Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Richard G. Sheeran |
| Title: | Richard G. Sheeran Collection of Early Onondaga County and Syracuse Manuscripts |
| Dates: | 1797 - 1893 |
| Quantity: | 1.67 Linear Feet |
| Abstract: | Letters and documents written by and about early Syracuse and Onondaga County pioneers, dating from 1797 - 1893. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Onondaga County Public Library Local History & Genealogy Department 447 South Salina Street Syracuse, New York, 13202 (315) 435-1900 |
Richard G. Sheeran, Syracuse resident and Onondaga County employee, has a long standing interest in the early history and pioneers of Syracuse and Onondaga County. During the 1960’s Mr. Sheeran purchased a collection of letters and manuscripts from his neighbor Paul Livingston. These documents chronicle pieces of the early establishment and growth of the city of Syracuse and surrounding Onondaga County during the years 1797 – 1893. While Mr. Sheeran owned this collection, he put them on display in the Onondaga County Courthouse. This exhibit featured the early manuscripts, with exhibition write ups describing the context of the documents to the history of the area. These exhibition write ups are housed with the manuscripts. In 1985 Mr. Sheeran donated his collection of documents and letters of early Onondaga County and Syracuse history to the Onondaga County Public Library. At that time Mr. Sheeran was employed as the Purchasing Director for Onondaga County. Through his work at the county, Mr. Sheeran came to know the Onondaga County Public Library Director Robert Kinchen. Mr. Sheeran offered his manuscript collection to Mr. Kinchen to be housed and preserved by the Onondaga County Public Library. The library accepted this donation. Prior to the donation, Mr. Sheeran had the collection appraised and this appraisal is included in the archive. Two of the documents on the appraisal are no longer a part of the collection.
This collection consists of letters and documents relating to the early history of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York dating from 1797 – 1893. The collection is divided into two categories, the Onondaga County documents and the Syracuse Documents.
Series 1 – Onondaga County Records
This series comprises 9 documents, including letters, receipts, land surveys and appointments. These documents date from 1797 – 1851 and all relate to persons or events connected with Onondaga County, New York. The Onondaga County documents are arranged in chronological order.
Series 2 – Syracuse Records
The 10 documents in this series include letters, certificates, receipts and invoices ranging in dates from 1793-1893. These records describe some of the early history and people of the city of Syracuse, NY. The City of Syracuse documents are arranged in chronological order.
This collection is arranged into 2 series – Onondaga County and Syracuse. Within each series the documents are arranged in chronological order.
User must have a valid Onondaga County Public Library card.
User must use materials in the Local History and Genealogy Department of the Central Library.
Permission must be obtained from staff for reproduction of any materials.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Richard G. Sheeran Collection
Onondaga County Public Library
Local History and Genealogy Department
Gift from Richard G. Sheeran to the Onondaga County Public Library.
Created by: bes
Date: Nov. 29, 2010
Revision history:
| Onondaga County Documents | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from Asa Danforth, Jr. to William Green and Methiah Green contracting to pay for grain with salt,Jan. 19, 1796 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from Asa Danforth, Sr. to T. Greene,Aug. 15, 1797 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from Comfort Tyler to Jona Dayton pertaining to the procurement of settlers and settling land to establish a new colony without ties to the United States,Aug. 7, 1806 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Appointment of Oliver Teal as Sergeant in Jared Ludingtons’s Company of Thaddeus Wood’s Regiment of Militia,Oct. 3, 1809 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Appointment of Joshua Forman as First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Onondaga,Mar. 11 1813 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Receipt to Simeon Dewitt for payment of advertising in the Salina Sentinel (newspaper) for land sale in Manlius, NY,Apr. 3, 1827 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Mortgage signed by James Geddes for property in the town of Onondaga, witnessed by M.W. Bennett and Wheeler Truesdell,April 1, 1829 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from B. Byington to I. and J. Townsend requesting financial backing to drill for beds of salt in the city of Syracuse,April 23, 1832 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter of agreement from Onondaga Chiefs David Smith, Samuel George, George Webster, Henry Webster to pay J.A. Sanford for his services as an interpreter,Apr. 21, 1851 | ||||||||||
| Syracuse Documents | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Mortgage document signed by agent Joshua Forman,July 20, 1818 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Envelope from John Wilkinson to Philip Phelps,Sept. 10, 1828 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Promissory agreement from Albion Jackson to John Gridley,Feb. 10, 1830 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from Harvey Baldwin to Isaiah Townsand,Feb. 10, 1834 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from Philo N. Rust to John Townsend,Sept. 26, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from E. D. Hopping to his wife, Mrs. Hopping regarding the Syracuse gunpowder explosion of 1841,Aug. 22, 1841 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Deposit Slip, Bank of Salina, signed by M.W. Bennett (cashier) to the credit of Jacob Haight, Treasurer by Thomas Spenser, Supt. of Onondaga Salt Springs,Aug. 3, 1841 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Highest Honors Certificate from Principal R.R. Stetson, to Frances Amelia Clark, Syracuse Public School No. 5,April 6, 1849 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Invoice from John Greenway, Brewer and Maltster to Martin Christen of McConnellsville for the purchase of ale,Aug. 20 and Aug. 23, 1869 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Letter from Thomas G. Alvord to his cousin (not named),Oct. 24, 1893 | ||||||||||
| Supplementary Materials | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Appraisal/Donation Letter from Richard G. Sheeran to Robert Kinchen,Dec. 30, 1985 | ||||||||||