.

This subseries contains glass negatives of portraits, candids, group photos, local landscapes, and arcitecture, painting of local landscapes and arcitecture, and trips abroad and in the US

This subseries contains photographs that did not relate to the established subseries within the collection. This includes photographs of Lafargeville and the Lafarge Mansion, the Trenton Falls Hotel, Trenton, New York, the Hudson River, grave of Washington Irving, Trinity Church in Troy, New York, Albany, the New York State Capitol Building, the Muller House indenture, Grover Cleveland, a print of a Samuel Morse paiting, and a possible post mortem photograph.

This subseries contains scrapbooks of family portraits, group family photos, candid photos. Some photos within the scrapbooks are unidentified. The scope and content note of each file will list the family members contained in each scrapbook, not the individual members themselves.

This subseries consists of photographs taken on trips in the U.S.A. and Europe. Some locations are unidentified.

This subseries contains photographs of portraits, families, groups, landscapes, candid photographs, and architectural photographs that could not be identified.

This subseries contains documents pertaining to Harry E. Lawrence's Pontiac Super Service Station that he rented from George S. Ledyard Jr. from the 1940s-1950s. These documents include Business documents, correspondence, contracts, land documents, and newspaper clippings. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by the subject of materials and chronologically if the subject has more than one folder.

This subseries contains preliminary sketches for a clocktower.

This subseries contains publications such as standalone articles, books pages, carols, obituaries, periodicals (magazines, journals), published photographs, poems, and serials (bulletins). This subseries is arranged alphabetically by subject of the materials and chronologically by decade if the subject has more than one folder.

This subseries contains photographs that have been taken of other artworks, such as portraits, sculptures, and other artworks. This subseries does not have an arrangement.

This subseries contains two scrapbooks, one personal and one professional. This subseries is arranged chronologically by decade.

This subseries is made up of scrapbooks that were either gifted to family members or made by family members themselves. These include scrapbooks of trips, family scrapbooks, and professionally photographed scrapbooks. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by the subject of the scrapbook, and chronologically within alphabetically.

This series contains unidentified photos that include group photos, portraits, and candids. This series does not have an arrangement scheme.

This subseries is made up of photographs of various people who are unknown. This subseries is arranged alphebtically by subject of the photographs.