Papers relating to Woodbourne Orchards

Box 23

Files of deeds, leases, receipts, etc. relating to lots belonging to Thomas P. Cope "upon his draft of re-survey" and contracts for timber, hay, shingles, etc.

There are seven numbered packages, with the following notations on them:

I. 1-240, 5/25/1829-5/8/1857 containing 85 files.

2. "Contracts with settlers: Wm. D. Cope Tract," Auburn Township, 4/16/1833-10/5/1858.

3. E-L

4. M-Z. Approximately 1/19/1828-1853

5. Collins - Hyde, as the first & last file

6. Sayre - McGee, as the first & last file

7. Lease, Survey etc. in re: Woodbourne Farm, J. Jay Ellsworth, tenant. including:

a. Lease: Francis R. Cope to Virgil L. Van Kamp. Leasing land, barn & shed. Stipulates haying, grazing & woodcutting permitted, one year duration from April 1, 1893.

b. Sheriff's deed from F.A. Leonard to Maggie Calby; court judgment between W.J. Baker and Thos. Colby; deed acknowledged, W.J. Baker and Thos. Calby; deed acknowledged with W.H. Jessup & wife to Thos. Calby; Edgar Cope et al to Wm. H. Jessup

c. Letter from Wm. Newbold Ridley, Jan. 3, 181 to Wm. D. Cope

d. Agreement between C.E. Cope, A. Cope and F.R. Cope regarding purchase & use of Morris' woods, May 1912 & July 1912

e. Receipt from Glenn Billings to F.R. Cope for $200. re sale of Morris Woods

f. Letter to F.R. Cope from CA. Morris, July 2, 1912 re: options for haying & sale of property

g. In envelope: Agreement between F.R. Cope and R.S. Dayton, May 1, 1936, with accounting records, equipment inventory for 5 years and notes re renewal for 3,2, & 1-year periods

Box 24

Business letters re buying land near Woodbourne and leasing parts to others, 1880s, A-Z arrangement. ca. 20 items

Letter writers include: Annette Cope, Edgar Cope, Francis R. Cope, Thomas P. Cope, Jr., William Drinker, R.C. McMurtrie, Provident Life & Trust Co..

Highlights include: Cope, Annette to William Jessup.1895 2/?. Inquires if there is any land to be bought adjoining Mrs. A.T. Cope's farm, hopefully of several hundred acres

Cope, Edgar to Wm. Jessup. 1883 12/27. Would be willing to sell for ~ $115,000

Cope, Francis to Wm. Jessup. 1885 1/14. Should renew lease of the farm to B.J. Robinson

Cope, Thomas P. to Wm. Jessup. 1887 1/28. As present tenant on Alexis' farm is to leave, asks that a new tenant be found

Drinker, William. Copy of sale and notice to quit an area of land known as the Lyman lot in 1826 and 1826 respectively

Woodbourne Farm Journals and Papers: Cope Farm history, 1930s-1940s. ca. 60 items.

Here are such materials as agreements on product labels, cost of painting, permission to place a pipe in a ditch, inventory of heifer calves, farm lease information, including information on animals, machinery, apple supplies, inventories of feed, seed, apples

Orchard Farm Records, 1920s ca. 25 items.

Here are such materials as Wages, receipts, expenses of Woodbourne Orchards, 1921 / prepared by Francis R. Cope Jr.; Proposed joint land agreement re possible drilling for gas & oil; New commercial orchard as replanted 1918; Woodbourne expenses, 1937-1938

William D. and Susan L.N. Cope: primarily re work to be done at Woodbourne for William D. Cope1837-1872. ca. 20 items.

Here are such materials as valuations of the farm and receipts in the 1830s-1850s; a handwritten note by Cope to serve as codicil to his will, dividing up his property among his children, 1872; letters to his brother, Alfred Cope, written from Woodbourne, relating to property issues and to the Lehigh Co.