Hart Nichols Collection, 1730-1930 Special Collections Department/Long Island Studies Institute Contact Information: Special Collections Department Axinn Library, Room 032 123 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 Phone: (516) 463-6411 or 463-6404 Fax: (516) 463-6442 E-mail:
[email protected] http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/SpecialCollections Compiled by: [Jeanne Booth] Draft Date: [2/27/2018] TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENT PAGE(S) Description of collection 3-5 Subject headings 6-12 Index of individuals represented in the collection 13-45 Series arrangement and description 46-52 Box and folder listings 53-215 References 216-217 2 Hart Nichols Collection, 1730-1930 69.6 cubic ft. DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION The collection was donated by Linda T. Hubbard, who married Ervin Stuart Hubbard, III (1945-), a direct descendant to the Hart Nichols Family, and who inherited the family’s ancestral home “Heartsease” near Poughkeepsie, NY, together with the family records and artifacts that accumulated in the home’s attic since 1838. The collection spans the years 1730 to 1930 and covers the lives of two families who lived on Long Island and started out as farmers and clergy. The papers document many different aspects of farming life and also covers significant events in American history. The collection contains correspondence, indentures including mortgages, quitclaim and warranty deeds, assignments, tenant agreements, labor books, cash books, ledgers, journals, check registers, stock certificates, and tax receipts for New York and Florida. Also in the collection are household accounting, cooking and medicinal recipes, fire insurance policies, school notebooks, college diplomas, maps, personal and farming diaries, weather diaries, genealogies, bibles, ordination papers, sermons and hymns.