Scope and Contents File contains documents from Isabella C. Rainey and mostly comprises rations books of various sorts from World War Two. Also inluded are Ms. Rainey's teacher's certificates and licenses - one being a temporary teacher's license for school district no. 14 in Conesville, Schoharie County in 1908, the others being contracts for teaching positions in the Village of Athens where she spent most of her career. Also in the file is a stock certificate from 1896 for twenty-five shares in the Catskill and...

Scope and Contents File contains a selection of deeds and mortgages for a parcel of land owned in the 1960s by Lenora K. Vars, and all documents were likely compiled in this file in preparation for a court case seeking to have an "ancient mortgage" struck from the record as paid to ensure clear title to the land in question. Contained within the file is a letters patent issued in 1877 to George S. Nichols, Samuel H. Nichols, William T. Nichols, Charles P. Nichols, Elbridge D. Nichols, and Henry O. Nichols for...

Scope and Contents File contains papers related to various companies which Edith McBurney Wolfe Reed had a controlling interest in or held debts on. These include the Gladfelter Brick Company at Athens and the Cairo Railroad Company of which she was a shareholder. Within these papers is an interesting letter written by C. B. Gladfelter, director of the Gladfelter Brick Company, describing the company's financial difficulties in December of 1929, noting his inability to pay the interest on a mortgage Mrs. Reed...

Scope and Contents File contains several dozen deeds and indentures for land in the Town and Village of Athens. Of particular note in this file are several very early indentures and deeds which are descriptive and note certain buildings and businesses which existed in the Village of Athens at an early date.

Scope and Contents File contains an indenture for two lots of land of John S. and Elizabeth Hallenbeck to William Ryan in the Town and Village of Athens executed on 6 December 1851.

Scope and Contents File contains two indentures for land of Norman Van Loon to Ann O'Grady in the Town of Athens. One indenture is of Norman Van Loon and Mary W. Van Loon dated 1 April 1893. The other indenture is of Norman Van Loon (widower) dated 1 July 1909.

Scope and Contents File contains 9 survey maps or authorizing documents for roads laid out in the Town of Cattskill, including: a 1795 document memorializing a road beginning at Hudson's or North River; an 1800 draught and survey map for a road from the south boundary of the Town of Coxsackie to Union Street in Athens; an 1802 survey map and certification for Elbo Street in Lonnenburgh and also Livingston Street in Esperanza Purchase; an 1802 survey map of the road leading from Loonenburgh to Cattskill; an 1803...

Scope and Contents This file contains several documents pertaining to the William W. Rider and John Sullivan estates, including: a 1935 sale of a grey mare to Howard Wilbur by Louis Basch; a 1934 letter to Gurdon W. Fitch from Howard Wilbur, concerning a check payable to W. W. Rugg; 1933 and 1934 property insurance statements; a 1934 insurance premium statement; a 1933 assignment to William W. Rider in Athens National Bank v. John W. Cumming; a 1931 list of claims against the Rider estate; several 1931 letters...

Scope and Contents Account statement dated 8 September 1895 for stove tubs on letterhead of Ryan Brothers, manufacturers of stone-ware, jardinierre vases and fancy ware.