Scope and Contents Series contains documents relating to three generations of intermarried families in Catskill beginning during the period immediately prior to the American Revolution and resolving itself roughly around 1900 with the death of members of the final generation. The bulk of this series centers around Samuel Barent DuBois [styled "S. Barent"] and Joseph Allen DuBois [brothers to Mary A. D. Stone] and follow backwards generationally through their father Samuel DuBois, mother Sarah Allen, and their...

Scope and Contents The collection comprises a vast array of materials broken into series by family groups, and sorted roughly by generation in chronological order. The greater share of materials deal directly with four generations of the DuBois/Allen/Stone/Decker family of Catskill. Appearing within are diaries, personal letters, estate documents, literary works in prose and verse, and a considerable selection of landscape sketches and studies by Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone.A lesser portion of the...