Church family papers
Scope and Contents
The Church family papers contain both personal and business correspondence, along with financial records, wills, newspaper clippings, and genealogical materials that span over a century. The largest part of the collection is comprised of Church family papers. Included in the collection are correspondence to and from family and friends in France. Some photographs and copies of photographs exist within the collection. A few members of the Church family are pictured. A postcard picture of the Belvidere home and a photograph of a chapel near Belvidere are included as well. Some pictures (photocopies) of Hobart College taken at the beginning of the twentieth century are also included.
A thesis by Melissa Carrie Naulin titled "All That a Genteel Family Need Require: The Church Family's Frontier Experience at Belvidere, Allegany County, New York" is also included. This thesis was written using the materials in the Church family papers and was submitted to the faculty at the University of Delaware in 2000.
Dates
- Majority of material found in 1784-1957, 2000
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on accessing material in this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Historical Note
The Church family was a well-known and prominant family in upstate New York in the nineteenth century. John B. Church and his wife Angelica [Schuyler] built Belvidere in 1804. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Church family papers contain both personal and business correspondence, along with financial records, wills, newspaper clippings, and genealogical materials that span over a century.
Arrangement
This collection is not arranged in series.
Location
Box 1-2: Archives Storage / Range 23A / Section 1;
Box 3: Archives Office / Section 4
Provenance
The Church Papers, containing correspondence, financial records, wills, genealogical materials, newspaper articles, and a scrapbook of the family were collected by Marian Cruger Coffin and Warren Hunting Smith and donated to the Archives and Special Collections of the Warren Hunting Smith Library.
- Church family
- Church family -- Genealogy
- Church, A. Hamilton
- Church, Anne Matilda Stewart
- Church, Elizabeth Barker
- Church, Henrietta Hubbard
- Church, John B.
- Church, Maria Trumbull
- Church, Philip Schuyler
- Church, Philip, 1778-1861
- Church, Richard
- Church, Walter S.
- Church, William Henry
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Coffin, Alice Church
- Coffin, Marian Cruger, 1876-1957
- Contracts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Court records Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cruger family
- Cruger family -- Genealogy
- Cruger, Angelica
- Cruger, Catherine Church
- Horwood, Elizabeth Church
- Horwood, Elizabeth Church
- Hosack, Sophia Church
- Hosack, Sophia Church
- Inheritance and succession Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Morse, Mary T.
- Naulin, Melissa Carrie
- Obituaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pacey family
- Pacey family - Genealogy
- Receipts (Acknowledgments) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Schuyler family
- Schuyler family -- Genealogy
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Van Rennsalaer, Stephen
- Warren, Angelica Church
- Wills Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Church family papers, 1784-1957, 2000: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Tricia McEldowney, Archivist
- Date
- March 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- March 2018: This collection had been previously processed. It was reprocessed in March 2018 to provide better clarity and ease of access of the collection as well as to better house the materials according to current archival best practices.
Repository Details
Part of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Archives and Special Collections Repository
Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva New York 14456 U.S.A. US (United States)
archives@hws.edu
