Found 7 collections related to Smith family

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. less

Collection contains correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Peter Smith dating from 1792-1837; papers of philanthropist and reformer Gerrit Smith, including family letters, circulars, political speeches on peace, temperance, abolition, women's suffrage, and the Irish cause dating from 1797-1874; correspondence of Elizabeth (Smith) Miller, 1843-1907; letters of Susan B. Anthony, 1869-1905; letters of Samuel Worcester Green containing reminiscences of Gerrit Smith; correspondence (1843-1895) of Charles Dudley Miller; Cochrane family papers (1825-1898); papers of high sheriff of Albany County, New York, Henry Ten Eyck, Jr.; and other papers of the Smith family of Peterboro, Madison County, New York less

The W. Ward Smith genealogical research papers contains William Ward Smith's genealogical notes, essays, clippings, charts, correspondence, ca. 1920s-1940s; original family letters and documents; and photographs relating to Smith's genealogical research on the Smith family of New York and New England, including the Smiths of Lyme, Conn., and the related Berrien, Cowenhoven, Eliot, Elwes, Leverich, Mather, Riker, Suydam, Trowbridge, Vandevoort, and Ward families. Notable content includes letters, 1816-1851, of Henry Elwes, a Catholic priest, including letters, 1834-1839, while at the English College, Rome, Italy, to his brother Alfred Elwes, a U.S. Army doctor at Fort Hamilton, Long Island, N.Y. (great-grandfather of W. Ward Smith) concerning family, health, personal, and political matters, as well as Elwes' work and training in the priesthood, and from the 1840s-1850s, when he was at Cossey Hall, Norwich, England, written to other family members. The collection also contain letters, 1886-1910, to Smith's grandfather, Albert Mather Smith, Engineer of Distribution for the Consolidated Gas Company of New York City concerning aspects of the gas, lighting, and power business. Photographs includes images of W. Ward Smith as a child, and his parents, Eliza Palmer Ward Smith, and Charles Albert Smith, in Garrison, N.Y. and elsewhere; also, a carte-de-visite of Captain Albert M. Smith, Baltimore, 1862, and two stereoscopic views, one of men of Co. D, 7th N.Y.N.G. at Camp Cameron, Washington D.C., 1861; and of officers of the 37th N.Y.S.M. at Capt. Albert M. Smith's tent, Camp Belger, Baltimore, Md., 1862. less

Joshua Hett Smith (1749-1818), a New York City lawyer, was the youngest brother of American Loyalist William Smith Jr. (1728-1793). The collection consists of Joshua Hett Smith's letter of consolation, 1816 March 5, to his niece Mary on the death of her mother, Sarah Smith Keteltas (died 1815), with a typed transcript of same. The letter is addressed to Miss Mary Kittletass at Jamaica, Long Island. less