Stuyvesant family. Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd papers, 1775-1917 (bulk 1840-1917).
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Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd papers, 1775-1917 (bulk 1840-1917).
Correspondence, account books, deeds, commissions, bills & receipts, misc. papers, photographs, and printed material, 1647-1909, of various members of the related Stuyvesant, Rutherfurd, and allied families, particularly Gerardus Stuyvesant (d.1777), Nicholas William Stuyvesant (d.1780), Peter Stuyvesant (d.1805), Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769-1833), Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (1778-1847), Walter Rutherfurd (1723-1804), John Rutherfurd (1760-1840), Robert Walter Rutherfurd (1788-1852), Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816-1892), and Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (18431̲909). --The following is included: correspondence & papers, 50 items 1647-1700, and almost entirely in Dutch, concerning Govert Loockermans (d.1671), a N.Y. official; business papers, 1740's, and fabric samples of Mary Alexander; 78 p. log book of several voyages between Perth Amboy, N.J. and the West Indies, 1750-52; 14 letters, 1781-85, to Peter Stuyvesant from Loyalist Myles Cooper (1737-1785) in London and Edinburgh; 2 family account books, 1789-99, of Walter and Catherine Rutherfurd; 2 account books, 1797-1829, concerning Peter Stuyvesant and his estate; 5 letters, 1812-13, from John Jay to his son, Peter Augustus Jay; much correspondence, 1840's-60's, between Lewis Morris Rutherfurd and his son, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant; 18 pocket diaries of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1869-89; and in the later period, correspondence & papers of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant relating to the operation of his Tranquillity Farm in Warren Co., N.J., his interest in arms and armor, and yacht "Arcturus".
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