A Selection of Documents and Maps from Peter Luke

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2021.0004

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This small collection of documents are a random sample of items assembled by Peter Luke in the course of his business as a rare book dealer. An inventory of items is included, but notable items include an early indenture from the Embought in Catskill, as well as a small map titled "Ashley's Plan of Catskill" which was likely a draft suggested layout of the proposed Village of Catskill in 1806. The Ashley Map shows the Presbyterian Meeting House, Benton's Slaughter House, A Shipyard, Court House, Jail, and Burying Ground among other things. Also included is a petition concerning the operation of the "Horse Boat" [Hudson-Athens Ferry] at Athens in 1831 signed by 78 male residents of the Village.

Subsequent accessions to this collection remain unprocessed but include paperwork concerning the operations of the Baldwin Shipyard at New Baltimore and miscellaneous ephemera collected by the late Al Feldbin related to the Village of Athens.

Dates

1786 - 1855

Extent

1 Cubic Feet (Two legal size document boxes, one oversize flat file.) : Handwritten documents and maps, photographic prints and negatives, photocopied documents and ephemera. ; Various

Additional Description

Separated Materials

See MV 1716, "Essays of Augusta Hallock at Norton Hill," for a bound volume also given by the donor of this colleciton.

Articles of Agreement of Jacob Van Orden, William Van Orden, Ignatious Van Orden, John Baptist DuMond the Elder, John Baptist DuMond the Younger all of the Great Imbocht with Hendrick Burhans of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck concerning Quit Rent on farms of the Great Imbotch. [1786]
Ashley's Plan of Catskill [c. 1800]
Petition Sent by Inhabitants of the Village of Athens concerning compensation of the Captain of the Horse Boat. [1831]
Article of Agreement of Joel Palmeter with William Hart and Richard C. Hart of Greenville concerning a parcel of land bounded by the former Turnpike Road and Basic Creek bordering lands of Francis Hitchcock. [1844]
Deed of Zerah Ferry to Jonathan Sherrol conveying a parcel of land bounded by the Coxsackie Turnpike and Basic Creek bordering lands of Francis Hitchcock. [1814]
Letter of L. P. Waldo of the Pension Office to Hannah Wakely of Greenville, widow of Stephen Wakely, concerning her claim to Bounty Land. [1855]
Donor Paperwork. [2019]