COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, and other records and material pertaining to the activities of the Hulce family in Deposit, Delaware County, New York. Subjects include their lumbering interests along the Delaware River, the making of potash, a general store business, land speculation and real estate in New York, Pennsylvania, and the west, saw-mills, labor matters, waterpower, and brick-kilning. Areas of their especial interest include education, religion, politics (with particular reference to "Black Republicanism" and the Democratic Party), and temperance. Also included are historical sketches by Martial Hulce describing the early settlement of Deposit and vicinity. Papers pertaining to Deposit include post master's reports, local church records, records of the Deposit Bridge Company, plans for plank roads, records of the Deposit Volunteer Temperance Association, papers relating to the establishment of a Negro Sunday School (1864), and papers pertaining to the Deposit National Bank, Deposit Seminary, the New York and Erie Railroad, and other railroad, business, and local activities.
Dates
- 1773-1899.
Creator
- Hulce family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Martial R. Hulce was a sheriff, justice of the peace, businessman, editor, publisher, surveyor, and attorney. Sylvester D. Hulce was a justice of the peace, editor, and businessman.
Extent
4.9 cubic feet. (4.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, and other records and material pertaining to the activities of the Hulce family in Deposit, Delaware County, New York. Subjects include their lumbering interests along the Delaware River, the making of potash, a general store business, land speculation and real estate in New York, Pennsylvania, and the west, saw-mills, labor matters, waterpower, and brick-kilning. Areas of their especial interest include education, religion, politics (with particular reference to "Black Republicanism" and the Democratic Party), and temperance. Also included are historical sketches by Martial Hulce describing the early settlement of Deposit and vicinity.
Physical Description
Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, sketches, and other records and material.
- Account books.
- African American Sunday schools--New York (State)--Deposit.
- Contracts.
- Deeds.
- Delaware County (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Deposit (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Deposit (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Deposit (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
- Deposit (N.Y.) -- Manufactures.
- Deposit (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Deposit (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Deposit (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- Deposit Bridge Company (Deposit, N.Y.)
- Deposit National Bank (Deposit, N.Y.)
- Deposit Seminary (Deposit, N.Y.)
- Deposit Volunteer Temperance Association
- Editors.
- Families -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- General stores -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Hulce, Martial R.
- Hulce, Sylvester D.
- Inventories.
- Justices of the peace.
- Kilns -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Labor -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Lawyers.
- Lumber trade -- New York (State) -- Delaware County.
- Lumber trade -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Mills and mill-work -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- New York and Erie Railroad
- Plank roads -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Potash -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Publishers.
- Railroads -- New York (State) -- Delaware County.
- Real property -- New York (State)
- Real property -- Pennsylvania.
- Saw-mills -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Sheriffs.
- Surveyors.
- Surveys.
- Temperance -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Water-power -- New York (State) -- Deposit.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Huth, M. Warren
- Date
- November 2002
- 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