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Summary Information
William Pierrepont
White collection,
William Pierrepont. White
1728-1939.
63.6 cubic
ft.
Abstract:: Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts,
maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts,
inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers
reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and
related families, concerning their activities in the development of land,
canals, railroads, cotton manufacturing, mining, banking, and highways, chiefly
in New York State. The early papers relate to the White family of Middletown,
Connecticut, and the development after 1783 of Whitestown, New York, and
include the town books (1807-1823) for Richland, New York, church records,
early election returns, deeds, documents on the Brothertown Indians, grist
mills, civil and criminal cases, slave sales, the War of 1812, the Bank of
Utica, and the Pierrepont Land Office. Includes the diary of William Pierrepont
White. One group of papers relates to the disposal of the Constable lands and
the development of Pierrepont Manor, and contains statements of land contracts
(1801-1810) given by William Constable, an inventory of the Constable estate
(1829), a memorandum of journeys made by William Constable Pierrepont to the
Constable tract, lists of bonds for Ellisburgh, New York (1834-1841), and a
series of letters from Franklin B. Hough relating to life boats for Ellisburgh
and Oswego, and to other matters.
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Language: Collection material in English
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
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