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...

Scope and Contents File contains various business papers and legal agreements from Columbia County including a bill of sale for the purchase of a slave girl named Grace by Jonathan Biglow of Livingston Manor.

Scope and Contents File contains indentures, contracts, articles of agreement, a memorandum, bill of sales, a legal judgment, a petition to the court of common pleas, release of debt document, accounts, will, a release of a Negro child named Tom, two years old, from Nathan Burns to John R. Van Den Bergh, Last will and Testament of John R. Van Den Bergh including bequest of a Negro slave woman to his wife.

Scope and Contents File contains the indenture as apprentice of former slave Nan Bronk to Daniel B. Wilcox as a house servent. Dick and Nan Bronk mentioned in the document are former African-American slaves of the Bronk family.