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Schuyler family. Collection, 1679-1823.

Title: Collection, 1679-1823.

The collection contains, foremost, correspondence by Philip Schuyler to others on land transactions, business matters, the Revolutionary War and government, with some on family affairs. Correspondents include: John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Williams, Richard Varrick, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Henry Livingston, Gerard Bancker, Nicholas Low, John Porteous and Peter Hogeboom. This collection also includes accounts, receipts, etc. related to purchases of goods and services, and bills against the State regarding Indian Affairs; deeds, leases, surveys and other documents concerning land holdings in Saratoga Patent and Claverack; and miscellaneous document related to concerning the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company. The Schuyler family portion of the collection includes, among others, some correspondence from Alexander Hamilton to his wife Elizabeth (Schuyler) Hamilton. Includes two maps 1) a memorandum and map concerning the exchange of land with Abraham E. Wendell circa March 6, 1761 of land originally granted by the corporation of Albany to Cortlandt Schuyler, deceased and 2) a copy of a "Map of Land in and Near the City of Albany, surveyed in June 1808 for the heirs of the late Philip Schuyler Esq. John Randall Jun[ior] 29 Nov 1808."

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (0.50 cubic ft.)survey maps 2 maps : manuscript ; 42 x 53 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122459084 View

Audio-visual collection, 1934-1983.

Title: Audio-visual collection, 1934-1983.

Audio tapes of local history talks on William Kelly and Henry Beekman Livingston; video tape of the Dutchess County Tercentennial parade, 1983; and 16 mm. films of attempt to raise Revolutionary-era gondola, PHILADELPHIA, from the bottom of Lake Champlain, 1934, and of the Linwood estate in Rhinebeck in the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: ca. .5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155518480 View

Abeel, James, 1733-1825. Revolutionary War papers, 1773-1961.

Title: Revolutionary War papers, 1773-1961.

Correspondence, diaries, military records, and other papers, relating to the American Revolution. Includes M.S. thesis (1961) by George W. Dress, entitled Colonel John Neilson and the Revolution in New Jersey; microfilm of records (1776-1782) of damages in New Jersey done by the British and Americans during the war, kept by New Jersey Commission to Record Military Damages; receipt book (1779-1780) kept by James Abeel as deputy quartermaster, Morristown, N.J.; letters (1778-1779) to Dorothea Patton Gibbon, of London, England, from her attorney, Joseph Newton, concerning the effect of the American Revolution on her investments, and report of her account; diaries of John Kaighn, Johannes Reuber (b. 1759) (Hessian soldier), and Zaccheus Town; letters (1777-1778) received by Capt. Leonard Bleecker from his sister, Ann Eliza Bleecker, of Albany, N.Y., describing social activities there; copies of papers (1780-1782) relating to Lewis Costigan's service as a spy for the Continental Army; letters written by Henry Beekman Livingston, Hannah Ogden, Anthony Wayne, and Committee of Secret Correspondence (U.S. Continental Congress); and letters received by James Abeel.

ArchivalResource: 62 items, 3 v., and 3 microfilm reels : positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412587 View

Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785. Letter to Col. Henry B. Livingston from Jonathan Trumbull, 1776 Sept. 15.

Title: Letter to Col. Henry B. Livingston from Jonathan Trumbull, 1776 Sept. 15.

Letter from Trumbull, in Lebanon, Conn., to Col. Henry B. Livingston, on public service at Saybrook, concerning Capt. Leffingwell being there, and taking back a letter to Col. Wolcott, about the relief of people on Long Island, leaving it up to him as being nearer the scene.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (9 in. x 7 3/8 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180772083 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Livingston, William, 1723-1790. William Livingston papers, 1749-1782.

Title: William Livingston papers, 1749-1782.

Collection consists of correspondence and other papers of Livingston.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet (14 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466485 View

William Livingston papers, 1749-1782

Title: William Livingston papers 1749-1782

William Livingston (1723-1790), a lawyer, was the first governor of New Jersey. After practicing law in New York, he was a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776 and also a brigadier general in the New Jersey militia. He served as governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790 and in 1787 was a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention. Collection consists of correspondence and other papers of Livingston. Correspondence, 1775-1782, includes incoming letters and documents from constituents, colleagues, and political and social figures; Livingston's letters to the New Jersey Gazette on events of the American Revolution; and letterbooks kept by Livingston as governor of New Jersey containing drafts of official letters, family letters, messages to the New Jersey Assembly, and narrative of the war by Jonathan Trumbull. Also, cost books of cases, 1749-1772, in which Livingston acted as counsel before the Supreme Court of New York.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet (14 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1785 View

Livingston, Henry Beekman, 1750-1831. Muster roll of the 4th Regiment of Yorkers, 1776 February 13.

Title: Muster roll of the 4th Regiment of Yorkers, 1776 February 13.

Muster roll of Captain Henry B. Livingston's company under the command of Colonel James Holm, 4th Regiment of Yorkers. Roll contains names of all officers and privates and their enlistment status. Witness statements signed by James Dow, Lieutenant, and James Van Rensselaer.

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122520103 View