Jesse Woodhull paid the people on this hand written list which includse many prominent land owner's, leading us to suspect that this is related to some official project. Jesse Woodhull was involved in overseeing the roadways, school district...
In 1810 a group of New Paltz slave holders joined together to form "The Society of Negroes Unsettled". This group of twelve men appointed four among them to search for slaves that had run away from the group. They were to be paid $14 a day for...
Meeker Griffin writes to his parents hoping that they are in good health. He describes an incident in Army Company H, where a soldier is accidentally shot and killed and another is wounded.
This image is a copy of an advertisement for an inn called the Come Inn as well as a postcard pictured with its reverse for the same inn. The advertisement includes a map of the Hudson Valley from New York City up to Newburgh with many place names...
These photographs feature on the inside of a bi-fold postcard. The front of the postcard features a map of the Lower Hudson Valley indicating the route from the region to the Come Inn in Tomkins Cove, N. Y. The photographs on the left side of the...