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Guide to the Augustus Hasbrouck Bruyn Letters, 1832-1848

Title: Guide to the Augustus Hasbrouck Bruyn Letters 1832-1848

The collections consists of 35 letters either written to or by Augustus Bruyn while he was a student at Rutgers College, 1832-1836 as well as latter in his life. Theletters are exhanged between Bruyn, family members and friends.

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Hasbrouck, Abraham Bruyn, 1791-1879. [Law school notebook].

Title: [Law school notebook]. 1812.

ArchivalResource: [568] p. ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183929042 View

Bruyn, Augustus H. (Augustus Hasbrouck), 1817-1904. Letters of Augustus Hasbrouck Bruyn, 1832-1848.

Title: Letters of Augustus Hasbrouck Bruyn, 1832-1848.

Included in the letters of Augustus Bruyn are those from friends urging him to join them at Rutgers College upon his graduation from Kingston Academy. These, along with the letters written by George Sharpe and Augustus Bruyn to the Bruyn family, illuminate college life at Rutgers during the 1830s. Topics covered include social life at Rutgers, classes, national politics, and the weather.

ArchivalResource: 42 items (6 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56412818 View

Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1674-1968.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1674-1968.

Genealogy materials, family and business correspondence, financial records, deeds, legal papers, wills, military papers, church and school records, memorabilia, photographs, clippings, and other miscellaneous items concerning the Bruyn, DePuy, Deyo, DuBois, Elmendorf, Elting, Forsyth, Freer, Graham, Hardenberg(h), Hasbrouck, LeFevre, McCormick, Oosterhout, Rapalje, Roos, Terwilliger, Varick, Wigram, Yeomans, and Young families. Of note are letters between Rachel DuBois and Gertrude DuBois Deyo concerning domestic life and weddings, 1892-1902; letter about proposed tax in Ulster County, 1783; Bruyn/Forsyth family letters, 1826-1848; letter by Gen. Joseph Hasbrouck about raising quota of men for the war, 1779; letter by Abraham Hasbrouck about shipping losses due to war, 1757; ledger of Jacob Cornland, 1843; record of marriages before the Society of Friends, 1790-1864; ledger of John Malloch, 1833-1881; school copybooks of Merrill Chase, 1790, and John L. Deyo, 1860; miscellaneous records from the Reformed Church in New Paltz, 1674-1683; daybook of Meuer Jacobowitz, Ellenville, n.d.; and memoranda book of Sadie Schutt, 1881-1884.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155512725 View

Benson John Lossing Collection, 1843-1917

Title: Benson John Lossing Collection, 1843-1917

The Benson John Lossing Collection is an assortment of correspondence, drawings, writings, and memorabilia relating to the 19th century historian, illustrator, and editor of The American Historical Review (1813-1891). Predominantly correspondence, the collection centers around Lossing's information gathering for his popularizations of American history, while it also illuminates the early publishing industry in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/l/lossing_bj.htm View

Guide to the John Forsyth Papers, 1834-1862

Title: Guide to the John Forsyth Papers, 1834-1862

John Forsyth graduate from Rutgers College in 1829. His papers consists of three folders of letters and speeches, 1834-1862. Folder one contains letters written to Rev. John Forsyth from parishioners and colleagues, 1834-1862. Folder two contains seven hand-written speeches, apparently by Forsyth, beginning in 1844. Folder three contains threeletters written to and from relatives of John Forsyth, 1834-1841.

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Queen's and Rutgers College Presidents' Collection, 1774-1983 (bulk: 1785-1932)

Title: Queen's and Rutgers College Presidents' Collection 1774-1983, 1785-1932 (bulk)

The Queen's and Rutgers College presidents' Collection features material from 1774 through 1983, with the bulk of the material falling between 1785 and 1932. Items include newspaper clippings, correspondence, commencement addresses, inaugural addresses, and published sermons. Presidents served as both leaders responsible for public addresses and administrators steering the future of the institution, particularly in the form of fundraising efforts. Also included in the collection is genealogical correspondence with descendants of the presidents.

ArchivalResource: 2.1 cubic feet; (5 manuscript boxes)

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Rutgers University. Office of the President. Queen's College and Rutgers College Presidents' Collection, 1774-1983; 1785-1932 (bulk).

Title: Queen's College and Rutgers College Presidents' Collection, 1774-1983; 1785-1932 (bulk).

The Queen's and Rutgers College Presidents' collection contains approximately 5 boxes, or 2.1 feet of material, spanning 1774 through 1983. The bulk of the material dates from between 1785 and 1932. The records are arranged into nine different series to reflect each of the nine Presidential administrations they document. The Presidential administrations included in this collection are: Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, William A. Linn, Ira N. Condict, John H. Livingston, Philip Milledoler, Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, Theodore Frelinghuysen, William H. Campbell, and Merrill E. Gates. Within each series, the items are arranged chronologically. Many of the letters in the collection from the first half of the 20th century are from presidential descendants with Rutgers Library and Presidential Offices to document family history and create memorials to their ancestors.

ArchivalResource: 2.1 cubic feet 5 manuscript boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767950062 View

Bevier family papers, 1686-1772.

Title: Bevier family papers, 1686-1772.

Deeds, bonds, and agreements concerning Stephen DuBlois [sic], John Smith, and Abraham Hasbrouck; wills of John Smith, 1765, Tjerck DeWitt, 1753, Philip DuBois, 1763, and Esther DuBois Bevier, 1772; survey of land grant to Thomas Gunnisson Quick in Esopus, 1686; and legal paper concerning estate of Louis DuBois, 1706.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155511848 View

Bruyn and Forsyth family papers, 1750-1921.

Title: Bruyn and Forsyth family papers, 1750-1921.

Letters concerning state and national politics, financial matters, land transactions, military preparations and victories, traveling, college life at Rutgers, Congressional affairs in Washington, duel between Clay and Randolph, social life, legal issues, household and family matters, and courting letters; correspondents include Jacobus Severyn Bruyn, Blandina Elmendorf Bruyn, Edmund Bruyn, Severyn Bruyn, Catherine Hasbrouck Bruyn, Augustus H. Bruyn, Mary C. Bruyn Forsyth, Judge James C. Forsyth, Rev. Dr. John Forsyth, Katherine B. Forsyth, Mary Isabella Forsyth, Charles E. Dudley, A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, George H. Sharpe, Peter Elmendorf, Eliza Elmendorf Ray, Cornelius Ray, the Brinkerhoff family, and Francis S. Wynkoop. Diaries of Ralph K. Forsyth concerning daily activities and a trip to Europe and Great Britain, 1902-1908, and a diary kept by Katherine B. Forsyth recording family events, 1885-1921. Notes, essays, and poems of Augustus H. Bruyn; and a scrapbook of poems, stories, and essays by Mary Isabella Forsyth (1840-1914). Genealogical material and miscellaneous accounts, agreements, bills, deeds, inventories, and petitions.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2 cubic ft.

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Historical records, 1661-1921.

Title: Historical records, 1661-1921.

Papers and records of individuals, families, churches, businesses, and organizations in Ulster County, especially Kingston, including deeds, bonds, mortgages, land patents, estate papers, agreements, military records, minutes, bills, receipts, accounts, letters, poems, certificates, slave records, genealogical charts and notes, and memorabilia. The collection is especially strong concerning 18th century settlers of Kingston and vicinity. Items of note include preaching journal with marriage records of Rev. Johannes H. Van Wagenen, 1826-1844; invoice and account books of John H. Jansen and Abraham J. Hasbrouck, 1795-1804; letter copybook of Lattouch and Philipse, merchant traders who sailed to England, West Indies, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Atlantic coast, concerning instructions for shipping, buying, and selling, 1740-1749; minutes of Delaware and Otsego Railroad Company, 1887-1901; records of Caatsbaan Church, 1743-1813; records and minutes of Rosendale Baptist Church, 1843-1890; and minutes and account books of the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church, 1716-1824.

ArchivalResource: ca. 31 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155500040 View

Hasbrouck, Abraham Bruyn, 1791-1879. Abraham Bruyn Hasbroucke, 1675-1879.

Title: Abraham Bruyn Hasbroucke, 1675-1879.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and volume containing genealogy of the Hasbrouck family of New York.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981874 View

Forsyth, John, 1810-1886. Papers of Rev. John Forsyth, 1834-1862.

Title: Papers of Rev. John Forsyth, 1834-1862.

The papers of Reverend Forsyth include letters to him from parishioners and colleagues relating mostly to his professional activities as a clergyman. Political, patriotic and educational topics are addressed in his speeches. One speech assesses the likelihood that New York Governor William H. Seward will be a 1852 presidential candidate. Correspondence from Forsyth family relatives to other family members includes one letter from Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, Rutgers College president from 1834-41.

ArchivalResource: 16 items (3 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81732695 View