Smith family documents

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unitid

{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18108", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"18108", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Smith family documents"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1736-1942", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1736/1942"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".4 linear feet (1 box)"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1736

date_inclusive_end

1942

origination

{"value"=>"Smith family", "type"=>"famname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>The Smith family of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, N.Y. is descended from John \"Rock\" Smith, fl. 1665.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Anna Bailey Smith (Mrs. Richard Wallace Smith) to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1956.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Smith family documents, 1736-1942, consist primarily of deeds and other contracts concerning the Smith family of Brookhaven, N.Y. The collection includes indentures for land transactions, records of road surveys, wills, articles of agreement for employment, tenant leases, subpoenas, land search records, specifications for building a house, mortgages, accounts, receipts for payment of back taxes and a small amount of correspondence. Also present are inventories of household items, farm implements, and livestock in the possession of Joshua and Lucy Smith at the time of his death in 1811, and of their son Richard Wallace Smith's household items at the time of his death in 1868, as well as a photocopy of a Smith family tree.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"internal"=>true, "accession_number"=>"MSS 2008M27"}

keydate

1736

prefercite

{"value"=>"Smith family documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"The Smith family of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, N.Y. is descended from John \"Rock\" Smith, fl. 1665. Smith family documents, 1736-1942, consist primarily of deeds and other contracts concerning the Smith family of Brookhaven, N.Y. The collection includes indentures for land transactions, records of road surveys, wills, articles of agreement for employment, tenant leases, subpoenas, land search records, specifications for building a house, mortgages, accounts, receipts for payment of back taxes and a small amount of correspondence. Also present are inventories of household items, farm implements, and livestock in the possession of Joshua and Lucy Smith at the time of his death in 1811, and of their son Richard Wallace Smith's household items at the time of his death in 1868, as well as a photocopy of a Smith family tree.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

.4 linear feet (1 box)

date_start

1736

date_end

1942

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