COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes 24 scrapbooks and 12 notebooks compiled by Mulks, including notes on the settlement, migration, and treaties of Indians; Caroline, New York, slave population; local folklore; histories of many prominent families of Tompkins County, including the Ellis, Meddaugh (Middaugh), Mandeville, Mulks, Cornell, DeWitt, Speed, Thomas, and Cantine families; personal material; and notes on many other topics. Also, biographical sketch of Charles F. Mulks by Jane P. M. Vaughn (1975); photograph of Mulks; documents concerning the acqusition of land in the towns of Caroline (1800-38) and Ulysses (1833), New York; promissory notes, Dutchess County (1799, 1809); Erie Canal Directory and Rate Schedule (1847); internal revenue licenses (1860s); Phillips family estate settlement papers; and Thomas family genealogical data.
Dates
- 1799-1905, 1975.
Creator
- Mulks, Charles F., 1837-1907. (Person)
- Vaughn, Jane P. M. (Person)
- Middaugh family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Charles Freer Mulks was born in Slaterville Springs, Tompkins County, New York, and lived much of his life in nearby Ithaca. A descendant of Benoni Mulks, an early settler of the area, Mulks was interested in the history of Tompkins County, and kept a record of family histories and local events in a series of notebooks and scrapbooks.
Extent
2.8 cubic feet. (2.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes 24 scrapbooks and 12 notebooks compiled by Mulks with material relating to Tompkins County and nearby areas..
Physical Description
Scrapbooks and notebooks.
- Biographies.
- Cantine family.
- Caroline (N.Y.) -- History.
- Cornell family.
- DeWitt family.
- Ellis family.
- Erie Canal.
- Folklore -- New York -- Tompkins County.
- Genealogies.
- Indians of North America -- New York -- Treaties.
- Indians of North America -- New York.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History.
- Mandeville family.
- Middaugh family.
- Mulks family.
- Phillips family.
- Photographs.
- Real property, Exchange of -- New York -- Caroline.
- Scrapbooks.
- Slaterville Springs (N.Y.) -- History.
- Slave records -- New York -- Caroline.
- Speed family.
- Thomas family.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- History
- 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
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