Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Brockway family. |
| Title: | Brockway family Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1805-1923 |
| Quantity: | 1 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the members of the Brockway family (of Central New York State, Syracuse, N.Y, and Fulton County, N.Y.). The collection consists of correspondence (largely incoming, to various family members), account books, church records, diaries, financial and legal papers, and memorabilia. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Tiffany Brockway (1774-1866) brought his family -- including his father, Nathan (1736-1822) -- from Rensselaer County to the central New York area, near what would become Broadalbin, in 1791. The unusual appellation had been Nathan's mother Elizabeth's maiden name; Nathan also had a brother named Tiffany Brockway (b. 1740).
In 1805 Tiffany Brockway and his first wife, Lucy Alvord (1778-1819), settled on a nearby farm called Locust Grove and eventually produced four daughters and two sons. He served as a major in the War of 1812 and for many years as a colonel in the local militia. Colonel Brockway was the first outspoken abolitionist in Broadalbin, and his home at Locust Grove was a known stop on the Underground Railroad that sheltered and assisted fugitive slaves. Brockway and his second wife, Mary G. Owen, had no children, but one of his sons by Lucy Alvord, Tiffany Brockway, Jr. (b. 1813), inherited the farm at Broadalbin.
Members of the Brockway Family were associated with Central New York State, Syracuse, N.Y, and Fulton County, N.Y.
[Portions of this biographical sketch obtained from "Obituaries and Biographies of Broadalbin," compiled by Dave Bixby and available online at http://fulton.nygenweb.net/bios/DBobitsBR.html.]
The Brockway Family Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, and published material relating to Colonel Tiffany Brockway, his father Nathan, son Tiffany Jr., and various other family members.
Biographical material includes genealogy notes and biographical sketches of various family members. Correspondence, largely incoming, contains letters to and from various family members, a letter about the family, and transcripts of letters. Subject files include account books, church records, diaries, financial papers, land surveys, legal agreements, newspaper clippings, photographs, settlement of estate, a speech, and unidentified miscellanea. The single item in Manuscripts is a speech by Tiffany Brockway, Jr. Published material contains a hymn by Helen Hale Brockway and a notice.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Brockway Family Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Mrs. Frederick Fuhrer and Anna B. Easton, 1962.
Created by: --
Date: ca. 1965
Revision history: 15 Oct 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC)
| Biographical material | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway genealogy notes | ||||||||||
| Biographical sketches | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Charles Tiffany | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Emma Hale | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Nathan | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Tiffany | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Easton, Anna Brockway | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Easton, James Irwin | ||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Incoming | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Babcock, Cornelia A. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Cornelia A. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Helen Hale | ||||||||||
| Brockway, Mary G. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Barlowe | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chase, Fanny | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | G | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hallett, Mollie | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Matthews, John | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, Emeline | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, Francis R. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, George W. 1829-1836, 1838, 1841-1849, 1851-1859, 1861-1864 (12 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, John H. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, Marana | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, Mary 1852, 1861, 1864, undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Post, Justus | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Seeber, John | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, Abild | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, John | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, Lucius 1842-1844, 1846-1847, 1850, 1852, 1854, 1856-1858 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, Sidney | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Webbene [?] | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Wells, Sarah L. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Brockway, Tiffany | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, John | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Tiffany Jr. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fergason, Peter | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gordon, P.R. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, George W. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, Mary G. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, Stephen | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, John | ||||||||||
| Smith, Lucius | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brockway, Mary | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Owen, George W. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, Marana | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Smith, Mary | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Wilson, Maria | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Transcripts from various family members | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Correspondence by others, concerning Brockway family | ||||||||||
| Subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Account book (Tiffany Brockway, Jr.) 1838-1866 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Account book (unidentified) 1842-1845 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Church records (Tiffany Brockway) 1835, 1868, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Commission (Tiffany Brockway, Jr.) 1838 | ||||||||||
| Diaries | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Charles T. Brockway 1856 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nathan Brockway 1832 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tiffany Brockway 1837 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Unidentified 1865 | ||||||||||
| Financial papers | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Charles Brockway 1809 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mary G. Brockway 1866 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nathan Brockway 1805-1814 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tiffany Brockway 1807, 1809-1812, 1815, 1817, 1839, 1848, 1859, 1862, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tiffany Brockway Jr. 1828, 1839-1840, 1861, 1865 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Gilbert Fergason 1822 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Jos Ferguson 1852 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Unidentified 1808, 1866, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Inventory (George W. Owen) 1865 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Land surveys (Tiffany Brockway) 1854, 1861, undated | ||||||||||
| Legal agreements | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Elizabeth Brockway 1861, 1866 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tiffany Brockway 1823, 1838, 1848-1849 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tiffany Brockway Jr. | ||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Charles T. Brockway 1922 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Helen Hale Brockway 1923 | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Charles T. Brockway | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Cornelia Ann Brockway | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tiffany Brockway | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tiffany Brockway Jr. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Charles Brockway Hale | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Jean Brockway Hale | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ruth Hubbell | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Family of Charles Tiffany Brockway | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Family of Tiffany Brockway Jr. | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Home, Locust Grove, Broadalbin [Township, New York] | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Prescription, unidentified | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Scrapbook | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Settlement of Estate (Nathan Brockway) 1838, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Speech (Tiffany Brockway Jr.) 1887 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stock certificate (Tiffany Brockway) 1813 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ticket undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Manuscripts | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Speech (Tiffany Brockway Jr.) 1887 | ||||||||||
| Published material | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Hymn to Crouse Irving" (Helen Hale Brockway) undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notice, "The Two Roads to Peace" undated | ||||||||||
