Hart Nichols Collection

Hart Nichols Collection

Family records and artifacts

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. There are last will and testaments, baptism records, estate papers, poetry, essays and compositions, copybooks, common place books, advertisements, and printed material. Present in the collection are images and art work including photographs, oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, and pencil and ink drawings. Also, there are textiles and artifacts such as clothing, hair, jewelry, and spectacles.

Hart Nichols Collection

Hofstra University Special Collections Department

1730-1930

Rebecca Platt