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Collection
Identifier: c-00274
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a statement of taxes paid on a plot of land in Berrien County between 1838-1859, and a deed for land in Berrien County purchased by John Gibson.
Dates:
1860 - 1863
Collection
Identifier: c-00286
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of deeds and receipts of John Shaw of Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included is a Civil War letter describing battles around Richmond, Virginia, a letter licensing Shaw as a minister of the Christian Church of Adrian and Rome, Michigan (1867).The Civil War letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates:
1838 - 1872
Collection
Identifier: c-00306
Scope and Contents
This collection includes grants of public lands in the District of Detroit, Michigan Territory, to Samuel W. Dexter of New York (1824-1825). The collection also contains deeds, pertaining to lands in Washtenaw and Shiawassee Counties, Michigan, purchased by Dexter. Also included are tax receipts for land in Shiawassee County belonging to Francis Prevost and Alvin Brown Lodge, Lodge No. 30 (1884), and a certificate of recommendation into the Masonic Order for Luther Boyden of Mississippi.
Dates:
1824 - 1869
Collection
Identifier: c-00238
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter from Martha C. Bradley to Nancy Kimball, describing the sinking of her husband's whaling ship and sending family news. Also included is a deed for land in Berrien County, Michigan, sold by Mrs. Bradley in 1866.
Dates:
1851, 1866
Collection
Identifier: c-00072
Scope and Contents
The Smith family papers consist mostly of Alfred Smith's letters to his parents while he was in the Army, and correspondence exchanged by family members in Michigan and New York in the years following the war. The collection also includes various documents including insurance policies, deeds, mortgages, and a lottery advertisement (1868).Subjects of particular interest from Alfred's correspondence include conditions in the Union hospital at Albany, New York (July 12, 1862);...
Dates:
1850 - 1892
Collection
Identifier: c-00635
Scope and Contents
This publication provides an outline of all the residents and landowners of Meridian Township, Ingham County, Michigan in the nineteenth century. The information outlined came from federal censuses, cemetery records and several atlases. Near the beginning of the publication there is a citation for each person along with their age at the time of the record.
Dates:
1992
Collection
Identifier: c-00194
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two deeds from the government land office in Bronson, Michigan, for land purchased by Thomas Kenworthy.
Dates:
1839
Collection
Identifier: c-00413
Scope and Contents
This collection contains deeds, mortgages, tax receipts, and a diary (1878) of Aaron K. Waldron, a prominent farmer of Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included is family correspondence (1863-1879) including two Civil War letters (1863) to Waldron's wife, nee Sarah Gunderman, from her brothers John, 126th New York Regiment, and Abram, 148th New York Regiment.The Civil War letters have been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates:
1846 - 1904
Collection
Identifier: c-00327
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letter fragments, receipts, handbills, copies of a hand-written newspapers, and business and household accounts of John, Edward, and Purden Waterous, who moved from Avon, New York, to the Grand Blanc area of Michigan (circa 1830).Three ledgers - "cider books" - record the business transactions of Edward Waterous' New York distillery. Dated from 1807-1829, the ledgers note customers' names, grain and whiskey prices, and some grocery prices. A whiskey tax...
Dates:
1800 - 1910
Collection
Identifier: c-00266
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a deed for land in Berrien County, Michigan, purchased by William Cushing (1864), receipts for taxes paid on the land (1865, 1866), and a deed from the sale of the land to Sarah Harger (1867).
Dates:
1864 - 1867
