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Minority History and Heritage

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Agreement to lease homestead farm, including proceeds from the house and garden occupied by "colored man Thomas Brandow", between William Brandow and Peter G. Brandow, Athens , 1852-1853

 File — Carton MSS Box 7
Identifier: Folder 56
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...

Agreement to lease homestead farm, including proceeds from the house and garden occupied by "colored man Thomas Brandow", between William Brandow and Peter G. Brandow, Athens, 1851

 File — Carton MSS Box 7
Identifier: Folder 55
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...

Bill of Sale of Betty, a Negro Woman, from Peter Duryee to Peter Meserole, 1814

 File — Carton MSS Box 332: [MSS.2020.0001.0013]
Identifier: 332.65
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series comprises the papers of the Meserole Family and Allied families of Bushwick and Brooklyn

Greene County Interracial Council Papers

 Collection — Carton MSS Box 91: [MSS 2019.0009.0001]
Identifier: MSS 2019.0009
Scope and Contents Collection comprises a selection of correspondence and papers from the Catskill Interracial Discussion Group, Catskill Interracial Council, Society for Negro Art and Culture of Catskill, and the Greene County Interacial Council [GCIR]. Of particular note is a selection of letters mailed by candidates for local offices in 1968 in which the candidates give their opinions in writing on the role and ability of local government and citizens to improve opportunities for African-American community...

Indenture to lease homestead farm, including accounting for produce paid to hired man, from William Brandow to Peter G. Brandow, Athens, 1848

 File — Carton MSS Box 7
Identifier: Folder 52
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 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...

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