African-Americans
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Indenture to lease homestead farm, including labor of "Black Thomas Brandow", from William Brandow to Peter G. Brandow, 1850
File — Carton MSS Box 7
Identifier: Folder 54
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The contents of this collection consist of handwritten documents in English and Dutch belonging to Johannis Brando, William Brandow, Peter G. Brandow, and others in two document containers, primarily early indentures, leases, mortgages, wills, litigation records, and other documents pertaining to real and personal property in the Loonenburgh patent and town of Cattskill dating from about 1750. Notably, the collection includes 6 bills of sale and a bequest of enslaved adults and children dating...
Indenture to lease homestead farm, including proceeds from the house and garden occupied by "Black Thomas Brandow", from William Brandow to Peter G. Brandow, Athens, 1849
File — Carton MSS Box 7
Identifier: Folder 53
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The contents of this collection consist of handwritten documents in English and Dutch belonging to Johannis Brando, William Brandow, Peter G. Brandow, and others in two document containers, primarily early indentures, leases, mortgages, wills, litigation records, and other documents pertaining to real and personal property in the Loonenburgh patent and town of Cattskill dating from about 1750. Notably, the collection includes 6 bills of sale and a bequest of enslaved adults and children dating...
Land sale by William Brandow to George Griffin, referring to the land of "the colored man named Caesar," Athens, 1843
File — Carton MSS Box 7
Identifier: Folder 44
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The contents of this collection consist of handwritten documents in English and Dutch belonging to Johannis Brando, William Brandow, Peter G. Brandow, and others in two document containers, primarily early indentures, leases, mortgages, wills, litigation records, and other documents pertaining to real and personal property in the Loonenburgh patent and town of Cattskill dating from about 1750. Notably, the collection includes 6 bills of sale and a bequest of enslaved adults and children dating...
Rebecca Doherty Memorial Collection
Collection — Carton MSS Box 20: [MSS 2020.0006.0001]
Identifier: MSS 2020.0006
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises one container with folders holding a sampling of various types of family documents ranging from correspondence to legal papers and evidential records of business transactions. When possible, items are processed and identified at the item level. Of note are several bills of sale between the Van Loon and Van Hoesen families for enslaved persons.
Receipt for the sale of Ishmal, a negro man, from Peter Van Rensselaer to Jacob Van Hoesen, 1799
File — Carton MSS Box 20: [MSS 2020.0006.0001]
Identifier: 20.6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises one container with folders holding a sampling of various types of family documents ranging from correspondence to legal papers and evidential records of business transactions. When possible, items are processed and identified at the item level. Of note are several bills of sale between the Van Loon and Van Hoesen families for enslaved persons.
Receipt of Ana Cornell for money paid from her grandfather Isaac Lott's estate including money of the Negro Ben which was sold to Jacob Sedam, 1781
File — Carton MSS Box 332: [MSS.2020.0001.0013]
Identifier: 332.25
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series comprises the papers of the Meserole Family and Allied families of Bushwick and Brooklyn
Receipt of inheritance from Michael Schaack estate belonging to wife of Aront Van Wurmer, including husband's 'share in the Negro slaves" and his share of "ten pounds for the hire of one of the Negroes named Coff" , 1763
File — Carton MSS Box 29
Identifier: Folder 82
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The contents of this collection consist of handwritten documents in English and Dutch belonging to Johannis Brando, William Brandow, Peter G. Brandow, and others in two document containers, primarily early indentures, leases, mortgages, wills, litigation records, and other documents pertaining to real and personal property in the Loonenburgh patent and town of Cattskill dating from about 1750. Notably, the collection includes 6 bills of sale and a bequest of enslaved adults and children dating...
Recollections by Frank Mucich of racial discrimination at Cementon, c. 1995
File — Case MSS Box 340: [MSS 2020.0014.0001]
Identifier: 340.34
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection comprises the personal materials of Frank Mucich of Cementon and Catskill, NY. Materials relate to the history of Cementon/Smith's Landing, an industrial hamlet south of the Village of Catskill on Route 9W near the Ulster/Greene County line. Of note are a selection of articles on Cementon's history and residents as authored by Frank Mucich, as well as two audio cassette oral histories in which Mr. Mucich disucsses Cementon and the regional mushroom industry which he was a part of in...
Sale of a Negro Wench named Gyn and her child Peter from Abraham Luquer to Thomas Schenk [Schenck], 1778
File — Carton MSS Box 332: [MSS.2020.0001.0013]
Identifier: 332.22
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series comprises the papers of the Meserole Family and Allied families of Bushwick and Brooklyn
Sale of Joseph, Gin, Tom, Betty, Manda, and Ball, six Negro Children, from Jane Meserole to Peter Meserole, 1809
File — Carton MSS Box 332: [MSS.2020.0001.0013]
Identifier: 332.57
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series comprises the papers of the Meserole Family and Allied families of Bushwick and Brooklyn