Church family papers, 1784-1957, 2000
Collection
Identifier: SC-08
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.
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
Extent
2 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Arrangement
This collection is arranged at the file level and does not include series.
Location
Box 1-2: Archives Storage / Range 23A / Section 1;
Box 3: Archives Office / Section 4
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.)
- Coffin, Alice Church
- Coffin, Marian Cruger, 1876-1957
- Contracts
- Correspondence
- Court records
- 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
- Morse, Mary T.
- Naulin, Melissa Carrie
- Obituaries
- Pacey family
- Pacey family - Genealogy
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- Schuyler family
- Schuyler family -- Genealogy
- Scrapbooks
- Van Rennsalaer, Stephen
- Warren, Angelica Church
- Wills
- Title
- Church family papers, 1784-1957, 2000: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Tricia McEldowney, Archivist
- Date
- March 2018
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- 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
Contact:
Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva New York 14456 U.S.A. US (United States)
archives@hws.edu
Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva New York 14456 U.S.A. US (United States)
archives@hws.edu
