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Charles W. Pierce Collection

Collection — Box: LOB 1

Identifier: MSS 2020.0005

Scope and Contents This collection contains miscellaneous news clippings and two scrapbooks containing photocopies of the recollections of Charles Pierce, former employee at the Tick Tock Inn in West Coxsackie. Also included in the box is a Menu from the Tick Tock Inn [A separate gift of Frank Gerraine] as well as a selection of local postcards in a poly artifact sleeve.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Church and Religious Society Vital Record Resources

Collection — Container: Genealogical Shelves Bay One

Identifier: MSS 2020.0002

Scope and Contents This artificial collection compiled by the staff of the Vedder Research Library describes published inventories of church records currently available on our shelves. The collection is broken down by county, and are almost exclusively protestant christian denominations. Records are primarily transcriptions of original vital statistics records composed using typewriters or word processors. Many volumes contain custom indexes, and some smaller volumes are bound in combination with...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Coal Book of C. L. Beach and Company

Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves

Identifier: MV 1735

Scope and Contents Item is a bound ledger containing the accounts of various residents of the Village of Catskill with Charles L. Beach and Company for deliveries of Coal. It appears that accounts were both for residential users and businesses. An alphabetical index of all account holders appears at the front of the ledger. On pages 415 to 422 appear what seems to be an account possibly of coal useage or sales from the Steamboat Redfield, and a separate account follows for the "McManus Hay Dock."

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Copy of a map of Lands Under Water at Catskill Granted to John Cantine

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14

Identifier: MAP 2020.0018-LOB 6.24

Scope and Contents Map is a blueprint made by Charles H. Van Orden from an original map of John Cantine's grant for Lands Under Water at Catskill Point in 1795. Van Orden's map faithfully copies the complete description and survey, and includes a separate description of "Original allotments by balloting of lots drawn by the seven proprietors December 3, 1805" which probably refers to owners of the divisions of the Lindsey Patent which this grand adjoined. Features of note on the map include the home occupied by...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Copy of a Map of the Divisions of the Lindsey Patent

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14

Identifier: MAP 2020.0017-LOB 6.22

Scope and Contents Map is a blueprint of a survey by Charles H. Van Orden showing measurements and headings for a survey of the first and second divisions of the Lindsey Patent. This map, which is an alternate description of MAP 2020.0016, gives the initials of original owners of the lots in both divisions as well as the lot numbers, but provides no narrative description of the Patent nor a cardinal point to orient it. This was likely meant to be read in conjunction with MAP 2020.0016 and was probably also made...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Copy of a Map showing the First and Second Divisions of the Lindsey Patent

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14

Identifier: MAP 2020.0016-LOB 6.21

Scope and Contents Map is a blueprint copy by Charles H. Van Orden of an earlier map once in the possession of Theodore A. Cole. The Lindsey Patent was the original grant covering the east side of the Village of Catskill confirmed in 1738. The First division of 10 lots was made in in 1741, and a second division comprising 20 lots was made the same year. The Map shows the first and second divisions as well as some geographic and manmade features for reference. The Hudson River comprises the eastern boundary, the...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Cornwallville Papers from the Anson Strong House

Collection — Box: MSS Box 350

Identifier: MSS 2021.0020

Scope and Contents Collection comprises a selection of materials which have historically resided in the historic home of Anson Strong in Cornwallville, a hamlet in the Town of Durham. Of particular note are some early materials relating to land ownership which convey the location of early businesses in the vicinity of Cornwallville, as well as materials related to the boarding of Nancy Merwin who was likely a ward of the overseers of the poor. Also included is an indenture between a farmer in Durham and the...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Courtney W. Tolley Collection

Collection — Box: LOB 35

Identifier: MSS 2019.0016

Scope and Contents This collection comprises the wartime correspondence of Courtney W. Tolley totalling approximately 40 letters along with a scrapbook which contains several wartime snapshots and news clippings as well as a wide selection of ephemera related to commemoration events for the 77th Division and survivors of the 306th Machine Gun Battalion. Also included is a typewritten transcription of Courtney Tolley's letters in blue covers with a steel ACCO binding.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Coxsackie Burn Plant Community Opposition Campaign

Collection — Container: Basement Storage

Identifier: MSS 2022.0012

Content Description Boxes contain a selection of news clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, mailing lists, and reports related to the organization of a community group opposed to the siting of a garbage burn plant in Coxsackie near the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District Campus.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Day Book of Dr. Nelson Fanning

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Identifier: MV-108

Scope and Contents Large bound volume with daily accounts of Dr. Nelson Fanning's medical practice in Catskill, New York. Patients and debtors listed include many notable Catskill residents from the time, including Frederic E. Church, Maria Cole, Mary Cole, and Theodore Cole. An inscription on the front cover reads, "Dr. Fanning's Day Book Catskill - cor. Bridge St. and Prospect Ave." This implies that the book belonged to Dr. Nelson Fanning Sr. (1808-1896) who lived at 49 Prospect Avenue in Catskill. However,...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

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