Local researcher working on a presentation on Hiel Brockway looking for early newspapers. Will help her, I do have print and microfilm of the one paper, 1830-33, but unfortunately most of the early newspapers were lost to fires in the 1850s. I suggested documents like the Cornes manuscript, digitized here last year, which is an extensive account of life in pre Civil War Brockport and includes a lot of anecdotal information about the Brockway family I have never seen elsewhere.
UPDATE: She was in today, we talked a while, I showed her some different resources and she spent time with the old newspapers.
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