Guide to the
Asa Grant Family Papers
1737-1920
New York State Historical Association – Research Library
Special Collections
Cooperstown, New York
Collection Information
Repository: New York State Historical
Association - Research Library
Special Collections
P.O. Box 800, Lake
Road
Cooperstown, NY
13326
(607) 547-1470
Collection: Asa Grant Family Papers
Collection
Number: 417
Accession
Numbers: NM-028.99, NM-013.00, NM-010.01,
NM-016.02, NM-011.03, NM-009.04
Extent of
Collection: 2 cubic ft. + 2 oversize
folders
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Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the papers
of Asa Grant and family of Middletown, Delaware
County, N.Y. It includes
correspondence, legal / court documents, military papers, receipts, and
deeds documenting Asa Grant's
roles in the 174th Regiment of the 25th Brigade of
Militia in New York State (and other brigades), and as Justice of the
Peace, postmaster, and member of the New York State Assembly. It also includes personal papers of
the Grant family, particularly correspondence, along with papers of the
related Fisher and Waterbury families. One
prominent subject was the property dispute between the Grants and Waterburys over Asa Grant'ss estate. Additionally, this collection
contains wills and genealogy.
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Inventory
Box 1
417.1/1 Account
book -- includes notes and index. 1872-1891.
.1/2 Deposit, N.Y. property
chronology from 1873 to 1914. Property went from Williams to Merriam to
Judd to Dawson families. undated.
.1/3 Domestic
Missionary Society of Delaware County / American Home Missionary Society.
Annual Report. 1827.
.1/4 Dorr, Thomas. Letter sent from
Rhode Island State Prison. 1844.
.1/5 Fisher,
Alice. Letters received. 1809-1824.
.1/6 Fisher, Elizabeth. Letters
received. 1826-1849.
.1/7 Fisher, Elizabeth. Letters to
husband, Josiah Fisher. 1845-1853.
.1/8 Fisher family. Correspondence.
1824-1847, dates unclear.
.1/9 Fisher family genealogy. undated.
.1/10 Fisher, James B. Letters sent to
parents and wife. 1865-1869.
.1/11 Fisher, Josiah. Letters received, and
receipt. 1839-1852.
.1/12 Fisher, Josiah. Letters to son and doctor.
1845, 1852.
.1/13 Fisher, Josiah. Letters to wife,
Elizabeth Fisher. 1836, 1845-1851, undated.
.1/14 Fisher, Samuel. Letters received.
1808-1854 (1 of 2).
.1/15 Fisher, Samuel. Letters received.
1808-1854 (2 of 2).
.1/16 Fisher, Samuel. Letters sent.
1839-1847, date unclear.
.1/17 Grant and Waterbury families.
Correspondence, receipts, poems, petitions, Albany Academy brochure,
church program, and a recipe. 1796-1894.
.1/18 Grant and Waterbury families.
Deeds, leases, and correspondence. 1795-1892, undated.
.1/19 Grant and Waterbury families.
Receipts and accounts. 1841-1848, undated.
.1/20 Grant, Anna. Letters received.
1819-1825, [1870?].
.1/21 Grant, Anna. Letters received.
1832-1839.
.1/22 Grant, Anna. Letters received.
1840-1849.
.1/23 Grant, Anna. Letters received. undated.
.1/24 Grant, Asa.
Correspondence relating to his position as postmaster of Middletown,
Delaware County, N.Y. 1815-1848, undated.
.1/25 Grant, Asa.
Financial requests to Doctor White on behalf of
clients
/ patients. 1812-1813.
.1/26 Grant, Asa.
Legal / court documents, correspondence, receipts, and accounts.
1788-1859, undated (1 of 6).
.1/27 Grant, Asa.
Legal / court documents, correspondence, receipts, and accounts.
1788-1859, undated (2 of 6).
.1/28 Grant, Asa.
Legal / court documents, correspondence, receipts, and accounts.
1788-1859, undated (3 of 6).
.1/29 Grant, Asa.
Legal / court documents, correspondence, receipts, and accounts.
1788-1859, undated (4 of 6).
.1/30 Grant, Asa.
Legal / court documents, correspondence, receipts, and accounts.
1788-1859, undated (5 of 6).
.1/31 Grant, Asa.
Legal / court documents, correspondence, receipts, and accounts.
1788-1859, undated (6 of 6).
Box 2
417.2/1 Grant,
Asa. Letters received. 1818-1850 (1 of 2).
.2/2 Grant, Asa.
Letters received. 1818-1850 (2 of 2).
.2/3 Grant,
Asa. Letters received --
mostly related to his position as a member of the New York State
Assembly. 1786, 1814-1823.
.2/4 Grant, Asa.
Letters sent. 1821-1842.
.2/5 Grant,
Asa. Lists of sundry articles transported,
resolutions of a meeting of Republican electors in Middletown, and notes
from a town meeting.
1807-1808, undated.
.2/6 Grant,
Asa. Lumber rafting agreements and
correspondence. 1810-1816, 1835.
.2/7 Grant, Asa.
Military correspondence. 1811-1818.
.2/8 Grant,
Asa. Military court martial fines,
and enlistment roll. 1812-1817.
.2/9 Grant,
Asa. Military notebook, reward notices for
deserters, receipts, correspondence, muster rolls, lists of volunteers
and officers, guard reports, and inspection return. 1812-1817, undated.
.2/10 Grant,
Asa. Military orders. 1811-1813.
.2/11 Grant,
Asa. Military orders. 1814-1818.
.2/12 Grant,
Asa. Military parade inspection returns.
1814-1817.
.2/13 Grant,
Asa. New York State Assembly notes, report, and
letters.
1821-1825, undated.
.2/14 Grant
family. Correspondence, receipts, wills, and estate inventories.
1750-1855, undated.
.2/15 Grant
family genealogy. 1825, 1898-1907, undated.
.2/16 Grant
family. Legal correspondence, Grant / Waterbury property dispute papers,
receipts, map of John Grant's lot in Hardenburgh Patent, and Noah Grant deed. 1792-1857.
.2/17 Grant, John. Correspondence and
affidavit. 1808-1813, 1858.
.2/18 Grant, John and Asa.
Receipts from rent paid for lot in Hardenburgh Patent.
1803-1850.
.2/19 Grant, Polly. Letters received -- mostly from Asa Grant.
1817-1834.
.2/20 Grant,
Polly. Letters sent. 1834-1835.
.2/21 Grant, Thankful. Correspondence,
and poem by unknown author.
1795-1802, undated.
.2/22 Knox family genealogy, covering circa
1710 to 1850. undated.
.2/23 Land indenture for schoolhouse in
Middletown, N.Y. 1820.
.2/24 Ledger -- lists food items and tickets sold, and work performed.
1897-1901.
.2/25 Lewis, Jane and family. Receipts,
correspondence, genealogy, and a legal judgment. 1737, 1791-1802,
undated.
.2/26 Medical prescriptions / recipes. undated.
.2/27 New
York State Assembly seating diagrams (2), including seats of A. Grant and
Daniel Waterbury. 1861, undated.
.2/28 Property
dispute -- court documents and correspondence
related to Asa Grant estate dispute of Grant
and Waterbury families. 1795-1872.
.2/29 Property
dispute over Asa Grant estate (Lot #1: Great
Lots 7 and 10 of Hardenburgh Patent, Delaware
County). Correspondence. 1911-1920.
.2/30 Property dispute -- Waterburys vs. John Grant. Court documents.
1857-1858.
.2/31 Recipe book (manuscript) with
enclosures. undated.
.2/32 Waterbury, Daniel. Correspondence,
estate inventory, prayer, poem, Grant genealogical chart, and an
inventory of books. 1826-1847, undated.
.2/33 Waterbury family. Account book +
enclosures. 1849-1867.
.2/34 Wheeler, William. Court settlements,
contracts, receipts, and correspondence. 1831-1843.
Oversize folders
417.01
Asa Grant military
promotion certificates, military receipt roll of payment, receipts, and
military subscription; Daniel Waterbury land indenture and list of books
on commission; and Issac / Nathaniel Lewis
deed. 1737-1826.
.02 Quit claim deeds -- between Waterbury and Grant families. 1855-1856.
