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FINDING AID FRIDAY! Town of Danby V-2-5-1 (page 1 of shown) Unlike the northern portion of Tompkins County, Danby was not surveyed into military lots for the payment of Revolutionary War soldiers. It was part of the extensive Watkins and Flint Tract, a vast expanse of land that was named for wealthy developers John Watkins and Royal Flint and others. They bought more than 300,000 acres from New York after the state dispossessed Native Americans in the 1790s. Some of the early settlers of European descent were the Dumond, Yaple, and Beers families. This collection contains an early history of the town in a transcript of an 1850 census, a collection of newspaper articles and a 1978 village tour with a copy of an 1879 history of Danby attached. The “Danby Area News” from 1988 to 1993 provides a more recent account. Town of Danby Collection V-2-5-1Civil War related material includes a furlough notice and enrollment and descriptive records for Company F, 50th Regiment. For more information, or to make an appointment to explore our collections email archives@thehistorycenter.net. Our manuscript collections include Finding Aids, which are detailed box lists describing each collection's contents. They are critical introductions to the collections, and some of the many Finding Aids in The History Center's archives can be reviewed at https://lnkd.in/e5SGdETR . #TompkinsHistory #FindingAid #ArchivalFindingAid #archives #tompkinscounty #townofdanby #danbyny #danby

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