Scope and Content Note

This collection is a compilation of a number of miscellaneous manuscript collections that relate to the early history of Ulster County, New York. One portion comes from the Tomlinson Collection, formerly owned by the Mercantile Library Association. Almost exclusively made up of land conveyances, this segment comprises a relatively small portion of the collection. The remaining material, from a variety of sources, includes land transactions but also legal documents, financial papers, military items and some correspondence. Certain Ulster County surnames frequently appear, such as Schuyler, Alexander, Provoost, Beekman, Van Cortlandt, De Peyster, Harrison and Colden.