The Potsdam Public Museum retains family files which include information left to the museum by family members such as photographs, genealogy charts, books on family history, letters and diaries. Also in these files can be newspaper clippings from local and national newspapers. 

Family Files Include:
Family File List:  “IC”

(Typed by Dorothy Swanson, July 2008 / Information gathered by Kate Fetcie, January 2008)


Box 1
    Aikens
        Also:  Tupper                                                                                                           
    Allen
        Also:  Markey, Keller
    Ames                                                                       
    Anderson, George “Ted” Edward                                   
        Anderson scrapbooks 79-53;
        Papers 1969-1970
    Armstrong, Donald
    Arquette
        Also:  Arquette, Mary scrapbook
    Austin
        Book.  Happy 85th birthday  June 13, 1995;
        Frank Lee Austin, Jr.

Box 2
    Bacheller
    Bacon
    Bailey
    Baker
    Baldwin Family
    Bannister
    Barnes Family – IC Box #1
    Barnett
    Barnhart Family
    Barnum
    Batchelder
    Baum
    Barnett
    Butty Family
    Benhem
    Benjamin
    Bensen
    Perry Family
    “Hymns” – Inscribed “Mary Bicknell, Potsdam, June 1895” and “Herbert AR
    Bicknell”?

Box 3
    “Clerk’s manual and Crosswell’s manual”
         Interleaf stamp (Oval with “Respects of R Bicknell 1867 – Member of the Assembly”
    Bicknell - Folder / Letters
    Bicknell Family - Folder II business papers and deeds
    Bicknell Family - Folder III speeches and books
    Blaisdell
    Blakeslee Family
    Blodgett
        Also:  Vance Blodgett   
        Also:  sheet music
    Bolton
    Bouchey
    Bovay, Beauvais Bouce
    Boynton
        Also:  Goodale

Box 4A
    The Clarkson Family is not filed, but has a binder filed between Box 4 and Box 5

Box 4B
    Bradish
    Brooks
    Brown Family
    Brown
        Also:  Knowles Walling
    Brownell
    Brush
    Buck
    Buckman
        Also:  Kaiser
    Bulles  Family
    Burbank
    Burnap
        Also:  Goodale
    Burroughs
    Burt Family
    Burwell Family
    Caldwell
    Calkins
    Call
    Carney Family
    Carpenter
    Carroll Family
    Caslar

Box 5
    Chalmers
    Chandler
    Chapman    Folder II - Early 1800 letters, bills, and miscellany
    Chapman
        Also:  Gurley - Folder I Biography and clipping, photos, history of Potsdam
    Chittenden
    Clapp
    Clark
    Emile Vallete Clarkson (Moore)
    Clarkson
    Clary B. J. - Essay on Community Tree Lighting
    Cleaveland
    Clinton

Box 6
    Colt
    Conroy
    Copeland
    Cornell
    Cotton
    Courier / Currier
    Cousing
    Cranes
    Crary
    Crasper Family
    Crawford
    Crumb
    Cubley
    Culver
    Curtis
    Cutting

Box 7
    Daniels Family – Folder III Appears to be letters and envelopes tied together.  It all looks very fragile.     

Box 8
    Book “Battlefields of the Marne 1914” -    no inscription
    75-87.18 WWI Account of military life WWI
    75-87.2    History and complete roster Company A 310th Infantry by B.L. Dupree WWI
    75.87.17 The lightning (78th) invasion (?) in France WWI
    75-87.19    WWI
    75-87.20    Two battles of St. Michel – Co. A 31st Infantry – B.L. Dupree’s want WWI
    75-87.21    WW I letter to sister Mrs. Chapin Collins. B.L. Dupree
    75-87.22    Payroll Co. A 310th Infantry in the field Sept. 1918 WWI
    75-87.23    Maps of France with WWI routes of Company Infantry book WWI
    Book “The 78th Division in the World War,”  - “Property of Bayard J. Dupree. Company A,” 310 Infantry

Box 9
    Dart
    Dailey
    Davis
        Also:  Toddard
    Dayton
    Delaire
    Delisle
    Devitt
    Dewey
        Also:  Swan, Goodale
    Donovan
    Douglas
    Dove
    Dove, Jane Thompson
    Drake
    DuFrain
    Eastman
    Edgarton
    Elderkin Family
    Ellis
    Elderkin Folder II Genealogy Scrapbook
    Erwin
    Everett

Box 10
    Fanner
    Finnemore
    Fiske
    Fletcher
    Flint - Flint, Ernest A., 1868 – 1954
    Flint, Ernst L. Fr:  Jane Murphyhum
    Fokas
    Forbush
    Foster
    Fox
    Freeman
    French
        See Bayside cem. Records French (Grant) cem.
    Fuller
    Gerrish
    Gibson Folder 2 (No Gibson Folder 1 noted at this time)           
        Miscellaneous (Deed, books, clippings)
    Gibson Folder 4 Letters to Barbara Andrus Art Program
    Gibson Genealogy and school dates
    Gibson Folder 3 Civil War letters
    Gibson, Helen

Box 11
    Gilmore
    Goodale, Grace
    Goodale
    Tim Goodale, Jr.
    Goodenow Family
    Goodrich
    Gordan
    Goulding

Box 12
    Grant
    Graves
    Grew
    Gurley
    Hale
    Hamistetn (?)

Box 13
    File of miscellaneous papers.  They appear to be fragile, so did not look further
    Hammond / (Anne family?)
    Hammond Unlabeled file of fragile papers
    Harris family
    Hasbrouck, Inc. Steamboat info 1830
    Haskell
    Hatch
    Hatheway
    Hawley
    Hayes
    Hayes, Fred Racquette River Paper Co. + WWII ration & misc. information

Box 14
    The box is filled with individual fragile papers that do not appear to be organized

Box 15
    Healy
    Heath
    Heaton
    Hickey
    Hilliard Family
    Hinman

Box 16
    Hobart
    Hodge
    Holbrook
    Holmes
    Hosmer

Box 17
    The folder is stuffed with feeble looking books – Do not dare touch one

Box 18
    Hough
    Hubbard
    Hubbell
    Hull
    Hunt
    Hyslop
    Ingram Family
    Ives
    Jenner
    Jesmer
    Jordan
    Kellogg
    Kendall
    Kimball
    King
    Kirby

Box 19
    Knowles History I (2)
    Knowles Family Correspondence (1)
    Knowles History II (3)
    Knowles Family Misc. (4)

Box 20
    Krebs
    La Bean Family
    La Brake
    La Duke
    La Fave
    Lamar
    Lare
    Lanphere
    La Rue
    Lanta Family

Box 21
    Book – “Chas. W. Lette Hardware” Inscribe LW (?) Seeti (?)
    Ley
    Leete Family Correspondence for book
    Leete
    Letland Family
    Lemon
    Lemy
    Annie Lenney

Box 22
    Lewis Family 1 Potsdam school & tax lists 1833,38.62,66
    Lewis Family 2 Rental agreements, Indentures Loans, Deeds
    Lewis Family 3 Mortgages
    Lewis Family 4 Insurance Policies
    Lewis Family 5 Promisary Notes
    Lewis Family 6 Livery Business Accounts
    Lewis Family Folders 1 – 6 Business Records
    Lewis Family 7 Accounts with Business
    Lewis Family 8 Receipts, receipted bills
    Lewis Family 9
    Lewis Family 11 Genealogy

Box 23
    Lillie
    Lockwood Family
    Loucks
    Lukin Family
    Book “Farmingdale Church History,” no inscription
    Lyman Family
    Maine Family
    Manley
    Martin
    Mathews
    Maxfield
    May Family
    Mayhew

Box 24
    Mc Collum
    Mc Cormick (Shannon) (Cutting)
    Mc Ewen Family
    Mc Gee
    Mc Gowan
    Mc Intyre
    Genealogy
    Rev. Charles H. Mc Vay
    Meekham (Hawley)
    Merrill
    Merrit
    Miles
    Miller

Box 25
    Moon Family
    Moon Family – Folder 2

Box 26
    Moore
    Morgan
    Murphy
    Northrup (Stanton & WCTM)
    Northrup

Box 27
    O’Connor
    Ogden
    Ormsby Family
    Page
    Parisian
    Parish
    Parker
    Parmeter
    Partridge / Redway Legal papers
    Letter to Charles Partridge
    Partridge

Box 28
    Patterson
    P1433 Pattison
    Peppers (?)
    Perkins Family
    Perrin
    Perry Family
    Pert Family
    Pettifone
    Pharoah
    Pitrce
    Pike
    Pinney
    Plimpton
    Plumb
    Powers
    Premo
    Priest
    Rabideau
    Ransom

Box 29
    Raymond Family Folder 1 Account Books
    Raymond Family Folder 2 Genealogy, correspondence, advertising, photos
    Raymond Papers & wallet #2B
    Raymond     Wallet & papers #2B
    Raymond FamilyFamily papers #2A, Boston Produce Market Report 1872-3

Box 30
    Raymond, William (School papers, reminiscing)
    Redington
    Reynolds
    Remington, Frederic (Notes only)

Box 31
    Richards, Linda (Books)
    Richards, Linda
    Richards, Linda Nursing Career

Box 32
    Ricalton
    Rich Family
    Richards
    Riggs
    Robinson
    Rogers Family
    Rollin Family
    Russell
    Rutherford
    Sackett