These are primarily financial and legal papers of the Eddys, a pioneering family in Camden Township, Lorain County, Ohio.  Fifty-six items cover the family's period as farmers in western New York State in the area called the Holland Land Purchase (1805-1830).  John Eddy (1766-1842) was then the head of the family.  These items include two deeds (1816, 1817) to land in Genesee County, New York; a Sheldon, N.Y., school tax bill (1820); and a notice (1829) to quit the land.

Reuben Eddy (1806-1884), accompanied by his father, John, and mother, Experience, moved to Camden, Ohio, in 1834.  Seventy four items in this collection (1862-1919) are the papers of Reuben Eddy and of his daughter Annette and of her husband Philip Ritzenthaler.  These include Eddy's will (1877); Ritzenthaler's deed to land (1876) in Mower County, Minnesota; a few family letters, photographs, and xeroxed information on geneology from family Bibles.