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Adgate Family - "An Act to Erect a Town in Clinton County," (Peru, NY), Dec. 28, 1793

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 123

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Contains a wide array of government records (primarily birth, marriage, and death certificates), news clippings and obituaries, estate and other financial records, as well as personal ephemera. Several folders contain material related to Beatrice Maud (Michell) Knowles and her work as the president of American Mothers. Knowles’s address to Congress on behalf of the group and her accusations of libelous content regarding her activism in Arthur Derounian’s 1943 book Under Cover (written under pseudonym John Roy Carlson) are also included.

Dates

  • Creation: Dec. 28, 1793

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Loren M. Knowles family papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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