Leander Crawford Purdy and Louisa (Canfield) Purdy, collectors, family papers
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Indentures, wills, deeds, and other legal documents, 1738-1838, from Deer Park, Goshen, Minisink, Hanover, Montgomery, Wallkill, and other places in Orange and Ulster Counties, New York; undated and unspecified surveyors' notations; estate settlement, investment, and personal accounts; a farm and store account book (1847-1857) of William Little of Mount Hope; loan and dowry records; recipe books; children's school exercise books; diary of Jesse W. Canfield of Pleasant Valley, New Jersey, with comments on his school days, teaching, family and friends, and his religious experience. Also, microfilmed copies of correspondence, notebooks, and genealogical research materials pertaining mainly to the Canfield, Crawford, and Purdy families, but also to the related Barclays, Ketchams, and Littles. Also includes miscellaneous items relating to Alsop, Leander, and Louisa (Canfield) Purdy, and constitution and minutes of the Mount Hope Debating Society (1 volume, 1856-1862).
Dates
- 1738-1925.
Creator
- Purdy, Leander Crawford (Collector, Person)
- Purdy, Louisa. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
.4 cubic feet.
Abstract
Legal and financial documents, recipe books, children's school exercise books and diary of Jesse W. Canfield as well as items relating to Leander, and Louisa (Canfield) Purdy. Also, microfilmed copies research materials pertaining mainly to the Canfield, Crawford, and Purdy families, but also to the related Barclays, Ketchams, and Littles.
Physical Description
Diary, books, legal and financial documents and microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, 2008
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, March 2016
- Account books.
- Barclay family.
- Canfield family.
- Canfield, Jesse W.
- Canfield, Louisa.
- Crawford family.
- Debates and debating.
- Deer Park (N.Y.)
- Diaries.
- Dowry.
- Education.
- Genealogies.
- Goshen (N.Y.)
- Hanover (N.Y.)
- Ketcham family.
- Little family.
- Little, William.
- Minisink (N.Y.)
- Montgomery (N.Y.)
- Mount Hope Debating Society
- Orange County (N.Y.)
- Pleasant Valley (N.J.)
- Purdy family.
- Purdy, Alsop.
- Purdy, Louisa Canfield.
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Recipes.
- Religion.
- Teaching.
- Ulster County (N.Y.)
- Wallkill (N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu