COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence; accounts of purchases, payments, and unsold lands; surveys; tax receipts, contracts, notes, bonds, deeds, powers of attorney; and maps and field notes of the New York Military Tract and city lots of Rochester and Ontario County, New York. Papers relating to Greig's land interests include material on the Chenango Triangle, the Hornby Estate, the New York Military Tract, Cottringer Tract, Ogden Tract, and Pulteney Estate. Documenting his activities as a promoter of internal improvements are materials on the Charlotte to Rochester Railroad, Erie Canal, Rochester and Carthage Railroad, Rochester and Ontario Plank Road, Sodus Canal Association, and the Sodus Land Company. Also included is miscellaneous material on local history, papers concerning the settlement of Greig's estate, and extensive correspondence and other papers of family members and friends in the United States, Scotland and England discussing American political and economic issues and internal British politics.
Also contains letters, papers, and other records of Thomas Morris, 1790-1848; John and Eunice Tryon, 1790-1819; John Phelps and John L. Phelps, 1790-1838; Joseph Fellows, 1828-1868; Elias Kane, 1791-1817; the Pulteney Estate, 1810-1821; Eliza Greig; Alexander Greig, 1825-1866; Alexander Duncan, 1830-1877; Chapins, 1791-1862; George W. Kirkland, 1784-1797; John Rankine, 1867-1879; and William Jeffrey, 1841-1870.
Dates
- 1794-1870.
Creator
- Greig, John, 1779-1858. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Land agent, lawyer.
John Greig was a land speculator prominent in the economic development of western New York State.
Extent
36 microfilm reels. (36 microfilm reels.)
Abstract
Correspondence; accounts of purchases, payments, and unsold lands; surveys; tax receipts, contracts, notes, bonds, deeds, powers of attorney; and maps and field notes of the New York Military Tract and city lots of Rochester and Ontario County, New York.
Physical Description
Correspondence, financial and Legal records, and notes.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- January 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2016
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2016
NOTES
Papers were filmed from the collection of George J. Skivington.
- Canals -- New York (State)
- Charlotte to Rochester Railroad
- Deeds.
- Duncan, Alexander.
- Erie Canal (N.Y.)
- Fellows, Joseph.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government.
- Greig, Alexander.
- Greig, Eliza.
- Jeffrey, William.
- Kane, Elias.
- Kirkland, George.
- Land companies -- New York (State)
- Land tenure -- New York (State)
- Land use -- Economic aspects -- New York (State)
- Maps.
- Morris, Thomas.
- Ontario County (N.Y.)
- Phelps and Gorham Purchase.
- Phelps, John L.
- Phelps, John.
- Pulteney Estate
- Railroads -- New York (State)
- Rankine, John.
- Real estate development -- New York (State)
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Roads -- New York (State)
- Rochester (N.Y.)
- Rochester and Carthage Railroad
- Rochester and Ontario Plank Road
- Scotland -- Politics and government.
- Sodus Canal (N.Y.)
- Sodus Canal Association
- Sodus Land Company
- Surveys.
- Tryon, Eunice.
- Tryon, John.
- United States -- Politics and government.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- January 2016
- 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