Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Virginia Wines' Albums
Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 9; covers November 13, 1863 to August 25, 1865; material includes reelection of Lincoln in 1864, Lincoln's inauguration in '65, the end of the Civil War, Lincoln's subsequent assassination (April 15- "Pleasant some rain toward night They tell us the President was murdered last night"), and pleas for help for the recently Freedmen being delivered at their local church.
1863-1865
Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 10; covers September 6, 1865 to June 21, 1867.
1865-1867
Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 11; covers July 4, 1867 to December 14 of that year; included death notices for Jabez and Melinda, as well as source attribution to Bessie L Hallock and Ella Hallock who had done the transcriptive work.
1867
Reproduction on paper stock of oil canvas painting "Driving in the Shinnecock Hills of Long Island, 1892"
1892
Photocopy of looseleaf paper with notes and an attached newspaper clipping; poor focus and very illegible.
Typewritten piece entitled "From a Family Chronicle" of the Wells family, pg. 1; compiled by Margery Wells Steer from materials left by one Elsie M. Wells; in addition to diary diary excerpts there is a brief biography of Elsie M. Wells that claims she had been the one to deliver news of Lincoln's assassination to her family by foot.
Newspaper clippings (2) entitled "Kin Benefit By Will of A. J. Wells" from unknown source.
Black and white illustration that reads "A. J. Wells/Success, L.I./ Sept. 24, 1878"
September 24, 1878
Penciled notes "from Melinda Corwin's Diary" on back-side of May, 1965 lunar cycle calendar.
Penciled notes "from Melinda Corwin's Diary" on a Christmas greeting card from the Northfield Schools for the year 1950.
Photocopy of handwritten account of A. J. Wells's tenure as teacher and Rachel H. Wells attendance as a student at Upper Aquebogue Public School dated March 19, 1869, but with no recorded information values.
March 19, 1869
Typewritten account of the "1661-Occabauck Divident' or the Aquebogue land division; location spelled several ways including "Accobauck" "Accobauck" and "Acquabock"
