Digital and Critical Curation (MUSE 359)

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• MacKay_Letter_010
  Blank Indenture form from 1790
• MacKay_Letter_009
  Receipt of money paid to William Spring. No date. Transcription: Sir please to pay unto Wm Spring 3 dollars & charge the same to my account & oblige your friend [signed] Martin Kendig To Mr Mordecaii McKay Received the above in full for Wm Spring [signed] Robt T Bonham
• MacKay_Letter_007
  Legal bond showing a loan of four thousand dollars given from Mary L McArthur to John M Dean, Orange Dean Jr, & Martin VB Dean. December 2, 1854. Transcription of print and handwriting: [front] Know all men by these presents, that John M Dean Orange Dean Jr & Martin VB Dean of the town of Caledonia County of Livingston & state of New York are held and firmly bound unto Mary L. McArthur of the same place in the sum of four thousand Dollars, to be paid to the said Mary L McArthur or to her certain Attorney, Executors, Administrators of Assigns: for which payment, well and truly to be made we bind ourselves our Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our Seal, and dated the second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four The Nature of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden Obligor their Heirs, Executors or Administrators, shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid unto the Obligee her certain Attorney, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns the sum of two thousand dollars as follows :Viz” one thousand dollars with the interest on the whole sum to be paid on the first day of November AD 1856 and the remaining one thousand dollars with interest thereon on the first day of November AD 1857 according to the condition of a certain mortgage this day given & executed for the above mentioned two thousand dollars Without fraud or delay, then the preceding obligation to be void; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. Sealed and Delivered in Presence of [signed] John M. Dean, Orange Dean Jr., Martin Dean [green, red, and blue seals mark their signatures] [back] Received Caledonia August 16, 1856 of John M Orange and M LB Deans, Two Thousand and one hundred dollars in full payment for the within bond (Power of atty recorded in County Clerks office of Livingston Co. miscellaneous records Liber 2 Page 414) [signed] Mary L McArthur by James B McKay Attorney
• MacKay_Letter_006
  Deed for property in Caledonia, Livingston County, New York, sold by Jeremiah M and Harriet C Whaley to James B McKay. April 27, 1865. Transcription of print and handwriting: [front] Jeremiah M. Whaley & wife TO James B. McKay Dated April 27th 1865 DEED Livingston County ss – recorded on the 31st day of May 1865 at 2 o’clock p.m. in Liber 71 of deeds at page 173 and examined [Signed] H.G. Baker Clerk [Written at top in pencil $2,10. Written in pencil at bottom 31 May 2pm] [page one] Warranty Deed This Indenture, made the twenty seventh day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five between Jeremiah M Whaley and Harriet C his wife of the city of Hudson in the County of St Croix and state of Wisconsin the said Jeremiah M being the one heir of law of Mordecai M Whaley deceased, party of the first part and James B. McKay of Caledonia in the County of Livingston and State of New York of the second part, witnesseth, that the said party of the first part in consideration of the sum of five thousand one hundred & fifty five dollars to them duly paid before the delivery hereof, have bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant and convey to the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns for ever, ALL that tract of parcel of land situate lying and being in the Town of Caledonia in the County of Livingston and State of New York known and distinguished as the South East part of lot number sixty-five (65) in Wilhem & Ian Williams 40,000 acre tract so called Banded as fallows: westerly by lands deeded to Duncan Christie twenty-eight chains twenty-seven links, northerly by lands deeded to Daniel Campbell eighteen chains and eight links east by lot number seventy-three (73) twenty-eight chains and twenty seven lengths and south by lot number sixty-six (66) eighteen chains and five links containing fifty-one acres & five links be the same more or less: Also twenty eight acres of land in Lot number sixty-six (66) in said there to be laid off from the north side of certain forty-two acres and lying south of and immediately adjoining the land herein above described, which said forty-two acres is particularly described in a deed from Benjamin Faule & wife to John Holly dated May 26, 1832 and recorded in Livingston County clerks office in Liber 13 of deeds page 164 July 4, 1834 reference to which is hereby had - the premises hereby conveyed containing seventy nine acres with the appurtenances, and all the estate, title and interest, of the said party of the first part therein. And the said party of the first part do hereby covenant and agree with the said party of the second part, that at the time of the delivery hereof the said party of the first part, are the lawful owners of the premises above granted and seized thereof in fee simple absolute and that they will Warrant and Defend the above granted premises, in the quiet and peaceable profession of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns for ever. In Witness whereof, the said party of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. Sealed and delivered in presence of [Signed] Jeremiah M Whaley, Harriet C Whaley, Louis J Hitz (witness to Harriet C Whaley), Miss Kate Earley (witness to Mr. Whaley) [second page] [Features a green seal and 22 red stamps bearing an image of George Washington and reading “United States”, “twenty five cts. Certificate” and “Inter. Revenue”] State of New York County of Livingston: on this 27th day of April AD 1865 before me personally came Jeremiah M Whaley who is known to me to be the same person described in and who has executed the within conveyance and acknowledges that had executed the same. [signed] John W Barker Justice of the Peace State of Wisconsin St Croix County: on this fifth day of May AD 1865 before me personally came Harriet C. Whaley who is known to me to be the same person described in the forgoing conveyance as the wife of Jeremiah M Whaley and who has executed the same and who on a private investigation before me and separate and about from her husband and acknowledges that she had executed the same freely and without any fear or compulsion of her said husband [signed] Louis Hitz Clerk of Circuit Court St. Croix County
• MacKay_Letter_005
  War Department Commission for A. J. Mackay Commission from the War Department in Washington D.C. for A. J. Mackay. Dated July 29th, 1865. He is being appointed “for faithful and meritorious services during the war, a Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers by Brevet. The rank was given “the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.” [Signed] Edwin M Stanton, Secretary of War Brevet Lieut Colonel A. J. Mackay, U.S. Volunteers
• MacKay_Letter_004
  Letter from John B Scout to his cousin Mordecai McKay speaking of how he hadn't heard from him in quite some time and discussing a Lot of land he presumed to be owned by Mordecai McKay that someone else was selling. October 27, 1873. Transcription: Northumberland Oct 27th 1873 Dear Cousin it is with pleasure that i anser you for many years that i did not no weather you was a living or not as I never herd enything of you nor no one from your place. Old Samuel Hacket was the last deth that i heard i had made up my mind that you were all dead or left country as i never heard enything from eny of you - So when the lot was sold i told some of my neigbors that Lot did not belong to Mrs Walles that i belonged to a party in York State if you don’t beleave me go to Sunsbeury Ofice to look for your self and you will find the deed recorded their in the rite oners name & the Book shoes that their never was eny transfer to eny other party – he said that Mrs Walles has a deed forty 2 years i don’t care a bout that if you have a deed for a hundred years i can find one that is still a little older o yes one of the party said if i did not hold my Tung that he wood prosecute me that it was hurting the sale of his lots i told him prosecute & bee damed I ask no favors of eny of your party they are cutting the lot up in small lots & dublin their money on it 2 men that bargend for a bit has thoed up wont take one man has went on & built a very nice hous on his bit i suppose the house wont cost less than fiftee hundred dollars meby more this is whare the trouble begins he has got possion that is a great thing in law they will stand a sute – now if you could get some rite sharp man to take hold of this I think you wood recover the Lot But it will goe to Cort i no it is worth looking after the Lot is worth a thousan dollars & they will make more money than that out of it in the way they cut it up in small Lots if this thing had a bin atended too rite a way when i rote to Wm Hacket a Bout it I think they wood of halled of with out much trouble but since then have built on it they will hold on till they are put off By law i had them pretty well scart now if you or eny of you are a goeing to due anything a tall I want you to due it soon or not a tall if it was my case I wood try it if i had to give it to the Loyers for their fees Hunt up all the paper you can find in Relashion to the Lot their is a paper some place we call it a counter part it wood be called by meny people a Receipt that is a very important paper in this case i think you have it a long time with the dead as it generaly given with the dead that counter part goes to shoe that every thing clea nothing a gaints the Lot at the time the dead is given – I have said a Bout all for this on the lot mater your Mother & ant Hacket wanted to no a bout unkle William Burk he is a living in Suleven County a bout 60 miles from me My family is scaterd a bout my oldest boy John is a liveing in Virginia a bout 2 hunared milles from us Charles the Second Boy is a liveing in Shamoken a bout 20 miles from us Frank the younger boy is at home with us he is a singl lad he is our baby 26 years old this is a bout all for this time rite soon to let me no what you are a goeing to due – rember me & family to ant Hacket also Wm Hacket this leaves us all well at this time you must look over mistakes & bad riteing i am getting old & nervis Born 1805 [signed] John B Scout
• MacKay_Letter_003
  War Department Commission for A. J. Mackay Commission from the War Department in Washington D.C. for A. J. Mackay. Dated July 29th, 1865. He is being appointed “for faithful and meritorious services during the war, a Brigadier General of Volunteers by Brevet. The rank was given “the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.” [Signed] Edwin M Stanton, Secretary of War Bvt. Brig. Genl. A. J. Mackay, U.S. Volunteers
• MacKay_Letter_002
  War Department Commission for A. J. Mackay Commission from the War Department in Washington D.C. for A. J. Mackay. Dated July 29th, 1865. He is being appointed “for faithful and meritorious services during the war, a Major of Volunteers by Brevet. The rank was given “the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.” [Signed] Edwin M Stanton, Secretary of War Brevet Major A. J. Mackay, U.S. Volunteers
• MacKay_Letter_001
  War Department Commission for A. J. Mackay Commission from the War Department in Washington D.C. for A. J. Mackay. Dated July 29th, 1865. He is being appointed “for faithful and meritorious services during the war, a Colonel of Volunteers by Brevet. The rank was given “the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.” [Signed] Edwin M Stanton, Secretary of War Brevet Colonel A. J. Mackay, U.S. Volunteers
• Inherit the Wind
  Poster for Inherit the Wind; shows at Robert F. Panara Theatre; November 4-7; 2010. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.
• The Bungler
  Poster for The Bungler call for auditions; auditions held at Robert F. Panara Theatre; March 9-10; 2010.
• The Bungler
  Poster for The Bungler; shows at Panara Theatre; May 6-9; 2010. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.
• Sleeping Beauty
  Poster for The Story of Sleeping Beauty A Contemporary Dance Experience; shows at Robert F. Panara Theatre; February 11-13; 2010. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.
• Little Women
  Poster for Little Women; shows at Lyndon Baines Johnson Building 1510 Lab Theatre; January 21-24; 2010. Free admission.
• Equus
  Poster for Equus; shows at Robert F. Panara Theatre; November 5-8; 2009. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.
• Vignettes of the Deaf Character
  Poster for Vignettes of the Deaf Character; shows at Lyndon Baines Johnson Building 1510 Lab Theatre; October 15-18; 2009. Free admission.
• Vignettes of the Deaf Character
  Poster for Vignettes of the Deaf Character; shows at Lyndon Baines Johnson Building 1510 Lab Theatre; October 15-18; 2009. Free admission.
• Alice in Wonderland
  Poster for Alice in Wonderland; shows at Robert F. Panara Theatre; April 30-May 9; 2009. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.
• Elephant Man Auditions
  Poster for The Elephant Man call for audtions; auditions held in Lyndon Baines Johnson Building 1510 Lab Theatre; February 16-17; 2009.
• Elephant Man
  Poster for The Elephant Man; shows at Lyndon Baines Johnson 1510 Lab Theatre; April 14-19; 2009. Free admission.
• Othello
  Poster for Othello; shows at Robert F. Panara Theatre; February 12-15; 2009. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.
• A Night of One Acts: Line; 25 Cents; Welcome to the Moon
  Poster for A Night of One Acts; shows at Lyndon Baines Johnson Building 1510 Theatre; January 22-25; 2009. Free admission.
• Noises Off
  Poster for Noises Off; shows at Robert F. Panara Theatre; October 30-November 2; 2008. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.
• Broken Spokes
  Poster for Broken Spokes; shows at Lyndon Baines Johnson Building; 1510 Lab Theatre; October 9-12; 2008. Free admission.
• Bell in Hell
  Poster for Bell in Hell; shows at Robert F. Panara Theatre; May 1-4; 2008. Price of admission for students and seniors: $5; all others: $7.