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Summa Papers
Collection — Carton: MSS Box 329
Identifier: MSS 2019.0013
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a small selection of documents related to the Straughan, Barlow, Prout, and Peck families historically of Windham, Hunter, Jewett, and Lextington on the Mountain Top in Greene County, NY. The earliest documents within are personal letters ostesibly written by ancestors of one of the above-mentioned families, and the majority of the other materials within are land papers for property purchased and sold by Thomas and John Straughan. Of particuar note within the collection...
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Supplemental Map Showing Lands to be used for Reservoir, Pipeline, and Dock for the Catskill Water Works.
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2020.0015-LOB 6.46
Scope and Contents
Map is a colored drawing showing the organization of the water works created to supply clean drinking water to the Village of Catskill in 1884. The map shows the Hudson River and the pump station/dock of the water work, while A red line denotes the pipeline from the pump station ascending High Street and crossing the lands of the Heirs of Maria Cole and the lands of Theodore Cole. A reservoir is shown on the lands of George Clark adjacent to the lands of Theodore Cole, and a separate red line...
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Survey and Map of the Catskill and Mountain Turnpike
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 20
Identifier: MAP 2019.0001
Scope and Contents
Six irregular sized map sections in slightly damaged condition and one legal size survey description all formerly bound in a single packet sealed with wax. Items are numbered in sequence they are supposed to be viewed. The Map sections are particularly interesting as they show the homes of property owners along the length of the route and include the names of the home owners.
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Survey of a Road Laid out by the Trustees of the Village of Catskill near the Home of Apollos Cooke
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2020.0012-LOB 6.112
Scope and Contents
Map is a copy of an 1825 survey that was traced by Charles Van Orden showing the proposed route of a road commencing at the intersections of Main and Green Streets in Catskill and proceeding southeast along the route of modern lower Main Street heading to Catskill Point. The map is notable for its lengthy description copied from the Book of Roads, as well as for showing several interesting reference points including the homes of John Johnston, Abraham Van Orden, and the Luddington House. Also...
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Survey of the Boundary between the Towns of Coxsackie, Loonenburg, and Shinglekill.
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 21
Identifier: MAP 2020.0010-LOB 6.141H
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Survey of the Lands of the late Barent Staats Salisbury
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2020.0014-LOB 6.35
Scope and Contents
Map is a survey composed by William Tolley on behalf of the heirs of Barent Staats Salisbury. The survey is described as being parts of lot 1, 12, and 13 as well as all of lot 2 of a parcel of land owned by Salisbury on his death. Shown on the survey is a long parcel extending between with several geographic features orienting the map. The parcel extends from the Susquehanna Turnpike near Catskill Creek in modern Jefferson Heights to the Athens Road as it enters the vicinity of modern Leeds....
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Survey of the Loonenburg New Purchase Road
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0011
Scope and Contents
Map is a survey composed by John D. Spoor for Isaac Northrop and Company in 1801 showing a newly surveyed road leading northwest from the edge of the surveyed lots of the proposed Village of Athens. The Road is shown as commencing at the river and proceeding westward through the surveyed lots (now modern Second Street) and then proceeding along a route northwest (along the route of modern Schoharie Turnpike) towards the home of Johannis Hallenbeck. Description notes that at the Hallenbeck house...
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The Arthur Elting Mead Memorial Collection
Collection — Box: LOB 598
Identifier: MSS 2021.0015
Content Description
A single cubic foot box containing genealogical research correspondence of Arthur Mead.
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The Bessie and LeRoy Curtis Collection
Collection — Box: MSS Box 31
Identifier: MSS 2021.0007
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a small selection of documents and photographs of the late Bessie Lounsbury Curtis and LeRoy Curtis of Coxsackie, New York. Included are a class of 1937 yearbook of Coxsackie High School, LeRoy Curtis' membership card in the Odd Fellows, an article on the Four Mile Point School from a 1924 copy of the Rural New Yorker, miscellaneous notes and a class reuinion booklet. Also included are some images of Coxsackie and a selection of photographs of the Cattle herd at the...
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