This letter to the editor, clipped from the Chester Independent Republican newspaper, discusses two proposed routes for the new state road connecting Chester and Monroe. The swamp road, as "Farmer's Boy" calls it, was the one that was built. ...
A search of the Deeds of Orange County is necessary to determine if this Phinehas Heard & William Heard to Abijah Yelverton unexecuted Deed is a copy of a transaction that actually occurred or if the deal failed after the deed was drawn.
This indenture documents the sale by Samuel Gelston, a Gentleman and his Wife, Elizabeth of a 193 acre plot to Nehemiah Smith for five shilling plus one Pepper Corn to be delivered in and upon the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel.
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
Photographs; Public speaking; Banquets; Coaches (Athletics); Dining tables
Mr. William Breed, Project Manager of the IBM Country Club and member of the Hyde Park Board of Education speaking at the DCC first annual athletic awards banquet. The topic of his speech was "the value of athletics in industry". Dr. James Hall is...
Handwritten letter dated June 15, 1836, from David Boyd, owner of a tanning business in Poughkeepsie, NY, to his 11-year-old son John Gary Boyd. John is a student at the Academy School, located on Huguenot Street in New Paltz, NY. He is obviously...
Women; Correspondence; Diseases; Medicine; Health care;
Twelve days after the death of Leah's baby Mary, Leah has become quite feeble. Thomas writes, "I must say that I have not
all along entertained in my own mind any doubt as to her recovery." Leah has been treated with cod liver oil which appeared to...