Financial and Business Papers of Emma Willard |
| This series consists of various legal and financial documents
created or received by Emma Willard, exclusive of account books. The
series contains such items as divorce papers, legal agreements for her
personal affairs, deeds, financial notes, and insurance documents. |
| Box |
Folder |
Description |
| 9 |
15 |
Chapter LII of the Laws of 1819 [New York] An Act to Incorporate a
Female Academy in the Village of Waterford. Passed March 19, 1819. [photocopy] |
| 13 |
32 |
New York (State) Assembly Journal, 49th Session, 1826, Part 1, [regarding
The memorial of the trustees and principal of the Troy Female [Seminary],
page 729. [typescript] |
| 9 |
11 |
Statement of Dr. John Willard concerning alleged piracy of Emma Willard's
new system of geography by William Channing Woodbridge. April 26, 1825. |
| 9 |
21 |
Note to Mr. Thomas telling him to pay William Lee a dividend on the
Seminary stock belonging to the estate of Dr. John Willard, March 3,
1829. |
| 9 |
20 |
Teaching contract between Emma Hart Willard and Alphise de Courval,
March 19, 1831 [photocopy] [Original in the Rensselaer County Historical
Society] |
| 9 |
19 |
Chapter 339 of the Laws of 1837 [New York] An act to incorporate the
Troy female seminary. Passed May 6, 1837. |
| 9 |
1 |
Deed transferring Troy Female Seminary Property to John Hart Willard,
September 15, 1838 [photocopy]. |
| 9 |
3 |
Deed of Marriage Settlement between Christopher Yates, Emma Willard
and John H. Willard, September 15, 1838 [photocopy] [Original in Amherst
College Archives] |
| 9 |
18 |
Consent to change of Trustee by John Willard, September 15, 1838. |
| 9 |
16 |
Agreement, John H. Willard to Emma Willard, for changes of trustee
in Articles of Marriage Settlement, September 17, 1838. [photocopy] |
| 9 |
9 |
Copy of the Agreement between William Channing Woodbridge and Emma
Willard with Belknap & Hamersley to publish their geography books
and atlases. October 25, 1838. |
| 9 |
17 |
Petition for Divorce, Emma Willard Yates from Christopher C. Yates,
April 12, 1843. [photocopy] [Original in the Connecticut State Library,
RG2 General Assembly Papers, Box 38, Documents 64 (64a-64; and 65)] |
| 9 |
2 |
Legislative act granting a divorce from Christopher Yates to Emma
Willard, 1843 [photocopy] Journal of the House of Representatives, of
the State of Connecticut, May Session, A. D. 1843. (Hartford: Printed
by W. S. Williams, 1843), p. 76-77. [photocopy] Journal of the Senate
of the State of Connecticut, May Session, 1843. (New Haven:
Printed by Osborn & Baldwin, 1843), p.87-88. [photocopy] Resolutions
and Private Acts, Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut,
May Session, 1843. (Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Co., 1843), p.
20-21. [photocopy] |
| 9 |
10 |
Lots in West Troy, Tax list 1849 |
| 9 |
14 |
Receipt from James Irwin for printing of 2 portraits, and for the
3 steel engraving plates. April 11, 1862. [with a handwritten note by
Emma Willard identifying the 3 steel plates] |
| 9 |
12 |
Portion of a deed to land in St. Lawrence township, Lucas County,
Ohio. Copied by Sarah H. Willard, November 12, 1862. |
| 9 |
13 |
2 memoranda of addresses and notes regarding land near Toledo, Ohio.
ca.1865. |
| 9 |
4 |
Insurance papers of Emma Willard, various dates. [photocopies] |
| 9 |
5 |
Emma Willard's will |
| 9 |
6 |
Inventory of Emma Willard's estate, December 22, 1879. [photocopy] |
| 9 |
7 |
Petition of John H. Willard to Probate the Will of Emma Willard, June
27, 1870. [photocopy] |
| 9 |
8 |
Petition ... with the Will annexed by Sarah H. Willard, Harriet Willard,
Mary Thomas and Katherine Lapsley to administer the Will of Emma Willard,
June 24, 1901. [photocopy] |
