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Call Number: 1977.396
Extent: 0.02 Linear feet, in one folder.
One multipage document containing the Agricultural Society of Kings County’s constitution, bylaws, list of officers, goals, dues list, and meeting minutes, dated March 1807.
The Agricultural Society of Kings County was established by major landowners Jeremiah Johnson, Hendrick Lott, Leffert Lefferts, Jeremiah Lott, John Terhune, and John Vanderveer between December 27, 1806 and March 2, 1807. The focus of the Society was to promote agriculture, husbandry, and rural affairs.
Names:
- Agricultural Society of Kings County
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Agriculture — Societies, etc.
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- Constitutions
- Membership lists
- Minutes
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Call Number: 1977.365
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
This collection consists of a receipt, dated 1795, and an agreement, dated 1811, between Edward Tompkins and Thomas Way, both of the town of Newtown in Queens County. The agreement provides Tompkins with a farm Way owns for a term of ten years. Way also agrees to provide supplies to Tompkins in return for one-half the produce from the farm while Tompkins is there.
Names:
- Tompkins, Edward
- Way, Thomas
Places:
- Newtown (Queens County, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Farmers — New York (State) — Queens County
- Farms — New York (State) — Queens County
Types of material:
- Agreements
- Receipts (financial records)
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Call Number: 1977.474
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
One handwritten copy of an agreement establishing the creation of a public yard for the purpose of pasturing sheep in the towns of North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, and South Hempstead in Long Island, N.Y., dated August 22, 1791. A list of signers of the document is also included.
Places:
- North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)
- Oyster Bay (N.Y.)
- South Hempstead (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Land use — New York (State) — Nassau County
- Livestock — New York (State) — Nassau County
- Pastures — New York (State) — Nassau County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1973.292
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
Account book for the Brooklyn, New York farm of John C. Ditmas, dated 1837 to 1854. Housed in a single bound volume and handwritten, the account book lists prices paid and received for various goods and services.
Names:
- Ditmas, John C.
- Kings County Historical Society
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Account books — New York (State) — Kings County
- Farms — New York (State) — Kings County
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Call Number: 1973.165
Extent: 0.19 Linear feet, in one folder.
One bound volume containing handwritten abstracts of titles and deeds to several Brooklyn farms from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. A partial index of some farms is also included. The volume bears inscriptions stating that the abstracts were created by “W.L.S.” and “F.S.” The identities of these individuals, as well as what source(s) of information they used to compose the abstracts, are unknown.
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Deeds — New York (State) — Kings County
- Farms — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: ARC.280
Extent: 2.8 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and two flat boxes
Francis Skillman (1817-circa 1897) of Roslyn, Nassau County (part of Queens County in the nineteenth century), on Long Island, N.Y. was a Justice of the Peace from 1851-1876 in North Hempstead, a genealogist who published a family history of the Skillmans in 1892, and a farmer. The Francis Skillman papers include materials from each of these aspects of Skillman’s life. These materials include correspondence, a genealogy manuscript and the research underlying the manuscript, journals, a docket book, property agreements, and miscellaneous historical documents. The journals principally concern Skillman’s farming activities and his hiring of help. The correspondence can generally be categorized as: letters from the Civil War years to Skillman from Christian Walthert, a private in the 15th New York Regiment of Engineers; letters from Skillman to his brother principally concerning family matters; and responses to Skillman’s genealogical inquiries. Genealogical information on the Schenck and Onderdonk families can also be found in the collection.
Names:
- Skillman, Francis
- Onderdonk family
- Schenck family
- Skillman family
- United States. Army. New York Engineers Regiment, 15th (1861-1865)
Places:
- Nassau County (N.Y.)
- North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)
- Queens County (N.Y.)
- Roslyn (N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Long Island
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Long Island
- County courts — New York (State) — Long Island
- Crime — New York (State) — Long Island
- Family life
- Farmers — New York (State) — Long Island
- Genealogy
- Judges — New York (State) — Long Island
- Real property — New York (State) — Long Island
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- dockets
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Journals (accounts)
- Manuscript maps
- Manuscripts (document genre)
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Call Number: 1974.114
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one flat box
John C. Bergen (1826-1907) was a farmer on Bergen’s Island in Flatlands, Kings County, New York (now part of Brooklyn). His papers include pages from his diary (1846-1848, 1854); an account book with daybook and other transactional entries (1827-1835, 1865-1894); and Bergen’s 1866 federal tax return. The diary entries focus principally on daily farming activities, hunting (including at Barren Island), weather, and bringing goods to market in Brooklyn and other Kings County towns, with references to illnesses, participation in town meetings, Bible readings, and other aspects of daily rural life. A farmhand named John J. who appears frequently in the diary’s 1840s entries is, judging from an 1854 entry, an African-American.
Names:
- Bergen, John C.
- Bergen family
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.) — Climate
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Kings County
- Farmers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Farms — New York (State) — Kings County
- Markets — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Account books
- Daybooks
- Diaries
- Journals (accounts)
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Call Number: 1974.117
Extent: 2.4 Linear feet, in two oversize boxes.
Six ledgers of Henry Lloyd, recording financial transactions and accounts throughout the period 1703 to 1744. The volumes include four waste books (i.e., day books), one invoice book, and a journal that duplicates much of the information contained in the other volumes.
Names:
Places:
- Long Island (N.Y.) — Commerce
- Queens Village (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Farmers — New York (State) — Long Island
- Farmers — New York (State) — Queens County
- Landowners — New York (State) — Long Island
- Manors — New York (State) — Long Island
- Manors — New York (State) — Queens County
- Merchants
Types of material:
- Daybooks
- Financial records
- Ledgers (account books)
- Volumes (documents by form)
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Call Number: ARC.257
Extent: 2.25 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and two flat boxes
The collection includes the journals maintained from 1790 to 1826 by Flatlands (Kings County, N.Y.) farmer John Baxter (1765-1826) and from 1826 to 1835 by his son, Garret (1792-1835). In addition, the collection includes a manuscript attributed to Garret Bergen with extracts from the journals of both Baxters. The Bergen manuscript also includes extracts dated 1824 from a journal not in the collection, that of one John Bergen. Access to the documents in this collection is restricted because they are in exceptionally fragile condition. Researchers are requested to use the typescript transcriptions available in the library. Researchers requiring access to the original documents need to request permission in writing from the Director of Library and Archives.
With attributes of diaries, the subjects covered by the Baxter journals include farming and agriculture, market transactions, health and illness, social relationships, civic duties, and weather conditions. The division and overlap of labor across gender, age, and race can be discerned. References to African-Americans, including those enslaved, are found in the journals. Social networks and matters of genealogical interest are illustrated by the journals because individuals are attributed by name in connection with labor, social visits, recreation, Sunday preaching, medical assistance, marriages, births, and deaths. Among the many family names well-represented in the journals are Wyckoff, Stoothoff, Bergen, and Lott.
Names:
- Baxter, Garret S.
- Baxter, John, 1765-1826
- Bergen family
- Hegeman family
- Lott family
- Stoothoff family
- Vanderveer family
- Voorhees family
- Wyckoff family
- Bergen, Garret
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.) — Climate
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 19th century
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.) — History — War of 1812
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Kings County
- Families — Health and hygiene
- Farmers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Fishing — New York (State) — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Labor — New York (State) — Kings County
- Markets — New York (State) — New York
- Piety
- Slavery — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Diaries
- Journals (accounts)
- Transcripts
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Call Number: ARC.045
Extent: 10.0 Linear feet, in 8 manuscript boxes and 4 flat boxes
Henry Onderdonk (1804-1886) of Queens County, Long Island, New York, was an educator at Union Hall Academy, and an historian and author of many works based on his research among local records. The Onderdonk papers include manuscript versions of Onderdonk’s historical works; notes and transcriptions taken by Onderdonk from private journals, church and local government records, and newspapers; correspondence from historians, genealogists and others often conveying information requested by Onderdonk; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings covering the 1820s to 1868, with some earlier and later dated material. The bulk of the material concerns the geographic area encompassing present day Queens and Nassau counties, though the other two counties on Long Island, Kings and Suffolk, are also represented. The historical manuscripts, notes and extensive correspondence in the collection tend to center around Onderdonk’s research into the American Revolution, Quakers, churches, agriculture/animal husbandry, and genealogies, all with a focus on Long Island. Perhaps the most prominent correspondent is James Fenimore Cooper, whose three letters concern Loyalist Oliver de Lancey. Among the many other correspondents are historians George Bancroft, E. F. Ellet, E. B. O’Callaghan, Jeptha Root Simms, and Jared Sparks. The several scrapbooks in the collection, also with a Long Island focus, concern a number of subjects, principally electoral and partisan politics, agriculture, temperance, announcements and public notices for a wide variety of events, such as school openings, church dedications, auctions, cultural talks, etc., crimes and accidents, court proceedings, Civil War recruitments and drafts, and railroad developments, among other matters.
Names:
- Onderdonk, Henry, 1804-1886
- Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
- Bergen, Teunis G., 1806-1881
- Bowne, J. T., 1847-1925
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
- Corwin, Edward Tanjore, 1834-1914
- De Lancey, Oliver, 1718-1785
- Ellet, E. F., 1818-1877
- Frost, Gideon
- Hicks, Benjamin Doughty
- Hicks, John D.
- Hoadly, Charles J., 1828-1900
- Johnson, Jeremiah, 1768-1852
- Jones, William Alfred, 1817-1900
- King, John A., 1788-1867
- Latting, John Jordan, b. 1819
- Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
- O’Callaghan, E. B., 1797-1880
- Sabine, Lorenzo, 1803-1877
- Simms, Jeptha Root, 1807-1883
- Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866
- Strong, Thomas M.
- Stuart, I. W., 1809-1861
- Thompson, Benjamin F., 1784-1849
- Queens County Agricultural Society (N.Y.)
- Union Hall Academy (Jamaica, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
- Hempstead (N.Y.)
- Jamaica (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- Long Island (N.Y.) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Long Island (N.Y.) — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
- Nassau County (N.Y.)
- North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)
- Oyster Bay (N.Y.)
- Queens County (N.Y.)
- Suffolk County (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Queens County
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Long Island
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Queens County
- Church announcements
- County courts
- Crime — New York (State) — Long Island
- Crime — New York (State) — Queens County
- Fourth of July — New York (State) — Long Island
- Fourth of July — New York (State) — Queens County
- Genealogy
- Local elections — New York (State) — Long Island
- Local elections — New York (State) — Queens County
- Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776
- Press and politics
- Quakers — New York (State) — Long Island
- Quakers — New York (State) — Queens County
- Railroad companies — New York (State) — Long Island
- Temperance — Societies, etc.
Types of material:
- Birth records
- Burial records
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Genealogies
- Marriage records
- Scrapbooks
- Transcripts
- Vital statistics records
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