Penfield (N.Y.) -- History

This collection consists of an agreement for the sale of the Fourth Range in Township Number Thirteen from Daniel Penfield to Salmon Fuller and Caleb Hopkins. Signed by Zachariah Seymour for Penfield. (Seymour was brother-in-law to Oliver Phelps.) This document laid the basis for the foundation of the town of Penfield. It dates to 1805.

This collection consists of genealogical materials created and collected by Nancy Bohn of Penfield, New York. Starting in 1967, Bohn carried out extensive genealogical research into her family lines: Awe, Ormsbee, Schake, and Watson. The resulting collection includes a detailed typescript family histories for each line, research files, and a small body of rare genealogical books.